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Comment: Just like Steve Chen? (Score 1) 55

by gelfling (#38847913) Attached to: White House Chief Technology Officer Steps Down

Every technical/technological post this and the prior admin has tried to staff has crashed and burned. The White House understands generally, what lobbyists and Congressional staffers tell them to understand. If it doesn't have to do with posturing about either giving stuff to poor people or pretending to give educational things to the teachers of some target group it doesn't mean squat.

Remember with the appointment of Steve Chen we were going to have algae powered teleportation in 3 years? Yeah how did that Nobel Laureate work out?

Comment: DC's are supposed to have redundant power (Score 1) 101

by gelfling (#38784181) Attached to: A Data Center That Looks Like a Mansion

DC's are supposed to have redundant power lines in or at the least a highly reliable power source. It's unlikely that the residential customers would be on the same primary power lines. Which is both bad and good. Good because the homeowners wouldn't get browned out by the DC, bad because in the case of a bad storm there's no incentive for the power company to reestablish power to the homes as quickly as the DC. So in the case of a bad mid winter storm the blacked out homes in the cold can look out their windows at the DC purring happily away.

If a group of _N persons implements a COBOL compiler, there will be _N-1 passes. Someone in the group has to be the manager. -- T. Cheatham

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