If you dry up the source of information that has allowed Google to dominate Internet search then it would hurt them financially.

Yes but that is a wholly different matter than "making data erasable". It just means there is some data Google could not get to - directly...

Snapchat proves that it's not only possible,

You mean the one that various apps and workaround exist for to keep the supposedly deleted content?

Yeah, bonehead.

Moron, replacing *is* repair when the replacement is sufficiently cheap.

I was being facetious, if that wasn't obvious.

Thanks for the clarification.

Also, it's worth pointing out that Apple didn't tie themselves to a standard so much as they created a new standard for everyone else to tie themselves to

In what way is everyone else "tying" themselves with this standard? It works across hardware platforms, and is controlled by a standards body run by a number of companies (not just Apple).

"tying" implies they are bound, but using the OpenCL standard means they are free to run on any GPU.

It's true Apple created it but that's because nothing else like it really existed at the time (apart from CUDA of course).

Real time dynamically changing content. What I see on website X at 1:38:25 pm, is 100% differet from what you see at 1:39:25 pm

That is not realistically going to happen of course. In reality most things change on a more life-like pace that is easily archivable for anyone that cares, or even those that just collect for the sake of collection.

But even in your presented case, you don't have to archive every iteration. Just snapshots, or trends, or some kind of summary about what was and how it shifted. There is always the possibility of storing some permeable shadow of a thing, no matter how often you try to change it.

One last thought; the saying "the more things change, the more they stay the same" exists for a very valid reason...

I don't think you can ask that question at all without first discussing if an "erasable internet" is even possible.

You know how data likes to be free? Well, it turns out it really enjoys being stored also.

Everything breaks. Everything is hard to fix.

Not a light bulb. It's easy to see when it's not working, and usually super easy to replace.

The best idea is to stock up a few years of incandescent bulbs now, and plan to buy LED bulbs now.

The reason is once everyone else is forced to buy alternative bulbs, you give them about a year to figure out how awful light from CFL bulbs is, then another year after that to buy LED bulbs in large numbers. At the end of two years the cost of good (high CRI) bulbs will probably have halved, saving $15-30 - way more than you would have saved in electricity over that time buying a more expensive LED bulb now.

Our state government pays private operators to go from door to door swapping incandescent globes for CFLs

So how many of these guys are killed each month once the people screw in the CFL's and see what they have traded for?

If you have a brain, you got rid of those fucking things more than 5 years ago.

Well how nice that Slashdot is accessible enough for the blind to make use of it!

Because anyone who can see hasn't given up on incandescent bulbs for a number of uses because the alternatives are REALLY expensive still, or look like crap.

Some of the LED stuff is looking pretty good now but costs quite a lot more than a "real" bulb. None of the CFL stuff looks good at all, and the cheapest stuff doesn't even last that long when hooked to most people's real electrical lines.

The other half is the infrastructure (roads, internet, electricity, etc) built by the Italian govt.

A) It was built by private companies, who paid taxes in Italy.

B) The consumer browsing pays for electricity, and for an ISP, all of whom also pay taxes in Italy.

C) The people of Italy and shipping company that operate on roads there pay taxes on Italy.

Any time I see someone say "well what about the roads" I can tell they either no nothing about anything or really have put zero thought into what they are saying.

Given the current state of internet-focused writing, with the brutal drive to churn out as much clickbait 'content' as possible as fast as possible, with a side of SEO fuckery, I suspect that adding analytics capabilities to books will... perhaps not... be the most helpful development in literature.

ONE CLEVER TRICK TO SHOW HOW SHALL I LOVE THEE, NEW PARADIGM; LET ME COUNT THE 5 WAYS

1. I can think of no way in which this could possibly compromise the quality of the TITS literary experience.
2. Let us not forget that we are at the forefront BREASTS of a new publishing paradigm.
3. Electronic distribution promises to free BOOBS authors from the shackles of the traditional publishing industry.
4. It's an agile and disruptive way of making JUGS money through the process of creative destruction.

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5. The end.

> You do realize that the colour spectrum of LEDs is a solved problem, right?

But that doesn't mean MY problem is solved. It's not clear to me I'll be able to find a bulb of the right size with all the features, such as 50-100-150 3-way, good color spectrum, dimmability etc.

Imagine all the Yahoos at Home Depot who will tell you this or that bulb will work for whatever purpose you specify, when in fact they're just following their training: sell first and leave the returns for the insensitive clods at the returns desk.

With most workstations, this is easy, you can get a RAID controller

Which you can do on the new MacPro also, generally by either attaching a case with RAID integrated or an external pcie case into which you can put a raid card.

Ahh well you are kinda screwed there too. No cards to add FC to the pro.

No cards, just Thunderbolt 2 where you can add a Thunderbolt 2 to 8G Fibre Channel bridge... You really need to look into what you can do with Thunderbolt 2.

Also you might want to look in to SSD failure rates. They aren't particularly high, but they aren't particularly low either.

They are better than for spinning media and its not like Apple is using discount components here.