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Submission + - Amazon to Offer Sneakernet Services

Submitted by blueshift_1 on Thursday October 08, 2015 @10:22AM

blueshift_1 writes: If you have 50TB of data that you'd like to put on the S3 cloud, Amazon is releasing Snowball. It's basically a large grey box full of hard drives that Amazon will mail to you. Simply upload your files and mail it back — they will upload it for you. For $200 + shipping, it's at a pretty reasonable price point if you're tired of hosting your data and want to try and push that to AWS.

Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway. -Tanenbaum, Andrew S.

Submission + - Facebook offers solution to end drunken posts (bbc.com)

Submitted by blueshift_1 on Thursday December 11, 2014 @02:44PM

blueshift_1 writes: Remember that photo that you posted to Facebook sophmore year of college when you thought there was nothing more important than partying and letting everyone you knew how hard you partied? Well facebook is now trying to buzzkill every one of those moments. With their upcoming feature, they'll be using photo analysis algorithms to detect how intoxicated you were in the photo and suggest that you not post it. Which in the end, is probably for the best... though now we are moving from being friends without our mothers to facebook being our mother.

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