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randomdestructn | 3 years ago | on: Facebook LLAMA is being openly distributed via torrents

Or maybe they sell that data to another company that operates kind of like a collections agency, which takes on the 'risk' of storing the data, then repeatedly calls and offers to give them their AI friend back at an extortionate rate.

The data privacy side of this is an interesting conversation as well. Think of the information an employee or hacker could leak about a person after they spent some time with such an instance.

randomdestructn | 7 years ago | on: So Long Last /8 and Thanks For All the Allocations

Same. And its only really an issue for me because around here the home/SOHO IPv6 rollout is transparent to clients.

So people who have been trusting NAT to be a firewall wake up one day to their network being directly routable, and are none the wiser.

randomdestructn | 10 years ago | on: The Vegetable Detective

Not sure why you're being downvoted for this comment. That was one of the red flags for me as well.

"Often suspected" is a deliberately misleading and alarmist way to present the current scientific data on the relationship between aluminium and Alzheimer's disease.

randomdestructn | 11 years ago | on: Screenshots Forever and Ever Until You Can’t Stand it

Please find proper equipment to play them.

Using a microgroove stylus designed for vinyl will not do your shellac records any favours. Also the recordings will sound terrible.

There are several modern cartridges that support 78rpm stylii, and lots of vintage kit available cheap.

Also careful, they shatter somewhat easily, and like to get mouldy.

randomdestructn | 12 years ago | on: Steam Machines – Prototype Details

They could produce an 'experience index' style number like windows does. It's the only effective way I can think of to distil an entire PC's performance into a single value.

edit: or maybe a triplet, CPU index, GPU index, Storage index.

randomdestructn | 12 years ago | on: Inside the Arctic Circle, Where Your Facebook Data Live

> with fewer components they can function at temperatures as high as 85F. (Most servers are expected to keel over at 75F.)

I'm no datacentre guy, so can someone clarify if this is a typo? What kind of electronics start failing just above room temperature?

I'd think HDDs would be the most sensitive, but google said failures aren't well correlated to hdd temp (http://research.google.com/archive/disk_failures.pdf‎)

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