patrickgzill

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by patrickgzill 14y ago
Yes. Fraud in Philly voting is legendary and almost on par with Chicago. I can't find the registered voter turnout for 2012 yet, but in past years Philly RV turnout has been as high as 108%.
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by patrickgzill 14y ago
You forgot to mention Solyndra : http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2012-10-17/taxpayers-recover-0...
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by patrickgzill 14y ago
Hilarious! What gave PA to Obama was the blocking by the courts of the Voter ID act that the legislature passed. Note that in all the praise about individual contibutors in the article, there is no mention of "bundling" and the routine use
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by patrickgzill 14y ago
The purpose of prohibition was to destroy local, independant breweries and distillers, so that large conglomerates would be able to dominate the very lucrative alcohol industry once it was re-legalized.
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by patrickgzill 14y ago
So now, only outlaws will have Buckyballs?
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by patrickgzill 14y ago
headline should read: New Jersey to Allow New Form of Election Fraud
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by patrickgzill 14y ago
It was huge! I didn't pair my phone to it, but all the features were very cleanly laid out (you control many things, from music, web, to climate control , fan speed, etc. from it). In trying to imagine what it would be like to use while dr
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by patrickgzill 14y ago
Good for Tesla. I have seen and sat in, the Model S at their showroom in the Park Meadows Mall in Denver (well, south of Denver). It is an impressive looking car and everything just feels right. I have not driven it, however.
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by patrickgzill 14y ago
So, what happened in 1938, when a storm of similar power swept through the region? Was that also global warming?
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by patrickgzill 14y ago
For gmail, I clicked on "Detailed Technical Info" and got "Numeric code: 5" ... didn't help much :-)
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by patrickgzill 14y ago
Sorry for not being clear - I was referring to AWS' not so stellar uptime.
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by patrickgzill 14y ago
ISCSI over DRBD for Linux, seems to be one solution. I know of a highly available VOIP company that uses this in production. And maybe this sounds snarky, but AWS is your "making it better" solution? Seriously?
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by patrickgzill 14y ago
Try to see it from a different perspective: customers are paying (my guess) $800 per rack, per month, plus power and bandwidth charges; and a rack takes up 30 square feet once you include the space around that rack. So almost $30 per square
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by patrickgzill 14y ago
"When the tide goes out, you find out who is swimming naked." Warren Buffett said it in reference to economic problems, but somehow it applies...
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by patrickgzill 14y ago
It is an easy question to answer, e.g. http://www.pmsi-inc.com/pdf/GeneracPowerSystem.pdf shows 1MW generator uses about 63 gallons per hour, just a little more than 1 drum. I don't know the size of the facility, so I can't tell how many
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by patrickgzill 14y ago
The datacenter where most of my servers are is not too far from Philly, but I have 0 worries about it. Why? It was properly designed and maintained from the start. Not only is the first floor 6 feet above the ground, but it is at the top
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by patrickgzill 14y ago
So why didn't they do it earlier? That was my point. Of course you have to keep your people safe, but this shows poor planning.
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by patrickgzill 14y ago
It is funny to see the points on the parent comment, "oscillate", going from 2 or 3 up to its current zero.
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by patrickgzill 14y ago
It is nice that they talk about this - however these are not Rackspace standards but standard industrywide, some of which have been in place since the 1960s, when ATT revised their plans for central office facilities in the wake of riots in
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by patrickgzill 14y ago
We are complimenting companies for not having redundant setups but telling us about it, when they have been claiming all along, that they have redundant setups?
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by patrickgzill 14y ago
Are they unable to bypass the destroyed pumps and take fuel to the generators via 55-gallon drums? If so, why not?
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by patrickgzill 14y ago
No.
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by patrickgzill 14y ago
Gold functions without electricity, so, I doubt it.
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by patrickgzill 14y ago
This is the former Larry, I think?
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by patrickgzill 14y ago
They are certainly trying... however, Iran-Dubai-Turkey triangle consists of gold. http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2012-10-23/how-iran-evades-wes... And it lets Iran sell its oil to others pretty easily.
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by patrickgzill 14y ago
Dentists seem to have about 5 different rooms, pay dental hygienists to do 90% of the work, then stop in for about 5 minutes during the course of the 45 minutes you are there. A van wouldn't cut it - you would need a bus.
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by patrickgzill 14y ago
It is perhaps a difference in thread creation semantics, or something like that. But, Solaris threading has been rock solid for many, many years.
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by patrickgzill 14y ago
I have a server for a client in our colo, that has been up for 1753 days. (Client doesn't want to move to new hardware, etc. otherwise we would have moved them long ago). During that time, there was maybe network outage (at 2AM mostly) of
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by patrickgzill 14y ago
You have a virtualized platform, on top of which are many pieces like load-balancing, EBS, RDS, the control-plane itself, etc. You have burstable network connections which by their nature, will have hard limits (you can't burst above 10Gbps
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by patrickgzill 14y ago
It was a case of suicide, plain and simple. They wanted to spin things their way and they were not interested in hard-hitting objective reporting. "Want share? Try the truth!"

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