patrickgzill

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%.

You forgot to mention Solyndra : http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2012-10-17/taxpayers-recover-0...

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 of cutouts, both rather unsavory practices that both sides use.

EDIT: this site may prove a useful antidote to the above article: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/special/politics/campai...

Romney raised more than Obama in total $$$. Even without the SuperPAC contributions that gave Romney more money, the two campaigns were within about 10% of each other in terms of what they raised.

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.

So now, only outlaws will have Buckyballs?

headline should read: New Jersey to Allow New Form of Election Fraud

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 driving, I can see that it would work just fine.

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.

So, what happened in 1938, when a storm of similar power swept through the region? Was that also global warming?

For gmail, I clicked on "Detailed Technical Info" and got "Numeric code: 5" ... didn't help much :-)

Sorry for not being clear - I was referring to AWS' not so stellar uptime.

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?

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 foot for just the raw space alone. $360 per square foot per year is a high rent, even for NYC.

And what is the client supposed to get for his money? Reliability! The engineering and facilities management expertise to ensure this, is baked into the costs.

You ask, "so now they are expected to move 55 gallon drums of fuel"? ABSOLUTELY they are expected to do that. The only "appropriate perspective" is that the clients are paying a lot of money for the datacenter to do whatever needs to be done.

They had a week of warning to source these; they already have a long-standing relationship with their fuel supplier for diesel delivery, so they call him up and say "Joe, we need 20 drums of diesel in addition to topping up the tanks we have" and they arrive in the next 2 days.

These diesel generators are basically modified / tuned versions of a big truck or marine diesel, which has a rebuild interval of 500K to 1 million miles if used as a truck engine or some high number of operating hours (like 10,000 hours). Perhaps you are thinking of LPG, natgas or gasoline powered gensets, which are designed for less frequent use.

I researched all aspects of building a DC years ago and realized that even if I could raise the $5 million to do an entry level one, my effort was best spent elsewhere.

Customers punish downtime, this DC will lose clients, be sure of it.

Aside: there was a guy in New Orleans who kept his DC running all through Hurricane Katrina and after it - if you search the site at http://mgno.com with terms like "diesel drums" you will find his old posts. Can't seem to easily link to these old posts, though.

"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...

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 drums it would take, per hour, to keep the place running.

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 of a gentle slope that naturally drains all water away to lower areas. The water level locally, would have to be about 20 feet for the first inch of water to push its way through the doors.

There is absolutely NO reason that any datacenter in VA should be having problems, aside from either shoddy facilities management or poor initial choice of the site. Don't let anyone tell you differently.

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.

It is funny to see the points on the parent comment, "oscillate", going from 2 or 3 up to its current zero.

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 some American cities.

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?

Are they unable to bypass the destroyed pumps and take fuel to the generators via 55-gallon drums? If so, why not?

No.

Gold functions without electricity, so, I doubt it.

This is the former Larry, I think?

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.

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.

It is perhaps a difference in thread creation semantics, or something like that. But, Solaris threading has been rock solid for many, many years.

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 perhaps 2 hours.

Complexity reduces reliability.

Claiming AWS' uptime approaches that of fairly standard colocation in a decent facility, is laughable.

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 on a 10Gbps pipe, for example; even assuming the host machine is connected to a 10Gbps port).

Burstable (meaning quite frankly, over-provisioned) disk and CPU resources.

And if any piece fails, you may well have downtime...

It is always surprising to me, that people feel that layering complexity upon complexity, will result in greater reliability.

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.

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