Posted on 06/08/2013 4:11:26 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Edited on 06/09/2013 6:32:55 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
There is no question that the big winners from last week were George W. Bush and Dick Cheney, two men vilified for years by the left, the media, and Barack Obama as eager to use the War on Terror as an excuse to violate the Constitutional rights of everyday Americans. Obama ran for president as the anti-Bush in many respects, but especially on the issue of surveillance and snooping.
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WHERE in Utah Valley? I’m trying to place it, but can’t get farther than probably around Elk Ridge, or maybe on the way to Thistle, which is not in Utah County.
I spent my childhood in that Valley. Last time I was there, the Valley was pretty full, with towns butting up against each other.
The liberals will have a hard time taking over Utah. The state is uber-conservative, and everyone has at least a handgun, rifle AND shotgun, plue food storage and survival skills.
Liberals would be wise not to upset the locals at their morning cocoa.
The Liberals just need to take Texas and its game over for the Repubs.
So all the Good Germans who’ll work at this facility are conservative Utahans?
Somewhere in Texas, Alex Jones is smiling and saying, I told You!
Not An Alex Jones fan, but he may have some points...
Even David Icke is right once in awhile.
Buckley has sister sites in New Mexico and Maryland.
” The Bush admin laid down the blueprint for the surveillance state for Obama to use.”
That was in the works long before Bush.
New tagline ...
What do I know about “Good Germans?” I’m talking about UTAHNS! The majority of the population is Latter-day Saint. They are known for their obedience to the laws of the land, but they are also conservative, moral and ethical, for the most part.
They are not perfect, but they work on it, no matter what their ethnicity.
They are Patriots for the most part, and do not want to see this country taken over by a dictator of any stripe.
You can marginalize it all you want by sarcasm, but it won’t change the make-up of the state.
its a decoy
You may be right. Looks way too vulnerable.
Rumored Data size = 5 Zettabytes (5 x 10 21st)
It would be an exercise in futility to simply store all of this information as a big old flat file so we can safely assume that databases will be constructed. It would also be silly to assume that we can throw any old hardware at a database of this size, so we can also assume that whatever hardware is used, it will be specifically engineered as a database engine – built and tuned specifically for the database(s) it will be processing. There are two companies that I am aware of that build commercially available, large scale, database-specific hardware at this time – IBM with its Power Systems and Oracle with its Exadata. Because the Power Systems can also perform general purpose computing, they may be considered more versatile, but for that same reason, may not be appropriate vehicles for this colossal database enterprise.
Because this is simply an exercise, and I have to go mow the lawn, let’s just take a look at Exadata and its size requirements. According to Oracle’s own marketing folks, it would take 3 Exadata racks to store one Petabyte of data. When we extend this to the projected 5 zettabytes, we are looking at a truly huge amount of iron. ( 1024 TeraBytes =1 PetaByte, 1024 PB = 1 ExaByte, 1024 EB = 1 ZettaByte). So then (3*1024*1024)*5 yields 15,728,640 Exadata racks. Now each of those Exadata racks will hold 56 PCI Flash cards. That brings our number of monitorable and administrable pieces of hardware up to 880,803,840.
From a systems point of view, the administration of 880 million individual flash cards in a single building is…well…governmental in nature. Even if we apply a compression factor of 10 or 15 to the archived (older) data, we are still talking about over 88 million cards that can fail. And they do fail with great regularity.
Now, based on the scale of what we are seeing, we can raise a few questions. Let’s assume (and this is a reasonably good assumption) that this giant system cannot have 100% uptime – something this big probably cannot even produce 5 x9’s. So let’s say 4 x 9’s. 99.99% availability. This then shows a .01% failure rate for whatever reason – physical or logical. On a system containing tens of millions of identifiable and vulnerable pieces of hardware. On a system presumably storing hundreds of millions to billions of data points each day. On a system presumably processing millions of inquiries each day, a subset of which needs eyes on by an intelligence analyst.
ALL monitored and administered by government workers.
I ask you – what could go wrong?
On the other hand - we have skunk works for aviation. I think it is safe to assume we have skunk works for information processing. Our state of the art, commercially available systems may be several iterations behind...
Or perhaps Moore's Law itself has been rendered obsolete. Cue Skynet. Then too, maybe I'm full of it.
So who, exactly, will be working at the mega database farm in Utah?
Space Aliens? New Yorkers?
I’m guessing probably Utahans.
Just like the Good Germans who worked at Auschwitz. And knew exactly what was going on there.
Since I no longer live in Utah, I have no clue what you are basing your sarcasm on. I don’t even know WHERE in Utah the facility is, so throwing questions like that to me “because I’m handy” is like blaming me for the construction because I once lived in Utah Valley.
I spent time in Germany, and I have studied German History, especially the war years, and the history that spawned Hitler. When I was there in the ‘60’s there were “no Nazis, here,” which we all knew was a lie.
I don’t appreciate your snide comments. If you know anything about UTAHNS, you will know that they are often preyed upon because of their basic trust in their fellow-man, which makes them easy targets for any scam artist looking to make a buck off the less informed. This includes Zero and his minions.
I would suggest you research the situation yourself, if you are interested in actually KNOWING something, which is what I will do, since I no longer live there. But if you would, please, direct your questions to the person who posted the article.
I’m sure that person is more acquainted with it all than I am.
‘Face
I’m not being sarcastic.
I’m asking you who you think will be working at this facility that’s the closest thing we’ve gotten to the Beast of Revelations.
Who will be punching the clock in that facility?
Space Aliens or Utahans?
AGAIN: Since I no longer live there, I DO NOT KNOW. And since I’m not BFF’s with Zero, you are, again, addressing the wrong person when you ask your questions.
And what difference does it make who I think will be working there? My opinion has not been asked for by anyone but you, and no matter what I said, it will still be AN OPINION. In this case, it could be an arguing point, and arguing about who will be employed, by anyone NOT employed there, is ridiculous beyond contemplation.
For a knowledgeable Scot, you seem pretty hell-bent on getting the answers you want.
It is UTAHNS, not Utahans....
Unless they import the workers they will be Utahans.
Conservative Utahans running the current day implementation of the Beast of Revelations.
Doesn’t sound conservative to me.
Utahns, Utahans, Good Germans.
Whatever.
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