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You are a cynical old bugger!
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity -
RAH
I'm old. I know stuff - JSOP
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Why yes I am!
I may not be that good looking, or athletic, or funny, or talented, or smart
I forgot where I was going with this but I do know I love bacon!
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Cannot count how many blu-ray discs needed to copy the data.
TOMZ_KV
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"...has 33 different vice presidents, each earning over 200 thousand dollars a year. Now, I have spent the last two months analyzing what all these guys do, and I still can't figure it out. One thing I do know is that our paper company lost 110 million dollars last year, and I'll bet that half of that was spent in all the paperwork going back and forth between all these vice presidents."
--Gordon Gekko, Wall Street
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I'd be curious to know the nature of the data. Images take a lot more space than say, your chart history does.
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There is so much important scientific data in the healthcare data (globally) the challenge nowadays is to be able to use that data for research purposes and still keep the patient's privacy. It is scattered all over and not one repository for the info to be used for research purposes.
2,314 billion gigabytes? That a lot. 
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How much of that will be in unsecured databases or places where they didn’t change the default password or install security fixes, etc.
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Methinks a good chunk would be comprised of genetic data.
-Each of us has ~3 Billion base pairs (A unique sequence of A,C,G,or T)
-The trend (as costs go down) is moving toward patients having their entire genome sequenced instead of just the "we often see mutations in this specific area".
-For some diseases it may be prudent to get the DNA sequence multiple times (as the person's genetics change), although this would not often be the whole genome in these situations.
-Tumors (often have dramatically different gene sequences) are also now sequenced to better plan treatments for patient A vs. patient B.
-But 3 billion characters to store is the beginning of the story (although it is only known later on in the analysis) because before the sequence is known the DNA sequencers generate, yes as mentioned, images, which are used and analyzed to tell what the DNA sequence is, i.e., these are raw files that must be analyzed, compared to a reference set, etc.
-So, lots of data is generated, per genome. Lots.
Separate from the genetics aspect, hospitals I'm guessing will continue to digitize their patients' health care records.
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I ordered laser labels yesterday for my new printer - company I've never used before. Arrived today, and ... the package feels odd, like there are lumps in it ...
Open it up and find the labels, a "10% off your next order voucher, a nice letter thanking me for using the new website - and a bag of chocolate money as a little Christmas present!
Win win! 
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
modified 19-Dec-18 7:18am.
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Nope: I may - or may not - order from them again, depends on price and availability.
But I will eat the chocolate! 
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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QED!
It really is your fault that their long-term customers will be overcharged!
Shame on you!
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Of course they hope that you will smudge the labels with the chocolate so that you have to order new ones 
Bib on !
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I'm suspicious. They somehow knew exactly how to bribe you. 
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Damn! I knew I should have covered the webcam!
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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That might be worth a free plug man, may as well say who it was :p
"Never attribute to malice that which can be explained by stupidity."
- Hanlon's Razor
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OriginalGriff wrote: and a bag of chocolate money as a little Christmas present!
Probably left overs from Chanukah[^] . . . chocolate coins for children is a tradition (in US, at least).
More importantly: dark chocolate or milk chocolate? That's how you determine if you ever reorder.
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What if you're diabetic, or a struggling chocolaholic?
Not so nice now, are they...
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dandy72 wrote: Not so nice now, are they...
I just ate one, and the verdict is "Yes. Yes they are nice."
They may be milk chocolate (and I prefer Lindt 85% Dark) but it's pretty good Belgian chocolate, and reasonably thick as well.
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Mmmmmm. Bitecoin!
Socialism is the Axe Body Spray of political ideologies: It never does what it claims to do, but people too young to know better keep buying it anyway. (Glenn Reynolds)
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It's a bit funny to see the managing bosses randomly use terminologies as per their wish.
Like Authenticate/Authorize, Data/Meta-Data, and so many of them. Completely mixed up. But still everyone nods their head and keeps going lol 
Full Reset
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If you find a not-migrated-from-the-developer-ranks manager who even understands what meta-data is, you're a lucky guy.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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There is no unique, unambiguous, generally agreed upon, definition of what metadata is.
The concept was not invented by computer guys. Librarians have been talking about it for ages. Wherever three librarians are gathered, there are four opinions about what is metadata. If you ever meet a few librarians at a party, ask them about the author and title of a book: When included in an index or catalog, that is obviously metadata, but when exactly the same information is printed on the title page, is that metadata, too? Is the same info both data and metadata? Or are both occurences metadata, so that the author and title is nowhere present as raw data? ... the discussion may last the rest of the night.
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Member 7989122 wrote: There is no unique, unambiguous, generally agreed upon, definition of what metadata is.
Let me give you one;
Meta-data is data that describes how data is formed and what it represents 
Member 7989122 wrote: The concept was not invented by computer guys. Librarians have been talking about it for ages. Wherever three librarians are gathered, there are four opinions about what is metadata. If you ever meet a few librarians at a party, ask them about the author and title of a book: When included in an index or catalog, that is obviously metadata, but when exactly the same information is printed on the title page, is that metadata, too?
No, when it the title is printed in the catalog or index, the title is still data. It does not become "meta-data" - the catalog and the index in itself are, but the title in itself is not. The title in the index is data, because it does not describe other data. The entire index is the thing that describes that. IOW, metadata consists of data.
Member 7989122 wrote: when exactly the same information is printed on the title page, is that metadata, too?
You should be able to answer that one yourself, and why it is so.
Member 7989122 wrote: he discussion may last the rest of the night.
Not even a minute.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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