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How much data are we talking about? I could probably store it at the back of my garage for you now I've had a clear out.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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It sounds like it may only be a couple of boxes, but you know what it's like - you agree to a kilo and get a ton.
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As an american company Amazon is subject to FISA Court warrants. Unlike the public cases (Microsoft and Ireland) FISA warrants are secret and carry gag orders. If there's a way to get to the data from a US location then it doesn't matter where the disks drives reside. amazon cna be compelled, in secret, to deliver whatever the Court wants. And being a FISA warrant, you don't even know the data has been seized.
Just to make it more interesting, the FISA court almost never turns down a warrant request from US security agancies. Don't count on checks or balances, but if you wan't any asurances from the US you have to "pay to play", which involves donations to special foundations and speaking contracts in the multi-millions USD.
Your data would be safer in Russia. At least there you can just pay off a few people to leave you alone. It's a lot cheaper.
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It's not just the EU that likes to keep its data close. Many countries try to place similar constraints on software houses. This means cloud hosting must be based in the country that owns the data. Seems sensible but it really cramps our style.
We're philosophical about power outages here. A.C. come, A.C. go.
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I'd look for a non US company. A quick search got me this link in Quora where they discuss the best non-US cloud providers:
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Cheers
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Can you dodge the issue of finding a full service host and use something like iSCSI to access data off stores owned and managed by the client? Yeah, performance is going to suck, and security is a concern, but maybe the design can mitigate them enough to make it work.
We can program with only 1's, but if all you've got are zeros, you've got nothing.
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No, I'm not looking for validation or someone going "no Pete, you're clever". That's not what this post is about. Whenever I look at topics around quantum theory, I realise just how little I actually know - it's a humbling but liberating feeling, knowing that there's much more to learn. So, today's bit of quantum wizadry... quantum entanglement gives rise to wormholes[^]. Check out the explanation of gravity as an effect of entanglement.
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Not just you either: in a Sixth Form Physics lecture (not part of the syllabus, but QM was the teacher's special interest) we had an hour long lecture on "the effective mass of a hole*" which I still don't understand!
* "hole" - i.e. somewhere that an electron wasn't.
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If this was the SB I'd reference around 140kg on a Friday night in Cardiff but, as we are in the Lounge, I'll refrain from the comment.
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And I'm so glad you refrained!
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I believe this should explain everything more clearly
Pterry. Equal Rites: “Cutangle: While I'm still confused and uncertain, it's on a much higher plane, d'you see, and at least I know I'm bewildered about the really fundamental and important facts of the universe.
Treatle: I hadn't looked at it like that, but you're absolutely right. He's really pushed back the boundaries of ignorance.
They both savoured the strange warm glow of being much more ignorant than ordinary people, who were only ignorant of ordinary things.”
Bold is my own for emphasis.
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Nagy Vilmos wrote: being much more ignorant than ordinary people
That made me think of this[^]! (SFW)
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant Anonymous
- The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine Winston Churchill, 1944
- I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy. Me, all the time
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Please never again, even by mistake, associate anything by Pterrymayherestinpeaceandofflerlookoverhimforeternity with that sans-comic
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Jeez, did you wake up in the wrong bed this fine monday morning?
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant Anonymous
- The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine Winston Churchill, 1944
- I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy. Me, all the time
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He's just found out that where he lives now has no bacon.
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I knew that before we arrived but, still, there is no BACON. Do you think I could get a UN mission to deliver some?
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Me too - although I have to say that the comments section of a theoretical physics site is so much nicer than the comment section of any other site I have encountered. We have to hope no political party ever takes a position on the many worlds conjecture.
My problem with this is that if the state change is truly instant (which all I have read indicates it is) then the length of the wormhole must be zero or the information is still travelling faster than light and your wormhole has not solved any problems.
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Pete O'Hanlon wrote: it's a humbling but liberating feeling, knowing that there's much more to learn Somewhere, Something Incredible Is Waiting To Be Known - Carl Sagan (RIP)
"There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult." - C.A.R. Hoare
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I read Brian Cox's and Jeff Forsahaw's Quantum Universe - I now know lots about lots of clocks but very little about Quantum theory
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I have a nagging doubt .... The ability to explain something to a 7 year old seems to be a trait of those who really understand their subject . Except in quantum mechanics . This leaves me with a huge dollop of scepticism , and thats probably healthy.
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Article: In July, physicists Juan Maldacena of the Institute for Advanced Study and Leonard Susskind of Stanford University proposed a theoretical solution in the form of two entangled black holes.
Nominative determinism strikes again.
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The American Empire is going down in flames!(12)
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Now, now! No politics in the lounge!
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Got it:
Freedomfries!
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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