6 Replies to “I, For One, Welcome Our New Self-Driving Overlords”
Awesome, Imagine the possibilities, I could sit with 99 phones in a wagon and divert self driving traffic to where that bridge is out.
the day everything is computer controlled, a handfull of hackers or maybe just one guy with bad intent will cause something a thousand times bigger than 9/11
that reminds of a joke, well not really a joke, more like a comment, an observation, by a Canadian stand up comic that may not apply today but says a lot about how dangerous modern technology is
” you mean t tell me that I can fit all the knowledge of the planet on this little thing and then erase all that knowledge with a fridge magnet? and that is progress? ” ( or something like that, its from the 1990s )
One of my friends had saved about 25 years of data on one of those TERA sized hard disk, family photos, songs he wrote, etc etc
he dropped it, the thing broke in many pieces, 25 years of data was gone
yeah lets put our entire lives in the hand of something a 15 year old hacker can control from the basement of his mother
yeah that is ” progress”
“. . .he dropped it, the thing broke in many pieces, 25 years of data was gone”
If that happened to me I would be upset that 45 USD was gone. If the main drives in my main computer fail it’s about 3 minutes before I’m up and running with exact duplicates. If the house burns down I have to go to a friends house for exact duplicates of a week ago and the week’s backup is also out of the house. You’d have to nuke three cities to have a chance of wiping out my data and hope that I don’t have a fourth secret cache somewhere. Media has never been cheaper. Copying has never been faster (minutes for a full terabyte).
The family photos, songs you wrote, etc etc you burn to Blu-ray and pass them out to family. They’re immune to magnets, shock and they have to get all of you to get all of it. Gone are the days of only having one copy (which can be wiped out with a match. If the library of Alexandria had been on disc we’d still have it) of a precious photo.
3 . . . 2 . . . 1. Not just a good idea, it’s the minimum.
Your friend didn’t lose all of his data because he dropped his drive. He lost all of his data because he didn’t have another drive just like it tucked in the back of his his sock drawer. Or taped underneath it. They’re about the size of a stick of gum, or a fingernail, these days. And immune to magnets and being dropped.
While at work at a power plant, a coworker of mine and I had a magnet we were playing with. It was awfully strong making it real entertaining. We decided to rub it all over a 3-1/2 floppy just to see it ruin the data. We found that no time the magnet was held above the floppy or waving it back and forth could destroy the data. Back, cross, up and down…
After giving up trying to get this magnet to mess up the disk like we thought would happen, we ripped apart the floppy and physically scraped the magnet on the flimsy plastic disk… for fun. “Bet it doesn’t work now!”
Couldn’t get a hefty magnet to mess up the data.
me too james, as an experiment.
a single magnet had no effect.
placing a 2nd magnet on the other side of the floppy, with N-S alignment to strengthen the magnetic lines did the trick.
aint technology wunnerful !!!
in 40 years tinkering with digital data, I have had only ONE instance where I had failed to backup adequately.
I tried to tell people at a specialty college course I took, that one strategy is to create two partitions on the HD, one for O/S, app S/W etc, ‘tother for the data. that way when the O/S gets clobbered, reinstall and voila !!! data partition safe and sound !!!
the reaction was a collective ‘meh’.
oooooo-kaaaaaayyyyy.
Hey, I’m waiting for Skynet to start the Logan’s Run/Soylent Green euthanasia food program.
Awesome, Imagine the possibilities, I could sit with 99 phones in a wagon and divert self driving traffic to where that bridge is out.
the day everything is computer controlled, a handfull of hackers or maybe just one guy with bad intent will cause something a thousand times bigger than 9/11
that reminds of a joke, well not really a joke, more like a comment, an observation, by a Canadian stand up comic that may not apply today but says a lot about how dangerous modern technology is
” you mean t tell me that I can fit all the knowledge of the planet on this little thing and then erase all that knowledge with a fridge magnet? and that is progress? ” ( or something like that, its from the 1990s )
One of my friends had saved about 25 years of data on one of those TERA sized hard disk, family photos, songs he wrote, etc etc
he dropped it, the thing broke in many pieces, 25 years of data was gone
yeah lets put our entire lives in the hand of something a 15 year old hacker can control from the basement of his mother
yeah that is ” progress”
“. . .he dropped it, the thing broke in many pieces, 25 years of data was gone”
If that happened to me I would be upset that 45 USD was gone. If the main drives in my main computer fail it’s about 3 minutes before I’m up and running with exact duplicates. If the house burns down I have to go to a friends house for exact duplicates of a week ago and the week’s backup is also out of the house. You’d have to nuke three cities to have a chance of wiping out my data and hope that I don’t have a fourth secret cache somewhere. Media has never been cheaper. Copying has never been faster (minutes for a full terabyte).
The family photos, songs you wrote, etc etc you burn to Blu-ray and pass them out to family. They’re immune to magnets, shock and they have to get all of you to get all of it. Gone are the days of only having one copy (which can be wiped out with a match. If the library of Alexandria had been on disc we’d still have it) of a precious photo.
3 . . . 2 . . . 1. Not just a good idea, it’s the minimum.
Your friend didn’t lose all of his data because he dropped his drive. He lost all of his data because he didn’t have another drive just like it tucked in the back of his his sock drawer. Or taped underneath it. They’re about the size of a stick of gum, or a fingernail, these days. And immune to magnets and being dropped.
While at work at a power plant, a coworker of mine and I had a magnet we were playing with. It was awfully strong making it real entertaining. We decided to rub it all over a 3-1/2 floppy just to see it ruin the data. We found that no time the magnet was held above the floppy or waving it back and forth could destroy the data. Back, cross, up and down…
After giving up trying to get this magnet to mess up the disk like we thought would happen, we ripped apart the floppy and physically scraped the magnet on the flimsy plastic disk… for fun. “Bet it doesn’t work now!”
Couldn’t get a hefty magnet to mess up the data.
me too james, as an experiment.
a single magnet had no effect.
placing a 2nd magnet on the other side of the floppy, with N-S alignment to strengthen the magnetic lines did the trick.
aint technology wunnerful !!!
in 40 years tinkering with digital data, I have had only ONE instance where I had failed to backup adequately.
I tried to tell people at a specialty college course I took, that one strategy is to create two partitions on the HD, one for O/S, app S/W etc, ‘tother for the data. that way when the O/S gets clobbered, reinstall and voila !!! data partition safe and sound !!!
the reaction was a collective ‘meh’.
oooooo-kaaaaaayyyyy.
Hey, I’m waiting for Skynet to start the Logan’s Run/Soylent Green euthanasia food program.