The National Security Agency wants to store a YOTTABYTE of Your calls, Emails, etc.
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[QUOTE=thisispain;18153192]What's his source, crystal meth?[/QUOTE]
[url]http://www.nybooks.com/articles/23231[/url]
I wonder big a 1 YB hdd would be
[QUOTE=Wii60;18153238][url]http://www.nybooks.com/articles/23231[/url][/QUOTE]
Oh he's his own source. Ok.
[QUOTE=windwakr;18152959]Lets just see how good they are watching.[/QUOTE]
President. Assassination. Bomb. Calvin Klein.
Imagine hard drive crash.
[QUOTE=Apt 2B;18153260]I wonder big a 1 YB hdd would be[/QUOTE]
might be hard to believe but bigger than an xbox!!
According to google:
(1 000 000 000 000 000 gigabytes) divided by (2 terabytes) = 488 281 250 000
and a two terabyte hard drive is $179
[url]http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148413[/url]
The price of the hard drives alone at list price would be $85449218750000, without the servers, the shipping, the tax and the building. Plus the utilities and the salaries for the people working there and building/maintaining these servers...
Holy shit.
[QUOTE=benjgvps;18154552]According to google:
(1 000 000 000 000 000 gigabytes) divided by (2 terabytes) = 488 281 250 000
and a two terabyte hard drive is $179
[url]http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148413[/url]
The price of the hard drives alone at list price would be $85449218750000, without the servers, the shipping, the tax and the building. Plus the utilities and the salaries for the people working there and building/maintaining these servers...
Holy shit.[/QUOTE]
i don't know which version of mathematics you're using but 1 and some zeroes divided by 2 and some zeroes should begin with a 5
1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 gigabytes.
[QUOTE=NotYou3;18152437]it appears i have been using the outdated long scale[/QUOTE]
But you're wrong even with a long scale. In German the long scale is used. It would be billiarden, english: billiard, or 'one thousand billion'
So you're wrong either way.
EDIT:
for all saying "OLOLOLO U FAILZ CUZ BILLIARD IS WIHT BALLZ"
It's mill[I]iard[/I] and trill[I]iard[/I], too
:ohdear:
woah
Isn't one quadrilloin a bit overkill?
This doesn't surprise me. Echelon has been going on for years now and everyone knows the NSA has been doing this.
Storing that much data is utterly useless as there's no efficient way to analyze it all.
Whenever I pick up the phone and call someone, I will start singing "Somebody's Watchin' Me".
"This one facility will burn through as much electricity as the entirety of Salt Lake City."
:pirate:
[QUOTE=Mr. Someguy;18152639]This can't be real. It goes against our right to privacy.[/QUOTE]
They're the goddamn goverment.
The people who [i]stop[/i] people from invading your privacy.
[QUOTE=Zeke129;18158020]Storing that much data is utterly useless as there's no efficient way to analyze it all.[/QUOTE]
I was about to post this.
It would literally destroy the country's economy and resources just to have it running.
But only then will we be truly safe.
[QUOTE=benjgvps;18154552]
The price of the hard drives alone at list price would be $85449218750000, without the servers, the shipping, the tax and the building. Plus the utilities and the salaries for the people working there and building/maintaining these servers...[/QUOTE]
Mmm. I love the way our tax dollars go hard at work, don't you?
I mean seriously, could there be anything stupider than this? What do they expect to find in the USA...
Do terrorists even use computers?
[QUOTE=ThePuska;18154609]i don't know which version of mathematics you're using but 1 and some zeroes divided by 2 and some zeroes should begin with a 5[/QUOTE]
We're talking bytes bro, a terabyte is not one and some zeroes, so two terabytes do not equal two and some zeroes. Er, well, they are and they aren't. Binary fucks shit up.
[QUOTE=Skyhawk;18158760]We're talking bytes bro, a terabyte is not one and some zeroes, so two terabytes do not equal two and some zeroes. Er, well, they are and they aren't. Binary fucks shit up.[/QUOTE]
SI prefixes are defined as powers of ten, regardless of the unit. If they changed according to their units, they would become meaningless, as their entire point is universality. Therefore powers of ten are recommended by pretty much every standard.
For those struggling to imagine this.
[img]http://www2.wolframalpha.com/Calculate/MSP/MSP94019839318b28b8c94000036i479170a912c2h?MSPStoreType=image/gif&s=25[/img]
Holy crap. :ohdear:
Do we really need this?
More importantly isn't this kinda'... wrong?
[QUOTE=Apt 2B;18153260]I wonder big a 1 YB hdd would be[/QUOTE]
[img]http://ultraorange.net/media/2008/01/digital-giant-new-hard-drive.jpg[/img]
:ninja:
[QUOTE='Odellus[v2];18154619']1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 gigabytes.[/QUOTE]
Please use standard form.
[QUOTE=Rasrap Smurf;18152378]It's a british billion.[/QUOTE]
Holy shit, I almost forgot about that, It's been so long since I've been in the UK, I need to go back
[QUOTE=Mr. Someguy;18152639]This can't be real. It goes against our right to privacy.[/QUOTE]
No, it goes against our laws of physics.
I call bullshit. They can't make yottabyte storage. At least at these days technology, they just can't.
1 yottabyte, shit. I wonder if that could store the entire internet on it (as in all of the data from the internet).
[b]Edit:[/b] according to wikipedia that could store the entire internet! [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yottabyte[/url]
[QUOTE=Wikipedia]it is commonly abbreviated YB. As of 2009, no computer has yet achieved one yottabyte of storage. In fact, the combined space of all the computer hard drives in the world does not amount to even one zettabyte.[/QUOTE]
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