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Comment I wonder if they asked first? (Score 1) 69

If they asked for the data through proper channels and were rejected then I can understand resorting to hacking.
If they just up and hacked first to take without asking then they are just being twats.

Or it could just be the usual country vs country stuff they all do to get or reduce an advantage ... those places might have other juicy things to read after all.

Comment Re:Storage with compression is a bad idea (Score 1) 120

Oversubscription helps with that, the drive reports itself as have an actual capacity, a used capacity and a subscribed capacity ... so long as used doesn't hit actual it doesn't really matter what the subscribed capacity is.
Arrays that do compression tend to compress the data then compare it to the original to see if it was worth writing the compressed version to the media.

Comment Find more super-recognisers instead ? (Score 1) 41

Blasphemous as it may be to suggest this on a techie site ... maybe the money could have been better spent finding and training up more people who can recognise faces better than other mere mortals, seems a very freaky skill to someone like me who can barely remember anyone!

http://superrecognisers.com/

 

Comment Re:Scope of the task is *LARGE* (Score 1) 203

Maybe if Mark Hurd (aka "That greedy self-serving cunt") hadn't made most of the EDS staffers redundant (or just chased away by the horribly unethical/evil/greedy HR practices of HP) then they'd have still had the EDS staff with the skills to make the transition ?

EDS was (for all its other faults) quite a good vendor agnostic service provider ... HP isn't .. EDS could have completed the project.

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