(more) re: ... on purpose? (warning: rant) more ...
Binney's estimate: the facility contains "enough resources to archive (and search) about 100 years' worth of the entirety of communications by all mankind."
somehow I doubt a cluster of core-i7's are up to the task*.
[video]
https://www.ksl.com/?nid=148&sid=22705217
[wiki]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utah_Data_Center
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* -- would need perhaps half that capacity if they uhm ... weren't spying on their own citizens in unprecendented violation of the 4th (and some say the 1st, as well as the 5th).
Which doesn't seem to matter anymore, since CIC's singular self-admitted highest duty is to "protect the American People" ... chosing of course to conveniently ignore that the solemn sole and only sworn duty has been to "preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States" for the last 224 years.)
Considering recent events, every American soldier should be called to duty, since their oath has it in there too:
I, (NAME), do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic.
Where's the support? Where's the defense? What's become of "We The People"?
The People who put the Magna Carta before King John in 1215, and made no bones about the consequences of "or else!".
Indeed.
That the last 50 "modern" years of brainwashing the sheeple with misdirection, fast food, GMOs, iPods, xBoxes, and Jersey Shores has come to this, is truly, unfathomably sad.
For those who can remember the significance of August 28th, 1963?
Here we are almost exactly 50 years later to the month, and only a few short days past the 64th year since June 8th, 1949.
There deserves to be a march on Washington the likes of which MLK could only dream of.
Though I fear the sort of Mr. Smith going to Washington this time around would have far far too much Winston, and not nearly enough Jefferson.
Nixon was impeached for less.
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... the agency has not finished building at Oak Ridge, nor is it satisfied with breaking the petaflop barrier. Its next goal is to reach exaflop speed, one quintillion (1018) operations a second, and eventually zettaflop (1021) and yottaflop.
These goals have considerable support in Congress. Last November a bipartisan group of 24 senators sent a letter to President Obama urging him to approve continued funding through 2013 for the Department of Energy’s exascale computing initiative (the NSA’s budget requests are classified).
[T]he real competition will take place in the classified realm ... to secretly develop the new exaflop (or higher) machine by 2018.