Why give him a hard time about it. It is a chat room to post just about anything. This affects all americans. Other governments are doing the same thing. Pretty sure our government has been doing this under the table anyway.

From the Wired article in regards to the yottabyte storage (comments given from the William Binney, who was a former senior NSA crypto-mathematician)

1) It has it's own 65 Megawatt power facility.

2) It is constantly expanding its storage capabilities with it's 4-25,000 sq ft facilities which house rows and rows of servers.

3) A Department of Defense report stated, "The Pentagon is attempting to expand its worldwide communications network, known as the Global Information Grid, to handle yottabytes of information." In needs that capacity the report says, because CISCO estimates by 2015, 966 exabytes of internet traffic will be produced yearly.

4) Total size of Utah center = 1 million sq. feet

In regards to me apologizing, I am truly appologetic that I HAD to post this. I'm sorry it's come to this in my country. I truly am. I'm disgusted with my government, and am sorry I had (felt compelled to, & that this is even an issue in the first place) I shouldn't have to in the sense that it's obviously not right.

And in regards to this SPECIFIC instance, yes it's American-centered, which I clearly stated. But this TOPIC is not. UK is looking at monitoring every email, text message, web browsing history, etc. themselves.

Heck, by their overly broad definition of cyber-security (anything they feel can hurt America), me crunching for C4CW for China could be considered anti-american and I could be monitored for helping the Chinese advance technology.

Whether or not you accept my apology is up to you entirely. I feel disgusted that this topic in general is even being discussed by various governments, but seeing as how I am not a fan of Facebook, Twitter, etc. This forum is really the only one where I felt I could let others know. If you don't care about it, or it doesn't effect you YET, fine. But please do not say my apology is insincere.

EDIT: Thought yottabyte storage was complete, but the Center is, with whatever amount of storage they have currently, and plan on constantly expanding it to yottabyte (being the end goal).

Oh, and they recently figured out a way to make drives with 1TB per sq. inch. Read it in this months Maximum PC issue.

2nd EDIT: SSD 2.5 capacity has AT LEAST reached 1.6 TB for 2.5 form factor

http://www.geek.com/articles/chips/smart-intr...-6tb-1000mbs-ssd-2011084/

And this was a year ago.

Ok let's try to be all more diplomacy prone.

An 5pot, stop with all these excuses. Just give your point, as simple as that.

Probably to late to call anyone. This is getting pushed through like Cheney did with patriot act. Don't think us little people can do much about it.