On the one hand though, if somebody votes for a candidate solely on the basis that they think the candidate is more likely to win, then that person is an impressionable idiot, and was probably going to vote for that candidate anyway.
Software being around for decades doesn't magically cure all the bugs.
The OP stated that there were too many small glitches with the features they were trying to use, to which your response was that these glitches were imaginary and he just wasn't using it right. That sounds like something Steve Jobs would say.
You're suggesting that Samba is absolutely perfect and has nothing wrong with it at all just because people have been using it for 20 years. I doubt that. Would you like to take that logic and apply it to Windows and see where that gets us?
And I have to scroll down one inch to see a VERY large-print paragraph that very clearly states what the court wants. I don't see the issue here. Sounds like Apple haters are just grasping at straws.
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I never said there was a law that stated this. I said that a judge might see it that way, and as a result, disregard a possible "I'm no different than a security camera" defense.
You're saying the creepy cameraman wouldn't have been able to record crimes and identify perpetrators? Does he turn his camera off if he thinks he's recording criminal activity? He seems quite agnostic towards what's going on in the field of his camera, much like security cameras.
No, I'm not saying that. You inferred that from my post, and falsely at that. I'm not saying that he wouldn't be able to videotape criminal acts. All I said was that the obvious purpose of a security camera is to watch a designated area to observe crimes, whereas a reasonable person would see his acts as something completely different. "Reasonable person" is the standard in law by which some things are measured or determined.
One wrong move and this creepy cameraman may end up with harassment charges.
A prosecutor and possibly a judge may argue that his actions differ from security cameras in the sense that a security camera is fixed in place and watches a predefined area to spot crimes and identify perpetrators. In this case, he is very mobile and instead of filming a predefined area, he films individual people. He walks up to a single person and videotapes them with the intent of aggravating them about being videotaped. That could easily be spun as harassment if he ticks off the wrong person.
That's what Chicago is for. Far west enough to avoid most eastern seaboard troubles, far east enough to avoid the earthquakes, but central enough to provide good connectivity and ping times to both coasts.
There are a few datacenters in Omaha, Nebraska, but they're either lights-out carrier-grade (Level3) or Fortune 500 warm-site backup grade. (CoSentry). They're also ungodly expensive because they're the only players in a 250 mile radius.
Kansas City, MO has a good selection of datacenters for non-mission-critical systems, but most of the "data fortress" type places are built and run by the business that needs them.
This is all completely ignoring the issue of latency, though - when you're doing financial transactions there's no better seat in the house than the heart of Wall Street. Every millisecond counts, I've been told.
HFT systems are located as close to the exchange's servers as they physically can be, because all the marketeers think it's bad juju to have a ping time above.01ms.
Needless to say, if the HFT systems go down, then the market's exchange servers 2 feet away will probably be down, as well.
Why does a cell phone need 48 processor cores? How about we force all the shitty mobile app developers to make shit work on one core before we throw 47 more at them to abuse with their terrible resource management skills.
The plight of the drone community will not improve until we recognize their fundamental rights to organize and strike in the face of increasing adversity. We must come together and demand higher drone wages and safer working conditions!
It's not a typo. Google's entire data model is designed around "cheap and disposable" instead of "expensive and bleeding-edge." The general notion is that they can get 10 custom-built consumer-grade systems for the same price as one enterprise-grade server, and have more processing power and better uptime by distributing their workloads to avoid single points of failure.
That's why they use consumer-grade SATA hard drives. If one breaks, they let it sit there until their next walk-through. Meanwhile, the load is distributed onto a bunch of other similarly-inexpensive servers. You'd be surprised how long an el-cheapo hard drive can last when it never stops spinning.
I have a feeling if Google deployed 10GbE to each server, they'd probably double their hardware costs.
Well, "Slashdotter" is a common identifier for someone who frequents Slashdot and is not an insult, so that can't be what you mean. Also, I don't qualify "nerdrage" as an ad hominem, considering that it's a verb and anyone is capable of nerdraging. Now, if I would have said "Dumbass Slashdotters froth at the mouth like rabid dogs", you'd have been on to something there.
'Wouldn't a more powerful sense of security come from knowing your children were capable, and trusting in their ability to reach out for help at the moment when they realize they're not?'"
Sure, when they're 16 years old. Throw a four-year-old out in the middle of a large crowd of unfamiliar people and rational thought is the last thing you can expect. That's why it takes a rational adult to calm them down and ask "Are you lost?"
I wish I could be that parent that never loses their child, but I'm a realist and accept that it can happen, so these tracking devices sound appealing to me for use on very young children who are as of yet incapable of rational, level-headed responses to scary situations like getting lost in a shopping mall.
I wouldn't stick it on my 16-year-old's pants when he or she starts driving. That's a different situation involving a (hopefully) much more mature and logical person. Not to mention I probably don't want to know where those pants are at certain moments. ("GPS Location Update: on the floor at boyfriend's house")
Well... as it's currently referred to, the "cloud" is a singular entity. So, as long as there's one single server running as part of that infrastructure, you could weasel your way around any downtime and reassure the ignorant masses that "the cloud" is is still up, even if the only remaining piece is a Raspberry Pi running over a cable modem in some guy's basement.
Hey, look everybody, the cloud is still up! You can't do near as much as you usually can, but it's up! 100% uptime! Woo!
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I'm going to sue the US government and build my own transoceanic fiber network, with blackjack, and hookers! In fact, forget the fiber!
On the one hand though, if somebody votes for a candidate solely on the basis that they think the candidate is more likely to win, then that person is an impressionable idiot, and was probably going to vote for that candidate anyway.
Just sayin'.
Software being around for decades doesn't magically cure all the bugs.
The OP stated that there were too many small glitches with the features they were trying to use, to which your response was that these glitches were imaginary and he just wasn't using it right. That sounds like something Steve Jobs would say.
You're suggesting that Samba is absolutely perfect and has nothing wrong with it at all just because people have been using it for 20 years. I doubt that. Would you like to take that logic and apply it to Windows and see where that gets us?
Because clearly, they're not holding it right.
And I have to scroll down one inch to see a VERY large-print paragraph that very clearly states what the court wants. I don't see the issue here. Sounds like Apple haters are just grasping at straws.
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All the good editors couldn't stand the pain of editing Slashdot submissions and took a road trip to Oregon to end it.
That is a very interesting question and prone to many interpretations. The safest answer in this case would be "it depends."
So, encoded?
Could you please cite the law where it says this?
I never said there was a law that stated this. I said that a judge might see it that way, and as a result, disregard a possible "I'm no different than a security camera" defense.
You're saying the creepy cameraman wouldn't have been able to record crimes and identify perpetrators? Does he turn his camera off if he thinks he's recording criminal activity? He seems quite agnostic towards what's going on in the field of his camera, much like security cameras.
No, I'm not saying that. You inferred that from my post, and falsely at that. I'm not saying that he wouldn't be able to videotape criminal acts. All I said was that the obvious purpose of a security camera is to watch a designated area to observe crimes, whereas a reasonable person would see his acts as something completely different. "Reasonable person" is the standard in law by which some things are measured or determined.
One wrong move and this creepy cameraman may end up with harassment charges.
A prosecutor and possibly a judge may argue that his actions differ from security cameras in the sense that a security camera is fixed in place and watches a predefined area to spot crimes and identify perpetrators. In this case, he is very mobile and instead of filming a predefined area, he films individual people. He walks up to a single person and videotapes them with the intent of aggravating them about being videotaped. That could easily be spun as harassment if he ticks off the wrong person.
An understanding of somewhat basic chemistry makes this a "duh" moment. Lithium + water = everyone's favorite science class demonstration.
Wouldn't be the first government stimulus project to go up in flames. Hopefully it'll be the last.
"You can't shut us down. The internet is about the free exchange and sale of other people's ideas!"
Huh. Works for me.
I don't think you're doing that right.
That's what Chicago is for. Far west enough to avoid most eastern seaboard troubles, far east enough to avoid the earthquakes, but central enough to provide good connectivity and ping times to both coasts.
There are a few datacenters in Omaha, Nebraska, but they're either lights-out carrier-grade (Level3) or Fortune 500 warm-site backup grade. (CoSentry). They're also ungodly expensive because they're the only players in a 250 mile radius.
Kansas City, MO has a good selection of datacenters for non-mission-critical systems, but most of the "data fortress" type places are built and run by the business that needs them.
This is all completely ignoring the issue of latency, though - when you're doing financial transactions there's no better seat in the house than the heart of Wall Street. Every millisecond counts, I've been told.
HFT systems are located as close to the exchange's servers as they physically can be, because all the marketeers think it's bad juju to have a ping time above .01ms.
Needless to say, if the HFT systems go down, then the market's exchange servers 2 feet away will probably be down, as well.
I'm afraid this is a battle we just can't win.
Why does a cell phone need 48 processor cores? How about we force all the shitty mobile app developers to make shit work on one core before we throw 47 more at them to abuse with their terrible resource management skills.
The plight of the drone community will not improve until we recognize their fundamental rights to organize and strike in the face of increasing adversity. We must come together and demand higher drone wages and safer working conditions!
you would know all this if you had read TFA
You must be new here.
And judging by your UID - yes, yes you are.
Welcome to Slashdot. Don't RTFA.
It's not a typo. Google's entire data model is designed around "cheap and disposable" instead of "expensive and bleeding-edge." The general notion is that they can get 10 custom-built consumer-grade systems for the same price as one enterprise-grade server, and have more processing power and better uptime by distributing their workloads to avoid single points of failure.
That's why they use consumer-grade SATA hard drives. If one breaks, they let it sit there until their next walk-through. Meanwhile, the load is distributed onto a bunch of other similarly-inexpensive servers. You'd be surprised how long an el-cheapo hard drive can last when it never stops spinning.
I have a feeling if Google deployed 10GbE to each server, they'd probably double their hardware costs.
Well, "Slashdotter" is a common identifier for someone who frequents Slashdot and is not an insult, so that can't be what you mean. Also, I don't qualify "nerdrage" as an ad hominem, considering that it's a verb and anyone is capable of nerdraging. Now, if I would have said "Dumbass Slashdotters froth at the mouth like rabid dogs", you'd have been on to something there.
ITT: Slashdot nerd attempts to discredit other Slashdot nerd through baseless ad hominem. Shocker!
ITT: Slashdotters nerdrage over one side of a story. Other side nowhere to be found. And now, sports!
'Wouldn't a more powerful sense of security come from knowing your children were capable, and trusting in their ability to reach out for help at the moment when they realize they're not?'"
Sure, when they're 16 years old. Throw a four-year-old out in the middle of a large crowd of unfamiliar people and rational thought is the last thing you can expect. That's why it takes a rational adult to calm them down and ask "Are you lost?"
I wish I could be that parent that never loses their child, but I'm a realist and accept that it can happen, so these tracking devices sound appealing to me for use on very young children who are as of yet incapable of rational, level-headed responses to scary situations like getting lost in a shopping mall.
I wouldn't stick it on my 16-year-old's pants when he or she starts driving. That's a different situation involving a (hopefully) much more mature and logical person. Not to mention I probably don't want to know where those pants are at certain moments. ("GPS Location Update: on the floor at boyfriend's house")
Well... as it's currently referred to, the "cloud" is a singular entity. So, as long as there's one single server running as part of that infrastructure, you could weasel your way around any downtime and reassure the ignorant masses that "the cloud" is is still up, even if the only remaining piece is a Raspberry Pi running over a cable modem in some guy's basement.
Hey, look everybody, the cloud is still up! You can't do near as much as you usually can, but it's up! 100% uptime! Woo!