AA do, indeed, bet their business on obtaining jet fuel, maintenance, drinks, snacks and so on. And when the fuel truck doesn't turn up because their supplier webt bust overnight, they have a contingency plan, because otherwise they would be Very Stupid.
As I read the article, when you mix cinnamon and gold nanoparticles in solution, one of the products is gold nanoparticles. I presume the non-toxic byproduct is cinnamon flavoured water.
No one in California hitting dell.com would think that their traffic would go through China to get to Texas (or wherever Dell.com is located).
Chances are it didn't this time, either. Someone in Japan going to dell.com might have gotten routed via China because China was advertising a really short route to the US. Someone from the US actually *has* a really short route to someone else in the US, and the Chinese ISP would be far away, so the bogus Chinese route would not have been used.
Sure enough, other background reading says it was Asian and Pacific traffic that tended to get caught up in this.
I am a tier 1 ISP and wish to send a packet to Sprint. My peering with Sprint is down (for whatever reason). Comcast tell me they can route to Sprint. I have two options: trust them, or don't trust them.
I can't actually say that Comcast are advertising a legitimate route to Sprint. But I also can't tell that they aren't snooping all the traffic, or terminating it at drive-by-malware sites, even if the route *is* legitimate. So there has to be trust at the tier 1 level.
Yes, but try doing a Failure Mode Effects Analysis on a computer program. For a hardware system, you can enumerate things like 'what if these wires short?' For a computer, you have an infinite variation on 'what if this function produces *this specific* sort of nonsense?'
You can buy a PC for less than that, and install OpenFiler, or any of a number of free/Free soft-RAID solutions that support Samba.
If you buy a RAID controller, you move the SPOF to the controller rather than the disks (though admittedly it's not got moving parts and should last longer). If you do use a RAID controller card, though, and you want safety, you need a spare RAID controller of the same sort in a drawer somewhere if you expect to get your data back, unless you're sure that the RAID doesn't use a funny on-disk format to store the options it's using.
If the machine is doing RAID and not much else, what are you saving by buying expensive hardware to offload the RAID processing when you already have a mostly idle box sitting there already?
..."The gap behind the car has been filled in". All right, I mixed up the vehicles involved, but if the gap's been filled in, that's tailgating for you. In fact, even the worst tailgaters usually don't get to within a car's length.
I assumed he meant that you'd pulled out to pass and the gap you'd come from had closed up so that you couldn't simply slow down and drop back in. Safe stopping distances mean that it should never close up completely, although it might not be a comfortable experience to slot back in there.
1. It will not stop *if* the software works. And there's a big difference between saying that an engine management system is safety-critical (and, typically, it's *not* considered safety-critical) and that a speed control system based on an obviously unreliable input is safety-critical.
2. There are plenty of people I pass on motorways standing at the side of the road waiting to be rescued. There are comparatively few people who've had collisions. There are even fewer pileups. And I drive in densely populated European countries, which on the whole have considerably more cars per stretch of road than the US, and therefore ought to make for more emphatic statistics were this a problem.
To add to those complaints with an economic one, why should it be that registration fees for.com,.net,.org and friends should be funnelled into the US economy? There have been many complaints about the monopoly powers effectively granted to the keepers of.com from within the US. (And no,.com is not a US-specific domain..us is.)
...And I'm sorry, but now you're into '*if* my car dies, *and* the car behind is being driven by an idiot', *and* the car behind that...' The odds of the first happening are (supposed to be) small. The odds of all of this happening are considerably smaller.
Put another way, an ethics question: if you brake on a highway suddenly and that causes a pile-up, is it your fault? And so, if you design a faulty engine, and it stops on the highway and that causes a pile-up, is it your fault?
Europe is more densely populated, and concrete roads just don't stand up to the traffic levels. The old Newark bypass on the A1 and the originally-concrete M11 in the UK are testament to that.
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AA do, indeed, bet their business on obtaining jet fuel, maintenance, drinks, snacks and so on. And when the fuel truck doesn't turn up because their supplier webt bust overnight, they have a contingency plan, because otherwise they would be Very Stupid.
If you build it, they will come.
As I read the article, when you mix cinnamon and gold nanoparticles in solution, one of the products is gold nanoparticles. I presume the non-toxic byproduct is cinnamon flavoured water.
No one in California hitting dell.com would think that their traffic would go through China to get to Texas (or wherever Dell.com is located).
Chances are it didn't this time, either. Someone in Japan going to dell.com might have gotten routed via China because China was advertising a really short route to the US. Someone from the US actually *has* a really short route to someone else in the US, and the Chinese ISP would be far away, so the bogus Chinese route would not have been used.
Sure enough, other background reading says it was Asian and Pacific traffic that tended to get caught up in this.
Actually, they just happened to be super-close.
I am a tier 1 ISP and wish to send a packet to Sprint. My peering with Sprint is down (for whatever reason). Comcast tell me they can route to Sprint. I have two options: trust them, or don't trust them.
I can't actually say that Comcast are advertising a legitimate route to Sprint. But I also can't tell that they aren't snooping all the traffic, or terminating it at drive-by-malware sites, even if the route *is* legitimate. So there has to be trust at the tier 1 level.
It's a scare story, plain and simple. We don't understand why this works so It Must Be Bad and Someone Must Do Something About It.
"This delay is caused by the late arrival of another application."
Uh, 1992? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DEC_Alpha
Did PA design their cores, or license them?
The point is that when a non x86 based system is designed, built and sold, there is a break with backwards compatibility at the binary level.
So, consider the XBox 360.
Of course, the Xbox is an x86 based system. But don't let that get in the way of your reasoning.
Turning the key is another fine solution. In fact, braking is the only one that really won't work...
Yes, but try doing a Failure Mode Effects Analysis on a computer program. For a hardware system, you can enumerate things like 'what if these wires short?' For a computer, you have an infinite variation on 'what if this function produces *this specific* sort of nonsense?'
You can buy a PC for less than that, and install OpenFiler, or any of a number of free/Free soft-RAID solutions that support Samba.
If you buy a RAID controller, you move the SPOF to the controller rather than the disks (though admittedly it's not got moving parts and should last longer). If you do use a RAID controller card, though, and you want safety, you need a spare RAID controller of the same sort in a drawer somewhere if you expect to get your data back, unless you're sure that the RAID doesn't use a funny on-disk format to store the options it's using.
If the machine is doing RAID and not much else, what are you saving by buying expensive hardware to offload the RAID processing when you already have a mostly idle box sitting there already?
I have a sudden image of QVC flogging off a bloke's organs. Clearly I don't need Sickipedia.
http://www.sickipedia.org/'s been out all day too...
Uhuh. "Monopolies are bad, except when we benefit."
..."The gap behind the car has been filled in". All right, I mixed up the vehicles involved, but if the gap's been filled in, that's tailgating for you. In fact, even the worst tailgaters usually don't get to within a car's length.
Yep, plenty of two-way roads over here.
I assumed he meant that you'd pulled out to pass and the gap you'd come from had closed up so that you couldn't simply slow down and drop back in. Safe stopping distances mean that it should never close up completely, although it might not be a comfortable experience to slot back in there.
1. It will not stop *if* the software works. And there's a big difference between saying that an engine management system is safety-critical (and, typically, it's *not* considered safety-critical) and that a speed control system based on an obviously unreliable input is safety-critical.
2. There are plenty of people I pass on motorways standing at the side of the road waiting to be rescued. There are comparatively few people who've had collisions. There are even fewer pileups. And I drive in densely populated European countries, which on the whole have considerably more cars per stretch of road than the US, and therefore ought to make for more emphatic statistics were this a problem.
No, no, that would be the UN resolutions that got them into the conflict.
But wait, the UN is a powerless talking shop, according to the rest of the comments here.
Anyone else get that warm tingle of cognitive dissonance?
To add to those complaints with an economic one, why should it be that registration fees for .com, .net, .org and friends should be funnelled into the US economy? There have been many complaints about the monopoly powers effectively granted to the keepers of .com from within the US. (And no, .com is not a US-specific domain. .us is.)
And yet WIPO arbitration is perfectly acceptable?
...And I'm sorry, but now you're into '*if* my car dies, *and* the car behind is being driven by an idiot', *and* the car behind that...' The odds of the first happening are (supposed to be) small. The odds of all of this happening are considerably smaller.
Put another way, an ethics question: if you brake on a highway suddenly and that causes a pile-up, is it your fault? And so, if you design a faulty engine, and it stops on the highway and that causes a pile-up, is it your fault?
Europe is more densely populated, and concrete roads just don't stand up to the traffic levels. The old Newark bypass on the A1 and the originally-concrete M11 in the UK are testament to that.