All datacenter class storage devices should be backed by battery units with enough capacity to flush all pending writes to disk. I have never bought a server that didn't have battery-backed hardware RAID.
Google, however, runs the cheapest, commodity parts, often refurbished / purchased used, and relies on software RAID and massive replication schemes. Such schemes don't work for new data, as they've found out.
I wouldn't blame them if their shit got directly hit by lightning and that caused damage (you can't expect anything to survive that), but if we're saying the extended power outage caused data loss, then it's absolutely Google's fault.
No, Krebs has confirmed that it contains real user info, but they're hedging on "anyone can sign up under any name" for some reason, even though account creation requires email validation and credit card payment requires valid payment information.
The dump is on the pirate bay. It's real. Check it for yourself.
The list does have a lot of fake female users, which is one of the reasons the hackers are leaking this, but all the real users are in there as well, including those who paid to have their records deleted (another reason the hackers are leaking this).
Yeah, there's no problem to be "fixed". Certain people (speculators and people running exchanges) want to increase the block size in order to cram more transactions in a single block. They want this to increase trade speed in order to capitalize in momentary ups and downs.
They're the high frequency traders of the bitcoin world. They offer nothing to the markets or to the currency itself. Normal users who buy and sell goods and services for bitcoin aren't affected by the 1 MB limit at all. Bitcoin was designed for this and this is exactly how it is supposed to play out (along with transaction fees to incentivize mining blocks with your transactions in them). The leeches are kicking and screaming about it.
You can fork bitcoin all day every day, but when no one decides to use your network's version of the currency, your network's version of the currency is worthless. These two clowns will quickly see that play out with their Bitcoin XT bullshit. Everyone else is laughing at them, including the largest mining groups in China.
Many settings you can't control, a couple of settings require the Enterprise version of Windows 10 to be effective, and Windows doesn't actually respect all of those settings anyway. This has all been discussed recently, even on Slashdot. Windows 10 is a no-go for me because of it.
If we were in an actual war with an actual enemy (as opposed to the ridiculous occupations we've fucked about with since the 1960s), no one would give a fucking shit about "rules of engagement" or "war crimes". War is absolute and total. We pay lip service to "atrocities" afterward and say shit like "never again", but when it's you or them, you don't hold back.
Samsung puts the good shit out to OEMs only, and you'll either wait months for it to MAYBE hit ramcity.com.au , or you'll wait years for it to hit consumer retail in a dumbed down version. Samsung will announce a biggerbetterfaster at each and every trade show in that time span.
Wrong. They got "caught" doing the same thing every other search engine does with toolbars (or now, what Google does with Chrome). They were simply monitoring what a user clicks on and adding a +1 to that site's weight in their crazy algorithm. They weren't copying Google's results, they were copying users's clicks, just like everyone else. If a user clicked on a Google search result, the referrer and the page were fed to Bing, just like with any other user navigation.
Google ran a smear campaign and clicked on extremely specific results thousands of times from many IPs in their offices n order to poison the result set and show Bing was copying Google. They only had a handful of successes in altering Bing's search results, but the "BING COPIES GOOGLE" campaign was very successful, because people believe it to this day despite the fact that it was debunked several times.
I hate both companies, but let's at least be correct when talk about them being shitty.
Why do we need BitTorrent, the company? Why does the MAFIAA think they can do anything about piracy by bitching at BitTorrent, the company? And does anyone really believe "If you're using BitTorrent for piracy, then you're doing it wrong."?
A Google account A Gmail account A Youtube account A Google+ Profile A Hangouts account A Picasa account A Google Voice account etc.
Depending on what day of the week it is, you can have separate accounts at several of these, but must have a single Google account for others. For some, you need a Google+ profile, for some you don't. For some, you need a Google+ profile to do some things, but not others.
Trying to adjust permissions / privacy settings is a nightmare. Google offers an "easy" page that lets you control everything, except it doesn't actually let you control everything and you still need to dig into the individual sites/services for many settings or to find the "delete my shit" link. When you click this link, you'll be presented with warnings about how it will delete your account and you won't know if that means your Youtube account, your Youtube account and the linked Google+ profile, or your Google account.
So instead of doing the 1 big thing and having a huge impact, you'd prefer to focus on this 1 small thing and hope 7 more just like it come along so you can have a minor (9.6%) impact? That's absurd.
If you want to reduce emissions (I do, just not for politically-motivated chicken little bullshit claims), there is one fucking thing to do: Replace coal with nuclear.
Just 2316 km over 81.5 hours is more like floating than flying, and the main advance came from the reduction in mass, not improved solar/battery tech. It's 6.5 kg while the prior record holder was 13 kg. If you look at the thing, it's not much more than a really large wing.
The records it took were for longest flight among aircraft under 50 kg and longest flight for low-altitude, it doesn't have the overall longest flight, nor longest unmanned flight.
Today "intensive testing" means "Bill in accounts receivable installed it yesterday and his computer seems fine.".
Look at Oracle, Adobe, MS, Google, Apple, etc. They're all HUGE fucking companies who absolutely have the resources to test things thousands of times over. Their QC track record is abysmal. The "standard" now is to have the users be the testers.
Google does this by rolling out updates slowly to unsuspecting users. MS does it by dumping a load of shit on everyone at once and hoping the blogs sort it out. Adobe does this by having "Continuous" track and a "Classic" track, then forcing you into the "Continuous" track if you want any of the cloud features you paid for. Apple does it by denying there is a problem, pushing out a "fix" for it, and then letting half of the users placebo themselves into thinking it's fixed and censoring the other half on their forums. Oracle does it by chugging a beer, putting its head down on a baseball bat and spinning around 10 times really quickly.
Isn't that the entire point of those FuelBand, FitBit, etc. things? Monitor hear rate, distance traveled, etc. and feed into an app where you can also add exercise details, food details, etc.? If these things don't track this shit, then what is it that they do, exactly? I have no interest in these devices but I can't imaging what it is they do if they're NOT doing these things.
Or is the lawsuit claiming the advertising specifically said it tracked "health" and not these specific things (which are related to health)?
512 TB isn't really all that much. It's only a couple hundred disks at most. Tape plus a disk cache, or disk only depends mostly on the cost/latency requirements.
Backup should be to tape for longevity, but depending on how much you need to write each backup, and how frequently you backup, that could be an issue.
All the preview builds of Windows 10 I used (the earlier ones, sure) let you install and get to a desktop without an account. The start menu was completely blank and you couldn't launch basic shit like windows explorer, but hey, you technically didn't need an account!
The account system is baked in deep, and many programs (or "apps", and not just the "modern" UI ones) do in fact require an account to run or to do basic things unrelated to any sort of online functionality. Running without an account mostly worked in Windows 8, and I presume it'll mostly work in the final build of Windows 10. But they're clearly heading toward the Windows as a Service model, as evidenced by Xbox Live and Office.
Percentages don't work that way, 20% and 80% means 5x1.25 which is 6.25 times power consumption or 16% efficiency, based on your numbers of course.
That's what he said.
I think its something like 20 percent in most cases and that's on top of the AC/DC conversion. So you lose 20~30 percent converting to DC and then you lose 80 percent of of the remainder transmitting it.
Start with 1 unit of wall power. AC/DC represents a 20% loss using his numbers. The remainder (0.8 units of wall power) is to be transmitted to the device. "Then you lose 80 percent of of the remainder transmitting it." 0.8 - 0.8*0.8, or 0.8 * (1 - 0.8), or 0.2 * 0.8, or 4/5 * 1/5, or whatever. 16% of the power at the wall goes to the device's charging circuitry.
A strong, unique password (aka a secret) is the only thing that matters.
Certificates are nothing but long passwords that people can't remember and thus need to store in plaintext.
Encrypted certificates are nothing but long passwords that people can't remember and store in an encrypted form, thus requiring a separate password.
Encryption of a connection is done using a password. Whether you call it a password, a pre-shared key, or a certificate, it's all the same. It's a secret known only to the legitimate user.
The password is the be all, end all of networked computer security. There's a reason every single attempt to replace passwords has failed - either they reduce security or they're simply dressing up a password as something else - a smart card, an RSA clock, etc.
The problem is you don't realize what a password actually is in relation to security. It's simply the secret. Retards who don't know what they're talking about like to prattle on about "something you are", "something you know", and "something you have".
"Something you are" is your username. "Something you know" is your password. "Something you have" is your cell phone or your little hardware token (nothing but an RSA clock with a seed stored on the device and on the server).
If your "something you are" is a secret username, or a hash of a fingerprint, then it merely becomes "something you know", and is effectively part of your password. If you authenticate remotely using a fingerprint scanner, the server you're authenticating into has NO IDEA whether or not the bits are coming from the fingerprint scanner or not, whether it has been tampered with or not, etc. It's all "something you know".
Similarly for "something you have", a text message code or an RSA clock or whatever else are all "something you know" when you're presenting them over the wire. Unless someone is PHYICALLY INSPECTING your shit, it's ALL "something you know", and thus all effectively pointless if you already have a strong, unique password.
People think that codes sent via text message or the seeds in their RSA clock keep them safe. They don't. If your host or connection is compromised to the point that you're leaking your password (such as a keylogger or a MITM attack), these codes are available to any attacker working in real time because you invariably send them over the same fucking channel. It's a joke!
The ONLY thing you can do to protect yourself with networked authentication is to know a secret and keep it secret. It should be astronomically expensive to crack. Use that secret to authenticate, encrypt, whatever. But adding more secrets on top of it doesn't do SHIT.
That secret is called a password. What you call it is irrelevant.
You are all cows, moo, moo, etc. Are we going to get an article about how misogynistic this is when someone makes a video women can't see? Or are we going to get an article about how progressive this is when someone makes a video that men can't see, thus creating a "safe space" for women? Will Facebook let people further restrict by race using your 23andMe profile? Will Facebook require users to submit a DNA sample?
How about you dumb shits delete your fucking Facebook accounts?
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All datacenter class storage devices should be backed by battery units with enough capacity to flush all pending writes to disk.
I have never bought a server that didn't have battery-backed hardware RAID.
Google, however, runs the cheapest, commodity parts, often refurbished / purchased used, and relies on software RAID and massive replication schemes. Such schemes don't work for new data, as they've found out.
I wouldn't blame them if their shit got directly hit by lightning and that caused damage (you can't expect anything to survive that), but if we're saying the extended power outage caused data loss, then it's absolutely Google's fault.
No, Krebs has confirmed that it contains real user info, but they're hedging on "anyone can sign up under any name" for some reason, even though account creation requires email validation and credit card payment requires valid payment information.
The dump is on the pirate bay. It's real. Check it for yourself.
The list does have a lot of fake female users, which is one of the reasons the hackers are leaking this, but all the real users are in there as well, including those who paid to have their records deleted (another reason the hackers are leaking this).
Yeah, there's no problem to be "fixed".
Certain people (speculators and people running exchanges) want to increase the block size in order to cram more transactions in a single block.
They want this to increase trade speed in order to capitalize in momentary ups and downs.
They're the high frequency traders of the bitcoin world. They offer nothing to the markets or to the currency itself. Normal users who buy and sell goods and services for bitcoin aren't affected by the 1 MB limit at all. Bitcoin was designed for this and this is exactly how it is supposed to play out (along with transaction fees to incentivize mining blocks with your transactions in them). The leeches are kicking and screaming about it.
You can fork bitcoin all day every day, but when no one decides to use your network's version of the currency, your network's version of the currency is worthless. These two clowns will quickly see that play out with their Bitcoin XT bullshit. Everyone else is laughing at them, including the largest mining groups in China.
Fuck it. It can wait 3 weeks.
Many settings you can't control, a couple of settings require the Enterprise version of Windows 10 to be effective, and Windows doesn't actually respect all of those settings anyway. This has all been discussed recently, even on Slashdot. Windows 10 is a no-go for me because of it.
If we were in an actual war with an actual enemy (as opposed to the ridiculous occupations we've fucked about with since the 1960s), no one would give a fucking shit about "rules of engagement" or "war crimes".
War is absolute and total. We pay lip service to "atrocities" afterward and say shit like "never again", but when it's you or them, you don't hold back.
Lots of things are a problem in that example.
Consider a valid password of "abc" and an entered password of "a".
Consider a blank entered password.
That ridiculous for loop construction needs to go.
Samsung puts the good shit out to OEMs only, and you'll either wait months for it to MAYBE hit ramcity.com.au , or you'll wait years for it to hit consumer retail in a dumbed down version. Samsung will announce a biggerbetterfaster at each and every trade show in that time span.
It's fucking aggravating.
Wrong. They got "caught" doing the same thing every other search engine does with toolbars (or now, what Google does with Chrome). They were simply monitoring what a user clicks on and adding a +1 to that site's weight in their crazy algorithm.
They weren't copying Google's results, they were copying users's clicks, just like everyone else. If a user clicked on a Google search result, the referrer and the page were fed to Bing, just like with any other user navigation.
Google ran a smear campaign and clicked on extremely specific results thousands of times from many IPs in their offices n order to poison the result set and show Bing was copying Google. They only had a handful of successes in altering Bing's search results, but the "BING COPIES GOOGLE" campaign was very successful, because people believe it to this day despite the fact that it was debunked several times.
I hate both companies, but let's at least be correct when talk about them being shitty.
Why do we need BitTorrent, the company?
Why does the MAFIAA think they can do anything about piracy by bitching at BitTorrent, the company?
And does anyone really believe "If you're using BitTorrent for piracy, then you're doing it wrong."?
I still don't understand the difference between:
A Google account
A Gmail account
A Youtube account
A Google+ Profile
A Hangouts account
A Picasa account
A Google Voice account
etc.
Depending on what day of the week it is, you can have separate accounts at several of these, but must have a single Google account for others.
For some, you need a Google+ profile, for some you don't. For some, you need a Google+ profile to do some things, but not others.
Trying to adjust permissions / privacy settings is a nightmare. Google offers an "easy" page that lets you control everything, except it doesn't actually let you control everything and you still need to dig into the individual sites/services for many settings or to find the "delete my shit" link. When you click this link, you'll be presented with warnings about how it will delete your account and you won't know if that means your Youtube account, your Youtube account and the linked Google+ profile, or your Google account.
So instead of doing the 1 big thing and having a huge impact, you'd prefer to focus on this 1 small thing and hope 7 more just like it come along so you can have a minor (9.6%) impact? That's absurd.
If you want to reduce emissions (I do, just not for politically-motivated chicken little bullshit claims), there is one fucking thing to do: Replace coal with nuclear.
This isn't big news for solar or batteries.
Just 2316 km over 81.5 hours is more like floating than flying, and the main advance came from the reduction in mass, not improved solar/battery tech.
It's 6.5 kg while the prior record holder was 13 kg. If you look at the thing, it's not much more than a really large wing.
The records it took were for longest flight among aircraft under 50 kg and longest flight for low-altitude, it doesn't have the overall longest flight, nor longest unmanned flight.
Quieter booms, but more booms.
Compare "cyber war" today to, oh, any war in history.
If you really can't figure out the distinction, please head to your local recruitment office.
Payable in 3D-printed Bitcoins only.
Today "intensive testing" means "Bill in accounts receivable installed it yesterday and his computer seems fine.".
Look at Oracle, Adobe, MS, Google, Apple, etc. They're all HUGE fucking companies who absolutely have the resources to test things thousands of times over. Their QC track record is abysmal. The "standard" now is to have the users be the testers.
Google does this by rolling out updates slowly to unsuspecting users.
MS does it by dumping a load of shit on everyone at once and hoping the blogs sort it out.
Adobe does this by having "Continuous" track and a "Classic" track, then forcing you into the "Continuous" track if you want any of the cloud features you paid for.
Apple does it by denying there is a problem, pushing out a "fix" for it, and then letting half of the users placebo themselves into thinking it's fixed and censoring the other half on their forums.
Oracle does it by chugging a beer, putting its head down on a baseball bat and spinning around 10 times really quickly.
Isn't that the entire point of those FuelBand, FitBit, etc. things? Monitor hear rate, distance traveled, etc. and feed into an app where you can also add exercise details, food details, etc.? If these things don't track this shit, then what is it that they do, exactly?
I have no interest in these devices but I can't imaging what it is they do if they're NOT doing these things.
Or is the lawsuit claiming the advertising specifically said it tracked "health" and not these specific things (which are related to health)?
512 TB isn't really all that much. It's only a couple hundred disks at most.
Tape plus a disk cache, or disk only depends mostly on the cost/latency requirements.
Backup should be to tape for longevity, but depending on how much you need to write each backup, and how frequently you backup, that could be an issue.
All the preview builds of Windows 10 I used (the earlier ones, sure) let you install and get to a desktop without an account.
The start menu was completely blank and you couldn't launch basic shit like windows explorer, but hey, you technically didn't need an account!
The account system is baked in deep, and many programs (or "apps", and not just the "modern" UI ones) do in fact require an account to run or to do basic things unrelated to any sort of online functionality. Running without an account mostly worked in Windows 8, and I presume it'll mostly work in the final build of Windows 10. But they're clearly heading toward the Windows as a Service model, as evidenced by Xbox Live and Office.
No, I didn't, but I wish I had.
I don't post AC.
Percentages don't work that way, 20% and 80% means 5x1.25 which is 6.25 times power consumption or 16% efficiency, based on your numbers of course.
That's what he said.
I think its something like 20 percent in most cases and that's on top of the AC/DC conversion. So you lose 20~30 percent converting to DC and then you lose 80 percent of of the remainder transmitting it.
Start with 1 unit of wall power.
AC/DC represents a 20% loss using his numbers.
The remainder (0.8 units of wall power) is to be transmitted to the device.
"Then you lose 80 percent of of the remainder transmitting it."
0.8 - 0.8*0.8, or 0.8 * (1 - 0.8), or 0.2 * 0.8, or 4/5 * 1/5, or whatever.
16% of the power at the wall goes to the device's charging circuitry.
A strong, unique password (aka a secret) is the only thing that matters.
Certificates are nothing but long passwords that people can't remember and thus need to store in plaintext.
Encrypted certificates are nothing but long passwords that people can't remember and store in an encrypted form, thus requiring a separate password.
Encryption of a connection is done using a password. Whether you call it a password, a pre-shared key, or a certificate, it's all the same. It's a secret known only to the legitimate user.
The password is the be all, end all of networked computer security. There's a reason every single attempt to replace passwords has failed - either they reduce security or they're simply dressing up a password as something else - a smart card, an RSA clock, etc.
The problem is you don't realize what a password actually is in relation to security. It's simply the secret.
Retards who don't know what they're talking about like to prattle on about "something you are", "something you know", and "something you have".
"Something you are" is your username.
"Something you know" is your password.
"Something you have" is your cell phone or your little hardware token (nothing but an RSA clock with a seed stored on the device and on the server).
If your "something you are" is a secret username, or a hash of a fingerprint, then it merely becomes "something you know", and is effectively part of your password. If you authenticate remotely using a fingerprint scanner, the server you're authenticating into has NO IDEA whether or not the bits are coming from the fingerprint scanner or not, whether it has been tampered with or not, etc. It's all "something you know".
Similarly for "something you have", a text message code or an RSA clock or whatever else are all "something you know" when you're presenting them over the wire. Unless someone is PHYICALLY INSPECTING your shit, it's ALL "something you know", and thus all effectively pointless if you already have a strong, unique password.
People think that codes sent via text message or the seeds in their RSA clock keep them safe. They don't. If your host or connection is compromised to the point that you're leaking your password (such as a keylogger or a MITM attack), these codes are available to any attacker working in real time because you invariably send them over the same fucking channel. It's a joke!
The ONLY thing you can do to protect yourself with networked authentication is to know a secret and keep it secret. It should be astronomically expensive to crack. Use that secret to authenticate, encrypt, whatever. But adding more secrets on top of it doesn't do SHIT.
That secret is called a password. What you call it is irrelevant.
You are all cows, moo, moo, etc.
Are we going to get an article about how misogynistic this is when someone makes a video women can't see?
Or are we going to get an article about how progressive this is when someone makes a video that men can't see, thus creating a "safe space" for women?
Will Facebook let people further restrict by race using your 23andMe profile? Will Facebook require users to submit a DNA sample?
How about you dumb shits delete your fucking Facebook accounts?
You are all cows. Cows say moo. MOOOOOOOOO! MOOOOOOOO! Moo cows MOOOOOOO! Moo say the cows. YOU COWS!!