Which is entirely the problem of the router being crap. It doesn't take that much CPU power to route at gigabit speeds, even with NAT. Needing NAT accel to hit gigabit speeds just means the device is junk to begin with. It's one thing to use a routing ASIC on some core router designed to route tens of gigabits or more, but on a home router there's no excuse.
The data might be from more rigorous conditions, but that doesn't make it useless. If a drive model exhibits a low failure rate even under supposedly awful conditions, then that reflects even better on the drive. If anything, I'd be more concerned about ways in which their environment is better than a typical consumer environment, such as how a forced-airflow server in a temperature-controlled datacenter is probably going to keep the drives at a better (or at least more consistent) temperature than some random dust-clogged PC with one wimpy fan.
But it doesn't change the fact that there's still only 10,000 4-digit passcodes. They could even do a hacky solution like finding a way to disable the wipe after incorrect attempts and brute forcing from there. If they can pick apart the chips, I'm sure they can find a way.
Of course, that's assuming Apple actually wants to help, which I would guess they probably don't (and they shouldn't IMO).
Presumably, the decryption key is stored somewhere on the device, but it in turn is encrypted with the phone's passcode. The security system deletes the key if you enter too many incorrect passcodes, but if they were able to extract the encrypted key from the phone, they could brute force it easily since there's only 10^n codes for a numeric passcode.
From what I understand, that IS what happens - until you update, at which point the device gets bricked. If there is some legitimate security concern, it should be all or nothing, not "until you update".
It needs to be high enough to live a cheap life off of (think small apartment with a roommate), but still low enough to encourage people to still get jobs. The advantage is that it allows you to eliminate all the administrative overhead from the current programs, since those require deciding who is going to receive them. Realistically, enough people will still work, because the more people who quit their jobs, the higher wages will go, thus encouraging more people to work. This is probably a better solution to income inequality woes than things like $15/hr minimum wages and the like, because the problem right now (with or without a minimum wage) is that if someone is living paycheck to paycheck, they have essentially no bargaining room with their employer. UBI (or at the very least, much more liberal unemployment benefits) would mostly fix such a problem, since the threat of quitting a job becomes much more credible.
I've seen the same thing myself, although not necessarily with my own experiences. If someone installs a distro, chances are it's either going to be Unity or Gnome 3, both of which are completely awful. It just doesn't make for a good user experience to have that thrown in their face. We're at a time when most of the user-facing bugs have been/are getting ironed out, yet the popular GUIs went down the tubes. Oh well.
But the thing is, Gnome was for me, but then they needlessly took it in an awful direction. If something goes in a different direction, what it tells you is that you're no longer part of their target market and should probably seek a different solution because they no longer want you as a user. I personally jumped ship to XFCE during the awkward window where there really wasn't a good Gnome 2 fork/clone, and haven't looked back.
It used to be an issue of better software, especially with regards to video editing. Not so much anymore, now that Apple really jumped the shark with Final Cut. Now all they have going for them is the really nice screens, but PCs are catching up there too. The Mac Pro also used to be a good dual-CPU workstation with some expandability, but with the new trashcan-style ones are single-CPU and have poor cooling to the point of throttling sometimes.
The difference is that that's all stuff that I implicitly or explictly told it to do. And if I want it to stop doing those things, I can easily make it do so. Compare that to Windows, where you have to put a lot of work into eliminating its tracking, only for all your hard work to be undone come the next set of updates.
But Lenovo has the awful chiclet keyboards now. Keyboards used to be one of their strong suits. I'm looking at a Dell M4800 since it has a trackpoint, non-chiclet keyboard, and good expandability.
Well there is a voting system in place, it's called the click rate. That being said, I don't know who actually clicks ads. I can probably count the times I've actually clicked an ad on one hand.
Since at least some government-provided services are non-excludable, then it's unfair to the people who DO choose to pay for them if the people who choose not to pay can just freeload.
The next PC they buy is always going to be a Windows PC because every PC comes with a Windows license. The only alternatives are Macs and DIY, both of which are niche options.
What I absolutely despise about the way Windows handles updates is that there should be no need to ever prompt me to restart for updates when I already shut my system down every day anyway. You'd think with all the telemtry they do, they could at least figure out that you reboot every day and therefore shouldn't be nagged for updates.
For RAID-5, the big issue is "lose a drive on a large-enough array and you could be looking at an unrecoverable read error during the array recovery".
This gets repeated a lot, but isn't a problem for any halfway decent RAID setup because they slowly read data from the drives in the background (called patrol read on LSI/Dell controllers). The chances of a problem with a drive not turning up in one of the numerous patrol reads yet happening during a recovery are astronomically small.
Presumably due to the fact that individual building installs require inverters and other electrical equipment to be installed, whereas a mass solar panel install could have fewer but larger pieces of equipment. That being said, it still wouldn't beat just installing the solar panels beside or above the road, or even on the shoulder.
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Which is entirely the problem of the router being crap. It doesn't take that much CPU power to route at gigabit speeds, even with NAT. Needing NAT accel to hit gigabit speeds just means the device is junk to begin with. It's one thing to use a routing ASIC on some core router designed to route tens of gigabits or more, but on a home router there's no excuse.
The data might be from more rigorous conditions, but that doesn't make it useless. If a drive model exhibits a low failure rate even under supposedly awful conditions, then that reflects even better on the drive. If anything, I'd be more concerned about ways in which their environment is better than a typical consumer environment, such as how a forced-airflow server in a temperature-controlled datacenter is probably going to keep the drives at a better (or at least more consistent) temperature than some random dust-clogged PC with one wimpy fan.
If you're going to use a brute-force solution like this, run it through ionice so that it doesn't suck up all the disk bandwidth.
Seagates are great at reporting impending failures.
Does it say Seagate on it? It's about to fail.
But it doesn't change the fact that there's still only 10,000 4-digit passcodes. They could even do a hacky solution like finding a way to disable the wipe after incorrect attempts and brute forcing from there. If they can pick apart the chips, I'm sure they can find a way.
Of course, that's assuming Apple actually wants to help, which I would guess they probably don't (and they shouldn't IMO).
Presumably, the decryption key is stored somewhere on the device, but it in turn is encrypted with the phone's passcode. The security system deletes the key if you enter too many incorrect passcodes, but if they were able to extract the encrypted key from the phone, they could brute force it easily since there's only 10^n codes for a numeric passcode.
From what I understand, that IS what happens - until you update, at which point the device gets bricked. If there is some legitimate security concern, it should be all or nothing, not "until you update".
It needs to be high enough to live a cheap life off of (think small apartment with a roommate), but still low enough to encourage people to still get jobs. The advantage is that it allows you to eliminate all the administrative overhead from the current programs, since those require deciding who is going to receive them. Realistically, enough people will still work, because the more people who quit their jobs, the higher wages will go, thus encouraging more people to work. This is probably a better solution to income inequality woes than things like $15/hr minimum wages and the like, because the problem right now (with or without a minimum wage) is that if someone is living paycheck to paycheck, they have essentially no bargaining room with their employer. UBI (or at the very least, much more liberal unemployment benefits) would mostly fix such a problem, since the threat of quitting a job becomes much more credible.
I've seen the same thing myself, although not necessarily with my own experiences. If someone installs a distro, chances are it's either going to be Unity or Gnome 3, both of which are completely awful. It just doesn't make for a good user experience to have that thrown in their face. We're at a time when most of the user-facing bugs have been/are getting ironed out, yet the popular GUIs went down the tubes. Oh well.
But the thing is, Gnome was for me, but then they needlessly took it in an awful direction. If something goes in a different direction, what it tells you is that you're no longer part of their target market and should probably seek a different solution because they no longer want you as a user. I personally jumped ship to XFCE during the awkward window where there really wasn't a good Gnome 2 fork/clone, and haven't looked back.
It used to be an issue of better software, especially with regards to video editing. Not so much anymore, now that Apple really jumped the shark with Final Cut. Now all they have going for them is the really nice screens, but PCs are catching up there too. The Mac Pro also used to be a good dual-CPU workstation with some expandability, but with the new trashcan-style ones are single-CPU and have poor cooling to the point of throttling sometimes.
The best is when I type exactly the right thing, but it autocorrects it to something else which happens to be 2,000 miles away.
Doesn't it have a Linux compatibility layer? I think "native" is the keyword there.
The difference is that that's all stuff that I implicitly or explictly told it to do. And if I want it to stop doing those things, I can easily make it do so. Compare that to Windows, where you have to put a lot of work into eliminating its tracking, only for all your hard work to be undone come the next set of updates.
But Lenovo has the awful chiclet keyboards now. Keyboards used to be one of their strong suits. I'm looking at a Dell M4800 since it has a trackpoint, non-chiclet keyboard, and good expandability.
I thought I would be able to manipulate gravity using LEGO, but was quickly disappointed.
Have a sane advertising policy. Static images only. Limited filesize. Obviously no js/flash. Ads served from the same domain as the web page.
Well there is a voting system in place, it's called the click rate. That being said, I don't know who actually clicks ads. I can probably count the times I've actually clicked an ad on one hand.
Since at least some government-provided services are non-excludable, then it's unfair to the people who DO choose to pay for them if the people who choose not to pay can just freeload.
Or just use an IMAP client that actually works decently.
The next PC they buy is always going to be a Windows PC because every PC comes with a Windows license. The only alternatives are Macs and DIY, both of which are niche options.
What I absolutely despise about the way Windows handles updates is that there should be no need to ever prompt me to restart for updates when I already shut my system down every day anyway. You'd think with all the telemtry they do, they could at least figure out that you reboot every day and therefore shouldn't be nagged for updates.
It's not a price issue, it's a thinness issue. Slots for anything make the machine more thick.
For RAID-5, the big issue is "lose a drive on a large-enough array and you could be looking at an unrecoverable read error during the array recovery".
This gets repeated a lot, but isn't a problem for any halfway decent RAID setup because they slowly read data from the drives in the background (called patrol read on LSI/Dell controllers). The chances of a problem with a drive not turning up in one of the numerous patrol reads yet happening during a recovery are astronomically small.
Presumably due to the fact that individual building installs require inverters and other electrical equipment to be installed, whereas a mass solar panel install could have fewer but larger pieces of equipment. That being said, it still wouldn't beat just installing the solar panels beside or above the road, or even on the shoulder.