Well, there's the lab servers, the fileserver (for the terrabytes of RAID), the home web/ssh/mail sever, perhaps a VoIP server... if you have to ask this question, what are you doing on slashdot?
What makes you so sure that a price will eventually be paid? The earth exists in a huge sea of infinite energy, and in the past 200 years, humanity has come up with increasingly clever ways of accessing that energy. I would say there is a fairly good chance that technology will continue to progress, and our energy generation ability will increase faster than our demand over the long run. We are no where near the physical energy limits of the earth-sun system.
The original is evidence and any damage (read change) renders that evidence inadmisable.
If you flip a bit, you must acquit, eh? I occasionally perform forensics analysis as part of my job. None of my work has actually ended up in court, yet, but all the security training I have had recently indicated that what you say is false. Evidence collected from so-called "live forensics" is absolutely admissible.
It is still standard practice to work from copies, but if you fail to do so, you don't have to throw all the evidence on the drive out the window.
Well, the CF fits directly into the motherboard, freeing up two more slots in the case for the RAID. Also, we spec'd the servers and ordered them from a local business, which built them for us. Buying through our "official" lines would have cost quadruple the price. It cost us no extra time because nobody would have sold us a preconfigured Ubuntu LTS server anyway... at least not with the kind of hardware we required.
There's also the inherent awesomeness of booting from flash.
Both my home server and several systems in use at work boot from compactflash drives. Our production servers run Ubuntu LTS, and are basically VMware Server boxes--the actual apps run off of guest OSs that live on the 6TB RAID-6s on each server.
All in all, I've had seven servers running off of SSDs for about eight months, and they have worked like a charm. I never have to worry about getting paged due to the inevitable mechanical failure of magnetic drives.
Also, SSDs are NOT expensive! A CF-to-IDE adapter costs $15, and a 2GB CF card costs about $30. Two gigabytes is more than enough to boot an OS and start a RAID. Don't waste your money on a 64GB CF card. The CF+RAID hybrid approach is the way to go.
You allow ssh to be directly exposed to the internet? You've already been hacked. Check your ssh logs. I bet someone started bruteforcing your passwords within four hours of your box going online.
You should be requiring two-factor authentiction, either with smartcards or with one-time-passhprase fobs for ANY remote connections in to your internal network.
One of my European colleagues finally got surgery to stop a painful, but not life-threatening, medical problem after two years on a waitlist. Perhaps this isn't the case with all national systems, but it is the case with the systems of they countries I know people in. Since nationalized insurance would cause an large increase in patients without an increase in the number of physicians, something similar to waitlists seems likely.
You do know that treasury bills are actively traded on the open market, don't you? It would be impossible for the US to halt payment only on China's holdings.
Defaulting on our bond payments would destroy our perfect credit rating. We would have to pay much more to finance our government operations, which means more taxes (either in the form of inflation or income tax) for the same government services. Another result would be ruined retirement accounts of Americans, requiring even more tax to keep the ruined old geezers from begging on the street.
Hm? Of course they send money to advertisers. "439 people searched for the phrase 'barbie doll' and we showed your add to all of them," and I'm sure it gets more detailed than that.
Well, if you left it on the default "easy" mode, and you aren't the type to explore the maps, then you could beat it quite quickly, I'm sure. I think it took me about 8 hours, all told. I'm not the type to play for five hours straight.
The only reason I played HL2 Ep2 was because it came with the Orange Box. It was fun, but there is no way I would pay $30 (the cost on Steam) just for episode 2. I beat it in four days and by its nature it has zero replay value.
If Valve wants any chance of HL episodes making it big time, the price needs to come down to $10 or less.
Are you kidding? I've been at the karma cap since before it existed. I remember the dramatic exodus of sig11. I don't give a crap about karma, anymore. Mod me down.
EA isn't about innovation. EA is about selling you the same sports games every year with updated player rosters. EA is about spamming you with pop-up ads every time you start up the N-th incarnation of the Battlefield game. EA is about selling ad space on in-game billboards. EA is about making low-risk, low-cost investments and monetizing the shit out of them. There is no innovation at Electronic Arts.
It's more than that. Google makes money by gathering information about you based on your searches and email contents, then sending that info to advertisers. A Google phone could do both of those things, but could ALSO target ads to you based on your GPS coordinates!
For example, if your search history included something like "taco bell nutrition information," and you were walking past a Taco Bell, I'm sure Pepsi Co would gladly pay Google some cash to have your phone pop up the message "try our new Grande Chuldita Supreme! Just across the street and to the right! Stop by in the next 10 minutes and receive 50 cents off!"
Still, putting switches on the AC outlet is a damn good idea, why haven't we copied that one yet?
Because having switches close to outlets is a TERRIBLE, TERRIBLE idea. If the plug is only loosely connected, you might miss the switch and touch the exposed electrified prongs.
1) Post a comment that is obviously not a troll. 2) Log in with your other account and mod yourself "-1 Troll." 3) Log back in and post a complaint about the oppressive moderation system. 4) Watch as both of your comments get modded to +5. 5) ??? 6) Karma += 8
or another way to look at it...
Axiom: Any sufficiently large number of people will contain some number of idiots. Proposition: The slashdot moderator pool contains a sufficiently large number of people. Conclusion: This is normal and expected--stop whining and man up, Nancy!
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Well, there's the lab servers, the fileserver (for the terrabytes of RAID), the home web/ssh/mail sever, perhaps a VoIP server... if you have to ask this question, what are you doing on slashdot?
What makes you so sure that a price will eventually be paid? The earth exists in a huge sea of infinite energy, and in the past 200 years, humanity has come up with increasingly clever ways of accessing that energy. I would say there is a fairly good chance that technology will continue to progress, and our energy generation ability will increase faster than our demand over the long run. We are no where near the physical energy limits of the earth-sun system.
If your ISP started reading all of your unencrypted email, would you think it's OK because "it was just eavesdropping?"
300 systems? That's sweet. Where do you work?
You're wrong. dd has been used to make legally admissible disk images.
It is still standard practice to work from copies, but if you fail to do so, you don't have to throw all the evidence on the drive out the window.
That's why you just memorize an OTP and use /dev/null as your encrypted filesystem.
Two factor authentication is the standard for any large company, these days. You're out of touch with the state of technology.
Well, the CF fits directly into the motherboard, freeing up two more slots in the case for the RAID. Also, we spec'd the servers and ordered them from a local business, which built them for us. Buying through our "official" lines would have cost quadruple the price. It cost us no extra time because nobody would have sold us a preconfigured Ubuntu LTS server anyway... at least not with the kind of hardware we required.
There's also the inherent awesomeness of booting from flash.
When an OS only needs 2GB, why on earth would I want to "shop around" for a less reliable drive that is inferior in every practical way?
Both my home server and several systems in use at work boot from compactflash drives. Our production servers run Ubuntu LTS, and are basically VMware Server boxes--the actual apps run off of guest OSs that live on the 6TB RAID-6s on each server.
All in all, I've had seven servers running off of SSDs for about eight months, and they have worked like a charm. I never have to worry about getting paged due to the inevitable mechanical failure of magnetic drives.
Also, SSDs are NOT expensive! A CF-to-IDE adapter costs $15, and a 2GB CF card costs about $30. Two gigabytes is more than enough to boot an OS and start a RAID. Don't waste your money on a 64GB CF card. The CF+RAID hybrid approach is the way to go.
You allow ssh to be directly exposed to the internet? You've already been hacked. Check your ssh logs. I bet someone started bruteforcing your passwords within four hours of your box going online.
You should be requiring two-factor authentiction, either with smartcards or with one-time-passhprase fobs for ANY remote connections in to your internal network.
One of my European colleagues finally got surgery to stop a painful, but not life-threatening, medical problem after two years on a waitlist. Perhaps this isn't the case with all national systems, but it is the case with the systems of they countries I know people in. Since nationalized insurance would cause an large increase in patients without an increase in the number of physicians, something similar to waitlists seems likely.
You do know that treasury bills are actively traded on the open market, don't you? It would be impossible for the US to halt payment only on China's holdings.
Defaulting on our bond payments would destroy our perfect credit rating. We would have to pay much more to finance our government operations, which means more taxes (either in the form of inflation or income tax) for the same government services. Another result would be ruined retirement accounts of Americans, requiring even more tax to keep the ruined old geezers from begging on the street.
Hm? Of course they send money to advertisers. "439 people searched for the phrase 'barbie doll' and we showed your add to all of them," and I'm sure it gets more detailed than that.
Well, if you left it on the default "easy" mode, and you aren't the type to explore the maps, then you could beat it quite quickly, I'm sure. I think it took me about 8 hours, all told. I'm not the type to play for five hours straight.
The only reason I played HL2 Ep2 was because it came with the Orange Box. It was fun, but there is no way I would pay $30 (the cost on Steam) just for episode 2. I beat it in four days and by its nature it has zero replay value.
If Valve wants any chance of HL episodes making it big time, the price needs to come down to $10 or less.
First they came for the cliches, but I didn't speak up because I wasn't a cliche. Then they came for the memes...
Are you kidding? I've been at the karma cap since before it existed. I remember the dramatic exodus of sig11. I don't give a crap about karma, anymore. Mod me down.
So, basically, this is going to compare every post against 4chan, and if it finds a match, delete it.
Great idea.
tits or GTFO.
EA isn't about innovation. EA is about selling you the same sports games every year with updated player rosters. EA is about spamming you with pop-up ads every time you start up the N-th incarnation of the Battlefield game. EA is about selling ad space on in-game billboards. EA is about making low-risk, low-cost investments and monetizing the shit out of them. There is no innovation at Electronic Arts.
It's more than that. Google makes money by gathering information about you based on your searches and email contents, then sending that info to advertisers. A Google phone could do both of those things, but could ALSO target ads to you based on your GPS coordinates!
For example, if your search history included something like "taco bell nutrition information," and you were walking past a Taco Bell, I'm sure Pepsi Co would gladly pay Google some cash to have your phone pop up the message "try our new Grande Chuldita Supreme! Just across the street and to the right! Stop by in the next 10 minutes and receive 50 cents off!"
I'm trying really hard to think of a less exciting hobby than yours. I just. can't. do it.
Wow.
1) Post a comment that is obviously not a troll.
2) Log in with your other account and mod yourself "-1 Troll."
3) Log back in and post a complaint about the oppressive moderation system.
4) Watch as both of your comments get modded to +5.
5) ???
6) Karma += 8
or another way to look at it...
Axiom: Any sufficiently large number of people will contain some number of idiots.
Proposition: The slashdot moderator pool contains a sufficiently large number of people.
Conclusion: This is normal and expected--stop whining and man up, Nancy!