Can you explain exactly what is wrong with smart meters?
With enough resolution, smart meters can tell the water company whether you've been a Good Citizen and installed low-flow shower heads and toilets. And with dual-flush toilets (one button for #1, one for #2), they can tell how many times you pee and crap in a day. And they can tell how many people are staying at your house. And when you do your laundry. And when you do the dishes.
If they want to install leak detectors, why can't they install them on their own equipment? If they are losing 40% of their water to leaks, then they can probably wait 30 days to reconcile their usage data with my usage data to discover a leak in my neighborhood, they don't need it in realtime.
Electricity is similar. They could try to monitor you with the smart meter, but it would be a lot easier to just install something at the sub-station or point a thermal camera at your house.
They can't monitor me with anything at the electrical substation, my usage is mixed in with thousands of other customers with no way to isolate it. While they could sit outside of my house with a thermal camera, that doesn't sound easier than making me pay for a smart meter that they can use to get the same data for the entire city at once, and then sort out the "bad citizens" that need further monitoring.
Yet these alternatives produce much more CO2 to get from certain point A to B... Imagine 200 cars driving from Finland to Sweden + requiring 20 hour boat trip too with 200 cars loaded... that, compared to 55min hop flight which also carries a lot fo cargo.
Flying is, for most common routes, VERY efficient after you also consider how much cargo the planes carry..
I dont have to imagine it, the WSJ already released the figures. The most fuel efficient airline got around 75 passenger miles per gallon of fuel, so if you put 2 people in a Prius, or 4 in an SUV, they'll get better gas mileage without all of the high-altitude effects. Fill the trunk and unused passenger space with Cargo, and that takes care of the cargo. Replace those 200 cars with a few buses and cargo trucks and the balance tips even further toward ground travel.
Jet engines are quite fuel efficient, but the air resistance at 500mph coupled with the need to provide enough lift to keep the plane in the air puts airplane travel at a big disadvantage for fuel efficiency.
you can get the source (harder with closed-source products, but not impossible with enough money) and support it yourself
Well no. Sometimes you can find the bug, but you're not allowed to use the source. Common with closed-source products. They'll give you enough information to help them, but they won't legally let you help yourself. Because money.
Then you haven't applied enough money and/or pressure.
I worked for a large VAR years ago that had access to the Windows source... I don't think they had the whole source tree, they couldn't do a full build, but they could get access to any module they needed.
I worked for a another company that was the largest and most well known customer of an up and coming database company, they used our name heavily in marketing - we wanted source code escrow in case the DB company went under and we had to support it ourselves. after months of negotiation we couldn't come to an agreement, so we told them we were moving to a different product and engineering was actively porting over to the other product. In less than a month, that company capitulated and we had full access to their source code (not just escrow, we had live access to their source code repository).
If you don't have enough money and/or pressure to get access to the source code, then you're accepting Microsoft's limited support window and shouldn't cry foul when Microsoft stops supporting your product.
I think after 90 days, Miccrosoft should be held criminally accountable to every single user, worldwide. Applies to "dropped" support products people may be forced to continue using for various reasons (embedded, integrated systems, lack of budget to upgrade to new OS/hardware).. think Win 7 and even XP.
No one is "forced" to continue using MS products -- unless they signed a support contract for extended support, MS can't be held responsible for supporting legacy systems indefinitely. If you don't want to be stuck with a system running an unsupported operating system, then you can sign (and pay for) a long-term support contract throughout the life of your product, you can get the source (harder with closed-source products, but not impossible with enough money) and support it yourself, or you can plan on upgrading your product hardware/software to stay with currently supported software.
I fail to see how Microsoft has any responsibility to support software for a hardware product that a manufacturer has decided not to keep current enough to run supported software. If the old HVAC system in your building relies on Windows 3.1 to keep it running, then maybe you ought to go after the vendor that sold it to you, if a replacement for the fan motor in your HVAC system is no longer available, you'd either retrofit to accept a current motor, or just upgrade the entire system, which is what you should do when the computer that controls it is no longer supported by current software.
I got a ticket doing 65 in the left-most lane; Reason: Car coming up behind me had to break. It's an enforcable law in most states, that left lane is for active passing only. More so in Utah, apparently.
The law in ALL 50 states of the US requires that SLOWER TRAFFIC KEEP RIGHT.
What part of that law did you not understand, you brain-dead piece of shit ?
No, it's not the law in ALL 50 states. Though it is the law in most of them:
If you think about it, you should just move closer to where you work. Read/work/talk/tv/sleep... these are all tasks you can do at home. An hour a day of driving is robbing you of that right now. Put another way, this is 5-15 thousand dollars a year in lost hourly rates for your wages or leisure. If you moved and it cost you 50-150 thousand dollars extra that'd be well worth it over 10 years. Additionally every mile on the road you're driving is a risk to yourself and everyone around you. I'm hopeful that more people are realizing what a bad bargain "suburbanization" has been for our society in the last 50 years.
Yes, well if only it were that easy, but not only can I not afford the $1M+ it would take to purchase a small condo closer to work (it's more than double my current home's price), every mile I move closer to my work is another mile farther away my wife has to travel to her job. That 50-150 thousand dollars over 10 years doesn't pay the extra $30K/year or so that I'd pay for a higher mortgage close to work. You might say that the higher mortgage is worth is since it's going into an asset that I can sell later, but that's not necessarily true in all markets and I'm not about to dump a significant portion of my savings into a downpayment on a million dollar house in the hope that real estate prices stay high by the time I'm ready to sell.
I hardly live in suburbia, I live in a relatively high population density town (8000 people/sq mi), I live within walking distance to a downtown area with shops, restaurants, etc, everything I need for day to day life, and walking distance to a commuter train that serves the city I work in, but due to poor connections on the far end, it's faster to drive than it is to take the train and the 2 transit connections it would take to get to my workplace. It's actually faster to train+bike than it is to train+train+bus to work (and I do train+bike to work frequently), but the car is usually fastest overall, at least when there are no accidents or other freeway disruption)
So back to my original point Read/work/talk/tv/sleep are all tasks that I could easily do on the way to work if someone else (or something else, like my car) was driving, and it's much easier to do any of them if I have one commute mode instead of having to take 3 different commute lines.
She didn't want a replacement for her laptop when it failed because she can do everything she needs on her tablet.
Even if her tablet can do everything she needs today, what would she do if she found something tomorrow that she wants to do but that an iPad can't do by design?
She won't find that next thing to do because she uses a tablet. Her world is artificially limited in what she can do so how would she even hear about these new things?
Wouldn't she find out about these new and wonderful things the same way she'd find out about them if she were using a laptop or full desktop computer?
I'd buy a $30K self-driving car today even if it were limited to major streets if it could take care of the stop and go driving on my way to work. Even if it could only handle the freeway portion of my commute, it would give me back about an hour a day of time I could use to read, work, talk on the phone, watch TV, or even sleep.
I don't need a self-driving car that can handle every road condition with ease, one that can only handle my commute (or most of it) in self-driving mode would be enough to get me to buy it.
She didn't want a replacement for her laptop when it failed because she can do everything she needs on her tablet.
Even if her tablet can do everything she needs today, what would she do if she found something tomorrow that she wants to do but that an iPad can't do by design?
Then she'd re-evaluate, of course, but it's been a year so far and she hasn't found a need for a laptop. With a bluetooth keyboard, she can browse the internet, do basic document editing, read and answer emails, edit and organize photos, watch streaming video, make phone calls (VoIP), and pretty much everything else she needs to do. She hasn't found anything that she needs a full PC for. Which is kind of the point -- there's little that the average user can't do on a tablet these days.
My needs are a little different, I have both a laptop and a full-size desktop, though I find that I use the desktop less and less, really only using it for the big 27" monitor, which with the right dongle, I could use with my laptop.
"That's not to say people will stop using tablets, but the onetime theory that they would one day cannibalize all PCs looks increasingly nebulous."
how do you look only at data concerning tablets and phones and come to a conclusion about PC's? What did laptop and PC sales look lik compared to mobile devices? My wife uses a 2 year old tablet as her primary computing device at home... She didn't want a replacement for her laptop when it failed because she can do everything she needs on her tablet.
Well, so do HGST and Toshiba desktop drives, so the distinction is not quite as clear cut...
Do you have a reference for this? This information doesn't seem trivial to find, the closest I can find is "The Deskstar NAS also offers configurable advanced error recovery control to fine-tune RAID performance." in a review of the HGST 4TB Deskstar NAS HDD and no such claim in the review of their non-NAS drives. Do you have a reference showing that HGST supports TLER/ERC/CCTL across their desktop (non-NAS) drive line? I don't think Toshiba has a NAS drive though I'm not very familiar with their product line.
I've seen in general, three lines of HDDs. Basic desktop/laptop drives, premium desktop/laptop, and enterprise grade drives which are designed to all wind up at the same firmware level to minimize issues when in RAID controllers.
However, a "NAS" hard drive? Is this something a step down from enterprise drives, but designed for a device like a Drobo, or some other solution that really doesn't care about background drives, uses RAID 5 or 6, and expects drives to blow out over time?
Are the Red drives designed to be paired or run in RAID arrays specifically, as opposed to the Green line that is made for power savings?
I always thought that the NAS/RAID drives allowed Time Limited Error Recovery to be specified, which would prevent RAID controllers from interpreting a long error recovery interval as a drive timeout and erroring out that drive and removing it from the array. The NAS and Enterprise drives do allow this option to be set.
Only Slashdotters would defend this guy for what was clearly a calculated and unwarranted troll towards Christians on their numero uno holiday.
Commercial interests have turned the Christmas holiday into a shop-till-you-drop marathon, and you think Christians are under attack from a simple factual tweet? If he had posted "If you love Jesus, you'll love these deals on Telescopes!" then it'd have been ok, right?
Really, does Tyson have nothing better to do than use Twitter to mock Christians? Are there no pressing issues in the world of astrophysics that could use his towering intellect and staggering genius?
The most pressing issue that he's been working hard to fight against is the lack of science literacy in the country, and open hostility to Science to the point where a science educator can't post a Christmas Day related fact without coming under attack -- and at least Newton was actually born on Christmas (depending on your calendar), as opposed to Jesus -- most biblical scholars agree he was not born on Dec 25th, even if they disagree on when his birth was.
When this kind of things go down a news source should show ONLY the usernames so at least people have a hint that they need to cancel their credit cards.
Since in many cases the username is the users email address, many people would not want the world to know that their password to pleasebangmywife.com was compromised.... Especially not their wife.
just another example of the "bleep'ed ed bleep" that passes for a good idea
it REALLY is time for a X30+ solar flare to kill the electricity for 10 years
then MAYBE we will have had time to well THINK FIRST!!! and change the priories from new and "Bleeped up" to stable and SECURE
If you're interested in stable and secure, you're already not using Docker, so problem solved.
The problem with insisting that everything has to be well thought out and planned first is that gets in the way of innovation, and things slow way down while you do your planning. But while you're spending a couple years trying to plan out the project and account for every use case and vulnerability, by the time you've written the code, it's already out of date and not useful, so the planning has to start over again.
If you want to apply NASA level of planning and diligence where a software project can take years (or even decades), you should feel free to use only tried-and-true solutions. Maybe an IBM mainframe will give you what you're looking for. But don't insist that the entire world needs to stop to meet your needs for stability and security.
IIRC, answering machines have been around since the 1980s, where one would have to set a mode between record, then flip a dial to play... with a machine that had two tapes, one a special outgoing message tape configured in an endless loop with a metal foil piece joining the ends. Then the next generation of machines came around using micro cassettes and storing the outgoing message at the beginning of the tape. Then in the early to mid 1990s, flash based messages with multiple voice mail boxes so everyone in the family got their own blinking light. After a while, people just started using the VM product offered by the telco because it was less hassle than having a dedicated answering machine.
All and all, voice mail isn't going anywhere. If it is a way for a company to leave their ads, there is no way that will be stopped in today's economy.
I never understood why people used the telco voice mail since that removed one of the most valuable features of a home answering machine -- the ability to screen calls by listening to the message live. I couldn't afford to pay the $9.99/month and buy a $99 caller id display in those days.
Google Voice lets you do that, you can choose to screen calls and listen to message the caller is leaving in real time and pick up if you want to. But now if I decide not to answer up the phone, I just wait for the transcript to come in to see if I want to return the call.
Great, so now if I want to run a personal hotspot in my hotel room, I have to spoof both the SSID *and* the MAC Address of the Hotel's AP so their security software doesn't realize that it's not theirs, and run it at a high enough power level to drown out the "real" hotel AP so I can connect to it.
The thing only costs $200, Their cartridges cost $25 for a 120 use cartridge. At 2 uses/day that's 6 cartridges/year -- so you're paying 75% of the cost of the unit in a year just for the cartridges.
I think if Rolls Royce dealers charged $150K each year for required maintenance on a $200K Rolls Royce, there'd be few people getting service at the dealer.
I assume you gave up your ink-jet printer for a color lasar?
I gave up the inkjet printer years ago - I used to use an inkjet printer for photo prints until I realized that Walgreens makes better prints than my inkjet printer can at less cost. So for at least the last 5 years, I've had a black and white laser printer. I have no real need for a color printer at home, though if I did, I'd get a color laser.
It may seem petty now, but if every device we use in our daily lives started doing this, it wouldn't so good. Keurig is a good example. You can still make coffee with a simple french press. Trouble is, the k-cups have taken over the coffee selection in a lot of groceries. Expand that into devices of all types and shopping for consumables becomes a total PITA.
That's ok, the grocery store is the worst place to buy coffee anyway, buy it at a local coffee shop that roasts their own so you know it hasn't been sitting on a shelf (or worse, non air climate controlled warehouse) for weeks or months before you buy it.
Would you take a real Rolls Royce to an unauthorized dealer for repairs?
Seems a bit silly to me to go this expense and suddenly get stingy on the cartridges.
The thing only costs $200, Their cartridges cost $25 for a 120 use cartridge. At 2 uses/day that's 6 cartridges/year -- so you're paying 75% of the cost of the unit in a year just for the cartridges.
I think if Rolls Royce dealers charged $150K each year for required maintenance on a $200K Rolls Royce, there'd be few people getting service at the dealer.
In all seriousness though, there is a good reason that prescription is (and should be) a "magic word" for the TSA -- they are nowhere near qualified to judge whether a doctor's prescription is legitimate, and they do not have the right to examine your prescription (because it is private medical information).
If liquids really are a danger, then they cannot treat "prescription" as a magic word that lets anyone take large quantities of liquid on board without any documentation or proof. The shampoo bottles looked like 1 quart bottles, so that passenger was allowed to take 64 ounces of liquid on board, while everyone else is limited to a few containers of 3 oz liquids ostensibly because there's some danger in taking larger quantities onboard.
Either liquids are a danger or they aren't, which is it? What is the point of a liquid restriction when it can be waived merely on the passenger's verbal assurance that it's a prescription medical product?
Cannons, chainsaws, swords... Feh, that's nothing. I was on a flight recently where some terrist tried to get on board with 16 ounces of shampoo!!! Luckily, the alert and quick-thinking TSA guardians of public safety caught him before he could cause any gory deaths.
I was behind a guy that tried to bring not one, but *two* bottles of shampoo. The TSA agent was going to make him throw them out but he said "But these are from my doctor and very expensive". TSA said, "do you have a prescription for these?" He replied "yes," then they let him take the bottles through with no further questions. The shampoo didn't have any special labels to indicate it was prescription, looked like the faux "professional" shampoo in a white bottle you can buy at any hair salon. Apparently once you say the magic incantation "Prescription", it's impossible for a product to have any nefarious use, so it's perfectly safe.
My doctor told me to drink more water, so next time I fly, I'll tell TSA that my water bottle was prescribed by my doctor.
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Can you explain exactly what is wrong with smart meters?
With enough resolution, smart meters can tell the water company whether you've been a Good Citizen and installed low-flow shower heads and toilets. And with dual-flush toilets (one button for #1, one for #2), they can tell how many times you pee and crap in a day. And they can tell how many people are staying at your house. And when you do your laundry. And when you do the dishes.
If they want to install leak detectors, why can't they install them on their own equipment? If they are losing 40% of their water to leaks, then they can probably wait 30 days to reconcile their usage data with my usage data to discover a leak in my neighborhood, they don't need it in realtime.
Electricity is similar. They could try to monitor you with the smart meter, but it would be a lot easier to just install something at the sub-station or point a thermal camera at your house.
They can't monitor me with anything at the electrical substation, my usage is mixed in with thousands of other customers with no way to isolate it. While they could sit outside of my house with a thermal camera, that doesn't sound easier than making me pay for a smart meter that they can use to get the same data for the entire city at once, and then sort out the "bad citizens" that need further monitoring.
People willing to go through ridiculous hoops and pay extra money in order to view content they are paying for are pirates?
Yet these alternatives produce much more CO2 to get from certain point A to B ... Imagine 200 cars driving from Finland to Sweden + requiring 20 hour boat trip too with 200 cars loaded... that, compared to 55min hop flight which also carries a lot fo cargo.
Flying is, for most common routes, VERY efficient after you also consider how much cargo the planes carry..
I dont have to imagine it, the WSJ already released the figures. The most fuel efficient airline got around 75 passenger miles per gallon of fuel, so if you put 2 people in a Prius, or 4 in an SUV, they'll get better gas mileage without all of the high-altitude effects. Fill the trunk and unused passenger space with Cargo, and that takes care of the cargo. Replace those 200 cars with a few buses and cargo trucks and the balance tips even further toward ground travel.
http://www.wsj.com/news/articl...
Jet engines are quite fuel efficient, but the air resistance at 500mph coupled with the need to provide enough lift to keep the plane in the air puts airplane travel at a big disadvantage for fuel efficiency.
you can get the source (harder with closed-source products, but not impossible with enough money) and support it yourself
Well no. Sometimes you can find the bug, but you're not allowed to use the source. Common with closed-source products. They'll give you enough information to help them, but they won't legally let you help yourself. Because money.
Then you haven't applied enough money and/or pressure.
I worked for a large VAR years ago that had access to the Windows source... I don't think they had the whole source tree, they couldn't do a full build, but they could get access to any module they needed.
I worked for a another company that was the largest and most well known customer of an up and coming database company, they used our name heavily in marketing - we wanted source code escrow in case the DB company went under and we had to support it ourselves. after months of negotiation we couldn't come to an agreement, so we told them we were moving to a different product and engineering was actively porting over to the other product. In less than a month, that company capitulated and we had full access to their source code (not just escrow, we had live access to their source code repository).
If you don't have enough money and/or pressure to get access to the source code, then you're accepting Microsoft's limited support window and shouldn't cry foul when Microsoft stops supporting your product.
I think after 90 days, Miccrosoft should be held criminally accountable to every single user, worldwide. Applies to "dropped" support products people may be forced to continue using for various reasons (embedded, integrated systems, lack of budget to upgrade to new OS/hardware) .. think Win 7 and even XP.
No one is "forced" to continue using MS products -- unless they signed a support contract for extended support, MS can't be held responsible for supporting legacy systems indefinitely. If you don't want to be stuck with a system running an unsupported operating system, then you can sign (and pay for) a long-term support contract throughout the life of your product, you can get the source (harder with closed-source products, but not impossible with enough money) and support it yourself, or you can plan on upgrading your product hardware/software to stay with currently supported software.
I fail to see how Microsoft has any responsibility to support software for a hardware product that a manufacturer has decided not to keep current enough to run supported software. If the old HVAC system in your building relies on Windows 3.1 to keep it running, then maybe you ought to go after the vendor that sold it to you, if a replacement for the fan motor in your HVAC system is no longer available, you'd either retrofit to accept a current motor, or just upgrade the entire system, which is what you should do when the computer that controls it is no longer supported by current software.
I got a ticket doing 65 in the left-most lane; Reason: Car coming up behind me had to break.
It's an enforcable law in most states, that left lane is for active passing only.
More so in Utah, apparently.
The law in ALL 50 states of the US requires that SLOWER TRAFFIC KEEP RIGHT.
What part of that law did you not understand, you brain-dead piece of shit ?
No, it's not the law in ALL 50 states. Though it is the law in most of them:
http://jalopnik.com/5501615/le...
If you think about it, you should just move closer to where you work. Read/work/talk/tv/sleep... these are all tasks you can do at home. An hour a day of driving is robbing you of that right now. Put another way, this is 5-15 thousand dollars a year in lost hourly rates for your wages or leisure. If you moved and it cost you 50-150 thousand dollars extra that'd be well worth it over 10 years. Additionally every mile on the road you're driving is a risk to yourself and everyone around you. I'm hopeful that more people are realizing what a bad bargain "suburbanization" has been for our society in the last 50 years.
Yes, well if only it were that easy, but not only can I not afford the $1M+ it would take to purchase a small condo closer to work (it's more than double my current home's price), every mile I move closer to my work is another mile farther away my wife has to travel to her job. That 50-150 thousand dollars over 10 years doesn't pay the extra $30K/year or so that I'd pay for a higher mortgage close to work. You might say that the higher mortgage is worth is since it's going into an asset that I can sell later, but that's not necessarily true in all markets and I'm not about to dump a significant portion of my savings into a downpayment on a million dollar house in the hope that real estate prices stay high by the time I'm ready to sell.
I hardly live in suburbia, I live in a relatively high population density town (8000 people/sq mi), I live within walking distance to a downtown area with shops, restaurants, etc, everything I need for day to day life, and walking distance to a commuter train that serves the city I work in, but due to poor connections on the far end, it's faster to drive than it is to take the train and the 2 transit connections it would take to get to my workplace. It's actually faster to train+bike than it is to train+train+bus to work (and I do train+bike to work frequently), but the car is usually fastest overall, at least when there are no accidents or other freeway disruption)
So back to my original point Read/work/talk/tv/sleep are all tasks that I could easily do on the way to work if someone else (or something else, like my car) was driving, and it's much easier to do any of them if I have one commute mode instead of having to take 3 different commute lines.
She didn't want a replacement for her laptop when it failed because she can do everything she needs on her tablet.
Even if her tablet can do everything she needs today, what would she do if she found something tomorrow that she wants to do but that an iPad can't do by design?
She won't find that next thing to do because she uses a tablet. Her world is artificially limited in what she can do so how would she even hear about these new things?
Wouldn't she find out about these new and wonderful things the same way she'd find out about them if she were using a laptop or full desktop computer?
I'd buy a $30K self-driving car today even if it were limited to major streets if it could take care of the stop and go driving on my way to work. Even if it could only handle the freeway portion of my commute, it would give me back about an hour a day of time I could use to read, work, talk on the phone, watch TV, or even sleep.
I don't need a self-driving car that can handle every road condition with ease, one that can only handle my commute (or most of it) in self-driving mode would be enough to get me to buy it.
She didn't want a replacement for her laptop when it failed because she can do everything she needs on her tablet.
Even if her tablet can do everything she needs today, what would she do if she found something tomorrow that she wants to do but that an iPad can't do by design?
Then she'd re-evaluate, of course, but it's been a year so far and she hasn't found a need for a laptop. With a bluetooth keyboard, she can browse the internet, do basic document editing, read and answer emails, edit and organize photos, watch streaming video, make phone calls (VoIP), and pretty much everything else she needs to do. She hasn't found anything that she needs a full PC for. Which is kind of the point -- there's little that the average user can't do on a tablet these days.
My needs are a little different, I have both a laptop and a full-size desktop, though I find that I use the desktop less and less, really only using it for the big 27" monitor, which with the right dongle, I could use with my laptop.
"That's not to say people will stop using tablets, but the onetime theory that they would one day cannibalize all PCs looks increasingly nebulous."
how do you look only at data concerning tablets and phones and come to a conclusion about PC's? What did laptop and PC sales look lik compared to mobile devices? My wife uses a 2 year old tablet as her primary computing device at home... She didn't want a replacement for her laptop when it failed because she can do everything she needs on her tablet.
Well, so do HGST and Toshiba desktop drives, so the distinction is not quite as clear cut...
Do you have a reference for this? This information doesn't seem trivial to find, the closest I can find is "The Deskstar NAS also offers configurable advanced error recovery control to fine-tune RAID performance." in a review of the HGST 4TB Deskstar NAS HDD and no such claim in the review of their non-NAS drives. Do you have a reference showing that HGST supports TLER/ERC/CCTL across their desktop (non-NAS) drive line? I don't think Toshiba has a NAS drive though I'm not very familiar with their product line.
I've seen in general, three lines of HDDs. Basic desktop/laptop drives, premium desktop/laptop, and enterprise grade drives which are designed to all wind up at the same firmware level to minimize issues when in RAID controllers.
However, a "NAS" hard drive? Is this something a step down from enterprise drives, but designed for a device like a Drobo, or some other solution that really doesn't care about background drives, uses RAID 5 or 6, and expects drives to blow out over time?
Are the Red drives designed to be paired or run in RAID arrays specifically, as opposed to the Green line that is made for power savings?
I always thought that the NAS/RAID drives allowed Time Limited Error Recovery to be specified, which would prevent RAID controllers from interpreting a long error recovery interval as a drive timeout and erroring out that drive and removing it from the array. The NAS and Enterprise drives do allow this option to be set.
Only Slashdotters would defend this guy for what was clearly a calculated and unwarranted troll towards Christians on their numero uno holiday.
Commercial interests have turned the Christmas holiday into a shop-till-you-drop marathon, and you think Christians are under attack from a simple factual tweet? If he had posted "If you love Jesus, you'll love these deals on Telescopes!" then it'd have been ok, right?
Really, does Tyson have nothing better to do than use Twitter to mock Christians? Are there no pressing issues in the world of astrophysics that could use his towering intellect and staggering genius?
The most pressing issue that he's been working hard to fight against is the lack of science literacy in the country, and open hostility to Science to the point where a science educator can't post a Christmas Day related fact without coming under attack -- and at least Newton was actually born on Christmas (depending on your calendar), as opposed to Jesus -- most biblical scholars agree he was not born on Dec 25th, even if they disagree on when his birth was.
When this kind of things go down a news source should show ONLY the usernames so at least people have a hint that they need to cancel their credit cards.
Since in many cases the username is the users email address, many people would not want the world to know that their password to pleasebangmywife.com was compromised.... Especially not their wife.
just another example of the "bleep'ed ed bleep" that passes for a good idea
it REALLY is time for a X30+ solar flare to kill the electricity for 10 years
then MAYBE we will have had time to well THINK FIRST!!!
and change the priories from
new and "Bleeped up"
to stable and SECURE
If you're interested in stable and secure, you're already not using Docker, so problem solved.
The problem with insisting that everything has to be well thought out and planned first is that gets in the way of innovation, and things slow way down while you do your planning. But while you're spending a couple years trying to plan out the project and account for every use case and vulnerability, by the time you've written the code, it's already out of date and not useful, so the planning has to start over again.
If you want to apply NASA level of planning and diligence where a software project can take years (or even decades), you should feel free to use only tried-and-true solutions. Maybe an IBM mainframe will give you what you're looking for. But don't insist that the entire world needs to stop to meet your needs for stability and security.
IIRC, answering machines have been around since the 1980s, where one would have to set a mode between record, then flip a dial to play... with a machine that had two tapes, one a special outgoing message tape configured in an endless loop with a metal foil piece joining the ends. Then the next generation of machines came around using micro cassettes and storing the outgoing message at the beginning of the tape. Then in the early to mid 1990s, flash based messages with multiple voice mail boxes so everyone in the family got their own blinking light. After a while, people just started using the VM product offered by the telco because it was less hassle than having a dedicated answering machine.
All and all, voice mail isn't going anywhere. If it is a way for a company to leave their ads, there is no way that will be stopped in today's economy.
I never understood why people used the telco voice mail since that removed one of the most valuable features of a home answering machine -- the ability to screen calls by listening to the message live. I couldn't afford to pay the $9.99/month and buy a $99 caller id display in those days.
Google Voice lets you do that, you can choose to screen calls and listen to message the caller is leaving in real time and pick up if you want to. But now if I decide not to answer up the phone, I just wait for the transcript to come in to see if I want to return the call.
I'd have fired you for thinking "terrorfied" is a word.
I think he's not the CTO, he's a helpdesk analyst, but it sounds more impressive to say he's a terrorfied CTO.
Great, so now if I want to run a personal hotspot in my hotel room, I have to spoof both the SSID *and* the MAC Address of the Hotel's AP so their security software doesn't realize that it's not theirs, and run it at a high enough power level to drown out the "real" hotel AP so I can connect to it.
Is that really better for security?
I like my coffee like I like my women.... ground up and in the freezer.
Just kidding, that's a horrible way to keep coffee.
And women.
The thing only costs $200, Their cartridges cost $25 for a 120 use cartridge. At 2 uses/day that's 6 cartridges/year -- so you're paying 75% of the cost of the unit in a year just for the cartridges.
I think if Rolls Royce dealers charged $150K each year for required maintenance on a $200K Rolls Royce, there'd be few people getting service at the dealer.
I assume you gave up your ink-jet printer for a color lasar?
I gave up the inkjet printer years ago - I used to use an inkjet printer for photo prints until I realized that Walgreens makes better prints than my inkjet printer can at less cost. So for at least the last 5 years, I've had a black and white laser printer. I have no real need for a color printer at home, though if I did, I'd get a color laser.
It may seem petty now, but if every device we use in our daily lives started doing this, it wouldn't so good. Keurig is a good example. You can still make coffee with a simple french press. Trouble is, the k-cups have taken over the coffee selection in a lot of groceries. Expand that into devices of all types and shopping for consumables becomes a total PITA.
That's ok, the grocery store is the worst place to buy coffee anyway, buy it at a local coffee shop that roasts their own so you know it hasn't been sitting on a shelf (or worse, non air climate controlled warehouse) for weeks or months before you buy it.
Would you take a real Rolls Royce to an unauthorized dealer for repairs?
Seems a bit silly to me to go this expense and suddenly get stingy on the cartridges.
The thing only costs $200, Their cartridges cost $25 for a 120 use cartridge. At 2 uses/day that's 6 cartridges/year -- so you're paying 75% of the cost of the unit in a year just for the cartridges.
I think if Rolls Royce dealers charged $150K each year for required maintenance on a $200K Rolls Royce, there'd be few people getting service at the dealer.
In all seriousness though, there is a good reason that prescription is (and should be) a "magic word" for the TSA -- they are nowhere near qualified to judge whether a doctor's prescription is legitimate, and they do not have the right to examine your prescription (because it is private medical information).
If liquids really are a danger, then they cannot treat "prescription" as a magic word that lets anyone take large quantities of liquid on board without any documentation or proof. The shampoo bottles looked like 1 quart bottles, so that passenger was allowed to take 64 ounces of liquid on board, while everyone else is limited to a few containers of 3 oz liquids ostensibly because there's some danger in taking larger quantities onboard.
Either liquids are a danger or they aren't, which is it? What is the point of a liquid restriction when it can be waived merely on the passenger's verbal assurance that it's a prescription medical product?
Cannons, chainsaws, swords... Feh, that's nothing. I was on a flight recently where some terrist tried to get on board with 16 ounces of shampoo!!! Luckily, the alert and quick-thinking TSA guardians of public safety caught him before he could cause any gory deaths.
I was behind a guy that tried to bring not one, but *two* bottles of shampoo. The TSA agent was going to make him throw them out but he said "But these are from my doctor and very expensive". TSA said, "do you have a prescription for these?" He replied "yes," then they let him take the bottles through with no further questions. The shampoo didn't have any special labels to indicate it was prescription, looked like the faux "professional" shampoo in a white bottle you can buy at any hair salon. Apparently once you say the magic incantation "Prescription", it's impossible for a product to have any nefarious use, so it's perfectly safe.
My doctor told me to drink more water, so next time I fly, I'll tell TSA that my water bottle was prescribed by my doctor.