oh man, if they were monitoring Maddox because somewhere in one of his rants he made a threat that the NSA considered serious, then they really are too stupid to exist.
you don't notice the feed spam ads? the ones where FB makes it look like your friend posted about a company when they really just "liked" their page 7 or 10 months ago?
Nope - I filter them out with the power of my mind. E. E. Smith predicted this in 1950 in his novel First Lensman:
... the Dillingham began to pick up speed. Moving loud-speakers sang to him and yelled and blared at him, but he did not hear them. Brilliant signs, flashing and flaring all the colors of the spectrum-sheer triumphs of the electrician's art-blazed in or flamed into arresting words and eye-catching pictures, but he did not see them. Advertising -advertising designed by experts to sell everything from aardvarks to Martian zyzmol ("bottled ecstacy")-but the First Lensman was a seasoned big-city dweller. His mind had long since become a perfect filter, admitting to his consciousness only things which he wanted to perceive: only so can big-city life be made endurable.
This has been happening to me - every now and then I surprise myself by accidentally noticing the sheer amount of ads I automatically filter out. The human brain is awesome at this: filtering out the dross, and only letting significant items impinge on your consciousness. The advertisers don't really have a chance.
What's surprising to me is the sheer scale of the failure - they have almost one billion dollars worth of inventory sitting around.
Who the hell did their initial sales estimates such that they felt the need to manufacture that much product, and who then kept on manufacturing when there are no sales going on at all???
I also expected failure, but I am astounded by the amount of waste.
So true. I remember my 1st M$ phone. It was crap: crashed multiple times during a day, and the battery life was absolutely terrible (and this was with a stock/no-apps install). It would actually restart in the middle of phone calls!
Not to mention that you pretty much needed to pull out a stylus every time you wanted to reply to an sms...
And all I know is the sun is shining, yet we fight all thought the night
While the 'burgs are melting and the sea is rising
I don't know so I ask them why
Man, The Gap Cycle is my favorite sci-fi series ever. It is the most brilliant, well-plotted and self-consistent story I've ever read. The writing style is also incredibly powerful. I never really liked Donaldson's writing style for the Thomas Covenant series, but The Gap Cycle is amazing.
Anyone have suggestions of anything that comes close?
since we're talking about VMs, when you have several instances running on your hardware, then yes, all those stray gigabytes do add up. And ms has basically admitted this is a problem, since I'm told you can run Windows server 2013 in a completely headless mode.
So they have finally seen the need to catch up to a feature that's existed in the last 50 years of *nix and mainframe, even if you don't.
The US was spying on the UK but wasn't handing all the data over, but giving it to US companies to get better deals.
Yeah, the CIA did this (are still doing this?) to a bunch of Aussie companies as well - used CIA/ASIO information sharing to let US companies know what Aussie wheat prices were going to be so that the US could undercut the Aussies in key markets, etc.
Would it be a good time to remind you that there aren't really any open source e-mail server products that are truly enterprise grade?
At least you didn't go so far as to try to defend MS SQL Server. Who mentioned OSS? I didn't. The reason the MS unholy trinity of server services (by which I mean exchange, sql server and IIS) are immediately disqualified for me is that they all need a GUI based operating system. Something about that just makes me want to run screaming while waving my hands in the air. If you are doing anything serious (or even moreso if you aren't), you generally don't have the RAM to waste on a bloated operating system that has to start up and maintain a GUI whether you are using it or not. You want to cut down on pointless overhead - you want a server which is a true headless server.
But while we're on the topic, postfix can be set up with folders, not a monolithic mailbox file, and so I'm morally certain it will handle bigger inboxes than exchange does. POP3/IMAP has security issues, but so does exchange. PGP encryption is still better than anything out there. AD RMS is only relevant to people who want to use windows proprietary stuff, so not at all. And anyone trying to get sensitive information off portable devices knows that to avoid remote wipe, all they have to do is put the thing in flight mode - so none of those remote wipe solutions are worth shit IMHO.
I will give you the fact that exchange does better calendar stuff than anyone else, but try integrating that into someone's android smartphone calendar. Either it doesn't work, or the phone manufacturer specific solution is such a battery hog that it isn't worth it.
3 years now. 20 Tb of files; 6 TB of Exchange mailboxes, 500 GB of SQL Server and MySQL data, >1000 transactions per second ,
16 to 1 consolidation ratio, with CPU, Memory, and Storage heavily oversubscribed; 280 VMs on 3 hosts, and no issues..
See? Other people can do that too...
Sorry dude, this is slashdot. You lost your epeen contest with the op when you admitted your organisation uses exchange and sql server.
Cheap? Think of all the other news organisations the FBI need to keep informants in, so that no investigative journalism embarrassing to politicians can get done. Even at $5000 a pop, it gets expensive fast.
On another topic, can anyone who understands the US TLA agencies explain why the FBI was doing this, rather than the CIA? I would have though that using someone from Iceland to investigate an Australian working in Europe would have been considered an international, rather than domestic matter. I'm interested how spending money on an international situation like this falls under the FBI's charter?
1.42 metres per second is 5.11 kph / 3.18 mph, or Force One on the Beaufort scale, which Wikipedia tells me means "Smoke drift indicates wind direction. Leaves and wind vanes are stationary."
Yeah - Usain Bolt does his 100m faster than 10 m/s. So this robot doesn't even run like a human.
But robots don't get tired (though they might overheat or have their batteries go flat), so maybe a better comparison are marathons.
A decent marathon runner can do over 5.5 m/s, but even a chump like me can hold at better than 3.3 m/s for that distance.
As much as I dislike DRM, DMCA and big-content corporations in general, I can't really fault them on this one.
The fault with this situation is that the punishment should fit the crime, and in this case, clearly does not.
Are you really suggesting that the punishment for watching a bit of tv that you haven't paid for should carry a possible one year prison penalty? This is a non-violent crime which only has very small financial consequences. As such, the penalty should be a fine of some sort. What it would have normally cost to subscribe to the service, with a small punitive multiplier would be appropriate.
Taking someone's liberty for a year for such a small infraction is tyrannical in every sense of the word.
Her response was well you are the one who always has to reinstall your operating system.
Why were you always reinstalling your operating system?
I've been dabbling in linux since the late 90s, but the desktop I'm typing this on has had the same linux OS install on it since 2006. All I do is use aptitude to upgrade when necessary.
In that time I've added ram, replaced CPUs, motherboards, video cards, hard drives, and the OS has kept running. The most difficult thing I've done through all this was needing to run a "dd if=/dev/olddrive of=/dev/newdrive" whenever I replace the system hard drive.
For me, this has been one of the largest benefits of linux - not having to reinstall all the software and configurations I use every time I upgrade the hardware in my system. Compare that to windows - which needs a new license every time you modify your system slightly too much from the base configuration.
I guess I don't get why you had to reinstall linux so often.
Queue the endless stream of weirdly rabid PETA hate... 3... 2... 1... go.
The PETA hate around here is not unfounded. Representatives of PETA continually make death threats against scientists and medical researchers who perform experiments on animals, even when those experiments are approved by recognized ethical bodies.
Some of those scientists and researchers are people I know and care for, and besides that, they are doing good work. They shouldn't have to deal with PETA's shit.
This is a science/tech site, so there are going to be lots of science/tech type people around here - which means that you shouldn't be surprised that the perspective of PETA around here will be colored by the relationship PETA has built with scientists around the world.
As far as I personally am concerned, everyone associated with PETA can go fist themselves.
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oh man, if they were monitoring Maddox because somewhere in one of his rants he made a threat that the NSA considered serious, then they really are too stupid to exist.
you don't notice the feed spam ads? the ones where FB makes it look like your friend posted about a company when they really just "liked" their page 7 or 10 months ago?
Nope - I filter them out with the power of my mind. E. E. Smith predicted this in 1950 in his novel First Lensman:
... the Dillingham began to pick up speed. Moving loud-speakers sang to him and yelled and blared at him, but he did not hear them. Brilliant signs, flashing and flaring all the colors of the spectrum-sheer triumphs of the electrician's art-blazed in or flamed into arresting words and eye-catching pictures, but he did not see them. Advertising -advertising designed by experts to sell everything from aardvarks to Martian zyzmol ("bottled ecstacy")-but the First Lensman was a seasoned big-city dweller. His mind had long since become a perfect filter, admitting to his consciousness only things which he wanted to perceive: only so can big-city life be made endurable.
This has been happening to me - every now and then I surprise myself by accidentally noticing the sheer amount of ads I automatically filter out. The human brain is awesome at this: filtering out the dross, and only letting significant items impinge on your consciousness. The advertisers don't really have a chance.
What's surprising to me is the sheer scale of the failure - they have almost one billion dollars worth of inventory sitting around.
Who the hell did their initial sales estimates such that they felt the need to manufacture that much product, and who then kept on manufacturing when there are no sales going on at all???
I also expected failure, but I am astounded by the amount of waste.
So true. I remember my 1st M$ phone. It was crap: crashed multiple times during a day, and the battery life was absolutely terrible (and this was with a stock/no-apps install). It would actually restart in the middle of phone calls!
Not to mention that you pretty much needed to pull out a stylus every time you wanted to reply to an sms...
I'm pretty sure Balmer would object if they were loaded with Linux or *BSD.
Well MS can afford a million windows servers because they don't have to pay the licensing for the OS.
And surely getting MS windows for free is better than getting linux for free - cause any chump can get linux for free... Right?
Safesearch on! Safesearch on!
I certainly am going to be modded down, but it is about time I explained that "GFY" stands for "Go Fuck Yourself".
Huh, I always thought it meant " Go Fist Yourself". Learn something new every day I guess.
And all I know is the sun is shining, yet we fight all thought the night
While the 'burgs are melting and the sea is rising
I don't know so I ask them why
Thanks, I'll take a look - I thought Sanderson did pretty well finishing off Wheel of Time, but I've never read any of his other stuff.
Man, The Gap Cycle is my favorite sci-fi series ever. It is the most brilliant, well-plotted and self-consistent story I've ever read. The writing style is also incredibly powerful. I never really liked Donaldson's writing style for the Thomas Covenant series, but The Gap Cycle is amazing.
Anyone have suggestions of anything that comes close?
since we're talking about VMs, when you have several instances running on your hardware, then yes, all those stray gigabytes do add up. And ms has basically admitted this is a problem, since I'm told you can run Windows server 2013 in a completely headless mode.
So they have finally seen the need to catch up to a feature that's existed in the last 50 years of *nix and mainframe, even if you don't.
The US was spying on the UK but wasn't handing all the data over, but giving it to US companies to get better deals.
Yeah, the CIA did this (are still doing this?) to a bunch of Aussie companies as well - used CIA/ASIO information sharing to let US companies know what Aussie wheat prices were going to be so that the US could undercut the Aussies in key markets, etc.
Would it be a good time to remind you that there aren't really any open source e-mail server products that are truly enterprise grade?
At least you didn't go so far as to try to defend MS SQL Server. Who mentioned OSS? I didn't. The reason the MS unholy trinity of server services (by which I mean exchange, sql server and IIS) are immediately disqualified for me is that they all need a GUI based operating system. Something about that just makes me want to run screaming while waving my hands in the air. If you are doing anything serious (or even moreso if you aren't), you generally don't have the RAM to waste on a bloated operating system that has to start up and maintain a GUI whether you are using it or not. You want to cut down on pointless overhead - you want a server which is a true headless server.
But while we're on the topic, postfix can be set up with folders, not a monolithic mailbox file, and so I'm morally certain it will handle bigger inboxes than exchange does. POP3/IMAP has security issues, but so does exchange. PGP encryption is still better than anything out there. AD RMS is only relevant to people who want to use windows proprietary stuff, so not at all. And anyone trying to get sensitive information off portable devices knows that to avoid remote wipe, all they have to do is put the thing in flight mode - so none of those remote wipe solutions are worth shit IMHO.
I will give you the fact that exchange does better calendar stuff than anyone else, but try integrating that into someone's android smartphone calendar. Either it doesn't work, or the phone manufacturer specific solution is such a battery hog that it isn't worth it.
3 years now. 20 Tb of files; 6 TB of Exchange mailboxes, 500 GB of SQL Server and MySQL data, >1000 transactions per second , 16 to 1 consolidation ratio, with CPU, Memory, and Storage heavily oversubscribed; 280 VMs on 3 hosts, and no issues..
See? Other people can do that too...
Sorry dude, this is slashdot. You lost your epeen contest with the op when you admitted your organisation uses exchange and sql server.
Cheap? Think of all the other news organisations the FBI need to keep informants in, so that no investigative journalism embarrassing to politicians can get done. Even at $5000 a pop, it gets expensive fast.
On another topic, can anyone who understands the US TLA agencies explain why the FBI was doing this, rather than the CIA? I would have though that using someone from Iceland to investigate an Australian working in Europe would have been considered an international, rather than domestic matter. I'm interested how spending money on an international situation like this falls under the FBI's charter?
Yeah, does seem a bit like the pot meeting the kettle.
A Kickstarter campaign to raise money to raise awareness still seems like a few steps from mining asteroids...
Yes - It's kind of like saying a Kickstarter campaign to raise money to raise awareness of leukemia is suddenly going to cure leukemia...
Also rather interesting is that the guardian is reporting that wikileaks is assisting him and that he is travelling with a couple of wikileaks' legal advisers to make sure everything goes along relatively smoothly: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/23/edward-snowden-arrives-moscow
1.42 metres per second is 5.11 kph / 3.18 mph, or Force One on the Beaufort scale, which Wikipedia tells me means "Smoke drift indicates wind direction. Leaves and wind vanes are stationary."
Yeah - Usain Bolt does his 100m faster than 10 m/s. So this robot doesn't even run like a human. But robots don't get tired (though they might overheat or have their batteries go flat), so maybe a better comparison are marathons. A decent marathon runner can do over 5.5 m/s, but even a chump like me can hold at better than 3.3 m/s for that distance.
Thanks to global warming they won't be cool for much longer.
Actually, now the climate change denialists can say that shrinking of the polar icecaps isn't due to CO2, it is just facebook servers.
As much as I dislike DRM, DMCA and big-content corporations in general, I can't really fault them on this one.
The fault with this situation is that the punishment should fit the crime, and in this case, clearly does not.
Are you really suggesting that the punishment for watching a bit of tv that you haven't paid for should carry a possible one year prison penalty? This is a non-violent crime which only has very small financial consequences. As such, the penalty should be a fine of some sort. What it would have normally cost to subscribe to the service, with a small punitive multiplier would be appropriate.
Taking someone's liberty for a year for such a small infraction is tyrannical in every sense of the word.
Her response was well you are the one who always has to reinstall your operating system.
Why were you always reinstalling your operating system?
I've been dabbling in linux since the late 90s, but the desktop I'm typing this on has had the same linux OS install on it since 2006. All I do is use aptitude to upgrade when necessary.
In that time I've added ram, replaced CPUs, motherboards, video cards, hard drives, and the OS has kept running. The most difficult thing I've done through all this was needing to run a "dd if=/dev/olddrive of=/dev/newdrive" whenever I replace the system hard drive.
For me, this has been one of the largest benefits of linux - not having to reinstall all the software and configurations I use every time I upgrade the hardware in my system. Compare that to windows - which needs a new license every time you modify your system slightly too much from the base configuration.
I guess I don't get why you had to reinstall linux so often.
An outbreak of common sense. I can scarcely believe my eyes.
Now to see if it holds.
Condoming an island country could prove to be extraordinarily difficult.
How hard could it be? It's a reasonably small island, and latex grows on trees!
Queue the endless stream of weirdly rabid PETA hate... 3... 2... 1... go.
The PETA hate around here is not unfounded. Representatives of PETA continually make death threats against scientists and medical researchers who perform experiments on animals, even when those experiments are approved by recognized ethical bodies.
Some of those scientists and researchers are people I know and care for, and besides that, they are doing good work. They shouldn't have to deal with PETA's shit.
This is a science/tech site, so there are going to be lots of science/tech type people around here - which means that you shouldn't be surprised that the perspective of PETA around here will be colored by the relationship PETA has built with scientists around the world.
As far as I personally am concerned, everyone associated with PETA can go fist themselves.