One other thing: If running over something you cannot see makes your car blow a tire, then one of two things is true:
- your tires are in such terrible shape that you shouldn't be driving the car until you get them replaced. A good driver makes sure their car is roadworthy before they take it out. - your eyesight is bad enough that you shouldn't be driving.
It's not like their are transparent aluminum spike strips lounging around on our roads....
No, I've put significant thought into this. Enough thought that I've got a way to fix the entire problem - admittedly it would probably take 10-15 years to complete - without causing massive upheaval to our driving system.
Here in Canada, you can get a drivers licence if you're able to follow simple three word instructions without crashing. "Turn left here." "Parallel park here." "Change lanes." Most of the stuff you have to do while driving on your own - route planning, dealing with unexpected lane/road closures - all the stuff that requires you to be able to think on the fly - doesn't get tested. That's why you see people who suddenly realize that they want to turn left, but they're still in the right hand lane, so they stop with their turn signal going, hoping somebody will let them in so they can get across the other straight through lane into the left turn lane, instead of just going around the block.
They specifically tell you that they won't ask you to do anything illegal/dangerous on your test. Really? Why the hell not?! That would be a perfect way to know if the driver is *actually* capable of driving safely. If you do what they ask, instant fail.
They don't, so we have idiots who shouldn't be in charge of steering a golf cart behind the wheel of a 2.5 ton SUV.
It's not that *I* need to pay attention more. It's that *everybody* needs to pay attention more. (Including myself on occasion.) The way we hand out driver's licences like crackerjack toys in this country, though, makes this an impossible dream. That's the first thing we've got to change.
The second is how hard it is to take away a licence for a bad driver. You can cause three at fault accidents in a year, and as long as you can afford the insurance increases, they let you keep driving. (Miss paying one $35 parking ticket, though, and they'll refuse to renew your licence when it expires. Gee, I wonder where their priorities *really* are...) When you cause an accident, you should automatically have to retake your driver's test, with the new, more stringent requirements that would be put into place in step one of this plan. Most of our current drivers would fail miserably, and wouldn't be able to drive again after their first at fault accident. The number of bad drivers on the road would be dropping like the radioactivity of a chunk of caesium 134. The only potential problem I see is that as you got bad drivers off the road, the ones that are left would be less likely to cause an accident, thereby "lengthening the half-life" if you will, of the remaining bad drivers.
Rare, I'll admit. They were hit from behind, a couple of teenage girls. Broke both their necks.
I don't know if headrests were adjusted properly, etc, but this wasn't a "my partner knew a cop who'd heard of this cop in another detachment....I can't remember which one...but he was at this accident where...blahblahblah" This was an accident that my friend attended himself. I think he was the first one there.
That sounds like a fire hazard, not to mention a source of dust - do people really put wooden shelves in their datacenters?
The autoignition temperature for generic cheapo plywood is somewhere on the order of 300 degrees C. If you went with pine, which is still pretty cheap, it goes up to 427 degrees C.
How hot do you think computers run?
The dust, I could give you, if the wood used was cheap chipboard, balsa, or something else soft. Something even moderately hard like pine it wouldn't be a problem, as long as you properly cleaned off the sawdust from the cutting process. If you went all out and used oak, it's probably harder than the circuit boards you'd be mounting in it, with the added benefit that it raises the autoignition temperature up to 482 degrees C.
Of course, you could use some edge rails in the wood, and eliminate the dust problem regardless of wood used, and they'd probably be cheap enough that you could get them through petty cash, and not need budget approvals, too.
For general purpose computing, you are correct. It wouldn't be pessimistic at all for one computer to go malfunctioning every week.
Huh? E8000 Core2 Duos are not that old. I've got a rack of a half dozen Pentium IIIs that I've run for years without problems. What kind of crap hardware do you run where you're expecting 1 failure out of 14 machines every week?
This is assuming, of course, that when you set up the cluster in the first place, that you check motherboards for bad caps, loose cooling fans, etc, and discard/repair anything that looks even like it might possibly fail. Considering the effort this guy seems to be going to, that's probably (but I've been wrong about that kind of thing before) a given. From the pics, these are BTX machines, which in my experience have better cooling than ATX, and are less likely to have overheated, failing caps in the first place.
When my mother was learning to drive in England, the instructor told her the first rule of the road was this: "Everybody else on the road is a bloody idiot."
The problem with your logic is, if somebody rear ends me, it still cost me 500 dollars deductible, trip to the hospital, time off work, etc.etc.
Not to mention, a friend of mine, who's an ex-police officer, has seen people die in rear end accident that were so light they didn't even scratch the paint on the car. Just because "it's the other guy's fault" is no valid reason to not try to avoid an accident.
You're making the assumption that accidents "just happen". They don't. Accidents happen because somebody does something stupid. Without that "something stupid" the speed is irrelevant. So instead of eliminating stupid things, we've just decided we're going to do stupid things at lower speeds, which reduces, but not eliminates, the chance of death in an accident. The problem is, crappy drivers are a financial boon to the state in the fom of higher taxes on higher insurance premiums, higher taxes on higher fuel usage, fines, taxes on car body repairs, etc. Eliminating bad drivers would eliminate way more accidents than low speed limits, with the added benefit of much lower pollution, buit won't happen, because governments make too much money off them.
The whole point is that the emails were accepted by the primary MX, then deleted. As far as the sender's concerned, the email was delivered properly, because it was accepted by the MX.
That means there'd be no reason for the sender to try the secondary, so you lose your email.
GP is right. TPB took down their tracker years ago. The site remains, and still links to.torrent files and magnet:// links, but that's not what's meant by a "tracker" in bittorrent parlance.
Why are the computers at Apple "obviously" Macs? iTunes, QuickTime, Safari, and other Apple software is all available for Windows. Do you think Apple does all that Windows development without any Windows machines?
Someone else stated that if it was only Macs infected, Microsoft would have made sure to state that. They didn't state that *any* of the computers were Macs, despite the implication with the "Mac Business Unit" bit, so it's safe to say that at least some of them were runnimg Windows.
Anyone with a Linux server had information regarding these activities.
Look at your SSH logs, and you'll find 99.99999% of brute force attempts these days are coming from China.
Who the heck still has SSH open to the Internet? I haven't been set up this way for years, so I have no brute force attempts in my logs, on any of the dozens of Linux servers I maintain. Everything requires an OpenVPN connection first, then SSH over that. As far as I'm concerned, an open SSH port is barely better than an open telnet port. The only improvement is that it prevents cleartext traffic sniffing.
I get the premise of what the people are doing with the petition but if they did something more proactive like write their Senator rather than just anonymously sign a petition online more would come of this.
Welcome to earth. You must be new here. I'm not a US citizen, and don't live in the US, either, so I can't guarantee it, but I suspect writing your Senator would have even less effect than signing a petition. A single letter to a Senator can be dismissed as "that's just one guy with a crazy opinion" even when a single letter comes in from 100,000 people. I get the impression that politicians have an unimaginably short memory for things like this, and 100 different people can complain about something, one each on 100 days, and on day 101, in their mind you'll be the first person to complain about it. Tomorrow you'll have been forgotten, and person 102 will be the first person complaining.
On the other hand, 100,000 signatures on a petition is 100,000 people, right now, that disagree with you, and you have to acknowledge somehow. It's a lot harder to dismiss 100,000 people as crazies than a single one.
I had issue with something my government was doing a couple of years ago, and I went as far as to call my local representative, schedule a meeting with him, and presented my ideas face to face in his office, including all my documentation as to why the current path the government was following was not a good one, and my suggestions on how to improve it. He listened, took my phone number and email address so he could let me know of any developments from the suggestions, and I went on my way.
What happened from this meeting? I ended up on the local representatives email spam list, continually getting newsletters about how much the government is doing for me. That's it. Absolutely zero changes to the policy I had issue with. In fact, they took it to further extremes several months later.
Unless you have the money to provide hookers and blow, an individual can't influence politicians.
How often is there a proper legal disclosure, court hearings, appeals, etc, before an "alleged terrorist" US citizen who happens to be in some Middle Eastern country gets blown to smithereens by a presidential-ordered drone strike? How often is there a proper legal disclosure, court hearings, appeals, etc, before an "alleged copyright infringer" US citizen gets their website yanked by nothing more than the suggestion by a corporate master, and the DHS logo put up in place of the original content?
anagama may have the time frame wrong, as I think a decade or two is a little short to complete the transition he's warning about, but there's no question that it's a process that *is* actually taking place.
Where did I say he should get out of it because their servers aren't tough enough? The most extreme thing that could be implied from my statement is that JSTOR shouldn't be able to claim server overload simply because they're using 486 based servers. That, even though I didn't explicitly state it, I agree with, however, that is completely independent of Aaron's innocence or guilt.
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One other thing:
If running over something you cannot see makes your car blow a tire, then one of two things is true:
- your tires are in such terrible shape that you shouldn't be driving the car until you get them replaced. A good driver makes sure their car is roadworthy before they take it out.
- your eyesight is bad enough that you shouldn't be driving.
It's not like their are transparent aluminum spike strips lounging around on our roads....
No, I've put significant thought into this. Enough thought that I've got a way to fix the entire problem - admittedly it would probably take 10-15 years to complete - without causing massive upheaval to our driving system.
Here in Canada, you can get a drivers licence if you're able to follow simple three word instructions without crashing.
"Turn left here."
"Parallel park here."
"Change lanes."
Most of the stuff you have to do while driving on your own - route planning, dealing with unexpected lane/road closures - all the stuff that requires you to be able to think on the fly - doesn't get tested. That's why you see people who suddenly realize that they want to turn left, but they're still in the right hand lane, so they stop with their turn signal going, hoping somebody will let them in so they can get across the other straight through lane into the left turn lane, instead of just going around the block.
They specifically tell you that they won't ask you to do anything illegal/dangerous on your test. Really? Why the hell not?!
That would be a perfect way to know if the driver is *actually* capable of driving safely. If you do what they ask, instant fail.
They don't, so we have idiots who shouldn't be in charge of steering a golf cart behind the wheel of a 2.5 ton SUV.
It's not that *I* need to pay attention more. It's that *everybody* needs to pay attention more. (Including myself on occasion.)
The way we hand out driver's licences like crackerjack toys in this country, though, makes this an impossible dream. That's the first thing we've got to change.
The second is how hard it is to take away a licence for a bad driver. You can cause three at fault accidents in a year, and as long as you can afford the insurance increases, they let you keep driving. (Miss paying one $35 parking ticket, though, and they'll refuse to renew your licence when it expires. Gee, I wonder where their priorities *really* are...) When you cause an accident, you should automatically have to retake your driver's test, with the new, more stringent requirements that would be put into place in step one of this plan. Most of our current drivers would fail miserably, and wouldn't be able to drive again after their first at fault accident.
The number of bad drivers on the road would be dropping like the radioactivity of a chunk of caesium 134.
The only potential problem I see is that as you got bad drivers off the road, the ones that are left would be less likely to cause an accident, thereby "lengthening the half-life" if you will, of the remaining bad drivers.
Your version may be more pessimistic, but I like the emphasis of mine better. They're not just an idiot...they're a BLOODY idiot.
Rare, I'll admit. They were hit from behind, a couple of teenage girls. Broke both their necks.
I don't know if headrests were adjusted properly, etc, but this wasn't a "my partner knew a cop who'd heard of this cop in another detachment....I can't remember which one...but he was at this accident where...blahblahblah"
This was an accident that my friend attended himself. I think he was the first one there.
Actually, it's probably halfway between that and Can-ee-pruh.
That sounds like a fire hazard, not to mention a source of dust - do people really put wooden shelves in their datacenters?
The autoignition temperature for generic cheapo plywood is somewhere on the order of 300 degrees C. If you went with pine, which is still pretty cheap, it goes up to 427 degrees C.
How hot do you think computers run?
The dust, I could give you, if the wood used was cheap chipboard, balsa, or something else soft. Something even moderately hard like pine it wouldn't be a problem, as long as you properly cleaned off the sawdust from the cutting process. If you went all out and used oak, it's probably harder than the circuit boards you'd be mounting in it, with the added benefit that it raises the autoignition temperature up to 482 degrees C.
Of course, you could use some edge rails in the wood, and eliminate the dust problem regardless of wood used, and they'd probably be cheap enough that you could get them through petty cash, and not need budget approvals, too.
So what if you're a glutton for gluten?
Well, besides the Atkins Diet is probably not for you, that is....
For general purpose computing, you are correct. It wouldn't be pessimistic at all for one computer to go malfunctioning every week.
Huh? E8000 Core2 Duos are not that old. I've got a rack of a half dozen Pentium IIIs that I've run for years without problems. What kind of crap hardware do you run where you're expecting 1 failure out of 14 machines every week?
This is assuming, of course, that when you set up the cluster in the first place, that you check motherboards for bad caps, loose cooling fans, etc, and discard/repair anything that looks even like it might possibly fail. Considering the effort this guy seems to be going to, that's probably (but I've been wrong about that kind of thing before) a given.
From the pics, these are BTX machines, which in my experience have better cooling than ATX, and are less likely to have overheated, failing caps in the first place.
(fun sidebar: the word "Canpire" autocorrects to "Vampire" on my phone)
Even more fun sidebar: 'Canpire' is wrong, too. This is Montreal, ergo, french.
'Canipre'....it would be pronounced something like...'Can-ee-pray'...
When my mother was learning to drive in England, the instructor told her the first rule of the road was this:
"Everybody else on the road is a bloody idiot."
The problem with your logic is, if somebody rear ends me, it still cost me 500 dollars deductible, trip to the hospital, time off work, etc.etc.
Not to mention, a friend of mine, who's an ex-police officer, has seen people die in rear end accident that were so light they didn't even scratch the paint on the car.
Just because "it's the other guy's fault" is no valid reason to not try to avoid an accident.
Actually paying attention turns virtually all accidents into non-accidents.
Game. Set. Match.
You're making the assumption that accidents "just happen".
They don't. Accidents happen because somebody does something stupid. Without that "something stupid" the speed is irrelevant.
So instead of eliminating stupid things, we've just decided we're going to do stupid things at lower speeds, which reduces, but not eliminates, the chance of death in an accident.
The problem is, crappy drivers are a financial boon to the state in the fom of higher taxes on higher insurance premiums, higher taxes on higher fuel usage, fines, taxes on car body repairs, etc.
Eliminating bad drivers would eliminate way more accidents than low speed limits, with the added benefit of much lower pollution, buit won't happen, because governments make too much money off them.
The whole point is that the emails were accepted by the primary MX, then deleted. As far as the sender's concerned, the email was delivered properly, because it was accepted by the MX.
That means there'd be no reason for the sender to try the secondary, so you lose your email.
It's time for their secret identities.....to become their only identities.
If you're going to quote The Incredibles, at least get it right.
If you don't see the difference between technological progress, and distorting the market and lying in the name of profit, then that's your problem.
It was taken over by rediculous morans with no since.
And if it dies then I have to live without pr0n for a day. In industrial and business settings, that's not often acceptable.
I want to work where you work.....
That's "Total Fucking Fool" to you...
GP is right. TPB took down their tracker years ago. .torrent files and magnet:// links, but that's not what's meant by a "tracker" in bittorrent parlance.
The site remains, and still links to
Don't worry, Apple's probably going to patent it, anyway.
Why are the computers at Apple "obviously" Macs?
iTunes, QuickTime, Safari, and other Apple software is all available for Windows. Do you think Apple does all that Windows development without any Windows machines?
Someone else stated that if it was only Macs infected, Microsoft would have made sure to state that. They didn't state that *any* of the computers were Macs, despite the implication with the "Mac Business Unit" bit, so it's safe to say that at least some of them were runnimg Windows.
Anyone with a Linux server had information regarding these activities.
Look at your SSH logs, and you'll find 99.99999% of brute force attempts these days are coming from China.
Who the heck still has SSH open to the Internet? I haven't been set up this way for years, so I have no brute force attempts in my logs, on any of the dozens of Linux servers I maintain. Everything requires an OpenVPN connection first, then SSH over that.
As far as I'm concerned, an open SSH port is barely better than an open telnet port. The only improvement is that it prevents cleartext traffic sniffing.
I get the premise of what the people are doing with the petition but if they did something more proactive like write their Senator rather than just anonymously sign a petition online more would come of this.
Welcome to earth. You must be new here.
I'm not a US citizen, and don't live in the US, either, so I can't guarantee it, but I suspect writing your Senator would have even less effect than signing a petition. A single letter to a Senator can be dismissed as "that's just one guy with a crazy opinion" even when a single letter comes in from 100,000 people. I get the impression that politicians have an unimaginably short memory for things like this, and 100 different people can complain about something, one each on 100 days, and on day 101, in their mind you'll be the first person to complain about it. Tomorrow you'll have been forgotten, and person 102 will be the first person complaining.
On the other hand, 100,000 signatures on a petition is 100,000 people, right now, that disagree with you, and you have to acknowledge somehow. It's a lot harder to dismiss 100,000 people as crazies than a single one.
I had issue with something my government was doing a couple of years ago, and I went as far as to call my local representative, schedule a meeting with him, and presented my ideas face to face in his office, including all my documentation as to why the current path the government was following was not a good one, and my suggestions on how to improve it. He listened, took my phone number and email address so he could let me know of any developments from the suggestions, and I went on my way.
What happened from this meeting?
I ended up on the local representatives email spam list, continually getting newsletters about how much the government is doing for me.
That's it.
Absolutely zero changes to the policy I had issue with. In fact, they took it to further extremes several months later.
Unless you have the money to provide hookers and blow, an individual can't influence politicians.
How often is there a proper legal disclosure, court hearings, appeals, etc, before an "alleged terrorist" US citizen who happens to be in some Middle Eastern country gets blown to smithereens by a presidential-ordered drone strike?
How often is there a proper legal disclosure, court hearings, appeals, etc, before an "alleged copyright infringer" US citizen gets their website yanked by nothing more than the suggestion by a corporate master, and the DHS logo put up in place of the original content?
anagama may have the time frame wrong, as I think a decade or two is a little short to complete the transition he's warning about, but there's no question that it's a process that *is* actually taking place.
Where did I say he should get out of it because their servers aren't tough enough?
The most extreme thing that could be implied from my statement is that JSTOR shouldn't be able to claim server overload simply because they're using 486 based servers. That, even though I didn't explicitly state it, I agree with, however, that is completely independent of Aaron's innocence or guilt.