It's not so much about the multinational presence, it's about Facebook having oodles of advertising revenue.
Any sufficiently large target will be attacked, regardless of territory. If Facebook were located in China, I'm sure some dude named Cheung Goldberg would find an excuse to sue them!
If I were to do this against any arbitrary server and got caught, I'd be sued to oblivion.
What do we have here ? We have evidence, a confession, and implicit admission of guilt (their system is designed to blast servers). What are we waiting for ? Jesus ain't coming back, so we're going to have to purge these bastards ourselves.
What ? I run 4 servers myself. The small firm I work for, we run maybe 70-80 boxes in our cage.
In fact I find it odd that this facility has so many individual customers. Seems like a lot of administrative overhead... If I were running that DC, I'd much rather lease out full or half racks, than individual units, then you let those people sublet to the small frys.
That's how most of the big hosting companies operate. They don't own their own datacenters, they just lease a cage or two, cram it full of gear and sell you that godawful oversold web space you love to hate. That's also why colocating a single server can be so goddamned expensive - datacenters set per-unit pricing high to scare away the Joe Blows, and the resellers make a lot more money selling crap hosting than subletting their precious space. This is especially true in the USA/Canada.
Then the problem is with the ISPs. I get a dedicated 100mbit line to my servers in the Netherlands for less than $200/mo. Dedicated... I can keep it tied at max capacity, both ways, 24/7 if I want. It's not just 100mb to the switch, where it gets squeezed into a micro-mini pipe to the world like they do here in America.
No, I routinely hit peak throughput when serving heavy loads to clients all around the globe. I don't just hit it once either, there were times when all four of my boxes saturated their lines - 400mbit out, just for cheap little me. Meanwhile, I've visited local datacenters that have less aggregate bandwidth across their 50-60 cages, than I have in a half-rack.
So then, if the Dutch can sell me such plentiful bandwidth so cheaply, why can't these two-faced half-bred North Americans do even better with their big bucks and big business ? We had 10mb cable a decade ago. Where my fiber ? Where's my fucking fiber to the downtown high-density tech-capital home ?
Idiots, there is no other explanation. Lazy lying idiots.
Yep, the NDP is an experiment, like a barometer. They take a 2nd opposition stance on everything, and see how many people actually side with them. It's more of an anti-party in the sense that they exist to lambast parliament.
The NDP's sole interest is to discredit whichever government is in power, because it's never the NDP. They find the dumbest, most inflammatory redneck they can dig up, stick him on a podium and let the insults fly.
They will never hold power, and while it's good to have someone rocking the boat to keep the leaders in check and avoid stagnation, the NDP has yet to do it in any measure of skill and success.
Agreed, but realistically there should be two indicators: the minimum, guaranteed bandwidth, and a maximum or peak.
Right now, I'm on 10mbit cable. I could go about my daily affairs just fine with, say, 2 mbit. If the ISP can guarantee, in writing, that I will always have 2 mbit available for whatever use, with the remaining 8 mbit subject to possible congestion, I'd probably be fine with it. The 2 mbit dedicated chunk would ensure my VoIP, gaming and regular web surfing are protected.
It's when "ISPs" like Bell start throttling everything, and still your peak hour speeds tank, that people get very pissed off.
Bait and switch man, bait and Preston Manning switch!
The NDP has very little support, which is nothing new, but now they're even worse off with that twit Jack Layton speaking his arrogant mind everywhere. The general consensus is that he doesn't appear to embrace the progressive socialist views that once founded the NDP. He cares about the other other mafia: labor unions - you know, the kind of people that don't belong on the internet in the first place.
This Net Neutrality bill is little more than a hollow stab at the current government as they try to discredit Harper and dissolve parliament. I think it was just convenient for them to pick this particular issue and let the strong tech community in Ottawa do all the hard lobbying work for them.
Big warning: I'm Quebec-born French, but the only time I speak French anymore is when I go drinking with the boys. I live right across the river in hypocritically-correct Ottawa.
Montreal is about as un-French as it gets. Sure, it's the official language but French people may well be a minority in there, it is a very multicultural city. Quebec city, well I wouldn't expect *good* English but I'm sure they speak some, simply because of the tourist industry.
Anywhere else if you ask someone "speak english", you're likely to get laughed at and/or attacked (seriously!). The further you are from the metropolises, the stronger the anti-English (and/or anti-immigrant) resentment. Common sense ain't so common in Quebec.
Back in 1995, we had the big referendum on Quebec's sovereignty. The separatists lost by a hair, with 49.5% of the vote, and a frustrated (and drunk) Jacques Parizeau on live TV, blamed it on "money and the ethnic vote". He was absolutely right. The only people who care about Quebec's independence and French uniformity are the poor, uneducated, unmotivated, ignorant swine.
Let's face it: Canadians with money typically aren't in Quebec - its provincial tax system punishes wealth and encourages low-expectation breeding imbeciles. I left Quebec because I don't have/want kids, and I'm not fond of my tax money subsidizing that idiotic baby bonus. They do get a few things right, like (good) cheap food and booze, but as a government they are the icon of failure.
Everyone joked about how a separated Quebec would become a 3rd world nation overnight, because they'd be cut off from any significant source of income. Their money would become worthless overnight and 97% of the world is unable to communicate in French. They're already living that scenario to some extend, cushioned by the federal government in many ways, yet they still resist progress and change.
If I call a Quebec company, and they can't find me someone who speaks English, then I can't find it in my heart to give them money. So what if I'm fluent in French, they're fluent in ignorance, and I don't support that.
I'm not trying to be a jerk (I just play one on the internet), but this worries me:
And there's about a 50 percent chance that the cluster will overheat, taking down most of the servers in less than 5 minutes and taking 1 to 2 days to recover.
I'm not much of a cluster guy, but if the risk over overheating is so great, and the damage so vile, maybe they should beef up the A/C ? Just a thought.
Remember 1980 ? Naw, 'course you don't, most of you weren't even born I bet.
In 1980 there was this little Atari game called Battlezone, where you'd drive around in a tank, blowing shit up.
The army commissioned Atari to produce a special simulator based on Battlezone, called the Bradley Trainer (named after Bradley tanks). It was built into a high-end arcade cabinet, with a fancy controller that became the Star Wars flight yoke a few years later.
The army has been using gaming tech since video gaming was born.
There is an "official investigation" being launched, but frankly I think they should just drag all MediaDefender staff into the street and hold a public execution.
Human rights should only be offered to those that respect them in the first place.
Big businesses get big for a reason: people are mostly stupid and/or lazy. They pull this bullshit because they get away with it. Joe Random gets suckered in by the "save" department, else they wouldn't have one.
FWIW, I thought Dell's tech support training was better than average. Most call centers barely show you how to work the CRM app, then throw you in the queue that same afternoon. Dell invested a few weeks of customer service training into each agent (in my area at least).
You should have been more aggressive from the get-go. Telecoms always pull this bullshit when they're about to lose a customer. If you have to be rude to the agent, well I think it's justified.
I'd even go as far as threatening legal action against the agent and the company for not allowing you to cancel despite having clearly stated your intent. Tell them they have exactly 5 minutes to get it processed or you will sue them for breach of contract. You have the right to cancel your account.
He's not suspended for taking a/. break, he's suspended for violating the "Hatch Act", which explicitly forbids people from engaging in political partisan activities in the workplace.
I think it's a good thing. The last thing we need is political rallies on the intranet posting boards.
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Wow. If Australia is what you call an improvement, please.. pretty please don't ever set foot in Canada or your head will literally explode!
It's not so much about the multinational presence, it's about Facebook having oodles of advertising revenue.
Any sufficiently large target will be attacked, regardless of territory. If Facebook were located in China, I'm sure some dude named Cheung Goldberg would find an excuse to sue them!
If I were to do this against any arbitrary server and got caught, I'd be sued to oblivion.
What do we have here ? We have evidence, a confession, and implicit admission of guilt (their system is designed to blast servers). What are we waiting for ? Jesus ain't coming back, so we're going to have to purge these bastards ourselves.
Hey hey! I'm a no-name reseller, but I run my own servers, none of this turnkey reseller bullshit. I am root, and I'm goddamned proud of it :)
What ? I run 4 servers myself. The small firm I work for, we run maybe 70-80 boxes in our cage.
In fact I find it odd that this facility has so many individual customers. Seems like a lot of administrative overhead... If I were running that DC, I'd much rather lease out full or half racks, than individual units, then you let those people sublet to the small frys.
That's how most of the big hosting companies operate. They don't own their own datacenters, they just lease a cage or two, cram it full of gear and sell you that godawful oversold web space you love to hate. That's also why colocating a single server can be so goddamned expensive - datacenters set per-unit pricing high to scare away the Joe Blows, and the resellers make a lot more money selling crap hosting than subletting their precious space. This is especially true in the USA/Canada.
Yet another sign that the U.S. legal system has its head so far up its own ass, they found alien life.
Then the problem is with the ISPs. I get a dedicated 100mbit line to my servers in the Netherlands for less than $200/mo. Dedicated... I can keep it tied at max capacity, both ways, 24/7 if I want. It's not just 100mb to the switch, where it gets squeezed into a micro-mini pipe to the world like they do here in America.
No, I routinely hit peak throughput when serving heavy loads to clients all around the globe. I don't just hit it once either, there were times when all four of my boxes saturated their lines - 400mbit out, just for cheap little me. Meanwhile, I've visited local datacenters that have less aggregate bandwidth across their 50-60 cages, than I have in a half-rack.
So then, if the Dutch can sell me such plentiful bandwidth so cheaply, why can't these two-faced half-bred North Americans do even better with their big bucks and big business ? We had 10mb cable a decade ago. Where my fiber ? Where's my fucking fiber to the downtown high-density tech-capital home ?
Idiots, there is no other explanation. Lazy lying idiots.
Naw, they'd stream it for free on the Pirate Bay :)
Probably because the 160gb drive's $/GB figure doesn't look so great.
Heck, I've bought 500gb drives for that price. Only problem was, they weren't Seagates.
Same here, that's why I let the wife handle the mean calls :) Nothing gets shit done like Estrogen-laced angst.
A very negative angle, but mostly accurate!
Yep, the NDP is an experiment, like a barometer. They take a 2nd opposition stance on everything, and see how many people actually side with them. It's more of an anti-party in the sense that they exist to lambast parliament.
The NDP's sole interest is to discredit whichever government is in power, because it's never the NDP. They find the dumbest, most inflammatory redneck they can dig up, stick him on a podium and let the insults fly.
They will never hold power, and while it's good to have someone rocking the boat to keep the leaders in check and avoid stagnation, the NDP has yet to do it in any measure of skill and success.
Agreed, but realistically there should be two indicators: the minimum, guaranteed bandwidth, and a maximum or peak.
Right now, I'm on 10mbit cable. I could go about my daily affairs just fine with, say, 2 mbit. If the ISP can guarantee, in writing, that I will always have 2 mbit available for whatever use, with the remaining 8 mbit subject to possible congestion, I'd probably be fine with it. The 2 mbit dedicated chunk would ensure my VoIP, gaming and regular web surfing are protected.
It's when "ISPs" like Bell start throttling everything, and still your peak hour speeds tank, that people get very pissed off.
Bait and switch man, bait and Preston Manning switch!
The NDP has very little support, which is nothing new, but now they're even worse off with that twit Jack Layton speaking his arrogant mind everywhere. The general consensus is that he doesn't appear to embrace the progressive socialist views that once founded the NDP. He cares about the other other mafia: labor unions - you know, the kind of people that don't belong on the internet in the first place.
This Net Neutrality bill is little more than a hollow stab at the current government as they try to discredit Harper and dissolve parliament. I think it was just convenient for them to pick this particular issue and let the strong tech community in Ottawa do all the hard lobbying work for them.
Big warning: I'm Quebec-born French, but the only time I speak French anymore is when I go drinking with the boys. I live right across the river in hypocritically-correct Ottawa.
Montreal is about as un-French as it gets. Sure, it's the official language but French people may well be a minority in there, it is a very multicultural city. Quebec city, well I wouldn't expect *good* English but I'm sure they speak some, simply because of the tourist industry.
Anywhere else if you ask someone "speak english", you're likely to get laughed at and/or attacked (seriously!). The further you are from the metropolises, the stronger the anti-English (and/or anti-immigrant) resentment. Common sense ain't so common in Quebec.
Back in 1995, we had the big referendum on Quebec's sovereignty. The separatists lost by a hair, with 49.5% of the vote, and a frustrated (and drunk) Jacques Parizeau on live TV, blamed it on "money and the ethnic vote". He was absolutely right. The only people who care about Quebec's independence and French uniformity are the poor, uneducated, unmotivated, ignorant swine.
Let's face it: Canadians with money typically aren't in Quebec - its provincial tax system punishes wealth and encourages low-expectation breeding imbeciles. I left Quebec because I don't have/want kids, and I'm not fond of my tax money subsidizing that idiotic baby bonus. They do get a few things right, like (good) cheap food and booze, but as a government they are the icon of failure.
Everyone joked about how a separated Quebec would become a 3rd world nation overnight, because they'd be cut off from any significant source of income. Their money would become worthless overnight and 97% of the world is unable to communicate in French. They're already living that scenario to some extend, cushioned by the federal government in many ways, yet they still resist progress and change.
If I call a Quebec company, and they can't find me someone who speaks English, then I can't find it in my heart to give them money. So what if I'm fluent in French, they're fluent in ignorance, and I don't support that.
Still waiting on that torrent... You know it's bound to happen at some point.
Please show me Quahog, Denmark on a map.
I'm not trying to be a jerk (I just play one on the internet), but this worries me:
And there's about a 50 percent chance that the cluster will overheat, taking down most of the servers in less than 5 minutes and taking 1 to 2 days to recover.
I'm not much of a cluster guy, but if the risk over overheating is so great, and the damage so vile, maybe they should beef up the A/C ? Just a thought.
The world ends.
Remember 1980 ? Naw, 'course you don't, most of you weren't even born I bet.
In 1980 there was this little Atari game called Battlezone, where you'd drive around in a tank, blowing shit up.
The army commissioned Atari to produce a special simulator based on Battlezone, called the Bradley Trainer (named after Bradley tanks). It was built into a high-end arcade cabinet, with a fancy controller that became the Star Wars flight yoke a few years later.
The army has been using gaming tech since video gaming was born.
There is an "official investigation" being launched, but frankly I think they should just drag all MediaDefender staff into the street and hold a public execution.
Human rights should only be offered to those that respect them in the first place.
Actually I would say High School are, in fact, crap. They're teenager daycare, and they fail at even that.
Big businesses get big for a reason: people are mostly stupid and/or lazy. They pull this bullshit because they get away with it. Joe Random gets suckered in by the "save" department, else they wouldn't have one.
FWIW, I thought Dell's tech support training was better than average. Most call centers barely show you how to work the CRM app, then throw you in the queue that same afternoon. Dell invested a few weeks of customer service training into each agent (in my area at least).
You should have been more aggressive from the get-go. Telecoms always pull this bullshit when they're about to lose a customer. If you have to be rude to the agent, well I think it's justified.
I'd even go as far as threatening legal action against the agent and the company for not allowing you to cancel despite having clearly stated your intent. Tell them they have exactly 5 minutes to get it processed or you will sue them for breach of contract. You have the right to cancel your account.
He's not suspended for taking a /. break, he's suspended for violating the "Hatch Act", which explicitly forbids people from engaging in political partisan activities in the workplace.
I think it's a good thing. The last thing we need is political rallies on the intranet posting boards.