It was probably left on just in case some legacy remote system was still trying to access that machine for some reason and did not receive the update to switch to new host. It can happen. I know when we switched one of our API's to the new system we left the original API servers up and running for 10 months from the last system call made to that server group. At that point we figured all of our customers had transitioned to updated software. Why 10 months? I think it had something to do with hardware lease was up at that point anyway. The reason we let 3 load balanced servers sit sucking power & money? Because our customers were processing something like $20M worth of transactions a day. An hour of down time translated to $800k, actually it could be a lot more or less because transaction load was not even, of lost business for our clients. It cost a lot less than $800k to keep those servers up for a couple extra months just to make sure that every terminal of every customer was updated.
Network sniffer, make sure nothing except the monitoring is talking to the box for 5 weeks.
I would guess a lot of Europeans are going to learn how to use alternative DNSes. Google will be happy.
I would guess a lot of Europeans are going to learn how to use alternative DNSes. Google will be happy.
In the uk certain sites are blacked at the IP level - pirate bay being the obvious one, but Wikipedia has been blocked in the past on the way of a self appointed "Internet watch foundation"
The technolGy exists. VPNs bypass it (or even just a proxy), for now.
Well, seeing as they're the only real competitor in the electric marketplace, they can price as a monopoly would until their success drives competitors into the same market. That's one of those things in supply and demand that quietly gets glossed over in econ 101 but is really important.
But there's still competition you don't need an electric car, you can get a normal one.
Just like Amtrak has competition on New York - Washington transport from Greyhound and the planes.
Why not distinct between 1st, 2nd and 3rd world ? Sure the cold war has been over for a while but in this case it seems less confusing to refer to 1st world nations instead of western ones when you include New Zealand.
But even thats not quite fitting, since "western countries" seems to be too general. Why not refer to (first world) anglophone countries here ?
When I see "Anglophone", I think U.S, Australia, New Zealand, and a few tiny British colonies (Pitcairn, Falklands, St Helena, etc) When I see "Western", I tend to think of the above, plus EU and Israel When I see "Eastern", I tend to think of China, Japan, Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines, etc.
When it comes to First World, I'd include those "Western", but also places like Japan, (South) Korea, Singapore, etc. Third world includes Rwanda, Afghanistan, Texas, Pakistan, Columbia.
The majority of countries don't fit in either. Can you really claim that Shanghai is in a third world country? But then rural china is hardly first world. Tricky.
DHS just dropped ~$100 million on a bunch of APCs,
Department of Health and Safety bought some UPSes?
school Districts are buying assault weapons for their on-campus police forces
You've got a fucked up country if you have an on-campus police force
The bottom line is: the police have realized that they can practically guarantee they get to go home at the end of the day if they treat every interaction like a military engagement and utilize overwhelming force to suppress their enemy. The fact that innocent people will get murdered in their zeal of officer-safety-at-all-costs doesn't even enter their thought process.
Does it really?
There have been 22 police officers killed in the line of duty in the UK since 2000 Half of those were traffic collisions (accidents or delibete), so I'm not sure how a SWAT team would solve that. That's a 1 in 90,000 chance of dying in the line of duty each year.
New Zealand has 7 deaths (half accidental) since 2000 (1 in 19000)
Canada had 5 deaths in 2012, 4 of which were vehicle related (1 in 13000)
The U.S has had 19 deaths SO FAR THIS YEAR. Last year was about 130, out of 794,000 officers (1 in 6000)
The U.S. is an anomaly, don't lump the western world into your dysfunctional society.
I really liked the old Sim City games and would really like to try this one but I won't.
I first started with Sim City on the Spectrum, then on the PC, then got Sim City 2000 which was awesome. 3k was all-right, but wasn't the leap that 2k was. 4k seemed slow and buggy, but that was 10 years ago. Civ 1/2/3 was the other series that I always enjoyed.
It was about then I got a job and no longer had time to play games. As time went on my job shifted, and I now spend over 2 weeks a year on a plane, that's a lot of time to play things like Civ and Sim City -- there's only so many times I can watch the same films on the IFE.
Apparently Sim City 5 won't work in that scenario. Oh well.
Google hangouts offer free video chat for up to 9 people at a time. My experience using it within the US and between the US and Australia is the sound quality is better than with skype too. Downside is everyone on the call has to have a g+ account.
Never managed to get google angouts, or webrtc, working through a proxy.
I think SC5 is getting really bad rep for wrong reasons - no one seems to want to remember the answer Maxis gave to the online requirement: your PC is not doing the backend work for the city simulation - its cloud based now. SimCity 3000 had an incredible amount of math behind it, SimCity 5 is the same and there is so much more of it that it has been offloaded into the cloud.
So your $40 game is buying you unlimited access to more CPU power than your home desktop computer can provide?
How big are Maxis/EA server farms doing all that number crunching for the millions of people playing the game?
If they're implementing cap-excess fees, they should also enable the user to hard-limit his internet access when the cap is reached, with a manual bypass when the user wishes to "accept the charges".
My ISP (Rogers, up here in Canada) offers soft-cap notifications in your browser when the cap reaches 75% and 100%, but these notifications would never be seen if I, for example, were to Netflix my Gbs into oblivion.
They inject code into webpages you're viewing? Aside from the technical problems that would cause, and being a breach of copyright and trademark law, it just sounds like a terrible thing to do. Why don't you change ISP?
This has ALWAYS been the basic dichotomy that the Linux faithful (which definitely included me at one time) fail to grasp: One group of people see computers as a fun thing, something to be explored and tinkered with, even if they use them for real and serious work. The other group considers computers,operating systems, apps, etc. as a big, steaming pile of inconvenience they have to tolerate to do something else -- work, listen to music, whatever. This is why do-nothing tablets are so wildly popular -- they manage to eliminate a lot of the hassles of running Windows while spoon-feeding users e-mail and the Web and media. Most people here (including me) consider them pretty toys and nowhere near capable enough to replace even an old, painfully slow laptop.
I love my wife's iPad, it just works I love my iPhone, it just works I hate my wife's android, it's clunky and needs far too much time to get working
When it comes to work though, my laptop runs Ubuntu because it just works. It took me hours getting the printer running on my wifes mac mini as it wasn't supported out the box (what are drivers?)
My simple world, whg causes the least agro, is Linux and iOS.
(sent from ios phone as I'm in a taxi. It just works.)
To be an activist is to be a warrior. Nothing is gained by activism except for a lengthy FBI file and informants spreading lies about you, rumors, and trying to entrap you into crimes for their bosses.They do this because they committed a crime and agreed with police to become informants to help bring down the enemies of the police through entrapment.
That is the system and it's corrupt by design. If you support Wikileaks then don't be surprised if your friends from years stop talking to you. Look at what a government investigation can do here http://www.jbhfile.com/harm_examples.html and think twice about supporting Wikileaks.
No, that's what a paranoid person spouts on his blog
How many things have they showed you as fact, when it was assumption? Can't really trust them at all now.
Most interviews on the news are shot with one camera. They film the interviewee, then turn the camera round later and film some noddies, which are then used when editing the interview.
That red light (or stop sign) at the bottom of the hill is only for cars... I don't need to stop or even slow down
So what should a cyclist do facing a red light at the bottom of a hill that has stayed red for several minutes because the bicycle doesn't have enough metal surface to trip the induction sensor that it has remained stopped over? I've reported it to the city, but the city claims that fixing the sensor isn't in its budget. No, there's no marked crosswalk or pedestrian call button. No, leaning the bike doesn't help on this particular signal. Not even carrying a loop of patch cable in my left shoe works. I guess the city finds rejecting semis in the adjacent lane more important than detecting bicycles.
I have no problem with cyclists that stop at red lights then treat it as a yield sign.
- Hmm, I'm obviously not a great cyclist... so let me ride carelessly on a 40MpH road, fall down in the middle of the road without a helmet, and nearly cause a bunch of accidents as they try not to drive over my head.
So in the U.S. car drivers are happy to run over cyclists' heads when they do have a helmet on? Sounds like a great reason not to wear a helmet.
Also would depend if the person in the smoke room had to watch a video of the bicyclist yelling "AsssHOLE!!!" and raise his middle finger as most of them seem to as they weave their way across busy city intersections.
What is the difference between a driver and a cyclist? You can't hear the driver yelling "ASSHOLE!!!" every 10 seconds as he weaves his way across busy city intersections.
You should have been in my taxi across Jerusalem this evening, terrifying
If the boomers in that capitalist system did their retirement planning right instead of depending on some government bureaucrat to do it for them, they'd be invested in assets that grow to counteract most or all of the inflation.
They may be able to beat others of their generation (most won't, obviously), but the point remains that the economy is a way of trading work. Your dollars are useless to me unless I can for them I someone who will work for me.
Retirees won't. They are a drain on the world no matter if it's the government, or an anarchy. You live in your retires state as long as my generation allows it. We can. Noose to make dollars worthless, and there's not a damn thing you can do. If you own assets, we can take them off you (taxation). If you emigrate, we can stop you moving your assets abroad.
Any economic system relies on having enough people working on a given day to look after themselves and those nt working.
You're right. We have the daily mail foisted upon us, and sadly millions read it, and worse, believe it, that makes us worse off than most countries.
The fact that you can't even defend yourself in your own home with anything, much less a gun, is a travesty.
Of course you can defend yourself, as long as it's reasonable force. I.E. If you shoot someone that pulls his car into your drive, or has his radio too loud, you'll be locked up.
If someone's breaking in to your house and you knock them unconscious you're fine If someone's breaking in to your house and you knock them unconscious, then tie them up, cut off their cock and stuff it down their throat, that's illegal If someone breaks in that you think is armed and you shoot them with your legally owned shotgun, you're fine If someone's already broken in, but is running away and you shoot them in the back, that's also illegal
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It was probably left on just in case some legacy remote system was still trying to access that machine for some reason and did not receive the update to switch to new host. It can happen. I know when we switched one of our API's to the new system we left the original API servers up and running for 10 months from the last system call made to that server group. At that point we figured all of our customers had transitioned to updated software. Why 10 months? I think it had something to do with hardware lease was up at that point anyway. The reason we let 3 load balanced servers sit sucking power & money? Because our customers were processing something like $20M worth of transactions a day. An hour of down time translated to $800k, actually it could be a lot more or less because transaction load was not even, of lost business for our clients. It cost a lot less than $800k to keep those servers up for a couple extra months just to make sure that every terminal of every customer was updated.
Network sniffer, make sure nothing except the monitoring is talking to the box for 5 weeks.
I can think of sooo many things going wrong with that idea
Care to share?
That sounds way more interesting than just driving in a circle!
That's NASCAR. F1 turn left AND right.
Still like watching paint dry.
I would guess a lot of Europeans are going to learn how to use alternative DNSes. Google will be happy.
I would guess a lot of Europeans are going to learn how to use alternative DNSes. Google will be happy.
In the uk certain sites are blacked at the IP level - pirate bay being the obvious one, but Wikipedia has been blocked in the past on the way of a self appointed "Internet watch foundation"
The technolGy exists. VPNs bypass it (or even just a proxy), for now.
That reminds me of an old Dilbert cartoon. I think Wally was working....
That sounds suspicious, I think your memory is playing tricks on you
Here is the email address of Berkeley City Councilman Gordon Wozniak
gwozniak@cityofberkeley.info
You know what to do.
I can't afford to send him an email I'm afraid.
Now if he'd proposed a facebook tax, that could actually work!
Well, seeing as they're the only real competitor in the electric marketplace, they can price as a monopoly would until their success drives competitors into the same market. That's one of those things in supply and demand that quietly gets glossed over in econ 101 but is really important.
But there's still competition you don't need an electric car, you can get a normal one.
Just like Amtrak has competition on New York - Washington transport from Greyhound and the planes.
now all they need is enough story and character to cover about 7 hours of movie for parts 7-9
Why start now?
Why not distinct between 1st, 2nd and 3rd world ?
Sure the cold war has been over for a while but in this case it seems less confusing to refer to 1st world nations instead of western ones when you include New Zealand.
But even thats not quite fitting, since "western countries" seems to be too general. Why not refer to (first world) anglophone countries here ?
When I see "Anglophone", I think U.S, Australia, New Zealand, and a few tiny British colonies (Pitcairn, Falklands, St Helena, etc)
When I see "Western", I tend to think of the above, plus EU and Israel
When I see "Eastern", I tend to think of China, Japan, Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines, etc.
When it comes to First World, I'd include those "Western", but also places like Japan, (South) Korea, Singapore, etc. Third world includes Rwanda, Afghanistan, Texas, Pakistan, Columbia.
The majority of countries don't fit in either. Can you really claim that Shanghai is in a third world country? But then rural china is hardly first world. Tricky.
DHS just dropped ~$100 million on a bunch of APCs,
Department of Health and Safety bought some UPSes?
school Districts are buying assault weapons for their on-campus police forces
You've got a fucked up country if you have an on-campus police force
The bottom line is: the police have realized that they can practically guarantee they get to go home at the end of the day if they treat every interaction like a military engagement and utilize overwhelming force to suppress their enemy. The fact that innocent people will get murdered in their zeal of officer-safety-at-all-costs doesn't even enter their thought process.
Does it really?
There have been 22 police officers killed in the line of duty in the UK since 2000 Half of those were traffic collisions (accidents or delibete), so I'm not sure how a SWAT team would solve that. That's a 1 in 90,000 chance of dying in the line of duty each year.
New Zealand has 7 deaths (half accidental) since 2000 (1 in 19000)
Canada had 5 deaths in 2012, 4 of which were vehicle related (1 in 13000)
The U.S has had 19 deaths SO FAR THIS YEAR. Last year was about 130, out of 794,000 officers (1 in 6000)
The U.S. is an anomaly, don't lump the western world into your dysfunctional society.
When did we start to allow police forces in Western countries start to behave like militias?
New Zealand is about as Eastern as you can get.
I really liked the old Sim City games and would really like to try this one but I won't.
I first started with Sim City on the Spectrum, then on the PC, then got Sim City 2000 which was awesome. 3k was all-right, but wasn't the leap that 2k was. 4k seemed slow and buggy, but that was 10 years ago. Civ 1/2/3 was the other series that I always enjoyed.
It was about then I got a job and no longer had time to play games. As time went on my job shifted, and I now spend over 2 weeks a year on a plane, that's a lot of time to play things like Civ and Sim City -- there's only so many times I can watch the same films on the IFE.
Apparently Sim City 5 won't work in that scenario. Oh well.
Google hangouts offer free video chat for up to 9 people at a time. My experience using it within the US and between the US and Australia is the sound quality is better than with skype too. Downside is everyone on the call has to have a g+ account.
Never managed to get google angouts, or webrtc, working through a proxy.
I think SC5 is getting really bad rep for wrong reasons - no one seems to want to remember the answer Maxis gave to the online requirement: your PC is not doing the backend work for the city simulation - its cloud based now. SimCity 3000 had an incredible amount of math behind it, SimCity 5 is the same and there is so much more of it that it has been offloaded into the cloud.
So your $40 game is buying you unlimited access to more CPU power than your home desktop computer can provide?
How big are Maxis/EA server farms doing all that number crunching for the millions of people playing the game?
If they're implementing cap-excess fees, they should also enable the user to hard-limit his internet access when the cap is reached, with a manual bypass when the user wishes to "accept the charges".
My ISP (Rogers, up here in Canada) offers soft-cap notifications in your browser when the cap reaches 75% and 100%, but these notifications would never be seen if I, for example, were to Netflix my Gbs into oblivion.
They inject code into webpages you're viewing? Aside from the technical problems that would cause, and being a breach of copyright and trademark law, it just sounds like a terrible thing to do. Why don't you change ISP?
Bingo.
This has ALWAYS been the basic dichotomy that the Linux faithful (which definitely included me at one time) fail to grasp: One group of people see computers as a fun thing, something to be explored and tinkered with, even if they use them for real and serious work. The other group considers computers,operating systems, apps, etc. as a big, steaming pile of inconvenience they have to tolerate to do something else -- work, listen to music, whatever. This is why do-nothing tablets are so wildly popular -- they manage to eliminate a lot of the hassles of running Windows while spoon-feeding users e-mail and the Web and media. Most people here (including me) consider them pretty toys and nowhere near capable enough to replace even an old, painfully slow laptop.
I love my wife's iPad, it just works
I love my iPhone, it just works
I hate my wife's android, it's clunky and needs far too much time to get working
When it comes to work though, my laptop runs Ubuntu because it just works. It took me hours getting the printer running on my wifes mac mini as it wasn't supported out the box (what are drivers?)
My simple world, whg causes the least agro, is Linux and iOS.
(sent from ios phone as I'm in a taxi. It just works.)
To be an activist is to be a warrior. Nothing is gained by activism except for a lengthy FBI file and informants spreading lies about you, rumors, and trying to entrap you into crimes for their bosses.They do this because they committed a crime and agreed with police to become informants to help bring down the enemies of the police through entrapment.
That is the system and it's corrupt by design. If you support Wikileaks then don't be surprised if your friends from years stop talking to you. Look at what a government investigation can do here http://www.jbhfile.com/harm_examples.html and think twice about supporting Wikileaks.
No, that's what a paranoid person spouts on his blog
integrity? honesty?
How many things have they showed you as fact, when it was assumption? Can't really trust them at all now.
Most interviews on the news are shot with one camera. They film the interviewee, then turn the camera round later and film some noddies, which are then used when editing the interview.
Doesn't make the interview less honest.
That red light (or stop sign) at the bottom of the hill is only for cars... I don't need to stop or even slow down
So what should a cyclist do facing a red light at the bottom of a hill that has stayed red for several minutes because the bicycle doesn't have enough metal surface to trip the induction sensor that it has remained stopped over? I've reported it to the city, but the city claims that fixing the sensor isn't in its budget. No, there's no marked crosswalk or pedestrian call button. No, leaning the bike doesn't help on this particular signal. Not even carrying a loop of patch cable in my left shoe works. I guess the city finds rejecting semis in the adjacent lane more important than detecting bicycles.
I have no problem with cyclists that stop at red lights then treat it as a yield sign.
- Hmm, I'm obviously not a great cyclist... so let me ride carelessly on a 40MpH road, fall down in the middle of the road without a helmet, and nearly cause a bunch of accidents as they try not to drive over my head.
So in the U.S. car drivers are happy to run over cyclists' heads when they do have a helmet on? Sounds like a great reason not to wear a helmet.
What is the difference between a driver and a cyclist? You can't hear the driver yelling "ASSHOLE!!!" every 10 seconds as he weaves his way across busy city intersections.
You should have been in my taxi across Jerusalem this evening, terrifying
Trial & Error Works Often better than calculations.
Unless you're designing parachutes.
Depends who's testing them
The truth is that this is not news. Large companies talk taxpayer institutions out of money every day,
Large companies talk other large companies out of money every day too. It's the way it's done.
If the boomers in that capitalist system did their retirement planning right instead of depending on some government bureaucrat to do it for them, they'd be invested in assets that grow to counteract most or all of the inflation.
They may be able to beat others of their generation (most won't, obviously), but the point remains that the economy is a way of trading work. Your dollars are useless to me unless I can for them I someone who will work for me.
Retirees won't. They are a drain on the world no matter if it's the government, or an anarchy. You live in your retires state as long as my generation allows it. We can. Noose to make dollars worthless, and there's not a damn thing you can do. If you own assets, we can take them off you (taxation). If you emigrate, we can stop you moving your assets abroad.
Any economic system relies on having enough people working on a given day to look after themselves and those nt working.
Actually, you are [dailymail.co.uk] worse off.
You're right. We have the daily mail foisted upon us, and sadly millions read it, and worse, believe it, that makes us worse off than most countries.
The fact that you can't even defend yourself in your own home with anything, much less a gun, is a travesty.
Of course you can defend yourself, as long as it's reasonable force. I.E. If you shoot someone that pulls his car into your drive, or has his radio too loud, you'll be locked up.
If someone's breaking in to your house and you knock them unconscious you're fine
If someone's breaking in to your house and you knock them unconscious, then tie them up, cut off their cock and stuff it down their throat, that's illegal
If someone breaks in that you think is armed and you shoot them with your legally owned shotgun, you're fine
If someone's already broken in, but is running away and you shoot them in the back, that's also illegal