'cause if you knock it offline by accident, your easiest tool with which to bring it back online is gone?
However, your vCenter is much more likely to fail hard if you place it on a separate physical server.
Physical servers fail all the time.
Really? As part of my job, I manage about 100 physical servers in about 20 countries. I lose about 1 server a month, a figure which is dwarfed by the number of network outages, or power outages, to these sites. These are mostly unmanaged, and just tick over doing what they do. Nagios keeps an eye on them.
The development team have a bunch of virtual machines. Sure, there are benefits with snapshotting and stuff, however they have lost the entire estate several times when the storage goes down.
You can run reliable virtual machines, obviously, however for small businesses with just a few hundred servers I'm not sure it's worth the added complication.
And I'm not really keen on virtualising things like video broadcast kit which has to deliver a frame every 40ms.
This isn't about banning cookies, it's about banning user tracking without consent - which includes far more than cookies; browser fingerprints being the main candidate, so the correct intent is there. For a start, it's perfectly OK within the law to set a cookie that tells the site to not track that user, which I suspect will form the bulk of the (incorrect) complaints received by the ICO, but you can't use that cookie to track the user across your site, or any affiliate sites.
So would a temporary session cookie, often set without the programmers knowledge, be ok?
How about a cookie which is used to remember you've done an action, but not track you. E.G. "color=red" and "color=blue".
The problem with this legislation isn't the intent, it's the complete lack of clarity coming from the ICO who are responsible for its adminstration and enforcement. The law essentially boils down to "do not track your users without their consent", which the ICO has then muddied the waters over by making some vague remarks about implied consent being OK without explaining exactly what they mean. There is a great deal of confusion over whether the request to opt-in/out needs to be overt (i.e. a click-through or banner), whether or not you can set a "do not track" cookie (you can), and so on.
It's not being helped by some totally lame implementations of the consent request, most probably due to lack of clarity from the ICO about what can and can't be done, in the cases of users with cookies and/or JavaScript disabled for a site. A frequent occurance in this case seems to be that such users either have to go through the consent request every visit or have a consent banner permanantly displayed on the screen. Both these problems could (and I'll emphasis that "could") go away quite simply if the ICO were to state that:
If using a script to prompt for consent and if that script is blocked then default to "do not track"
It's OK to try and set a cookie, read it back and if that fails assume cookies are blocked by the user and implied consent = "do not track", otherwise prompt the user for consent and act accordingly.
But all that assumes that the websites are going to act in the best interests of their users over the best interests of their bottom line; in many cases sites will be dependant on the revenue they can raise from their users, and a tracked user is going to be better targetted with ads, and thus more likely to click through, than one that is not. The more inconvenient it is for users to opt out of tracking, the more likely we are going to see those sites taking that track. Kudos on that front to the BBC who have a well thought out and graded set of cookie policies you can opt into ranging from "necessary", through "functionality" and "performance", to "behavioural advertising".
For non-Brits who don't know: the paragraph in question, although it was written as a joke, is turning out to be surprisingly accurate (the numbers aren't 100% spot on, but the basic concept is). Fortunately, the earnings tax goes away after you've paid off enough money, but it can still last quite a while.
There were student riots over this last year (not the big riots in London, smaller ones in individual universities).
When I was at uni, you had to fork out money up front for tuition (£1100 a year).
Now, you don't. You effectivly pay a higher rate of income tax. Another way would be to say those brickies and sparks that don't go to university pay a lower rate of income tax.
Why should a coal miner, or perpetual student, subsidise the education of some city lawyers and bankers?
If cable companies take more money from their customers, with little extra investment in new technology or staffing, it means another sector of the economy loses out. Pay an extra $20 for internet access, that's 1 less dvd you're buying from a MPAA affiliated company.
With the right range, I'd be happy cooped up in one of these for 30 minutes -- more room than on the tube.
Now Concorde's gone, the 7 hour trip to New York is a right pain. Something like this would let me leave home in the UK at midday, arrive in NY for breakfast and a full day ahead, leave NY at 6PM and be home before 1AM.
I almost agree... I dual boot win7 and Ubuntu and there is still no comparison. I get more work done while in win7...as soon as (insert your fav brand of Linux) can properly install my video, network, sound drivers without a glitch... I'm all there
Funny that, I say the same about windows.
What's a driver? I just pop a usb key in the slot, boot, give it a name, and 40 minutes later I have a fully working linux machine.
Much fun was had, for instance, with "cat/dev/audio >/dev/st0" to dump a radio show (reliably! without problems! in the plain-and-simple way that Unix is supposed to be!) to DDS tape.
Well I don't remember having a tape drive plugged in, but I also recall the late 90s. cat/dev/urandom >/dev/dsp to check my headphones were working etc.
However sound was an issue. If I recall correctly, you couldn't have two applications opening the sound at the same time for instance.
Sound went through a ropey couple of years with different programs all attempting to use the hardware in different ways, but I haven't personally had any problems for over 5 years.
I do this. Is this really impossible for most Slashdotters? A year is nothing, really. I've waited longer than that for a game to come down to the price I care to pay. I also don't have to spend $400 every so often for the latest graphics cards.
Depends on your home life.
When I was a student I had to watch episodes of Star Trek the day after they came out, unless I wanted to be spoiled on t'internet.
Now I don't have such time with a family taking up most of my time. We're currently working our way through a 90s TV series box-set. Over the last few years we've worked our way through B5/DS9/Buffy/Angel/Fraiser and Farscape in this manner.
It's much better this way, we don't get into a series to have it cancelled from underneath us (in the last year alone that's Terra Nova and Pan Am). We watched Fringe as it was broadcast, relying on the PVR to stack up a few episodes. All it takes is a single corrupt recording (usually weather related) and it's off to piratebay to get the missing episode. A right hassle. We've stopped now, and will buy the last couple of seasons when they come out
If the networks released the episodes * At the time of broadcast * As the broadcasted HD transport stream * With no DRM
Then I'd happily pay $50 per [26 episode] season for a decent series.
If not, I'll buy the whole box-set for $50 in 10 years time and they get less money from me.
Some series work as TV. You can watch simpsons, family guy, etc, episode out of order with no problems.
Should we have a child porn day, too? Maybe soften it a bit and just draw the pictures. That would serve to show that we will not knuckle under to oppressive countries full of uptight rednecks on a jihad. "Blasphemy" is entirely subjective and totally in the eye of the beholder.
Sure. Here's Muhammad drilling his 12 year old wife:
o-, o-x
Now that's broken the Law in both Pakistan and the UK (in the UK the London 2012 logo is illegal given what 8-year-old Lisa Simpson's doing)
The corporate machine is hawking its proverbial ass off and it has you square in its sights. How dare you deny them the opportunity to scream at you every waking moment of your life.
Leela: Didn't you have ads in the 21st century?" Fry: Well sure, but not in our dreams. Only on TV and radio, and in magazines, and movies, and at ball games... and on buses and milk cartons and t-shirts, and bananas and written on the sky. But not in dreams, no siree.
Why yes, I HAVE been on the phone with Barack Obama recently, and YES I REALLY DID receive a phone call from the prime minister, only 15 minutes ago. So why don't you uncuff me and let me go before they call back?
The reasoning when applied to sex (hey, I can't always use car anologies) would be that since your gf likes a small penis inside, she would REALLY like a big one so why not have her fucked by a whale and make her really happy. And then you wonder why she ain't happy, because you just make your gf explode into a thousand gooey bits from being banged by a volkswagen (oh okay, one car analogy) sized penis! HAPPY?
It as as when your gf asks you to spank her, what she means is that she wants you to make her hiny glow a nice pink color. NOT to beat her until she is a thin red paste on the wall and the cops are hauling you away, yet again (and now you know why on/. we use car analogies, because the other kind are just to revealing of the inner workings of the average analogy using slashdotter). There is a line between advanced sex play and first degree murder and there is a line between advertising that works and advertising that doesn't work because there is just to fucking much of it.
I work in the advertising industry and it is outrageous how far people can go to abuse others. It isn't free to make all those good tv shows and in my opinion authors should get paid for them. Mostly this is based on advertising on TV. If you don't want advertising, go buy the DVD boxes which don't have them. But have some decency and let people get paid for their hard work. Dish Network is bunch of assholes.
DVDs aren't available for months, perhaps years, after the broadcast. When you do get them, you're forced to sit through trailers and copyright warnings.
In the UK, Sky have realised that people don't want to be spoiled about this weeks episode online, so now broadcast prime time shows within 72 hours of U.S. airings, and cinemas usually release at the same time.
In the 90s I used to buy DS9 epsiodes on tape, for $10/episode. Provide the opportunity and people will buy your product.
The best people to start with are probably your parents, or their friends as they are most likely to vote (young people vote less so politicians listen to them less).
Ahh to be young. If anything, young people do vote a lot, they then give up when they reach the mid-20s as they realise nothing changes. When they become grey haired they haven't got anything better to do.
I didn't vote last week as I left for a train to London before 7am, and didn't get back til after 10pm. First election I've missed.
My personal opinion though is that most people would actually support some kind of copyright law, even if they did want it changed to allow consumers more freedom to use works they had paid for.
I imagine so, remember it's always been illegal to rip your CD onto your ipod in the UK, only changing very recently. People don't care about the law, they care about the impact the law has on them.
Now what I propose is that I (70) and all other over 65 show up at the airport in a bathrobe and slippers (nothing else) send your belongings ahead via FedEx or UPS, and before entering the screening area, kick off the slippers and take off the bathrobe, REMEMBER, OVER 65 ONLY! Insist on a hand search (I've got some hiding places I want explored)!
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'cause if you knock it offline by accident, your easiest tool with which to bring it back online is gone?
However, your vCenter is much more likely to fail hard if you place it on a separate physical server.
Physical servers fail all the time.
Really? As part of my job, I manage about 100 physical servers in about 20 countries. I lose about 1 server a month, a figure which is dwarfed by the number of network outages, or power outages, to these sites. These are mostly unmanaged, and just tick over doing what they do. Nagios keeps an eye on them.
The development team have a bunch of virtual machines. Sure, there are benefits with snapshotting and stuff, however they have lost the entire estate several times when the storage goes down.
You can run reliable virtual machines, obviously, however for small businesses with just a few hundred servers I'm not sure it's worth the added complication.
And I'm not really keen on virtualising things like video broadcast kit which has to deliver a frame every 40ms.
acts of cyberterrorism would be considered acts of war, right?
Only when perpetrated by the bad guys
Remember the invasion of Afghanistan was a Police action, but Iraq's invasion of Kuwait was an invasion
Guess what - it came from CERN.... in case you don't know, that's in the EU.
Switzerland's in the EU?
Well, not quite everyone else. Internet service also sucks pretty badly up here in Canada.
The the rest of the world, Canada == USA
"No Headphone"
I do not wear headphone, and in my office and in my home I do not turn on the radio either
When I surf online, I do not stream any music
I carry out my work without having to listen to any "background noise", and I find that I can focus better without hearing anything that's annoying
You're lucky enough not to work in an open plan office
Bugger, forgot to snip the rest of the quote.
This isn't about banning cookies, it's about banning user tracking without consent - which includes far more than cookies; browser fingerprints being the main candidate, so the correct intent is there. For a start, it's perfectly OK within the law to set a cookie that tells the site to not track that user, which I suspect will form the bulk of the (incorrect) complaints received by the ICO, but you can't use that cookie to track the user across your site, or any affiliate sites.
So would a temporary session cookie, often set without the programmers knowledge, be ok?
How about a cookie which is used to remember you've done an action, but not track you. E.G. "color=red" and "color=blue".
The problem with this legislation isn't the intent, it's the complete lack of clarity coming from the ICO who are responsible for its adminstration and enforcement. The law essentially boils down to "do not track your users without their consent", which the ICO has then muddied the waters over by making some vague remarks about implied consent being OK without explaining exactly what they mean. There is a great deal of confusion over whether the request to opt-in/out needs to be overt (i.e. a click-through or banner), whether or not you can set a "do not track" cookie (you can), and so on.
It's not being helped by some totally lame implementations of the consent request, most probably due to lack of clarity from the ICO about what can and can't be done, in the cases of users with cookies and/or JavaScript disabled for a site. A frequent occurance in this case seems to be that such users either have to go through the consent request every visit or have a consent banner permanantly displayed on the screen. Both these problems could (and I'll emphasis that "could") go away quite simply if the ICO were to state that:
But all that assumes that the websites are going to act in the best interests of their users over the best interests of their bottom line; in many cases sites will be dependant on the revenue they can raise from their users, and a tracked user is going to be better targetted with ads, and thus more likely to click through, than one that is not. The more inconvenient it is for users to opt out of tracking, the more likely we are going to see those sites taking that track. Kudos on that front to the BBC who have a well thought out and graded set of cookie policies you can opt into ranging from "necessary", through "functionality" and "performance", to "behavioural advertising".
For non-Brits who don't know: the paragraph in question, although it was written as a joke, is turning out to be surprisingly accurate (the numbers aren't 100% spot on, but the basic concept is). Fortunately, the earnings tax goes away after you've paid off enough money, but it can still last quite a while.
There were student riots over this last year (not the big riots in London, smaller ones in individual universities).
When I was at uni, you had to fork out money up front for tuition (£1100 a year).
Now, you don't. You effectivly pay a higher rate of income tax. Another way would be to say those brickies and sparks that don't go to university pay a lower rate of income tax.
Why should a coal miner, or perpetual student, subsidise the education of some city lawyers and bankers?
Most people would consider 5pm to be a nice early finish. Hell, I don't finish until after 8!
And others have lives...
I often work til 8pm, but on those days I don't start until 2pm. Far too much to do to be in the office in the morning.
England doesn't raise taxes, the United Kingdom does.
Well technically my council tax is raised by an English council
If cable companies take more money from their customers, with little extra investment in new technology or staffing, it means another sector of the economy loses out. Pay an extra $20 for internet access, that's 1 less dvd you're buying from a MPAA affiliated company.
With the right range, I'd be happy cooped up in one of these for 30 minutes -- more room than on the tube.
Now Concorde's gone, the 7 hour trip to New York is a right pain. Something like this would let me leave home in the UK at midday, arrive in NY for breakfast and a full day ahead, leave NY at 6PM and be home before 1AM.
I almost agree... I dual boot win7 and Ubuntu and there is still no comparison. I get more work done while in win7...as soon as (insert your fav brand of Linux) can properly install my video, network, sound drivers without a glitch... I'm all there
Funny that, I say the same about windows.
What's a driver? I just pop a usb key in the slot, boot, give it a name, and 40 minutes later I have a fully working linux machine.
Much fun was had, for instance, with "cat /dev/audio > /dev/st0" to dump a radio show (reliably! without problems! in the plain-and-simple way that Unix is supposed to be!) to DDS tape.
Well I don't remember having a tape drive plugged in, but I also recall the late 90s. cat /dev/urandom > /dev/dsp to check my headphones were working etc.
However sound was an issue. If I recall correctly, you couldn't have two applications opening the sound at the same time for instance.
Sound went through a ropey couple of years with different programs all attempting to use the hardware in different ways, but I haven't personally had any problems for over 5 years.
Option 3 is wait a year for the DVD release.
I do this. Is this really impossible for most Slashdotters? A year is nothing, really. I've waited longer than that for a game to come down to the price I care to pay. I also don't have to spend $400 every so often for the latest graphics cards.
Depends on your home life.
When I was a student I had to watch episodes of Star Trek the day after they came out, unless I wanted to be spoiled on t'internet.
Now I don't have such time with a family taking up most of my time. We're currently working our way through a 90s TV series box-set. Over the last few years we've worked our way through B5/DS9/Buffy/Angel/Fraiser and Farscape in this manner.
It's much better this way, we don't get into a series to have it cancelled from underneath us (in the last year alone that's Terra Nova and Pan Am). We watched Fringe as it was broadcast, relying on the PVR to stack up a few episodes. All it takes is a single corrupt recording (usually weather related) and it's off to piratebay to get the missing episode. A right hassle. We've stopped now, and will buy the last couple of seasons when they come out
If the networks released the episodes
* At the time of broadcast
* As the broadcasted HD transport stream
* With no DRM
Then I'd happily pay $50 per [26 episode] season for a decent series.
If not, I'll buy the whole box-set for $50 in 10 years time and they get less money from me.
Some series work as TV. You can watch simpsons, family guy, etc, episode out of order with no problems.
I did it to my Dell at home for free.
Windows is only free if your time is worthless.
Last time I attempted a clean up of such junk it took about 3 hours. At the time that's over $300.
Even if you do clean up your machine, you're still left with "drivers" which consist of various crapware programs.
Should we have a child porn day, too? Maybe soften it a bit and just draw the pictures. That would serve to show that we will not knuckle under to oppressive countries full of uptight rednecks on a jihad. "Blasphemy" is entirely subjective and totally in the eye of the beholder.
Sure. Here's Muhammad drilling his 12 year old wife:
o-,
o-x
Now that's broken the Law in both Pakistan and the UK (in the UK the London 2012 logo is illegal given what 8-year-old Lisa Simpson's doing)
TNG season 7 ends with a great finale to wrap the show.
Too bad the rest of the season is suckish.
Parallels was alright. Attached too Journey's End wasn't the end of the world, and Preemptive strike was good.
The corporate machine is hawking its proverbial ass off and it has you square in its sights. How dare you deny them the opportunity to scream at you every waking moment of your life.
Leela: Didn't you have ads in the 21st century?"
Fry: Well sure, but not in our dreams. Only on TV and radio, and in magazines, and movies, and at ball games... and on buses and milk cartons and t-shirts, and bananas and written on the sky. But not in dreams, no siree.
Can they verify the extracted information?
Why yes, I HAVE been on the phone with Barack Obama recently, and YES I REALLY DID receive a phone call from the prime minister, only 15 minutes ago. So why don't you uncuff me and let me go before they call back?
Yes, that's working well for Rebekah Brooks.
I think the new "in" joke is to ask whether you've read the article.
I miss "No, I'm New Here!"
The reasoning when applied to sex (hey, I can't always use car anologies) would be that since your gf likes a small penis inside, she would REALLY like a big one so why not have her fucked by a whale and make her really happy. And then you wonder why she ain't happy, because you just make your gf explode into a thousand gooey bits from being banged by a volkswagen (oh okay, one car analogy) sized penis! HAPPY?
It as as when your gf asks you to spank her, what she means is that she wants you to make her hiny glow a nice pink color. NOT to beat her until she is a thin red paste on the wall and the cops are hauling you away, yet again (and now you know why on /. we use car analogies, because the other kind are just to revealing of the inner workings of the average analogy using slashdotter). There is a line between advanced sex play and first degree murder and there is a line between advertising that works and advertising that doesn't work because there is just to fucking much of it.
What are you smoking?
I work in the advertising industry and it is outrageous how far people can go to abuse others. It isn't free to make all those good tv shows and in my opinion authors should get paid for them. Mostly this is based on advertising on TV. If you don't want advertising, go buy the DVD boxes which don't have them. But have some decency and let people get paid for their hard work. Dish Network is bunch of assholes.
DVDs aren't available for months, perhaps years, after the broadcast. When you do get them, you're forced to sit through trailers and copyright warnings.
In the UK, Sky have realised that people don't want to be spoiled about this weeks episode online, so now broadcast prime time shows within 72 hours of U.S. airings, and cinemas usually release at the same time.
In the 90s I used to buy DS9 epsiodes on tape, for $10/episode. Provide the opportunity and people will buy your product.
The best people to start with are probably your parents, or their friends as they are most likely to vote (young people vote less so politicians listen to them less).
Ahh to be young. If anything, young people do vote a lot, they then give up when they reach the mid-20s as they realise nothing changes. When they become grey haired they haven't got anything better to do.
I didn't vote last week as I left for a train to London before 7am, and didn't get back til after 10pm. First election I've missed.
My personal opinion though is that most people would actually support some kind of copyright law, even if they did want it changed to allow consumers more freedom to use works they had paid for.
I imagine so, remember it's always been illegal to rip your CD onto your ipod in the UK, only changing very recently. People don't care about the law, they care about the impact the law has on them.
Now what I propose is that I (70) and all other over 65 show up at the airport in a bathrobe and slippers (nothing else) send your belongings ahead via FedEx or UPS, and before entering the screening area, kick off the slippers and take off the bathrobe, REMEMBER, OVER 65 ONLY! Insist on a hand search (I've got some hiding places I want explored)!
Please do
John Brennan (no, not the Deputy National Security Advisor, a different one) did so, and getting more people doing it will raise attention and debate in the media.
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatches/globalpost-blogs/weird-wide-web/naked-tsa-protest-portland-man-john-brennan-takes-cloths-