There is a gap between technical and marketing requirements here.
The Amazon infrastructure was initially built to support Amazon retail, and Amazon put a lot of pressure on its engineers to make sure their apps were properly redundant across three or more data centers. At one point, the Amazon infrastructure team used to do "game days" where they would randomly take a data center offline and see what broke. The EC2 infrastructure is mostly independent of retail infrastructure, but it was designed in a similar fashion.
However, Amazon can't tell their customers how to build apps. The customers build what is familiar to them, and make assumptions about up time of individual servers or data centers. As the OP says, it's "the standard people are used to". Since the customer is always right, Amazon has a marketing need to respond by bringing availability up to those standards, even though it isn't technically necessary.
A better comparison: "I pay a little more for every transaction, every time" or "There is a tiny chance that my balance at a particular broker will be all gone".
If your life savings are in a single bitcoin account, then you better make sure that it is insured. But if you are only using bitcoin as a medium of exchange, then loss of your bitcoin account causes only a temporary loss of liquidity until you sell assets and replenish it. If you can survive that without too much hardship, then you don't want insurance, because the insurance will, on average, cost more than the losses from theft.
If you have a broken tail light, a cop will pull you over and tell you to fix it. That's helpful safety information. The cop isn't going to arrest you for that. The word "arrest" has a specific legal meaning, and a traffic stop isn't an arrest.
I'm not sure what your point is. Sure, going through either virtual or non-virtual training that doesn't involve real combat injuries won't eliminate the shock and horror of seeing combat injuries. However, the point of it is presumably to help you know what to do in addition to being shocked and horrified. Do you believe that you would have been just as effective if you'd been thrown directly into the field with no advance preparation?
Virginia, or more precisely the DC suburbs near Dulles Airport, is a popular spot for data centers for the same reasons as the bay area. Lots of companies have data centers there, so there is lots of infrastructure, so lots of companies have data centers there, so.there is lots of infrastructure...
I think the TLAs you are thinking of are more than capable of interfering with data centers anywhere in the country.
So Amazon built a 17,000 core supercomputer. That just means they were able to allocate 17,000 cores to a supercomputer project and run benchmarks on them. Presumably the vast majority of the fleet was still serving external customers. I'm fairly confident that Amazon is not running benchmarks on cores which are currently being used by customers.
Why do you assume the steam is at 212F? That's just a minimum. If the heat sink is at 400F, they could theoretically heat the steam to 400F. I'm not convinced this is a good idea, given the safety risks if there are leaks, but it is possible.
Yes, but the rent-a-cops (of which I was one for a couple summers in college) were paid by the airlines, and the airlines, hard as it may be to believe, at least had some incentive not to piss off too many of their customers.
The article states "failed equipment is addressed in a scheduled way using outsourced or vendor partners". They don't care if an individual server is down, they just move the workload elsewhere, and wait for a repair. So there actually will be people in their data center doing repairs, they just aren't AOL employees and aren't based in the data center. I could see making a decision that a longer wait time for repairs is justified by labor savings, but it isn't really obvious where those savings come from. There is a suggestion in the article that they want the flexibility to increase or decrease the number of workers as needed, which is somewhat easier with contractors than regular employees, but with regular employees you can get a similar effect from part time or overtime work.
That was my first reaction when reading the summary. Newegg is only 10 years old; are there really that many people here whose upgrade "rite of passage" involved Newegg?
Ah yes. I remember the bad old days when an actual human agent was digging through databases on my behalf. Obviously it is much better to dig around in a bunch of databases myself. If nothing else, my old travel agent never figured out how to play advertisements over the phone when I was talking with her, so I'm sure I missed out on many exciting opportunities to discover new things I needed to buy.
FWIW, my transactions were almost always by phone and US mail, with no visit to an office necessary.
Fortunately congresspeople, like creators of other works of law, were granted 'termination rights,' which allow them to regain control of their souls after 35 years, so long as they apply at least two years in advance. 'We believe the termination right doesn’t apply to most politician souls,' said Lucifer, general counsel for the Decree Enacting Vocational Industry League, a lobbying group in Washington that represents the interests of lobbyists.
Using the same scaling as the summary, you can crack 8 characters with about 64 GPU hours, which is about $50 on AWS.
By the time you get to 10 characters, you are talking $700k. 12 characters is into the billions. Of course, I doubt that AWS will scale their fleet to billions of servers just so you can rent it for one hour, so you're going to have to pay to build your own data centers and, for that matter, chip factories.
A small business may not be able to afford a bunch of lawyers or be able to salvage their business, but they could do a lot of damage to Amazon if word got out that Amazon had appropriated their data. That's exactly the effect this publicity will have, although denying access to an API is not nearly as damaging as stealing data would be.
I'd say you made the right choice. However, I'd take it further. If heating your house with electricity (light bulbs) is cheaper than whatever your current heat source is, you should get an electric furnace and/or space heaters. That would presumably save you more than 10%.
I also hope that when you say you "tossed" your CFLs, you mean you gave them to someone who can handle the mercury properly, and not just put them in the normal trash to end up in a landfill.
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There is a gap between technical and marketing requirements here.
The Amazon infrastructure was initially built to support Amazon retail, and Amazon put a lot of pressure on its engineers to make sure their apps were properly redundant across three or more data centers. At one point, the Amazon infrastructure team used to do "game days" where they would randomly take a data center offline and see what broke. The EC2 infrastructure is mostly independent of retail infrastructure, but it was designed in a similar fashion.
However, Amazon can't tell their customers how to build apps. The customers build what is familiar to them, and make assumptions about up time of individual servers or data centers. As the OP says, it's "the standard people are used to". Since the customer is always right, Amazon has a marketing need to respond by bringing availability up to those standards, even though it isn't technically necessary.
A better comparison: "I pay a little more for every transaction, every time" or "There is a tiny chance that my balance at a particular broker will be all gone".
If your life savings are in a single bitcoin account, then you better make sure that it is insured. But if you are only using bitcoin as a medium of exchange, then loss of your bitcoin account causes only a temporary loss of liquidity until you sell assets and replenish it. If you can survive that without too much hardship, then you don't want insurance, because the insurance will, on average, cost more than the losses from theft.
Don't worry, Microsoft and Sony will make sure that the optical disks have the same sexy restrictions as downloaded content.
If you have a broken tail light, a cop will pull you over and tell you to fix it. That's helpful safety information. The cop isn't going to arrest you for that. The word "arrest" has a specific legal meaning, and a traffic stop isn't an arrest.
So all you want is for Google to list every possible service that they may offer in the future, and how it will affect your data?
I'm not sure what your point is. Sure, going through either virtual or non-virtual training that doesn't involve real combat injuries won't eliminate the shock and horror of seeing combat injuries. However, the point of it is presumably to help you know what to do in addition to being shocked and horrified. Do you believe that you would have been just as effective if you'd been thrown directly into the field with no advance preparation?
Virginia, or more precisely the DC suburbs near Dulles Airport, is a popular spot for data centers for the same reasons as the bay area. Lots of companies have data centers there, so there is lots of infrastructure, so lots of companies have data centers there, so .there is lots of infrastructure...
I think the TLAs you are thinking of are more than capable of interfering with data centers anywhere in the country.
So Amazon built a 17,000 core supercomputer. That just means they were able to allocate 17,000 cores to a supercomputer project and run benchmarks on them. Presumably the vast majority of the fleet was still serving external customers. I'm fairly confident that Amazon is not running benchmarks on cores which are currently being used by customers.
Why do you assume the steam is at 212F? That's just a minimum. If the heat sink is at 400F, they could theoretically heat the steam to 400F. I'm not convinced this is a good idea, given the safety risks if there are leaks, but it is possible.
The [lawsuit] stems from a joint venture back when Apple introduced the first consumer digital camera
Wait, what? I wasn't aware that Apple introduced the first consumer digital camera. What product are you talking about?
Yes, but the rent-a-cops (of which I was one for a couple summers in college) were paid by the airlines, and the airlines, hard as it may be to believe, at least had some incentive not to piss off too many of their customers.
How long until someone files a DMCA complaint against this report?
1. Turn phone off
2. Remove SIM #1
3. Insert SIM #2
4. Turn phone on
OK, this isn't the same as instant, live switching, but if your concern is just for handling network failures, it should work well enough.
The article states "failed equipment is addressed in a scheduled way using outsourced or vendor partners". They don't care if an individual server is down, they just move the workload elsewhere, and wait for a repair. So there actually will be people in their data center doing repairs, they just aren't AOL employees and aren't based in the data center. I could see making a decision that a longer wait time for repairs is justified by labor savings, but it isn't really obvious where those savings come from. There is a suggestion in the article that they want the flexibility to increase or decrease the number of workers as needed, which is somewhat easier with contractors than regular employees, but with regular employees you can get a similar effect from part time or overtime work.
That was my first reaction when reading the summary. Newegg is only 10 years old; are there really that many people here whose upgrade "rite of passage" involved Newegg?
Ah yes. I remember the bad old days when an actual human agent was digging through databases on my behalf. Obviously it is much better to dig around in a bunch of databases myself. If nothing else, my old travel agent never figured out how to play advertisements over the phone when I was talking with her, so I'm sure I missed out on many exciting opportunities to discover new things I needed to buy.
FWIW, my transactions were almost always by phone and US mail, with no visit to an office necessary.
Fortunately congresspeople, like creators of other works of law, were granted 'termination rights,' which allow them to regain control of their souls after 35 years, so long as they apply at least two years in advance. 'We believe the termination right doesn’t apply to most politician souls,' said Lucifer, general counsel for the Decree Enacting Vocational Industry League, a lobbying group in Washington that represents the interests of lobbyists.
Exponential growth. Get the point?
Using the same scaling as the summary, you can crack 8 characters with about 64 GPU hours, which is about $50 on AWS.
By the time you get to 10 characters, you are talking $700k. 12 characters is into the billions. Of course, I doubt that AWS will scale their fleet to billions of servers just so you can rent it for one hour, so you're going to have to pay to build your own data centers and, for that matter, chip factories.
It's good to see that Slashdot is respecting this woman's desire not to have her name and age posted everywhere on the internet.
No gold-based system has ever lasted forever, either.
Inflation and deflation can still happen in gold-based systems.
A small business may not be able to afford a bunch of lawyers or be able to salvage their business, but they could do a lot of damage to Amazon if word got out that Amazon had appropriated their data. That's exactly the effect this publicity will have, although denying access to an API is not nearly as damaging as stealing data would be.
Which category do you put Netflix in? Incompetent or just not interested in money?
The apple market is fetish driven? That makes me view the popularity of Granny Smith in a whole new light.
What kind of security do you prefer?
I'd say you made the right choice. However, I'd take it further. If heating your house with electricity (light bulbs) is cheaper than whatever your current heat source is, you should get an electric furnace and/or space heaters. That would presumably save you more than 10%.
I also hope that when you say you "tossed" your CFLs, you mean you gave them to someone who can handle the mercury properly, and not just put them in the normal trash to end up in a landfill.