Wish there was a way to get good numbers of actual linux users vs windows vs mac users.
For one thing you have to also take into account cross over. I use linux on my personal machines. However I also have windows installs on vms and have windows machines I use at work and school.
Then again if you're talking about computers with a modern OS I'd be willing to bet that some form of the Unix family is on the vast majority of computers.
I don't think it is even that small of a chance, certainly not on the logarithmic scale. Remember while the chance of failure for any one instance may be very low you have to take the chances over the whole range of instances.
The biggest difference is that it is still somewhat easy for companies to balance themselves against the cloud by having their own hardware running.
They don't need full capacity capabilities, but even a small amount of capability can keep their services up, if slowed, rather than a full crash mitigating costs when things do go wrong.
Physical hardware also provides a way out of a service provider.
Though physical hardware also requires physical staff but that is the downside of in-sourcing. The downside of outsourcing (which is what the clouds are) is that you don't have the capabilities and when your outsourced provider crapps out you are eventually SOL.
No no it CAN happen. It might not be likely at any given moment but it is well within the range of possibility and that possibility grows larger every day steps are not taken to minimalize it.
That's why you use a back up other than the cloud. If you can backup across clouds you almost certainly can backup across some real-hardware and the cloud using both at the same time.
The could is great to provide extra power and computing resources cheaply but real hardware and servers owned by your company also still serve a vital role. One can be a backup to the other and both be utilized sharing the load at normal times.
Thus you don't have to pay for the full hardware costs of what you use by offloading some of it to the clouds.
I think the bulk of what Judge.me is looking at is cases with contracts that are being broken. Not spoken agreements (which also technically are valid as contracts under certain circumstances).
Depending on the 'trap' you set the client could find some one cheaper and competent enough to fix it. Sue you for damages, or have you legally liable for other laws. It also puts out a bad reputation for you as well and gives the client some ammunition as to why they are not paying.
Some things can be done, like withholding some code till payment is received, but generally everything like that needs to be outlined in the contract before hand.
Also it comes down to time is money and it takes time to set those traps. It is often hard enough to get a site or program working properly in the first place let alone put a time-delay 'trap' of some kind in it.
Except when they ignore judge.me they are breaking a second contract with Judge.me as well as the developer.
Judge.me has a vested interest in making sure its rulings are followed and also as part of operating costs would have the resources to follow through with legal matters much further than their clients' could on their own.
We do not know how much energy the Universe contains because we cannot observe the entire universe. Even if restricted to the "observable" universe we are unable to examine it all.
The observed universe is not finite either as we don't know how many humans there have been nor how much of the universe each one has observed.
Yes but as chips grow smaller and voice functions grow easier to use the watch might just come back.
Say you have a watch, with a good sized data storage for music, able to make cell phone calls, and bluetooth. Combine with an earpiece and decent voice commands and then you don't really need nearly as big of a screen.
Because MegaUpload isn't a backup site. There ARE sites and services for backup purposes and their contracts DO include provisions for access and loss of data.
Welcome to...well United States politics. Our papers and news media have been doing this since the beginning, even before. The only thing that changed is the official presumption of innocence.
The point is to make you buy a second phone rather than trade out sims.
Ideally companies like Apple will make a brighter future where the physical hardware of a phone is connected to a contract seamlessly and the only way to change things is to by a whole new unit.
Well at the time that was used there really were some spies around and ships to sink.
Now-a-days it's used for stuff it really shouldn't be.
A ship has to take a route from A to B to get where it is going. Secrecy is pretty much one of the only defences from a sub(at least at that time).
TSA can do a lot more than security theater and evaluate what practices really work and which don't. However they will never do this if people are content with the theater. People remain content by thinking there are no problems. Thus reporting the problem makes people un-content and thus in time prevents the "ship" from sinking.
You have to do that AND keep your investors from bailing out.
There is no invisible hand of the market to keep things fair or level or insure that good business decisions get rewarded. There are only buyers and people who act irrationally and without full knowledge of what they are acting upon.
Depends on when the keylogger starts vs the login.
If the two accounts are properly separated then the children's account should never have the access to install anything that could be run before the user login. Of course with Windows all bets are off.
Yeah but NASA generally is doing the kinds of apps that GPGU clusters excel at and not the types that mainframes excel at. Really they can rent one if they need it, but I don't see a real need at the current time for NASA to have one.
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Wish there was a way to get good numbers of actual linux users vs windows vs mac users.
For one thing you have to also take into account cross over. I use linux on my personal machines. However I also have windows installs on vms and have windows machines I use at work and school.
Then again if you're talking about computers with a modern OS I'd be willing to bet that some form of the Unix family is on the vast majority of computers.
I thought the article mentioned that layers of redundancy were NOT being used.
I don't think it is even that small of a chance, certainly not on the logarithmic scale. Remember while the chance of failure for any one instance may be very low you have to take the chances over the whole range of instances.
The biggest difference is that it is still somewhat easy for companies to balance themselves against the cloud by having their own hardware running.
They don't need full capacity capabilities, but even a small amount of capability can keep their services up, if slowed, rather than a full crash mitigating costs when things do go wrong.
Physical hardware also provides a way out of a service provider.
Though physical hardware also requires physical staff but that is the downside of in-sourcing. The downside of outsourcing (which is what the clouds are) is that you don't have the capabilities and when your outsourced provider crapps out you are eventually SOL.
No no it CAN happen. It might not be likely at any given moment but it is well within the range of possibility and that possibility grows larger every day steps are not taken to minimalize it.
That's why you use a back up other than the cloud. If you can backup across clouds you almost certainly can backup across some real-hardware and the cloud using both at the same time.
The could is great to provide extra power and computing resources cheaply but real hardware and servers owned by your company also still serve a vital role. One can be a backup to the other and both be utilized sharing the load at normal times.
Thus you don't have to pay for the full hardware costs of what you use by offloading some of it to the clouds.
I think the bulk of what Judge.me is looking at is cases with contracts that are being broken. Not spoken agreements (which also technically are valid as contracts under certain circumstances).
Depending on the 'trap' you set the client could find some one cheaper and competent enough to fix it. Sue you for damages, or have you legally liable for other laws. It also puts out a bad reputation for you as well and gives the client some ammunition as to why they are not paying.
Some things can be done, like withholding some code till payment is received, but generally everything like that needs to be outlined in the contract before hand.
Also it comes down to time is money and it takes time to set those traps. It is often hard enough to get a site or program working properly in the first place let alone put a time-delay 'trap' of some kind in it.
Except when they ignore judge.me they are breaking a second contract with Judge.me as well as the developer.
Judge.me has a vested interest in making sure its rulings are followed and also as part of operating costs would have the resources to follow through with legal matters much further than their clients' could on their own.
One word: Jurisdiction.
No we do not.
We do not know how much energy the Universe contains because we cannot observe the entire universe. Even if restricted to the "observable" universe we are unable to examine it all.
The observed universe is not finite either as we don't know how many humans there have been nor how much of the universe each one has observed.
My death will not stop it, unless my plan succeeds...
Yes but as chips grow smaller and voice functions grow easier to use the watch might just come back.
Say you have a watch, with a good sized data storage for music, able to make cell phone calls, and bluetooth. Combine with an earpiece and decent voice commands and then you don't really need nearly as big of a screen.
Another layer of protection.
Security is all about adding layers of protection at reasonable costs.
Because MegaUpload isn't a backup site. There ARE sites and services for backup purposes and their contracts DO include provisions for access and loss of data.
Cloud isn't worthless, just over-hyped.
Welcome to ...well United States politics. Our papers and news media have been doing this since the beginning, even before. The only thing that changed is the official presumption of innocence.
The point is to make you buy a second phone rather than trade out sims.
Ideally companies like Apple will make a brighter future where the physical hardware of a phone is connected to a contract seamlessly and the only way to change things is to by a whole new unit.
No. It happened before a month later.
And on geological time scales the human race isn't much, thus we DO have to worry about shorter time scales.
Well at the time that was used there really were some spies around and ships to sink.
Now-a-days it's used for stuff it really shouldn't be.
A ship has to take a route from A to B to get where it is going. Secrecy is pretty much one of the only defences from a sub(at least at that time).
TSA can do a lot more than security theater and evaluate what practices really work and which don't. However they will never do this if people are content with the theater. People remain content by thinking there are no problems. Thus reporting the problem makes people un-content and thus in time prevents the "ship" from sinking.
Or gods as animals having sex with humans. (Looking at you Zeus)
Except that isn't what it would have took.
You have to do that AND keep your investors from bailing out.
There is no invisible hand of the market to keep things fair or level or insure that good business decisions get rewarded. There are only buyers and people who act irrationally and without full knowledge of what they are acting upon.
Depends on when the keylogger starts vs the login.
If the two accounts are properly separated then the children's account should never have the access to install anything that could be run before the user login. Of course with Windows all bets are off.
Their top revenue generator is their adds and second indirectly their search engine. Neither of which I'd ever expect for them to open.
Yeah but NASA generally is doing the kinds of apps that GPGU clusters excel at and not the types that mainframes excel at. Really they can rent one if they need it, but I don't see a real need at the current time for NASA to have one.
MS was convicted of anticompetative action and nothing came of it. What makes you think a further conviction will do a damn thing?