This isn't all that hard to understand. The environment of Space is deadly, it kills all life. You have to carry along a little bit of earth to make living in space possible and doing this long term, without resupply from earth is not possible. We may be able to move around in the Solar system and scavenge resources here and there, but interstellar space is generally huge and empty, devoid of all material. Think of it as a huge, bottomless void between solar systems, much like a moat isolated a castle, space isolates us.
Then consider the distances. It's going to be a LONG way from here to even the closest habitable planet. And unless Einstein is wrong, we are going to be limited to the speed of light in or travels. A trip to and from the nearest neighbor solar system would take more than 20 years, and that was assuming nearly instant acceleration to cruising speed, which we know is never going to be true. Pioneer 1 took how long to get out of the solar system? Everybody on your interstellar craft will die of radiation exposure, the equipment that keeps them alive will fail, all long before the reach their destination.
Then there is the inevitability of earth's demise. Like it or not, our little home is already slated for destruction and there is nothing we can do about it. Ultimately the solar system will die a "heat death" where entropy has increased all it can, but before that happens, our Sun will expand and fry our home to cinders in a *real* case of global warming. This is only a few million years away... We have until then (well before that our oceans will boil away and life will be extinguished on earth) to get someplace else to survive. I'm not holding out much hope of that, because I'm not sure we will manage to not wipe ourselves out willingly in the relatively near future...
No, it's pretty clear to me. There is no intelligent life out there that matters to us, we are on our own and that seems unlikely to change.
Oh there are things in an image that you won't see in some data stuffed into an image container. It's not that hard, a little time consuming and processing intensive perhaps, but not that bad. Consider that they only really need to find that 1-2% who are doing this, abusing their terms of service and just toss them, one could even do it manually for awhile... Hire a bunch of folks to look at a "picture" and tell me if it's really a picture... Heck, make it a CAPTCHA task... Just start with the biggest files and work your way down...
The sooner we cease petty tribal conflicts here on earth, the sooner we can get on with hating life forms on other worlds.
There are no life forms from other worlds that we will ever have to directly deal with. We know there is nothing within our solar system that is any danger to us. Interstellar space is too large and too hostile to life to make transport possible for any kind of life to get here or for us to get there, ever. So, your wish will never come to be.... Maybe we can stop hating, but I seriously doubt we are up to that.
And it's going to be pretty easy to figure out how to tell the difference between an image and something else... If Amazon starts to have space problems, you can bet they will be quick to find and delete such junk...
Oh, what marketing promised they CAN do... Problem here is somebody figured out how to shove other data into containers that looked like images to the software. Don't worry, Amazon has some bright folks working for them, they will figure out how to filter out all this stuff.
Yea, After reflection, using RAID 5 wasn't my best choice. However, I only had 4 disks at the time and it seemed to get me the two things I wanted, the maximum space and redundancy out of the software raid built into the Linux Kernel. I wasn't concerned about read/write performance all that much, after all it's usually connected to via a wireless device (my laptop) anyway.
IF I had an easy way to do this again, I'd be happy to go RAID 6 on 5 drives and get a bit more space and a bit better performance, but now that my data is safe on the RAID 5 array, the process to convert to RAID 6 would be a lot of work for little gain. Maybe when I build the next one I might have enough drives to go with RAID 6.
Disk space is incredibly cheap compared to the standard size of a docker image and your "attack surface" is going to be limited in a docker image anyway. Sure, your application loaded in your docker image might add to that surface, but that's going to happen if you use the big image or the small one. The only real reason to do this is so you can run docker images on smaller embedded devices where resources are limited (Not that I see much of that yet).
IMHO, this development is meaningless to me. Thanks for the disk space back, but I didn't really need it...
10 times per day? I seriously doubt it.. Maybe 3 times on average, and one of those is for the SMART test run..
Look, my point here is that there is few failure modes here that will cause me to loose the data on my RAID 5 array. I keep viable backups (and yes I test them from time to time) in multiple locations and while it would be expensive, I could recover from a catastrophic hardware failure with my data in hand within about 24 hours. I've seen major businesses with less capable backups and longer recovery times from catastrophic events than what I use for my personal server which rarely sees any use.
Not to mention, I'd be doing things a bit differently if my business depended on this thing anyway. Instead of running off of the "hand me down" hardware where I've repurposed a bunch of junk into a file server, I'd actually be running the right kind of drives in the right kind of hardware. But like I said before, I'm a penny pincher like my father before me. I drive may cars well past 100,000 miles and 10 years old and I save possibly useful scraps of hardware and cobble useful things like file servers out of it for personal use. But in this case I have a backup system which rivals most commonly used ones in business...
For Pete's sake... No, my drives are from multiple manufacturers and given their serial numbers from multiple production runs. Seriously, I purchased them over a period of about a year as backup drives for my last file server. They became my primary drives when I retired the old IDE based system and migrated the data to this one.
My drives are not always spinning and routinely are in "power saving" mode most of the time because the file server is not heavily used. They are not slowly grinding themselves away but are spun down with the heads parked for most of their existence, which is going to greatly extend their calendar life.
I have a "hot spare" that will begin an immediate rebuild of the array should an active drive fail. I know this works because I've seen it happen in the past when I did see a drive failure. Full redundancy was restored in the Array and the bad drive replaced with a new one in less than a day.
I have active drive monitoring enabled, which routinely runs SMART tests on all drives, usually at least once every 24 hours.
I have set up instant notification, which will E-mail me should there be any anomalies in the SMART or RAID status. If I start seeing SMART anomalies or disk failures, I'm going to know about it before the data is totally lost.
I always have a full backup which is current and online on a totally separate spindle, and two less current backups. (Call it a mirror of my RAID 5 array).
Seriously, I'm pretty well covered here. Better than most businesses I know.
Depends on your goals I guess... We have a process now for pushback and taxi of aircraft that's pretty safe. If you are looking for the "safe" way, just keep doing it how it's done now. Push back using a tug, start the main engines and taxi that way. It's not complex or dangerous.
If your goal is saving the environment from having to run the large engines during taxi, then I suggest that providing a battery operated tug is a safer solution that gets you to your goal with a lot less complexity, fuss and mess.
IMHO it's not worth the risks to make major changes in ground operations for aircraft like this. The amount of fuel burned during taxi is pretty limited anyway and adding weight and complexity to an aircraft is taking steps backwards in aircraft efficiency and operational safety.
Will Obama give her a blanket pardon? I'm not sure. Especially if there are no charges yet filed.
How do you grant a pardon for a crime she's not admitting too and hasn't been convicted of? As off the rails as I think Obama is constitutionally, I find it hard to believe he's going to do something like this. His legacy means more to him than Hillary does and I don't think he'd willingly sacrifice his interests to keep her off the hook anymore than I think he's going to let her get charged and damage his administration by throwing her under the bus.
She's not being charged, at least before the 20'th of January 2017 she's not. If she is, this thing runs deeper and wider than just Clinton and the State Department, all the way up to the oval office and Obama isn't able to stop it, which I find highly unlikely. (Not that he's involved, but that he cannot stop it.)
Now, her underlings are in serious danger. They will be looking for a scapegoat to take the fall and release some of the pressure on this subject by giving Hillary somebody else to blame. If that's you, you won't see the bus before it rolls over you.
You apparently do not know much about fuel cell technology. The hydrogen can be electrolyzed out of water using solar energy, and there's not much of it at any given time as it is then fed into the fuel cell and converted to electricity and water.
Oh I know enough about fuel cells to understand this, you need hydrogen to run them (Assuming you are using a hydrogen based cell). Hydrogen that has to come from someplace and that must be supplied in quantity with an oxidizer to the Fuel Cell to allow it to produce electrical energy.
Using electricity to split water is a pretty horrid energy waster. I takes quite a bit more to split than you can ever get back from the fuel cell. There are much more efficient, less energy consuming ways to get hydrogen that don't involve splitting water using electricity which are CHEAPER by an order of magnitude.
This idea of getting solar energy to do this is pretty stupid. Where it's possible, it's SUPER expensive to obtain electricity from solar, then if you just turn around and waste all that energy splitting hydrogen from water, you are going to just about double your costs, which where already high. And for what? To run your fuel cell so you can drive your airplane around on the ground?
Forgive me.. I'm just not able to stop laughing....
Yea, you switch... Your data doesn't.... I wonder how long it would take to get my 3TB of data down from the Amazon Cloud they gave me for a year free?
I use Open Media Vault which has a plugin that you can copy your entire share onto a USB or eSATA device any time it's plugged in. So I have a RAID 5 array that gets me about 3 Tb of space on 4 drives (and a hot spare). I bought three 3 TB drives and I just rotate them between my offsite location (my work desk drawer) the fire poof lock box in the closet and the file server on a regular basis. This way I generally will have 5 copies of all my data (two in the RAID, one on the attached drive and two external) most of the time. Overkill? Yea, but it's simple.
When I fill up the 3TB or the cheap 1TB drives start to fail, I'll buy a couple of 6TB drives, grow the array by substituting the 1TB drives one at a time with my 3TB backups and a couple of new ones which will be cheap by then and continue the rotation strategy.
Getting Biden into the general would be some fancy footwork by the DNC at the convention given he's not been on the primary ballot anywhere. I'm not saying they cannot do it, but somebody would have to get Bernie Sanders to pull a Vince Foster disappearing act to make it happen or there would be lawsuits upon lawsuits in protest from all his supporters.
The only way she gets pardoned is if she has been found guilty. That takes either a trial and a conviction or a guilty plea. A trial would take years to come and I don't see that there is enough time here for her to negotiate a plea, plead guilty and get pardoned given how much time we have before the election. Plus it would further harm her campaign which is showing signs of serious trouble given she cannot soundly beat Bernie Sanders in Iowa.
Seriously, if she does get charged, nothing really changes for her. Yea, she endures some attack ads, but all she need say is it's a witch hunt by the "Vast Right Wing" which is out to smear her because they are mean, women haters or anything else that resonates with the base. It will only cost her a few votes overall in the general. It may cost her the election, but I doubt it will really matter in the end.
But who are we kidding.. She's not going to be charged by this administration.
Unless Hillary runs the next 'Justice' department she will go to federal prison.
Don't get between her and the oval office, unless your insurance is paid up.
Who are you kidding? She's not getting charged for ANY of this.
At worst she gets dinged for some "process crime" like Sandy Berger did when he got caught with classified documents stuffed down his pants. There is no way the Obama administration lets her get charged on this unless she's ticked them off and they just want to throw her under the bus out of spite. They may be liberal progressives in the Whitehouse, but I don't see them as vindictive enough to do that to Hillary and blow up the democrat party in the process. Now if Joe Biden was running, then I can see the administration feeding Hillary to the sharks, but right or wrong he bowed out so the Hill is all they really have.
Now if you had worked for Hillary during this time, you better be lawyered up already. You can bet that if there is enough to charge *somebody* here (and I firmly think there is) then I'd fully expect Hillary to be throwing as many others under the bus as necessary to avoid getting perpwalked. She will then plea bargain this down to some minor (non felony) crime and be out on bond seconds after the judge announces the amount. Now if you are Huma Aberdime (sp?) (AKA, Mrs Anthony Weiner AKA Carlos Danger) you best be thinking about how an orange jumpsuit is going to look with your hair color and who's going to be watching the home front (Keeping your husband off of Social Media under assumed names) while you are away...
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This isn't all that hard to understand. The environment of Space is deadly, it kills all life. You have to carry along a little bit of earth to make living in space possible and doing this long term, without resupply from earth is not possible. We may be able to move around in the Solar system and scavenge resources here and there, but interstellar space is generally huge and empty, devoid of all material. Think of it as a huge, bottomless void between solar systems, much like a moat isolated a castle, space isolates us.
Then consider the distances. It's going to be a LONG way from here to even the closest habitable planet. And unless Einstein is wrong, we are going to be limited to the speed of light in or travels. A trip to and from the nearest neighbor solar system would take more than 20 years, and that was assuming nearly instant acceleration to cruising speed, which we know is never going to be true. Pioneer 1 took how long to get out of the solar system? Everybody on your interstellar craft will die of radiation exposure, the equipment that keeps them alive will fail, all long before the reach their destination.
Then there is the inevitability of earth's demise. Like it or not, our little home is already slated for destruction and there is nothing we can do about it. Ultimately the solar system will die a "heat death" where entropy has increased all it can, but before that happens, our Sun will expand and fry our home to cinders in a *real* case of global warming. This is only a few million years away... We have until then (well before that our oceans will boil away and life will be extinguished on earth) to get someplace else to survive. I'm not holding out much hope of that, because I'm not sure we will manage to not wipe ourselves out willingly in the relatively near future...
No, it's pretty clear to me. There is no intelligent life out there that matters to us, we are on our own and that seems unlikely to change.
Oh there are things in an image that you won't see in some data stuffed into an image container. It's not that hard, a little time consuming and processing intensive perhaps, but not that bad. Consider that they only really need to find that 1-2% who are doing this, abusing their terms of service and just toss them, one could even do it manually for awhile... Hire a bunch of folks to look at a "picture" and tell me if it's really a picture... Heck, make it a CAPTCHA task... Just start with the biggest files and work your way down...
The sooner we cease petty tribal conflicts here on earth, the sooner we can get on with hating life forms on other worlds.
There are no life forms from other worlds that we will ever have to directly deal with. We know there is nothing within our solar system that is any danger to us. Interstellar space is too large and too hostile to life to make transport possible for any kind of life to get here or for us to get there, ever. So, your wish will never come to be.... Maybe we can stop hating, but I seriously doubt we are up to that.
And it's going to be pretty easy to figure out how to tell the difference between an image and something else... If Amazon starts to have space problems, you can bet they will be quick to find and delete such junk...
Oh, what marketing promised they CAN do... Problem here is somebody figured out how to shove other data into containers that looked like images to the software. Don't worry, Amazon has some bright folks working for them, they will figure out how to filter out all this stuff.
Google translate is your friend..... Well... Ally.... Um... Ok.. Go learn your Japanese.
Yea, After reflection, using RAID 5 wasn't my best choice. However, I only had 4 disks at the time and it seemed to get me the two things I wanted, the maximum space and redundancy out of the software raid built into the Linux Kernel. I wasn't concerned about read/write performance all that much, after all it's usually connected to via a wireless device (my laptop) anyway.
IF I had an easy way to do this again, I'd be happy to go RAID 6 on 5 drives and get a bit more space and a bit better performance, but now that my data is safe on the RAID 5 array, the process to convert to RAID 6 would be a lot of work for little gain. Maybe when I build the next one I might have enough drives to go with RAID 6.
Disk space is incredibly cheap compared to the standard size of a docker image and your "attack surface" is going to be limited in a docker image anyway. Sure, your application loaded in your docker image might add to that surface, but that's going to happen if you use the big image or the small one. The only real reason to do this is so you can run docker images on smaller embedded devices where resources are limited (Not that I see much of that yet).
IMHO, this development is meaningless to me. Thanks for the disk space back, but I didn't really need it...
10 times per day? I seriously doubt it.. Maybe 3 times on average, and one of those is for the SMART test run..
Look, my point here is that there is few failure modes here that will cause me to loose the data on my RAID 5 array. I keep viable backups (and yes I test them from time to time) in multiple locations and while it would be expensive, I could recover from a catastrophic hardware failure with my data in hand within about 24 hours. I've seen major businesses with less capable backups and longer recovery times from catastrophic events than what I use for my personal server which rarely sees any use.
Not to mention, I'd be doing things a bit differently if my business depended on this thing anyway. Instead of running off of the "hand me down" hardware where I've repurposed a bunch of junk into a file server, I'd actually be running the right kind of drives in the right kind of hardware. But like I said before, I'm a penny pincher like my father before me. I drive may cars well past 100,000 miles and 10 years old and I save possibly useful scraps of hardware and cobble useful things like file servers out of it for personal use. But in this case I have a backup system which rivals most commonly used ones in business...
You took the blue pill... So sorry dude..
For Pete's sake... No, my drives are from multiple manufacturers and given their serial numbers from multiple production runs. Seriously, I purchased them over a period of about a year as backup drives for my last file server. They became my primary drives when I retired the old IDE based system and migrated the data to this one.
My drives are not always spinning and routinely are in "power saving" mode most of the time because the file server is not heavily used. They are not slowly grinding themselves away but are spun down with the heads parked for most of their existence, which is going to greatly extend their calendar life.
I have a "hot spare" that will begin an immediate rebuild of the array should an active drive fail. I know this works because I've seen it happen in the past when I did see a drive failure. Full redundancy was restored in the Array and the bad drive replaced with a new one in less than a day.
I have active drive monitoring enabled, which routinely runs SMART tests on all drives, usually at least once every 24 hours.
I have set up instant notification, which will E-mail me should there be any anomalies in the SMART or RAID status. If I start seeing SMART anomalies or disk failures, I'm going to know about it before the data is totally lost.
I always have a full backup which is current and online on a totally separate spindle, and two less current backups. (Call it a mirror of my RAID 5 array).
Seriously, I'm pretty well covered here. Better than most businesses I know.
Depends on your goals I guess... We have a process now for pushback and taxi of aircraft that's pretty safe. If you are looking for the "safe" way, just keep doing it how it's done now. Push back using a tug, start the main engines and taxi that way. It's not complex or dangerous.
If your goal is saving the environment from having to run the large engines during taxi, then I suggest that providing a battery operated tug is a safer solution that gets you to your goal with a lot less complexity, fuss and mess.
IMHO it's not worth the risks to make major changes in ground operations for aircraft like this. The amount of fuel burned during taxi is pretty limited anyway and adding weight and complexity to an aircraft is taking steps backwards in aircraft efficiency and operational safety.
Yea, I'm an avowed penny pincher and have issues putting MY data in the hands of somebody else, even encrypted...
Really? Wana go for a ride AC? Just remember it's NOT human rated yet..
EBay itself is a severe and unpatched vulnerability. Where else can you get flawless 6 ct diamond rings for just $4
Yea, just watch out for the $500,000 shipping/insurance charges...
As far as I'm concerned, any and all JavaScript code is a form of malware. I don't want any of it running on my computers, ever.
And yet, here you are, posting on Slashdot... JavaScript runs deep and wide... Good luck avoiding it.
Will Obama give her a blanket pardon? I'm not sure. Especially if there are no charges yet filed.
How do you grant a pardon for a crime she's not admitting too and hasn't been convicted of? As off the rails as I think Obama is constitutionally, I find it hard to believe he's going to do something like this. His legacy means more to him than Hillary does and I don't think he'd willingly sacrifice his interests to keep her off the hook anymore than I think he's going to let her get charged and damage his administration by throwing her under the bus.
She's not being charged, at least before the 20'th of January 2017 she's not. If she is, this thing runs deeper and wider than just Clinton and the State Department, all the way up to the oval office and Obama isn't able to stop it, which I find highly unlikely. (Not that he's involved, but that he cannot stop it.)
Now, her underlings are in serious danger. They will be looking for a scapegoat to take the fall and release some of the pressure on this subject by giving Hillary somebody else to blame. If that's you, you won't see the bus before it rolls over you.
You apparently do not know much about fuel cell technology. The hydrogen can be electrolyzed out of water using solar energy, and there's not much of it at any given time as it is then fed into the fuel cell and converted to electricity and water.
Oh I know enough about fuel cells to understand this, you need hydrogen to run them (Assuming you are using a hydrogen based cell). Hydrogen that has to come from someplace and that must be supplied in quantity with an oxidizer to the Fuel Cell to allow it to produce electrical energy.
Using electricity to split water is a pretty horrid energy waster. I takes quite a bit more to split than you can ever get back from the fuel cell. There are much more efficient, less energy consuming ways to get hydrogen that don't involve splitting water using electricity which are CHEAPER by an order of magnitude.
This idea of getting solar energy to do this is pretty stupid. Where it's possible, it's SUPER expensive to obtain electricity from solar, then if you just turn around and waste all that energy splitting hydrogen from water, you are going to just about double your costs, which where already high. And for what? To run your fuel cell so you can drive your airplane around on the ground?
Forgive me.. I'm just not able to stop laughing....
Yea, you switch... Your data doesn't.... I wonder how long it would take to get my 3TB of data down from the Amazon Cloud they gave me for a year free?
Backup off site is easy...
I use Open Media Vault which has a plugin that you can copy your entire share onto a USB or eSATA device any time it's plugged in. So I have a RAID 5 array that gets me about 3 Tb of space on 4 drives (and a hot spare). I bought three 3 TB drives and I just rotate them between my offsite location (my work desk drawer) the fire poof lock box in the closet and the file server on a regular basis. This way I generally will have 5 copies of all my data (two in the RAID, one on the attached drive and two external) most of the time. Overkill? Yea, but it's simple.
When I fill up the 3TB or the cheap 1TB drives start to fail, I'll buy a couple of 6TB drives, grow the array by substituting the 1TB drives one at a time with my 3TB backups and a couple of new ones which will be cheap by then and continue the rotation strategy.
Yea, but the lady has "Lady Luck" on her side.. Logic/emotion says you press your luck when you are hot...
(BTW.. None of the above is intended to imply I think she's either a lady or hot in the way the terms are usually used on Slashdot....)
She picked the silver side.....
And the Sanders folks didn't have a penny for the toss? Poor college kids are all alike.
Low probability things do happen.
In coin flips and Options trading when it benefits Hillary, they SURE do. I always wondered why she didn't hit the Power Ball Lottery myself...
Getting Biden into the general would be some fancy footwork by the DNC at the convention given he's not been on the primary ballot anywhere. I'm not saying they cannot do it, but somebody would have to get Bernie Sanders to pull a Vince Foster disappearing act to make it happen or there would be lawsuits upon lawsuits in protest from all his supporters.
The only way she gets pardoned is if she has been found guilty. That takes either a trial and a conviction or a guilty plea. A trial would take years to come and I don't see that there is enough time here for her to negotiate a plea, plead guilty and get pardoned given how much time we have before the election. Plus it would further harm her campaign which is showing signs of serious trouble given she cannot soundly beat Bernie Sanders in Iowa.
Seriously, if she does get charged, nothing really changes for her. Yea, she endures some attack ads, but all she need say is it's a witch hunt by the "Vast Right Wing" which is out to smear her because they are mean, women haters or anything else that resonates with the base. It will only cost her a few votes overall in the general. It may cost her the election, but I doubt it will really matter in the end.
But who are we kidding.. She's not going to be charged by this administration.
Unless Hillary runs the next 'Justice' department she will go to federal prison.
Don't get between her and the oval office, unless your insurance is paid up.
Who are you kidding? She's not getting charged for ANY of this.
At worst she gets dinged for some "process crime" like Sandy Berger did when he got caught with classified documents stuffed down his pants. There is no way the Obama administration lets her get charged on this unless she's ticked them off and they just want to throw her under the bus out of spite. They may be liberal progressives in the Whitehouse, but I don't see them as vindictive enough to do that to Hillary and blow up the democrat party in the process. Now if Joe Biden was running, then I can see the administration feeding Hillary to the sharks, but right or wrong he bowed out so the Hill is all they really have.
Now if you had worked for Hillary during this time, you better be lawyered up already. You can bet that if there is enough to charge *somebody* here (and I firmly think there is) then I'd fully expect Hillary to be throwing as many others under the bus as necessary to avoid getting perpwalked. She will then plea bargain this down to some minor (non felony) crime and be out on bond seconds after the judge announces the amount. Now if you are Huma Aberdime (sp?) (AKA, Mrs Anthony Weiner AKA Carlos Danger) you best be thinking about how an orange jumpsuit is going to look with your hair color and who's going to be watching the home front (Keeping your husband off of Social Media under assumed names) while you are away...