All these 'with-it' trendy people got to brag about about being ahead of everyone else and 'cool' because they were so smartly investing in this scam.
So do I still get to brag, since the handful of BTC I still have currently trade at USD$650, while my initial investment comes out to less than $50 in electricity?
Boo hoo, people who trusted an unregulated exchange got burned - Color me shocked.
Are you aware that we rely on other species to survive? We evolved with those other species around - removing them from our environment might indeed change the balance of wildlife to the point where things we directly rely on start being affected by our changes to other species.
Don't worry, we're adaptable. We can just find some other way to metabolize glucose into ATP after we kill all the oxygen-producing creatures on the planet. Just one little atom, anyway - And heck, other critters use sulfur instead of oxygen, why can't we?;)
Who's got the money to pony up for some experimental fab runs for billions of transistors with reconfigurable mesh network? This is basically an Intel i7 fab process we're talking about here, so think beeeeelions of dollars.
You don't need your own dedicated fab, you just need your own masks. Those will run you on the order of 100-150k per layer (and a modern CPU like the i7 has around 20 layers).
Still not cheap, but a few million vs a few billion means the difference between "not gonna happen" and "bored Silicon Valley millionaire's hobby project".
In Japan, MtGox is not liable because bitcoins aren't money (i.e. nothing real was lost).
MtGox tracked account balances in both BTC and USD. Bitcoins may have no legal value, but wouldn't Gox remain on the hook for the dollar-denominated balances in their care?
Of course Uwingu can name craters. So can you or I (though the challenge there lies in getting anyone else to use those names). The IAU has no more legal authority to say "you can't call the planet Pluto's newly discovered moon Vulcan", for example, than your local Kiwanis club does. They can only offer guidance that their "industry" tends to take seriously, and the rest of us can completely disregard if we so choose.
So whether or not a bunch of pissy astronomers decide to use Uwingu's names rather than something more poetic like "MC2013B17" has no relevance to the situation.
Having a similar setup myself, and having looked into exactly your question, you have exactly one realistic answer:
You back it up to an identical (or larger) disk array.
If possible (though not necessary), you'll want to do the initial backup with both arrays directly connected to the same host; but after that, just rsync --link-dest (to make hardlinked differential snapshots) them on a nightly basis.
For a media server, where the typical use case consists of adding large files slowly over time and little ever changes, your backup shouldn't take up much more room than the primary storage.
My Alma Mater hits me up for donations constantly, with hype about how $SPORT team performed last year and the need for a new stadium. Oh, and some random feelgood BS about diversity and student culture and did I know they have classes, in the footnotes?
And I patiently respond to every such solicitation the same way, which boils down to "fuck $SPORT, I'll donate when you promise to put it toward actual academic endeavors". I don't think I alone feel that way, either (hell, just about everyone I associate with has told me they feel similarly). So here, you have a chance to make people like me put up or shut up.
TLDR: If I got a letter from my Uni asking for money for this project, you'd have a check on your desk by the end of the week.
We have GPS in your car, so we know what you're doing
No, you don't, because I unplugged the GPS antenna (since I don't actually have a nav system), leaving your hardwired spyware trapped uselessly deep inside in a big Faraday cage.
/ Not actually a Ford, but if you don't think the same applies to any new car, I have a bridge to sell you.
Nonono, you can't just use that one, you need to roll your own using a random number generator!
And without giving too much away, I know mine counts as secure, because it starts with a "4"!
/ Actually, I kinda wonder how many real-world accounts out there have "correct horse battery staple" as the password. // Probably enough to make Randall cry.
knee-jerk reactions are the norm not the exception to security disclosure, and I doubt he has some leeto 0-day to destroy the world with.
This. A discussion about viable "cyberwar" doesn't depend on knowing the latest and greatest weakness in Flash player. It depends on well-documented systemic weaknesses in commonly used PLCs, in protocols like ModBus; and where a practical attacker cares about "consumer" OSs, they care about exploiting the 30 year old unpatched packet drivers for NE2000 compatible cards running under MS-DOS 6.2 (it would amaze you how many "embedded" devices run DOS).
And the focus of such a serious discussion has nothing to do with glory or PII or money, but rather, "crippling infrastructure 101: Electric, water, and traffic control systems 101".
The only reason to censor this as a "threat" comes from the underlying mindset of looking for subtle systemic weaknesses rather than trying to find the digital version of "fly a plane into a building". Think how subtly Israel fucked Iran's nuclear program with Stuxnet, and you have the right idea.
Simple answer: Treat your phone/tablet as only slightly more trusted than logged in from a semi-public PC, such as at a library.
I pretty much only log in to anything from my Android tablet via a browser in private browsing mode / incognito. I can then do everything through the browser that TFS' author presumably uses pre-logged-in native apps to do. Email, IM, cloud storage... I use them all, I just don't have my device set up to one-click root-my-life.
I don't even bother with a password on the thing - It wastes more of my time than that of a potential thief. If someone nabs it, hey, they get a few gigs of music (that I have backups of) and a $50 (replacement value - they don't tend to age well) tablet. Woo-hoo.
I'll give you your second if you add in language to put in an upper limit of 60 years old and attach a rider declaring BMO from Adventure Time is awesome.
That they are not doing so tells me that they probably cannot do so.
An intelligence agency doesn't (necessarily) do policework. They may (or may not!) drop a tip to the FBI when they come across something big, but for the most part the NSA doesn't care in the least about "minor" crimes like ransomware or carding or murder. Until something reaches the level of impacting actual national security, the NSA merely observes.
Also, don't mistake the useless fucks in Washington for the geniuses (not used sarcastically) that get invited to apply to the NSA - The former may effectively cripple the latter in practical matters, but the latter by no means count as technologically illiterate.
First, taking the name as indicative of the intended purpose, for backups. In that regard, I consider these DOA, since anyone who can fit their entire life in 300GB can use the cloud easily enough, and those of us who rip everthing we own to a home file server would already require literally dozens of these to store a complete backup. Sorry, boys, but even Grandma has a 2TB drive these days (whether or not she's used more than 2% of it).
Second, and more likely - 4k video. I don't really know where I stand on that one, because on the one hand, even BluRay has more or less flopped (it has made good ground in "replacing" DVDs, but for the most part people won't pay more for BD content); on the other hand, 4k finally represents a serious increase in quality over 480p. I still don't know if people would pay more for it, but having seen a few examples of 4k content on a 4k monitor... Just wow.
Still, if the blanks don't cost $5 each and if the DRM doesn't make these virtually worthless for anything but playing in a standalone player, I suppose these count as a step in the right direction. Unfortunately, with Sony involved, we can pretty much take it as given that they'll blow both those constraints without hesitation.
So, just a complete troll, then? Challenge me on a company that meets my criteria expecting me to give it a pass because tech... Then look for holes in my unexpected response.
and then planned to use retroactive law to bludgeon them after the fact.
Who said anything about retroactive? Up to date X, they can keep exporting their bogus non-crude crude. After date X, they can't. Date X just happens to coincide with the completion of a half billion dollar facility that serves absolutely no purpose other than to produce non-crude crude.
As for bludgeoning them - Damned straight! I say unapologetically that BP needs a spanking. They've stamped their foot and told Daddy that they will do what they want. Now Daddy gets to sit back and laugh as they build a tree-fort in that diseased Oak scheduled for removal next week.
And you're too fucking stupid to recognize that course of action is equally dishonest to anything BP is planning.
You would do well to lose the personal attacks, unless you mean for people to take you as seriously as they would a 10YO on XBL calling everyone various homosexual slurs.
I'm curious, do you consciously support that dishonesty while railing against the industrial dishonesty?
I wouldn't call "tit for tat" either dishonest or hypocritical. BP has announced their plans to do an end-run around the intent of a US export ban - Should Uncle Sam just bend over for them?
I guess what I'm asking is, are you a hypocrite or a fucking idiot?
Well, I didn't describe a comment about industry learning to sidestep government regulations, in a thread about a company announcing its plans to sidestep government regulations, as "ironic", so take that as you will.
It's a stupid law which is indefensible. This is not corporate taxes.
It only counts as a stupid law because it fails in its intent. To that extent, we agree.
Beyond that, though, I would have to consider energy self-sufficiency one of the few legitimate "national security" interests we have. This doesn't involve BP selling cheap shoes abroad; it involves nothing less than BP pillaging our natural resource for the price of laughable token "leases" on the mineral rights to truly huge swaths of land, on the theory that they will then process it and sell it back to us (with a tasty processing fee tacked on, of course).
For them to turn around and violate that trust by sending our oil abroad amounts to a slap in the face, for which we need to not only send them packing, but send them packing with a clear message tattooed across their CEO's forehead.
Put another way - I'll take Verizon's tax games over BP's exploitation. Verizon merely "exports" imaginary numbers to Ireland; BP literally exports an increasingly scarce nonrenewable resource from each and every "shareholder" in the land under our feet.
Well, except insofar as the courts have actually spanked them rather than shrugging and saying "oh well, you found a loophole, have a nice day"... Yes, actually, I would include them in that. Cool idea or not, their core business model involves nothing more "noble" than trying an end run around rebroadcast rights. You or I have every right to time-shift what we watch; that doesn't even play in the same fair-use-ballpark as a for-profit company actively rebroadcasting someone else's content without permission.
I think you'll find that, for most people (though not necessarily the courts), the key test of "fair use" ends with a single word: commercial. I pretty much don't care in the least how much you personally pirate; but as soon as you try to sell that content, you've crossed the line. Now, we can debate the shades of grey here, such as whether or not uploading a clip of the Olympics to YouTube gets the "personal" pass or counts as rebroadcasting (though IMO, fuck the IOC and their special rights-by-treaty). But Aereo definitely does not get a pass here.
Awkward...
Only insofar as you assumed that I would look the other way over issues relevant to my core interests, without considering that maybe, just maybe, I actually do have an internally consistent stance on this.
Let them finish their mini-refinery. Let them ramp up production. Let them sign hundreds of contracts obliging them to deliver on partially-refined product.
Then, and only then, really fuck 'em by ban the export of insufficiently-refined product.
I have gotten so sick of companies dodging the intent of the law lately. I by no stretch of the imagination count as a hardcore law-and-order authoritarian, but it doesn't take Mother Jones to point out that we simply can't allow situations like this, or the whole Apple/IBM/Google/etc paying no US tax, and so on, to continue. If a company wants to play on our field, they need to follow our rules as intended.
"Well whatd'ya know, the rules of golf don't explicitly ban using a tunnel-boring machine to dig a straight shot to the cup! You sure got us, have fun turning Augusta into a strip-mine."
But far be it from me to burst your bubble of paternalistic safety.
WOW did you misread the tone of my post - I'd humbly suggest re-reading my last sentence to set up the rest (but the joke wouldn't have worked with that line first, sooo...).:)
Most medium (and up) sized businesses have a training group (usually a subset of HR), and have a real need for people who both know the material and know how to teach it.
Breaking into "real" IT at your age, without in-field work experience, would mean working the helpdesk - If that appeals to you, great, but it doesn't tend to pay all that well.
No. No, they do not, for one simple reason - Microsoft doesn't take source code from their userbase and roll it into the next release of Windows. The entire issue simply doesn't come up with closed source, because no one outside has access to the source code in the first place.
Red Hat's problem in this situation really has no analog in the conventional business world. ITAR 18 USC 2339B simply don't address the situation of accepting material support from blacklisted entities. They just want to make sure that our ever-growing list of enemies doesn't someday someday require purging millions of lines of functioning source code. "Well what do we have here... Looks like you accepted code from one of those evil bastard terrorist(tm) Finns - Get ready for PMITA!"
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All these 'with-it' trendy people got to brag about about being ahead of everyone else and 'cool' because they were so smartly investing in this scam.
So do I still get to brag, since the handful of BTC I still have currently trade at USD$650, while my initial investment comes out to less than $50 in electricity?
Boo hoo, people who trusted an unregulated exchange got burned - Color me shocked.
Are you aware that we rely on other species to survive? We evolved with those other species around - removing them from our environment might indeed change the balance of wildlife to the point where things we directly rely on start being affected by our changes to other species.
;)
Don't worry, we're adaptable. We can just find some other way to metabolize glucose into ATP after we kill all the oxygen-producing creatures on the planet. Just one little atom, anyway - And heck, other critters use sulfur instead of oxygen, why can't we?
Who's got the money to pony up for some experimental fab runs for billions of transistors with reconfigurable mesh network? This is basically an Intel i7 fab process we're talking about here, so think beeeeelions of dollars.
You don't need your own dedicated fab, you just need your own masks. Those will run you on the order of 100-150k per layer (and a modern CPU like the i7 has around 20 layers).
Still not cheap, but a few million vs a few billion means the difference between "not gonna happen" and "bored Silicon Valley millionaire's hobby project".
In Japan, MtGox is not liable because bitcoins aren't money (i.e. nothing real was lost).
MtGox tracked account balances in both BTC and USD. Bitcoins may have no legal value, but wouldn't Gox remain on the hook for the dollar-denominated balances in their care?
Of course Uwingu can name craters. So can you or I (though the challenge there lies in getting anyone else to use those names). The IAU has no more legal authority to say "you can't call the planet Pluto's newly discovered moon Vulcan", for example, than your local Kiwanis club does. They can only offer guidance that their "industry" tends to take seriously, and the rest of us can completely disregard if we so choose.
So whether or not a bunch of pissy astronomers decide to use Uwingu's names rather than something more poetic like "MC2013B17" has no relevance to the situation.
Having a similar setup myself, and having looked into exactly your question, you have exactly one realistic answer:
You back it up to an identical (or larger) disk array.
If possible (though not necessary), you'll want to do the initial backup with both arrays directly connected to the same host; but after that, just rsync --link-dest (to make hardlinked differential snapshots) them on a nightly basis.
For a media server, where the typical use case consists of adding large files slowly over time and little ever changes, your backup shouldn't take up much more room than the primary storage.
My Alma Mater hits me up for donations constantly, with hype about how $SPORT team performed last year and the need for a new stadium. Oh, and some random feelgood BS about diversity and student culture and did I know they have classes, in the footnotes?
And I patiently respond to every such solicitation the same way, which boils down to "fuck $SPORT, I'll donate when you promise to put it toward actual academic endeavors". I don't think I alone feel that way, either (hell, just about everyone I associate with has told me they feel similarly). So here, you have a chance to make people like me put up or shut up.
TLDR: If I got a letter from my Uni asking for money for this project, you'd have a check on your desk by the end of the week.
We have GPS in your car, so we know what you're doing
No, you don't, because I unplugged the GPS antenna (since I don't actually have a nav system), leaving your hardwired spyware trapped uselessly deep inside in a big Faraday cage.
/ Not actually a Ford, but if you don't think the same applies to any new car, I have a bridge to sell you.
Funny, I got my password from xkcd. UNCRACKABLE
// Probably enough to make Randall cry.
Nonono, you can't just use that one, you need to roll your own using a random number generator!
And without giving too much away, I know mine counts as secure, because it starts with a "4"!
/ Actually, I kinda wonder how many real-world accounts out there have "correct horse battery staple" as the password.
knee-jerk reactions are the norm not the exception to security disclosure, and I doubt he has some leeto 0-day to destroy the world with.
This. A discussion about viable "cyberwar" doesn't depend on knowing the latest and greatest weakness in Flash player. It depends on well-documented systemic weaknesses in commonly used PLCs, in protocols like ModBus; and where a practical attacker cares about "consumer" OSs, they care about exploiting the 30 year old unpatched packet drivers for NE2000 compatible cards running under MS-DOS 6.2 (it would amaze you how many "embedded" devices run DOS).
And the focus of such a serious discussion has nothing to do with glory or PII or money, but rather, "crippling infrastructure 101: Electric, water, and traffic control systems 101".
The only reason to censor this as a "threat" comes from the underlying mindset of looking for subtle systemic weaknesses rather than trying to find the digital version of "fly a plane into a building". Think how subtly Israel fucked Iran's nuclear program with Stuxnet, and you have the right idea.
Simple answer: Treat your phone/tablet as only slightly more trusted than logged in from a semi-public PC, such as at a library.
I pretty much only log in to anything from my Android tablet via a browser in private browsing mode / incognito. I can then do everything through the browser that TFS' author presumably uses pre-logged-in native apps to do. Email, IM, cloud storage... I use them all, I just don't have my device set up to one-click root-my-life.
I don't even bother with a password on the thing - It wastes more of my time than that of a potential thief. If someone nabs it, hey, they get a few gigs of music (that I have backups of) and a $50 (replacement value - they don't tend to age well) tablet. Woo-hoo.
I'll give you your second if you add in language to put in an upper limit of 60 years old and attach a rider declaring BMO from Adventure Time is awesome.
So amended.
That they are not doing so tells me that they probably cannot do so.
An intelligence agency doesn't (necessarily) do policework. They may (or may not!) drop a tip to the FBI when they come across something big, but for the most part the NSA doesn't care in the least about "minor" crimes like ransomware or carding or murder. Until something reaches the level of impacting actual national security, the NSA merely observes.
Also, don't mistake the useless fucks in Washington for the geniuses (not used sarcastically) that get invited to apply to the NSA - The former may effectively cripple the latter in practical matters, but the latter by no means count as technologically illiterate.
What, no one? Oh, right, sorry...
EVERYONE SURPRISED, RAISE YOUR HAND
Ahhhh, I see now... Hey, look over there, an early-morning all you can eat buffet restaurant!
Ahem. That taken care of, I move we lower the age of candidacy for all public offices to 18. Do I hear a second?
I see two possible uses for this.
First, taking the name as indicative of the intended purpose, for backups. In that regard, I consider these DOA, since anyone who can fit their entire life in 300GB can use the cloud easily enough, and those of us who rip everthing we own to a home file server would already require literally dozens of these to store a complete backup. Sorry, boys, but even Grandma has a 2TB drive these days (whether or not she's used more than 2% of it).
Second, and more likely - 4k video. I don't really know where I stand on that one, because on the one hand, even BluRay has more or less flopped (it has made good ground in "replacing" DVDs, but for the most part people won't pay more for BD content); on the other hand, 4k finally represents a serious increase in quality over 480p. I still don't know if people would pay more for it, but having seen a few examples of 4k content on a 4k monitor... Just wow.
Still, if the blanks don't cost $5 each and if the DRM doesn't make these virtually worthless for anything but playing in a standalone player, I suppose these count as a step in the right direction. Unfortunately, with Sony involved, we can pretty much take it as given that they'll blow both those constraints without hesitation.
Nope.
So, just a complete troll, then? Challenge me on a company that meets my criteria expecting me to give it a pass because tech... Then look for holes in my unexpected response.
Go fuck a donkey, 'kay? We won't chat again.
and then planned to use retroactive law to bludgeon them after the fact.
Who said anything about retroactive? Up to date X, they can keep exporting their bogus non-crude crude. After date X, they can't. Date X just happens to coincide with the completion of a half billion dollar facility that serves absolutely no purpose other than to produce non-crude crude.
As for bludgeoning them - Damned straight! I say unapologetically that BP needs a spanking. They've stamped their foot and told Daddy that they will do what they want. Now Daddy gets to sit back and laugh as they build a tree-fort in that diseased Oak scheduled for removal next week.
And you're too fucking stupid to recognize that course of action is equally dishonest to anything BP is planning.
You would do well to lose the personal attacks, unless you mean for people to take you as seriously as they would a 10YO on XBL calling everyone various homosexual slurs.
I'm curious, do you consciously support that dishonesty while railing against the industrial dishonesty?
I wouldn't call "tit for tat" either dishonest or hypocritical. BP has announced their plans to do an end-run around the intent of a US export ban - Should Uncle Sam just bend over for them?
I guess what I'm asking is, are you a hypocrite or a fucking idiot?
Well, I didn't describe a comment about industry learning to sidestep government regulations, in a thread about a company announcing its plans to sidestep government regulations, as "ironic", so take that as you will.
It's a stupid law which is indefensible. This is not corporate taxes.
It only counts as a stupid law because it fails in its intent. To that extent, we agree.
Beyond that, though, I would have to consider energy self-sufficiency one of the few legitimate "national security" interests we have. This doesn't involve BP selling cheap shoes abroad; it involves nothing less than BP pillaging our natural resource for the price of laughable token "leases" on the mineral rights to truly huge swaths of land, on the theory that they will then process it and sell it back to us (with a tasty processing fee tacked on, of course).
For them to turn around and violate that trust by sending our oil abroad amounts to a slap in the face, for which we need to not only send them packing, but send them packing with a clear message tattooed across their CEO's forehead.
Put another way - I'll take Verizon's tax games over BP's exploitation. Verizon merely "exports" imaginary numbers to Ireland; BP literally exports an increasingly scarce nonrenewable resource from each and every "shareholder" in the land under our feet.
You're talking about Aereo, right?
Well, except insofar as the courts have actually spanked them rather than shrugging and saying "oh well, you found a loophole, have a nice day"... Yes, actually, I would include them in that. Cool idea or not, their core business model involves nothing more "noble" than trying an end run around rebroadcast rights. You or I have every right to time-shift what we watch; that doesn't even play in the same fair-use-ballpark as a for-profit company actively rebroadcasting someone else's content without permission.
I think you'll find that, for most people (though not necessarily the courts), the key test of "fair use" ends with a single word: commercial. I pretty much don't care in the least how much you personally pirate; but as soon as you try to sell that content, you've crossed the line. Now, we can debate the shades of grey here, such as whether or not uploading a clip of the Olympics to YouTube gets the "personal" pass or counts as rebroadcasting (though IMO, fuck the IOC and their special rights-by-treaty). But Aereo definitely does not get a pass here.
Awkward...
Only insofar as you assumed that I would look the other way over issues relevant to my core interests, without considering that maybe, just maybe, I actually do have an internally consistent stance on this.
Best possible answer:
Let them finish their mini-refinery. Let them ramp up production. Let them sign hundreds of contracts obliging them to deliver on partially-refined product.
Then, and only then, really fuck 'em by ban the export of insufficiently-refined product.
I have gotten so sick of companies dodging the intent of the law lately. I by no stretch of the imagination count as a hardcore law-and-order authoritarian, but it doesn't take Mother Jones to point out that we simply can't allow situations like this, or the whole Apple/IBM/Google/etc paying no US tax, and so on, to continue. If a company wants to play on our field, they need to follow our rules as intended.
"Well whatd'ya know, the rules of golf don't explicitly ban using a tunnel-boring machine to dig a straight shot to the cup! You sure got us, have fun turning Augusta into a strip-mine."
But far be it from me to burst your bubble of paternalistic safety.
:)
WOW did you misread the tone of my post - I'd humbly suggest re-reading my last sentence to set up the rest (but the joke wouldn't have worked with that line first, sooo...).
Most medium (and up) sized businesses have a training group (usually a subset of HR), and have a real need for people who both know the material and know how to teach it.
Breaking into "real" IT at your age, without in-field work experience, would mean working the helpdesk - If that appeals to you, great, but it doesn't tend to pay all that well.
ITAR and 18 USC 2339B.
Do they apply to US-based commercial products?
No. No, they do not, for one simple reason - Microsoft doesn't take source code from their userbase and roll it into the next release of Windows. The entire issue simply doesn't come up with closed source, because no one outside has access to the source code in the first place.
Red Hat's problem in this situation really has no analog in the conventional business world. ITAR 18 USC 2339B simply don't address the situation of accepting material support from blacklisted entities. They just want to make sure that our ever-growing list of enemies doesn't someday someday require purging millions of lines of functioning source code. "Well what do we have here... Looks like you accepted code from one of those evil bastard terrorist(tm) Finns - Get ready for PMITA!"