Why screw Oracle and not F*ck You Google for selling me a product you had no legal right to sell me?
Are you also complaining to the CDC that they are taking away your tainted eggs rather than complaining about the egg producer who has such shitty hygiene and practices that they managed to ship 380 million eggs with possible salmonella contamination?
Go straighten out the local zoning ordinance that prevents me from building a fourteen foot wall all around the perimeter of my property and that might be a vaguely compelling argument. Until then perhaps you should maybe do a tiny bit of soul searching and see if you can stop arguing in bad faith, then you could spend a second to consider the difference between street view and your house being viewed from the street.
You familiar with your credit report? Do you know why it's not swapped around willy nilly among enterprising entrepreneurs? And why it doesn't store every single transaction you ever have made? It's not because of some really hard to get over problem or an immutable law of the universe. It's because society got together and thought that maybe having that kind of "permanent" record isn't a good thing. What makes you think that it's not probable that we'll come together and slap down Google, Microsoft, and pretty much any other "privacy for me, but not for thee" asshat that comes along? Put in place rules that say things like "you may not store logs longer than seven years" and "you may not create an anonymously accessible collection of photographs of private residences." There is a difference between someone standing on the street and looking at your house and someone clicking on a mouse in the privacy of their home and getting the same view. And even someone taking a picture that happens to have your home in the background and someone who made a specific point of taking pictures of everyone's home (except Eric Schmidt's home for some reason.)
Not even in your wildest dreams. Each zone requires it's own init, svc.startd, svc.configd, cron, etc. Just those four are going to 2.5 MB + 17 MB + 10 MB + 5 MB = 35 MB of memory just to even begin to boot. You 512 GB of RAM only provides 512 KB of memory per zone. Even if you used all of the disk space as swap, you're still way short.
...there's nothing even a simple portscan could do...
You know, if you aim low you'll certainly succeed.
(Generally if you are going to use the phrase "there's nothing even can do", then should be something powerful. Such as "my plan is coming to fruition and there is nothing Superman can do to stop me." Contrast that with "my plan is coming to fruition and there is nothing two week old infant can do to stop me.")
You don't trust your government? So you purify your own water? Generate your own electricity. Testing the efficacy and safety of all your medical treatments? Ensure the purity of your food supply? Test the safety of your all your consumer goods? Barter instead of using currency? Handle your own weather forecasting?
Didn't think so.
The world isn't as simple and uncomplicated as you seem to think.
You realize that dumping a bunch of money into an economy doesn't do shit unless you also increase the amount of goods and services available? Without that increase all you end up with is inflation as people compete for the same limited supply of whatever happens to be available in their local market. Unless of course you believe that they have functioning postal systems and international trade to import consumer goods in mass quantities. Which they don't.
Can you explain why you think that wikileaks even has the capability to assess the risk for people named in the documents? Seriously. You'd need to know a whole lot more about the specifics of each individual's life, their family, the specific regional situation, the local taliban, etc. than some homeless dude with an ego problem and a grudge can possibly know.
I do not believe that anyone has a duty to act, whether it's engaging in military combat in a distant land or stopping and helping someone who has been in a car accident or a bystander intervening in a bar fight. But you'll definitely lose a lot of my respect if you don't (not that you need my respect.)
I guess it depends on your point of view. Personally I think that countries where the populace is given the opportunity for self determination should do a lot more to help bring the rest of the world to those same circumstances.
In the case of Afghanistan you have to look at what it was like there while the Taliban was in control. For example, if you happened to be a woman or girl, living under the Taliban was a pretty shitty hand to be dealt. No education, no role in the public sphere, no rights independent of the men around you. I.e. chattel. I think fourteen million people being denied the chance to reach their potential, being denied some dignities and rights, should be reason enough for the rest of the world to be, if not outraged, then at least concerned.
If you don't think of them as an "asset" and instead think of them as a human, then you'll find that you do indeed show up at their home after they've been outed. This kind of behavior is called "not being a complete fucking douche" and is quite intelligent. And if you just can't find it in you to be respectful and to care about the people who you come in contact with, then perhaps there are other reasons for doing the right thing that you might find compelling. How about this: if you just wash your hands of the travails of the people who help you out, you'll find out that fewer and fewer people are helping you out. So, even if you are a complete fucking douche, it still makes sense to take care of your "assets."
It means exactly what I think it means. What I think it means:
Hey, I made a lot of promises. I'm not going to keep them. But I want you to look at what I do do. Because at least it's a little better than before.
Or to make an analogy:
The new bully punches you in the face and when you complain that he said he wasn't going to pick on you at all, he responds by saying that the old bully kicked you in the balls and you should be happy that you're only getting punched in the face now.
The point is, is that coming in after you win the election and saying "oh, all those promises I made... well, just kidding. but it won't be as bad as it could be", is an astonishingly poor moral and ethical position to have.
Umm. Have you read the promises? Things like "Express an opinion", and "Advocate for something." Neither of which requires anything more than giving a speech. Unlike "Won't raise taxes on anyone making less than $250,000/year" and "No mandate to have health insurance." A bit different. Not to mention Politifact's habit of exceptionally broad interpretations of some statements and absurdly narrow of others.
Sorry. No matter how much you want to wiggle around, you don't get to tell me what I consider secret.
(And if you've never received a call asking those questions, then you obviously don't actually work in IT. Getting a call from a salesman asking about your current sources isn't that uncommon and it's not secret.)
1. You're hiding something
2. You can be blackmailed over it
What makes you think you know two things? Maybe you know ten things:
3. I have nothing to hide, but I think you're cute and am planning on giving you a hard rogering after we've had dinner. 4. I have nothing to hide, but you've threatened my family and I am planning on stabbing you in the eye socket with a steak knife at the restaurant. 5. I have nothing to hide, but I'm bored and think it'd be a gas to see what kind of scam you're attempting. 6. I have nothing to hide, but figure you are up to no good and intend to collect as much evidence as I can before I arrest you. 7. I have nothing to hide, but am quite hungry and figure if you're stupid enough to try and blackmail a stranger, you're stupid enough to buy the lobster dinner. 8. I have nothing to hide, but that's the normal place I stop after work and have a drink while chatting up the waitress. 9. I have nothing to hide, but have concluded you're a bit delusional and may need someone to keep an eye on you so you don't hurt yourself. 10. I have nothing to hide, but maybe you do and if I pay attention there might be some money in it for me.
I don't know about this specific SC2 situation, but just having an uncapped frame rate doesn't imply maximum utilization of your graphics hardware. It's more of a duty cycle thing.
Consider a situation where what is being displayed requires lots of CPU calculation for each frame (say a bunch of physics.) A given frame may take 5 ms to complete (== 200 FPS), but that 5 ms is composed of 3 ms of CPU activity and 2 ms of GPU activity. The GPU spends sixty percent of its time idle, but the frame rate exceeds the (typical) monitor refresh rate by quite a bit.
Now consider the same geometry, textures, etc. without any physics. For each frame the CPU is taking 0.1 ms and the GPU taking 2 ms for each frame, total frame time is 2.1 ms (== 476 FPS.) The GPU in this scenario is only idle five percent of the time. This is going to lead to a lot more heat.
Going forward this is only going to get worse as multi CPU cores and multiple threads will be able to drive the GPU almost continuously with game logic/physics/whatever be running in a separate thread from the rendering thread.
If I'm sitting on the bus and you sit down near me and say hello, I'll go ahead and say hello back. If you then comment about the weather I'll respond about the weather. We can have a nice conversation about a local sports team, you might ask me if I was at the game yesterday and I'll tell you no, I wasn't. You can go ahead and pat yourself on the back about extracting that information with your mad social engineering skills, but the reality is all you've done is be part of normal conversation. If you don't manage to get something I give a shit about keeping private, if you don't establish some kind of trust above and beyond the ordinary, if you don't get inside my walls, you've not accomplished anything. The fact that I talked to you about inconsequential chit-chat isn't social engineering, it's just being a normally functioning human being.
This contest is like demonstrating safe cracking skills by going to the bank and taking cigarette butts from the ashtray outside the front doors.
If they aren't going after confidential data, then what exactly is the point here? What I mean is, why would a company care about non-sensitive data, so what protections/security/whatever are they supposedly penetrating here?
A hundred such disk drfives will set you back $13,000.
You calculated a lot of costs there, but you forgot the most important one:
The cost of your business imploding when a critical app falls over because your one hundred, 7200 RPM SATA spindles will only deliver, on a good day with the wind in their sails, 6,000 IOPS at less than 15 ms per op. Or a bad day when you experience multiple drive failures and your shoes are all squishy due to the piss that ran down your leg because you just noticed that your IOPS just dropped to 1,000/sec, your latency just went up to 100 ms and it's going to take over twenty-four hours to complete just one rebuild.
In the data center a few floors below my desk, we have a dozen database servers that average 6,000 IOPS all day long with peak times requiring 10,000 IOPS for several hours every day. Per server.
That's why it's not a hundred drives. It's a couple thousand. And they're not 1TB+ 7200 RPM SATA. They're 146 GB/300GB/400GB 15,000 RPM FC and SAS. And there's over a hundred GB of NVRAM. And everything is connected via multiple paths through two or more separate fabrics (i.e. at least two of these. Each of which will run you over $100k just to get on the floor. Plus annual support and maintenance costs.)
Regardless, it's not just moving bytes into and out of a hard drive. It's being able to replace failed components... as in every component, things like controllers, front end controllers & ports, back end controllers & ports, batteries, drive back planes, and hard drives. Being able to add physical capacity, new drives, ports, controllers, RAM, etc. It's having off site replication. Having defined RPO & RTO. Off host backups. All without service interruption or degradation.
The good news is is that you might spend $1,000,000 on keeping all that going, but you won't be paying out tens of thousands of dollars a minute in salary and hundreds of thousands of dollars in lost business when the home brew solution explodes. And if, heaven forbid, the worst happens and your data center happens to burn to the ground, your DR site will be able to come online in ten minutes and every committed transaction will be sitting there on the drives ready for your apps, customers and employees.
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And Oracle created these laws? Everybody knows the rules regardless of whether they think they are good rules or bad rules, they are still the rules.
Why screw Oracle and not F*ck You Google for selling me a product you had no legal right to sell me?
Are you also complaining to the CDC that they are taking away your tainted eggs rather than complaining about the egg producer who has such shitty hygiene and practices that they managed to ship 380 million eggs with possible salmonella contamination?
Everyone paying attention to Jens Best is Jen Best's goal. Duh.
Go straighten out the local zoning ordinance that prevents me from building a fourteen foot wall all around the perimeter of my property and that might be a vaguely compelling argument. Until then perhaps you should maybe do a tiny bit of soul searching and see if you can stop arguing in bad faith, then you could spend a second to consider the difference between street view and your house being viewed from the street.
You familiar with your credit report? Do you know why it's not swapped around willy nilly among enterprising entrepreneurs? And why it doesn't store every single transaction you ever have made? It's not because of some really hard to get over problem or an immutable law of the universe. It's because society got together and thought that maybe having that kind of "permanent" record isn't a good thing. What makes you think that it's not probable that we'll come together and slap down Google, Microsoft, and pretty much any other "privacy for me, but not for thee" asshat that comes along? Put in place rules that say things like "you may not store logs longer than seven years" and "you may not create an anonymously accessible collection of photographs of private residences." There is a difference between someone standing on the street and looking at your house and someone clicking on a mouse in the privacy of their home and getting the same view. And even someone taking a picture that happens to have your home in the background and someone who made a specific point of taking pictures of everyone's home (except Eric Schmidt's home for some reason.)
Contrary to the headline written by an idiot, this isn't an Xorg bug. It's a kernel bug that can be exploited through Xorg.
Not even in your wildest dreams. Each zone requires it's own init, svc.startd, svc.configd, cron, etc. Just those four are going to 2.5 MB + 17 MB + 10 MB + 5 MB = 35 MB of memory just to even begin to boot. You 512 GB of RAM only provides 512 KB of memory per zone. Even if you used all of the disk space as swap, you're still way short.
You know, if you aim low you'll certainly succeed.
(Generally if you are going to use the phrase "there's nothing even can do", then should be something powerful. Such as "my plan is coming to fruition and there is nothing Superman can do to stop me." Contrast that with "my plan is coming to fruition and there is nothing two week old infant can do to stop me.")
You don't trust your government? So you purify your own water? Generate your own electricity. Testing the efficacy and safety of all your medical treatments? Ensure the purity of your food supply? Test the safety of your all your consumer goods? Barter instead of using currency? Handle your own weather forecasting?
Didn't think so.
The world isn't as simple and uncomplicated as you seem to think.
You realize that dumping a bunch of money into an economy doesn't do shit unless you also increase the amount of goods and services available? Without that increase all you end up with is inflation as people compete for the same limited supply of whatever happens to be available in their local market. Unless of course you believe that they have functioning postal systems and international trade to import consumer goods in mass quantities. Which they don't.
Can you explain why you think that wikileaks even has the capability to assess the risk for people named in the documents? Seriously. You'd need to know a whole lot more about the specifics of each individual's life, their family, the specific regional situation, the local taliban, etc. than some homeless dude with an ego problem and a grudge can possibly know.
I do not believe that anyone has a duty to act, whether it's engaging in military combat in a distant land or stopping and helping someone who has been in a car accident or a bystander intervening in a bar fight. But you'll definitely lose a lot of my respect if you don't (not that you need my respect.)
I guess it depends on your point of view. Personally I think that countries where the populace is given the opportunity for self determination should do a lot more to help bring the rest of the world to those same circumstances.
In the case of Afghanistan you have to look at what it was like there while the Taliban was in control. For example, if you happened to be a woman or girl, living under the Taliban was a pretty shitty hand to be dealt. No education, no role in the public sphere, no rights independent of the men around you. I.e. chattel. I think fourteen million people being denied the chance to reach their potential, being denied some dignities and rights, should be reason enough for the rest of the world to be, if not outraged, then at least concerned.
If you don't think of them as an "asset" and instead think of them as a human, then you'll find that you do indeed show up at their home after they've been outed. This kind of behavior is called "not being a complete fucking douche" and is quite intelligent. And if you just can't find it in you to be respectful and to care about the people who you come in contact with, then perhaps there are other reasons for doing the right thing that you might find compelling. How about this: if you just wash your hands of the travails of the people who help you out, you'll find out that fewer and fewer people are helping you out. So, even if you are a complete fucking douche, it still makes sense to take care of your "assets."
To reiterate the point that politifact is far from non-partisan consider these two rankings:
Trent Franks is ranked false for being about half off on his number because they disagree with his position.
On the other hand Jim McDermott is also half off on his number but they agree with his position so they give him half true.
It means exactly what I think it means. What I think it means:
Or to make an analogy:
The point is, is that coming in after you win the election and saying "oh, all those promises I made... well, just kidding. but it won't be as bad as it could be", is an astonishingly poor moral and ethical position to have.
What do you think it means?
Umm. Have you read the promises? Things like "Express an opinion", and "Advocate for something." Neither of which requires anything more than giving a speech. Unlike "Won't raise taxes on anyone making less than $250,000/year" and "No mandate to have health insurance." A bit different. Not to mention Politifact's habit of exceptionally broad interpretations of some statements and absurdly narrow of others.
Also this is the same president who, after winning the election, requested "judge me from the promises I keep, not the promises I made." Yeah. Sweet.
Mens rea.
The documents go through December 2009. When do you think Obama became president?
Sorry. No matter how much you want to wiggle around, you don't get to tell me what I consider secret.
(And if you've never received a call asking those questions, then you obviously don't actually work in IT. Getting a call from a salesman asking about your current sources isn't that uncommon and it's not secret.)
First, you have an elaborate fantasy life.
Second:
What makes you think you know two things? Maybe you know ten things:
3. I have nothing to hide, but I think you're cute and am planning on giving you a hard rogering after we've had dinner.
4. I have nothing to hide, but you've threatened my family and I am planning on stabbing you in the eye socket with a steak knife at the restaurant.
5. I have nothing to hide, but I'm bored and think it'd be a gas to see what kind of scam you're attempting.
6. I have nothing to hide, but figure you are up to no good and intend to collect as much evidence as I can before I arrest you.
7. I have nothing to hide, but am quite hungry and figure if you're stupid enough to try and blackmail a stranger, you're stupid enough to buy the lobster dinner.
8. I have nothing to hide, but that's the normal place I stop after work and have a drink while chatting up the waitress.
9. I have nothing to hide, but have concluded you're a bit delusional and may need someone to keep an eye on you so you don't hurt yourself.
10. I have nothing to hide, but maybe you do and if I pay attention there might be some money in it for me.
Life isn't as simple as you seem to think.
I don't know about this specific SC2 situation, but just having an uncapped frame rate doesn't imply maximum utilization of your graphics hardware. It's more of a duty cycle thing.
Consider a situation where what is being displayed requires lots of CPU calculation for each frame (say a bunch of physics.) A given frame may take 5 ms to complete (== 200 FPS), but that 5 ms is composed of 3 ms of CPU activity and 2 ms of GPU activity. The GPU spends sixty percent of its time idle, but the frame rate exceeds the (typical) monitor refresh rate by quite a bit.
Now consider the same geometry, textures, etc. without any physics. For each frame the CPU is taking 0.1 ms and the GPU taking 2 ms for each frame, total frame time is 2.1 ms (== 476 FPS.) The GPU in this scenario is only idle five percent of the time. This is going to lead to a lot more heat.
Going forward this is only going to get worse as multi CPU cores and multiple threads will be able to drive the GPU almost continuously with game logic/physics/whatever be running in a separate thread from the rendering thread.
I don't think you get my point.
If I'm sitting on the bus and you sit down near me and say hello, I'll go ahead and say hello back. If you then comment about the weather I'll respond about the weather. We can have a nice conversation about a local sports team, you might ask me if I was at the game yesterday and I'll tell you no, I wasn't. You can go ahead and pat yourself on the back about extracting that information with your mad social engineering skills, but the reality is all you've done is be part of normal conversation. If you don't manage to get something I give a shit about keeping private, if you don't establish some kind of trust above and beyond the ordinary, if you don't get inside my walls, you've not accomplished anything. The fact that I talked to you about inconsequential chit-chat isn't social engineering, it's just being a normally functioning human being.
This contest is like demonstrating safe cracking skills by going to the bank and taking cigarette butts from the ashtray outside the front doors.
If they aren't going after confidential data, then what exactly is the point here? What I mean is, why would a company care about non-sensitive data, so what protections/security/whatever are they supposedly penetrating here?
You calculated a lot of costs there, but you forgot the most important one:
The cost of your business imploding when a critical app falls over because your one hundred, 7200 RPM SATA spindles will only deliver, on a good day with the wind in their sails, 6,000 IOPS at less than 15 ms per op. Or a bad day when you experience multiple drive failures and your shoes are all squishy due to the piss that ran down your leg because you just noticed that your IOPS just dropped to 1,000/sec, your latency just went up to 100 ms and it's going to take over twenty-four hours to complete just one rebuild.
In the data center a few floors below my desk, we have a dozen database servers that average 6,000 IOPS all day long with peak times requiring 10,000 IOPS for several hours every day. Per server.
That's why it's not a hundred drives. It's a couple thousand. And they're not 1TB+ 7200 RPM SATA. They're 146 GB/300GB/400GB 15,000 RPM FC and SAS. And there's over a hundred GB of NVRAM. And everything is connected via multiple paths through two or more separate fabrics (i.e. at least two of these. Each of which will run you over $100k just to get on the floor. Plus annual support and maintenance costs.)
Regardless, it's not just moving bytes into and out of a hard drive. It's being able to replace failed components... as in every component, things like controllers, front end controllers & ports, back end controllers & ports, batteries, drive back planes, and hard drives. Being able to add physical capacity, new drives, ports, controllers, RAM, etc. It's having off site replication. Having defined RPO & RTO. Off host backups. All without service interruption or degradation.
The good news is is that you might spend $1,000,000 on keeping all that going, but you won't be paying out tens of thousands of dollars a minute in salary and hundreds of thousands of dollars in lost business when the home brew solution explodes. And if, heaven forbid, the worst happens and your data center happens to burn to the ground, your DR site will be able to come online in ten minutes and every committed transaction will be sitting there on the drives ready for your apps, customers and employees.