"I was able to protect my puddly shit at my workplace with equipment I bought at Frys, so BA should have been able to protect its 12,000 servers just like I did."
Scaling up is hard. Just because you were able to do it with your install doesn't mean it would be just as easy for a larger install.
That said, they should have done a better job at BA. Even though testing power isn't part of a smaller DC's MO, it should be for a company the size of BA...at least in their dev environment.
If the committee always agrees and is unanimous removing half of them won't make any difference; they could whittle the committee to three or five members.
It sounds like this committee has become a resume filler.
Here's a question: are you upset that the site/app you're reading/watching is using your bandwidth to serve ads to you?
If you're on a metered plan, you probably are.
Now take a step back (I know, it's hard) and pretend you're an ISP. Why do I, as an ISP, need to build out my network so that some Silicon Valley company can serve ads to my subscribers when the subscribers don't even want ads?
Let's try something else: 2% of an ISPs base is using 85% of the upstream and downstream bandwidth for torrents. Can you throttle their traffic?
I'm sure a lot of people will say "don't oversell your bandwidth." Yeah sure, welcome to reality. But is it fair to let 2% of your subscribers screw the other 98% of your subscribers? Those 98% are paying customers of both you the ISP and, say, Netflix. Why can't you touch that 2%?
Is throttling a violation of the "net neutrality" regs? I'll bet you don't know, because you never read them. Try reading them. It's not hard.
I got stuck maintaining a bunch of Scala code at one point, and I'd say "no thanks." Why?
The code wasn't any more error-free than any other code, but it was an order of magnitude more difficult to maintain. It also didn't seem to speed up the development process any; the devs were just as late as they were without Scala.
Scala developers are also expensive and hard to find, two things that make finding a "Scala maintainer" a difficult task.
Unless you're willing to invest in supporting it, I'd say no. If you want a functional language go to a real one, not one built on top of Java. And be sure that the use case for it fits the language.
The idea of a "Perfect Storm" is a shit idea popularized by that dumb-ass book.
Anything that happens in life can be seen as a random confluence of multiple, independent events. A car accident? 5 seconds would have prevented it. Getting killed by a falling tree limb? Just imagine all the things that have to happen for the branch to fall on someone walking under it.
Those "perfect storm" events happen all the time, every day, in multiple contexts.
Selling anonymous usage data has been in the rules since day 1. Duh. That changed 5 months ago. Now by reverting to the old way people are saying the internet will die?
If you're an android user you can't really update the OS on your phone because for the vast majority of handsets there are no updates available.
For these surveys they really need to add some questions to determine if the respondent is just flat-out lying or just doesn't understand the difference between an app update and an OS update.
Plus, some answers make no sense. Who updates their OS when it isn't convenient for them? WTF does that even mean?
"Every 802.11 radio on a mobile device possesses a 48-bit link-layer MAC address that is a globally unique identifier for that specific WiFi device."
Uh, no. That address is assumed to be unique and identifies a specific WiFi radio/client. There is no enforcement for uniqueness, and indeed you can spoof your MAC address.
Assuming the MAC is a unique identifier is always a Bad Idea.
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"I was able to protect my puddly shit at my workplace with equipment I bought at Frys, so BA should have been able to protect its 12,000 servers just like I did."
Scaling up is hard. Just because you were able to do it with your install doesn't mean it would be just as easy for a larger install.
That said, they should have done a better job at BA. Even though testing power isn't part of a smaller DC's MO, it should be for a company the size of BA...at least in their dev environment.
Lights on in the home are indication that residents are at home! News at 11.
Apparently iodine is the reason people today are marginally more intelligent than the were before.
http://blogs.discovermagazine....
That doesn't mean that genetics doesn't make a difference.
You can get its footprint from publicly accessible sites like broadband.gov. It's not hard, just more work than the reporter wanted to do.
Yeah, people don't want this, they want a faster horse. Who's the moron that came up with this automobile thing? It's totally stupid.
If the committee always agrees and is unanimous removing half of them won't make any difference; they could whittle the committee to three or five members.
It sounds like this committee has become a resume filler.
Here's a question: are you upset that the site/app you're reading/watching is using your bandwidth to serve ads to you?
If you're on a metered plan, you probably are.
Now take a step back (I know, it's hard) and pretend you're an ISP. Why do I, as an ISP, need to build out my network so that some Silicon Valley company can serve ads to my subscribers when the subscribers don't even want ads?
Let's try something else: 2% of an ISPs base is using 85% of the upstream and downstream bandwidth for torrents. Can you throttle their traffic?
I'm sure a lot of people will say "don't oversell your bandwidth." Yeah sure, welcome to reality. But is it fair to let 2% of your subscribers screw the other 98% of your subscribers? Those 98% are paying customers of both you the ISP and, say, Netflix. Why can't you touch that 2%?
Is throttling a violation of the "net neutrality" regs? I'll bet you don't know, because you never read them. Try reading them. It's not hard.
Rescinding rules that were never put into effect shouldn't cause internet butthurt, but it does.
It's because all those AOL users were let on. Now they've bred.
"Our business model depends on the fact that we don't pay for network infrastructure upgrades." - Internet content companies.
Wait, the sky didn't fall? Well, just wait until next week! I'm positive the sky will fall then! Or the next week! Or the next!
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Also, you might want to go get:
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https://smile.amazon.com/Ogilv...
In other news, the government can supply everything for less, as long as they tax you more. That worked out pretty well in the USSR and Venezuela.
I got stuck maintaining a bunch of Scala code at one point, and I'd say "no thanks." Why?
The code wasn't any more error-free than any other code, but it was an order of magnitude more difficult to maintain. It also didn't seem to speed up the development process any; the devs were just as late as they were without Scala.
Scala developers are also expensive and hard to find, two things that make finding a "Scala maintainer" a difficult task.
Unless you're willing to invest in supporting it, I'd say no. If you want a functional language go to a real one, not one built on top of Java. And be sure that the use case for it fits the language.
The idea of a "Perfect Storm" is a shit idea popularized by that dumb-ass book.
Anything that happens in life can be seen as a random confluence of multiple, independent events. A car accident? 5 seconds would have prevented it. Getting killed by a falling tree limb? Just imagine all the things that have to happen for the branch to fall on someone walking under it.
Those "perfect storm" events happen all the time, every day, in multiple contexts.
If you want to protect your privacy, the first step is to not use use google services or Facebook. That includes google DNS!
At least they aren't getting any closer.
You mean all the android app stores combined will beat the singular Apple AppStore. Does that include amazon?
Morons.
Hey moron, ISPs have been able to sell your anonymized data since forever. How have you been hurt by this?
Oh, and those rules never went into effect. Doh!
Selling anonymous usage data has been in the rules since day 1. Duh. That changed 5 months ago. Now by reverting to the old way people are saying the internet will die?
Pull your heads out of your collective asses.
Instead of "Houston, we have a problem" we'll have "Mumbai, do me the needful."
If you're an android user you can't really update the OS on your phone because for the vast majority of handsets there are no updates available.
For these surveys they really need to add some questions to determine if the respondent is just flat-out lying or just doesn't understand the difference between an app update and an OS update.
Plus, some answers make no sense. Who updates their OS when it isn't convenient for them? WTF does that even mean?
Microsoft already won this case in the 2nd circuit. Apparently the Feds are venue-shopping while the case is on appeal to the Supremes?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Programmers love to program. However, the best software comes from more thinking and less programming.
"Every 802.11 radio on a mobile device possesses a 48-bit link-layer MAC address that is a globally unique identifier for that specific WiFi device."
Uh, no. That address is assumed to be unique and identifies a specific WiFi radio/client. There is no enforcement for uniqueness, and indeed you can spoof your MAC address.
Assuming the MAC is a unique identifier is always a Bad Idea.