In the same way that some cabbie - an illiterate, fanatical Muslim high on hashish and tweaking on energy drinks - is inherrently safer than a "business class professional", sure. Why not?
Remember, government is here to help. As San Francisco needs a LOT of help with its transportation clusterfuck, they need a lot more regulation. It follows a certain mindset and mindset predisposition.
Not only that, but it's not possible for monogamy to be the result of infanticide (and through extrapolation, "evolved to prevent it"). If anything, it's the opposite: the survivors of infanticide benefited from it, and whatever genes passed down from their father which caused them to commit infanticide would be passed on to them, continuing the trend.
I would suspect that monogamy evolved out of necessity and lack of population density, possibly during a period of strong environmental stressors, when females were in short supply. I wouldn't be surprised if polygamy was co-evolved for similar reasons.
No, seriously. You didn't mean to imply there that developers would be managing actual systems, right? Surely you were talking about some jailed off environment with no external network access?
We've all seen that, and it works about as well as putting sawdust in an old car's oil to stop a heavy leak. Static "straight from the developer workstation" libraries copied over system binaries, root accounts left intentionally open (or unknowningly), everything left in a completely unpatched state for half a decade while on the public Internet, wanton use of cross host NFS mounts and conflicting hosts files, foolish storage arrangements (I once saw 24 disks in RAID0 on two different HBAs to a single host... which then got rsync'd to another RAID0 that wasn't used for anything other than a backup) - and so on. I've yet to see developers manage anything more than regular coffee and bathroom breaks which didn't make everyone who knew what they were doing groan.
I'd mod you up, if I believed in such crude heuristics.:P
Truthfully, my experience is pretty much identical to your's. They think they need 3 tiers of physical servers for their simple 3 month development project (which undoubtedly will get stretched to 6 or 9 months), by and large.
But this doesn't even verge into why they're asshats: they think they know what's going on everywhere, often with less input information to make their decision on than news ticker headlines and high gloss magazine covers. We're talking about the people who ride Harleys (or ricers of some kind) because they've heard they're cool; people who like the most obnoxious music, claim it's great, but have no musical talent; people who buy expensive wine but can't discern the difference between it and something cheaper; and are generally the most politically/ideologically noxious people you'll find out there out of straight hippies and bible thumpers, regardless of actual political affiliation.
I honestly only can think of a single developer who isn't obnoxious like that. He's politically liberal but socially conservative (kids, family). The rest seem to be different stripes of "I write shitty Java apps on a Mac and claim to work for Apple, even though I don't" - they're worst in the Bay Area by far.
And people wonder why I drive a vehicle from the 1980s... let's see, no electronics hooked to the vehicle control systems making it externally vulnerable to attack, no expensive electronic failures, no overly complex electronic controls, no expensive electrical/computer modules to fail, simple isolated systems, and an overall lower count of possible parts which can fail.
Result: I can have my fancy gadgets on their own 12v relay, completely independent from anything else working.
And why do we keep assuming that the NSA is wasting the time recording hours upon hours of audio, and that's how much storage is required?
Google has records of every phone call made through their system, undoubtedly. They have transcripts of all voicemails. They don't (necessarily) record all calls. Why wouldn't the NSA bother doing the same thing? This is relatively trivial today.
As someone who uses FreeNAS and who has many customers running it in high demand environments, I'm going to have to disagree with you.
I've had no problem replacing the latest generation, $80k NetApps with comparable $20k redundant TrueNas systems from ixSystems and seeing massive gains in performance at the same time, so I'm really curious where you get "kludgy" and "broken", nevermind "bugs under the hood".
Oh, upon further reading, it appears you really didn't understand what we're talking about here, so my apologies if I come off as an ass. We're talking about ix. You know, a vendor which has a branded version of FreeNAS called TrueNas, which they sell on their own hardware?
FreeNAS runs just fine on pretty damn near anything "off the shelf" of decent quality. You know, pick pretty much any Supermicro board. (You're going to run into problems with shitty Broadcom et al based systems, but then you're an idiot, and are going to run into those problems with pretty much everything but Windows...)
This news is well beyond old. I saw this two weeks ago, and the article is from a month ago. It was plastered all over the news outlets and geek sites, because it's not exactly a trivial thing.
Even 10 years ago, it wasn't common for parents to drive their kids to school. Now, seemingly everyone does. Thirty years ago, there weren't too many single parent households, and today it's over 50% - which means everyone has to go to daycare in the morning, too.
We survived those 'dark ages' by not spending hours each day in our cars. The cars were for Dad to get to work while Mom stayed home and the kids walked to school, and for the occasional family outing on the weekend.
Putting 100k miles on a vehicle 20 years ago was uncommon (and not only because they last longer today, but because people didn't drive as much). Today, it's not that hard to get 200k on a vehicle that's 5 years old.
On there? How about 'in there'? Unlike car stereos, they have non-standard mounting arrangements. I can't pull out the default setup and upgrade to something with, say, more storage. It's pretty closed box.
People steal gas like this all the time when power is out. One particular account I heard of: they parked directly over the fill point at a gas station with a full size cargo van. Inside the van, they had multiple large containers and a 12v pump. They had a 1' hole (or so) in the bottom of the van's body, near the rear axle, through which they were able to open the fill point and drop a hose. They'd done it several times before they were caught: the mistake was picking the same station 3 times in a row.
You can get about a gallon per 20 rotations of a rotary vane pump - about 3-5 GPM, all depending.
It would matter. The big thing that makes vbox useful is the extpacks: without them, Virtualbox has very limited desktop virtualization; with them, it's an awesome deployment staging and home/smb office option due to its ability to run on anything and everything (hardware) and a fair number of useful features (pxe boot, rdp server, utility through phpvirtualbox, etc.)
It's "not already dealt with". The power grid is a minor part of infrastructure at this point.
There were a couple M class storms two years ago. We mentioned them to our manager (we work for a small MSP) and told him that precautions should be made to not a) put ourselves into more risky situations (specifically on those days) and that we should anticipate higher failure rates of old equipment in the weeks following a strong storm.
He ignored us, of course, but we did notice a noticeably higher equipment failure rate in the next month. One customer had his old backup server go down and wasn't able to recover off the tapes from the past month, either, due to 'bitrot'. Now, magnify this significantly for a truly bad storm, something where you're seeing northern lights at the equator. How much data would be lost? How many companies would be impacted severely?
9 hours may be as long as you're "in the sun" during such an event, but there's something you're forgetting. It's an electromagnetic storm, and the earth's crust is conductive. (There were accounts of things receiving charge and hurting people a long time after dark with the Carrington event.)
Gasoline heating or cooling via electricity? Where is this common practice?
Most gasoline is stored below ground at stations for the purposes of preventing vapor volume loss. I'm not aware whether transport trucks employ cooling systems, but I doubt it's terribly necessary due to the volume of liquid we're dealing with.
Now, diesel heating is another matter. But even diesel is stored below ground, and the heating is usually done by inline vehicle systems.
I'd be interested in knowing more about this if you have any more info. I'm not finding much through a google search.
As far as the effects of what is basically a global EMP, we'd basically be dealing with a complete failure of modern infrastructure. Even old point-based automotive systems (no modern electronics) would likely have issues if it's bad enough - they still rely upon electricity. Older diesels could be push or crank started, but that'd require some messing.
And yet, the slowest part of Chrome is STILL the web cache, which was borrowed from Firefox years ago... "Waiting for cache..." is the most common thing I see my browser doing.
Oh really? It takes all of 5 seconds and a google search to tell you how severely misinformed you are.
Nazism rejected the Marxist concept of class struggle and instead promoted the idea of Volksgemeinschaft ("people's community"). Nazis wanted to overcome social divisions which they considered artificial; instead, all parts of the racially homogenous society should cooperate for national unity.[17] Nazism denounced both capitalism and communism for being associated with Jewish materialism.[18] Like other fascist movements, Nazism supported the outlawing of strikes by employees and lockouts by employers, because these were regarded as a threat to national unity.[19] Instead, the state controlled and approved wage and salary levels.[19]
Did I really need to quote this here? This is the tip of the iceberg; Nazi social policy was rife with Marx-infused social policies (aka socialism) of "us vs. them". They replaced 'capitalism' with 'anything Jews run' in their ideology, but the end was the same.
It's idiotic political leftists in the US who make claims like you, in the hope that the evil committed by the Nazis wouldn't be associated with their ideals - in much the same way as the so-called liberals in the US have tried hard for decades to associate the Nazis with "right wing" ideology.
This is America. In theory, we 'overthrow the government' every 2 or 4 years. It's called regime change. I don't see anything odious about his statement.
I really fucking hate it when people make shit up out of whole cloth like this, simply to support their personal political agenda or vendetta.
A vast majority of animals, and most human cultures other than graeco-roman allow polygamy, usually as the default mode. By a quirk of history, this particular culture won and imposed it customs on everyone else. And now, unless you follow the deviation of restricting yourself to just one partner, you go to prison in most countries.
Please, demonstrate for me how polygamy is the norm through even a majority of cultures - forget most. It's simply not true: the gross majority of cultures are predominantly monogamist or serial monogamist. Homosexuality, pedophilia, and the like aren't entirely unheard of, but they're not exactly common except for in Muslim culture.
If the goal here is to 'save money' or 'save resources' by having a high MPG/k/L, I don't really get the point of these 'ultra safe' cars.
I'm sorry, but I've seen dozens of what would've been considered 'minor fender benders' even 10 years ago result in the vehicles being irreparably totaled. I've personally been hit twice where the other late-model vehicle was put on a flatbed and (likely) scrapped: in both instances, I barely even noticed the impact in my 1980s-vintage vehicle, I had -maybe- $250 in total body damage each time, and nobody was hurt. These modern cars, to the exception of full size trucks, seem to lose pieces if they hit so much as a slightly sticky traffic cone. Considering the cost and resources that go into making them, and how easily they're totalled, I can't see this as a win for anyone but the automotive makers and insurers (through larger premiums).
You're not the typical "liberal socialist". The vast majority of self-ascribed "liberal socialists" aren't terribly liberal; they're totalitarians who have coopted the term "liberal" to mean something political which bellies the words' actual definition and to disguise the insidious nature of what they're intending. It's doublespeak, really. They want to ban things and, failing the political process, are not opposed to thuggish intimidation, public shaming, and things like blackmail to get what they want. We see this all the time in the US political system today, as it has been common in other societies before they fell into one form of totalitarianism or another.
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The only thing that O365 - a closed web platform available only to those who pay a subscription - on Android means is that users lose.
In the same way that some cabbie - an illiterate, fanatical Muslim high on hashish and tweaking on energy drinks - is inherrently safer than a "business class professional", sure. Why not?
Remember, government is here to help. As San Francisco needs a LOT of help with its transportation clusterfuck, they need a lot more regulation. It follows a certain mindset and mindset predisposition.
Not only that, but it's not possible for monogamy to be the result of infanticide (and through extrapolation, "evolved to prevent it"). If anything, it's the opposite: the survivors of infanticide benefited from it, and whatever genes passed down from their father which caused them to commit infanticide would be passed on to them, continuing the trend.
I would suspect that monogamy evolved out of necessity and lack of population density, possibly during a period of strong environmental stressors, when females were in short supply. I wouldn't be surprised if polygamy was co-evolved for similar reasons.
Ahahahahahahahahaa
*deeeeeep breath*
HAAAAAHAHAHAHAHahahaha
No, seriously. You didn't mean to imply there that developers would be managing actual systems, right? Surely you were talking about some jailed off environment with no external network access?
We've all seen that, and it works about as well as putting sawdust in an old car's oil to stop a heavy leak. Static "straight from the developer workstation" libraries copied over system binaries, root accounts left intentionally open (or unknowningly), everything left in a completely unpatched state for half a decade while on the public Internet, wanton use of cross host NFS mounts and conflicting hosts files, foolish storage arrangements (I once saw 24 disks in RAID0 on two different HBAs to a single host... which then got rsync'd to another RAID0 that wasn't used for anything other than a backup) - and so on. I've yet to see developers manage anything more than regular coffee and bathroom breaks which didn't make everyone who knew what they were doing groan.
I'd mod you up, if I believed in such crude heuristics. :P
Truthfully, my experience is pretty much identical to your's. They think they need 3 tiers of physical servers for their simple 3 month development project (which undoubtedly will get stretched to 6 or 9 months), by and large.
But this doesn't even verge into why they're asshats: they think they know what's going on everywhere, often with less input information to make their decision on than news ticker headlines and high gloss magazine covers. We're talking about the people who ride Harleys (or ricers of some kind) because they've heard they're cool; people who like the most obnoxious music, claim it's great, but have no musical talent; people who buy expensive wine but can't discern the difference between it and something cheaper; and are generally the most politically/ideologically noxious people you'll find out there out of straight hippies and bible thumpers, regardless of actual political affiliation.
I honestly only can think of a single developer who isn't obnoxious like that. He's politically liberal but socially conservative (kids, family). The rest seem to be different stripes of "I write shitty Java apps on a Mac and claim to work for Apple, even though I don't" - they're worst in the Bay Area by far.
And people wonder why I drive a vehicle from the 1980s... let's see, no electronics hooked to the vehicle control systems making it externally vulnerable to attack, no expensive electronic failures, no overly complex electronic controls, no expensive electrical/computer modules to fail, simple isolated systems, and an overall lower count of possible parts which can fail.
Result: I can have my fancy gadgets on their own 12v relay, completely independent from anything else working.
Yep.
And why do we keep assuming that the NSA is wasting the time recording hours upon hours of audio, and that's how much storage is required?
Google has records of every phone call made through their system, undoubtedly. They have transcripts of all voicemails. They don't (necessarily) record all calls. Why wouldn't the NSA bother doing the same thing? This is relatively trivial today.
As someone who uses FreeNAS and who has many customers running it in high demand environments, I'm going to have to disagree with you.
I've had no problem replacing the latest generation, $80k NetApps with comparable $20k redundant TrueNas systems from ixSystems and seeing massive gains in performance at the same time, so I'm really curious where you get "kludgy" and "broken", nevermind "bugs under the hood".
Oh, upon further reading, it appears you really didn't understand what we're talking about here, so my apologies if I come off as an ass. We're talking about ix. You know, a vendor which has a branded version of FreeNAS called TrueNas, which they sell on their own hardware?
FreeNAS runs just fine on pretty damn near anything "off the shelf" of decent quality. You know, pick pretty much any Supermicro board. (You're going to run into problems with shitty Broadcom et al based systems, but then you're an idiot, and are going to run into those problems with pretty much everything but Windows...)
This news is well beyond old. I saw this two weeks ago, and the article is from a month ago. It was plastered all over the news outlets and geek sites, because it's not exactly a trivial thing.
Even 10 years ago, it wasn't common for parents to drive their kids to school. Now, seemingly everyone does. Thirty years ago, there weren't too many single parent households, and today it's over 50% - which means everyone has to go to daycare in the morning, too.
We survived those 'dark ages' by not spending hours each day in our cars. The cars were for Dad to get to work while Mom stayed home and the kids walked to school, and for the occasional family outing on the weekend.
Putting 100k miles on a vehicle 20 years ago was uncommon (and not only because they last longer today, but because people didn't drive as much). Today, it's not that hard to get 200k on a vehicle that's 5 years old.
On there? How about 'in there'? Unlike car stereos, they have non-standard mounting arrangements. I can't pull out the default setup and upgrade to something with, say, more storage. It's pretty closed box.
I'd wager that at least 3/4ths of them are pretty evenly split up between:
* Bing and related ad services
* Online Services, eg. O365, Forefront, etc.
The bulk of the majority are probably serving up customer facing data (eg. Update).
How do you figure?
People steal gas like this all the time when power is out. One particular account I heard of: they parked directly over the fill point at a gas station with a full size cargo van. Inside the van, they had multiple large containers and a 12v pump. They had a 1' hole (or so) in the bottom of the van's body, near the rear axle, through which they were able to open the fill point and drop a hose. They'd done it several times before they were caught: the mistake was picking the same station 3 times in a row.
You can get about a gallon per 20 rotations of a rotary vane pump - about 3-5 GPM, all depending.
It would matter. The big thing that makes vbox useful is the extpacks: without them, Virtualbox has very limited desktop virtualization; with them, it's an awesome deployment staging and home/smb office option due to its ability to run on anything and everything (hardware) and a fair number of useful features (pxe boot, rdp server, utility through phpvirtualbox, etc.)
Because if you're black and don't, it means you're not supporting your race and you're "the man".
If you're white and don't, it means you're a race hater.
Don't ask it to make sense, politically manipulative rhetoric doesn't always make sense.
And until Obama has his Nobel Peace Prize revoked, the prize will be almost completely meaningless.
But I suppose this is no different than throughout history when both Stalin and Hitler were once nominated...
(Side note: should we really trust the UN as a governing body when they routinely make decisions like those above in this post?)
It's "not already dealt with". The power grid is a minor part of infrastructure at this point.
There were a couple M class storms two years ago. We mentioned them to our manager (we work for a small MSP) and told him that precautions should be made to not a) put ourselves into more risky situations (specifically on those days) and that we should anticipate higher failure rates of old equipment in the weeks following a strong storm.
He ignored us, of course, but we did notice a noticeably higher equipment failure rate in the next month. One customer had his old backup server go down and wasn't able to recover off the tapes from the past month, either, due to 'bitrot'. Now, magnify this significantly for a truly bad storm, something where you're seeing northern lights at the equator. How much data would be lost? How many companies would be impacted severely?
9 hours may be as long as you're "in the sun" during such an event, but there's something you're forgetting. It's an electromagnetic storm, and the earth's crust is conductive. (There were accounts of things receiving charge and hurting people a long time after dark with the Carrington event.)
Gasoline heating or cooling via electricity? Where is this common practice?
Most gasoline is stored below ground at stations for the purposes of preventing vapor volume loss. I'm not aware whether transport trucks employ cooling systems, but I doubt it's terribly necessary due to the volume of liquid we're dealing with.
Now, diesel heating is another matter. But even diesel is stored below ground, and the heating is usually done by inline vehicle systems.
I'd be interested in knowing more about this if you have any more info. I'm not finding much through a google search.
As far as the effects of what is basically a global EMP, we'd basically be dealing with a complete failure of modern infrastructure. Even old point-based automotive systems (no modern electronics) would likely have issues if it's bad enough - they still rely upon electricity. Older diesels could be push or crank started, but that'd require some messing.
And yet, the slowest part of Chrome is STILL the web cache, which was borrowed from Firefox years ago... "Waiting for cache..." is the most common thing I see my browser doing.
Oh really? It takes all of 5 seconds and a google search to tell you how severely misinformed you are.
Nazism rejected the Marxist concept of class struggle and instead promoted the idea of Volksgemeinschaft ("people's community"). Nazis wanted to overcome social divisions which they considered artificial; instead, all parts of the racially homogenous society should cooperate for national unity.[17] Nazism denounced both capitalism and communism for being associated with Jewish materialism.[18] Like other fascist movements, Nazism supported the outlawing of strikes by employees and lockouts by employers, because these were regarded as a threat to national unity.[19] Instead, the state controlled and approved wage and salary levels.[19]
Did I really need to quote this here? This is the tip of the iceberg; Nazi social policy was rife with Marx-infused social policies (aka socialism) of "us vs. them". They replaced 'capitalism' with 'anything Jews run' in their ideology, but the end was the same.
It's idiotic political leftists in the US who make claims like you, in the hope that the evil committed by the Nazis wouldn't be associated with their ideals - in much the same way as the so-called liberals in the US have tried hard for decades to associate the Nazis with "right wing" ideology.
This is America. In theory, we 'overthrow the government' every 2 or 4 years. It's called regime change. I don't see anything odious about his statement.
I really fucking hate it when people make shit up out of whole cloth like this, simply to support their personal political agenda or vendetta.
A vast majority of animals, and most human cultures other than graeco-roman allow polygamy, usually as the default mode. By a quirk of history, this particular culture won and imposed it customs on everyone else. And now, unless you follow the deviation of restricting yourself to just one partner, you go to prison in most countries.
Please, demonstrate for me how polygamy is the norm through even a majority of cultures - forget most. It's simply not true: the gross majority of cultures are predominantly monogamist or serial monogamist. Homosexuality, pedophilia, and the like aren't entirely unheard of, but they're not exactly common except for in Muslim culture.
If the goal here is to 'save money' or 'save resources' by having a high MPG/k/L, I don't really get the point of these 'ultra safe' cars.
I'm sorry, but I've seen dozens of what would've been considered 'minor fender benders' even 10 years ago result in the vehicles being irreparably totaled. I've personally been hit twice where the other late-model vehicle was put on a flatbed and (likely) scrapped: in both instances, I barely even noticed the impact in my 1980s-vintage vehicle, I had -maybe- $250 in total body damage each time, and nobody was hurt. These modern cars, to the exception of full size trucks, seem to lose pieces if they hit so much as a slightly sticky traffic cone. Considering the cost and resources that go into making them, and how easily they're totalled, I can't see this as a win for anyone but the automotive makers and insurers (through larger premiums).
You're not the typical "liberal socialist". The vast majority of self-ascribed "liberal socialists" aren't terribly liberal; they're totalitarians who have coopted the term "liberal" to mean something political which bellies the words' actual definition and to disguise the insidious nature of what they're intending. It's doublespeak, really. They want to ban things and, failing the political process, are not opposed to thuggish intimidation, public shaming, and things like blackmail to get what they want. We see this all the time in the US political system today, as it has been common in other societies before they fell into one form of totalitarianism or another.