Yes, and you fail. We all make decisions based on fear (as well as many other things). That's how humans work.
I bet you made the decision to go into work today because you feared being fired if you didn't show up. I bet you made the decision not to drive with your eyes closed because you feared getting in an accident if you did.
By the way, why don't you just drop your health insurance? Do you fear you might get sick and need medical care?
And take those locks off your front door. When was the last time you actually needed them? Do burglars try to open your front door on a daily basis? Nah, you just fear they do.
Interesting, thanks. I know they have a lot of traditional facilities that continue to grow, but I thought the economics of a pre-populated, configured, and tested node with xx,xxx servers was hard to beat. The 4-pack racks might have some simplification in terms of a "universal" standard module, but at the scale they are deploying them...wow.
I've been kind of taken aback at how much growth they're experiencing with the whole Azure thing, it's way more popular than I ever would have imagined.
Aren't all the Aszure data centers just Butler Buildings with shipping container compute nodes stacked inside? I would doubt they can make a traditional data center work economically for the server capaicty they are deploying.
Some are, some aren't. I think the shipping container thing is an older iteration (although still in use and probably still being built). They're made for unimproved areas, basically scrape a field flat, put up walls, dump the containers, then hook 'em up and turn 'em on. Guards patrol the perimeter and in between the rows of shipping containers. Lots of physical security.
They keep going through all sorts of different designs...classic colo buildings, "spine" layouts with a power/water "backbone", shipping container format, etc etc.
It's kind of interesting to see what they're doing. The shipping container things had open racks inside, almost nothing but stacked server boards bare-mounted in open racks.
I wouldn't be too surprised if Microsoft bought some, gutted them, and fitted them with new racks of up-to-date gear. Right now MS is desperately in need of physical server space because their Azure stuff is actually (surprisingly) getting a lot of traction.
They literally cannot build datacenters fast enough so they've taken to leasing buildings and then doing the gut/harden/refurbish thing to them, turning them into colos and full-fledged DCs.
An existing DC would be a prime candidate for this as it's already a DC and would only need modern racks and servers. Cooling, power, and physical security are already there and that's what takes the longest to complete. Rack installation, on the other hand, can be done very quickly.
self-obsessed people prattling on about nothing important, I'm impressed someone could monetize narcissism of the masses
But now they can prattle on at length...stupefying, boring, length.
No longer with their posts about their "AWESOME breakfast" be limited to 140 chars, now they can shit out pages and pages of twaddle detailing their bagel and the egg and the coffee...for 10,000 characters.
In other words, twitter just invented something called a"forum".
Oh, what could POSSIBLY go wrong with this from a hacking perspective?
Absolutely nothing, nothing could possibly go wro-...hey, why the fuck is my fridge on fire? Whaddya mean it called 911 and then hung up? It called 911 two-hundred times?? Hey, how come there's an MRAP on my front lawn and guys with guns and bullhorns out front??
When did you need your car's airbag the most? When did you need your first-aid kit or fire extinguisher the most?
I've never needed any of those things
Well, I sincerely hope that if you ever do need any of those things, that you have them, because when you do need them it's usually too late to go out and get them.
You think you're really liberal left leaning with that rational?
Yes, I'm very liberal and left leaning, probably way more than you. Way, way more.
Just because we differ on gun ownership doesn't automatically mean I'm some nazi jackoff who watches FOX News and thinks in lock-step with them.
I happily voted for Obama twice, and I'm looking forward to voting for Bernie Sanders if I get the chance. And even though I'm straight, I'm happy to share the planet and my friendship with my LGBT brothers and sisters. I support same-sex marriage and was happy to see it become the law of the land.
I hate racist fucktards of every stripe and I have no patience for those who want to sign discriminatory bills into law under the guise of "religious freedom". I'd like to expand Medicare to cover every single person in America and ideally I'd like to see single-payer become the law, just like in most other civilized countries. I'd like to see pot made legal in every state in the US.
What else ya got? Because if it's a "lefty" position, I'm probably in favor of it. And I'm a gun owner as well. Those two things are not mutually exclusive, okay? Open your gun-slit view of the world, life isn't just a set of binary choices.
30 years you have carried a firearm every day. How different would your life have been had you not?
Fortunately, not very.
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Rephrased: How many people have you shot?
None that I can recall. Would you be happier if I'd had reason to shoot a bunch of people? Would THAT make my desire to carry a little more palatable to you?
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What is it good for, if you haven't used it for what its good for in 30 years? Are you sure you need a gun every day?
What use is the first aid kit I've carried for 30+ years but never used? What use is the fire extinguisher I've had in my car(s) for the last 30+ years but never used? Seriously maybe I should just quit carrying one. I'm sure I'll know ahead of time when I'll need it, right? Trouble always calls ahead, right?
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If you knew that in 30 more years, it still will make no difference, would you still carry?
Nope. If I could predict the future and knew I wouldn't need it, then no, I wouldn't bother. Sadly though, I cannot predict what's for breakfast tomorrow let alone if I may get into some kind of jam or be the victim of a robbery, road rage, or some other misfortune.
If I could predict the future and knew I wouldn't need car insurance, I wouldn't bother with that either.
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But I want you and everyone to have good reason for carrying a gun and if that reason isn't there, then stop carrying.
Thanks, but I have all the reason that I need.
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EDC is about minimalism and necessity.
Yeah, thanks, but I after 30 years of EDC, I think I got the hang of it.
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BTW I applaud your ability not to have accidently injured yourself or anyone else with a gun, and your ability not to blow away loved ones and yourself over trivial matters while intoxicated.
Well that's mighty nice of you to applaud my responsible use, I may just print your comment out, frame it, and hang it on the wall where I can bask in the warm glow of its approval.
yeah, like I figured, only in your fantasies of using your gun to be a superhero. here's a news flash - it's never gonna happen.
It is my sincere, heartfelt hope that I will never have to draw or use my firearm.
I've avoided doing so up to now, but since I can't predict the future I'll keep it handy, the same way I keep a first aid kit and a fire extinguisher handy.
Sorry if that offends you. Perhaps you should consider that I'm not one of the people out there making trouble by owning or carrying a gun, as 30+ years of incident-free carry should show. If the need arose to come to your aid, I'd do it, but rest assured, I'm not out looking for trouble. If I was, I'm sure I could have managed to find some in the last 30 years or so.
Nope, I'm the guy in the next aisle over in the supermarket, minding his own business. Or the guy who's getting his mail from his PO box at the same time as you. I may be that guy walking hand-in-hand with his wife in the department store, bored and wishing she would just hurry up, lol.:)
Sometimes I'm the guy who will slow down a bit to let you into traffic, I mean, heck, why not? And sometimes I'm that guy you drive by who's mowing his lawn, raking leaves, or just out taking a walk around the neighborhood to get some exercise. Or the guy behind you in the line at the mini-mart.
But I'm not that guy who's got a chip on his shoulder, looking for any excuse to get in an argument and cause shit.
I needed my car's airbag the most that one time it went off when I was in an accident.
You mean you have an air bag installed in your car just in case you have an accident? Are you actually saying that you don't know ahead of time when you'll need it most?
I used to play games all the time, but now the whole style of trying to fleece you at every opportunity has turned me off. I'm sure I'm not the only one.
You're not, not by a long shot.
I don't even really play any games any more because they ALL bring you to a point where it's "pay or fail".
When I pull the trigger, I want it to go bang, period. I don't want to see a "LOW BATTERY" warning or a find out a circuit is fried when I need it most.
Out of interest, in the last 30 years when did you need it most?
Every time I carry it I need it most.
When did you need your car's airbag the most? When did you need your first-aid kit or fire extinguisher the most?
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I try not to make decisions based on fear...
Yes, and you fail. We all make decisions based on fear (as well as many other things). That's how humans work.
I bet you made the decision to go into work today because you feared being fired if you didn't show up.
I bet you made the decision not to drive with your eyes closed because you feared getting in an accident if you did.
By the way, why don't you just drop your health insurance? Do you fear you might get sick and need medical care?
And take those locks off your front door. When was the last time you actually needed them? Do burglars try to open your front door on a daily basis? Nah, you just fear they do.
Interesting, thanks. I know they have a lot of traditional facilities that continue to grow, but I thought the economics of a pre-populated, configured, and tested node with xx,xxx servers was hard to beat. The 4-pack racks might have some simplification in terms of a "universal" standard module, but at the scale they are deploying them...wow.
I've been kind of taken aback at how much growth they're experiencing with the whole Azure thing, it's way more popular than I ever would have imagined.
Aren't all the Aszure data centers just Butler Buildings with shipping container compute nodes stacked inside? I would doubt they can make a traditional data center work economically for the server capaicty they are deploying.
Some are, some aren't. I think the shipping container thing is an older iteration (although still in use and probably still being built). They're made for unimproved areas, basically scrape a field flat, put up walls, dump the containers, then hook 'em up and turn 'em on. Guards patrol the perimeter and in between the rows of shipping containers. Lots of physical security.
They keep going through all sorts of different designs...classic colo buildings, "spine" layouts with a power/water "backbone", shipping container format, etc etc.
It's kind of interesting to see what they're doing. The shipping container things had open racks inside, almost nothing but stacked server boards bare-mounted in open racks.
I wouldn't be too surprised if Microsoft bought some, gutted them, and fitted them with new racks of up-to-date gear. Right now MS is desperately in need of physical server space because their Azure stuff is actually (surprisingly) getting a lot of traction.
They literally cannot build datacenters fast enough so they've taken to leasing buildings and then doing the gut/harden/refurbish thing to them, turning them into colos and full-fledged DCs.
An existing DC would be a prime candidate for this as it's already a DC and would only need modern racks and servers. Cooling, power, and physical security are already there and that's what takes the longest to complete. Rack installation, on the other hand, can be done very quickly.
Seems to me that if you wanted to brute force something, you'd start with the minimum size allowed and go up from there.
Exactly.
I think this attack is probably going to be minimally useful at best, and even then only for very short, stupid passwords.
Sue EVERYONE for EVERYTHING!
Hey, you're breathing at the same rate as me- I'M SUING!!!
Hey, you put mustard on your sandwich just like I do- I'M SUING!!!
Hey, you drive with one hand on the wheel just like I do- I'M SUING!!!
Hey, you sue people just like I do- I'M SUING!!! Oh, wait...
No, forums can have threads. This is not organized.
Just wait until next year when they come out with their AWESOME NEW feature called Twitter-Threads.
+1 Good comeback. *tips hat*
And they said my college education would never pay off. HA HA, SUCK IT, PROFESSOR JORGENSON!
Twitter: the confetti of the internet, now with even more contentless crap!
self-obsessed people prattling on about nothing important, I'm impressed someone could monetize narcissism of the masses
But now they can prattle on at length...stupefying, boring, length.
No longer with their posts about their "AWESOME breakfast" be limited to 140 chars, now they can shit out pages and pages of twaddle detailing their bagel and the egg and the coffee...for 10,000 characters.
In other words, twitter just invented something called a"forum".
So basically they invented a forum.
Woooo, it's so innovative, I feel dizzy.
Thanks. But can you please come up with a definitive list so we all know about all the other things you don't want?
Not a chance, there isn't a database big enough to hold them all.
I can't possibly imagine anything that could go wrong with guys in a lab fucking around with DNA.
Oh, what could POSSIBLY go wrong with this from a hacking perspective?
Absolutely nothing, nothing could possibly go wro- ...hey, why the fuck is my fridge on fire? Whaddya mean it called 911 and then hung up? It called 911 two-hundred times?? Hey, how come there's an MRAP on my front lawn and guys with guns and bullhorns out front??
To think I've been opening my fridge all these years :(.
That's so old school. You really need a $4000 fridge, a $500 smartphone, and a network connection to properly see what's in in there.
Perhaps Apple could improve the system by letting you set your own predefined daily spending limit.
That's an excellent idea.
I doubt Apple would ever implement it, but perhaps some enterprising programmer could write an app that enforces a daily limit on spending.
I think that would be pretty popular, actually.
And guess who won't be buying Samsung's latest refrigerator?
If other people want this, great, have at it. But it's just not something I want.
When did you need your car's airbag the most? When did you need your first-aid kit or fire extinguisher the most?
I've never needed any of those things
Well, I sincerely hope that if you ever do need any of those things, that you have them, because when you do need them it's usually too late to go out and get them.
You think you're really liberal left leaning with that rational?
Yes, I'm very liberal and left leaning, probably way more than you. Way, way more.
Just because we differ on gun ownership doesn't automatically mean I'm some nazi jackoff who watches FOX News and thinks in lock-step with them.
I happily voted for Obama twice, and I'm looking forward to voting for Bernie Sanders if I get the chance. And even though I'm straight, I'm happy to share the planet and my friendship with my LGBT brothers and sisters. I support same-sex marriage and was happy to see it become the law of the land.
I hate racist fucktards of every stripe and I have no patience for those who want to sign discriminatory bills into law under the guise of "religious freedom". I'd like to expand Medicare to cover every single person in America and ideally I'd like to see single-payer become the law, just like in most other civilized countries. I'd like to see pot made legal in every state in the US.
What else ya got? Because if it's a "lefty" position, I'm probably in favor of it. And I'm a gun owner as well. Those two things are not mutually exclusive, okay? Open your gun-slit view of the world, life isn't just a set of binary choices.
30 years you have carried a firearm every day. How different would your life have been had you not?
Fortunately, not very.
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Rephrased: How many people have you shot?
None that I can recall. Would you be happier if I'd had reason to shoot a bunch of people? Would THAT make my desire to carry a little more palatable to you?
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What is it good for, if you haven't used it for what its good for in 30 years? Are you sure you need a gun every day?
What use is the first aid kit I've carried for 30+ years but never used? What use is the fire extinguisher I've had in my car(s) for the last 30+ years but never used? Seriously maybe I should just quit carrying one. I'm sure I'll know ahead of time when I'll need it, right? Trouble always calls ahead, right?
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If you knew that in 30 more years, it still will make no difference, would you still carry?
Nope. If I could predict the future and knew I wouldn't need it, then no, I wouldn't bother. Sadly though, I cannot predict what's for breakfast tomorrow let alone if I may get into some kind of jam or be the victim of a robbery, road rage, or some other misfortune.
If I could predict the future and knew I wouldn't need car insurance, I wouldn't bother with that either.
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But I want you and everyone to have good reason for carrying a gun and if that reason isn't there, then stop carrying.
Thanks, but I have all the reason that I need.
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EDC is about minimalism and necessity.
Yeah, thanks, but I after 30 years of EDC, I think I got the hang of it.
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BTW I applaud your ability not to have accidently injured yourself or anyone else with a gun, and your ability not to blow away loved ones and yourself over trivial matters while intoxicated.
Well that's mighty nice of you to applaud my responsible use, I may just print your comment out, frame it, and hang it on the wall where I can bask in the warm glow of its approval.
yeah, like I figured, only in your fantasies of using your gun to be a superhero. here's a news flash - it's never gonna happen.
It is my sincere, heartfelt hope that I will never have to draw or use my firearm.
I've avoided doing so up to now, but since I can't predict the future I'll keep it handy, the same way I keep a first aid kit and a fire extinguisher handy.
Sorry if that offends you. Perhaps you should consider that I'm not one of the people out there making trouble by owning or carrying a gun, as 30+ years of incident-free carry should show. If the need arose to come to your aid, I'd do it, but rest assured, I'm not out looking for trouble. If I was, I'm sure I could have managed to find some in the last 30 years or so.
Nope, I'm the guy in the next aisle over in the supermarket, minding his own business. Or the guy who's getting his mail from his PO box at the same time as you. I may be that guy walking hand-in-hand with his wife in the department store, bored and wishing she would just hurry up, lol. :)
Sometimes I'm the guy who will slow down a bit to let you into traffic, I mean, heck, why not? And sometimes I'm that guy you drive by who's mowing his lawn, raking leaves, or just out taking a walk around the neighborhood to get some exercise. Or the guy behind you in the line at the mini-mart.
But I'm not that guy who's got a chip on his shoulder, looking for any excuse to get in an argument and cause shit.
I can still find video games that don't do that.
I love to hear of some that don't devolve into a "pay me" mode...care to share a few titles?
I needed my car's airbag the most that one time it went off when I was in an accident.
You mean you have an air bag installed in your car just in case you have an accident? Are you actually saying that you don't know ahead of time when you'll need it most?
I used to play games all the time, but now the whole style of trying to fleece you at every opportunity has turned me off. I'm sure I'm not the only one.
You're not, not by a long shot.
I don't even really play any games any more because they ALL bring you to a point where it's "pay or fail".
When I pull the trigger, I want it to go bang, period. I don't want to see a "LOW BATTERY" warning or a find out a circuit is fried when I need it most.
Out of interest, in the last 30 years when did you need it most?
Every time I carry it I need it most.
When did you need your car's airbag the most? When did you need your first-aid kit or fire extinguisher the most?