More drives = faster raid. And that's before considering that 2.5" drives have an inherently faster seek time than 3.5" drives simply because of the smaller circumference of the platter.
But slower transfer because the on-platter density is typically lower. Know your workload, and all that.
I think that a bunch of friends of mine and I should gather up a bunch of guns, steal a large parcel of land by slaughtering the people who live there until they give us the deed, and build a town. Anyone who doesn't agree with our rules should be shot or locked in a steel cage with other people of the same sex who will inevitably start raping them. Rules are subject to change any time we feel like it. Everyone who lives in our town has to chip in money or they are shot/put into the rape cage. No one can come into our town unless we say, so rape cages or death for outside intruders who aren't like us. We also don't like that plant you have, so rape cages for people who grow or possess that plant. No one is allowed to own their house in our town. Everyone pays rent. Don't pay? Rape cage or death. If you wanna open a business? Gotta pay an extra special rent. Don't pay? Rape cage. Everyone in our town has to accept the money we print, just an FYI. If you use some other money we can't keep track of how you chip in for everything. No using other money. Do it? Rape cage up in this shit.
Here's what we give you in return -
1. If someone rapes you who we didn't permit, give us a call and we'll check it out. If we find them, we'll throw them into a rape cage for a couple years, maybe.
2. If someone murders you, we'll show up after the fact and look around and have someone look at your corpse and maybe see who did it. If we find them, rape cage or death.
3. If someone steals your shit. we'll take a report.
4. We'll make sure the roads are usable. We will of course rent you a piece of plastic that allows you to use them. If we catch you without your special piece of plastic, snap! You go into the cage.
5. We'll let you call yourself "Free"
I think that this idea is totally awesome and it's how everyone else should live. If some other town does things differently, we round up a bunch of folks from our town and send them over to this other town and have them put to death or put into rape cages. Of course you'll have to pay to get our guys over to the other town, and pay for when they get hurt, and pay for them to eat. Everybody has to chip in. Don't chip in? Rape cage or death.
So who else wants to join in with my awesome plan? (Mind you, if you don't... RAPE CAGE OR DEATH)
Memcached is not meant for single-server configurations
That's silly, it's a generic object store. There's no reason not to use it to cache expensive local operations. Of course it shines across a farm of caches, but the server mapping hash will work just fine with one machine.
If you're a startup with just one webserver and starting to hit performance problems, memcached will likely buy you a few more months.
Going from one server to two is hard, three is a bit more work, and after three it's roughly all the same until you start adding more data centers and then it's all the same until you're Facebook. Taking on that 'hard' expense too early would be a poor allocation of resources.
But 4 years in prison? What's the US come to when there's a serious contingent that thinks this is a fair punishment for not revealing a password for 12 days that wound up hurting nobody?
It's not like he just raped an innocent girl - he gave the middle finger to authority.
I suppose it'll come down to Sweden protecting the journalist when it has extradition treaties with other countries who are demanding Julian's head on a platter, errr, I mean a trial for embarrassing those other governments (by revealing the truth of their actions).
Of course, 'protection' is a weird term because really Sweden would only be protecting Julian (or whomever) from Sweden, because it's not likely that those third parties would stage a military kidnapping.
It's weird that in Sweden you have to fill out paperwork to apply for protection of human rights (free speech isn't free under the cloud of kidnapping).
The fact that they don't transmit continuously (or at all at low speeds).
Assuming a 4-wheeled vehicle, you'd have a signal on average every 15 seconds, right? AFAIK they're not clocked.
But yes, I'm sure the manufacturer can report which transmitters went with which vin... but they currently are not.
How would you know this (either way)? Are you saying they refuse subpoenas on this or that one has never been issued?
And yes, I'm sure the states could mandate them in inspections, but all you'd have to do is swap them out again once you got home... or remove them entirely. That is really the weak spot in the whole system. You can just swap them out yourself, the way people bypass emissions systems or retune their vehicles after they get home from a state inspection. Its virtually undetectable by law enforcement. It keeps honest people honest, and that's about it.
The talk a couple years ago was to check these at sobriety checkpoints. You could do the same at toll booths if you wanted to (I don't think either are in practice).
Realistically, if they really wanted to enhance the vehicle tracking system, they'd just augment the license plate to include a transponder of some sort.
We call that EZPass in these parts.
Going at it by way of tracking tire-pressure sensors is simply needlessly complicated way of going at it.
I still think it's an order of magnitude cheaper if you wanted to do it. Look at this another way - why hasn't EZPass switched over to an all-optical/OCR system?
You cannot buy more than 4 cores from Intel for less than a grand, while for less than a grand you can get a 12-core chip from AMD.
Right, this really surprised me. I've got two cores from Intel for $79 and six cores is a grand? No, that's a $300 chip, silly rabbits.
AMD's putting 12 on one die simplifies/cheapens the motherboard too. For my applications 12 cores per server is enough. I know some folks would have to see a dualie on this, and maybe it's available, but for my average use cases this is all win.
A large percentage of humans are altruistic. A small percentage aren't.
I agree, psychopaths (clinically) are a major problem.
It doesn't take that many people to look out for themselves for a strongman to install himself as leader. The history of society hasn't been campfires and kum-ba-ya - not withing groups, and certainly not between them.
No, but history also hasn't been rife with free, contemplative people who understand human rights ideas either, especially in separation from a Church. The folks who organized the US Revolution made a good effort in this direction.
If we could all just get along we wouldn't need government in the first place.
I grant with 100% certitude that society without government would have problems. The trick, then is to measure if government, as currently imagined, does better or worse than those problems. We're doing very badly right now.
As for the difference between Africa and Western Civilization, a brief comparison of body counts quickly demonstrates that we're not the kinder gentler society.
I think altruism is universal and it appears apparent that governments are required for massive warfare. It was the GGP who was referring to Africa as being different.
Er, right. I guess that's why the people responsible for the last few years of recession, or that little oil spill, or the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, are all African, without any squeaky-clean, morally upstanding westerners involved at all.
I was suggesting that you're conflating government and society, and as a counter-example, you're offering a huge corporation that's made possible by government protection (that's what corporations are, "legal fictions", creations of government) that was poorly regulated by faulty government, and the government itself as examples of poorly-functioning society.
Right you are - I was just reading some states explicitly exempt them, other states have a 'no codes' policy. And the enlightened States are going 'no mandatory inspections' anyway.
Further TPMS monitoring would be a lot harder, given that anyone could just switch out their tire pressure transmitters, or remove them entirely.
Not if their presence is mandated for inspection. This seems to vary by State.
Not to mention lots of cars still don't have them.
And no doubt some antique cars never will. But every car built since 2008 will have them.
And its not like there is an established government registration system tracking which car they all belong too either.
I've read their id's are tied to the VIN at the factory. The VIN is obviously tied to people via the registration system, which is also mandatory.
The license plate systems are being challenged in court. Will TPMS come to the fore if they are disallowed? I dunno, but the technology does exist, may or may not be widely deployed, but is a bad idea regardless. There are even concerns about targeted IED's being used based on TPMS codes.
Basically, there's no reason for globally-unique MAC's to be needed for TPMS, but they're mandatory. Change this one thing and everything else goes away.
During the gilded age we were on specie backed currency.
Specie-backed, sure, but it was a hybrid commodity/credit money system. Especially after the greenbacks were retired around '78, local banks frequently issued local currency, with some degree of fractional reserve. There were certainly some bad actors who stretched the fractions too far, but to address this problem (which could have been addressed with better auditing) the government stepped in and regulated fractions and issues arbitrarily. This created runs on the banks, and pretty fierce boom and bust cycles, some local, some more national.
In fact, one of the biggest political battles of the era was for "free silver" and cost William Jennings Bryant the presidential election no less than 3 times, and he wasn't even arguing for fiat currency! He just wanted to change the specie.
Which was just a populist class-warfare ploy - the primary specie isn't all that significant if it meets the essential criteria for good money.
As for corporations - what exactly is your beef? That the government protects investors?
Sure, to a limited extent - corporate bankruptcy doesn't serve the same purposes as individual bankruptcy and encourages irresponsible behavior. But the bigger problem is protection of the corporate managers for that same behavior. It's very rare that individuals are held responsible for even the most reprehensible corporate behaviors. This creates a pattern of behavior that allows the corporation to grow large in a way that companies and partnerships cannot compete with. And so starts a positive feedback cycle.
And how, exactly would the economy be better with less investment?
Eh? More competition would create more investment and more economic activity.
Corporate personhood is a red herring, it's easy to get upset about the logic of it all, but it has little or no bearing on how business is actually conducted - and it certainly didn't in the 1880s.
Over time it has been used to prevent the revocation of corporate charters. The States used to regularly revoke charters of mis-behaving corporations. I doubt there were even a handful in the last decade.
The only important debate surrounding corporate personhood is as to how far the constitutional protection of free speech extends, specifically are corporate campaign donations to political complains protected.
That's only an issue because individual contributions are capped and due to the income tax. In the absence of those regulatory regimes, corporate politicking wouldn't be much of an issue, the managers could do that directly.
In conclusion, it's not going to happen, and you can forget it
Really? In a hundred years, the maximum vertical resolution on a display will be 1080?
The reasonable question is, 'when'? At some point current small high-res screen tech yields will be good enough that the TV companies can spend next to nothing more and have a marketing advantage. That still seems to be a few years off, unfortunately.
Unfortunately, the Rand-worshiping free-market fans almost always forget about the role government has in ensuring the marketplace remains a level playing field.
And what of the role of government in allowing these corporations to exist in the first place? Partnerships and companies rarely achieve anything near the size of corporations.
In some states if your car is outputting any ODB-II codes, you don't pass. I may or may not have a code eraser device I keep handy for such reasons.
Don't get me wrong, State inspections are a stupid, counter-productive idea. But they use them like a club in some jurisdictions to get what they want.
Even today the main cost in camera deployment for red-light and photo-radar camera tech is in the ruggedized camera installations. The actual camera and ocr tech isn't all that expensive.
You can already DIY with a web-cam and the right software.
Yeah, I can, but government pays $50,000-$100,000 @ for red-light cameras which are the class of tech you're talking about. They'd probably get off 'cheap' with a $200 worth of parts in an antenna/transponder setup for only $5,000 each.
For what proper role of government are secrets required?
Some of the information in these documents is exactly the kinds of things they need secrets for. It just doesn't make sense to make public things like informant's names and our military strategies.
Oh, so we need secrets to fight illegal wars and build an empire? OK, then, onward Wikileaks.
Military contractors don't have that much power. If they did, they wouldn't keep getting fined BY the government for various illegal activities (like mischarging of employee time).
That's just part of the game so they can pretend to have oversight. "Oooh, sorry, we'll pay you a $7M fine. How about that $733M contract, then?"
Slashdot Mirror
More drives = faster raid. And that's before considering that 2.5" drives have an inherently faster seek time than 3.5" drives simply because of the smaller circumference of the platter.
But slower transfer because the on-platter density is typically lower. Know your workload, and all that.
Here's an interesting deconstruction of the idea:
Memcached is not meant for single-server configurations
That's silly, it's a generic object store. There's no reason not to use it to cache expensive local operations. Of course it shines across a farm of caches, but the server mapping hash will work just fine with one machine.
If you're a startup with just one webserver and starting to hit performance problems, memcached will likely buy you a few more months.
Going from one server to two is hard, three is a bit more work, and after three it's roughly all the same until you start adding more data centers and then it's all the same until you're Facebook. Taking on that 'hard' expense too early would be a poor allocation of resources.
Memcached is designed to be fast AND non-secure, to be run on your local network
My entire training on memcached is a 45-minute LUG presentation I went to a couple years back, and even then this was readily apparent.
The affected websites need to review their security personnel and procedures.
But 4 years in prison? What's the US come to when there's a serious contingent that thinks this is a fair punishment for not revealing a password for 12 days that wound up hurting nobody?
It's not like he just raped an innocent girl - he gave the middle finger to authority.
I suppose it'll come down to Sweden protecting the journalist when it has extradition treaties with other countries who are demanding Julian's head on a platter, errr, I mean a trial for embarrassing those other governments (by revealing the truth of their actions).
Of course, 'protection' is a weird term because really Sweden would only be protecting Julian (or whomever) from Sweden, because it's not likely that those third parties would stage a military kidnapping.
It's weird that in Sweden you have to fill out paperwork to apply for protection of human rights (free speech isn't free under the cloud of kidnapping).
The fact that they don't transmit continuously (or at all at low speeds).
Assuming a 4-wheeled vehicle, you'd have a signal on average every 15 seconds, right? AFAIK they're not clocked.
But yes, I'm sure the manufacturer can report which transmitters went with which vin... but they currently are not.
How would you know this (either way)? Are you saying they refuse subpoenas on this or that one has never been issued?
And yes, I'm sure the states could mandate them in inspections, but all you'd have to do is swap them out again once you got home... or remove them entirely. That is really the weak spot in the whole system. You can just swap them out yourself, the way people bypass emissions systems or retune their vehicles after they get home from a state inspection. Its virtually undetectable by law enforcement. It keeps honest people honest, and that's about it.
The talk a couple years ago was to check these at sobriety checkpoints. You could do the same at toll booths if you wanted to (I don't think either are in practice).
Realistically, if they really wanted to enhance the vehicle tracking system, they'd just augment the license plate to include a transponder of some sort.
We call that EZPass in these parts.
Going at it by way of tracking tire-pressure sensors is simply needlessly complicated way of going at it.
I still think it's an order of magnitude cheaper if you wanted to do it. Look at this another way - why hasn't EZPass switched over to an all-optical/OCR system?
You cannot buy more than 4 cores from Intel for less than a grand, while for less than a grand you can get a 12-core chip from AMD.
Right, this really surprised me. I've got two cores from Intel for $79 and six cores is a grand? No, that's a $300 chip, silly rabbits.
AMD's putting 12 on one die simplifies/cheapens the motherboard too. For my applications 12 cores per server is enough. I know some folks would have to see a dualie on this, and maybe it's available, but for my average use cases this is all win.
A large percentage of humans are altruistic. A small percentage aren't.
I agree, psychopaths (clinically) are a major problem.
It doesn't take that many people to look out for themselves for a strongman to install himself as leader. The history of society hasn't been campfires and kum-ba-ya - not withing groups, and certainly not between them.
No, but history also hasn't been rife with free, contemplative people who understand human rights ideas either, especially in separation from a Church. The folks who organized the US Revolution made a good effort in this direction.
If we could all just get along we wouldn't need government in the first place.
I grant with 100% certitude that society without government would have problems. The trick, then is to measure if government, as currently imagined, does better or worse than those problems. We're doing very badly right now.
As for the difference between Africa and Western Civilization, a brief comparison of body counts quickly demonstrates that we're not the kinder gentler society.
I think altruism is universal and it appears apparent that governments are required for massive warfare. It was the GGP who was referring to Africa as being different.
Er, right. I guess that's why the people responsible for the last few years of recession, or that little oil spill, or the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, are all African, without any squeaky-clean, morally upstanding westerners involved at all.
I was suggesting that you're conflating government and society, and as a counter-example, you're offering a huge corporation that's made possible by government protection (that's what corporations are, "legal fictions", creations of government) that was poorly regulated by faulty government, and the government itself as examples of poorly-functioning society.
I must not be explaining my point well.
Right you are - I was just reading some states explicitly exempt them, other states have a 'no codes' policy. And the enlightened States are going 'no mandatory inspections' anyway.
Further TPMS monitoring would be a lot harder, given that anyone could just switch out their tire pressure transmitters, or remove them entirely.
Not if their presence is mandated for inspection. This seems to vary by State.
Not to mention lots of cars still don't have them.
And no doubt some antique cars never will. But every car built since 2008 will have them.
And its not like there is an established government registration system tracking which car they all belong too either.
I've read their id's are tied to the VIN at the factory. The VIN is obviously tied to people via the registration system, which is also mandatory.
The license plate systems are being challenged in court. Will TPMS come to the fore if they are disallowed? I dunno, but the technology does exist, may or may not be widely deployed, but is a bad idea regardless. There are even concerns about targeted IED's being used based on TPMS codes.
Basically, there's no reason for globally-unique MAC's to be needed for TPMS, but they're mandatory. Change this one thing and everything else goes away.
During the gilded age we were on specie backed currency.
Specie-backed, sure, but it was a hybrid commodity/credit money system. Especially after the greenbacks were retired around '78, local banks frequently issued local currency, with some degree of fractional reserve. There were certainly some bad actors who stretched the fractions too far, but to address this problem (which could have been addressed with better auditing) the government stepped in and regulated fractions and issues arbitrarily. This created runs on the banks, and pretty fierce boom and bust cycles, some local, some more national.
In fact, one of the biggest political battles of the era was for "free silver" and cost William Jennings Bryant the presidential election no less than 3 times, and he wasn't even arguing for fiat currency! He just wanted to change the specie.
Which was just a populist class-warfare ploy - the primary specie isn't all that significant if it meets the essential criteria for good money.
As for corporations - what exactly is your beef? That the government protects investors?
Sure, to a limited extent - corporate bankruptcy doesn't serve the same purposes as individual bankruptcy and encourages irresponsible behavior. But the bigger problem is protection of the corporate managers for that same behavior. It's very rare that individuals are held responsible for even the most reprehensible corporate behaviors. This creates a pattern of behavior that allows the corporation to grow large in a way that companies and partnerships cannot compete with. And so starts a positive feedback cycle.
And how, exactly would the economy be better with less investment?
Eh? More competition would create more investment and more economic activity.
Corporate personhood is a red herring, it's easy to get upset about the logic of it all, but it has little or no bearing on how business is actually conducted - and it certainly didn't in the 1880s.
Over time it has been used to prevent the revocation of corporate charters. The States used to regularly revoke charters of mis-behaving corporations. I doubt there were even a handful in the last decade.
The only important debate surrounding corporate personhood is as to how far the constitutional protection of free speech extends, specifically are corporate campaign donations to political complains protected.
That's only an issue because individual contributions are capped and due to the income tax. In the absence of those regulatory regimes, corporate politicking wouldn't be much of an issue, the managers could do that directly.
In conclusion, it's not going to happen, and you can forget it
Really? In a hundred years, the maximum vertical resolution on a display will be 1080?
The reasonable question is, 'when'? At some point current small high-res screen tech yields will be good enough that the TV companies can spend next to nothing more and have a marketing advantage. That still seems to be a few years off, unfortunately.
Unfortunately, the Rand-worshiping free-market fans almost always forget about the role government has in ensuring the marketplace remains a level playing field.
And what of the role of government in allowing these corporations to exist in the first place? Partnerships and companies rarely achieve anything near the size of corporations.
In some states if your car is outputting any ODB-II codes, you don't pass. I may or may not have a code eraser device I keep handy for such reasons.
Don't get me wrong, State inspections are a stupid, counter-productive idea. But they use them like a club in some jurisdictions to get what they want.
Even today the main cost in camera deployment for red-light and photo-radar camera tech is in the ruggedized camera installations. The actual camera and ocr tech isn't all that expensive.
You can already DIY with a web-cam and the right software.
Yeah, I can, but government pays $50,000-$100,000 @ for red-light cameras which are the class of tech you're talking about. They'd probably get off 'cheap' with a $200 worth of parts in an antenna/transponder setup for only $5,000 each.
Over the last couple decades reliable electronic means of reading this information off of fast moving vehicles has become commonplace.
What's the cost?
Your car won't pass inspection unless they're operational.
The government does need some secrets.
For what proper role of government are secrets required?
Some of the information in these documents is exactly the kinds of things they need secrets for. It just doesn't make sense to make public things like informant's names and our military strategies.
Oh, so we need secrets to fight illegal wars and build an empire? OK, then, onward Wikileaks.
What is the Pentagon trying to hide? Honestly Wikileaks should tell them to go get stuffed.
Apparently, Wikileaks missed something important in their reading of the documents they already have.
Military contractors don't have that much power. If they did, they wouldn't keep getting fined BY the government for various illegal activities (like mischarging of employee time).
That's just part of the game so they can pretend to have oversight. "Oooh, sorry, we'll pay you a $7M fine. How about that $733M contract, then?"
Not to mention, there is always your public library or Internet cafe.
Insert your smartcard or no access. All your packets will be signed by your cert, signed by a government CA or they won't get routed.
The third choice is for the CIA to stop trying to project power beyond the US border
John Kennedy agrees.
You obviously didn't grow up with Knight Rider.
The answer to all of your supposed challenges is 'Turbo Boost' and an AI to invoke it.
I'd buy a Volvo if it had a Cylon eye on it...