> It's funny how the slashbots think they're so superior and more intelligent than the general public.
I've spent enough time explaining to others the difference between sugar water labeled "Orange Drink" and real orange juice. Has nothing to do with intelligence, just healthy cynicism and a knowledge of some of the restrictions on labeling which have appeared in the media.
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Meanwhile you people go apeshit over the latest Apple product, Intel processor or Linux gadget.
Sorry, but I don't own a single Apple product, and never have. My current cpu is an AMD Sempron 2600 that's on its second motherboard (I don't need the "latest and greatest" - let others pay the premium). Linux gadget? I guess the set-top box qualifies... all my boxes run linux, so okay, I'll give you that one.
> Stop being so smug and arrogant, and you might be able to get laid for once in your life.
Come on, do you expect me to believe the stork brought my kids into the world?
Look, the fact is that a lot of the consumers out there ARE stupid. They buy stuff they don't even really want. Look at all the phoney claims for shampoos - "the science of silkience - scanner photography reveals blah blah blah..." "Red bull gives you wings!" Yeah, right, whatever... but it got people to buy it.
You're absolutely right. Pretty much all consumers are clueless. No wonder - their chief source of information about a product is advertising.
Look at how many by sugar water labeled as "Grape Drink" or "Orange Drink", thinking that there must be real juice in it, because they won't take the time to read the label, and manufacturers aren't required to state in bold letters "THIS IS NOT REAL FRUIT JUICE". Or "Best mileage in its class!" - which really means "it sucks gas, so we made a 'class' with others that suck even more for bogus comparison purposes". Or "dermatologist - recommended". Or the P4s that were, clock tick for clock tick, slower than the P3s, but would "enhance your multimedia experience."
Maybe public education should include classes in Critical Analysis of Ad Claims 101 and Weasel Word Composition.
Really, its not just online tracking... there are SO many things, from food packaging and labeling to software to car mileage figures to taxes to rights.
>"I would take a guy with a decade of solid experience over a recent CS grad every time."
I'm not disagreeing, except they're not looking for someone with a decade of experience. They're willing to settle for 2+ years. 2+ years, and a high school drop-out to boot.
We're not talking uni degree. We're not talking college degree. No technical school cert. No trade school cert. We're not even talking high school degree. A GED and 2 years experience. Not 10 years. Not 5 years. Two or more...
Wouldn't you at least TRY to get someone who appears just the teeniest bit more qualified? 10 years of experience beats a recent grad every time... but 2 years, and not even high school? Mighty thin gruel...
Read it yourself. Your link doesn't allow private individuals with their own guns to work as "security", which is what they are advertising they want to hire. Or do you have another link that somehow allows individuals, who are not employees of railroads, a detective agency, or a state-licensed guard or patrolman agency, to carry weapons while serving as "security" in Chicago.
How likely is it that someone who could only get a GED (aka a "good enough degree"), instead of finishing high school, is up to the job? Given a choice, would YOU trust a high-school dropout with 4000 servers?
I thought there was only one company offering it here - turns out I may not have to move after all - Videotron has tested a 100 mpbs service. They currently offer 20mpbs. With the bonding of multiple channels, you can also expect an increase in upload speeds - or better yet, devoting one or more channels only to uploading, to give high speeds in both directions.
Each city and municipal government is free to enlarge upon or impose their own laws, that can further limit what the state allows. Chicago is one such city - cops and military only, and as far as I can tell, that hasn't changed.
They're advertising for a unix/linux admin position in texas, 4000 servers, and, get this - high school or equivalent"
* Perform administration of Linux/Unix machines in a large server farm environment (4,000+ machines)
* Help ensure 24x7x365 operation
* Participate in an on-call schedule, including holidays and nights
* Quickly solve problems, automate tasks and create reports
* Work with I.T. staff, network engineers, and end users to troubleshoot problems with server applications
* Monitor and tune system and kernels for optimal performance
* Proactively monitor production machines for signs of impending hardware failure and perform preventative maintenance
* Perform migrations of customer data as needed to maintain balanced loads across systems/networks
* Maintain current software versions in a template/push architecture
* Train/mentor Junior System Administrators
* Continued learning, training and advancement
All this, and high school or equivalent? WTF!?!
Sounds like they're looking for someone with really low $$$ expectations. Is it responsible to put someone who could only get - maybe - a GED in this sort of position???
You can't GET a carry permit in Chicago, unless you're a cop or military.
CI Host didn't invest in proper facilities. Contrary to the article summary, the robbery was made by people forcing open the door lock to the office, when nobody was there, and an employee "just happened to show up later in response to the alarm". And the crooks "just happened to have tasers" instead of guns. And the crooks "just happened to steal all the non-existent video surveillance cameras".
And the walls are not "reinforced" - they're plain ordinary office walls. Unless you want to count a new coat of paint as "reinforcement".
They didn't bust through a wall this time - they forced the lock on the front door of the office "suite", according to a customer who went there the next day to check on his equipment.
The "reinforced walls" exist in the same universe as the "router outage".
There were no employees on duty at the time of the break-in. One employee showed up and got himself tazered, AFTER the door had been forced, in response to an alarm.
This was the 4th break-in in 3 years. That alone is suspicious. Taser? Sure, can't kill a co-worker, right?
Security cameras? There's now a question as to whether they (security cameras owned by CI Host) existed in the first place. The only cameras anyone has seen are a few owned by other businesses in the building...
If you check, you'll see that CI Host had none of the things you mention as requirements, except for the bandwidth.
Anyone in an urban area can get bandwidth nowadays. Heck, if I want to move a few blocks, I can get a 100 mbps fiber connection to my doorstep.
CI Host's location was a rented office in a slummy building, with nobody there at night, protected by what in this case proved to be an easily forced door lock, which is how entry was gained this time. How is that better than someone's basement? At least in someone's basement, there's more likelyhood of someone being around, or at least of neighbors being around. And maybe a dog or two?
Think about how the military handles their datacenters.
The military has people with guns & radios protecting their datacenters. Which seems to be lacking in this case.
The military also puts their datacenters into areas where there are people at night (this place was unmanned - the employee only showed up after the break-in started). They also use half-decent locks that can't be jimmied so easily (a customer went there the next morning and reported that the door to the office had been forced - not that a wall had been broken through).
"Had this data center been in another state like Nevada, the robbers would have probably not even attempted this, or if they did, would have died of acute lead poisoning."
Nope. CI Host had nobody on location when the break-in started (this time they just jimmied the door lock. The previous time, they smashed through a wall). The employee only showed up later, and that was when he was tazered.
So, a hosting center that's already been broken into 3 times in 3 years, nobody there at night, shabby part of the city, no physical security... gee - sounds like a great place to host... host your competitor's stuff, that is.
Besides, both the police and customers now think it was an inside job.
The employee wasn't on the premises when the door lock was jimmied open (no, they didn't "cut through a reinforced wall" - they just forced a door open according to the police report and people who went to visit the site the next day to check on their equipment)
Fat chance getting a concealed carry permit in Chicago.
Illinois is one of the few states that has no provision for the concealed carry of firearms by citizens. Open carry is also illegal, except when hunting. When a firearm is being transported, it must be unloaded and enclosed in a case.
Only cops and military get CCW permits.
CI Host doesn't want to spend the money on secure facilities, instead replacing that with a rent-a-dumb-warm-body. Dumb, because taking this job w/o a permit is just begging to be thrown in jail, and if you have the permit, you can sure as heck do better than CI Host.
Considering that they've been robbed 4 times, twice this year, and that it was probably an inside job, if anyone's still thinking of hosting with them, they might as well just take a sledge hammer to their boxes instead.
Contrary to what the article says, the police report says that a door lock was jimmied open, and there was nobody on the premises at first - the employee responded to an alarm report.
Liki I said, even my (or your) basement is more secure. When I'm not at home, at least there's still 3 big dogs, and there's the neighbors. This place was in a dump where nobody goes after dark.
"We are seeking motivated individuals"... translation: work cheap.
"Prior security experience preferred."... translation: not really a requirement, but if we can get it at no extra cost...
"Some College is also preferred."... if you managed to drop out of college instead of high school, you're more "presentable" to our insurers, who are now royally pissed at us...
... and if you scroll down to the bottom of the page:
"Armed Hand-gun license/permit and ability to supply own weapon a Huge Plus!: translation: "we're cheap! You're desperate AND stupid! Let's talk!"
"If you are selling space to clients though it doesn't work so well, many clients preffer to colocate thier own hardware rather than renting from the provider and many clients will also want to see evidence that thier machines are really in a datacenter and not someones basement."
I think they'd be better off hosting in someone's basement than in that data center. The "someone's basement" has a lot going for it, at least in my case... relatively anonymous, protected by 3 big dogs, and the only entrance to it is via a concealed trap door.
I agree its not worth buying them in HD format. I decided not to bother with a hi-def tv because I just don't watch much tv - between work, the dogs, friends and family, and the internet. who has time? Most months, I don't even turn it on.
And it's not like I'm going to waste my money buying a movie on either format (seriously, how many fucking times can you watch the same god damn movie?!
SPACEBALLS! or Serenity. or Firefly, or Frasier. or Scrooged! or Terminator. or Bladerunner. or M*A*S*H
If that's not enough - here's a collection of 2 more words a piece: Groundhog Day, Battlestar Galactica, Blazing Saddles, True Lies. Total Recall. Office Space.
Or 3 - The Blues Brothers (the original, not the sequel), Dead Like Me, 50 First Dates, Last Action Hero. School of Rock, Weekend at Bernies'
Not everyone is going to agree with everything on the list, but I'm sure most of us have stuff we'd like to see over and over, like Harold and Kumar Go To Whitecastle, 2 White Chicks, most of the James Bond movies, pretty much anything with Sean Connery (The Rock, for example).
The certificate is no more the license than a marriage certificate makes you married. Both indicate something external - the licence cert indicates that you are licensed to use the software, and losing the cert doesn't change that fact. Other proof of purchase is just as good. Same with marriage documents - if people lose their marriage docs, that doesn't suddenly make them unmarried.
Just as if I misplace my drivers' license, I'm not suddenly an unlicensed driver, having to pass the course again.
And no, you don't have to pay to keep your drivers' license current here - you have 11 months and 29 days grace after it expires, so what people who are not going to drive for a while do is renew their license in the last few weeks of the grace period, saving 11 months of fees. For vehicles, they can buy a parking plate, which replaces their regular plate, and doesn't have to be renewed, and is a lot cheaper than a regular plate.
For trailers, on the other hand, the plate is permanent, with a one-time fee. No renewing.
Over here, registrations are renewed every 2 years. Dirvers licenses are plastic - same as credit cards - and are re-issued every 4 years (or if you bugger it up too much using it as a windshield ice scraper, you can get another one for $8) The chance of it fading that much while in someone's wallet or purse is not very high. As for the plates, we can get a new one every 2 years if we don't want to keep the old one... like if we think the number has bad ju-ju/karma/whatever, or if its gotten dinged up too much.
Still, I see plates on the road that were issued 15 to 20 years ago, and they're still legible. Its not such a big issue since we did away with teh renewal stickers about a decade ago...
As for the software license, a sales receipt is good enough for a judge. Anyone wanting any more than that can "tell it to the judge" - but the judge won't buy it.
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> It's funny how the slashbots think they're so superior and more intelligent than the general public.
I've spent enough time explaining to others the difference between sugar water labeled "Orange Drink" and real orange juice. Has nothing to do with intelligence, just healthy cynicism and a knowledge of some of the restrictions on labeling which have appeared in the media.
> Meanwhile you people go apeshit over the latest Apple product, Intel processor or Linux gadget.
Sorry, but I don't own a single Apple product, and never have. My current cpu is an AMD Sempron 2600 that's on its second motherboard (I don't need the "latest and greatest" - let others pay the premium). Linux gadget? I guess the set-top box qualifies ... all my boxes run linux, so okay, I'll give you that one.
> Stop being so smug and arrogant, and you might be able to get laid for once in your life.
Come on, do you expect me to believe the stork brought my kids into the world?
Look, the fact is that a lot of the consumers out there ARE stupid. They buy stuff they don't even really want. Look at all the phoney claims for shampoos - "the science of silkience - scanner photography reveals blah blah blah ..." "Red bull gives you wings!" Yeah, right, whatever ... but it got people to buy it.
You're absolutely right. Pretty much all consumers are clueless. No wonder - their chief source of information about a product is advertising.
Look at how many by sugar water labeled as "Grape Drink" or "Orange Drink", thinking that there must be real juice in it, because they won't take the time to read the label, and manufacturers aren't required to state in bold letters "THIS IS NOT REAL FRUIT JUICE". Or "Best mileage in its class!" - which really means "it sucks gas, so we made a 'class' with others that suck even more for bogus comparison purposes". Or "dermatologist - recommended". Or the P4s that were, clock tick for clock tick, slower than the P3s, but would "enhance your multimedia experience."
Maybe public education should include classes in Critical Analysis of Ad Claims 101 and Weasel Word Composition.
>" US Consumers Clueless About Online Tracking"
US Consumers Clueless.
There, fixed it for you.
Really, its not just online tracking ... there are SO many things, from food packaging and labeling to software to car mileage figures to taxes to rights.
>"I would take a guy with a decade of solid experience over a recent CS grad every time."
I'm not disagreeing, except they're not looking for someone with a decade of experience. They're willing to settle for 2+ years. 2+ years, and a high school drop-out to boot.
We're not talking uni degree. We're not talking college degree. No technical school cert. No trade school cert. We're not even talking high school degree. A GED and 2 years experience. Not 10 years. Not 5 years. Two or more ...
Wouldn't you at least TRY to get someone who appears just the teeniest bit more qualified? 10 years of experience beats a recent grad every time ... but 2 years, and not even high school? Mighty thin gruel ...
Read it yourself. Your link doesn't allow private individuals with their own guns to work as "security", which is what they are advertising they want to hire. Or do you have another link that somehow allows individuals, who are not employees of railroads, a detective agency, or a state-licensed guard or patrolman agency, to carry weapons while serving as "security" in Chicago.
Didn't think so ...
How likely is it that someone who could only get a GED (aka a "good enough degree"), instead of finishing high school, is up to the job? Given a choice, would YOU trust a high-school dropout with 4000 servers?
I thought there was only one company offering it here - turns out I may not have to move after all - Videotron has tested a 100 mpbs service. They currently offer 20mpbs. With the bonding of multiple channels, you can also expect an increase in upload speeds - or better yet, devoting one or more channels only to uploading, to give high speeds in both directions.
Each city and municipal government is free to enlarge upon or impose their own laws, that can further limit what the state allows. Chicago is one such city - cops and military only, and as far as I can tell, that hasn't changed.
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They're advertising for a unix/linux admin position in texas, 4000 servers, and, get this - high school or equivalent"
All this, and high school or equivalent? WTF!?!Sounds like they're looking for someone with really low $$$ expectations. Is it responsible to put someone who could only get - maybe - a GED in this sort of position???
You can't GET a carry permit in Chicago, unless you're a cop or military.
CI Host didn't invest in proper facilities. Contrary to the article summary, the robbery was made by people forcing open the door lock to the office, when nobody was there, and an employee "just happened to show up later in response to the alarm". And the crooks "just happened to have tasers" instead of guns. And the crooks "just happened to steal all the non-existent video surveillance cameras".
And the walls are not "reinforced" - they're plain ordinary office walls. Unless you want to count a new coat of paint as "reinforcement".
They didn't bust through a wall this time - they forced the lock on the front door of the office "suite", according to a customer who went there the next day to check on his equipment.
The "reinforced walls" exist in the same universe as the "router outage".
There were no employees on duty at the time of the break-in. One employee showed up and got himself tazered, AFTER the door had been forced, in response to an alarm.
This was the 4th break-in in 3 years. That alone is suspicious. Taser? Sure, can't kill a co-worker, right?
Security cameras? There's now a question as to whether they (security cameras owned by CI Host) existed in the first place. The only cameras anyone has seen are a few owned by other businesses in the building ...
All very suspicious.
If you check, you'll see that CI Host had none of the things you mention as requirements, except for the bandwidth.
Anyone in an urban area can get bandwidth nowadays. Heck, if I want to move a few blocks, I can get a 100 mbps fiber connection to my doorstep.
CI Host's location was a rented office in a slummy building, with nobody there at night, protected by what in this case proved to be an easily forced door lock, which is how entry was gained this time. How is that better than someone's basement? At least in someone's basement, there's more likelyhood of someone being around, or at least of neighbors being around. And maybe a dog or two?
The military also puts their datacenters into areas where there are people at night (this place was unmanned - the employee only showed up after the break-in started). They also use half-decent locks that can't be jimmied so easily (a customer went there the next morning and reported that the door to the office had been forced - not that a wall had been broken through).
"Had this data center been in another state like Nevada, the robbers would have probably not even attempted this, or if they did, would have died of acute lead poisoning."
Nope. CI Host had nobody on location when the break-in started (this time they just jimmied the door lock. The previous time, they smashed through a wall). The employee only showed up later, and that was when he was tazered.
So, a hosting center that's already been broken into 3 times in 3 years, nobody there at night, shabby part of the city, no physical security ... gee - sounds like a great place to host ... host your competitor's stuff, that is.
Besides, both the police and customers now think it was an inside job.
CI Host doesn't want to spend the money on secure facilities, instead replacing that with a rent-a-dumb-warm-body. Dumb, because taking this job w/o a permit is just begging to be thrown in jail, and if you have the permit, you can sure as heck do better than CI Host.
Q: How in the high FUCK can you get a pistol or CCW permit in Chicago? ...
A: Only if you're a cop or military
CI Host is out to lunch (and they'll be out of business soon - the lawsuits are starting).
Considering that they've been robbed 4 times, twice this year, and that it was probably an inside job, if anyone's still thinking of hosting with them, they might as well just take a sledge hammer to their boxes instead.
Contrary to what the article says, the police report says that a door lock was jimmied open, and there was nobody on the premises at first - the employee responded to an alarm report.
Liki I said, even my (or your) basement is more secure. When I'm not at home, at least there's still 3 big dogs, and there's the neighbors. This place was in a dump where nobody goes after dark.
I couldn't make this stuff up. They're advertising for a security guard,
"We are seeking motivated individuals" ... translation: work cheap.
"Prior security experience preferred." ... translation: not really a requirement, but if we can get it at no extra cost ...
"Some College is also preferred." ... if you managed to drop out of college instead of high school, you're more "presentable" to our insurers, who are now royally pissed at us ...
"Armed Hand-gun license/permit and ability to supply own weapon a Huge Plus! : translation: "we're cheap! You're desperate AND stupid! Let's talk!"
"If you are selling space to clients though it doesn't work so well, many clients preffer to colocate thier own hardware rather than renting from the provider and many clients will also want to see evidence that thier machines are really in a datacenter and not someones basement."
I think they'd be better off hosting in someone's basement than in that data center. The "someone's basement" has a lot going for it, at least in my case ... relatively anonymous, protected by 3 big dogs, and the only entrance to it is via a concealed trap door.
I agree its not worth buying them in HD format. I decided not to bother with a hi-def tv because I just don't watch much tv - between work, the dogs, friends and family, and the internet. who has time? Most months, I don't even turn it on.
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SPACEBALLS! or Serenity. or Firefly, or Frasier. or Scrooged! or Terminator. or Bladerunner. or M*A*S*H
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If that's not enough - here's a collection of 2 more words a piece: Groundhog Day, Battlestar Galactica, Blazing Saddles, True Lies. Total Recall. Office Space.
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Or 3 - The Blues Brothers (the original, not the sequel), Dead Like Me, 50 First Dates, Last Action Hero. School of Rock, Weekend at Bernies'
Not everyone is going to agree with everything on the list, but I'm sure most of us have stuff we'd like to see over and over, like Harold and Kumar Go To Whitecastle, 2 White Chicks, most of the James Bond movies, pretty much anything with Sean Connery (The Rock, for example).The certificate is no more the license than a marriage certificate makes you married. Both indicate something external - the licence cert indicates that you are licensed to use the software, and losing the cert doesn't change that fact. Other proof of purchase is just as good. Same with marriage documents - if people lose their marriage docs, that doesn't suddenly make them unmarried.
Just as if I misplace my drivers' license, I'm not suddenly an unlicensed driver, having to pass the course again.
And no, you don't have to pay to keep your drivers' license current here - you have 11 months and 29 days grace after it expires, so what people who are not going to drive for a while do is renew their license in the last few weeks of the grace period, saving 11 months of fees. For vehicles, they can buy a parking plate, which replaces their regular plate, and doesn't have to be renewed, and is a lot cheaper than a regular plate.
For trailers, on the other hand, the plate is permanent, with a one-time fee. No renewing.
Over here, registrations are renewed every 2 years. Dirvers licenses are plastic - same as credit cards - and are re-issued every 4 years (or if you bugger it up too much using it as a windshield ice scraper, you can get another one for $8) The chance of it fading that much while in someone's wallet or purse is not very high. As for the plates, we can get a new one every 2 years if we don't want to keep the old one ... like if we think the number has bad ju-ju/karma/whatever, or if its gotten dinged up too much.
Still, I see plates on the road that were issued 15 to 20 years ago, and they're still legible. Its not such a big issue since we did away with teh renewal stickers about a decade ago ...
As for the software license, a sales receipt is good enough for a judge. Anyone wanting any more than that can "tell it to the judge" - but the judge won't buy it.
Oh, okay :-)
I switched back to ext3 for my latest install. I've never had a problem with reiserfs, but I do worry about its long-term viability ...