if there where an AMI on the Amazon cloud available. its beyond my imagination why they dont do this. 50% of the people hammering the server in the first few days wont do more than test it for 10 minutes anyway. They could be redirected elegantly to to pay for themself.
Exactly. Treat users like customers. You are there to assist them in what they are doing. If you cant do something they ask you to do then apologize to them and explain why. It will greatly increase the acceptance of what you are saying.
go to Japan, test it on the line Tokyo-Osaka-Kyushu. The lines have to be chosen carefully, but if you connect megacities with it, then it can be a major economic factor. 100 billion dollar may sound a lot, but it actually isnt. it its operated over 30 years, then this is $8 million per day which you have to get in or subsidise. If you hav 500000 people per day using it, then thats $20 per ticket. 500000 Is the number of people riding per day on the Tokaido Shinkansen. $20 means (at my current rate) that the train has to save me 15 Minutes of my time. And hell, yeah, it did that when i liven in Japan. Going to the next airport (always outside the city), onto a previously booked ticket, waiting for a delayed flight with unreasonable security waiting lines, to the destination city and then have restriction when to travel back was a lot more troublesome than just stumbling into the train station whenever i want, catch a train withing the next 20 minutes without booking before, going many times close to the city center, and returning whenever i wanted.
The economic meaning of the shinkansen for the cities between is incredible. Cities which would otherwise suffer a never-ending drain of companies and young people into the two megacity area are sustainable *only* because of a shinkansen stop nearby.
I will resort to a kind of reactive armor, which blows up the SUV only in case it crashes onto some part of my car and threatens to hurt the passenger cell. I think a directed charge of 100g of something medium-explosive to blow up the SUV into the air and away from my car should be enough. In the logic of aforementioned SUV owner, better he than me.
And one of my favourite games was "death track" (yeah, the one where we were glad to have 16colors....)
However, since i dont have to compile the software included in the distros myself, i usually dont do it. Unless the version is outdated or i want to patch something.
I am not sure how pointing a TOS violation would make you liable. If the court wants facebook to open access to your profile then it should rule so.
If i own a shop where somebody bought something or use my services he used for cheating on his wife then - if the court thinks its necessary - the court should rule that i grant the court and the opposing party access to the proof.
The court should not allow to give unauthorized persons the key to a room i possess without asking me. In fact its not even unlikely that by following the court oder the guy actually would violate some other laws
I would write a letter to facebook stating the following:
I intent to share my password with another person for my own advantage. Since i intentionally violate the TOS i would kindly ask you to delete my account or prohibit access.
Then i would wait try to delay swapping of the passwords until that is processed.
I was unhappy enough to use a server at work where somebody believed he is better in getting a freebsd system with a kernel configured by him stable and running as a server than a dedicated linux configured and supported for a specific hardware (e.g. HP servers which are certified for Redhat). I can say: no, he was not....
It may seem to you that you can do all the testing and problem solving easily and that the idiots just put in too much features, but in a real use case you may have a tricky locking issue between samba and multiple clients. You may have some configuration which creates data corruption under highly specific circumstances. You may even have weird performance bumps which you never figure out.
Yes. You could do it. If you know the kernel well. If you invest time. And if you have the resources and skills to reproduce the test cases well enough.
Users will be pissed if they loose Data once to a weird locking problem and they will be more pissed if that happens twice. If you cant figure it out then the server is completely useless until you figure it out.
Unless you have that, please use yum or apt-get to install preconfigured software. Your creative freedom should be the one to choose the right (linux) distribution (Remark: If you need it running and fixed, the buy support). There is at least one for everybody nowadays.
Ahem. Because in the plane there is no hotel room around the person?
Anybody who thinks its appropriate to watch an adult movie on his tablet while sitting 30cm away from the neighbor can already do that if he downloads the movie before.
That holds for discussion in seminars on future work, a referee report, conference presentation, or an email to get a statement, ever ask for proof. Never doubt the result directly in a personal communication with the author. Specifically ask for clarification on the 'unclear points'. A 'You present very interesting results, and i think a quantification to estimate possible effects would be extremely important' can not be dismissed easily as an attack. If the other side looses temper then, the fault is clearly on their side. If the other side admits the data is not valid enough you have what you wanted. If they admit they never thought about this (to prevent admitting the data is not precise enough), then they loose their face in the community.
no, they should just not claim to be compliant. there are so many regulations in the world to which you can be compliant that a company who needs to be compliant just needs to *verify* that all services used are as compliant as its needed.
is that they get key management right. No external CA, everything is in their hands.
Every company or organization who wants to operate something similarly safe can already do it (disable all external CAs on the devices you give to your employees, and roll out your own CA in the correct way). It will cost, probably the same amount it would cost to operate a BB, since the main cost is not the technology or the setup but the logistics to get qualified and reliable employees in a safe organization to distribute the keys onto the employees.
Now if several organizations want their employees to communicate safely on the other hand then its getting a little bit more troublesome, but then a compnay like RIM could provide a mail transport agent between companies which requires some more authentication than usual.
If i should get used (=learn, test, adapt) to something new, i have to understand the advantage. I switch (small erratic test phases excluded) my working environment very seldom: From 1996 to 2002 i used (c)twm, from 2002 to 2006 icewm on slower machines and gnome on faster ones. After 2006 i only used gnome on ubuntu.
So why do i switch?
a) an old system "stops working" and that means its not well integrated into the current distro and compatibilities with standard programs are not checked. I like if things like network manager just are present on the standard desktop out of the box and if programs dont give erratic messages.
b) Better, unbeatable features, like better possibilities for integration between programs.
c) daily tasks get more easy by making better use of the screenspace
In comparison to gnome Unity has a small advantage on my dell netbook, which i only used to read email, surf the web and listen to music.
If i need more than 4 icons in unity then i use gnome-do. And i figured then i can just use the menu instead....
However, none of the options (that includes Windows) IMHO beats the 1992 OS/2 WPS. I am really disappointed that, whenever i tried to use drag and drop in the last few years nothing (or something weird happend). The plethora of stupid web-packed in exe-applications made that even worse.
The value depends for sure on the technology used and the temperature. If you use spins aligned in a weak magnetic field which store information e.g at a transition frequency of 1GHz and accept operation at temperatures of some milliKelvins , then you will find that the same information takes only 2*10^-28g:
octave:20> 6.62e-34*1e9*(4e9*8)/(3e8^2)*1e3 ans = 2.3538e-28
This should not be confused with the fundamental limits which are involved.
But constructing the formula for an applicable system Energies as a function of required reset speed, generated field strength, readout speeds, error rates as a function of temperature and available nonlinearities would be an interesting task for an exercise in a physics course on thermodynamics (and in the limit: quantum mechanics).
> Our CIO is convinced that technical support for any product is worthless.
I know of people who were lucky to have bought Redhat on a supported Hardware and getting a quite subtle question about a specific raid controller config which blocked them from using their compute cluster answered promptly.
99% of my time my computer does not need to do these things. I guess all these thing take less than 1h per week for me. And yes, if some manufacturer/vendor which i cant avoid says to me: "it works under windows, no comment on anything else", then i maybe dont like it but my time is too valuable to me to try to save 15Euro and 500Megs of ram at the moments of need and not to use a VM.
i just was hired for skills which i acquired 8-15 years ago (but maintained them) which are unrelated to my PhD title. So i dont exactly know which IT skills he is talking about, but the only skill of mine which lost value strongly is actually my perl coding skill. Or is he talking about the clickedmins which don't find the control panel and need training if the windows version changes.
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if there where an AMI on the Amazon cloud available. its beyond my imagination why they dont do this. 50% of the people hammering the server in the first few days wont do more than test it for 10 minutes anyway. They could be redirected elegantly to to pay for themself.
Exactly. Treat users like customers. You are there to assist them in what they are doing. If you cant do something they ask you to do then apologize to them and explain why. It will greatly increase the acceptance of what you are saying.
go to Japan, test it on the line Tokyo-Osaka-Kyushu. The lines have to be chosen carefully, but if you connect megacities with it, then it can be a major economic factor. 100 billion dollar may sound a lot, but it actually isnt. it its operated over 30 years, then this is $8 million per day which you have to get in or subsidise. If you hav 500000 people per day using it, then thats $20 per ticket. 500000 Is the number of people riding per day on the Tokaido Shinkansen. $20 means (at my current rate) that the train has to save me 15 Minutes of my time. And hell, yeah, it did that when i liven in Japan. Going to the next airport (always outside the city), onto a previously booked ticket, waiting for a delayed flight with unreasonable security waiting lines, to the destination city and then have restriction when to travel back was a lot more troublesome than just stumbling into the train station whenever i want, catch a train withing the next 20 minutes without booking before, going many times close to the city center, and returning whenever i wanted.
The economic meaning of the shinkansen for the cities between is incredible. Cities which would otherwise suffer a never-ending drain of companies and young people into the two megacity area are sustainable *only* because of a shinkansen stop nearby.
Getting the directed message out to 8000 possible customers for $20000 is pretty cheap. Local Ads are expensive and difficult.
Ok you are right.
I will resort to a kind of reactive armor, which blows up the SUV only in case it crashes onto some part of my car and threatens to hurt the passenger cell. I think a directed charge of 100g of something medium-explosive to blow up the SUV into the air and away from my car should be enough. In the logic of aforementioned SUV owner, better he than me.
And one of my favourite games was "death track" (yeah, the one where we were glad to have 16colors....)
Excuse me. The idea to combine geographic positions with specific messages to the user is *not new*.
In that logic, to protect myself, is it ok to blow SUVs off the road using anti-vehicle weapons?
If i stop the intake of water then dehydration will follow, no matter if i consumed it regularly before or not.
So it does *not* decrease the risk of dehydration. The risks stay the same.
Moreover, also an intake of .5L per day could be regular, but not prevent dehydration.
However, since i dont have to compile the software included in the distros myself, i usually dont do it. Unless the version is outdated or i want to patch something.
I am not sure how pointing a TOS violation would make you liable. If the court wants facebook to open access to your profile then it should rule so.
If i own a shop where somebody bought something or use my services he used for cheating on his wife then - if the court thinks its necessary - the court should rule that i grant the court and the opposing party access to the proof.
The court should not allow to give unauthorized persons the key to a room i possess without asking me. In fact its not even unlikely that by following the court oder the guy actually would violate some other laws
I would write a letter to facebook stating the following:
I intent to share my password with another person for my own advantage. Since i intentionally violate the TOS i would kindly ask you to delete my account or prohibit access.
Then i would wait try to delay swapping of the passwords until that is processed.
I am not worried. Unless there is an unexpected breakthrough there will be no QC able to factorize anything beyond 2^30 in 20 years.
I would say: make boni AND mali if you like. Just making only Boni for an action will always imbalance the game.
Not the time will not come back in spades.
I was unhappy enough to use a server at work where somebody believed he is better in getting a freebsd system with a kernel configured by him stable and running as a server than a dedicated linux configured and supported for a specific hardware (e.g. HP servers which are certified for Redhat). I can say: no, he was not....
It may seem to you that you can do all the testing and problem solving easily and that the idiots just put in too much features, but in a real use case you may have a tricky locking issue between samba and multiple clients. You may have some configuration which creates data corruption under highly specific circumstances. You may even have weird performance bumps which you never figure out.
Yes. You could do it. If you know the kernel well. If you invest time. And if you have the resources and skills to reproduce the test cases well enough.
Users will be pissed if they loose Data once to a weird locking problem and they will be more pissed if that happens twice. If you cant figure it out then the server is completely useless until you figure it out.
Unless you have that, please use yum or apt-get to install preconfigured software. Your creative freedom should be the one to choose the right (linux) distribution (Remark: If you need it running and fixed, the buy support). There is at least one for everybody nowadays.
Ahem. Because in the plane there is no hotel room around the person?
Anybody who thinks its appropriate to watch an adult movie on his tablet while sitting 30cm away from the neighbor can already do that if he downloads the movie before.
That holds for discussion in seminars on future work, a referee report, conference presentation, or an email to get a statement, ever ask for proof. Never doubt the result directly in a personal communication with the author. Specifically ask for clarification on the 'unclear points'. A 'You present very interesting results, and i think a quantification to estimate possible effects would be extremely important' can not be dismissed easily as an attack. If the other side looses temper then, the fault is clearly on their side. If the other side admits the data is not valid enough you have what you wanted. If they admit they never thought about this (to prevent admitting the data is not precise enough), then they loose their face in the community.
no, they should just not claim to be compliant. there are so many regulations in the world to which you can be compliant that a company who needs to be compliant just needs to *verify* that all services used are as compliant as its needed.
cheaper devices (designed cheaper) with otherwise similar performance specs fail more often.
What would be interesting would be how high-end android devices from brands with a brand image compare to the iphone.
is that they get key management right. No external CA, everything is in their hands.
Every company or organization who wants to operate something similarly safe can already do it (disable all external CAs on the devices you give to your employees, and roll out your own CA in the correct way). It will cost, probably the same amount it would cost to operate a BB, since the main cost is not the technology or the setup but the logistics to get qualified and reliable employees in a safe organization to distribute the keys onto the employees.
Now if several organizations want their employees to communicate safely on the other hand then its getting a little bit more troublesome, but then a compnay like RIM could provide a mail transport agent between companies which requires some more authentication than usual.
If i should get used (=learn, test, adapt) to something new, i have to understand the advantage. I switch (small erratic test phases excluded) my working environment very seldom: From 1996 to 2002 i used (c)twm, from 2002 to 2006 icewm on slower machines and gnome on faster ones. After 2006 i only used gnome on ubuntu.
So why do i switch?
a) an old system "stops working" and that means its not well integrated into the current distro and compatibilities with standard programs are not checked. I like if things like network manager just are present on the standard desktop out of the box and if programs dont give erratic messages.
b) Better, unbeatable features, like better possibilities for integration between programs.
c) daily tasks get more easy by making better use of the screenspace
In comparison to gnome Unity has a small advantage on my dell netbook, which i only used to read email, surf the web and listen to music.
If i need more than 4 icons in unity then i use gnome-do. And i figured then i can just use the menu instead....
However, none of the options (that includes Windows) IMHO beats the 1992 OS/2 WPS. I am really disappointed that, whenever i tried to use drag and drop in the last few years nothing (or something weird happend). The plethora of stupid web-packed in exe-applications made that even worse.
The value depends for sure on the technology used and the temperature. If you use spins aligned in a weak magnetic field which store information e.g at a transition frequency of 1GHz and accept operation at temperatures of some milliKelvins , then you will find that the same information takes only 2*10^-28g:
octave:20> 6.62e-34*1e9*(4e9*8)/(3e8^2)*1e3
ans = 2.3538e-28
This should not be confused with the fundamental limits which are involved.
But constructing the formula for an applicable system Energies as a function of required reset speed, generated field strength, readout speeds, error rates as a function of temperature and available nonlinearities would be an interesting task for an exercise in a physics course on thermodynamics (and in the limit: quantum mechanics).
> Our CIO is convinced that technical support for any product is worthless.
I know of people who were lucky to have bought Redhat on a supported Hardware and getting a quite subtle question about a specific raid controller config which blocked them from using their compute cluster answered promptly.
moreover they will later claim that any company who offers solar electricity to charge mobile devices violates apples patents.
99% of my time my computer does not need to do these things. I guess all these thing take less than 1h per week for me. And yes, if some manufacturer/vendor which i cant avoid says to me: "it works under windows, no comment on anything else", then i maybe dont like it but my time is too valuable to me to try to save 15Euro and 500Megs of ram at the moments of need and not to use a VM.
i just was hired for skills which i acquired 8-15 years ago (but maintained them) which are unrelated to my PhD title. So i dont exactly know which IT skills he is talking about, but the only skill of mine which lost value strongly is actually my perl coding skill. Or is he talking about the clickedmins which don't find the control panel and need training if the windows version changes.