As a side benefit, the power sources help cool you down
Typically if you take something that's trying to dump waste heat, and install something that recovers power from that heat, it creates an insulating effect, reducing the cooling the object was receiving. Heat can't be turned directly into energy, only difference in heat. Adding a heat reclamation system doesn't help cool something down because the power it's getting is from the temperature difference, not the heat itself. Instead it takes power from the temperature gradient, and as such reduces the temperature gradient, thus reducing cooling efficiency.
so they can get out of the cold at night. Where I live, there is lots of heated, unused space, and yet people are freezing outside. WTF?
Spend a little time as a property owner that's tired of bums pissing in the corners in your property you're going to try to show the next morning, or what happens more often, they light fires inside anyway despite of the heat, and burn the place down.
Ya, these types need to be locked out. You can't just blanket-trust every man on the street not to trash your place if you leave the door unlocked, because eventually they will trash it. It's not a maybe or a probably. it will happen in a short space of time. The average bum keeps a building he's managed to get inside about as well as the alley he was just at outside.
Looking on the bright side, everyone that's pissed off about the bing lock-in has several weeks now to tell verizon to kiss off without getting totally robbed. I'd call that good timing on Verizon's part, for their (soon-to-be-ex)customers?
so they disposed of it how almost every group disables potential bombs, by shooting it.
last I checked, C4 does not blow up when shot. watched too many movies maybe?
or you could BOOT the computer and see that it's a, well, computer.
This has nothing to do with looking for bombs. They were screwing around with this person and that was as far as they thought they had "authority" to go with it.
Tho this one was lucky, there are a lot of smaller countries out there that would simply drag you into a locked room someone and have a "discussion". (and if you're lucky they'll drive you to the hospital before starting the followup questioning)
But hard to say just how much of an offense a lot of those "convenient details" mattered in that setting. Some of those middle east countries are downright crazy when it comes to "finding meaning" in some of the most common and innocent things. If they want you to be evil, that bar of soap could be branded as a war crimes weapon, in the right mind. (that is not in its right mind)
Proprietary software whose functionality requires a given service to be infallible is the problem
and just two stories down is another article telling how MS let a cert expire now and it's causing software written in 2003 to lock users out... MS is just flush with examples of this flawed concept today...
MS has a reputation for adding security as an afterthought, which almost always makes for very poor quality security. The whole "secure by design" concept just isn't part of their general dev cycle. Looks like this TrustedBird is taking an already solid base and hardening it, which is not necessarily the ideal way to go, but certainly beats the alternative of trying to harden something that's very soft to start with.
play a game with friends. Top couple players by points win at the end. Everyone either chooses A, B, or C for maybe 10 rounds.
If you pick A, you get one point
if you pick B, you get two points for everyone else that picked B, minus 3 points for everyone that picked C
if you pick C, you get five points, plus two points for everyone that picked B, minus ten points for everyone else that picked C
Run that ten rounds and see what happens.
At the start it's clear that B is a good pick because everyone builds points fast. But then someone picks C and jumps ahead while all the B's get burned a little. Next round a bunch of people pick C and things spiral rapidly downhill from there, eventually with everyone picking C and everyone in the hole, except for the few that picked B until just before the first C, when they switched to A - who win the game.
a case of where the individuals are all trying to make decisions that are selfish, but if everyone is selfish, no one wins, so some have to be selfish and some have to fold, for any to survive. I seem to remember playing games like that as a kid, where it was basically a game of chicken, where no one could do anything until everyone was generous, and so everyone then starts building up, and whoever managed to switch back to greedy first won. Also reminiscent of the stock market during a bubble, eh?
No kidding! Another case of trying to childproof the world instead of worldproofing the child. This is like making you have to register to walk down the street, to make sure you're a safe person for some random person's child that may happen to walk past you to say Hello to.
How the child interacts with elements of the world is the parents' responsibility, not the world's. Teaching your child safe and appropriate behavior in your absence is 100% your responsibility as a parent. Every child is going to rebel a little, but if they consistently don't behave safely or appropriately when they're out of your range of control, you are failing as a parent, and it's Not My Problem. Fix it on your end.
If they know where the site is that's hosting the payload why don't they just shut them down? I realize the locations for the hosting are carefully chosen to provide maximum insulation, but still you'd expect that by now (years after this sort of thing became common) that there'd be mechanisms and procedures in place to break these down swiftly?
Of course, the developers COULD have been so completely half-assed that they didn't run a single build on an ATI card, in which case they should indeed be beaten to death with cluebats.:P
Lets not forget "We're still working on that nasty ATI bug." "I don't care, we have a deadline. The GM needs to be on my desk by noon so it'll be at the duplicators on Monday."
There is just no comparison between LEGOs and the cheap knockoffs. I remember having a giant amount of LEGOs and I was only interested in the functional ones. The men, windows, and other random parts quickly were thrown away.
I made things like a coin box with a functional three tumbler keyed lock. (if I would have glued the blocks to prevent disassembly, you'd be hard pressed to open it without the lego key) I wish those hadn't been given away to a relative when I got older.
I picked up a box of blocks a few years back, not realizing they were the crappy knockoffs. Can't make anything like that, the blocks catch and jam, don't fit well, have very little holding power, it's a mess. I remember being able to take the 2x4 LEGO blocks and make a stick almost six feet long held horizontally from the middle before they separated. Just try that with imitation LEGOs.
Many things you do get what you pay for. And LEGOs are one such example.
Owning a gun to protect the nation is as much true today as it was in the late 18th century.
The "right to bear arms" has nothing to do with protecting the nation. The sole reason for that amendment was to guarantee the citizens the right to bear arms, so that a citizen's rebellion against an out-of-hand government would be a guaranteed option. Back then, a lot of governments prevented their citizens from bearing arms to prevent uprisings, so they could be oppressed. Even today there are a lot of oppressive governments that prevent their citizens from obtaining arms so they can send a truckfull of soldiers into a town and lay down the law of the day without much opposition.
The law here is slowly shifting in the other direction. Good example: bulletproof vests. Who's allowed to own them? Govt and police only. The founding fathers would be rolling over in their graves if they heard that. If it had been up to them it'd be the other way around. Make the government's "soldiers" resistant to citizen gunfire and not vice-versa? Defeats the purpose of the amendment to a degree.
You have to remember that back then, big government was almost an enemy on par with the neighbor that wants to invade. This was in the day of monarchies and dictatorships everywhere. Government was understood to be a "necessary evil" and they were doing everything they could to make sure it could never get out of hand, and if it did, that it could be fixed by the people. Because so many places at that time and in the past had experienced the problem of an out of hand government turning against the people to serve a few in power.
It's a very tricky balance to design your government to be able to defend your nation, while at the same time be totally and irreversibly within the control of the people it's protecting. That's what a Democracy is attempting to achieve. Right to Bear Arms is a huge part of that, and not for the reason you were assuming.
it's unlikely that the ISPs have the detail and length of logs required to trace that. Just think of the mass of log files just 50 of their better bittorrent customers could generate in a month.
what if the switch has mixed 100BaseT and 1000BaseT rows. I don't know what kind of wire management could be devised for a situation like that.
Use different colors of cat6. You can use that to both separate speeds and separate subnets. (for example, red for LOPM, blue for internal LAN, grey for customer LANs)
the stupid fuckers tend to run single file up the tracks insead of stepping off to one side.
A lot of herd animals behave that way. I've seen numerous videos where people in savannah trucks are chasing down say, a giraffe, and can drive up right beside it and run directly beside it for miles if needed, and can just take their time to lasso it because it'll never cut away like you'd expect an intelligent animal being chased to do. Something about their instinct just drives them to run in a straight line as fast as they can, regardless of where the threat is.
(when you see a cowboy chasing down a wild horse, you rarely if ever see the horse cut away, they just get run down and lassoed in a straight line, funny I never realized that until I thought about it just now, not sure why I never questioned that behavior before?)
But I've never heard of them running ON railroad tracks. I wouldn't have even expected that to be possible, I have a hard time running on railroad tracks and I'm not going that fast nor do I have four feet to keep track of between the ties.
I'd like to know if anyone has "run the numbers" on a wiring closet before? I'd love to see numbers comparing cost (in materials and time) for:
1) grabbing from a pool of 2, 6, and 10 ft cables and plugging things in so it works. 2) custom cutting cables so they're no more than say, 2" longer than necessary, and running them neatly with a few ties and loops 3) #2 + good cable routing including looms, trays, and plenty of wire ties. + the cost to maintain.
Cost to maintain a "neat" cable arrangement is high. And if you have to move or shuffle something, you either have to go to a lot of work to make the change, or it's gonna really look like crap because you'll have 98% of the rack neat as a pin, with a handful of wires that look like crap going diagonally and sagging.
I'd be willing to bet that #2 is quadruple the cost of #1, (mainly in labor, cutting cables is slow, tiring work, the money you save in cable is insignificant), and #3 doubles the cost from #2.
As for the cost of electricity (I think we can safely write the rest of the claims of "accelerated hardware depreciation" off as complete BS, talkin' about school lab computers, not a datacenter here), although he really should have considered that, I wouldn't call it beyond the realm of possibility that he simply didn't. Keep in mind he started doing this before self-throttling CPUs became popular, meaning it made next to no difference in power consumption whether you kept your CPU idle or pegged at 100%.
I would also suggest that computers that could otherwise be off or hibernating/asleep for 12+ hrs/day (50% of the time) would tend to last longer. Generally speaking, besides the energy conservation, the hardware itself could easily be argued to have more quickly worn out. Hard drives not being spun up, fans not spinning, mechanical things mostly, last longer when a computer is put to sleep when not in use.
So this guy not only cost them a higher electricity bill, but also depreciated their hardware faster than necessary. He did cost them real money. If he was told to knock it off and didn't, I'd consider him at least somewhat liable for those additional expenses.
Also in the summer, leaving computers on more than necessary really heats up the labs. (speaking from experience here) And this means higher AC bills. You're paying more electricity to keep machines running when not necessary, and paying again to cool the room back down. Double damage. And that's in addition to the accelerated aging of the hardware.
Round these parts, deer can start becoming a problem when there's a really good season for them. They just widen the hunting season a few weeks or a month. Problem solved. And plenty of deer jerkey to go around.
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As a side benefit, the power sources help cool you down
Typically if you take something that's trying to dump waste heat, and install something that recovers power from that heat, it creates an insulating effect, reducing the cooling the object was receiving. Heat can't be turned directly into energy, only difference in heat. Adding a heat reclamation system doesn't help cool something down because the power it's getting is from the temperature difference, not the heat itself. Instead it takes power from the temperature gradient, and as such reduces the temperature gradient, thus reducing cooling efficiency.
spanking isn't very effective on 14yr-olds. especially if they're big enough to spank you
Physically large and has access to weapons.
If your kid has that, has attitude, and doesn't respect your authority as their parent, video games are the least of your problems.
so they can get out of the cold at night. Where I live, there is lots of heated, unused space, and yet people are freezing outside. WTF?
Spend a little time as a property owner that's tired of bums pissing in the corners in your property you're going to try to show the next morning, or what happens more often, they light fires inside anyway despite of the heat, and burn the place down.
Ya, these types need to be locked out. You can't just blanket-trust every man on the street not to trash your place if you leave the door unlocked, because eventually they will trash it. It's not a maybe or a probably. it will happen in a short space of time. The average bum keeps a building he's managed to get inside about as well as the alley he was just at outside.
Looking on the bright side, everyone that's pissed off about the bing lock-in has several weeks now to tell verizon to kiss off without getting totally robbed. I'd call that good timing on Verizon's part, for their (soon-to-be-ex)customers?
so they disposed of it how almost every group disables potential bombs, by shooting it.
last I checked, C4 does not blow up when shot. watched too many movies maybe?
or you could BOOT the computer and see that it's a, well, computer.
This has nothing to do with looking for bombs. They were screwing around with this person and that was as far as they thought they had "authority" to go with it.
Tho this one was lucky, there are a lot of smaller countries out there that would simply drag you into a locked room someone and have a "discussion". (and if you're lucky they'll drive you to the hospital before starting the followup questioning)
But hard to say just how much of an offense a lot of those "convenient details" mattered in that setting. Some of those middle east countries are downright crazy when it comes to "finding meaning" in some of the most common and innocent things. If they want you to be evil, that bar of soap could be branded as a war crimes weapon, in the right mind. (that is not in its right mind)
Proprietary software whose functionality requires a given service to be infallible is the problem
and just two stories down is another article telling how MS let a cert expire now and it's causing software written in 2003 to lock users out... MS is just flush with examples of this flawed concept today...
MS has a reputation for adding security as an afterthought, which almost always makes for very poor quality security. The whole "secure by design" concept just isn't part of their general dev cycle. Looks like this TrustedBird is taking an already solid base and hardening it, which is not necessarily the ideal way to go, but certainly beats the alternative of trying to harden something that's very soft to start with.
Kudos to them for open sourcing it.
play a game with friends. Top couple players by points win at the end. Everyone either chooses A, B, or C for maybe 10 rounds.
If you pick A, you get one point
if you pick B, you get two points for everyone else that picked B, minus 3 points for everyone that picked C
if you pick C, you get five points, plus two points for everyone that picked B, minus ten points for everyone else that picked C
Run that ten rounds and see what happens.
At the start it's clear that B is a good pick because everyone builds points fast. But then someone picks C and jumps ahead while all the B's get burned a little. Next round a bunch of people pick C and things spiral rapidly downhill from there, eventually with everyone picking C and everyone in the hole, except for the few that picked B until just before the first C, when they switched to A - who win the game.
a case of where the individuals are all trying to make decisions that are selfish, but if everyone is selfish, no one wins, so some have to be selfish and some have to fold, for any to survive. I seem to remember playing games like that as a kid, where it was basically a game of chicken, where no one could do anything until everyone was generous, and so everyone then starts building up, and whoever managed to switch back to greedy first won. Also reminiscent of the stock market during a bubble, eh?
while browsing for those links I also found Exploratorium (Perplexus looks good)
the majority of the pieces are solid monochrome, making their orientation irrelevant
Or parents could be parents
No kidding! Another case of trying to childproof the world instead of worldproofing the child. This is like making you have to register to walk down the street, to make sure you're a safe person for some random person's child that may happen to walk past you to say Hello to.
How the child interacts with elements of the world is the parents' responsibility, not the world's. Teaching your child safe and appropriate behavior in your absence is 100% your responsibility as a parent. Every child is going to rebel a little, but if they consistently don't behave safely or appropriately when they're out of your range of control, you are failing as a parent, and it's Not My Problem. Fix it on your end.
Because linux sucks ass for games and is counterproductive to most users
and that's sooo important for those hosting web servers whose SQL is being hacked...
If they know where the site is that's hosting the payload why don't they just shut them down? I realize the locations for the hosting are carefully chosen to provide maximum insulation, but still you'd expect that by now (years after this sort of thing became common) that there'd be mechanisms and procedures in place to break these down swiftly?
Of course, the developers COULD have been so completely half-assed that they didn't run a single build on an ATI card, in which case they should indeed be beaten to death with cluebats. :P
Lets not forget "We're still working on that nasty ATI bug." "I don't care, we have a deadline. The GM needs to be on my desk by noon so it'll be at the duplicators on Monday."
There is just no comparison between LEGOs and the cheap knockoffs. I remember having a giant amount of LEGOs and I was only interested in the functional ones. The men, windows, and other random parts quickly were thrown away.
I made things like a coin box with a functional three tumbler keyed lock. (if I would have glued the blocks to prevent disassembly, you'd be hard pressed to open it without the lego key) I wish those hadn't been given away to a relative when I got older.
I picked up a box of blocks a few years back, not realizing they were the crappy knockoffs. Can't make anything like that, the blocks catch and jam, don't fit well, have very little holding power, it's a mess. I remember being able to take the 2x4 LEGO blocks and make a stick almost six feet long held horizontally from the middle before they separated. Just try that with imitation LEGOs.
Many things you do get what you pay for. And LEGOs are one such example.
Owning a gun to protect the nation is as much true today as it was in the late 18th century.
The "right to bear arms" has nothing to do with protecting the nation. The sole reason for that amendment was to guarantee the citizens the right to bear arms, so that a citizen's rebellion against an out-of-hand government would be a guaranteed option. Back then, a lot of governments prevented their citizens from bearing arms to prevent uprisings, so they could be oppressed. Even today there are a lot of oppressive governments that prevent their citizens from obtaining arms so they can send a truckfull of soldiers into a town and lay down the law of the day without much opposition.
The law here is slowly shifting in the other direction. Good example: bulletproof vests. Who's allowed to own them? Govt and police only. The founding fathers would be rolling over in their graves if they heard that. If it had been up to them it'd be the other way around. Make the government's "soldiers" resistant to citizen gunfire and not vice-versa? Defeats the purpose of the amendment to a degree.
You have to remember that back then, big government was almost an enemy on par with the neighbor that wants to invade. This was in the day of monarchies and dictatorships everywhere. Government was understood to be a "necessary evil" and they were doing everything they could to make sure it could never get out of hand, and if it did, that it could be fixed by the people. Because so many places at that time and in the past had experienced the problem of an out of hand government turning against the people to serve a few in power.
It's a very tricky balance to design your government to be able to defend your nation, while at the same time be totally and irreversibly within the control of the people it's protecting. That's what a Democracy is attempting to achieve. Right to Bear Arms is a huge part of that, and not for the reason you were assuming.
chicken
it's unlikely that the ISPs have the detail and length of logs required to trace that. Just think of the mass of log files just 50 of their better bittorrent customers could generate in a month.
what if the switch has mixed 100BaseT and 1000BaseT rows. I don't know what kind of wire management could be devised for a situation like that.
Use different colors of cat6. You can use that to both separate speeds and separate subnets. (for example, red for LOPM, blue for internal LAN, grey for customer LANs)
the stupid fuckers tend to run single file up the tracks insead of stepping off to one side.
A lot of herd animals behave that way. I've seen numerous videos where people in savannah trucks are chasing down say, a giraffe, and can drive up right beside it and run directly beside it for miles if needed, and can just take their time to lasso it because it'll never cut away like you'd expect an intelligent animal being chased to do. Something about their instinct just drives them to run in a straight line as fast as they can, regardless of where the threat is.
(when you see a cowboy chasing down a wild horse, you rarely if ever see the horse cut away, they just get run down and lassoed in a straight line, funny I never realized that until I thought about it just now, not sure why I never questioned that behavior before?)
But I've never heard of them running ON railroad tracks. I wouldn't have even expected that to be possible, I have a hard time running on railroad tracks and I'm not going that fast nor do I have four feet to keep track of between the ties.
I'd like to know if anyone has "run the numbers" on a wiring closet before? I'd love to see numbers comparing cost (in materials and time) for:
1) grabbing from a pool of 2, 6, and 10 ft cables and plugging things in so it works.
2) custom cutting cables so they're no more than say, 2" longer than necessary, and running them neatly with a few ties and loops
3) #2 + good cable routing including looms, trays, and plenty of wire ties. + the cost to maintain.
Cost to maintain a "neat" cable arrangement is high. And if you have to move or shuffle something, you either have to go to a lot of work to make the change, or it's gonna really look like crap because you'll have 98% of the rack neat as a pin, with a handful of wires that look like crap going diagonally and sagging.
I'd be willing to bet that #2 is quadruple the cost of #1, (mainly in labor, cutting cables is slow, tiring work, the money you save in cable is insignificant), and #3 doubles the cost from #2.
As for the cost of electricity (I think we can safely write the rest of the claims of "accelerated hardware depreciation" off as complete BS, talkin' about school lab computers, not a datacenter here), although he really should have considered that, I wouldn't call it beyond the realm of possibility that he simply didn't. Keep in mind he started doing this before self-throttling CPUs became popular, meaning it made next to no difference in power consumption whether you kept your CPU idle or pegged at 100%.
I would also suggest that computers that could otherwise be off or hibernating/asleep for 12+ hrs/day (50% of the time) would tend to last longer. Generally speaking, besides the energy conservation, the hardware itself could easily be argued to have more quickly worn out. Hard drives not being spun up, fans not spinning, mechanical things mostly, last longer when a computer is put to sleep when not in use.
So this guy not only cost them a higher electricity bill, but also depreciated their hardware faster than necessary. He did cost them real money. If he was told to knock it off and didn't, I'd consider him at least somewhat liable for those additional expenses.
Also in the summer, leaving computers on more than necessary really heats up the labs. (speaking from experience here) And this means higher AC bills. You're paying more electricity to keep machines running when not necessary, and paying again to cool the room back down. Double damage. And that's in addition to the accelerated aging of the hardware.
I have a one-word solution to the problem
camelburgers
Round these parts, deer can start becoming a problem when there's a really good season for them. They just widen the hunting season a few weeks or a month. Problem solved. And plenty of deer jerkey to go around.