I *have* RTFA, and I don't see where the sentence "Meanwhile, the government has contracted to pay almost $3 billion to procure 14 million smallpox vaccination doses." comes from. How much time do you need to produce the vaccine from the virus? Is it some kind of future pledge? Because otherwise maybe three big ones is a bit much for a hypothetical threat. Can an active virus be derived from the vaccine? If so you'd have to watch the vaccine as well as the virus.
Seriously though, the snopes writeup notes that the South used not just five-foot gauge but a total of three different ones, and that that inconsistency was one of the factors that decided the Civil War.
Anyone who regularly visualizes data needs to pick up resources on how to clearly organize and display your data, like "The Visual Display of Quantitative Information" by Edward Tufte (though some of his examples are a little dated).
What are PHYSICIANS doing talking about nuclear science and nuclear war? My first thought was that there was some subtle UK/US difference, but no, both sides of the pond are in total agreement: physicians practice medicine, physicists practice physics.
I'd take with a grain of salt things said by people who don't know what their profession is called . . .
Because sometime in the 1980s people decided that user-based ACL was the easiest way to do security.
The alternative was capability-based security like KeyKOS and IIRC AS/400. Imagine only using filehandles. You can't write to a file you have no rights to, because you don't have the filehandle and no way to get one. No "permission denied", because there simply is no system or library call to do it. In such a system, there is no "this program can do X, that user can do Y", instead when launching a program you give it capabilities: I launch the flash program, with A% of CPU, r/w filehandle B to some MB of memory, r/w filehandle C to some MB of disk, r/o filehandle D containing a flash file to execute, r/w filehandle E that is an console (X window) for reading keyboard and mouse events and writing screen and sound. For a basic program, that's all. Maybe in the nitty-gritty you also provide a r/o filehandle to access the system library, but nothing in that library will give you any means to influence the computer you're running on.
Virus-proof? Maybe there's a hardware bug, like the Pentium F00F, maybe the sound card will react to a specific sequence, but otherwise AV providers are out of business.
http://www.eros-os.org/ links to all of that.
So why aren't people more interested in OS like KeyKOS/Eros/Coyotos/CapROS that are designed to prevent all and any attacks while simplifying programming and maintaining or even increasing usability?
That looks like a hard number but it isn't. OP says $30/GB/month. You say $1000/GB. The time dimension is missing. Accounting rules vary, but simply dividing $1000/GB by 5 years gives less than $17/GB/month. Then discuss what you get for that, and that's where OP's information is lacking . . . Though he's paying too much if he's getting anything less than "This is where you put the data you need all the time, any time, with milli-second delays, otherwise your clients leave, sue, your company goes under, and your next job is in a fast-food joint".
I need fast servers for today's data, maybe something medium-speed for a week's data (but SATA's probably enough), and 98% of my data will never be looked at again but the rules want it online, not in a box of tapes.
You probably know this since it's your current work problem , but still:
It's a common problem, and the solution is usually called HSM (for hierarchical storage management). It can be run in the application (have the application move old data to another slower/cheaper volume) or at the SAN/NAS level. I've even heard of a system that archives to tape transparently. You see the file on the disk in whatever application you have, but actually requesting contents from it can take some time since the contents of seldomly-requested files are fetched from tape.
I've actually seen one of our providing companies respond "chmod -R 777/" as a solution to a bug we filed with them.
I've had a tech do `chmod -R 777 $HOME` to "solve" a permissions problem. Typical case of someone knowing too little and too much at the same time.
Of course, he auto-LARTed because once he'd done that "just to make sure", he could no longer log on to the server because ssh refused to use his authorized_keys:-)
Sure, they copied all those those blank lines, and in at least one case (tab 247) they also copied the BSD copyright header. Shocking! Funnily enough SCOX removed those lines on both sides. Kind of them.
They also copied strn?casecmp definition (tab 241). For quite astonishing values of "copied":
-SCOX +RedHat glibc
-38: int strcasecmp(); -39: int strncasecmp();
+53:/* Compare S1 and S2, ignoring case. */ +54: extern int strcasecmp (__const char *__s1, __const char *__s2) +55: __THROW __attribute_pure__; +57:/* Compare no more than N chars of S1 and S2, ignoring case. */ +58: extern int strncasecmp (__const char *__s1, __const char *__s2, size_t __n) +59: __THROW __attribute_pure__;
This is clearly an extremely grave violation. However, it is interesting to note that SCOX did not complain about the definitions of all the other string functions. Maybe because the header of their file specifies
In addition, portions of such source code were derived from Berkeley 4.3 BSD under license from the Regents of the University of California.
Presumably the other string functions came from BSD, and ignoring character case was a UNIX improvement that BSD couldn't have thought of by themselves. Right? Right??
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Is it just to avoid the weight of the cables?
I *have* RTFA, and I don't see where the sentence "Meanwhile, the government has contracted to pay almost $3 billion to procure 14 million smallpox vaccination doses." comes from. How much time do you need to produce the vaccine from the virus? Is it some kind of future pledge? Because otherwise maybe three big ones is a bit much for a hypothetical threat. Can an active virus be derived from the vaccine? If so you'd have to watch the vaccine as well as the virus.
Putting it in fixtures +1, something with an IP address just has to cost more than a LED
Wifi -1 ! Why should we worry about wireless security when we already have the wire? Ethernet over power!
Some will hug robots? I'll believe that, since some people apparently snuggle up to *cars*
http://cars.failblog.org/2011/05/13/funny-car-photos-taking-it-up-the-tailpipe/
The cited examples of "hill lines" (probably in the Himalaya foothills, but not necessarily)
Japan is an excellent example. Lots of rail, but lots of mountains and not a lot of place to avoid them.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rail_transport_in_Japan#Gauge_and_electrification
So, since the distance between rails was determined by the size of a horse's ass, does that mean the Southern horses were better fed?
http://www.snopes.com/history/american/gauge.asp
Seriously though, the snopes writeup notes that the South used not just five-foot gauge but a total of three different ones, and that that inconsistency was one of the factors that decided the Civil War.
How does this compare to an option in my browser that says "confirm by popup every cookie requested"?
Mandating that websites continue to function properly when the browser refuses to register cookies would at least be slightly smarter.
Anyone who regularly visualizes data needs to pick up resources on how to clearly organize and display your data, like "The Visual Display of Quantitative Information" by Edward Tufte (though some of his examples are a little dated).
For a modern example please see Hans Rosling :
http://singularityhub.com/2010/12/09/hans-rosling-shows-you-200-years-of-global-growth-in-4-minutes-video/
Really. I've showed it to my parents, wife, and my two kids (sub-teen), they were all totally enthralled.
Rebuttal from Physicians for Social Responsibility
What are PHYSICIANS doing talking about nuclear science and nuclear war? My first thought was that there was some subtle UK/US difference, but no, both sides of the pond are in total agreement: physicians practice medicine, physicists practice physics.
I'd take with a grain of salt things said by people who don't know what their profession is called . . .
I think you forgot the kind of trial that ends when all the *witnesses* die...
Being a police officer is very demanding. The same rules can not apply to them. The rules are stricter for them.
There, corrected that for you.
Why would someone ever *choose* to live in such an environment? *shivers*
Nobody said it was a choice. In most of the world, you live and die where you were born.
[ten lines of quote and quote of quote followed by three lines of comment]
Bu what of the WPM of programmers who copy-paste whole pages of code?
Right. Finding inferior quality for less money is rarely the problem.
Because sometime in the 1980s people decided that user-based ACL was the easiest way to do security. The alternative was capability-based security like KeyKOS and IIRC AS/400. Imagine only using filehandles. You can't write to a file you have no rights to, because you don't have the filehandle and no way to get one. No "permission denied", because there simply is no system or library call to do it. In such a system, there is no "this program can do X, that user can do Y", instead when launching a program you give it capabilities: I launch the flash program, with A% of CPU, r/w filehandle B to some MB of memory, r/w filehandle C to some MB of disk, r/o filehandle D containing a flash file to execute, r/w filehandle E that is an console (X window) for reading keyboard and mouse events and writing screen and sound. For a basic program, that's all. Maybe in the nitty-gritty you also provide a r/o filehandle to access the system library, but nothing in that library will give you any means to influence the computer you're running on. Virus-proof? Maybe there's a hardware bug, like the Pentium F00F, maybe the sound card will react to a specific sequence, but otherwise AV providers are out of business. http://www.eros-os.org/ links to all of that.
So why aren't people more interested in OS like KeyKOS/Eros/Coyotos/CapROS that are designed to prevent all and any attacks while simplifying programming and maintaining or even increasing usability?
Why doesn't the AU government provide the service? Why is it left to some random website to provide a means to vote more easily?
We're paying about $1000/GB on our SAN.
That looks like a hard number but it isn't. OP says $30/GB/month. You say $1000/GB. The time dimension is missing. Accounting rules vary, but simply dividing $1000/GB by 5 years gives less than $17/GB/month. Then discuss what you get for that, and that's where OP's information is lacking . . . Though he's paying too much if he's getting anything less than "This is where you put the data you need all the time, any time, with milli-second delays, otherwise your clients leave, sue, your company goes under, and your next job is in a fast-food joint".
I need fast servers for today's data, maybe something medium-speed for a week's data (but SATA's probably enough), and 98% of my data will never be looked at again but the rules want it online, not in a box of tapes.
You probably know this since it's your current work problem , but still:
It's a common problem, and the solution is usually called HSM (for hierarchical storage management). It can be run in the application (have the application move old data to another slower/cheaper volume) or at the SAN/NAS level. I've even heard of a system that archives to tape transparently. You see the file on the disk in whatever application you have, but actually requesting contents from it can take some time since the contents of seldomly-requested files are fetched from tape.
I've actually seen one of our providing companies respond "chmod -R 777 /" as a solution to a bug we filed with them.
I've had a tech do `chmod -R 777 $HOME` to "solve" a permissions problem. Typical case of someone knowing too little and too much at the same time.
Of course, he auto-LARTed because once he'd done that "just to make sure", he could no longer log on to the server because ssh refused to use his authorized_keys :-)
SCOX did not complain about the definitions of all the other string functions.
In tab 242 they did. In fact, tab 241 is redundant. One tab less . . .
Sure, they copied all those those blank lines, and in at least one case (tab 247) they also copied the BSD copyright header. Shocking! Funnily enough SCOX removed those lines on both sides. Kind of them.
They also copied strn?casecmp definition (tab 241). For quite astonishing values of "copied":
-SCOX
+RedHat glibc
-38: int strcasecmp();
-39: int strncasecmp();
+53: /* Compare S1 and S2, ignoring case. */ /* Compare no more than N chars of S1 and S2, ignoring case. */
+54: extern int strcasecmp (__const char *__s1, __const char *__s2)
+55: __THROW __attribute_pure__;
+57:
+58: extern int strncasecmp (__const char *__s1, __const char *__s2, size_t __n)
+59: __THROW __attribute_pure__;
This is clearly an extremely grave violation. However, it is interesting to note that SCOX did not complain about the definitions of all the other string functions. Maybe because the header of their file specifies
In addition, portions of such source code were derived from Berkeley
4.3 BSD under license from the Regents of the University of
California.
Presumably the other string functions came from BSD, and ignoring character case was a UNIX improvement that BSD couldn't have thought of by themselves. Right? Right??
One of the founders died and the remainders thought that it just wasn't the same.
Try reading.
Reading carefully, it seems that the *only* surviving member thought it wouldn't be the same. Funny, I thought they were more than two . . .
you just sweep around a sound beam in a 365 degree circle
One degree per day, one a year for a full revolution, with five days off for Xmas?
I definitely do not want to be goalie for my team. Or maybe my team doesn't want me to be their goalie.