Chances are that there are no providers that offer a true 99.999% uptime. If you demand that, you need to be building your code to run in a HA cluster with nationwide dispersion. (For reference, you get 5.25 minutes of downtime across a whole year).
99.999% uptime is also completely unnecessary, but sounds really good to management until you talk cost.
Just make sure that scheduled downtime isn't included in the 99.999% and schedule downtime on a regular basis!
Secret laws that citizens are obliged to follow, but forbidden to know, can be nothing but tools of tyranny.
Reminds me of one interpretation of the Jewish Law and how complex it is; its purpose is to ensure that everyone is guilty of something so they can keep an army of legal interpreters etc employed.
Oh it's not that bad. And it's a good sight better than the yearly tornado season I live with now. Actually I'd love to retire to a small farm. In NZ, or some other such place. Such as: http://img.scoop.co.nz/stories/images/0908/canterbury_plains_2.jpg And NZ is at the top of the list because it's got all the climates I like and enjoy, and in such a small area, so can easily get to em. And it's got interesting critters.
Tornado season isn't going to wipe out almost all life and make the place uninhabitable for decades, perhaps centuries.
Christchurch is still in deep shit and that wasn't even a very big quake.
*removes New Zealand from Top 5 places I want to retire to*
As long as you don't mind living on an unstable piece of rock in the middle of nowhere. Honestly, it could just slide into the sea tomorrow or the Taupo supervolcano go off again and pave the whole country under volcanic ash. Again.
The problem here is that there is no written constitution in the UK. Whatever the parliament passes as laws (along with interpretations by the courts et al) in fact is the constitution.
There was a constitution; the Magna Carta was one of the first. Sadly theres not a lot left of it now...
If they were destroying these computers because there was something criminal on them then surely that constitutes destruction of evidence? And wouldn't that be illegal?
Only if you planned to prosecute. And even then, they were destroying information the prosecution would need more than the defense.
If a crime has been committed then its evidence of a crime regardless of whether the crown decides it wants to prosecute or not, isn't it?
If they were destroying these computers because there was something criminal on them then surely that constitutes destruction of evidence? And wouldn't that be illegal?
Perhaps they will just go ahead and lay off 90% of their admins, who are American citizens
And then, they will hire admins from Bangladesh as replacement
NSA doesn't need to be troubled by admins who are American citizens who understand the concept of Liberty, Human Rights, and Democracy - they can hire replacement admins from 4th world countries where nobody cares about any of those "Western Luxuries"
Actually this is a good point. If the sysadmins are not American citizens and are not based in America then the NSA can legally spy on them with no problems.
So yeah NSA outsourcing system administration to India might be a winner!
Representative democracy is subverted from the very beginning and its so easy to subvert. Most of the voting population make their voting decisions in the same way they make purchasing decisions. By the way, the majority of people don't evaluate the relative benefits etc of the various products they get to choose from. They make their decisions based on advertising. Advertising works, its worth big money, theres no argument there.. It works for products and services and it 'works' for democracy too.
The people who control the advertising control the democracy and so democracy almost automatically transforms into mediacracy.
I worked in an Asian telco where a switch was being used for internal and external traffic, it wasn't partitioned into port based vlans. Amazingly it actually worked. Except that there was so much traffic through this switch that its tables were overflowing and it was functioning as a hub.
Consequently, sniffing from the mail server (which only had an external interface) one could see the unencrypted traffic between the servers that handle SMS messages. Ie you could read customers SMS messages.
(first thing I did was call one of the corporate lawyers over to have a look, explained it to him (to show I wasn't trying to hide anything), then wrote a report for my superiors complete with a (dead easy to implement plan) to fix this 'problem'. Next thing I know they have Huawei engineers crawling all over the place and I'm fired.
Also, this mail server had all the passwords in plain text and almost all of them (about 90%) were 123456. Including the CEO.
It doesn't require much sophistication to totally own an operation like that and monitor everyones SMS messages.
Realistically though, Redhat package management is superior to Debian.
Take this example; permissions and ownerships.
In the Debian package management system these are set in the install scripts, almost always shell scripts. If you want to figure out what permissions and ownerships a given file should have (without actually installing/reinstalling the package), you have a debugging task on your hands.
In the Redhat package management system these are in the package management database. You can, in one line of shell code, get all the permissions and ownerships of the files installed by a package and apply these to the installed files if, say, something were to happen like oops chown -R bob/usr/
With RPM that situation is actually very easy to recover from without reaching for backup media. With Debian, not quite so much (you can apt-get --reinstall but that isn't as good as resetting permissions from the RPM database).
Debians big win is the extensive testing and regression testing that goes into their packages but the package management system itself is less sophisticated.
"Remember, when you run a datacenter edition, all your VM's are automagically licensed."
This is an increase in the cost of the Datacenter version, not a comparison of the Datacenter version to non-Datacenter versions, so your point is meaningless.
I have seen hosting providers charging more for a VM running Windows 2012 Datacenter edition than for a VM running Standard edition. US$75 a month more. Given that theres no practical difference between the two VMs thats just robbery. (this is in an environment where you don't get to utilise the multi-VM features of the Datacenter license; you have ONE VM and no access to the host).
I guess they will be able to justify robbing their customers for more now!
If the barrel can now withstand multiple bullets being fired, does that also mean that the material used to make the barrel is strong enough to become a bullet that would cause serious injury to a human? At that point, does the only requirement for metal become the firing pin and the jacket for the bullet (the part that holds the gunpownder explosion and which the firing pin strikes.)
Theres always caseless rounds, as used in the HK G11.
It is elements of the FBI charged with executing the secret laws that came into existence more than 6 years ago and are administered by the Judicial Branch through secret courts that were set up for that purpose. Those courts have the authority to issue secret writs that include penalties for even saying that you have received one or are bound by one to act in certain ways.
They should definitely DEFINITELY use those secret writs to make people do silly walks, as in Monty Python. Being forced by a secret writ to perpetually silly-walk and being forbidden from telling anyone why one does the silly-walk, that would be priceless.
Not sure what you're talking about. My current desktop boots in around 30 seconds. My Commodore 64 from 1980 was blinking a READY prompt in about 2 seconds.
Of course modern computers have faster CPUs and everything else, but I'd really like to know where along the line a 30 second boot time became acceptable......
Compare the functionality offered after that 2 second boot time with the functionality offered after that 30 second boot time. I think its more than worth the wait.
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The pyramids and many other ancient structures have been mined as a convenient source of building materials, for thousands of years...
Isn't that a part of their being cultural heritage and the modern obsession with protecting things which are, after all, temporary is an anomaly?
Chances are that there are no providers that offer a true 99.999% uptime. If you demand that, you need to be building your code to run in a HA cluster with nationwide dispersion. (For reference, you get 5.25 minutes of downtime across a whole year).
99.999% uptime is also completely unnecessary, but sounds really good to management until you talk cost.
Just make sure that scheduled downtime isn't included in the 99.999% and schedule downtime on a regular basis!
Secret laws that citizens are obliged to follow, but forbidden to know, can be nothing but tools of tyranny.
Reminds me of one interpretation of the Jewish Law and how complex it is; its purpose is to ensure that everyone is guilty of something so they can keep an army of legal interpreters etc employed.
Wouldn't the crime be perjury?
Oh it's not that bad. And it's a good sight better than the yearly tornado season I live with now.
Actually I'd love to retire to a small farm. In NZ, or some other such place. Such as: http://img.scoop.co.nz/stories/images/0908/canterbury_plains_2.jpg
And NZ is at the top of the list because it's got all the climates I like and enjoy, and in such a small area, so can easily get to em. And it's got interesting critters.
Tornado season isn't going to wipe out almost all life and make the place uninhabitable for decades, perhaps centuries.
Christchurch is still in deep shit and that wasn't even a very big quake.
*removes New Zealand from Top 5 places I want to retire to*
As long as you don't mind living on an unstable piece of rock in the middle of nowhere. Honestly, it could just slide into the sea tomorrow or the Taupo supervolcano go off again and pave the whole country under volcanic ash. Again.
Its not a place to plant long-term roots.
A plutocracy? I didn't catch that. What is the minimum income level to vote now?
Theres a minimum income level to be voted for; have to pay for the advertising. Its not cheap.
The problem here is that there is no written constitution in the UK. Whatever the parliament passes as laws (along with interpretations by the courts et al) in fact is the constitution.
There was a constitution; the Magna Carta was one of the first. Sadly theres not a lot left of it now...
If they were destroying these computers because there was something criminal on them then surely that constitutes destruction of evidence? And wouldn't that be illegal?
Only if you planned to prosecute. And even then, they were destroying information the prosecution would need more than the defense.
If a crime has been committed then its evidence of a crime regardless of whether the crown decides it wants to prosecute or not, isn't it?
Oh right, so destruction of evidence is now not illegal but mandatory...
But it was the government's data, Snowden stole it and gave it to the guardian. It was not the guardian's to begin with.
Then it was evidence of a crime and destroying it is destruction of evidence which is a crime.
You seem to know your stuff.
If they were destroying these computers because there was something criminal on them then surely that constitutes destruction of evidence? And wouldn't that be illegal?
Perhaps NSA is not kidding
Perhaps they will just go ahead and lay off 90% of their admins, who are American citizens
And then, they will hire admins from Bangladesh as replacement
NSA doesn't need to be troubled by admins who are American citizens who understand the concept of Liberty, Human Rights, and Democracy - they can hire replacement admins from 4th world countries where nobody cares about any of those "Western Luxuries"
Actually this is a good point. If the sysadmins are not American citizens and are not based in America then the NSA can legally spy on them with no problems.
So yeah NSA outsourcing system administration to India might be a winner!
Representative democracy is subverted from the very beginning and its so easy to subvert. Most of the voting population make their voting decisions in the same way they make purchasing decisions. By the way, the majority of people don't evaluate the relative benefits etc of the various products they get to choose from. They make their decisions based on advertising. Advertising works, its worth big money, theres no argument there.. It works for products and services and it 'works' for democracy too.
The people who control the advertising control the democracy and so democracy almost automatically transforms into mediacracy.
I worked in an Asian telco where a switch was being used for internal and external traffic, it wasn't partitioned into port based vlans. Amazingly it actually worked. Except that there was so much traffic through this switch that its tables were overflowing and it was functioning as a hub.
Consequently, sniffing from the mail server (which only had an external interface) one could see the unencrypted traffic between the servers that handle SMS messages. Ie you could read customers SMS messages.
(first thing I did was call one of the corporate lawyers over to have a look, explained it to him (to show I wasn't trying to hide anything), then wrote a report for my superiors complete with a (dead easy to implement plan) to fix this 'problem'. Next thing I know they have Huawei engineers crawling all over the place and I'm fired.
Also, this mail server had all the passwords in plain text and almost all of them (about 90%) were 123456. Including the CEO.
It doesn't require much sophistication to totally own an operation like that and monitor everyones SMS messages.
Which is 100% disgusting. Any civilized country would employ these rules no matter the type of case. Sadly, there are no civilized or sane countries.
Pretty soon, North Korea is going to seem normal.
Realistically though, Redhat package management is superior to Debian.
Take this example; permissions and ownerships.
In the Debian package management system these are set in the install scripts, almost always shell scripts. If you want to figure out what permissions and ownerships a given file should have (without actually installing/reinstalling the package), you have a debugging task on your hands.
In the Redhat package management system these are in the package management database. You can, in one line of shell code, get all the permissions and ownerships of the files installed by a package and apply these to the installed files if, say, something were to happen like oops chown -R bob /usr/
With RPM that situation is actually very easy to recover from without reaching for backup media. With Debian, not quite so much (you can apt-get --reinstall but that isn't as good as resetting permissions from the RPM database).
Debians big win is the extensive testing and regression testing that goes into their packages but the package management system itself is less sophisticated.
This is an increase in the cost of the Datacenter version, not a comparison of the Datacenter version to non-Datacenter versions, so your point is meaningless.
I have seen hosting providers charging more for a VM running Windows 2012 Datacenter edition than for a VM running Standard edition. US$75 a month more. Given that theres no practical difference between the two VMs thats just robbery. (this is in an environment where you don't get to utilise the multi-VM features of the Datacenter license; you have ONE VM and no access to the host).
I guess they will be able to justify robbing their customers for more now!
since long infantry marches haven't been important for decades, so why not just carry more.
Probably not since the Falklands...
If the barrel can now withstand multiple bullets being fired, does that also mean that the material used to make the barrel is strong enough to become a bullet that would cause serious injury to a human? At that point, does the only requirement for metal become the firing pin and the jacket for the bullet (the part that holds the gunpownder explosion and which the firing pin strikes.)
Theres always caseless rounds, as used in the HK G11.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caseless_ammunition
no need for metal cartridge case!
It is elements of the FBI charged with executing the secret laws that came into existence more than 6 years ago and are administered by the Judicial Branch through secret courts that were set up for that purpose. Those courts have the authority to issue secret writs that include penalties for even saying that you have received one or are bound by one to act in certain ways.
They should definitely DEFINITELY use those secret writs to make people do silly walks, as in Monty Python. Being forced by a secret writ to perpetually silly-walk and being forbidden from telling anyone why one does the silly-walk, that would be priceless.
If thats all the functionality you want in a computer then stick to the c64 or something. I want to do a LOT more than just programming, thanks.
My first computer was a zx81.
I SOLD c64s when they first came out.
I definitely prefer my modern laptop and even windows 8 over those. Because I don't just want a toy to do some programming experiments on.
Not sure what you're talking about. My current desktop boots in around 30 seconds. My Commodore 64 from 1980 was blinking a READY prompt in about 2 seconds.
Of course modern computers have faster CPUs and everything else, but I'd really like to know where along the line a 30 second boot time became acceptable......
Compare the functionality offered after that 2 second boot time with the functionality offered after that 30 second boot time. I think its more than worth the wait.
9 women can't have a baby in a month
Tie two birds together. Though they have 4 wings they cannot fly.
A crude version of this happens in China. Certain locations trigger text messages to my phone.
Does it SMS you things like "You are in a restricted area. Leave now. Use of deadly force authorized."