You are right about that. One thing to keep in mind about Microsoft is they are not a normal software company. Microsoft and Cisco typically follow the same pattern. They enter a market with a grade D option. Most corps could not get away with that, people would flock to the better vendors. These two giants have unlimited resources though for all intents. They can simply fund a poor performing (in the sales and technical sense) product for as long as it takes. Eventually the major deficiencies will get addressed and once they are without being vastly superior its hard for anyone else to argue the value of their project because it can't possibly fit as well into the major vendors vertically integrated stack.
If you had the thing concealed properly do think the typical road rager will even know what hit him. I think its much more likely the A-Hole is going to be going "What the F--k! my engine just died." I doubt they will even connect the two events in their simple minds.
I don't think Obama has had any impact on the party other then campaign tactics. His agenda is determined more by the House Speaker than him or his people and when it comes to key components of major agenda points the Senate and House folks are calling the shots. Mind you thats how the constitution says it should be. I don't think there is a strong case that can be made for Obama making a difference. Its pretty much DNC agenda and talking points as usual.
I still think the fairest thing is state sales tax with a very narrow classes of products and services exempt. The Federal government is to be forbidden to impose any taxes except on the states, and may only tax states based on population and or total revenue. The Federal government would be barred from taxing based on any other metrics so as to prevent the abuse of the tax code for social engineering.
The federally required tax exempt classes should something along the lines, with states premited to add other classes at their own discression:
Public transportation motor fuel for use in passenger vehicles only passenger vehicles up to %20 of the median income, any amount over that subject to tax foods that is less than 30% water and do not classify primarily under fats and sugars on the food pyramid Residential rent equal to the median rent payment, amounts over subject to tax Residential property up to two times the media income anything over that subject to tax Medial non cosmetic care by a licensed pysician
If you do that the system is not regressive because the lower income population spends a disproportionate amount of their income on those things. It would be up to the states to set a tax rate, as well as add or subtract additional commercial classes so as to produce enough revenue to pay their obligations to the federal government, and run their own government.
Right and the other difference is you can decide to use cokes products or not and the only consequence of selecting not is you don't get to enjoy a nice sugary beverage. Last time I checked if I decided to say not go along with some government regulation I get fined or go to jail.
Well, that is the the shithead G20 leaders want you to think. I guess they are winning. So much for democracy. I hope I can learn to enjoy being a slave as much as you are.
In general though I think you have to be using a client -> server(s) model where the specific server the client has found is not tightly coupled to the experience on the client and the servers don't need to be located near each other.
That to mean defines a cloud application; and I think most could agree on that much.
Trump has been nearly ruined twice over. His success now seems apparently to be more in owing to his celebrity than his business savvy. I am not saying his not a good financier but considering his record, I don't think he appears a whole lot better than many others. Trump is not the Gates of the financial world to use the other person you brought up. What Trump does is take big risks and he has gotten some great rewards, and also nearly been destroyed by them. There are probably lots of folks in that industry who could take the same risks in proportion to their worth; but they don't because they know their too comfortable to let that get screwed up.
Gates on the other hand, even though many may hate, is shewed. Like anyone else anywhere near as successful he certainly did get lucky a few places along they way; but it was his talent that allowed him to really really profit buy it. Gates was a pretty effective geek as well back in the days of pushing his BASIC. He caught a break with IBM and after that time his been a wizard at manipulating Governments, the public, media, and markets to extract the maximum value for just about everything he touches. I can't think of anything Microsoft really lost big on. Zune and Vista are at most speed bumps to them and Bill had very little to do with either.
True, but if you are making product available that is not generally available elsewhere you can charge higher margins. Consider record stores for example usually carry a much wider catalog than say a Best Buy, Target, or Boarders Books. They usually charge $19 for anything that is not this weeks mega hit as well. If you could find it at Best Buy it would probably be $16 but you can't find it there. You pay extra because the Record store made it available.
The Record store has two problems, first they have make you aware of the product (mostly where they fail) and second they have find a price point consumers will pay over the norm that gives them enough margin to cover the higher costs and still make enough sales to justify the activity in the first place.
So the long tail can be made heavier to some degree if the competition of the niche market you are entering is light enough and the elasticity of the demand is low enough..
This brings up an interesting point about why government needs to be limited. Google's interests are limited and knowable. They are a commercial enterprise, they are interested in anything that might prove to be something they could profit by.
What does the NSA really want to know? why? who decides? We can't answer any of the that....
I don't trust Google, I can't say for certain if any given datum of mine is or is not something they have imagined to be useful and will make an attempt to collect. What I can do is avoid Google with anything I am not entirely with them knowing. I can still use Google's services when I don't care about the information I am giving up. Google can probably make some pretty well supported suppositions about what type of music I like based on my youtube habits for instance, that's ok I like to use youtube and if Google thinks there is product placement or advertising value in profile me in that way fine, fair trade.
What has the NSA done for me lately? what do the know about me? What are their intentions for that information? Sorry I will take Google over the NSA any time.
IANAL but in the case of civil law, lawyers are not usually in the habit of taking cases they *know* they can't or won't win. It makes them appear foolish and that might damage their future prospects for getting quality clients with large check books.
IANALBIHHSLCAE (-but I have had some law courses as electives)
Traditionally under Common Law burglary is defined as breaking and entering the home of another at night. --or words to that effect
Its generally a more severe crime than breaking and entering a commercial building for example at night or into a home in the day time is not considered as harmful. The reasons usually given are people are less likely to be there or at least less likely to be surprised so there is less chance of an altercation where someone may be injured , or society would negatively impacted if people were afraid to sleep in their own homes.
Illicit night time entries into residences are therefore punished more severely than breaking and entering in general and therefore there is a separate law for the other cases.
Yes, but when considering something with a relatively short as in wall time span generational span it could have evolutionary forces supporting it.
Bug in community A gets a set of mutations that make it sink when it dies. It passes these genes on to other bugs in the community before death. There is not disadvantage after all.
Community B has not bugs with the "stench-of-death" genes.
Some toxic plant or something enters the habitats of A and B; The bugs in A smell their dead friends and flee. The bugs in B continue eating and die. With B out of the way the A community expands into B's old territory and we have a population with "stench-of-death" genes pretty much everywhere.
Well, the point the of the article is that if it takes your array 6 hours to rebuild instead of 4 because the capacities have gone up but the failure rate of the hardware is unchanged you have a problem. The problem is that you are more likely to experience another failure before the first one has been mitigated. If you have that additional failure on most raids (unless you are doing 5-5 or 1-5 or some other RAID over RAID scheme) you get down time. The volume is off line and must be restored from some other location.
The solution is usually a cluster or remote hotsite or something like that. It would be nice to have fast rebuild times back. There are lots of situations were 5 nines is not a requirement but downtime still should be avoided, shorter exposure windows for array rebuilds are a good thing.
I would not be so sure. Most hardware manufactured recently was built with IPv6 in mind, so is probably a firmwareware upgradeable. There are hardware features, like express forwarding are hardware specific and would need to have enough space allocated for specific address lengths.
You are both right and wrong. If ASLR stops and attack its because something else was broken but the important thing is it still stopped the attack. Security is best done with a layered approach because you can't always predict what will and will not fail.
Is like a prison. The guy might get out of the cell some how, hopefully the guard in the hall can stop him. He might get past that guy, hopefully the cell block itself is locked and he can't get out. He might somehow escape that. Hopefully he can't get past the fences and barbed wire. Oh crap he is still moving, well hopefully the guy in the tower with the rifle and scope can put bullet through him.
Good security expects any given layer to fail somehow at some time. There should be another layer in place to cover that eventuality.
ASLR is not about preventing you from executing code after some exploit. There are other mechanisms for that. What ASLR does is make sure just because you were able to get some code executing you can't do much with it. The idea is to obfuscate the likely locations in memory of library functions, and other system values.
Yes you can get you code to run but you can't call some privileged function even if your code is running privileged because you don't know where its going to be, unless you can use the systems dispatch scheme.
Really I run AU on production servers. Granted I control the WSUS box, have a GPO for servers that send the SUS group information to the WSUS server so they are only sent the updates I have hand picked + anything MS has labeled as critial, and the servers do not apply until I visit them and press install / reboot.
Oh everything is SSL encrypted and certs are checked so its pretty hard to send a fake update to a server. Personally if it were politically an option I would replace most of my Windows boxen with Linux servers, as I have much better uptimes over there; but as far as updates are concerned , WSUS works pretty good.
I suspect the marketed fuel will be just fine. I mean they are processing the stuff I am sure they will turn it into something chemically like coal oil. The question is what do they do with all the industrial waste from the non petroleum components of the plastics they are recycling.
I think you are spot on. If anything students need to learn that learning is not fun, studying is not palatable and it all takes work. Then they need to learn how much fun it is to take some newly acquired knowledge and apply it to the creation or execution of something they could not do before. I say make the sixth graders sit through a lecture or two in physical science class on Bernoulli principle. Let them learn a few basic algebraic equations, and then they get to build a glider.
That's why the marketing people are already calling these "Smart books" so that its something new and progressive in the publics eye. Netbooks will with any luck be last years toy.
These are middle school kids we are talking about though. I mean serious the PE instructor should be about to give 11-14 year olds a lecture about, if you feel faint, like your heart is racing, etc, etc. You need to stop and come see me.
This is not like its even grade school kids where I'd still be happy to argue this is far from necessary. These are child old enough that they should know if something is wrong. As long as you create an environment where there is not social stigma attached to resting for a moment, getting a drink of water, or stopping if you don't feel good; then PE should be safe.
What you should not do is what my PE instructors always did which was ridicule, reduce grades, or both any time someone say needed a rest after running laps.
I think the people who decided otherwise assumed to be healthy middle school students needed to ware heart monitors during PE are suffering from far deeper paranoia than the parent wonder what will become of the data is.
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You are right about that. One thing to keep in mind about Microsoft is they are not a normal software company. Microsoft and Cisco typically follow the same pattern. They enter a market with a grade D option. Most corps could not get away with that, people would flock to the better vendors. These two giants have unlimited resources though for all intents. They can simply fund a poor performing (in the sales and technical sense) product for as long as it takes. Eventually the major deficiencies will get addressed and once they are without being vastly superior its hard for anyone else to argue the value of their project because it can't possibly fit as well into the major vendors vertically integrated stack.
If you had the thing concealed properly do think the typical road rager will even know what hit him. I think its much more likely the A-Hole is going to be going "What the F--k! my engine just died." I doubt they will even connect the two events in their simple minds.
I don't think Obama has had any impact on the party other then campaign tactics. His agenda is determined more by the House Speaker than him or his people and when it comes to key components of major agenda points the Senate and House folks are calling the shots. Mind you thats how the constitution says it should be. I don't think there is a strong case that can be made for Obama making a difference. Its pretty much DNC agenda and talking points as usual.
I still think the fairest thing is state sales tax with a very narrow classes of products and services exempt. The Federal government is to be forbidden to impose any taxes except on the states, and may only tax states based on population and or total revenue. The Federal government would be barred from taxing based on any other metrics so as to prevent the abuse of the tax code for social engineering.
The federally required tax exempt classes should something along the lines, with states premited to add other classes at their own discression:
Public transportation
motor fuel for use in passenger vehicles only
passenger vehicles up to %20 of the median income, any amount over that subject to tax
foods that is less than 30% water and do not classify primarily under fats and sugars on the food pyramid
Residential rent equal to the median rent payment, amounts over subject to tax
Residential property up to two times the media income anything over that subject to tax
Medial non cosmetic care by a licensed pysician
If you do that the system is not regressive because the lower income population spends a disproportionate amount of their income on those things. It would be up to the states to set a tax rate, as well as add or subtract additional commercial classes so as to produce enough revenue to pay their obligations to the federal government, and run their own government.
Right and the other difference is you can decide to use cokes products or not and the only consequence of selecting not is you don't get to enjoy a nice sugary beverage. Last time I checked if I decided to say not go along with some government regulation I get fined or go to jail.
Hmm, I will take Coke of my Uncle Sam any day.
Well, that is the the shithead G20 leaders want you to think. I guess they are winning. So much for democracy. I hope I can learn to enjoy being a slave as much as you are.
In all seriousness cloud is a nebulous term.
In general though I think you have to be using a client -> server(s) model where the specific server the client has found is not tightly coupled to the experience on the client and the servers don't need to be located near each other.
That to mean defines a cloud application; and I think most could agree on that much.
Trump has been nearly ruined twice over. His success now seems apparently to be more in owing to his celebrity than his business savvy. I am not saying his not a good financier but considering his record, I don't think he appears a whole lot better than many others. Trump is not the Gates of the financial world to use the other person you brought up. What Trump does is take big risks and he has gotten some great rewards, and also nearly been destroyed by them. There are probably lots of folks in that industry who could take the same risks in proportion to their worth; but they don't because they know their too comfortable to let that get screwed up.
Gates on the other hand, even though many may hate, is shewed. Like anyone else anywhere near as successful he certainly did get lucky a few places along they way; but it was his talent that allowed him to really really profit buy it. Gates was a pretty effective geek as well back in the days of pushing his BASIC. He caught a break with IBM and after that time his been a wizard at manipulating Governments, the public, media, and markets to extract the maximum value for just about everything he touches. I can't think of anything Microsoft really lost big on. Zune and Vista are at most speed bumps to them and Bill had very little to do with either.
not by probing them
Most of them would like that too though right?
I for welcome our new zombie salmon overlords.
True, but if you are making product available that is not generally available elsewhere you can charge higher margins. Consider record stores for example usually carry a much wider catalog than say a Best Buy, Target, or Boarders Books. They usually charge $19 for anything that is not this weeks mega hit as well. If you could find it at Best Buy it would probably be $16 but you can't find it there. You pay extra because the Record store made it available.
The Record store has two problems, first they have make you aware of the product (mostly where they fail) and second they have find a price point consumers will pay over the norm that gives them enough margin to cover the higher costs and still make enough sales to justify the activity in the first place.
So the long tail can be made heavier to some degree if the competition of the niche market you are entering is light enough and the elasticity of the demand is low enough..
This brings up an interesting point about why government needs to be limited. Google's interests are limited and knowable. They are a commercial enterprise, they are interested in anything that might prove to be something they could profit by.
What does the NSA really want to know? why? who decides? We can't answer any of the that....
I don't trust Google, I can't say for certain if any given datum of mine is or is not something they have imagined to be useful and will make an attempt to collect. What I can do is avoid Google with anything I am not entirely with them knowing. I can still use Google's services when I don't care about the information I am giving up. Google can probably make some pretty well supported suppositions about what type of music I like based on my youtube habits for instance, that's ok I like to use youtube and if Google thinks there is product placement or advertising value in profile me in that way fine, fair trade.
What has the NSA done for me lately? what do the know about me? What are their intentions for that information? Sorry I will take Google over the NSA any time.
IANAL but in the case of civil law, lawyers are not usually in the habit of taking cases they *know* they can't or won't win. It makes them appear foolish and that might damage their future prospects for getting quality clients with large check books.
IANALBIHHSLCAE (-but I have had some law courses as electives)
Traditionally under Common Law burglary is defined as breaking and entering the home of another at night. --or words to that effect
Its generally a more severe crime than breaking and entering a commercial building for example at night or into a home in the day time is not considered as harmful. The reasons usually given are people are less likely to be there or at least less likely to be surprised so there is less chance of an altercation where someone may be injured , or society would negatively impacted if people were afraid to sleep in their own homes.
Illicit night time entries into residences are therefore punished more severely than breaking and entering in general and therefore there is a separate law for the other cases.
Yes, but when considering something with a relatively short as in wall time span generational span it could have evolutionary forces supporting it.
Bug in community A gets a set of mutations that make it sink when it dies. It passes these genes on to other bugs in the community before death. There is not disadvantage after all.
Community B has not bugs with the "stench-of-death" genes.
Some toxic plant or something enters the habitats of A and B; The bugs in A smell their dead friends and flee. The bugs in B continue eating and die. With B out of the way the A community expands into B's old territory and we have a population with "stench-of-death" genes pretty much everywhere.
Well, the point the of the article is that if it takes your array 6 hours to rebuild instead of 4 because the capacities have gone up but the failure rate of the hardware is unchanged you have a problem. The problem is that you are more likely to experience another failure before the first one has been mitigated. If you have that additional failure on most raids (unless you are doing 5-5 or 1-5 or some other RAID over RAID scheme) you get down time. The volume is off line and must be restored from some other location.
The solution is usually a cluster or remote hotsite or something like that. It would be nice to have fast rebuild times back. There are lots of situations were 5 nines is not a requirement but downtime still should be avoided, shorter exposure windows for array rebuilds are a good thing.
I would not be so sure. Most hardware manufactured recently was built with IPv6 in mind, so is probably a firmwareware upgradeable. There are hardware features, like express forwarding are hardware specific and would need to have enough space allocated for specific address lengths.
You are both right and wrong. If ASLR stops and attack its because something else was broken but the important thing is it still stopped the attack. Security is best done with a layered approach because you can't always predict what will and will not fail.
Is like a prison. The guy might get out of the cell some how, hopefully the guard in the hall can stop him. He might get past that guy, hopefully the cell block itself is locked and he can't get out. He might somehow escape that. Hopefully he can't get past the fences and barbed wire. Oh crap he is still moving, well hopefully the guy in the tower with the rifle and scope can put bullet through him.
Good security expects any given layer to fail somehow at some time. There should be another layer in place to cover that eventuality.
ASLR is not about preventing you from executing code after some exploit. There are other mechanisms for that. What ASLR does is make sure just because you were able to get some code executing you can't do much with it. The idea is to obfuscate the likely locations in memory of library functions, and other system values.
Yes you can get you code to run but you can't call some privileged function even if your code is running privileged because you don't know where its going to be, unless you can use the systems dispatch scheme.
Really I run AU on production servers. Granted I control the WSUS box, have a GPO for servers that send the SUS group information to the WSUS server so they are only sent the updates I have hand picked + anything MS has labeled as critial, and the servers do not apply until I visit them and press install / reboot.
Oh everything is SSL encrypted and certs are checked so its pretty hard to send a fake update to a server. Personally if it were politically an option I would replace most of my Windows boxen with Linux servers, as I have much better uptimes over there; but as far as updates are concerned , WSUS works pretty good.
I suspect the marketed fuel will be just fine. I mean they are processing the stuff I am sure they will turn it into something chemically like coal oil. The question is what do they do with all the industrial waste from the non petroleum components of the plastics they are recycling.
I think you are spot on. If anything students need to learn that learning is not fun, studying is not palatable and it all takes work. Then they need to learn how much fun it is to take some newly acquired knowledge and apply it to the creation or execution of something they could not do before. I say make the sixth graders sit through a lecture or two in physical science class on Bernoulli principle. Let them learn a few basic algebraic equations, and then they get to build a glider.
That's why the marketing people are already calling these "Smart books" so that its something new and progressive in the publics eye. Netbooks will with any luck be last years toy.
These are middle school kids we are talking about though. I mean serious the PE instructor should be about to give 11-14 year olds a lecture about, if you feel faint, like your heart is racing, etc, etc. You need to stop and come see me.
This is not like its even grade school kids where I'd still be happy to argue this is far from necessary. These are child old enough that they should know if something is wrong. As long as you create an environment where there is not social stigma attached to resting for a moment, getting a drink of water, or stopping if you don't feel good; then PE should be safe.
What you should not do is what my PE instructors always did which was ridicule, reduce grades, or both any time someone say needed a rest after running laps.
paranoid -- hmm
I think the people who decided otherwise assumed to be healthy middle school students needed to ware heart monitors during PE are suffering from far deeper paranoia than the parent wonder what will become of the data is.