Most RAID controllers have pathetic parity data computation performance.
You are right about that point. Which is why ZFS "does it in software" that said, because existing implementations do the job poorly is not a case against the design decision to provide those functions at a given layer. metadata-integrity needs to be done at the filesystem layer. The storage layer does not and should not know about filesystem internals. As far as parity and general data integrity the storage system can and should do that. I mean if the FS layer says give that block this bit pattern, it really should expect that block to have that bit pattern later.
The difference is when nuclear goes bad the damage can be very big.
No the difference is the damage from operating coal and hydrocarbon fuel plants is spread over a large geographic area (diffused in the atmosphere) and period of time. Individuals, societies, and ecosystems are generally able to cope with and absorb those impacts.
What is missed is the concentrated calamities that are oil spills, tail pound leaks, ash spills etc. Those are also consequences of traditional generation even if indirectly.
There is some truth in parts of what you say but its still a highly biased view point. Firstly the relatively small size of the Native American population made all that land management easy.
When your numbers are that small you don't have all kinds of problems you do with larger populations. Simply burying your shit works when you only have a handful of people living on a large acreage. That does not hold up when your numbers get much larger.
Forest does not in fact provide much food. It takes a lot of forest land to provide enough food for a person sustainably, thru hunting and gathering. Certainly way more than land cultivation. If you are a village of a hundred it might work, much beyond that and the area over which resource must be gathered will be farther than people can walk.
would be known as "the flyover states", just a bunch of shitholes with poor civil rights?
This ^^ really gives your leftist history rewriting away. "The flyover states" are also "America's bread basket" they are not empty. They do have a good deal of forest, more than they once did in fact as agriculture has become more efficient and we have been able to allow places to reforest. Good thing too that helps air quality and reduces climate change.
The rest of space is very much being used to group the wheat and corn that went into your breakfast cereal this morning.
I haven't decided yet if I like the TPP or not - particularly as we haven't know the full details
That is people problem though. FASTTRACK essential means our elected representatives HAVE decided they like, and they largely haven't seen the full details either! More than that the smaller group of officials actually negotiating the thing did not let larger group look at it except under insane conditions where they could not even take notes.
It does not matter if its a good law or not, they way its being enacted amounts to a total subversion of how our system of representative democracy was supposed to work. That should be enough reason to oppose the thing on its own. We need to send the message we demand sunshine in the legislative process!
At least Nixon knew when the jig was up and still had enough sense of shame to step down when he was busted. When modern presidents wantonly ignore the law AND get caught they claim is some !$MYPARTY conspiracy to discredit them and carry on.
We would lucky to have a president with half the integrity or Richard Nixon again.
That is sorta my point though. My unsupported theory is we have a lot of mal adjusted adults, especially young adults because when they were adolescents forming behaviors, developing coping skills, learning empathy etc, they spent all their time around other people who like them had not yet developed those skills.
People seem to not even know how they are supposed to feel anymore. Practically ever 20 something I meet thinks if they don't feel 'happy' every moment of their day they are depressed. They then conclude they either need to be on medication or the world is against them or something equally crazy. They have no ability to 'talk' themselves up or down.
It takes a profound lack of empathy to commit mass murder. I am really what have those people does to you that is so bad you feel entitled to deny them another sunrise, another cup a tea? That is deeply messed up thinking to be able to justify such an act. If there is one thing we know about adolescents its empathy isn't a strong suit yet. Its developing but its not there, I suspect its partly learned behavior. Adolescents not being made to conform to a world run by adults but instead allowed to raise themselves in these little lord of flies micro societies we call schools, i think leads to a lot of the narcissism we see out there.
ah by Vegas cabs almost universally don't have GPS. I was there just this summer probably took at least fifteen cab rides not one cabbie had a GPS.
Most of them asked ME for directions. Shit, I don't live here dude, you are the cabbie YOU are supposed to know where to go. I am asking to go to major Hotel and other commercial destinations too, not like some residence on an obscure block somewhere.
So in addition to the outrageous fairs, I am left using my phone and MY data plan to navigate for the drive. Sorry, we always get the refrain about how cabbies know where everything is etc, maybe that is true in London (never been), but the usual driver in Vegas isn't cable of doing anything without help other than running up and down the strip and you're damn lucking if they know which direction to go in without help at that.
I'd rather ride with Uber or Lyft any day. At least those folks can be expected to have their own smart phone and eat the data costs of navigating!
I am more concerned one day they screw up and their transgenic crops do pollinate / seed in the wild. They displace natural varieties without anyone noticing until its to late. Finally the genes to make them sterile or only grow in the presence of certain chemicals etc do get flipped back on and we have massive crop losses in a staple food product like maize.
I prefer to let the array handle all that stuff and use 'normal' filesystem like ext4
Spoken like someone who has only worked in a tiny shop on boxen that mostly have direct attacked storage. While I agree checksuming etc is stuff the array ought to do all the other features like snapshops and volume management are damn nice to have in the file system layer. Firstly because that kind of stuff is damn convenient to have in the hands of the sysadmin rather than the storage admin who are often different people. Being able to create a quick atomic snapshot is highly useful. Being able to do it on a device that can't have consequences for other servers is even better. I don't want to fool with the SAN over SSH doing after hours work and potentially causing a calamity while I am miles away from the office, messing with one host on the other hand is a lot less blood pressure elevating.
Even adding additional storage is nicer. Just have the SAN guy attach another LUN and add it to the pool. Easy and safe to do live, much safer than: have storage guy do some array re-size operation, than have server guy do some partition or logical volume manger fiddling, followed by a file system grow. If you even can do that with mounted file systems. Don't be silly ZFS and (my preference) BTRFS are the way forward. Hell even on a single host when properly configured BTRFS confers most of the advantages of a VM! In terms of easy snapshot / rollback and ZFS could too.
I suspect a big part of the problem is teenagers should not spend quite so much time with other teenagers. Teens certainly need some time with each other but I really think they should be spending a larger part of their day surrounded principally but adults, in a more vocational context. That isn't 30 of their peers and 1 grown up in the room, with long periods like lunch with little to no adult interaction. Put a bunch of immature people together with no one to emulate but each other and its no surprise we get really strange emergent behavior.
Adolescents need to be working with watching and learning to emulate how adults behave, and interact with one another solve problems etc. A couple hundred years ago if you were 14 you'd have been working on your fathers farm with him or in the kitchen around your mother and the other ladies. You'd spend your Sunday interacting at church etc again where there would be more adults around most of the time than other children. I think as a society we should look at teaching higher maths and reading levels sooner, it works in other parts of the world. If we could push algebra etc down to the Junior high level and wrap up primary and secondary education by 14 we could then send kids out into the workforce for awhile during their formative years. Maybe make it a normal thing to assist your parent at their job etc. When kids get to be 18, 19 etc then they go back to higher education if that is their path.
It sounds like you are arguing that the third group does not exist. If so, I think you are wrong about that.
It sounds like you are arguing that the third group does exist. If so, I think you are wrong about that. In the context of mass shootings the are almost always murder suicides or the individual is so insane they are either not capable of or at least not applying that kind of logic to their actions, like the Aurora CO. shooter.
Its not like we are talking about embezzlement, speeding, drug use, or even armed robbery here. There is little to suggest these mass murders give any thought at all to a future past their attack. The exception seemingly when they plan to die in the attack and become infamous. I for one do not fear or being prosecuted for possession of illegal fire arms, any other sort of weapon, let alone murder has any impact on their actions no would it no matter what you make the penalties.
If anything the threat of being purged from existence might be best. You and your property will be burned, people will be asked no to speak of you by name, birth records destroyed, any remains that speak to you ever having existing will be buried deep in an unmarked undiscovered location. That might give some of them pause.
No the statement is correct. Like beauty, racism, sexism, and homophobia are in the eyes or ears as it may be of the interpreter. Which is why its mostly pointless to worry about it. Unless someone is plainly deliberately attempting to be provocative by making statements that will widely be read as racist, sexist, or homophobic; we should just give them the benefit of the doubt as a society and move on.
People like Anita Sarkeesian may be factually correct but they contribute nothing new or useful essentially 'society' has know and understood her point since the third century BC. Its just useless gum flapping now.
This is the most complete and factual analysis I have seen on Slashdot so far. What concerns me and would stop me from embracing the strategy we have chosen were I sitting in the oval office is, that "the enemy of my enemy is my friend" does not hold up after the original enemy is gone.
Al Qaeda and its offshoots and subgroups in particular are propaganda machines. When Daesh is defeated if it ever is, we will again be the Great Satin and just like before I suspect we find ourselves faced with the training and likely weapons we have provided turned on us. Its how these leaders hold on to power. Personally I think out best bet would be to just disengage form the middle east. let Southern Europe, Russia, China, Israel and the more stable elements in North Africa contain it if they can. While politically sacrificing Iraq and Afghanistan at this point is a tough pill to swallow, in the most mercenary sense the potential payback from stabilizing those places in no way approaches the costs.
Daesh could be very useful to us in that if we left it unchecked it will likely put a great deal of strain on Iran, Russia, and eventually China will be drawn in. These are our economic rivals, its hard to imagine we don't gain from them being in a multi-trillion dollar quagmire we have been stuck in for fifteen years now. A few decades of not seeing American's dropping bombs over there might cause a refocus of some of the extra-regional terrorism objectives as well.
Personally I think our best move is to pack up and go home. No foreign aide to the region. State department imposed travel bans for Americans. Lets just watch from the satellites and see how it pans out.
I support a couple artists on Patreon because I like the stuff they do. I enjoy viewing it and I think it is interesting enough to patronize. Both of them post their stuff to their regular free youtube channels the same day. Its essentially the internet equivalent of being busker. They going to perform their art and if you want to help them out by throwing a few bucks in their virtual violin case they appreciate it.
There is no problem there. I don't think artists are under any illusions about how the system works or that most of their viewers probably don't contribute directly.
For example, NYC has a population density higher than Tokyo, yet has data speeds than are a fraction of Tokyo's. Why is that? Its not for want of faster speeds, or technical capability.
Economics!
The same reason we because an industrial power house to rival Europe in the 19th century. We industrialized a little later then they did. We learned the lesson the tech was evolving quickly and investing in more 'disposable' cheaper machines was better. We grew more quickly for that because did not have the over hang of to much investment in obsolete tech.
We built a telecom network before Tokyo, with the technology we had at the time. Now we live with it because the cost to fork lift it out and replace it with new before it reaches the end of its serviceable life does not justify the pay back. Would we like faster speeds, and lower latency sure but what do we gain?
If you're an HFT trader it makes sense build out the telecom you need to do that. The rest of us I am not so sure it matters much. Doing IT work could we gain some small productivity increases not wait for patches to download or images to transfer yes. Is that worth the costs? Are there other goods and services we can't produce efficiently because of lack of network resources? Asia has faster networks is not a justification for building faster networks, by itself. Once someone comes up with a killer app for more speed I am sure more speed will readily appear.
As it stands now, I am sure we'd get more economic value in making sure the truly under served parts of the this country can get on the right side of the digital divide. Keeping our smaller towns from drying up is important. The are important resource for rural residents who grow our food produce our chemicals etc. Getting those places from 800Kbps to 25Mbps is probably of more value than taking NYC residents from 75Mbps to 1000Mbps.
The free market hasn't be allowed to operate in a long time. The free market does not provide bailouts to big banks, or auto makers.
The definition of middle class has been sneakily altered as well. Most of the people who think they are middle class are really working poor. Middle class used to mean you were a merchant or artisan or something. You were a free person with some wealth who go where you liked. if your liabilities exceed your assets, you are poor does not matte what your income is. If you don't have enough assets that you are 'free' to quit working move to another city and find a job you like better without risk of starving becoming homeless etc, you are poor, it makes no difference how many square feet your current home is.
Let me make this even simpler, unless you can pay off all your debts today and have a sufficiently portable source of income to relocate at least within the country you are a serf, you are not middle class and would do well to let go of that illusion.
Had we not bailed out the banks the poor would have gotten crushed for sure, and the wealthy would have lost a great deal of their wealth. The middle class would have profited handsomely. It would have been the middle class with actual savings that got to snap up all kinds of assets at fire sale prices.
As unfair as it might be I think the response to the crisis is wrong. We should NOT welcome the refugees and asylum seekers. By and large these people are the educated people of quality with some wealth in that region that are leaving. If anything it might be self serving to allow them to come to the US or enter the EU.
If Syria, Libya, Iraq, Afghanistan etc are ever to be anything other than squalid hell holes its the very people who are leaving that would otherwise have the cause (families) and capability (education + money) to make those places better. While denying them entry in Europe and the US might be sentencing them to a life time of struggle or death letting immigrate dooms the places they come from to being dominated by the Islamic extremist loonies.
If we ever want to see those places settle down, and see it be possible for people to have a normal life there the only approach might be to make getting out more hopeless than taking back their countries from the crazies.
Snowden traded the US for Russia. This is what made comparisons between the two countries and the practices of their intelligence agencies valid and on-topic.
How exactly did he do that? Is a Russian citizen now? Is he advocating or espousing the Russian political system? I don't see how the fact that he is sleeping there indicates he 'traded' anything.
the primary danger to our freedoms is the increasingly common belief, that it is acceptable â" and even noble â" to vote other people's monies to the "less fortunate" including, as so often happens, the voter himself.
Whoa! You complain about my objection to the idea that Russia has anything to do with the NSA and the legality and morality of its action, but you want to bring in a discussion of personal property as it relates to liberties and suggest that is on topic?
I would readily agree with that strong protections of personal property, including the freedom from most forms of taxation are a cornerstone of liberty. I don't see what that has to do with anything here, unless you don't believe our other Constitutional protections are also important to liberty. I see the 4th amendment right to be secure in my effects as closely related the personal property cornerstone. While it might be more important the government can't take my things or money its also import they can't rifle through them at will either; at least it is to me. You seem to suggest the NSA's data will one day be used to confiscate wealth. Its already happening they tip off the DEA and FBI regularly. So there is my point if you don't let the government see your stuff they don't know where there is to try and take from you. So thank you Snowden for bringing to light the domestic spying!
Maybe the NSA's domestic spying isn't the 'greatest' threat to liberty but it clearly is a A threat. I for one think we should resist all threats to personal freedoms not just the biggest ones. Walk and chew bubble gum man.
Oh yeah? What happened to âoeLet every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, in order to assure the survival and the success of liberty.â? We defend Taiwan from China, South Korea from the North. Israel â" from its mad neighbors. We kept USSR at bay throughout the Cold War â" why is Ukraine less worthy of American help today than France or Germany was in 1970-ies?
Team America World Police is a stupid policy that is bankrupting our nation and endangering our citizens. We a large scale global threat emerges with the potential to harm us, yes we should deal with it. Otherwise we should stay in relative safety between two great oceans and let the rest of the world solve its own problems.
To understand is to forgive" â" you, obviously do like Putin's behavior better, than you like that of American governments.
Sure the same way I forgive gravity for causing things to fall down. I am simply stating what a large number of people familiar with US Russian politics will echo. Putin actions are predictable responses to our own. Either the surprise and astonishment that comes from the administration is feigned for political effect or they are dangerously naive and inept.
There is one stark and undeniable difference remaining, though â" when the US invades, it is never to steal land â" our last acquisition was Hawaii. We had multiple opportunities since (such as Philippines, but didn't use them). Putin's invasion into Crimea â" ostensibly to "defend Russian-speakers" against the imaginary threat of the imaginary "nazist junta" â" was nothing but a land-grab.
Right because we know total control and administration of a territory is difficult and expensive work. Just ask Paul Bremer about Iraq. With some exceptions our policy could be summed up as "That's a nice country you have there it would be shame if something happened to it." I don't see the great justice. We install a leadership that is either unpopular with its own people or incapable of survival given its neighbors without our continued support, we then make sure they 'play ball' with the threat of leaving them to twist if they don't. We do leave them to twist when they don't, ask Hamid Karzai or Nouri al-Maliki. This is a nice way of not stealing anything, but the results are not so different.
I really am not defending Russia, or Putin. I don't like him. He is a global menace. I am saying "People in glass houses should not throw stones." Geopolitical events are complicated and you can always make excuses and justifications about how you have some kind of moral authority. In the end though you are either melding in the affairs of others or you are not; you killing and maiming people who don't threaten you or you are not. I think ultimately it really is that simple or needs to be thought about in that way. I think that because in reality its two complicated to even know what the ends are when we go melding and looking back on pretty much every post WWII conflict its damn hard to say the ends justified the means.
I don't understand this argument. It sounds a lot like the bullshit that flows from the mouths of John Kerry about it. No matter what Russia does or does not do to its people, that in no way makes the NSA's behavior lessor or more virtuous. We have a Constitution, we have a body of Legal precedent that establishes protections and we have a common largely shared understanding among the public of what those protections mean and are; the NSA just ignores them and does what it wants anyway.
We are loosing our government by and FOR the people in drips and drabs and the NSA's behavior is a drop in that bucket. Snowden could have done nothing, he could have done his 'job' and added to the problem, or he could do what he did even though it amounts to trying to empty the bucket with a tea spoon. He chose to start bailing at great personal cost to himself. I can only wish I had the balls to do that.
Snowden will very likely never by able to go home again. He will never be truly free again, comfortable maybe but greatly constrained in what he can say and do. He needs the protection of Putin who is purely mercenary. Snowden will always be more constrained than he would have been had he done nothing to shelter us from the infringements that were silently taking place against our liberties.
AND THAT ISN"T GOOD ENOUGH FOR YOU! No he hast to be martyr as well for some reason. He does not have a lot of choices, there are not many places or people he can go to with the ability to protect him, let alone the desire or will. Putin is the best of bad choices probably. Will I be disappointed if Snowden starts telling us what a standup guy Vladimir is and how Russia is a shining example of freedom and democracy; yes I would. I will however accept his silence on the matter, as hypercritical. He needs a place to stay, you don't insult the master of the manor when you are guest. Russia's problems are not Snowden's fight, that is fight for the citizens of Russia. Snowden fought for freedom in his country, my country, likely your country. I think 'we' owe him gratitude!
Putin is a far worse threat to the world peace, than Obama or Bush before him.
Putin is no peace neck for sure, he isn't a good guy by any stretch and probably isn't doing what is in the best interest of the nation he leads but to suggest he is a bigger threat to world peace than Obama is silly.
Putin's invasions of foreign nations have all been of neighboring or nearly so territories with for the most part pretty clear economic or militarily strategic reason for Russian interest. Georgia being his most naked land grab.
The other instances like Ukraine happened after potentially hostile western entities (like us) started meddling in affairs there. Was the government of Ukraine a good one, no, but we had no business backing the revolutionaries and we had no business supporting the ouster of the sitting president for which there was no legal process of impeachment. We helped depose a lawfully elected leader who was friendly to Putin and replace him with an unlawfully elected leader who favored the EU.
While Bush and Obama invade nations that never really posed any threat to us. Libya was helping us with the 'war on terror' Obama turned a more or less orderly if less than 'free' nation into another hell hole for no reason at all. We fucked Pakistan up more than it already was shortly before that. Bush while at least going about it legally with an congressional authorization went looking for any excuse to stir up IRAQ and went in on thin evidence....
How do think Obama would react if Russia backed a coup in Mexico and replaced the government with one openly hostile to the US? Do you think we would just sit by and allow that?
I am not saying I like Putin's behavior but I am saying its quite understandable, and seems entirely rational to me. He isn't crazy, and I don't think he is exactly the provocateur in many cases either. He certainly is taking advantage of certain situations perhaps in way that exceeds a balanced response but these are doors opened for him by Obama behavior and policy more so than anyone else. Syria is the same call would we allow Russia to undermine our foot hold in the Middle East by deposing governments friendly to us. What if the Russian's tried to bring down the Saudi Royal family? You think we would just do nothing? I doubt it. Why do expect the Russians to not try and prop up Assad? Oh and spare me the but Assad uses barrel bombs on his own people, the Saudi's to plenty of terrible things to their citizens too, and we look the other way.
What exactly do think the effect of all the aide to the Arab spring rebels is, the humanitarian aide to Syria, or the Palestinians, the cease fire negotiations is exactly? I'll tell you it keeps these conflicts alive when hunger and disease would have decisively ended them decades ago without all our interventions. Why because the Military Industrial Complex profits from endless waring. Putin is bad guy and Russia has a bad foreign policy too if you want to see peace, but it is post cold war American foreign policy that is responsible for the state the world is in today for the most part. Some administrations have been worse than others. Certainly Obama is among the more dangerous, GWB and Clinton not far behind him, GHB and Regan a little better the last three but not by much either.
If the systems are headless though that might be problematic if one won't boot or he needs to do something outside a software environment that can support those things.
He might also look at Integrated Lights Out Modules. That way his controls are not dependent on the host OS.
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Most RAID controllers have pathetic parity data computation performance.
You are right about that point. Which is why ZFS "does it in software" that said, because existing implementations do the job poorly is not a case against the design decision to provide those functions at a given layer. metadata-integrity needs to be done at the filesystem layer. The storage layer does not and should not know about filesystem internals. As far as parity and general data integrity the storage system can and should do that. I mean if the FS layer says give that block this bit pattern, it really should expect that block to have that bit pattern later.
The difference is when nuclear goes bad the damage can be very big.
No the difference is the damage from operating coal and hydrocarbon fuel plants is spread over a large geographic area (diffused in the atmosphere) and period of time. Individuals, societies, and ecosystems are generally able to cope with and absorb those impacts.
What is missed is the concentrated calamities that are oil spills, tail pound leaks, ash spills etc. Those are also consequences of traditional generation even if indirectly.
There is some truth in parts of what you say but its still a highly biased view point. Firstly the relatively small size of the Native American population made all that land management easy.
When your numbers are that small you don't have all kinds of problems you do with larger populations. Simply burying your shit works when you only have a handful of people living on a large acreage. That does not hold up when your numbers get much larger.
Forest does not in fact provide much food. It takes a lot of forest land to provide enough food for a person sustainably, thru hunting and gathering. Certainly way more than land cultivation. If you are a village of a hundred it might work, much beyond that and the area over which resource must be gathered will be farther than people can walk.
would be known as "the flyover states", just a bunch of shitholes with poor civil rights?
This ^^ really gives your leftist history rewriting away. "The flyover states" are also "America's bread basket" they are not empty. They do have a good deal of forest, more than they once did in fact as agriculture has become more efficient and we have been able to allow places to reforest. Good thing too that helps air quality and reduces climate change.
The rest of space is very much being used to group the wheat and corn that went into your breakfast cereal this morning.
I haven't decided yet if I like the TPP or not - particularly as we haven't know the full details
That is people problem though. FASTTRACK essential means our elected representatives HAVE decided they like, and they largely haven't seen the full details either! More than that the smaller group of officials actually negotiating the thing did not let larger group look at it except under insane conditions where they could not even take notes.
It does not matter if its a good law or not, they way its being enacted amounts to a total subversion of how our system of representative democracy was supposed to work. That should be enough reason to oppose the thing on its own. We need to send the message we demand sunshine in the legislative process!
At least Nixon knew when the jig was up and still had enough sense of shame to step down when he was busted. When modern presidents wantonly ignore the law AND get caught they claim is some !$MYPARTY conspiracy to discredit them and carry on.
We would lucky to have a president with half the integrity or Richard Nixon again.
That is sorta my point though. My unsupported theory is we have a lot of mal adjusted adults, especially young adults because when they were adolescents forming behaviors, developing coping skills, learning empathy etc, they spent all their time around other people who like them had not yet developed those skills.
People seem to not even know how they are supposed to feel anymore. Practically ever 20 something I meet thinks if they don't feel 'happy' every moment of their day they are depressed. They then conclude they either need to be on medication or the world is against them or something equally crazy. They have no ability to 'talk' themselves up or down.
It takes a profound lack of empathy to commit mass murder. I am really what have those people does to you that is so bad you feel entitled to deny them another sunrise, another cup a tea? That is deeply messed up thinking to be able to justify such an act. If there is one thing we know about adolescents its empathy isn't a strong suit yet. Its developing but its not there, I suspect its partly learned behavior. Adolescents not being made to conform to a world run by adults but instead allowed to raise themselves in these little lord of flies micro societies we call schools, i think leads to a lot of the narcissism we see out there.
In the age of GPS this should be a non-problem.
ah by Vegas cabs almost universally don't have GPS. I was there just this summer probably took at least fifteen cab rides not one cabbie had a GPS.
Most of them asked ME for directions. Shit, I don't live here dude, you are the cabbie YOU are supposed to know where to go. I am asking to go to major Hotel and other commercial destinations too, not like some residence on an obscure block somewhere.
So in addition to the outrageous fairs, I am left using my phone and MY data plan to navigate for the drive. Sorry, we always get the refrain about how cabbies know where everything is etc, maybe that is true in London (never been), but the usual driver in Vegas isn't cable of doing anything without help other than running up and down the strip and you're damn lucking if they know which direction to go in without help at that.
I'd rather ride with Uber or Lyft any day. At least those folks can be expected to have their own smart phone and eat the data costs of navigating!
I am more concerned one day they screw up and their transgenic crops do pollinate / seed in the wild. They displace natural varieties without anyone noticing until its to late. Finally the genes to make them sterile or only grow in the presence of certain chemicals etc do get flipped back on and we have massive crop losses in a staple food product like maize.
I prefer to let the array handle all that stuff and use 'normal' filesystem like ext4
Spoken like someone who has only worked in a tiny shop on boxen that mostly have direct attacked storage. While I agree checksuming etc is stuff the array ought to do all the other features like snapshops and volume management are damn nice to have in the file system layer. Firstly because that kind of stuff is damn convenient to have in the hands of the sysadmin rather than the storage admin who are often different people. Being able to create a quick atomic snapshot is highly useful. Being able to do it on a device that can't have consequences for other servers is even better. I don't want to fool with the SAN over SSH doing after hours work and potentially causing a calamity while I am miles away from the office, messing with one host on the other hand is a lot less blood pressure elevating.
Even adding additional storage is nicer. Just have the SAN guy attach another LUN and add it to the pool. Easy and safe to do live, much safer than: have storage guy do some array re-size operation, than have server guy do some partition or logical volume manger fiddling, followed by a file system grow. If you even can do that with mounted file systems. Don't be silly ZFS and (my preference) BTRFS are the way forward. Hell even on a single host when properly configured BTRFS confers most of the advantages of a VM! In terms of easy snapshot / rollback and ZFS could too.
I suspect a big part of the problem is teenagers should not spend quite so much time with other teenagers. Teens certainly need some time with each other but I really think they should be spending a larger part of their day surrounded principally but adults, in a more vocational context. That isn't 30 of their peers and 1 grown up in the room, with long periods like lunch with little to no adult interaction. Put a bunch of immature people together with no one to emulate but each other and its no surprise we get really strange emergent behavior.
Adolescents need to be working with watching and learning to emulate how adults behave, and interact with one another solve problems etc. A couple hundred years ago if you were 14 you'd have been working on your fathers farm with him or in the kitchen around your mother and the other ladies. You'd spend your Sunday interacting at church etc again where there would be more adults around most of the time than other children. I think as a society we should look at teaching higher maths and reading levels sooner, it works in other parts of the world. If we could push algebra etc down to the Junior high level and wrap up primary and secondary education by 14 we could then send kids out into the workforce for awhile during their formative years. Maybe make it a normal thing to assist your parent at their job etc. When kids get to be 18, 19 etc then they go back to higher education if that is their path.
Why? maybe it would be better for society to think about returning to a period where people did not commit so many mass murders?
It sounds like you are arguing that the third group does not exist. If so, I think you are wrong about that.
It sounds like you are arguing that the third group does exist. If so, I think you are wrong about that. In the context of mass shootings the are almost always murder suicides or the individual is so insane they are either not capable of or at least not applying that kind of logic to their actions, like the Aurora CO. shooter.
Its not like we are talking about embezzlement, speeding, drug use, or even armed robbery here. There is little to suggest these mass murders give any thought at all to a future past their attack. The exception seemingly when they plan to die in the attack and become infamous. I for one do not fear or being prosecuted for possession of illegal fire arms, any other sort of weapon, let alone murder has any impact on their actions no would it no matter what you make the penalties.
If anything the threat of being purged from existence might be best. You and your property will be burned, people will be asked no to speak of you by name, birth records destroyed, any remains that speak to you ever having existing will be buried deep in an unmarked undiscovered location. That might give some of them pause.
No the statement is correct. Like beauty, racism, sexism, and homophobia are in the eyes or ears as it may be of the interpreter. Which is why its mostly pointless to worry about it. Unless someone is plainly deliberately attempting to be provocative by making statements that will widely be read as racist, sexist, or homophobic; we should just give them the benefit of the doubt as a society and move on.
People like Anita Sarkeesian may be factually correct but they contribute nothing new or useful essentially 'society' has know and understood her point since the third century BC. Its just useless gum flapping now.
This is the most complete and factual analysis I have seen on Slashdot so far. What concerns me and would stop me from embracing the strategy we have chosen were I sitting in the oval office is, that "the enemy of my enemy is my friend" does not hold up after the original enemy is gone.
Al Qaeda and its offshoots and subgroups in particular are propaganda machines. When Daesh is defeated if it ever is, we will again be the Great Satin and just like before I suspect we find ourselves faced with the training and likely weapons we have provided turned on us. Its how these leaders hold on to power. Personally I think out best bet would be to just disengage form the middle east. let Southern Europe, Russia, China, Israel and the more stable elements in North Africa contain it if they can. While politically sacrificing Iraq and Afghanistan at this point is a tough pill to swallow, in the most mercenary sense the potential payback from stabilizing those places in no way approaches the costs.
Daesh could be very useful to us in that if we left it unchecked it will likely put a great deal of strain on Iran, Russia, and eventually China will be drawn in. These are our economic rivals, its hard to imagine we don't gain from them being in a multi-trillion dollar quagmire we have been stuck in for fifteen years now. A few decades of not seeing American's dropping bombs over there might cause a refocus of some of the extra-regional terrorism objectives as well.
Personally I think our best move is to pack up and go home. No foreign aide to the region. State department imposed travel bans for Americans. Lets just watch from the satellites and see how it pans out.
I support a couple artists on Patreon because I like the stuff they do. I enjoy viewing it and I think it is interesting enough to patronize. Both of them post their stuff to their regular free youtube channels the same day. Its essentially the internet equivalent of being busker. They going to perform their art and if you want to help them out by throwing a few bucks in their virtual violin case they appreciate it.
There is no problem there. I don't think artists are under any illusions about how the system works or that most of their viewers probably don't contribute directly.
You should probably post this helpful on yelp!
For example, NYC has a population density higher than Tokyo, yet has data speeds than are a fraction of Tokyo's. Why is that? Its not for want of faster speeds, or technical capability.
Economics!
The same reason we because an industrial power house to rival Europe in the 19th century. We industrialized a little later then they did. We learned the lesson the tech was evolving quickly and investing in more 'disposable' cheaper machines was better. We grew more quickly for that because did not have the over hang of to much investment in obsolete tech.
We built a telecom network before Tokyo, with the technology we had at the time. Now we live with it because the cost to fork lift it out and replace it with new before it reaches the end of its serviceable life does not justify the pay back. Would we like faster speeds, and lower latency sure but what do we gain?
If you're an HFT trader it makes sense build out the telecom you need to do that. The rest of us I am not so sure it matters much. Doing IT work could we gain some small productivity increases not wait for patches to download or images to transfer yes. Is that worth the costs? Are there other goods and services we can't produce efficiently because of lack of network resources? Asia has faster networks is not a justification for building faster networks, by itself. Once someone comes up with a killer app for more speed I am sure more speed will readily appear.
As it stands now, I am sure we'd get more economic value in making sure the truly under served parts of the this country can get on the right side of the digital divide. Keeping our smaller towns from drying up is important. The are important resource for rural residents who grow our food produce our chemicals etc. Getting those places from 800Kbps to 25Mbps is probably of more value than taking NYC residents from 75Mbps to 1000Mbps.
So Microsoft potentially pushed test code to everyone's production systems. That makes me feel so much better.
The free market hasn't be allowed to operate in a long time. The free market does not provide bailouts to big banks, or auto makers.
The definition of middle class has been sneakily altered as well. Most of the people who think they are middle class are really working poor. Middle class used to mean you were a merchant or artisan or something. You were a free person with some wealth who go where you liked. if your liabilities exceed your assets, you are poor does not matte what your income is. If you don't have enough assets that you are 'free' to quit working move to another city and find a job you like better without risk of starving becoming homeless etc, you are poor, it makes no difference how many square feet your current home is.
Let me make this even simpler, unless you can pay off all your debts today and have a sufficiently portable source of income to relocate at least within the country you are a serf, you are not middle class and would do well to let go of that illusion.
Had we not bailed out the banks the poor would have gotten crushed for sure, and the wealthy would have lost a great deal of their wealth. The middle class would have profited handsomely. It would have been the middle class with actual savings that got to snap up all kinds of assets at fire sale prices.
As unfair as it might be I think the response to the crisis is wrong. We should NOT welcome the refugees and asylum seekers. By and large these people are the educated people of quality with some wealth in that region that are leaving. If anything it might be self serving to allow them to come to the US or enter the EU.
If Syria, Libya, Iraq, Afghanistan etc are ever to be anything other than squalid hell holes its the very people who are leaving that would otherwise have the cause (families) and capability (education + money) to make those places better. While denying them entry in Europe and the US might be sentencing them to a life time of struggle or death letting immigrate dooms the places they come from to being dominated by the Islamic extremist loonies.
If we ever want to see those places settle down, and see it be possible for people to have a normal life there the only approach might be to make getting out more hopeless than taking back their countries from the crazies.
Snowden traded the US for Russia. This is what made comparisons between the two countries and the practices of their intelligence agencies valid and on-topic.
How exactly did he do that? Is a Russian citizen now? Is he advocating or espousing the Russian political system? I don't see how the fact that he is sleeping there indicates he 'traded' anything.
the primary danger to our freedoms is the increasingly common belief, that it is acceptable â" and even noble â" to vote other people's monies to the "less fortunate" including, as so often happens, the voter himself.
Whoa! You complain about my objection to the idea that Russia has anything to do with the NSA and the legality and morality of its action, but you want to bring in a discussion of personal property as it relates to liberties and suggest that is on topic?
I would readily agree with that strong protections of personal property, including the freedom from most forms of taxation are a cornerstone of liberty. I don't see what that has to do with anything here, unless you don't believe our other Constitutional protections are also important to liberty. I see the 4th amendment right to be secure in my effects as closely related the personal property cornerstone. While it might be more important the government can't take my things or money its also import they can't rifle through them at will either; at least it is to me. You seem to suggest the NSA's data will one day be used to confiscate wealth. Its already happening they tip off the DEA and FBI regularly. So there is my point if you don't let the government see your stuff they don't know where there is to try and take from you. So thank you Snowden for bringing to light the domestic spying!
Maybe the NSA's domestic spying isn't the 'greatest' threat to liberty but it clearly is a A threat. I for one think we should resist all threats to personal freedoms not just the biggest ones. Walk and chew bubble gum man.
Oh yeah? What happened to âoeLet every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, in order to assure the survival and the success of liberty.â? We defend Taiwan from China, South Korea from the North. Israel â" from its mad neighbors. We kept USSR at bay throughout the Cold War â" why is Ukraine less worthy of American help today than France or Germany was in 1970-ies?
Team America World Police is a stupid policy that is bankrupting our nation and endangering our citizens. We a large scale global threat emerges with the potential to harm us, yes we should deal with it. Otherwise we should stay in relative safety between two great oceans and let the rest of the world solve its own problems.
To understand is to forgive" â" you, obviously do like Putin's behavior better, than you like that of American governments.
Sure the same way I forgive gravity for causing things to fall down. I am simply stating what a large number of people familiar with US Russian politics will echo. Putin actions are predictable responses to our own. Either the surprise and astonishment that comes from the administration is feigned for political effect or they are dangerously naive and inept.
There is one stark and undeniable difference remaining, though â" when the US invades, it is never to steal land â" our last acquisition was Hawaii. We had multiple opportunities since (such as Philippines, but didn't use them). Putin's invasion into Crimea â" ostensibly to "defend Russian-speakers" against the imaginary threat of the imaginary "nazist junta" â" was nothing but a land-grab.
Right because we know total control and administration of a territory is difficult and expensive work. Just ask Paul Bremer about Iraq. With some exceptions our policy could be summed up as "That's a nice country you have there it would be shame if something happened to it." I don't see the great justice. We install a leadership that is either unpopular with its own people or incapable of survival given its neighbors without our continued support, we then make sure they 'play ball' with the threat of leaving them to twist if they don't. We do leave them to twist when they don't, ask Hamid Karzai or Nouri al-Maliki. This is a nice way of not stealing anything, but the results are not so different.
I really am not defending Russia, or Putin. I don't like him. He is a global menace. I am saying "People in glass houses should not throw stones." Geopolitical events are complicated and you can always make excuses and justifications about how you have some kind of moral authority. In the end though you are either melding in the affairs of others or you are not; you killing and maiming people who don't threaten you or you are not. I think ultimately it really is that simple or needs to be thought about in that way. I think that because in reality its two complicated to even know what the ends are when we go melding and looking back on pretty much every post WWII conflict its damn hard to say the ends justified the means.
I don't understand this argument. It sounds a lot like the bullshit that flows from the mouths of John Kerry about it. No matter what Russia does or does not do to its people, that in no way makes the NSA's behavior lessor or more virtuous. We have a Constitution, we have a body of Legal precedent that establishes protections and we have a common largely shared understanding among the public of what those protections mean and are; the NSA just ignores them and does what it wants anyway.
We are loosing our government by and FOR the people in drips and drabs and the NSA's behavior is a drop in that bucket. Snowden could have done nothing, he could have done his 'job' and added to the problem, or he could do what he did even though it amounts to trying to empty the bucket with a tea spoon. He chose to start bailing at great personal cost to himself. I can only wish I had the balls to do that.
Snowden will very likely never by able to go home again. He will never be truly free again, comfortable maybe but greatly constrained in what he can say and do. He needs the protection of Putin who is purely mercenary. Snowden will always be more constrained than he would have been had he done nothing to shelter us from the infringements that were silently taking place against our liberties.
AND THAT ISN"T GOOD ENOUGH FOR YOU! No he hast to be martyr as well for some reason. He does not have a lot of choices, there are not many places or people he can go to with the ability to protect him, let alone the desire or will. Putin is the best of bad choices probably. Will I be disappointed if Snowden starts telling us what a standup guy Vladimir is and how Russia is a shining example of freedom and democracy; yes I would. I will however accept his silence on the matter, as hypercritical. He needs a place to stay, you don't insult the master of the manor when you are guest. Russia's problems are not Snowden's fight, that is fight for the citizens of Russia. Snowden fought for freedom in his country, my country, likely your country. I think 'we' owe him gratitude!
Putin is a far worse threat to the world peace, than Obama or Bush before him.
Putin is no peace neck for sure, he isn't a good guy by any stretch and probably isn't doing what is in the best interest of the nation he leads but to suggest he is a bigger threat to world peace than Obama is silly.
Putin's invasions of foreign nations have all been of neighboring or nearly so territories with for the most part pretty clear economic or militarily strategic reason for Russian interest. Georgia being his most naked land grab.
The other instances like Ukraine happened after potentially hostile western entities (like us) started meddling in affairs there. Was the government of Ukraine a good one, no, but we had no business backing the revolutionaries and we had no business supporting the ouster of the sitting president for which there was no legal process of impeachment. We helped depose a lawfully elected leader who was friendly to Putin and replace him with an unlawfully elected leader who favored the EU.
While Bush and Obama invade nations that never really posed any threat to us. Libya was helping us with the 'war on terror' Obama turned a more or less orderly if less than 'free' nation into another hell hole for no reason at all. We fucked Pakistan up more than it already was shortly before that. Bush while at least going about it legally with an congressional authorization went looking for any excuse to stir up IRAQ and went in on thin evidence....
How do think Obama would react if Russia backed a coup in Mexico and replaced the government with one openly hostile to the US? Do you think we would just sit by and allow that?
I am not saying I like Putin's behavior but I am saying its quite understandable, and seems entirely rational to me. He isn't crazy, and I don't think he is exactly the provocateur in many cases either. He certainly is taking advantage of certain situations perhaps in way that exceeds a balanced response but these are doors opened for him by Obama behavior and policy more so than anyone else. Syria is the same call would we allow Russia to undermine our foot hold in the Middle East by deposing governments friendly to us. What if the Russian's tried to bring down the Saudi Royal family? You think we would just do nothing? I doubt it. Why do expect the Russians to not try and prop up Assad? Oh and spare me the but Assad uses barrel bombs on his own people, the Saudi's to plenty of terrible things to their citizens too, and we look the other way.
What exactly do think the effect of all the aide to the Arab spring rebels is, the humanitarian aide to Syria, or the Palestinians, the cease fire negotiations is exactly? I'll tell you it keeps these conflicts alive when hunger and disease would have decisively ended them decades ago without all our interventions. Why because the Military Industrial Complex profits from endless waring. Putin is bad guy and Russia has a bad foreign policy too if you want to see peace, but it is post cold war American foreign policy that is responsible for the state the world is in today for the most part. Some administrations have been worse than others. Certainly Obama is among the more dangerous, GWB and Clinton not far behind him, GHB and Regan a little better the last three but not by much either.
If the systems are headless though that might be problematic if one won't boot or he needs to do something outside a software environment that can support those things.
He might also look at Integrated Lights Out Modules. That way his controls are not dependent on the host OS.