That was a fantastic book, and one of his assertions that should really be discussed is how the current administration found the "enhanced interrogation" program so repugnant, yet has no problem blowing up people with drones whether non-targets are hit with the missile or not.
Yeah, "walling" someone is far worse than collapsing a building on them.
Wait, a crap broken-by-design DRM scheme that completely relied on security by obscurity has been cracked before fully implemented; and cracked in an irreparable fashion?
Just like every DRM scheme that has preceded it. And likely every scheme that succeeds it.
I think I've got an old DVD5 copy of a ~3 hour movie that did have an intermission / disc flip due to the capacity constraints at the time, since the Hollywood distributor was too fucking cheap to use a multi-layer DVD back in the day. This was in like 1999 in the golden age of DVD.
It's like when we used to do a disaster recovery test - the business didn't like the idea of buying a tape library for the DR site that would sit there gathering dust, so when we did a quarterly test, we always had a "tape monkey" on the team who would sit there jamming tapes into the LTO drives for hours on end.
Well, it can be, somewhat. You can find SAS-attached LTO-4 drives for around $200, the tapes are around $20 and can carry 800GB before compression. Granted, you have to have a SAS controller, but you can throw one of those to the bill of materials for $50.
So, $250 for the solution, and call it $20 per TB with low compression for tapes. It's not ideal, but it's way better than optical for having a complete backup set.
One of the biggest concerns with archival storage or incremental backup, is the throughput in writing to the media. Not too long ago one of our datacenter tape libraries was writing to tapes 22 out of 24 hours in a day until we added another drive into the robot. All the servers would back up to a hard disk pool at their appointed time, and then the backup server would bleed that scratch space out to tape via fiber channel over the course of the day.
This, of course, included tapes written in duplicate for off-site storage.
I was just having this conversation with a coworker. The firmware update feature of BluRay is not to "add features" or somehow make the player work better - it is to protect their shaky botched-together DRM lock system from a modern-day "DVD" Jon Johansen busting it wide open like was done with CSS.
And clearly it's worked so well, what with the high definition rips available on the Internet before you can even buy the damn digital-padlocked disc.
Initial outlay is a one time cost, and in the case of modern tape systems, it buys you much higher reliability and efficiency than optical media. If capital equipment cost is the only argument against tape for disaster recovery and business continuity, it's a bad one.
These new optical discs may find use in small business / consumer backup, but the only thing that's going to displace tape is virtual tape, e.g. big dumb hard disk platters in vast power sucking arrays.
That's all very interesting, except that all animals only borrow water - they give it back in the form of water vapor when they breathe, sweat (for some) and pee.
In the case of livestock production, the pee is usually used as fertilizer for the surrounding fields, as it holds nutrients that plants need. So there's a bit of efficiency to it.
It's unlikely that there are any types of embedded sensors in dams built in the 1940s and 1950s. You know, back when we used to actually give a shit about building infrastructure in the US.
This is likely good old fashioned visual inspection either by drawing down the reservoir, or with divers.
The Wanapum dam holds back 796,000 acre feet of water. The next dam on the river has a capacity that is a fraction of that (237,100 acre feet), but the one after that is bigger than both of those combined, but not much.
All told, if we had a domino action of Wanapum and the 4 downriver dams failing, we'd be talking about 5,780,100 acre feet of water flowing past Portland, which would be a devastating event indeed.
It's more about being able to still have agriculture in the hundreds of thousands of acres that get irrigated from the reservoirs behind the dams. These hydropower projects had three objectives, all wildly successful for the last 50 years:
1. Flood control 2. Electricity generation 3. Irrigation of the high plains surrounding the Columbia River
Most of the Columbia River dams were built in the 1950s after Harry Truman strong-armed Congress into passing the Flood Control Act of 1950 due to the second largest city in Oregon being wiped off the map when a levy broke in 1948.
Unfortunately we don't build things anymore. We barely maintain them.
All too often we see the management of a company sacrifice the future in favor of the next SEC-mandated 10-Q filing. Here we have a CEO of a publicly traded corporation telling some political douchebag to take his politics and shove them straight up his ass because it has no place in the management of this company, which is exactly what Slashdot has been clamoring for some CEO to do, and it's still questioned by Slashdot because it happens to be Apple.
If you don't think that guy was planted there by a DC-based conservative douche-tank in order to score a couple political points in the form of a press release, go read the douche-tank's press release. They trip over themselves to basically call everyone that voted down their ridiculous proposal the "Al Gore contingency" and left wing radicals because they have the audacity to spend some of the Cupertino Money Bin on doing something nice for the planet.
I wonder what these ultra-conservative fucksticks would have thought of Andrew Carnegie spending the vast majority of his steel profits on libraries and other philanthropic ventures; or Leland Stanford, a Whig, establishing an endowment for a university bearing his name, now one of the most prestigious educational institutions in the world. Neither were profit oriented, and both are lasting and significant contributions to society nearly a century later.
Or, the submitter (and editor) are bad at the english language and actually meant to say that MtGoX held the impromptu press conference.
At least, that's how I interpreted it, since it's unlikely that a random Bitcoin guy could speak authoritatively regarding the financial mess that is MtGoX.
Yeah, you could still make your own, if you dug into the installer app and found the source DMG that it boots to for the install, and restored that to a USB stick with Disk Utility, or the command-line asr tool.
In fact, I used their InstallESD.dmg as a template for how to make a lightweight bootable removable drive for system imaging at my company. I have a 5GB USB stick image that contains the payload OS (10.8.5) as well as the installation packages for our required antivirus, data-at-rest encryption agent for laptops, software delivery agent, Java, the tool we use to connect to Active Directory, and a few scripts that name the machine properly and set up the network locations depending on what subnet it's on. Time from go button to login against AD? Around 8 minutes if you're on a solid state disk.
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That was a fantastic book, and one of his assertions that should really be discussed is how the current administration found the "enhanced interrogation" program so repugnant, yet has no problem blowing up people with drones whether non-targets are hit with the missile or not.
Yeah, "walling" someone is far worse than collapsing a building on them.
The problem is, she only wants that freedom for her, her committee members, her aides, and her cronies.
And by "life" you mean "not at all" because of the DRM-free music sales they've been doing since 2009?
Wait, a crap broken-by-design DRM scheme that completely relied on security by obscurity has been cracked before fully implemented; and cracked in an irreparable fashion?
Just like every DRM scheme that has preceded it. And likely every scheme that succeeds it.
I think I've got an old DVD5 copy of a ~3 hour movie that did have an intermission / disc flip due to the capacity constraints at the time, since the Hollywood distributor was too fucking cheap to use a multi-layer DVD back in the day. This was in like 1999 in the golden age of DVD.
It's like when we used to do a disaster recovery test - the business didn't like the idea of buying a tape library for the DR site that would sit there gathering dust, so when we did a quarterly test, we always had a "tape monkey" on the team who would sit there jamming tapes into the LTO drives for hours on end.
Well, it can be, somewhat. You can find SAS-attached LTO-4 drives for around $200, the tapes are around $20 and can carry 800GB before compression. Granted, you have to have a SAS controller, but you can throw one of those to the bill of materials for $50.
So, $250 for the solution, and call it $20 per TB with low compression for tapes. It's not ideal, but it's way better than optical for having a complete backup set.
One of the biggest concerns with archival storage or incremental backup, is the throughput in writing to the media. Not too long ago one of our datacenter tape libraries was writing to tapes 22 out of 24 hours in a day until we added another drive into the robot. All the servers would back up to a hard disk pool at their appointed time, and then the backup server would bleed that scratch space out to tape via fiber channel over the course of the day.
This, of course, included tapes written in duplicate for off-site storage.
I was just having this conversation with a coworker. The firmware update feature of BluRay is not to "add features" or somehow make the player work better - it is to protect their shaky botched-together DRM lock system from a modern-day "DVD" Jon Johansen busting it wide open like was done with CSS.
And clearly it's worked so well, what with the high definition rips available on the Internet before you can even buy the damn digital-padlocked disc.
Augment your argument. Star Trek III was a masterpiece in cinema in comparison to Star Trek V.
When Apple first binned the floppy in 1999 with the original iMac, most people thought they were crazy.
Who has touched a floppy disk in the last 8+ years?
Initial outlay is a one time cost, and in the case of modern tape systems, it buys you much higher reliability and efficiency than optical media. If capital equipment cost is the only argument against tape for disaster recovery and business continuity, it's a bad one.
These new optical discs may find use in small business / consumer backup, but the only thing that's going to displace tape is virtual tape, e.g. big dumb hard disk platters in vast power sucking arrays.
A large swath of Ukraine is already radioactive due to Russian carelessness, so why not?
Yeah, so when they steal your TV, they get your encrypted life savings too!
That's all very interesting, except that all animals only borrow water - they give it back in the form of water vapor when they breathe, sweat (for some) and pee.
In the case of livestock production, the pee is usually used as fertilizer for the surrounding fields, as it holds nutrients that plants need. So there's a bit of efficiency to it.
Oh, and let's not forget how many small animals are run through farm machinery in the support of the vegan diet.
It's unlikely that there are any types of embedded sensors in dams built in the 1940s and 1950s. You know, back when we used to actually give a shit about building infrastructure in the US.
This is likely good old fashioned visual inspection either by drawing down the reservoir, or with divers.
The Wanapum dam holds back 796,000 acre feet of water. The next dam on the river has a capacity that is a fraction of that (237,100 acre feet), but the one after that is bigger than both of those combined, but not much.
All told, if we had a domino action of Wanapum and the 4 downriver dams failing, we'd be talking about 5,780,100 acre feet of water flowing past Portland, which would be a devastating event indeed.
Losing the 1.1MW of "green" electricity that Wanapum produces might turn out to be a bad thing.
But hey, that's what we've got the coal generator at Boardman for, right?
There's more than one dam downriver. In fact, there are five:
Priest Rapids Dam
McNary Dam
John Day Dam
The Dalles Dam
Bonnevile Dam
But hey, we're only talking about 7.1 cubic kilometers of water behind those 5, right? What could possibly go wrong?
It's more about being able to still have agriculture in the hundreds of thousands of acres that get irrigated from the reservoirs behind the dams. These hydropower projects had three objectives, all wildly successful for the last 50 years:
1. Flood control
2. Electricity generation
3. Irrigation of the high plains surrounding the Columbia River
Most of the Columbia River dams were built in the 1950s after Harry Truman strong-armed Congress into passing the Flood Control Act of 1950 due to the second largest city in Oregon being wiped off the map when a levy broke in 1948.
Unfortunately we don't build things anymore. We barely maintain them.
All too often we see the management of a company sacrifice the future in favor of the next SEC-mandated 10-Q filing. Here we have a CEO of a publicly traded corporation telling some political douchebag to take his politics and shove them straight up his ass because it has no place in the management of this company, which is exactly what Slashdot has been clamoring for some CEO to do, and it's still questioned by Slashdot because it happens to be Apple.
If you don't think that guy was planted there by a DC-based conservative douche-tank in order to score a couple political points in the form of a press release, go read the douche-tank's press release. They trip over themselves to basically call everyone that voted down their ridiculous proposal the "Al Gore contingency" and left wing radicals because they have the audacity to spend some of the Cupertino Money Bin on doing something nice for the planet.
I wonder what these ultra-conservative fucksticks would have thought of Andrew Carnegie spending the vast majority of his steel profits on libraries and other philanthropic ventures; or Leland Stanford, a Whig, establishing an endowment for a university bearing his name, now one of the most prestigious educational institutions in the world. Neither were profit oriented, and both are lasting and significant contributions to society nearly a century later.
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Or, the submitter (and editor) are bad at the english language and actually meant to say that MtGoX held the impromptu press conference.
At least, that's how I interpreted it, since it's unlikely that a random Bitcoin guy could speak authoritatively regarding the financial mess that is MtGoX.
Yeah, you could still make your own, if you dug into the installer app and found the source DMG that it boots to for the install, and restored that to a USB stick with Disk Utility, or the command-line asr tool.
In fact, I used their InstallESD.dmg as a template for how to make a lightweight bootable removable drive for system imaging at my company. I have a 5GB USB stick image that contains the payload OS (10.8.5) as well as the installation packages for our required antivirus, data-at-rest encryption agent for laptops, software delivery agent, Java, the tool we use to connect to Active Directory, and a few scripts that name the machine properly and set up the network locations depending on what subnet it's on. Time from go button to login against AD? Around 8 minutes if you're on a solid state disk.
Works on USB, FireWire, and Thunderbolt.