Well I guess I could halve the number of UPS devices we have right now with 110V by buying new UPSes with twice the capacity. Wouldn't save much money...
half as many power strips
Really? How does that work, exactly? I switch to 240V and then every other server magically doesn't need any power cable at all?
Do you really have people do that? If so where do you live? If close I'll be happy to stop by and save you guys the trouble of carrying the machine out to the trash.
Um, yes it is. What's not evil about buying something and then someone else having all the control over it? All those game you "bought" on steam can be taken from you any time valve feels like doing so. You have nothing, and no recourse.
Try doing a chargeback for something you paid for on steam one day and tell me how wonderful it is.
I never understood the appeal of password managers.
They allow you to conveniently use different, hard to guess passwords for every site you visit. The convenience makes you more likely to actually do that and plus you aren't getting your password sent to you via plain text email reminders now and then because you forgot or lost the paper.
If I have a high security password, I'm not going to want to store it in a browser for two reasons: 1) Someone else with physical accesse to my machine, has access to my stuff;
Well assuming you did the no-brainer step of disk encryption, someone will need to trojan your machine and intercept your passphrase or key in order to get at stored passwords (hardware keylogger perhaps). If they can do that then they can just as easily trojan the browser or OS to intercept the passwords you wrote down as you type them in. Writing them down gained you nothing.
2) If I don't ever have to type my password, I'll often forget it.
Then back it up the same way you back up any other important files. Its quite a bit more easy to keep those backups safe and secure than it is a piece of paper with plain text written on it.
Putting it on your computer, especially your Windows PC, is asking for someone take it.
If they gained enough access to your computer to read your password stash (assuming it is encrypted) then they've gained enough access to intercept them as you're typing them in.
"essentially flawlessly"? Not at all. I had two intel 2100 cards that I had to replace with Aetheros cards because of a well known bug in their firmware which Intel just never felt like fixing.
I have a better plan still: have the city government run and maintain lines from many houses/buildings to a few central offices throughout the city but nothing more. If you're an ISP and you want to offer services to a neighborhood, you only have to pay for high capacity lines to a few COs rather than tons of houses and you pay the city a bit to co-locate your equipment in the COs.
That reduces all of that unnecessary construction and redundant lines and massively reduces an ISP's cost to start doing business in an area.
Why would you want to cling to NAT and uPNP and port forwarding and fidgeting with server port numbers and all this other shit if you could just get rid of it all and have the same functions? It would be so much simpler.
Asking why IPv6 should be adopted to replace these hacks is like asking "why would I walk across the street when I could call a taxi, get a ride to the airport, hire a helicopter and be airlifted across the street instead?"
I don't get it either. I mean I understand why a reduction in the supply of money would cause an increase in its value, but I don't understand the difference between "increase in value of an individual unit of currency" and "a decrease of the purchase price of goods" or why the former is deflation and the later isn't.
Currency doesn't have any value in and of itself... its value IS what it can buy.
You need a trusted medium for authentication -- bundling CA certificates is one approach to bootstrapping that process.
I think his point is that the current CA system does not adequately provide that either. I mean, come on, do you really trust "TÜRKTRUST Elektronik Sertifika Hizmet Salaycs" (for example) to do things like authenticate usbank.com? Because whoever the hell that is, they're in a lot of people's browsers by default.
Lets see the datasheet here... no QoS, no VLANs, no dynamic routing except for RIP, no redundancy mechanism for the router itself, two whole VPN connections... I thought you said you left the consumer/prosumer world and got a "real" router?
Okay, suppose I and others like me quit. Are you going to wipe your grandmas ass?
No. "I'm" going to pay more to get someone else to do it. If "I" can't afford to, I wipe her ass myself. If I don't want to, grandma gets a disease and dies.
If no one does the job because of the pay, then what happens.
Does it make much of a difference if all your servers plug into a rack mount UPS that draws the same amount of power regardless of the devices running?
I don't trust ATMs. I don't have to. They print out receipts, there's a nice audit trail that is mailed to me every month and visible online, and there are video cameras recording what goes on with them. If an ATM is ripping me off, I can detect this easily.
If I use a voting machine that doesn't print out a paper ballot for me to hand in, how can I verify that the machine's output into the tally is how I voted? How can anyone?
So speaking of developers, is it possible to write my own code for the G1 and put it on the phone all by myself? Or do I have to get it on there via an online store, or be approved/signed by google or TMobile or something like that?
If you can get your own code on there yourself, how does that work exactly? An extra cable? Bluetooth?
Yeah mcmaster is definitely expensive... but they stock everything, ship same day, top notch customer service, and they have huge warehouses in a few big cities. If you live nearby you can just drive to and pick your stuff up an hour after placing the order, with saturday hours too. That's why I order from them, anyway.
discounttools.com, littlemachineshop.com, smallparts.com, grizzly.com are other similar suppliers I use for this kind of stuff (mostly metalworking tools in my case but smallparts probably has gears).
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Maybe a cheap power strip, but I have yet to ever encounter a situation where I had unused outlets on any rack mount power strip because of current.
Well I guess I could halve the number of UPS devices we have right now with 110V by buying new UPSes with twice the capacity. Wouldn't save much money...
Really? How does that work, exactly? I switch to 240V and then every other server magically doesn't need any power cable at all?
Do you really have people do that? If so where do you live? If close I'll be happy to stop by and save you guys the trouble of carrying the machine out to the trash.
What do you mean she lingered? Just dying slowly? Did the salt concentration cause some physical problem with her or was she "angry" at you?
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Um, yes it is. What's not evil about buying something and then someone else having all the control over it? All those game you "bought" on steam can be taken from you any time valve feels like doing so. You have nothing, and no recourse.
Try doing a chargeback for something you paid for on steam one day and tell me how wonderful it is.
They allow you to conveniently use different, hard to guess passwords for every site you visit. The convenience makes you more likely to actually do that and plus you aren't getting your password sent to you via plain text email reminders now and then because you forgot or lost the paper.
Well assuming you did the no-brainer step of disk encryption, someone will need to trojan your machine and intercept your passphrase or key in order to get at stored passwords (hardware keylogger perhaps). If they can do that then they can just as easily trojan the browser or OS to intercept the passwords you wrote down as you type them in. Writing them down gained you nothing.
Then back it up the same way you back up any other important files. Its quite a bit more easy to keep those backups safe and secure than it is a piece of paper with plain text written on it.
Really? Not even the people who wrote your web browser?
If they gained enough access to your computer to read your password stash (assuming it is encrypted) then they've gained enough access to intercept them as you're typing them in.
No.
What are you trying to accomplish with all these extra steps that any ordinary full disk encryption mechanism can't provide do right now?
"essentially flawlessly"? Not at all. I had two intel 2100 cards that I had to replace with Aetheros cards because of a well known bug in their firmware which Intel just never felt like fixing.
I have a better plan still: have the city government run and maintain lines from many houses/buildings to a few central offices throughout the city but nothing more. If you're an ISP and you want to offer services to a neighborhood, you only have to pay for high capacity lines to a few COs rather than tons of houses and you pay the city a bit to co-locate your equipment in the COs.
That reduces all of that unnecessary construction and redundant lines and massively reduces an ISP's cost to start doing business in an area.
Why would you want to cling to NAT and uPNP and port forwarding and fidgeting with server port numbers and all this other shit if you could just get rid of it all and have the same functions? It would be so much simpler.
Asking why IPv6 should be adopted to replace these hacks is like asking "why would I walk across the street when I could call a taxi, get a ride to the airport, hire a helicopter and be airlifted across the street instead?"
Right - not very much security at all.
Why are they going to NAT anyway? There's no need for most of them to with billions of IP addresses at their disposal.
I don't get it either. I mean I understand why a reduction in the supply of money would cause an increase in its value, but I don't understand the difference between "increase in value of an individual unit of currency" and "a decrease of the purchase price of goods" or why the former is deflation and the later isn't.
Currency doesn't have any value in and of itself... its value IS what it can buy.
I think his point is that the current CA system does not adequately provide that either. I mean, come on, do you really trust "TÜRKTRUST Elektronik Sertifika Hizmet Salaycs" (for example) to do things like authenticate usbank.com? Because whoever the hell that is, they're in a lot of people's browsers by default.
Did either work out?
Lets see the datasheet here... no QoS, no VLANs, no dynamic routing except for RIP, no redundancy mechanism for the router itself, two whole VPN connections... I thought you said you left the consumer/prosumer world and got a "real" router?
No. "I'm" going to pay more to get someone else to do it. If "I" can't afford to, I wipe her ass myself. If I don't want to, grandma gets a disease and dies.
It starts paying better.
Allow me to introduce you to middle school phsyics...
I don't trust ATMs. I don't have to. They print out receipts, there's a nice audit trail that is mailed to me every month and visible online, and there are video cameras recording what goes on with them. If an ATM is ripping me off, I can detect this easily.
If I use a voting machine that doesn't print out a paper ballot for me to hand in, how can I verify that the machine's output into the tally is how I voted? How can anyone?
So speaking of developers, is it possible to write my own code for the G1 and put it on the phone all by myself? Or do I have to get it on there via an online store, or be approved/signed by google or TMobile or something like that?
If you can get your own code on there yourself, how does that work exactly? An extra cable? Bluetooth?
Yeah mcmaster is definitely expensive... but they stock everything, ship same day, top notch customer service, and they have huge warehouses in a few big cities. If you live nearby you can just drive to and pick your stuff up an hour after placing the order, with saturday hours too. That's why I order from them, anyway.
discounttools.com, littlemachineshop.com, smallparts.com, grizzly.com are other similar suppliers I use for this kind of stuff (mostly metalworking tools in my case but smallparts probably has gears).
smallparts.com has things along these lines and I've ordered various hardware from them in the past.