Next thing the gov't could do is to set up a centralized syslog server. Then they'd announce something like, "Well, if you can't keep logs for 2 years, just enter 'syslog.gov' into the syslog portion on your routers. Sure, we might see a few 'extra' unnecessary pieces of log files, but we PROMISE to ignore them." OR better yet, REQUIRE (by default), that router manufacturers include it by default in their firmwares.
Sounds like the US is already turning into more and more of a police state every time I hear something like this.
Until someone accidentally forwards ALL their calls to this 800 number and then the 800 number forwards the calls to their home line. Are they going to have some type of TTL? =)
I was just going through the process of deleting a bunch of albums that I had had. However, 'deleting' the picture doesn't actually delete it. If you get the HARD link of the file (right clicking, copy image location), 'delete' it, and paste the HARD LINK into your address bar, it's still there. I've copied a few hard links to my notepad and will revisit them at a later date just to see how long they truly stay in their database.
I've not put legit info up for well over a year now. I'm in bowling ball repairs and latex sales for my occupations. Eventually all the information I had years ago will be so diluted and inaccurate that it won't matter anymore. However, if those images still stay for years to come, I'm going to investigate further.
But how do you know the server logs needed a search warrant to obtain? Some sites are resistant at giving out logs, while others will blatantly give them out if there is ANY indication at legal action. RIAA lawsuits anyone?
While I can partially see where you're coming from, I just don't see how this can be justified. If there is enough of a reason to care, a search warrant should be required IMHO.
This could also just be a baby step to "security". Next year we could be seeing a similar article, but the police saying the same thing about server logs. "Well, we really are too lazy to put together search warrants all the time, so why don't we just get every website to hand over their logs upon request?".
Exactly.. It's like asking someone to enable GPS and walk around with a camera strapped to their foreheads and recording their actions 24/7. The recordings get put on tape for as long as the medium is backed up (so technically indefinitely). There's little to no chance that websites will start anonymizing log files - it just doesn't happen very often. So what's to stop police from going back 5+ years and saying "Well, you visited X and Y on these days... Because you KNOW about X and Y, we suspect you are guilty for this crime."
And as others have said... Who's to say someone ELSE didn't use your connection, even as a proxy?
I really can't believe some people and their ideologies
What was it that you hand crafted for her? If you spend 99 hours on an electronics project that flashes her name and is controllable via serial/USB and it's not something she likes, I can bet she'll disregard it completely REGARDLESS of how much effort you tell her you put into making it.
You could save your money, time, and headache(s) by getting her a nice card and making reservations at her favorite restaurant, or even cooking her favorite meal right at home, and get the "throwing you to the floor" result.. Roses/flowers are nice, but everyone gets them. You're better off getting her one (or two) of her favorite flower (since you should have already picked up hints of this). Girls want to know that you're 'thinking' of them, and not necessarily the 'stuff' you shove at them. This is the same reason why sugar daddy relationships don't work out long term (usually). The latter is plain old boring and has little to no chance of long term.
Because Google is currently the biggest money giver for the Mozilla Foundation. If they pull support, wouldn't you still want the feature to work with other search providers?
Google is good - I use GMail - and swear by their searching. At least now features that Google has built in is able to be pulled down to the browser level and used on ANY search provider...
You don't mention which distribution you use. If you're speaking of Gentoo, then you have emerge/bsd-style portage that will do that for you. If you're speaking of ARCH, then you use Pacman, and so forth... However, "Linux" itself is just the kernel and does NOTHING for dependencies. It's rare that source from a program will include more than a couple small libraries with it.
What the OP is saying, is that OSX's 'programs' come with all the necessary libraries IN the install package. Go try downloading the binary for firefox on a bare install, and tell me how well it runs. I GUARANTEE you'll get error after error because you don't have libxml or something else installed as well. With OSX you normally don't need anything more than 'XCode' or 'X11' installed, which comes with the original install disk anyways.
What seems innocent to you is really NOT. ISPs are oversubscribing their networks with customers. Rather than spending dollars to increase the infrastructure, which will be required EVENTUALLY, they are simply implementing this as a "bandaid" for the problem. They get lazy, and the same problem will happen down the road. The problem is: Who decides what traffic gets priority? VOIP? Your WoW game? Your CRISIS online Game? PS3?.. Your ISP obviously decides. Please complain to me when you complain your neigbours on your street are talking on their phones so much that you can't play your online FPS game..
Read more about traffic shaping before you speak. Thanks
MTBF is a highly inaccurate way to show how long you should expect a drive to live. The whole Seagate Fiasco is a prime example of why NOT to believe them.
It can be a good ballpark figure, to differentiate between enterprise class drives and consumer drives, but should NOT be an expected number.
There are too many things to take into account: temperature surrounding the drive, how many days it's on for, how long per day it's on for, how many writes to the drive, how much voltage is supplied, etc etc..
Problems with MTBF
As of 1995, the use of MTBF in the aeronautical industry (and others) has been called into question due to the inaccuracy of its application to real systems and the nature of the culture which it engenders. Many component MTBFs are given in databases, and often these values are very inaccurate.
This has led to the negative exponential distribution being used much more than it should have been. Some estimates say that only 40% of components have failure rates described by this. It has also been corrupted into the notion of an "acceptable" level of failures, which removes the desire to get to the root cause of a problem and take measures to delete it. The British Royal Air Force is looking at other methods to describe reliability, such as maintenance-free operating period (MFOP). Similarly, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is pursuing time to failure research using scenario and condition based methods derived from the field of prognostics.
[quote]Given the 100GB per day x 5 year lifespan of Intel's MLC SSDs, there's no cause for concern from a data reliability perspective for the desktop/notebook usage case. High load transactional database servers could easily outlast the lifespan of MLC flash and that's where SLC is really aimed at. These days the MLC vs. SLC debate is more about performance, but as you'll soon see - Intel has redefined what to expect from an MLC drive.[/quote]
So.. 100GB/day/drive = 100GBx4 = 400GB/day for (5*365)= 400GB*1825(days) = 730TB of data transferred. If you seriously go through THAT much data, you are either a pirate or you actually own your own movie studio.
Obviously these numbers can change, based on case temperature, wear leveling, etc. HOWEVER, they are what Intel states the drives can handle...
I have a networked ZFS 4TB Raid5 array setup for my media. I just setup the NFS mounts that way and it works great. Grabbing the file listing for the first time takes a little bit (30secs - 1min), but after that it is just as fast as browsing through a computer. It also exports the hard drive contents in a way the PS3 can view it as a media server as well (though I haven't had a need to use this) and I'm sure is nice if you have multiple TVs in the home - networked. I bought it because it's small, quiet, little power use and I can bring it with me everywhere.
They didn't cheap out on the cables either. The box included HDMI, optical, RCA, Cat5, digital coax for sure and possibly some others and also comes with a remote. They released a couple new box designs after the one I purchased (the new one has a hard drive cage inside, but adds some bulk). There is also a forum up and they answer to questions/bugs fairly quickly I've noticed. Also, I think they'll include new features if enough people request them (but don't quote me on that).
Agreed. x86 sucks for HTPCs as well when you see what alternatives there are out there.
I picked up an iStar HD (similar to the Popcorn as they both run the NMT software). It includes an embedded Sigma Designs chip (same one found in some Blu-Ray players). It crunches through 1080P x264 like butter. The device also runs torrents, can connect/host NFS/samba shares, run Youtube/flckr, etc. While not the fastest for navigating, it comes to a measly $180 to purchase. Last time I checked, you couldn't buy a decent processor for much less than that. No memory, no video card, no case, and no powersupply needed. Good luck doing that with ANY x86 system at even 2x that cost!! Oh and almost forgot. It's smaller, but slightly thicker than a DVD case, makes virtually NO noise, and is a light as a book. Includes SATA, USB, Network. Has HDMI, VGA, Component, RCA, and optical output as well.
Don't forget they have hardware cryptography as well - C3 or C7 was the first to include it. It uses the cycles as a way to randomize too. OpenBSD (for sure) takes advantage of this and uses it well. Encrypted tunnels, file system encryption, random number generation, etc. all put a LOT less strain on the CPU in comparison to other processors (especially embedded).
They had Blackberries with BES servers attached.. What could the school have done if all of a sudden the phone went "blank"? It's only a matter of time that more and more phones get a 'remote wipe' feature built in I'm sure. Kids are just going to get smarter about how they store their data now.
What if the phone was 'locked'? Would they have had to give the password to unlock it, or would it even be a 'reasonable' search? Does this just mean kids are going to be more cautious and locking down their phones? I personally have a quick lock 'physical' button on mine in case I need to lock it quickly.
And as other people have mentioned. It's really sick that this will now go on their permanent records. Sounds like kids will just need to resort to the internets for their pornos now.
All soft drinks are evil. They cause insulin spikes, which contribute to obesity. They cause insulin resistance long term. And the phosphoric acid leaches calcium from your bones causing brittle bones in old age. Diet soft drinks are no better. Stop drinking them before it's too late.
Sorry, it's not the "insulin spikes" that contribute to obesity. It's when your body is so used to sugar that you build up an insulin resistance http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insulin_resistance. Believe me, I rely on insulin spikes after my workouts. It allows me to ingest a bunch of protein immediately after and use the insulin spike (from eating fruit) as a quick way to pump the protein into my muscles.
I haven't drank a soft drink in years, haven't touched a fast food joint in over a year, and keep sweets to a minimum. It's really sad to see the same guys at the vending machines every day, drinking a coke, eating a bag of chips and a chocolate bar for their lunch. It's really sad seeing so many people uneducated that eating 6-8 meals per day can actually LOWER your body fat.
I've recently been introduced to espresso when my dad bought a $2300 commercial maker. I don't like the taste of regular coffee and I can't justify spending $3+ on a damn specialty coffee. So, the only time I drink coffee is from that machine. I use caffeine while working out (gives you a mental edge and improves fat loss) so I take it basically every day. Cheapest way to satisfy the 'fix' is to buy a bottle of 100 200mg tablets. They go for around $5-6 and is equivalent to 200 cups of coffee. The average cup of coffee is ~100mg, but for specialty coffees (Starbucks Venti size) can range up to 300-600mg per glass (yes, with that range). You can break the tablets up, so you know the exact amount you're getting and keeps the wallet happy!
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Next thing the gov't could do is to set up a centralized syslog server. Then they'd announce something like, "Well, if you can't keep logs for 2 years, just enter 'syslog.gov' into the syslog portion on your routers. Sure, we might see a few 'extra' unnecessary pieces of log files, but we PROMISE to ignore them." OR better yet, REQUIRE (by default), that router manufacturers include it by default in their firmwares.
Sounds like the US is already turning into more and more of a police state every time I hear something like this.
If they ever request logs from you, just give them a printout of /dev/urandom and call it a day!
Until someone accidentally forwards ALL their calls to this 800 number and then the 800 number forwards the calls to their home line. Are they going to have some type of TTL? =)
I was just going through the process of deleting a bunch of albums that I had had. However, 'deleting' the picture doesn't actually delete it. If you get the HARD link of the file (right clicking, copy image location), 'delete' it, and paste the HARD LINK into your address bar, it's still there. I've copied a few hard links to my notepad and will revisit them at a later date just to see how long they truly stay in their database.
I've not put legit info up for well over a year now. I'm in bowling ball repairs and latex sales for my occupations. Eventually all the information I had years ago will be so diluted and inaccurate that it won't matter anymore. However, if those images still stay for years to come, I'm going to investigate further.
..like 127.0.0.1
But how do you know the server logs needed a search warrant to obtain? Some sites are resistant at giving out logs, while others will blatantly give them out if there is ANY indication at legal action. RIAA lawsuits anyone?
While I can partially see where you're coming from, I just don't see how this can be justified. If there is enough of a reason to care, a search warrant should be required IMHO.
This could also just be a baby step to "security". Next year we could be seeing a similar article, but the police saying the same thing about server logs. "Well, we really are too lazy to put together search warrants all the time, so why don't we just get every website to hand over their logs upon request?".
Exactly.. It's like asking someone to enable GPS and walk around with a camera strapped to their foreheads and recording their actions 24/7. The recordings get put on tape for as long as the medium is backed up (so technically indefinitely). There's little to no chance that websites will start anonymizing log files - it just doesn't happen very often. So what's to stop police from going back 5+ years and saying "Well, you visited X and Y on these days... Because you KNOW about X and Y, we suspect you are guilty for this crime."
And as others have said... Who's to say someone ELSE didn't use your connection, even as a proxy?
I really can't believe some people and their ideologies
If we FINALLY move to IPv6, there won't be nearly as many people using: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_over_Avian_Carriers , and thus, less birds hitting planes.
http://www.zdnet.co.uk/i/z5/rv/2009/01/netbooks_pwr.jpg
Why doesn't Intel get scored on IDLE power consumption? Who cares about MAXIMUM when idle is the state that most of these netbooks will be in. wtf?
What was it that you hand crafted for her? If you spend 99 hours on an electronics project that flashes her name and is controllable via serial/USB and it's not something she likes, I can bet she'll disregard it completely REGARDLESS of how much effort you tell her you put into making it.
You could save your money, time, and headache(s) by getting her a nice card and making reservations at her favorite restaurant, or even cooking her favorite meal right at home, and get the "throwing you to the floor" result.. Roses/flowers are nice, but everyone gets them. You're better off getting her one (or two) of her favorite flower (since you should have already picked up hints of this). Girls want to know that you're 'thinking' of them, and not necessarily the 'stuff' you shove at them. This is the same reason why sugar daddy relationships don't work out long term (usually). The latter is plain old boring and has little to no chance of long term.
Because Google is currently the biggest money giver for the Mozilla Foundation. If they pull support, wouldn't you still want the feature to work with other search providers?
Look at: http://ca.search.yahoo.com/search?p=map+10+Downing+Street&fr=yfp-t-501&toggle=1&cop=&ei=UTF-8 (it doesn't automatically pull up a map for you)
Google is good - I use GMail - and swear by their searching. At least now features that Google has built in is able to be pulled down to the browser level and used on ANY search provider...
You don't mention which distribution you use. If you're speaking of Gentoo, then you have emerge/bsd-style portage that will do that for you. If you're speaking of ARCH, then you use Pacman, and so forth... However, "Linux" itself is just the kernel and does NOTHING for dependencies. It's rare that source from a program will include more than a couple small libraries with it.
What the OP is saying, is that OSX's 'programs' come with all the necessary libraries IN the install package. Go try downloading the binary for firefox on a bare install, and tell me how well it runs. I GUARANTEE you'll get error after error because you don't have libxml or something else installed as well. With OSX you normally don't need anything more than 'XCode' or 'X11' installed, which comes with the original install disk anyways.
-1 Flamebate (If I had mod points).
What seems innocent to you is really NOT. ISPs are oversubscribing their networks with customers. Rather than spending dollars to increase the infrastructure, which will be required EVENTUALLY, they are simply implementing this as a "bandaid" for the problem. They get lazy, and the same problem will happen down the road. The problem is: Who decides what traffic gets priority? VOIP? Your WoW game? Your CRISIS online Game? PS3?.. Your ISP obviously decides. Please complain to me when you complain your neigbours on your street are talking on their phones so much that you can't play your online FPS game..
Read more about traffic shaping before you speak. Thanks
It can be a good ballpark figure, to differentiate between enterprise class drives and consumer drives, but should NOT be an expected number.
There are too many things to take into account: temperature surrounding the drive, how many days it's on for, how long per day it's on for, how many writes to the drive, how much voltage is supplied, etc etc..
More about it here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mean_time_between_failures
Problems with MTBF As of 1995, the use of MTBF in the aeronautical industry (and others) has been called into question due to the inaccuracy of its application to real systems and the nature of the culture which it engenders. Many component MTBFs are given in databases, and often these values are very inaccurate. This has led to the negative exponential distribution being used much more than it should have been. Some estimates say that only 40% of components have failure rates described by this. It has also been corrupted into the notion of an "acceptable" level of failures, which removes the desire to get to the root cause of a problem and take measures to delete it. The British Royal Air Force is looking at other methods to describe reliability, such as maintenance-free operating period (MFOP). Similarly, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is pursuing time to failure research using scenario and condition based methods derived from the field of prognostics.
http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/intel/showdoc.aspx?i=3403&p=4
[quote]Given the 100GB per day x 5 year lifespan of Intel's MLC SSDs, there's no cause for concern from a data reliability perspective for the desktop/notebook usage case. High load transactional database servers could easily outlast the lifespan of MLC flash and that's where SLC is really aimed at. These days the MLC vs. SLC debate is more about performance, but as you'll soon see - Intel has redefined what to expect from an MLC drive.[/quote]
So.. 100GB/day/drive = 100GBx4 = 400GB/day for (5*365)= 400GB*1825(days) = 730TB of data transferred. If you seriously go through THAT much data, you are either a pirate or you actually own your own movie studio.
Obviously these numbers can change, based on case temperature, wear leveling, etc. HOWEVER, they are what Intel states the drives can handle...
I don't like replying to my own replies BUT..
I have a networked ZFS 4TB Raid5 array setup for my media. I just setup the NFS mounts that way and it works great. Grabbing the file listing for the first time takes a little bit (30secs - 1min), but after that it is just as fast as browsing through a computer. It also exports the hard drive contents in a way the PS3 can view it as a media server as well (though I haven't had a need to use this) and I'm sure is nice if you have multiple TVs in the home - networked. I bought it because it's small, quiet, little power use and I can bring it with me everywhere.
They didn't cheap out on the cables either. The box included HDMI, optical, RCA, Cat5, digital coax for sure and possibly some others and also comes with a remote. They released a couple new box designs after the one I purchased (the new one has a hard drive cage inside, but adds some bulk). There is also a forum up and they answer to questions/bugs fairly quickly I've noticed. Also, I think they'll include new features if enough people request them (but don't quote me on that).
Agreed. x86 sucks for HTPCs as well when you see what alternatives there are out there.
I picked up an iStar HD (similar to the Popcorn as they both run the NMT software). It includes an embedded Sigma Designs chip (same one found in some Blu-Ray players). It crunches through 1080P x264 like butter. The device also runs torrents, can connect/host NFS/samba shares, run Youtube/flckr, etc. While not the fastest for navigating, it comes to a measly $180 to purchase. Last time I checked, you couldn't buy a decent processor for much less than that. No memory, no video card, no case, and no powersupply needed. Good luck doing that with ANY x86 system at even 2x that cost!! Oh and almost forgot. It's smaller, but slightly thicker than a DVD case, makes virtually NO noise, and is a light as a book. Includes SATA, USB, Network. Has HDMI, VGA, Component, RCA, and optical output as well.
Don't forget they have hardware cryptography as well - C3 or C7 was the first to include it. It uses the cycles as a way to randomize too. OpenBSD (for sure) takes advantage of this and uses it well. Encrypted tunnels, file system encryption, random number generation, etc. all put a LOT less strain on the CPU in comparison to other processors (especially embedded).
I can vouch for that one. Just come take a trip up to Canada!
Have you seen my staplur?
How many Linux notebooks has Dell sold so far?
ONE, and that caused the student to drop out of her classes.
They had Blackberries with BES servers attached.. What could the school have done if all of a sudden the phone went "blank"? It's only a matter of time that more and more phones get a 'remote wipe' feature built in I'm sure. Kids are just going to get smarter about how they store their data now.
What if the phone was 'locked'? Would they have had to give the password to unlock it, or would it even be a 'reasonable' search? Does this just mean kids are going to be more cautious and locking down their phones? I personally have a quick lock 'physical' button on mine in case I need to lock it quickly.
And as other people have mentioned. It's really sick that this will now go on their permanent records. Sounds like kids will just need to resort to the internets for their pornos now.
I hear writing random numbers like 2s and 9s to the drive works REALLY well
All soft drinks are evil. They cause insulin spikes, which contribute to obesity. They cause insulin resistance long term. And the phosphoric acid leaches calcium from your bones causing brittle bones in old age. Diet soft drinks are no better. Stop drinking them before it's too late.
Sorry, it's not the "insulin spikes" that contribute to obesity. It's when your body is so used to sugar that you build up an insulin resistance http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insulin_resistance. Believe me, I rely on insulin spikes after my workouts. It allows me to ingest a bunch of protein immediately after and use the insulin spike (from eating fruit) as a quick way to pump the protein into my muscles.
I haven't drank a soft drink in years, haven't touched a fast food joint in over a year, and keep sweets to a minimum. It's really sad to see the same guys at the vending machines every day, drinking a coke, eating a bag of chips and a chocolate bar for their lunch. It's really sad seeing so many people uneducated that eating 6-8 meals per day can actually LOWER your body fat.
I've recently been introduced to espresso when my dad bought a $2300 commercial maker. I don't like the taste of regular coffee and I can't justify spending $3+ on a damn specialty coffee. So, the only time I drink coffee is from that machine. I use caffeine while working out (gives you a mental edge and improves fat loss) so I take it basically every day. Cheapest way to satisfy the 'fix' is to buy a bottle of 100 200mg tablets. They go for around $5-6 and is equivalent to 200 cups of coffee. The average cup of coffee is ~100mg, but for specialty coffees (Starbucks Venti size) can range up to 300-600mg per glass (yes, with that range). You can break the tablets up, so you know the exact amount you're getting and keeps the wallet happy!