You can't close your eyes and pretend that bad people don't exist and those advocating such an approach are ignorant in my view. Sure. But how do these laws help against 'bad people'?
Talk to any police officer. The cops aren't that much smarter then you or I. The criminals tend to be idiots. You have to ask yourself why the Government needs a database of fingerprints and DNA. This is exactly why they have NCIC to track all filed stolen goods, and to send DL information through. Would that be this NCIC?
that's 474 days of constant writing it can handle.
which isn't anywhere near the approx 5 years a decent 'enterprice' disk lasts under very heavy load.
I was being generous by producing a lower limit of lifetime by assuming constant write operations. In real life, the step from 474 days of constant writing
to 5 years of IRL use is very small, and as my sibling noted, this is just 8GB. Also, due to no moving parts, i would guess the failure of flash devices would be much more predictable than failures with regular drives.
Of course there are other advantages of flash, such as no seek time, and much better parallel access for much higher bandwidth.
If you want to get me on flash, start talking about (current) price per GB, then we're talking.
Not to mention that changing a few bytes in a sector still results in rewriting the entire sector (in both cases), so with the given bandwidth, you can end up with a lot more writes then you assume. Only if you write byte for byte and the filesystem layer lets you do that to the disk too. That's highly unrealistic.
Like I said, there are disadvantages to flash (price/GB), and I admit I don't have much IRL experience with it (certainly none in 'enterprice' environments), but you're not doing a terrific job of convincing me magnetic disks have all the advantages. AFAICS, just capacity and price/GB. Not in the performance or reliability (assuming that 100k figure is right (on average will do with good wear levelling) and well-performing, reliable wear levelling).
If capacities and price/GB get into the ballpark of magnetic drives, the revolution (haha! no pun intended) will begin.
On the other side, put a page file on a flash device and see how quickly you can destroy it..:) Not very. On a device with currently-reasonable 100k writes per sector and in-device wear levelling, with say a 8GB device and a currently-at-the-high-end write bandwidth of 20MByte/s, that's 474 days of constant writing it can handle.
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Rare 680X0 and PowerPC posters! Why have a sig outside your sig, such that people like me, which have sigs disabled for a reason, still see your sig?
(I'm politely ignoring your hedge "as long as they're driven properly". No one plans on "having an accident". Arguably, part of the problem with SUVs is psychological: people think they're invulnerable inside them, so they drive worse.)
...word is that several MAJOR adult sites got their membership(but not CC) databases compromised this weekend. 500k+ members on each site. I've seen the records, verified a login or two. Complete SQL dumps. Honestly, freaked me the fuck out. The lady(yes, lady) who did it still has access. From what I've heard, of course.Why were you even surprised? Websites leaking their db's isn't exactly uncommon.
that isn't entirely fair. It's more like decompression. When you can compress other textures to small files with similar rations using wavelet transforms (for example), you can start calling it compression. The other way round (generating interesting-looking textures) is much easier..
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Both for the great title and the contents of your post.. welcome to my friends list.
Haha, I wish I hadn't just wasted my mod points rating other comments funny :)
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Which four-letter sentence would that be?
Please also ask him about the 'people are just like whatever'. I wonder what people are like, when they're like that ;)
There's no such place as silicon heaven! You don't get little calculators with wings playing harps .. etc
http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2004/03/19
This is exactly why they have NCIC to track all filed stolen goods, and to send DL information through. Would that be this NCIC?
which isn't anywhere near the approx 5 years a decent 'enterprice' disk lasts under very heavy load.
I was being generous by producing a lower limit of lifetime by assuming constant write operations. In real life, the step from 474 days of constant writing to 5 years of IRL use is very small, and as my sibling noted, this is just 8GB. Also, due to no moving parts, i would guess the failure of flash devices would be much more predictable than failures with regular drives.
Of course there are other advantages of flash, such as no seek time, and much better parallel access for much higher bandwidth.
If you want to get me on flash, start talking about (current) price per GB, then we're talking.
Not to mention that changing a few bytes in a sector still results in rewriting the entire sector (in both cases), so with the given bandwidth, you can end up with a lot more writes then you assume.Only if you write byte for byte and the filesystem layer lets you do that to the disk too. That's highly unrealistic.
Like I said, there are disadvantages to flash (price/GB), and I admit I don't have much IRL experience with it (certainly none in 'enterprice' environments), but you're not doing a terrific job of convincing me magnetic disks have all the advantages. AFAICS, just capacity and price/GB. Not in the performance or reliability (assuming that 100k figure is right (on average will do with good wear levelling) and well-performing, reliable wear levelling).
If capacities and price/GB get into the ballpark of magnetic drives, the revolution (haha! no pun intended) will begin.
Not very. On a device with currently-reasonable 100k writes per sector and in-device wear levelling, with say a 8GB device and a currently-at-the-high-end write bandwidth of 20MByte/s, that's 474 days of constant writing it can handle.
it's not. it's (from rfc1918)
10.0.0.0 - 10.255.255.255 (10/8 prefix)
172.16.0.0 - 172.31.255.255 (172.16/12 prefix)
192.168.0.0 - 192.168.255.255 (192.168/16 prefix)
(I'm politely ignoring your hedge "as long as they're driven properly". No one plans on "having an accident". Arguably, part of the problem with SUVs is psychological: people think they're invulnerable inside them, so they drive worse.)
Good response....word is that several MAJOR adult sites got their membership(but not CC) databases compromised this weekend. 500k+ members on each site. I've seen the records, verified a login or two. Complete SQL dumps.
Honestly, freaked me the fuck out.
The lady(yes, lady) who did it still has access.
From what I've heard, of course.Why were you even surprised? Websites leaking their db's isn't exactly uncommon.
who mails you then, your enemies? or maybe the joke was too subtle for me ;)
I'm impressed you spotted the reference. I had to google for it. Now it's funny though.
won't make much difference with two drives..!
Thanks for explaining!
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that isn't entirely fair. It's more like decompression. When you can compress other textures to small files with similar rations using wavelet transforms (for example), you can start calling it compression. The other way round (generating interesting-looking textures) is much easier..