Trading is a lot more complex than a 'like' on Facebook or posting a comment on Slashdot. The server has a lot more work to do. It's all relative. He didn't say how many servers he uses either. FWIW, I was a dev lead on a system that processed hundreds of millions of records (sometimes into the low billions) per day. But they were pretty straight forward ETL transactions and involved C and Pro*C. Want to mock me too? Go ahead, beat your chest and think you are dominating me. You really can't, because I don't care about you.
I guess you use the Tomcat management console? Doesn't have one does it? If you have 100 servers in a load balanced cluster can you make changes to Tomcat configuration on one server and it automatically propagates the changes to all of them? If you need to redeploy transparently to all servers at once can you do it from one server and then tell them all to move to the new software version at once on Tomacat? Can you add new JMS queues without farting around with config files on Tomcat? No, not just because it doesn't have a management console, it doesn't come with a JMS broker integrated into it. Never mind all the other things is doesn't have integrated. Use Tomcat all you want. I'll use a real application server. And if Glassfish is going to go away because Oracle doesn't like it, I'll switch to using WildFly (JBoss community editions new name). Too bad because as of Glassfish 3.1 and 4 GF is leaner and faster if you ask me. But JBoss is pretty good too, so what the hell. Around now I feel like giving up on Java altogether. Thanks Oracle.
Here is a better answer (and it's not mine). The 0.1% figure is disingenuous. People normally don't user app servers like Glassfish as web servers. They usually serve back end web services (which doesn't really count as a web server in my book, despite the terminology used), and back end Java Enterprise services (like Enterprise Beans, and Persistence Layer objects). In my experience, while many use Tomcat for web services, it is a pain in the ass to use for any seriously large sized projects. And it is kludgey and tougher to configure unless you like playing with Apache style configuration files (meaning they are about as clear as Apache documentation). Glassfish is built with all the services required and integrated for doing most anything you need to do with an app server, no added packages needed. People who will tell you Glassfish isn't very good are also those who still think Netbeans is no good, when in fact it now eclipses Eclipse for just working without fucking around with adding plugins. And it works very well. Also Glassfish has built in facilities for horizontally scaling/high availability.
Apparently this one has already passed over the Philippines and at first glance, damage wasn't as bad as they thought it was going to be, because it was moving so fast (25 mph). So it didn't linger over land like other lesser and slower moving hurricanes did; ones that caused far more damage.
You call him a moron because you assume he was trying to make money for Nokia, when in fact he was trying to make money for himself. He is mega-rich, and you are too? I know I'm not. I look at these guys having life made in the shade and wonder sometimes, why I couldn't be so smart as to ignore scruples now and then. Then I would be able to afford a mansion in a place with a nice climate and fancy cars and all the accoutrements of mega-money.
I looked at this a couple of times, and I still don't know what your point is. I upgraded my Kubuntu to 13.10 on my laptop and my trackpad stopped working, is that what you wanted? So after a month and an update or two it looks like some of the functionality is back. But really... what??
Do you feel smart because you used 'straw man' incorrectly? Never mind not being able to spell it correctly. (Hint: to begin with I'd have to have been be trying to oppose his argument.)
Yeah and I live about 30 miles from the town the school is in. When I lived in Saint Louis MO, I was often accused of not being very Canadian. Getting to look at your home country from outside is and can cause a change in perspective.
From what I understand, many people say that the project was underfunded for the scale of work being proposed. Also, as far as QA goes, most people understand that the software was released with late and insufficient 'system testing'. The conractor said they recommended not going live and they were pushed by officials in the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Personally, I think Sebelius and those other officials should resign.
You have just opened the door for even more tea baggers to blather about how it is good that tens of millions are uninsured. Then they will go to church on Sunday and listen to their preacher tell them what Jesus would do, pat themselves on the backs as being good Christians, and then go out and do the opposite.
Apple gathers up about as much personal information on users as any other big tech company. The main difference is, it says it doesn't connect the dots. It may know everything about you, but it doesn't know you're you.
As to the last sentence of that: Sure and the cheque's in the mail.... And
... Even if it does anonymize non-personal information, separate the sensitive life details you reveal to Siri or Safari from the company's user profile of you, and not associate your always-tracked device with your real identity, there's no question that personal user data (is a) big part of any technology company's business model these days. Even Apple.
Tell us your theory again. Mine is that Apple is a great marketing company. Really great. And that includes marketing its spin. You can believe Apple has your best interests at heart because you pay more. I just chose to believe you pay more. FWIW, my next computer is likely to be an Apple. I will not use Windows 8. But I don't buy into crap like 'you pay more for less intrusion into your privacy'. That's naive and/or self deceiving.
I'm with you on all that. I just get pissed by people intimating stupid things like 'you will never get a virus or be compromised if you use Linux'. That's just plain dumb. All systems are vulnerable. Some maybe more than others. It is harmful to others to make such claims because someone is bound to believe it and not pay attention to suspicious sites, emails, etc. like they should. All because a bunch of asshats make erroneous claims. That is what sets me off.
Yeah yeah, I hear you. Just don't say it is invulnerable and that is why you only use it for online stuff. Yes, it is more secure by design, just not invulnerable and people shouldn't treat it as such. But really, I have maybe had two viruses for sure on my Windows PCs since 1990, and one was at work (I didn't get hit by that one at home, but a lot of people did on their office computer). The one at home was in 1996. So unless you are someone who doesn't know better than to open things you don't expect to receive etc. Windows isn't as bad as people make out, especially if you have a good antivirus and firewall. That is my experience. I believe that if more people were using Linux, more issues would be found with viruses etc.
It's in response to someone once again making like Linux is invulnerable. It isn't. I'm not a Microsoft nor Linux nor Mac fanboy. I have used all three (and OS/2) at work and at home. I don't make any assumptions that any of them are bullet proof like many others here seem to. I think anyone who does is a fool. Especially moderator fanboys who mod me down for pointing out that Linux has its moments too. And I still use all three OSs. My laptop runs Kubuntu by the way... which broke touchpad functionality on its latest upgrade. Just saying that it isn't bullet proof yet again. But I didn't delete it off the laptop, I plugged in a mouse. Stop hating on people who point out the truth of things... even if you don't want to believe it.
and punctuation increases tech support calls far more than in increases security.
This is exactly the use case I was thinking about when writing my post. And the need to design using a salted hash instead of encryption. I am not a security expert, but I do try to keep current and learn from them for use in projects... and for anything critical hire experts to do audits before releasing to the public. And put more of the onus on the system than the user. And... I do use longer passwords, more than 10 or 12 characters, but the problem is that when they are too long, and you have to constantly enter passwords wherever you go, they are a pain in the ass, and people won't make them long. On the other hand, one of my banks won't let you make a password over 8 characters long. Yikes.
I guess Linux has never and never will have any security exploits possible against it. So yeah, good luck with that. And to anyone else who thinks using Linux online is the end all and be all for security. No system is safe.
The reality of how the average person uses a computer often does not reflect the theories that many so called computer security experts have. That is because the latter forget that they are not in the center of the human standard normal curve. Most people don't think like programmers or so called security experts. Better to make the system secure than rely on people to follow so called password best practices. If it isn't easy for the average user, they won't use it.
And they will never use words like algorithm. They won't even think that way. So the average user won't do that. Period. Full stop. Better to make the security of the system being used secure and count less on the users.
I have tricks to try and make decent passwords too, but normal users will not do that. People need to stop trying to make them and instead make idiot proof programs... as much as is possible.
People who use "best practices for passwords" have passwords that are so brutally hard to remember for a human being that they end up having to 'save' it on a Post-It note stuck to the side of their monitor or "hidden" under a pile of papers that others can look at. Or relegate the 'remembering' of their passwords to another piece of software like a system wallet/keychain, which is just offloading responsibility to another system that itself is an unknown quantity with respect to being well written. But even if a user uses a wallet/keychain, that doesn't remove the Post-It note vector if they need to use the password on more than one piece of hardware. It or a text file on a thumb drive are the common ways to transfer these kinds of passwords between devices.
The reality of how the average person uses a computer often does not reflect the theories that many so called computer security experts have. That is because the latter forget that they are not in the center of the human standard normal curve. Most people don't think like programmers or so called security experts. Better to make the system secure than rely on people to follow so called password best practices. If it isn't easy for the average user, they won't use it.
This is the crux of the whole enterprise app costing. Generic systems built for a generic set of needs. Then add the cost of modifications to tailor the systems for a specific company's need(s).
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Get a brain. The biggest single contributor to fine particulate matter air pollution in the many areas of the U.S. and in Canada during winter is from wood burning stoves. Fine particulate matter is very bad for your health as it is of a size that gets deep in the lungs. Don't believe me? Look up London Fog. It wasn't really fog.
Trading is a lot more complex than a 'like' on Facebook or posting a comment on Slashdot. The server has a lot more work to do. It's all relative. He didn't say how many servers he uses either. FWIW, I was a dev lead on a system that processed hundreds of millions of records (sometimes into the low billions) per day. But they were pretty straight forward ETL transactions and involved C and Pro*C. Want to mock me too? Go ahead, beat your chest and think you are dominating me. You really can't, because I don't care about you.
I guess you use the Tomcat management console? Doesn't have one does it? If you have 100 servers in a load balanced cluster can you make changes to Tomcat configuration on one server and it automatically propagates the changes to all of them? If you need to redeploy transparently to all servers at once can you do it from one server and then tell them all to move to the new software version at once on Tomacat? Can you add new JMS queues without farting around with config files on Tomcat? No, not just because it doesn't have a management console, it doesn't come with a JMS broker integrated into it. Never mind all the other things is doesn't have integrated. Use Tomcat all you want. I'll use a real application server. And if Glassfish is going to go away because Oracle doesn't like it, I'll switch to using WildFly (JBoss community editions new name). Too bad because as of Glassfish 3.1 and 4 GF is leaner and faster if you ask me. But JBoss is pretty good too, so what the hell. Around now I feel like giving up on Java altogether. Thanks Oracle.
If you can't figure it out you are a retard or hoping to sound intelligent by making a snide comment. Sorry, you still sound like a retard.
Yeah, agreed, WebLogic is pretty good. Unfortunately it's also pretty expensive.
Here is a better answer (and it's not mine). The 0.1% figure is disingenuous. People normally don't user app servers like Glassfish as web servers. They usually serve back end web services (which doesn't really count as a web server in my book, despite the terminology used), and back end Java Enterprise services (like Enterprise Beans, and Persistence Layer objects). In my experience, while many use Tomcat for web services, it is a pain in the ass to use for any seriously large sized projects. And it is kludgey and tougher to configure unless you like playing with Apache style configuration files (meaning they are about as clear as Apache documentation). Glassfish is built with all the services required and integrated for doing most anything you need to do with an app server, no added packages needed. People who will tell you Glassfish isn't very good are also those who still think Netbeans is no good, when in fact it now eclipses Eclipse for just working without fucking around with adding plugins. And it works very well. Also Glassfish has built in facilities for horizontally scaling/high availability.
Pretty much all wrong.
Please don't let the smoke out.
Apparently this one has already passed over the Philippines and at first glance, damage wasn't as bad as they thought it was going to be, because it was moving so fast (25 mph). So it didn't linger over land like other lesser and slower moving hurricanes did; ones that caused far more damage.
You call him a moron because you assume he was trying to make money for Nokia, when in fact he was trying to make money for himself. He is mega-rich, and you are too? I know I'm not. I look at these guys having life made in the shade and wonder sometimes, why I couldn't be so smart as to ignore scruples now and then. Then I would be able to afford a mansion in a place with a nice climate and fancy cars and all the accoutrements of mega-money.
I looked at this a couple of times, and I still don't know what your point is. I upgraded my Kubuntu to 13.10 on my laptop and my trackpad stopped working, is that what you wanted? So after a month and an update or two it looks like some of the functionality is back. But really... what??
Do you feel smart because you used 'straw man' incorrectly? Never mind not being able to spell it correctly. (Hint: to begin with I'd have to have been be trying to oppose his argument.)
Yeah and I live about 30 miles from the town the school is in. When I lived in Saint Louis MO, I was often accused of not being very Canadian. Getting to look at your home country from outside is and can cause a change in perspective.
From what I understand, many people say that the project was underfunded for the scale of work being proposed. Also, as far as QA goes, most people understand that the software was released with late and insufficient 'system testing'. The conractor said they recommended not going live and they were pushed by officials in the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Personally, I think Sebelius and those other officials should resign.
You have just opened the door for even more tea baggers to blather about how it is good that tens of millions are uninsured. Then they will go to church on Sunday and listen to their preacher tell them what Jesus would do, pat themselves on the backs as being good Christians, and then go out and do the opposite.
As to the last sentence of that: Sure and the cheque's in the mail. ... And
Tell us your theory again. Mine is that Apple is a great marketing company. Really great. And that includes marketing its spin. You can believe Apple has your best interests at heart because you pay more. I just chose to believe you pay more. FWIW, my next computer is likely to be an Apple. I will not use Windows 8. But I don't buy into crap like 'you pay more for less intrusion into your privacy'. That's naive and/or self deceiving.
I'm with you on all that. I just get pissed by people intimating stupid things like 'you will never get a virus or be compromised if you use Linux'. That's just plain dumb. All systems are vulnerable. Some maybe more than others. It is harmful to others to make such claims because someone is bound to believe it and not pay attention to suspicious sites, emails, etc. like they should. All because a bunch of asshats make erroneous claims. That is what sets me off.
Yeah yeah, I hear you. Just don't say it is invulnerable and that is why you only use it for online stuff. Yes, it is more secure by design, just not invulnerable and people shouldn't treat it as such. But really, I have maybe had two viruses for sure on my Windows PCs since 1990, and one was at work (I didn't get hit by that one at home, but a lot of people did on their office computer). The one at home was in 1996. So unless you are someone who doesn't know better than to open things you don't expect to receive etc. Windows isn't as bad as people make out, especially if you have a good antivirus and firewall. That is my experience. I believe that if more people were using Linux, more issues would be found with viruses etc.
It's in response to someone once again making like Linux is invulnerable. It isn't. I'm not a Microsoft nor Linux nor Mac fanboy. I have used all three (and OS/2) at work and at home. I don't make any assumptions that any of them are bullet proof like many others here seem to. I think anyone who does is a fool. Especially moderator fanboys who mod me down for pointing out that Linux has its moments too. And I still use all three OSs. My laptop runs Kubuntu by the way... which broke touchpad functionality on its latest upgrade. Just saying that it isn't bullet proof yet again. But I didn't delete it off the laptop, I plugged in a mouse. Stop hating on people who point out the truth of things ... even if you don't want to believe it.
Guess you didn't read the first link.
This is exactly the use case I was thinking about when writing my post. And the need to design using a salted hash instead of encryption. I am not a security expert, but I do try to keep current and learn from them for use in projects... and for anything critical hire experts to do audits before releasing to the public. And put more of the onus on the system than the user. And... I do use longer passwords, more than 10 or 12 characters, but the problem is that when they are too long, and you have to constantly enter passwords wherever you go, they are a pain in the ass, and people won't make them long. On the other hand, one of my banks won't let you make a password over 8 characters long. Yikes.
I guess Linux has never and never will have any security exploits possible against it. So yeah, good luck with that. And to anyone else who thinks using Linux online is the end all and be all for security. No system is safe.
And they will never use words like algorithm. They won't even think that way. So the average user won't do that. Period. Full stop. Better to make the security of the system being used secure and count less on the users.
I have tricks to try and make decent passwords too, but normal users will not do that. People need to stop trying to make them and instead make idiot proof programs... as much as is possible.
People who use "best practices for passwords" have passwords that are so brutally hard to remember for a human being that they end up having to 'save' it on a Post-It note stuck to the side of their monitor or "hidden" under a pile of papers that others can look at. Or relegate the 'remembering' of their passwords to another piece of software like a system wallet/keychain, which is just offloading responsibility to another system that itself is an unknown quantity with respect to being well written. But even if a user uses a wallet/keychain, that doesn't remove the Post-It note vector if they need to use the password on more than one piece of hardware. It or a text file on a thumb drive are the common ways to transfer these kinds of passwords between devices.
The reality of how the average person uses a computer often does not reflect the theories that many so called computer security experts have. That is because the latter forget that they are not in the center of the human standard normal curve. Most people don't think like programmers or so called security experts. Better to make the system secure than rely on people to follow so called password best practices. If it isn't easy for the average user, they won't use it.
This is the crux of the whole enterprise app costing. Generic systems built for a generic set of needs. Then add the cost of modifications to tailor the systems for a specific company's need(s).