If you think giving random people epileptic fits is a valid expression of "moral disapproval", and
you're such a spineless coward that you can't even take ownership of your morals, but instead
need to hide behind anonymity, then the only right you deserve is the right to a fair and speedy
trial. Asshole.
... more like guaranteed employment for security experts everywhere!
The day PKIs that use factoring or discrete logs become easy to crack is
the day when there's going to be a lot of tremendous amount of money
spent on stop-gap security measures until someone figures out something
new...
If your family has an annual income of, say $75k, then it's not like
tuition is suddenly full price. They also are fairly careful about measuring
family income because there have been people who have done some elaborate
things to make their annual income appear to be quite a bit lower than
it "should" be.
Indeed, most of the high-caliber schools (Ivy league, MIT, a few others)
have what is called "need-blind" admissions. What they do is evaluate each
applicant independent of ability to pay. If you're qualified to attend, then
you get in, and then it's the responsibility of the financial aid department
to make sure you can afford to go there. More than half the students at
Harvard, for example, receive some form of financial aid (and I think it's
been as high as 80% some years) and a large fraction of those students
pay nothing at all.
However, the key is whether you can afford it. They have
sophisticated metrics for figuring out what your family can afford to pay
without undue hardship. So if your parents simply don't want to pay for
your education, but would rather spend the money on a vacation house or
a new Mercedes every two years or some other extravagance, you could be
out of luck; no free money for you.
But cheap money is available and plentiful -- student loans, work-study, ROTC, etc. Go to
your local library or book store and look up books on how to pay for
college. It's a whole genre. Seriously, do your own homework and don't
expect slashdot to do it for you!
"If other people are generous enough to give you
storage and bandwidth, and you utilize their generosity,
then you can save money by using less of your own."
Remarkable!
Next week, a story about uploading video to youtube...
You might want to ask yourself why, after more than
a decade of research and countless papers and prototypes
that address this problem, your PCs storage are still
underutilized...
It's harder than it looks to get something reliable.
Your PCs have extra capacity because it's cheap, but mining
that capacity is not cheap. As other posters have pointed
out, putting together (or just purchasing) a server with a
few TB of storage is simpler and cheaper, less prone to getting
wiped out by a virus, easier to manage and backup.
I suppose it's possible, but I'm not going to hold my
breath waiting for it to happen. The primary responsibility of
a company to its shareholders is financial, pure and simple
(and legally defined).
If Google or Yahoo had incorporated as non-profits, I might
have been surprised. As is, picture me yawning.
It's impossible to know what's going on in the minds of
the administrators without reading the comments that this
fellow posted -- did he simply criticize, or did he threaten?
Is is a person of conscience, or a lunatic?
The only info we're given is extremely vague. If the
school officials were really over-reacting, it should be
obvious from the comments. So where are they?
Bravo! This kind of grass-roots charity warms my heart.
If this sort of thing sounds good to you, check out
Rotary International
because they do this sort of thing, on a global basis,
year round. There are plenty of other similar organizations;
shop around to find one that works for you.
If 35% less is still shocking, then I guess these
are just out of your price range...
If you need random read ops, it doesn't seem expensive
at all. 50x the random read performance for 20x the price
seems like a bargain. If you don't, then there's no reason
not to stick with rotating disks -- they're cheap as dirt.
I don't know why you were unable to find MTRONs
at DV Nation
for a much better price! (I don't work for DV Nation, but
I am a happy customer.) They come right up when I do a search.
Maybe you're leaning on Google product search a bit too much...
You can't just follow them all the way to the docks.
You need a way to catch them when they come out.
It's a bit risky to put a put a sub close enough to the
ports to give good odds of intercept without accelerating to
a detectable speed. Not enough choke points, not enough deep
water, not enough friends in the neighborhood...
In contrast, most of SOSUS was installed in our figurative
back yard, before the days of spy satellites, and with a lot
of help from geography. We'd have a
darned hard time doing something like that in the South China
Sea today (unless Taiwan already has, and is willing to let us
listen in) and it would be incredibly provocative.
It's not clear whether the sub actually navigated its way into the heart
of the carrier group, or whether it was just sitting there waiting for the other
ships to sail by. It's a cheap and easy tactic, and they could have had subs
stationed along the common navigation channels or the exercise area (which
is no secret) long before the
exercise, just in case they got lucky and the carrier group sailed over
their heads. Worked for the U-boats, still works today.
But it's not quite so easy the second time. Were the US ships using any
active sonar? It doesn't say, but my guess is they weren't, because this
is a fairly provocative thing to do -- especially if you're in waters that
another country is claiming are its territory. But now that the Chinese
have made a provocative move of their own, they'll have the picket ships
and helos pinging away and dropping sonobuoys. And it wouldn't surprise
me if the Chinese subs all find themselves with a silent new shadow the next time
they leave port...
I'm beginning to suspect that there is some game
to be the person that gets the stupidest story accepted by
slashdot, and Google is the trump card. Yesterday we had
a story saying that some IVR systems use a sound that indicates
that they're still on the line and processing, and so does
GOOG-411! And
then a story that mentioned that sometimes people who announce
that they're quitting sometimes get booted from the building
and sometimes those people are quitting so they can go
work for Google! And today a story about inoffensive
changes one company made to the banner graphics on their
web site, and that company is Google!
I think the folks at STEC
might be a bit surprised by these claims. Especially considering that their product has been shipping for
months already.
Of course, they might be quite a bit less expensive than the Zeus SSDs, which are quite pricey...
For some folks, high performance is the requirement and cost is no object. Those folks get their solid-state
drives from folks like STEC, Texas Memory Systems, or (soon) Violin Scalable Memory. I'd love to be able to afford this stuff.
Buy maybe Samsung will be able to provide a fraction of their performance at a smaller fraction of
the cost.
Keep in mind that the FusionIO card is a card, not an SSD.
SSD is used to refer to "solid-state drives" (where "solid-state" is
slowly becoming synonymous with "flash", but that wasn't always the case...).
It's pretty clear that the FusionIO card isn't a drive, because there
aren't any drive interfaces on the market today that can do 600 MB/s...
Not that I have anything against FusionIO -- on the contrary, I'd love
to have one to play with -- but it's not a drive.
There's a big difference between putting a bunch of beige boxes
into a rack and designing a piece of hardware. Google has experience
with using hardware that was designed and built by other folks, but
they don't do hardware.
Slashdot Mirror
If you think giving random people epileptic fits is a valid expression of "moral disapproval", and you're such a spineless coward that you can't even take ownership of your morals, but instead need to hide behind anonymity, then the only right you deserve is the right to a fair and speedy trial. Asshole.
Call me an asshole if you wish, but at least I know what the words "paradigm" and "humanity" mean.
Why should there be "internet anonymity"? So you can do whatever you like without worrying that a bunch of anonymous assholes will persecute you?
But wait... where did the anonymous assholes come from?
OK, it sounds like "anonymous" is just a really poor spelling of "asshole".
The day PKIs that use factoring or discrete logs become easy to crack is the day when there's going to be a lot of tremendous amount of money spent on stop-gap security measures until someone figures out something new...
If your family has an annual income of, say $75k, ...
That's supposed to be "$75k plus a tiny bit", but the tiny bit was too small to be rendered correctly in most browsers. Sorry about that.
That's just one of the metrics.
If your family has an annual income of, say $75k, then it's not like tuition is suddenly full price. They also are fairly careful about measuring family income because there have been people who have done some elaborate things to make their annual income appear to be quite a bit lower than it "should" be.
Indeed, most of the high-caliber schools (Ivy league, MIT, a few others) have what is called "need-blind" admissions. What they do is evaluate each applicant independent of ability to pay. If you're qualified to attend, then you get in, and then it's the responsibility of the financial aid department to make sure you can afford to go there. More than half the students at Harvard, for example, receive some form of financial aid (and I think it's been as high as 80% some years) and a large fraction of those students pay nothing at all.
However, the key is whether you can afford it. They have sophisticated metrics for figuring out what your family can afford to pay without undue hardship. So if your parents simply don't want to pay for your education, but would rather spend the money on a vacation house or a new Mercedes every two years or some other extravagance, you could be out of luck; no free money for you.
But cheap money is available and plentiful -- student loans, work-study, ROTC, etc. Go to your local library or book store and look up books on how to pay for college. It's a whole genre. Seriously, do your own homework and don't expect slashdot to do it for you!
news, not reminding us of things.
Oh, wait, it's a story about Google. My bad.
Let's rehash this again. All hail Google!
"If other people are generous enough to give you storage and bandwidth, and you utilize their generosity, then you can save money by using less of your own."
Remarkable!
Next week, a story about uploading video to youtube...
You might want to ask yourself why, after more than a decade of research and countless papers and prototypes that address this problem, your PCs storage are still underutilized...
It's harder than it looks to get something reliable. Your PCs have extra capacity because it's cheap, but mining that capacity is not cheap. As other posters have pointed out, putting together (or just purchasing) a server with a few TB of storage is simpler and cheaper, less prone to getting wiped out by a virus, easier to manage and backup.
I suppose it's possible, but I'm not going to hold my breath waiting for it to happen. The primary responsibility of a company to its shareholders is financial, pure and simple (and legally defined).
If Google or Yahoo had incorporated as non-profits, I might have been surprised. As is, picture me yawning.
How do we know that they didn't call the cops?
Sheesh, you'd think if they slipped a note under the door, at least they'd share a copy of that.
There's so much info missing here that it makes me wonder if the kid's name isn't somehow related to Darl McBride.
It's impossible to know what's going on in the minds of the administrators without reading the comments that this fellow posted -- did he simply criticize, or did he threaten? Is is a person of conscience, or a lunatic?
The only info we're given is extremely vague. If the school officials were really over-reacting, it should be obvious from the comments. So where are they?
I smell sensationalist journalism...
Bravo! This kind of grass-roots charity warms my heart.
If this sort of thing sounds good to you, check out Rotary International because they do this sort of thing, on a global basis, year round. There are plenty of other similar organizations; shop around to find one that works for you.
If 35% less is still shocking, then I guess these are just out of your price range...
If you need random read ops, it doesn't seem expensive at all. 50x the random read performance for 20x the price seems like a bargain. If you don't, then there's no reason not to stick with rotating disks -- they're cheap as dirt.
I don't know why you were unable to find MTRONs at DV Nation for a much better price! (I don't work for DV Nation, but I am a happy customer.) They come right up when I do a search.
Maybe you're leaning on Google product search a bit too much...
You can't just follow them all the way to the docks. You need a way to catch them when they come out.
It's a bit risky to put a put a sub close enough to the ports to give good odds of intercept without accelerating to a detectable speed. Not enough choke points, not enough deep water, not enough friends in the neighborhood...
In contrast, most of SOSUS was installed in our figurative back yard, before the days of spy satellites, and with a lot of help from geography. We'd have a darned hard time doing something like that in the South China Sea today (unless Taiwan already has, and is willing to let us listen in) and it would be incredibly provocative.
It's not clear whether the sub actually navigated its way into the heart of the carrier group, or whether it was just sitting there waiting for the other ships to sail by. It's a cheap and easy tactic, and they could have had subs stationed along the common navigation channels or the exercise area (which is no secret) long before the exercise, just in case they got lucky and the carrier group sailed over their heads. Worked for the U-boats, still works today.
But it's not quite so easy the second time. Were the US ships using any active sonar? It doesn't say, but my guess is they weren't, because this is a fairly provocative thing to do -- especially if you're in waters that another country is claiming are its territory. But now that the Chinese have made a provocative move of their own, they'll have the picket ships and helos pinging away and dropping sonobuoys. And it wouldn't surprise me if the Chinese subs all find themselves with a silent new shadow the next time they leave port...
Ah, the bad old days are back again.
I'm beginning to suspect that there is some game to be the person that gets the stupidest story accepted by slashdot, and Google is the trump card. Yesterday we had a story saying that some IVR systems use a sound that indicates that they're still on the line and processing, and so does GOOG-411! And then a story that mentioned that sometimes people who announce that they're quitting sometimes get booted from the building and sometimes those people are quitting so they can go work for Google! And today a story about inoffensive changes one company made to the banner graphics on their web site, and that company is Google!
Well played, I guess.
I think the folks at STEC might be a bit surprised by these claims. Especially considering that their product has been shipping for months already.
Of course, they might be quite a bit less expensive than the Zeus SSDs, which are quite pricey...
For some folks, high performance is the requirement and cost is no object. Those folks get their solid-state drives from folks like STEC, Texas Memory Systems, or (soon) Violin Scalable Memory. I'd love to be able to afford this stuff. Buy maybe Samsung will be able to provide a fraction of their performance at a smaller fraction of the cost.
Keep in mind that the FusionIO card is a card, not an SSD. SSD is used to refer to "solid-state drives" (where "solid-state" is slowly becoming synonymous with "flash", but that wasn't always the case...).
It's pretty clear that the FusionIO card isn't a drive, because there aren't any drive interfaces on the market today that can do 600 MB/s...
Not that I have anything against FusionIO -- on the contrary, I'd love to have one to play with -- but it's not a drive.
To quote the link from the grandparent: "Servers are commodity-class x86 PCs running customized versions of Linux."
What part of that isn't beige, oh all-knowing A.C.?
There's a big difference between putting a bunch of beige boxes into a rack and designing a piece of hardware. Google has experience with using hardware that was designed and built by other folks, but they don't do hardware.
Dude, you need a faster computer, or something. It took about three seconds from ignition to disintegration.