Of course. That 'granny' is often in a less dense, or poorer, neighborhood. Why spend money there when spending the same investment in a customer dense, higher income neighborhood gets a lot more services purchased with a lot more margin for profit? Even for DSL, which requires only network setup at the Telco offices, if the homes are further away from the switching office the customers will get much less bandwidth.
That backbone transit is not only for the home customers, it's for the serious business customers. Take a good look at the bandwidth costs for your workplace: it's not cheap.
I'm sorry if I was unclear: it's not that this monitoring was requested by law enforcement. But as long as the tools used are used to cooperate with government requests, the government is extremely unlikely to take away the tools. And the British seem very, very used to that level of invasive monitoring. They seem less likely to explode over it as many Americans. So where is the incentive to take it to court? And the ability to get past any 'national security' concerns about overall monitoring also in place?
No one is going to prison. The British are even more used to overt, and covert, silence in every aspect of their lives than the USA. Look at the NSA tapping of the core routers of UUnet, and the lack of any prosecutions for blatantly illegal government activity.
As long as they cooperate with law enforcement monitoring desires, I'm afraid there's not going to be any prosecution of any sort.
Most cities, or even states, have a local vendor they can recommend. Local, where you can walk in and lay your hands on parts and ask solid advice, is wonderful and beats the best web vendors hands down, and these shops need your support. If you don't know of one, talk to your local Linux user groups. They are likely to have the best knowledge and experience of odd issues to give you good references.
If you don't have such a local resource, I believe you that NewEgg is good. I've also done OK with www.pcwarehouse.com, but that's for commodity level components, not server components where I actually do need specific parts with very specific specifications.
Hitler didn't design it: he merely told Porsche to modify his original (excellent) design to be affordable. The Porsche engine design, and the resulting Volkswagen, resembled ext* far more than ReiserFS. It was simple, lightweight, used very standard parts, and avoided sophisticated optimizations that would have risked its operations.
ReiserFS was more the DeLorean of its day: fascinating and innovating concepts, but not worth sustaining given its dramatic failures.
No, it was awful in production use. Any disk failure on a RAID set, as can be expected to occur in any large environment, would lead to a confused ReiserFS whose own recovery tools would destroy it and which could no longer be backed up reliably. This has happened with no other Linux compatible filesyste I've ever seen: the others simply report a failed access, they do not lock when trying to read the ruined files.
ReiserFS was only suitable for high-speed, random access, restorable via other means filesystems such as NNTP servers and web proxies. For root partitions, boot partitions, and home directories, it was unstable and dangerous to use.
Paging takes time to perform, and occupies swap. Swap does take special handling, especially for snapshots and hibernate mode. That makes it 'not zero'.
Has it ever been a _good_ filesystem? It had exciting features, such as the ability to handle directories with many thousands of files in them and not cause your filesystem to stutter to a useless halt. But those features have been taken up by ext3 changes, the pending ext4 release, or XFS for even more sophisticated feature sets. Like working on a Betamax video recorder, there seems to be no market left for it, even if it has a few features that are nominally superior to the standard filesystems.
There is no need for illegal wiretapping. Given the Patriot Act, all sorts of electronic communications could legally be intercepted, without a warrant, under the pretext of 'fighting terrorism'. And the wiretaps need never be revealed, and could get the telephone or ISP staff jailed if they reveal them.
Let's look. The Soyuz U has a 1350 pound capacity to geostationary orbit. That is _not_ LEO, it's much more difficult. The Titan craft, used by Gemini, had about 7500 pounds to LEO. This gives some sort of scale comparison to the Shuttle's 53,000 pounds to LEO, and its 8400 pounds to GTO. So, it takes about 6 Soyuz missions to match the capacity of one Shuttle mussion. Soyz also matched well to Apollo's 210 cubic feet of space, although the Saturn V's of Apollo use launched the 67,000 pounds to lunar orbit.
Soyuz also had about 250 cubic feet of space: the Shuttle has something like 2500. So yes, compared to the Shuttle, the Soyuz is pretty small. But it's very reliable, by comparison, and a lot cheaper to build.
Reviving the Saturn V would not be easy: those boosters were far more expesive than the Titan boosters of Gemini, and the Soyuz, and would be a real adventure to find new funding for and places to build them and use them near the existing Florida launching grounds.
Or Russia. The Russians know how to build big spacecraft: the Soyuz was big, simple, and robust, and there are enough engineers still left who could use work to resurrect it.
It's also tough to diagnose for humans. I suggest that you try working with stroke victims, or keep an eye on the diagnosis and treatment of relatives: the symptoms match the Wikipedia symptoms quite well. The way to tell it apart from stroke and other poisoning is by autopsy. (That Antique in my ID isn't a joke: I've probably seen many more stroke and dementia sufferers among my relatives and former colleagues than most of the youhger posters here.)
What makes it less likely to be ignored is the risk of clusters, multiple people poisoned from the same source of beef, especially if the beef enters the food chain of somewhere like McDonalds where the beef is mixed with lots of other beef. We've also gotten better about not using brains and not using spinal material in our beef. (This is partly a matter of the butchering techniques used.) And it's gotten tougher to find brains on the grocery meat department. So the risk has in fact dropped, but not necessarily to the
Oh, police and other agencies try that sort of technique all the time, I agree. In this case, it backfired badly: the judge lifted the stay, helping set some non-binding but useful precedents, and the paper gathered a great deal of additional notoriety and easy download access. So the city of Boston's goal was an outright failure.
Can you show that under-reporting is unlikely? The risk seems very real, since the disease seems nearly as difficult to firmly diagnose as Alzheimer's in humans, and since the 1% testing the FDA requires would still allow plenty of calves to be slaughtered, untested, and the cases never detected from that end, either.
Didn't that stay get lifted by a sensible judge? Especially when the Boston authorities accidentally published it with the parts which the authors hadn't intended to publish? I'd be inclined to count that as merely "trying".
Laws, even Constitutional laws, can be and are eroded or strengthened by modification of Constitutional principles. So yes, habeas corpus is in serious peril because of the exceptions added by the US governement, and which were similarly abused during World War II against Japanese Americans in the American prison camps. So yes, habeas corpus is being eroded (again).
Oh? Given the rareness of testing and the difficulty of diagnosis of the victims, we could easily have dozens of unnoticed cases. So don't be so sure about the safety of the US beef supply. Also, any cases detected are likely to be hushed up if at all possible to avoid exactly the sort of loss of markets the British had when they discoverd cases.
There is no need. A few detailed videos, posted on PirateBay and Wikileaks by people who can do a decent job from a country where the DMCA does not apply, would do quite well to publish. Why spend all the money?
We already saw this with US passports, where the details on how to read the RFID tag is already available with a bit of Google searching. It's happening with subway passes in US cities such as Boston, which tried to prevent some hackers from presenting their paper at Defcon.
That's correct. Corporations have done this to neighborhood associations to wear tenants down and free up neighborhoods for development, and it was successfully carried by the cult of Scientology to destroy the Cult Awareness Network. It's a fascinating case history of harassment and destruction by a demonstrably criminal organization against a citizen watch group. It's also done by regulatory agencies against criminal organizations: remember that Al Capone was not finally brought into court for murder and racketeereing, but for income tax evasion.
I'm afraid you haven't reviewed the DMCA. It criminalizes the act of circumventing access control: MythBusters and the Discovery channel could walk into a chainsaw of lawsuits and criminal proceedings for airing the show. The DMCA is pretty selectively enforced, but it's exactly the sort of powerful and overly broad law to use in such a case.
It's not been lost? Tell it to those in Guantanamo Bay, or those held without legal consul, notification to their families, or admissions of their presence in this and similar facilities. Since their names are secret, and even admitting that you know the names can get you thrown in jail as a security risk, that's about as serious a violation of habeas corpus as you can commit. It's also a major violation of the Geneva Convention.
If I have the typical IT department access to your laptop or desktop and its system configuration, I can put in any keystroke logger I'd care to, and access to any desktop files you're likely to use for secure system access. And I've got backup database access, and system log access to record the attempts to log in where you've accidentally typed in your password instead of your username.
Physical security keys present a more interesting challenge, but password theft, email theft, and document theft remain likely vulnerabilities.
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Of course. That 'granny' is often in a less dense, or poorer, neighborhood. Why spend money there when spending the same investment in a customer dense, higher income neighborhood gets a lot more services purchased with a lot more margin for profit? Even for DSL, which requires only network setup at the Telco offices, if the homes are further away from the switching office the customers will get much less bandwidth.
That backbone transit is not only for the home customers, it's for the serious business customers. Take a good look at the bandwidth costs for your workplace: it's not cheap.
I'm sorry if I was unclear: it's not that this monitoring was requested by law enforcement. But as long as the tools used are used to cooperate with government requests, the government is extremely unlikely to take away the tools. And the British seem very, very used to that level of invasive monitoring. They seem less likely to explode over it as many Americans. So where is the incentive to take it to court? And the ability to get past any 'national security' concerns about overall monitoring also in place?
There are plenty of incentives to bury it, fast.
No one is going to prison. The British are even more used to overt, and covert, silence in every aspect of their lives than the USA. Look at the NSA tapping of the core routers of UUnet, and the lack of any prosecutions for blatantly illegal government activity.
As long as they cooperate with law enforcement monitoring desires, I'm afraid there's not going to be any prosecution of any sort.
Most cities, or even states, have a local vendor they can recommend. Local, where you can walk in and lay your hands on parts and ask solid advice, is wonderful and beats the best web vendors hands down, and these shops need your support. If you don't know of one, talk to your local Linux user groups. They are likely to have the best knowledge and experience of odd issues to give you good references.
If you don't have such a local resource, I believe you that NewEgg is good. I've also done OK with www.pcwarehouse.com, but that's for commodity level components, not server components where I actually do need specific parts with very specific specifications.
Ah, youngsters. You never dealt with the Halcyon laser disc game console.
Hitler didn't design it: he merely told Porsche to modify his original (excellent) design to be affordable. The Porsche engine design, and the resulting Volkswagen, resembled ext* far more than ReiserFS. It was simple, lightweight, used very standard parts, and avoided sophisticated optimizations that would have risked its operations.
ReiserFS was more the DeLorean of its day: fascinating and innovating concepts, but not worth sustaining given its dramatic failures.
No, it was awful in production use. Any disk failure on a RAID set, as can be expected to occur in any large environment, would lead to a confused ReiserFS whose own recovery tools would destroy it and which could no longer be backed up reliably. This has happened with no other Linux compatible filesyste I've ever seen: the others simply report a failed access, they do not lock when trying to read the ruined files.
ReiserFS was only suitable for high-speed, random access, restorable via other means filesystems such as NNTP servers and web proxies. For root partitions, boot partitions, and home directories, it was unstable and dangerous to use.
Sync your data, and do an LVM snapshot, and dump *that*.
To reduce network bandwidth by caching, perhaps?
Paging takes time to perform, and occupies swap. Swap does take special handling, especially for snapshots and hibernate mode. That makes it 'not zero'.
Has it ever been a _good_ filesystem? It had exciting features, such as the ability to handle directories with many thousands of files in them and not cause your filesystem to stutter to a useless halt. But those features have been taken up by ext3 changes, the pending ext4 release, or XFS for even more sophisticated feature sets. Like working on a Betamax video recorder, there seems to be no market left for it, even if it has a few features that are nominally superior to the standard filesystems.
There is no need for illegal wiretapping. Given the Patriot Act, all sorts of electronic communications could legally be intercepted, without a warrant, under the pretext of 'fighting terrorism'. And the wiretaps need never be revealed, and could get the telephone or ISP staff jailed if they reveal them.
Also, let's face it. Informants are cheap.
Let's look. The Soyuz U has a 1350 pound capacity to geostationary orbit. That is _not_ LEO, it's much more difficult. The Titan craft, used by Gemini, had about 7500 pounds to LEO. This gives some sort of scale comparison to the Shuttle's 53,000 pounds to LEO, and its 8400 pounds to GTO. So, it takes about 6 Soyuz missions to match the capacity of one Shuttle mussion. Soyz also matched well to Apollo's 210 cubic feet of space, although the Saturn V's of Apollo use launched the 67,000 pounds to lunar orbit. Soyuz also had about 250 cubic feet of space: the Shuttle has something like 2500. So yes, compared to the Shuttle, the Soyuz is pretty small. But it's very reliable, by comparison, and a lot cheaper to build. Reviving the Saturn V would not be easy: those boosters were far more expesive than the Titan boosters of Gemini, and the Soyuz, and would be a real adventure to find new funding for and places to build them and use them near the existing Florida launching grounds.
Or Russia. The Russians know how to build big spacecraft: the Soyuz was big, simple, and robust, and there are enough engineers still left who could use work to resurrect it.
It's also tough to diagnose for humans. I suggest that you try working with stroke victims, or keep an eye on the diagnosis and treatment of relatives: the symptoms match the Wikipedia symptoms quite well. The way to tell it apart from stroke and other poisoning is by autopsy. (That Antique in my ID isn't a joke: I've probably seen many more stroke and dementia sufferers among my relatives and former colleagues than most of the youhger posters here.) What makes it less likely to be ignored is the risk of clusters, multiple people poisoned from the same source of beef, especially if the beef enters the food chain of somewhere like McDonalds where the beef is mixed with lots of other beef. We've also gotten better about not using brains and not using spinal material in our beef. (This is partly a matter of the butchering techniques used.) And it's gotten tougher to find brains on the grocery meat department. So the risk has in fact dropped, but not necessarily to the
Oh, police and other agencies try that sort of technique all the time, I agree. In this case, it backfired badly: the judge lifted the stay, helping set some non-binding but useful precedents, and the paper gathered a great deal of additional notoriety and easy download access. So the city of Boston's goal was an outright failure.
Can you show that under-reporting is unlikely? The risk seems very real, since the disease seems nearly as difficult to firmly diagnose as Alzheimer's in humans, and since the 1% testing the FDA requires would still allow plenty of calves to be slaughtered, untested, and the cases never detected from that end, either.
Didn't that stay get lifted by a sensible judge? Especially when the Boston authorities accidentally published it with the parts which the authors hadn't intended to publish? I'd be inclined to count that as merely "trying".
Laws, even Constitutional laws, can be and are eroded or strengthened by modification of Constitutional principles. So yes, habeas corpus is in serious peril because of the exceptions added by the US governement, and which were similarly abused during World War II against Japanese Americans in the American prison camps. So yes, habeas corpus is being eroded (again).
Oh? Given the rareness of testing and the difficulty of diagnosis of the victims, we could easily have dozens of unnoticed cases. So don't be so sure about the safety of the US beef supply. Also, any cases detected are likely to be hushed up if at all possible to avoid exactly the sort of loss of markets the British had when they discoverd cases.
There is no need. A few detailed videos, posted on PirateBay and Wikileaks by people who can do a decent job from a country where the DMCA does not apply, would do quite well to publish. Why spend all the money?
We already saw this with US passports, where the details on how to read the RFID tag is already available with a bit of Google searching. It's happening with subway passes in US cities such as Boston, which tried to prevent some hackers from presenting their paper at Defcon.
That's correct. Corporations have done this to neighborhood associations to wear tenants down and free up neighborhoods for development, and it was successfully carried by the cult of Scientology to destroy the Cult Awareness Network. It's a fascinating case history of harassment and destruction by a demonstrably criminal organization against a citizen watch group. It's also done by regulatory agencies against criminal organizations: remember that Al Capone was not finally brought into court for murder and racketeereing, but for income tax evasion.
I'm afraid you haven't reviewed the DMCA. It criminalizes the act of circumventing access control: MythBusters and the Discovery channel could walk into a chainsaw of lawsuits and criminal proceedings for airing the show. The DMCA is pretty selectively enforced, but it's exactly the sort of powerful and overly broad law to use in such a case.
It's not been lost? Tell it to those in Guantanamo Bay, or those held without legal consul, notification to their families, or admissions of their presence in this and similar facilities. Since their names are secret, and even admitting that you know the names can get you thrown in jail as a security risk, that's about as serious a violation of habeas corpus as you can commit. It's also a major violation of the Geneva Convention.
So the principal is, in fact, in danger.
If I have the typical IT department access to your laptop or desktop and its system configuration, I can put in any keystroke logger I'd care to, and access to any desktop files you're likely to use for secure system access. And I've got backup database access, and system log access to record the attempts to log in where you've accidentally typed in your password instead of your username. Physical security keys present a more interesting challenge, but password theft, email theft, and document theft remain likely vulnerabilities.