Not a loss cut from a greater profit - this is stone cold 100% loss... and this is just to keep the stuff that deals with it ON. It gets even worse when you factor in the cost of people to manage/administer them, cost of bandwidth, cost of the equipment itself...
The list goes on, and the tally grows larger. Piracy is peanuts on this scale.
I don't think you realize just how much time, energy (electricity to run the infrastructure, cool said infrastructure etc), and manpower is wasted because of spam.
Lets put it this way.
To deal with spam at my company, we use a 10-server cluster. This cluster may seem excessive to you... but note that we get alarms once or twice daily that the load on one of the nodes has exceeded critical levels.
Now, comes the fun part.
These servers use about 3 amps each, at 110v RMS. If left without cooling, they would quickly melt down - so add on the air conditioning. I won't factor the AC into this calculation because it cools many other things too, but just be aware of it's presence.
So, we have 30 ampers at 110v 24/7/365. Now P=VA (where P = watts) so: 3300 = 30 * 110 These servers are responsible for a total energy use of 3.3 kW on average. Every day has 24 hours, and lets settle on say 29 days/m. This comes out to 696 hours per month. 3.3 kW * 696 = 2296.8 kWh per month.
Holy shit! This is a fairly small datacenter too.
So, you see... take this little anecdotal calculation and scale it up worldwide... and you begin to see the problem.
And this 'fair wage' is rooted where it matters. It's not fair here, no. It _might_ be fair over there (I don't know) - but comparisons using our standard and cost of living is invalid either way.
I'm not saying the current situation is right. I'm saying that the idea of a 'fair wage' is fluid, and our viewpoint is only valid here.
People who still use http's basic auth need to be slapped. There's little reason not to use digest.
That said, only.htpasswd seems to ever be cleartext. If you save them in a database (and anything as "large" as JIRA would do so) then they are usually hashed at least. Why unsalted, I don't know.
Something tells me that these lines are for specific vehicles and conditions. I 2008 Honda Civic might certainly make it, but my 2002 monster that weighs twice as much certainly WONT.
That, and how do you explain that I've seen these solid lines 1,500 feet before an intersection with a limit of 45mph?
I would wonder if we are gradually becoming more sensitive? They say 30fps is the threshold where true motion is perceived. Not so in my case - closer to 40 or 45. Hard to say with TV, since that's a field-based screen. 60hz screens I can visibly see flicker when looking directly at (more so with the edges of vision, as those are more motion-based) - 60hz based florescent lighting too, sometimes.
I tried contacts. Whenever I would blink, or look away from the center of my eyes, it would take several seconds for the contact to recenter and rotate (astigmatism) rendering them nearly useless and greatly annoying.
As a saving grace, computers haven't cause this. I just have unusually shaped eyes (and it's hereditary in my case)
I have astigmatism of a different degree and angle in each eye. Without correction, it seems my brain 'processes' out the difference between the two eyes and I see a single image... for unchanging things. For fast things, or motion, this doesn't happen.
This means that, without glasses:
Everything is slightly less sharp (I attribute this to errors in "correction" and less received light being used) Motion and change is in quadruple vision.
When I finally figured out what was up and got some glasses, I was nearly sick. A few months have passed, and I LOVE them. I can still function without, but it does take a few minutes for that path in my brain to 'switch on' and start filtering again.
Er, because that's what they did! If they had put it under one of those other licenses, then my sentence would work perfectly fine if you substitute GPL for one of them.
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We have plenty of storage. I'm thinking we could use some more on-die cache.
Until we can (if we can) exploit quantum mechanics to otherwise see this coming, it will be far too late to do anything about it.
Since you dress it in sarcasm (after your done drowning it in attitude).
You could try taking another look at the problem.
The server is up. It specifically tells 0.94.x and earlier that "thou art broken"
Don't know about gparent, but I'm effected by endless clueless customers whining that their email server broke.
No. Cracking has a specific definition.
So?
The cost that I just figured is pure loss.
Not a loss cut from a greater profit - this is stone cold 100% loss... and this is just to keep the stuff that deals with it ON. It gets even worse when you factor in the cost of people to manage/administer them, cost of bandwidth, cost of the equipment itself...
The list goes on, and the tally grows larger. Piracy is peanuts on this scale.
I don't think you realize just how much time, energy (electricity to run the infrastructure, cool said infrastructure etc), and manpower is wasted because of spam.
Lets put it this way.
To deal with spam at my company, we use a 10-server cluster. This cluster may seem excessive to you... but note that we get alarms once or twice daily that the load on one of the nodes has exceeded critical levels.
Now, comes the fun part.
These servers use about 3 amps each, at 110v RMS. If left without cooling, they would quickly melt down - so add on the air conditioning. I won't factor the AC into this calculation because it cools many other things too, but just be aware of it's presence.
So, we have 30 ampers at 110v 24/7/365. Now P=VA (where P = watts) so:
3300 = 30 * 110
These servers are responsible for a total energy use of 3.3 kW on average. Every day has 24 hours, and lets settle on say 29 days/m. This comes out to 696 hours per month. 3.3 kW * 696 = 2296.8 kWh per month.
Holy shit! This is a fairly small datacenter too.
So, you see... take this little anecdotal calculation and scale it up worldwide... and you begin to see the problem.
You have some good points here. I was only fixating on the idea of "fair wage."
Everything else here stinks. Is it really all that hard for them to treat people like fucking people? Dammit.
And this 'fair wage' is rooted where it matters. It's not fair here, no. It _might_ be fair over there (I don't know) - but comparisons using our standard and cost of living is invalid either way.
I'm not saying the current situation is right. I'm saying that the idea of a 'fair wage' is fluid, and our viewpoint is only valid here.
Well, people like yo- FUCKING COCKSUCKER -u don't get modpoints for a GODDAMNED reason.
Speak for yourself. Some of us are ready to steamroll that border on a moments notice!
(I kid... but you left the door open and I had to walk through)
TLS + anything is superior in everything but CPU usage.
I personally think the web would be a better place if TLS (or at least SSL) was "standard" (ie, used in place of regular HTTP)
It helps that our system has lived with selective pressure regarding alcohol for so long. We have specific enzymes etc to metabolize it.
(if I remember correctly)
People who still use http's basic auth need to be slapped. There's little reason not to use digest.
That said, only .htpasswd seems to ever be cleartext. If you save them in a database (and anything as "large" as JIRA would do so) then they are usually hashed at least. Why unsalted, I don't know.
Something tells me that these lines are for specific vehicles and conditions. I 2008 Honda Civic might certainly make it, but my 2002 monster that weighs twice as much certainly WONT.
That, and how do you explain that I've seen these solid lines 1,500 feet before an intersection with a limit of 45mph?
Or, failing that, drive with your hibeams on at all times, whilest making unexpected and unsignaled lane changes.
School system = government.
Are you OK with the government being so hypocritical? "Hey, we'll enforce these copyright laws to the maximum extent... on YOU"
Indeed, 24fps his horrid.
I would wonder if we are gradually becoming more sensitive? They say 30fps is the threshold where true motion is perceived. Not so in my case - closer to 40 or 45. Hard to say with TV, since that's a field-based screen. 60hz screens I can visibly see flicker when looking directly at (more so with the edges of vision, as those are more motion-based) - 60hz based florescent lighting too, sometimes.
I tried contacts. Whenever I would blink, or look away from the center of my eyes, it would take several seconds for the contact to recenter and rotate (astigmatism) rendering them nearly useless and greatly annoying.
As a saving grace, computers haven't cause this. I just have unusually shaped eyes (and it's hereditary in my case)
My eyes do something similar.
I have astigmatism of a different degree and angle in each eye. Without correction, it seems my brain 'processes' out the difference between the two eyes and I see a single image... for unchanging things. For fast things, or motion, this doesn't happen.
This means that, without glasses:
Everything is slightly less sharp (I attribute this to errors in "correction" and less received light being used)
Motion and change is in quadruple vision.
When I finally figured out what was up and got some glasses, I was nearly sick. A few months have passed, and I LOVE them. I can still function without, but it does take a few minutes for that path in my brain to 'switch on' and start filtering again.
So, your dad has vision problems that prevents him from enjoying a new visual technology?
Why the hostility then? The deaf didn't have that attitude when movies progressed beyond silent films, did they?
This.
Also this.
That is why I love my Pre so much. Fuck Apple.
What the heck does GPL have to do with it?
Er, because that's what they did! If they had put it under one of those other licenses, then my sentence would work perfectly fine if you substitute GPL for one of them.
What the hell is your problem?
That link is in the UK.
The police in the US are an entirely different breed.