In the article there is nothing about hiding smell of the worm used from the lizards. These lizards use smell just as much as vision to locate their prey. It'd be easy enough for them to smell the worm under the cap, giving them the advantage of that over the birds that rarely use smell to locate food.
You don't keep the old system but put a new one on. Granted, it's not a bare install, but you wipe every bit of your drive and replace it with a known good config.
It's rather unclear in the form if this is fraud and/or gang related. Are those tick boxes? They have both yes/no tick boxes and a box in which something that could be an "N" filled in. Whoever made this form, should be sent on a training.
If there's a weakness in the security, it should have been taken care off regardless. Sure, now they have to sweep the whole network for back doors the guy may have put in, but if they did their job properly in the first place, the guy wouldn't have been able to do this.
so I don't see the reason to take several racks. The risk that the server powers down that way is roughly the same as for an entire rack. Also, the reason why things were taken is not given. For all we know, there may be an illegal mp3 hosted on one machine and the MAFIAA had it seized for "economic terrorism".
The feds better come up with a pretty good explanation, or there will be a lot of damages to be paid by the USA tax payer.
Groups should be defined in one place to avoid confusion./etc/group is the place for that.
You have no idea how annoying it is if you have to admin a box that has had some system admin try and reinvent the wheel and not document it thoroughly. I do consultancy for a quite a while and just finding out what people have done while a distro/OS provides proper tools for something, is a large part of dealing with emergencies while production systems are down. It may sound like a sure way to be replaced, but please think of the poor sod replacing you when you've moved on to greener pastures. Either use the tools the way they were intended, or document everything you're doing like you're passing on to a novice.
Every one's excuse is they only did a little bit. Those little bits add up to a monstrous thing. IBM knowingly supplied equipment for the purpose, making them a collaborator to the Nazi regime.
Not if you store the sum in another block. Look at how ZFS does it, very sweet because data stays data and the metadata contains the checksum. I could copy and paste the details here, but you could find those by yourself.
You should never trust your disk. The amount of unrecognized single sector failures on modern disks is so big, that with a >90% probability, at any given moment, a stripe/raid with four 2TB disks will contain at least one of them. All professional grade storage systems have disc scrubbing and checksumming in place just because of this.
The extreme large amounts of storage you are talking about was valid when disks were 4GB. Modern discs have the same error rate as then, per byte stored. All you do is have these 500 4GB discs consolidated on a single disk of 2TB. Same amount of sectors that can get broken, same actual amount of broken sectors.
The reason why is one part. The other part is that the UK trusts the US legal system so much, that they will extradite anyone that is supposed to get a "fair trial", without looking at what the charges are. This means that anyone that may or may not be charged in the UK and gets to wait for his trial in freedom, will get jailed with Bubba in the US, possibly waiting for over a year before being trialed and/or convicted. Even for something that will get you no more than a fine in the UK, even if you're innocent, you could spend a year in a US jail. Why do you think there are so many plea bargains made in the US? You do less jail time if you plea, even if you're innocent and that will be found at the trial.
Recent studies have revealed that regenerative capabilities of the brain and spinal cord are actually not that bad. Given that things are improving on the regenerative front and possibly being able to stop alzheimer progressing, may mean that people like TP could be living a life worth living for a much longer period, or even have the disease go into remission. They may not get back to the level of their 18 year old self, but catching the disease early and being able to stop it could be feasible in the not so distant future.
Rojadirecta is by no means limited in it's ability to free speech. They could easily put another domain name on their servers and be up and about in no time. Yes, it's rather nasty that they had their USA domain confiscated, but since they aren't a USA site, it shouldn't matter that much. It'd be different if they were filtered off the Internet, but some rogue non democratic country seizing a domain name shouldn't stop free speech now, should it?
You need to factor in the cost of cooling those KwHs too. Not just that, but there are large area's of the planet where you can't buy a KwH for 0.10 US dollar. Try 3 times as much for an average European country. You'd be looking at two to six times your $350/year easily for running your 400W server just in power costs. Also, those $4500 CPUs won't cost that much for large companies like Amazon and Google. Rest assured they pay probably substantially less than $1000 for those CPUs. These companies are big enough to have their own servers made to their own specs. They don't pay list price to AMD, Intel, Dell, HP or IBM, but they do have to pay for actual power bills, until they have their own power plants.
So does it have one? If not, it could be dangerous if it falls into the hands of a dissident the USA doesn't agree with. Really, it's a miracle that USA voters let their government get away with so much counter-productive waste of tax payers money. Either promote the Internet to be always on, or put a kill switch on. Don't do both.
The schematics aren't the problem here, because they are identical to the ones already used for people with full motion. The mechanics are what is making this difficult.
In the Netherlands we do have the ISPs mandated to share IP-customer data every 24 hours, automatically. The po-po can just look up your IP and find out who you are without a subpoena. We have more phone and Internet taps than the former Warschau pact had, or any country currently has. We have mandatory logging of all IP information for at least 12 months. We have mandatory Cell-tower logging for at least 12 months. Basically, if you have your cell on, they can tell what area you have been in up to a year ago. Also, we have quite a few camera's on freeways logging your license plate and that information is also stored for a long time. We have our own MAFIAA alike organization taking down websites without due process. We have plenty of repression here. The guys that are now probably going to give us net-neutrality in the law, were advocating against it just a very short while ago. They are fickle and may change their mind once again.
I want my cold war back. The enemy was far away and we could enjoy our freedom. Now that they invented the replacement for that, "terrorism", they are repressing us so hard, we might as well give the terrorists what they want, much cheaper and the same end result.
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So who is going to ask for an itemized Verizon bill just because they now can?
for much less than that!
In the article there is nothing about hiding smell of the worm used from the lizards. These lizards use smell just as much as vision to locate their prey. It'd be easy enough for them to smell the worm under the cap, giving them the advantage of that over the birds that rarely use smell to locate food.
Catching prey requires 3D vision after all. Only a few species of lizards are vegetarian, most are hunters and/or scavengers.
That's why...
in the marketing department was doing there lately. It appears he's the new manager there.
I doubt they'd be worried about the scientific part, if there wasn't a part of the ad where they did the exact same test with humans to compare.
You don't keep the old system but put a new one on. Granted, it's not a bare install, but you wipe every bit of your drive and replace it with a known good config.
I don't have a source ready, but that has been his defense for over a year.
It's rather unclear in the form if this is fraud and/or gang related. Are those tick boxes? They have both yes/no tick boxes and a box in which something that could be an "N" filled in. Whoever made this form, should be sent on a training.
If there's a weakness in the security, it should have been taken care off regardless. Sure, now they have to sweep the whole network for back doors the guy may have put in, but if they did their job properly in the first place, the guy wouldn't have been able to do this.
so I don't see the reason to take several racks. The risk that the server powers down that way is roughly the same as for an entire rack. Also, the reason why things were taken is not given. For all we know, there may be an illegal mp3 hosted on one machine and the MAFIAA had it seized for "economic terrorism". The feds better come up with a pretty good explanation, or there will be a lot of damages to be paid by the USA tax payer.
Groups should be defined in one place to avoid confusion. /etc/group is the place for that.
You have no idea how annoying it is if you have to admin a box that has had some system admin try and reinvent the wheel and not document it thoroughly. I do consultancy for a quite a while and just finding out what people have done while a distro/OS provides proper tools for something, is a large part of dealing with emergencies while production systems are down. It may sound like a sure way to be replaced, but please think of the poor sod replacing you when you've moved on to greener pastures. Either use the tools the way they were intended, or document everything you're doing like you're passing on to a novice.
..... fight club deja-vu all over again.
Every one's excuse is they only did a little bit. Those little bits add up to a monstrous thing. IBM knowingly supplied equipment for the purpose, making them a collaborator to the Nazi regime.
Not if you store the sum in another block. Look at how ZFS does it, very sweet because data stays data and the metadata contains the checksum. I could copy and paste the details here, but you could find those by yourself.
You should never trust your disk. The amount of unrecognized single sector failures on modern disks is so big, that with a >90% probability, at any given moment, a stripe/raid with four 2TB disks will contain at least one of them. All professional grade storage systems have disc scrubbing and checksumming in place just because of this.
The extreme large amounts of storage you are talking about was valid when disks were 4GB. Modern discs have the same error rate as then, per byte stored. All you do is have these 500 4GB discs consolidated on a single disk of 2TB. Same amount of sectors that can get broken, same actual amount of broken sectors.
The reason why is one part. The other part is that the UK trusts the US legal system so much, that they will extradite anyone that is supposed to get a "fair trial", without looking at what the charges are. This means that anyone that may or may not be charged in the UK and gets to wait for his trial in freedom, will get jailed with Bubba in the US, possibly waiting for over a year before being trialed and/or convicted. Even for something that will get you no more than a fine in the UK, even if you're innocent, you could spend a year in a US jail. Why do you think there are so many plea bargains made in the US? You do less jail time if you plea, even if you're innocent and that will be found at the trial.
Recent studies have revealed that regenerative capabilities of the brain and spinal cord are actually not that bad. Given that things are improving on the regenerative front and possibly being able to stop alzheimer progressing, may mean that people like TP could be living a life worth living for a much longer period, or even have the disease go into remission. They may not get back to the level of their 18 year old self, but catching the disease early and being able to stop it could be feasible in the not so distant future.
will be better?
Rojadirecta is by no means limited in it's ability to free speech. They could easily put another domain name on their servers and be up and about in no time. Yes, it's rather nasty that they had their USA domain confiscated, but since they aren't a USA site, it shouldn't matter that much. It'd be different if they were filtered off the Internet, but some rogue non democratic country seizing a domain name shouldn't stop free speech now, should it?
You need to factor in the cost of cooling those KwHs too. Not just that, but there are large area's of the planet where you can't buy a KwH for 0.10 US dollar. Try 3 times as much for an average European country. You'd be looking at two to six times your $350/year easily for running your 400W server just in power costs. Also, those $4500 CPUs won't cost that much for large companies like Amazon and Google. Rest assured they pay probably substantially less than $1000 for those CPUs. These companies are big enough to have their own servers made to their own specs. They don't pay list price to AMD, Intel, Dell, HP or IBM, but they do have to pay for actual power bills, until they have their own power plants.
So does it have one? If not, it could be dangerous if it falls into the hands of a dissident the USA doesn't agree with. Really, it's a miracle that USA voters let their government get away with so much counter-productive waste of tax payers money. Either promote the Internet to be always on, or put a kill switch on. Don't do both.
The schematics aren't the problem here, because they are identical to the ones already used for people with full motion. The mechanics are what is making this difficult.
In the Netherlands we do have the ISPs mandated to share IP-customer data every 24 hours, automatically. The po-po can just look up your IP and find out who you are without a subpoena. We have more phone and Internet taps than the former Warschau pact had, or any country currently has. We have mandatory logging of all IP information for at least 12 months. We have mandatory Cell-tower logging for at least 12 months. Basically, if you have your cell on, they can tell what area you have been in up to a year ago. Also, we have quite a few camera's on freeways logging your license plate and that information is also stored for a long time. We have our own MAFIAA alike organization taking down websites without due process. We have plenty of repression here. The guys that are now probably going to give us net-neutrality in the law, were advocating against it just a very short while ago. They are fickle and may change their mind once again.
I want my cold war back. The enemy was far away and we could enjoy our freedom. Now that they invented the replacement for that, "terrorism", they are repressing us so hard, we might as well give the terrorists what they want, much cheaper and the same end result.