Depends on your hardware. I think it has to do with DRM (Digital Restrictions Management) so if your video card doesn't support certain DRM extensions, you're forced onto Silverlight. I think the same happens on Linux - if you turn off DRM, you can't use Netflix.
That is the way it should be. If your employee is valuable enough that this person would cripple your business when they are at a competitor, they should be taken care of. If you want to assure that I don't bring my experience to your competitor even if I don't want to work for you anymore, then you should pay me for that. If you don't want me to work at all in the business for whatever reason, then pay me for the rest of my life including pay raises and promotions I would've reasonably qualified for.
If it's a contract you sign, then I assume they must be compensating you 'in advance'. I don't see what's illegal about them, it prevents certain people (eg. C-levels and management) from spying on a company and then going to their competitor with the information they collected.
You should get compensated though for them, most people simply don't read their contracts or know that they can disagree to signing a contract. I've disagreed many times to many contracts at jobs. Most of the time HR simply doesn't care that you don't sign and when they do care, I say "I don't agree" and then sometimes there is a small shit storm and a dick waving contest between managers but not something I care about.
If your severance package is good enough to warrant a non-compete, then by all means sign it, but if all you get is a handshake and a sweater, then fuck them.
OpenStack is supposed to be a one-thing-fits-all "datacenter" solution that scales both compute and storage nodes as you add hardware however it's implementation is piss-poor because the storage/compute is only intended for whatever fits on a 1 or 2U server and indexes for a container have to (largely/ideally) fit in memory. Once you need lots of storage for one (or few) "containers", the performance goes down the drain.
Most compression algorithms don't do a dictionary on a 50M extent, they similarly break it up in blocks, otherwise you'd need as much memory as the size of the file and the compression would take ages.. You can get slightly better compression by taking larger block sizes and more time but that largely depends on your application and your algorithm, you have to trade off some of them to make it useful.
Most files or file changes do not take up 128k either (in my application they are ~16kb each), ZFS can put multiple write requests in a singe write block so if you have 10 writes per second of 10k files/file changes you get the compression across multiple files. Also, you don't have to decompress a file before using it which is usually a nice thing.
Less than 10% of packages pass by ANY customs check (there are a variety of scanners, some sites don't even have them all) and that's for international packages. It's even less than that for domestic packages. Unless your package leaks, you can send stuff 'illegally' for years without anyone noticing (happens all the time at labs shipping vials).
24 times? I doubt Amazon only sent 24 of those in the time they had them for sale, I think it would be on the order of a dozen per day at least that would go on a plane, many more are shipped "illegally" through USPS (UPS/FedEx allows them but not for cheap and MSDS etc all has to be in order).
Terabyte SSD's are cheap, you can get some for $250. Samsung recently released a 16TB SSD, 32-bit pointers with 4kb blocks has your size pegged at ~16TB, 64-bit "limits" your size to a few zettabytes (10^10 terabyte).
I already have a file system with more objects than a 32-bit pointer can hold, a major issue when considering object storage like OpenStack because no object storage is yet built for holding billions of objects per container.
ZFS has more problems than just some interpersonal issue. The license itself is not compatible with either BSD (which is what OS X is based on) nor GPL (which is what most Linux licenses stuff as). The OpenZFS project had and still has to rip out major parts out of ZFS/Solaris and rewrite it so it compiles on an open compiler (unlike Sun/Oracle's license) and doesn't impose on the Sun (now Oracle's) not-so-open CDDL license.
Additionally after Oracle took over, code for Solaris or ZFS is now only accessible if you pay a hefty Solaris license/maintenance fee.
Yeah, but then you can't accurately know the cost of de-duplication, additionally you're doing work against already committed files which is a big no-no if you want stable storage. If I commit a file, I don't want a background process to read/write it and a software bug to screw it up years down the road.
Additionally, you're taking away resources from a system that will already be taxed. My file server has a load of 1.2-2.5 on an average day (because I'm running against the IOPS limits on my 5-year old SSD's), doing ANYTHING (even streaming a backup) has to be meticulously planned so as not to affect the system.
That's not how it works. You divide the 50MB file in 391 blocks and each block is then separately compressed. You still get to seek your file to whatever block you want, the compression is 'invisible' to the application.
Flash drives already use compression and other techniques to minimize writes (and subsequently wear and tear). Especially the cheaper ones will use 'slower' compression just so they don't have to commit to as much (or any) wear leveling or spare blocks.
And there is the issue, we can barely get package maintainers to support their regular apps with many "apps" being hopelessly out of date on various standard platforms (try anything: Sympa, Drupal, MySQL, nginx, Apache, PHP... - you'll be several point versions if not major version numbers behind the 'stable' version available from the original websites).
We do, it's called test tube babies. We haven't yet modified them extensively yet (unless you count illegal Chinese experiments) but that's mostly due to ethics, not capacity.
So, it's basically a down-scaled diesel-electric locomotive, but with a battery buffer and diesel replaced with CNG?
Pretty much, without the rails off course. Diesel-Electric vehicles don't quite exist yet for general roadway use most likely because space, cost and power would trade off and the resulting savings negligible. (Natural) gas engines can be much smaller and operate at much higher efficiencies and thus less affected by stringent exhaust and other regulations.
Once batteries exist that can supply the surges required of a rail train (currently Diesel-Electric locomotives use capacitors) we will see the switch happen quickly there as well.
It always did make me wonder why companies like Tesla or even GM don't go for the commercial market first. Savings on a vehicle used 1/24h are minimal, a vehicle used 12-24h/day is much more attractive to save even 10% in TCO.
The only reason they had investigated him was because they spied on him. Either way, I don't think anyone should be spied upon remotely, just charge them with a crime or don't. And if you are convinced he is going to do something bad, put a tail on him and then when he approaches the night club guns blazing, shoot him down.
Although I agree that being religious is similar to being mentally ill, this person was brainwashed by a US Imam, whether or not he had mental problems is besides the point. There are many religions that do the same thing, even Christian ones, it only takes one to trigger an event like this. As the governor of Texas has indicated, Christians by and large agree with this shooting.
That's if the cashier catches it. More than likely they're just scanning by things. Once in a while, they get things wrong in either direction. Every time I go to get a bucket of paint at one of my local Home Depots, it scans up for $21 while it should be $18, this has been happening for at least the last 6 months and every time, a manager comes and I explain it and they call the paint department and I get the bucket of paint for $18. On the other hand I've gotten things that were cheaper than what they were priced as well.
QEMU can emulate SGX. There is a paper somewhere that shoots holes in all the 'promises', it's basically TPM but for VM's, you have to code specifically for it and license it from Intel and only Intel can 'verify' (which as we know, no American company can be trusted when it comes to turning over their private keys to the state).
IF you trust Intel AND trust the hypervisors to be honest about the capabilities of the processor at all times AND use the features. If you trust the hypervisors then you never have any problems, this is about untrusted hypervisors, emulating a processor feature is trivial.
The hypervisor also has access to your memory and until calculations on encrypted data becomes feasible, whoever owns the physical memory can read it out. Hell, most hypervisors can attach a console to the machine or even clone a running machine onto another machine without the VM being any the wiser. Disk encryption is only useful for data at rest and on the move, once you have unlocked the data at boot time, whoever owns the machine can read it.
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Depends on your hardware. I think it has to do with DRM (Digital Restrictions Management) so if your video card doesn't support certain DRM extensions, you're forced onto Silverlight. I think the same happens on Linux - if you turn off DRM, you can't use Netflix.
That is the way it should be. If your employee is valuable enough that this person would cripple your business when they are at a competitor, they should be taken care of. If you want to assure that I don't bring my experience to your competitor even if I don't want to work for you anymore, then you should pay me for that. If you don't want me to work at all in the business for whatever reason, then pay me for the rest of my life including pay raises and promotions I would've reasonably qualified for.
If it's a contract you sign, then I assume they must be compensating you 'in advance'. I don't see what's illegal about them, it prevents certain people (eg. C-levels and management) from spying on a company and then going to their competitor with the information they collected.
You should get compensated though for them, most people simply don't read their contracts or know that they can disagree to signing a contract. I've disagreed many times to many contracts at jobs. Most of the time HR simply doesn't care that you don't sign and when they do care, I say "I don't agree" and then sometimes there is a small shit storm and a dick waving contest between managers but not something I care about.
If your severance package is good enough to warrant a non-compete, then by all means sign it, but if all you get is a handshake and a sweater, then fuck them.
OpenStack is supposed to be a one-thing-fits-all "datacenter" solution that scales both compute and storage nodes as you add hardware however it's implementation is piss-poor because the storage/compute is only intended for whatever fits on a 1 or 2U server and indexes for a container have to (largely/ideally) fit in memory. Once you need lots of storage for one (or few) "containers", the performance goes down the drain.
IOPS are in the order of ~5000 read and ~1000 write. These are SLC SSD's which are hardly available anymore.
Hosting ~200TB worth of MRI data for ~100 workstations (collection, analysis etc) and a number of external links. 200TB of ~4-20kb individual files
OpenZFS, Oracle's ZFS (which does differ since roughly OpenSolaris snv_149) does at this point not have any source code available in the 'open'.
Most compression algorithms don't do a dictionary on a 50M extent, they similarly break it up in blocks, otherwise you'd need as much memory as the size of the file and the compression would take ages.. You can get slightly better compression by taking larger block sizes and more time but that largely depends on your application and your algorithm, you have to trade off some of them to make it useful.
Most files or file changes do not take up 128k either (in my application they are ~16kb each), ZFS can put multiple write requests in a singe write block so if you have 10 writes per second of 10k files/file changes you get the compression across multiple files. Also, you don't have to decompress a file before using it which is usually a nice thing.
Less than 10% of packages pass by ANY customs check (there are a variety of scanners, some sites don't even have them all) and that's for international packages. It's even less than that for domestic packages. Unless your package leaks, you can send stuff 'illegally' for years without anyone noticing (happens all the time at labs shipping vials).
24 times? I doubt Amazon only sent 24 of those in the time they had them for sale, I think it would be on the order of a dozen per day at least that would go on a plane, many more are shipped "illegally" through USPS (UPS/FedEx allows them but not for cheap and MSDS etc all has to be in order).
Terabyte SSD's are cheap, you can get some for $250. Samsung recently released a 16TB SSD, 32-bit pointers with 4kb blocks has your size pegged at ~16TB, 64-bit "limits" your size to a few zettabytes (10^10 terabyte).
I already have a file system with more objects than a 32-bit pointer can hold, a major issue when considering object storage like OpenStack because no object storage is yet built for holding billions of objects per container.
ZFS has more problems than just some interpersonal issue. The license itself is not compatible with either BSD (which is what OS X is based on) nor GPL (which is what most Linux licenses stuff as). The OpenZFS project had and still has to rip out major parts out of ZFS/Solaris and rewrite it so it compiles on an open compiler (unlike Sun/Oracle's license) and doesn't impose on the Sun (now Oracle's) not-so-open CDDL license.
Additionally after Oracle took over, code for Solaris or ZFS is now only accessible if you pay a hefty Solaris license/maintenance fee.
Yeah, but then you can't accurately know the cost of de-duplication, additionally you're doing work against already committed files which is a big no-no if you want stable storage. If I commit a file, I don't want a background process to read/write it and a software bug to screw it up years down the road.
Additionally, you're taking away resources from a system that will already be taxed. My file server has a load of 1.2-2.5 on an average day (because I'm running against the IOPS limits on my 5-year old SSD's), doing ANYTHING (even streaming a backup) has to be meticulously planned so as not to affect the system.
That's not how it works. You divide the 50MB file in 391 blocks and each block is then separately compressed. You still get to seek your file to whatever block you want, the compression is 'invisible' to the application.
Flash drives already use compression and other techniques to minimize writes (and subsequently wear and tear). Especially the cheaper ones will use 'slower' compression just so they don't have to commit to as much (or any) wear leveling or spare blocks.
"available to try, but don't use it as a startup disk" for now
You mean like BTRFS or EXT4...
And there is the issue, we can barely get package maintainers to support their regular apps with many "apps" being hopelessly out of date on various standard platforms (try anything: Sympa, Drupal, MySQL, nginx, Apache, PHP... - you'll be several point versions if not major version numbers behind the 'stable' version available from the original websites).
And what would you call them if not engineered? Do babies grow outside of the womb naturally?
We do, it's called test tube babies. We haven't yet modified them extensively yet (unless you count illegal Chinese experiments) but that's mostly due to ethics, not capacity.
So, it's basically a down-scaled diesel-electric locomotive, but with a battery buffer and diesel replaced with CNG?
Pretty much, without the rails off course. Diesel-Electric vehicles don't quite exist yet for general roadway use most likely because space, cost and power would trade off and the resulting savings negligible. (Natural) gas engines can be much smaller and operate at much higher efficiencies and thus less affected by stringent exhaust and other regulations.
Once batteries exist that can supply the surges required of a rail train (currently Diesel-Electric locomotives use capacitors) we will see the switch happen quickly there as well.
It always did make me wonder why companies like Tesla or even GM don't go for the commercial market first. Savings on a vehicle used 1/24h are minimal, a vehicle used 12-24h/day is much more attractive to save even 10% in TCO.
The only reason they had investigated him was because they spied on him. Either way, I don't think anyone should be spied upon remotely, just charge them with a crime or don't. And if you are convinced he is going to do something bad, put a tail on him and then when he approaches the night club guns blazing, shoot him down.
Although I agree that being religious is similar to being mentally ill, this person was brainwashed by a US Imam, whether or not he had mental problems is besides the point. There are many religions that do the same thing, even Christian ones, it only takes one to trigger an event like this. As the governor of Texas has indicated, Christians by and large agree with this shooting.
That's if the cashier catches it. More than likely they're just scanning by things. Once in a while, they get things wrong in either direction. Every time I go to get a bucket of paint at one of my local Home Depots, it scans up for $21 while it should be $18, this has been happening for at least the last 6 months and every time, a manager comes and I explain it and they call the paint department and I get the bucket of paint for $18. On the other hand I've gotten things that were cheaper than what they were priced as well.
QEMU can emulate SGX. There is a paper somewhere that shoots holes in all the 'promises', it's basically TPM but for VM's, you have to code specifically for it and license it from Intel and only Intel can 'verify' (which as we know, no American company can be trusted when it comes to turning over their private keys to the state).
IF you trust Intel AND trust the hypervisors to be honest about the capabilities of the processor at all times AND use the features. If you trust the hypervisors then you never have any problems, this is about untrusted hypervisors, emulating a processor feature is trivial.
The hypervisor also has access to your memory and until calculations on encrypted data becomes feasible, whoever owns the physical memory can read it out. Hell, most hypervisors can attach a console to the machine or even clone a running machine onto another machine without the VM being any the wiser. Disk encryption is only useful for data at rest and on the move, once you have unlocked the data at boot time, whoever owns the machine can read it.