While I don't know whether you're peddling for said hosting provider or not, you cannot get a good VPS under $50/mo. I've tried lots and lots of them, once you start using your capacity (try to demand ~500MB RAM, a CPU and 100IOPS in a process for a few minutes), performance will tank. At that point you're better off with a good shared hosting.
It costs money to put a machine in a datacenter and you can only share said machine so much. Once you get >50VPS on a single host, you're screwed. And yes, it costs ~$1000/mo to put in a beefy system that can maintain 50 VPS's comfortably. So 1000/50 = $20/mo without any overhead or profit attached. I've seen these el-cheapo VPS servers handle 1000 systems at once and I've been on the customer end with timeouts and lost packets.
The same way you avoid vulnerabilities in other programs - you write good code and/or become a better developer.
I can concatenate SQL strings in pretty much any language and a language that prevents me from doing so is hopelessly overcomplicated. I don't mind a library forcing me to use safer methods but if the language prevents me from sending a custom SQL or LDAP query, it's broken.
It is a cultural thing. Chinese are educated by copying others and have done so for centuries. They are awesome at testing with high scores in any schooling system and field (math, physics etc) because testing is simply copying the answer. But having them apply what they've learned is (generally) not feasible.
It is culturally engrained and encouraged from birth, to them it is not immoral to do so which is reflected in their legal system (lack of copyright and patents enforcement).
Copyright and patenting is really a westerner construct and inherently unnatural, even immoral.
You really have no idea how complex the software is that runs on some embedded devices? A simple hard drive has an OS in and of itself just to maintain your high speed caches. Firmware is generally not the problem though, and it isn't here either. Reprogramming the firmware to do anything useful (streaming data out of a network port it doesn't have) is nigh impossible.
Or they're just incompetent. There is to date not a single virus in the wild that uses boot processor code or device firmware (plenty of proof of concepts). The problem being is that if you target a firmware, you a) have to know very well what you're doing and b) any platform differences across devices render your exploit unusable and c) it generally doesn't have a method of spreading itself. Works well if you're targeting an embedded platform and you know they're all the same (eg. PLC's for uranium centrifuges) but doesn't work very well for 10-years worth of every model Dell, HP, Acer and Gateway computer out there.
It's simple incompetence solved by a boot disk that wipes the hard drive without interacting with it. But 'oh noes, save my documents because we haven't made backups for the last 2 decades' and the virus is right back the minute the user logs in.
But only Windows and it's software requires you to run as root, autoruns everything that you ever plug in and has a particular browser (plug in) that allow full control over the computer.
I think you misunderstood. There is no hardware infection, they're just having problems getting their machines (a certain software, created by Microsoft) under control so they're just throwing everything out and starting from scratch. They could also go along each machine with a Linux disk and wipe the thing.
In an ideal world the state should require schools to educate a curriculum based around scientific facts (such as mathematics, geography, astronomy, biology which includes evolution), critical thinking and satisfying curiosity and parents should not be allowed to abuse their children by hamstringing this natural curiosity by teaching them that no-questions-allowed-gawd-did-it.
Sadly we do not live in a perfect world and the state barely requires any scientific education but the state should definitely not be allowed to teach religious nonsense to the children. Any teacher that teaches creationism should be fired, any parent that requests creationism thought in classes should be ignored.
In the strict definition, it is a theory which means it's a "hypothesis supported by facts and evidence which leads us to conclude it's the best explanation for what we experience". We do see "speciation" occur in the lab, we see evolution occur even within our own species. The macro/micro evolution debate was invented by ID'ers to 'prove' evolution is false, there is no such thing as macro evolution (species do not jump up/down the evolutionary ladder), there is only small changes that eventually (measured in geological times) lead to different 'species'. But from a genetic viewpoint, all species are very similar and even some species we previously classified as separate species because of how they look are genetically identical (eg. dogs and wolves, certain birds, insects)
No you can't. It's not that easy to declare bankruptcy. You'll be forced to consolidate loans and go through debt management classes for the next decade before you get to have a bankruptcy court declare your behind bankrupt. You would have to be millions in debt (no sane bank would allow you to get that far) with no way of repayment in your lifetime. Even with bankruptcy, anything you ever touch will have a lien on it.
The USians generally don't want to be taxed like Europeans are either. I originated there, I paid about 55% in income taxes, social securities and health care insurances, after which rent became barely affordable. The reason Europe has such great transit systems is because entry level employees cannot afford owning a car.
If you are able to work here in the US, even at Wal-Mart, you're way better off than anywhere else in the world. Same goes for education, if you keep track of your expenses/loans and manage your schooling well in the US, you're way better off than being a European kid at a "free" University. However, if you go major in philosophy together with another 1000 people at the same school, where the hell do you think you're going to get? Same applies to European Universities, their philosophy students won't go anywhere fast either.
How about just using the accounting system. If the accountants already need to keep track of what's going in and out for tax purposes, then you might as well use what they have. The benefit is that accountants are a lot more anal about getting these things right, IT folks only half-ass these things because, well, it's not our job to keep track of what people have purchased, as long as it works.
a) Running a datacenter isn't cheap b) Most likely they went from paid-for, working systems in a refrigerated closet somewhere to a contractor-ran, equipment-rental datacenter with big yearly contracts to IBM, PeopleSoft etc. A well managed local system is a lot cheaper than a borrowed system. c) Most likely the stuff was local for a reason. Putting it away in a datacenter on the other side of the country not only increases latency, you also need fatter pipes. You go from a 10Mbps/10Mbps line being sufficient for an office to a 1Gbps/1Gbps being insufficient, costs grow exponentially. d) You cut existing applications that exist for a reason that fast, there is no way in hell you can reduce 200+ applications in a few years by a single team (the mythical man-month). What happened is that someone rented a crappy "all-in-one" system in the "cloud", copied the data the "architect" found "critical" over and called it "done". Then the locals either do a lot of manual work or create shadow systems to get the old functionality back. Now you've centralized in 3 datacenters AND kept all the local systems running AND created more overhead just to keep the new system with the old system running.
I work in an institution that is attempting to do the exact same thing and the above is what is happening. You cannot just take 20+ years of data and normalize it in a 6 months period with buy-in from everyone using the system. You're missing large swathes of stuff and relying on an external 'data architect' that is really just another project manager to tell you what is and what isn't in use in your business.
Make sure that everything is up to code today and have water/waste/electric installed and ready to go everywhere. That way you don't have to comply with some future local ordinance regarding new wiring and do a lot of overhauling. Same goes for fire sprinklers, make sure they're done or at least ready to be done in all spaces regardless of occupation. You never know when you want to renovate that attic or garage into a room and then the city comes a-knocking on your door for an inspection and you have to re-do things.
The rest is simple, have conduits everywhere you can think of for electric, low voltage, water and heat, at least one per room. If you ever want to have a new bathroom or add a toilet in the next 20 years, make sure your existing piping is sufficient (use a 3/4" supply to the space instead of tapping a 1/2" pipe in the basement).
I would also use hot water circulation-type radiator heat instead of forced air, it's a lot cheaper, make sure they have valves too that can bypass so you can heat only specific spaces. Make sure your basement doors are wide enough to allow for that newfangled heater to get through as well as your furniture. Nothing worse than seeing your contractor skimped on the doors and installed the minimum width ones when your couches can't get in.
Don't skimp on the financial stuff, make sure you have title insurance and homeowners insurance etc. You may have to spend 20-30k extra on the build and paperwork but if you can't afford that, you can't afford the house.
The judicial branch, just like the legislative and executive branches are appointed and/or elected at the behest of the current administration. You cannot directly vote for the president, you cannot vote directly for your senators, you cannot vote for judges and prosecutors, they are all appointed by representatives of the state(s).
Off course they will always get themselves and their cronies in, what would you do?
Decent hardware also has watchdog timers and watchdog programs have some clever/ugly hacks where no watchdog is available. That or IPMI. An Arduino and stuff is about $30, if you have a few servers, a remote KVM/Power switch may be cheaper.
One of my hacks was well before multi-boot became a thing and DOS could only boot from disk ring 0 on SCSI device 0, we would hook up the internal SCSI cables to a parallel port selector switch and put it in the computer where the 5.25 bays went. We could then switch 'boot' devices. Similar hacks would connect switches to the jumpers responsible for setting the address or later on IDE, swap master/slave between drives.
The artist who is doing well is the exception and not the rule. Regardless of marketing model, there are more artists that have served you coffee or fries than artists you may have bought an album from.
SMS wasn't even designed to be used. I remember back in the day, we had to either dial a special code or get into a special menu on our Nokia's/Philips with all of 10x4 character displays to send free "diagnostic" messages to other phones. We also could deposit voice messages in mailboxes for free rather than pay for a phone call per minute.
The problem with detecting drones is they don't use specialized stuff, so a windshield wiper motor might as well give the exact same signature as the drone motors. Same goes with RF, GPS,... Unless you build a physical foil bubble, nothing will keep them out.
If you're going for "low" voltage DC (24V), you're just shifting the losses from the conversion to the wiring. Anyone that has done any home automation, security systems or basic electronics knows that even over a relatively low distance you can have a severe voltage drop which has to be made up with more power draw.
Electricians do consider anything sub-400V, "low" voltage. To have your home outfitted with DC you wouldn't even need to replace wiring, you might need to replace outlets. IF your outlets are correctly wired, you could simply convert from 110VAC to 150-200VDC and most of your devices that are not inductive would continue to work. Incandescent light bulbs would work, fluorescents would not, LED light bulbs would, computers, phone, laptop chargers etc. all would. Your big apparatus' (laundry, fridge etc) would need some conversion work but would always almost work better with AC (AC motors are more cost efficient and less maintenance than DC motors, that's one of the reason's Tesla won).
Federally, perhaps. State and local governments undo most of that. The requirement for local utilities to buy back is not universal and I think they'd fight that all the way to supreme court because federal gov't cannot impose laws (besides the constitution) on states.
You can get a small tax break (30% of the installation cost tax credit) on your federal taxes for installing panels IF your installation qualifies as an Energy Star-certified system (so most DIY probably won't qualify). You cannot get money back for it either, if you do not owe taxes or you owe less taxes than the credit, you can only reduce how much you owe.
The insurance would only kick in where the insured doesn't do their job securing the data. There is no in-between in computer security, you either implement security and it works or you don't and you take an insurance for when the inevitable happens.
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While I don't know whether you're peddling for said hosting provider or not, you cannot get a good VPS under $50/mo. I've tried lots and lots of them, once you start using your capacity (try to demand ~500MB RAM, a CPU and 100IOPS in a process for a few minutes), performance will tank. At that point you're better off with a good shared hosting.
It costs money to put a machine in a datacenter and you can only share said machine so much. Once you get >50VPS on a single host, you're screwed. And yes, it costs ~$1000/mo to put in a beefy system that can maintain 50 VPS's comfortably. So 1000/50 = $20/mo without any overhead or profit attached. I've seen these el-cheapo VPS servers handle 1000 systems at once and I've been on the customer end with timeouts and lost packets.
The same way you avoid vulnerabilities in other programs - you write good code and/or become a better developer.
I can concatenate SQL strings in pretty much any language and a language that prevents me from doing so is hopelessly overcomplicated. I don't mind a library forcing me to use safer methods but if the language prevents me from sending a custom SQL or LDAP query, it's broken.
It is a cultural thing. Chinese are educated by copying others and have done so for centuries. They are awesome at testing with high scores in any schooling system and field (math, physics etc) because testing is simply copying the answer. But having them apply what they've learned is (generally) not feasible.
It is culturally engrained and encouraged from birth, to them it is not immoral to do so which is reflected in their legal system (lack of copyright and patents enforcement).
Copyright and patenting is really a westerner construct and inherently unnatural, even immoral.
You really have no idea how complex the software is that runs on some embedded devices? A simple hard drive has an OS in and of itself just to maintain your high speed caches. Firmware is generally not the problem though, and it isn't here either. Reprogramming the firmware to do anything useful (streaming data out of a network port it doesn't have) is nigh impossible.
Or they're just incompetent. There is to date not a single virus in the wild that uses boot processor code or device firmware (plenty of proof of concepts). The problem being is that if you target a firmware, you a) have to know very well what you're doing and b) any platform differences across devices render your exploit unusable and c) it generally doesn't have a method of spreading itself. Works well if you're targeting an embedded platform and you know they're all the same (eg. PLC's for uranium centrifuges) but doesn't work very well for 10-years worth of every model Dell, HP, Acer and Gateway computer out there.
It's simple incompetence solved by a boot disk that wipes the hard drive without interacting with it. But 'oh noes, save my documents because we haven't made backups for the last 2 decades' and the virus is right back the minute the user logs in.
But only Windows and it's software requires you to run as root, autoruns everything that you ever plug in and has a particular browser (plug in) that allow full control over the computer.
I think you misunderstood. There is no hardware infection, they're just having problems getting their machines (a certain software, created by Microsoft) under control so they're just throwing everything out and starting from scratch. They could also go along each machine with a Linux disk and wipe the thing.
In an ideal world the state should require schools to educate a curriculum based around scientific facts (such as mathematics, geography, astronomy, biology which includes evolution), critical thinking and satisfying curiosity and parents should not be allowed to abuse their children by hamstringing this natural curiosity by teaching them that no-questions-allowed-gawd-did-it.
Sadly we do not live in a perfect world and the state barely requires any scientific education but the state should definitely not be allowed to teach religious nonsense to the children. Any teacher that teaches creationism should be fired, any parent that requests creationism thought in classes should be ignored.
In the strict definition, it is a theory which means it's a "hypothesis supported by facts and evidence which leads us to conclude it's the best explanation for what we experience". We do see "speciation" occur in the lab, we see evolution occur even within our own species. The macro/micro evolution debate was invented by ID'ers to 'prove' evolution is false, there is no such thing as macro evolution (species do not jump up/down the evolutionary ladder), there is only small changes that eventually (measured in geological times) lead to different 'species'. But from a genetic viewpoint, all species are very similar and even some species we previously classified as separate species because of how they look are genetically identical (eg. dogs and wolves, certain birds, insects)
You do know what schizophrenia is right? One of his persona's may be racist, doesn't mean his 'regular' (or most frequently available) persona is.
No you can't. It's not that easy to declare bankruptcy. You'll be forced to consolidate loans and go through debt management classes for the next decade before you get to have a bankruptcy court declare your behind bankrupt. You would have to be millions in debt (no sane bank would allow you to get that far) with no way of repayment in your lifetime. Even with bankruptcy, anything you ever touch will have a lien on it.
The USians generally don't want to be taxed like Europeans are either. I originated there, I paid about 55% in income taxes, social securities and health care insurances, after which rent became barely affordable. The reason Europe has such great transit systems is because entry level employees cannot afford owning a car.
If you are able to work here in the US, even at Wal-Mart, you're way better off than anywhere else in the world. Same goes for education, if you keep track of your expenses/loans and manage your schooling well in the US, you're way better off than being a European kid at a "free" University. However, if you go major in philosophy together with another 1000 people at the same school, where the hell do you think you're going to get? Same applies to European Universities, their philosophy students won't go anywhere fast either.
That is largely because your voltmeter has an incredibly large internal resistance. Try putting the battery under load to test it's actual output.
How about just using the accounting system. If the accountants already need to keep track of what's going in and out for tax purposes, then you might as well use what they have. The benefit is that accountants are a lot more anal about getting these things right, IT folks only half-ass these things because, well, it's not our job to keep track of what people have purchased, as long as it works.
a) Running a datacenter isn't cheap
b) Most likely they went from paid-for, working systems in a refrigerated closet somewhere to a contractor-ran, equipment-rental datacenter with big yearly contracts to IBM, PeopleSoft etc. A well managed local system is a lot cheaper than a borrowed system.
c) Most likely the stuff was local for a reason. Putting it away in a datacenter on the other side of the country not only increases latency, you also need fatter pipes. You go from a 10Mbps/10Mbps line being sufficient for an office to a 1Gbps/1Gbps being insufficient, costs grow exponentially.
d) You cut existing applications that exist for a reason that fast, there is no way in hell you can reduce 200+ applications in a few years by a single team (the mythical man-month). What happened is that someone rented a crappy "all-in-one" system in the "cloud", copied the data the "architect" found "critical" over and called it "done". Then the locals either do a lot of manual work or create shadow systems to get the old functionality back. Now you've centralized in 3 datacenters AND kept all the local systems running AND created more overhead just to keep the new system with the old system running.
I work in an institution that is attempting to do the exact same thing and the above is what is happening. You cannot just take 20+ years of data and normalize it in a 6 months period with buy-in from everyone using the system. You're missing large swathes of stuff and relying on an external 'data architect' that is really just another project manager to tell you what is and what isn't in use in your business.
You should run wiring conduits and make sure they're accessible at cross points. Within 20 years you'll want to install fiber or cat9 cabling.
Make sure that everything is up to code today and have water/waste/electric installed and ready to go everywhere. That way you don't have to comply with some future local ordinance regarding new wiring and do a lot of overhauling. Same goes for fire sprinklers, make sure they're done or at least ready to be done in all spaces regardless of occupation. You never know when you want to renovate that attic or garage into a room and then the city comes a-knocking on your door for an inspection and you have to re-do things.
The rest is simple, have conduits everywhere you can think of for electric, low voltage, water and heat, at least one per room. If you ever want to have a new bathroom or add a toilet in the next 20 years, make sure your existing piping is sufficient (use a 3/4" supply to the space instead of tapping a 1/2" pipe in the basement).
I would also use hot water circulation-type radiator heat instead of forced air, it's a lot cheaper, make sure they have valves too that can bypass so you can heat only specific spaces. Make sure your basement doors are wide enough to allow for that newfangled heater to get through as well as your furniture. Nothing worse than seeing your contractor skimped on the doors and installed the minimum width ones when your couches can't get in.
Don't skimp on the financial stuff, make sure you have title insurance and homeowners insurance etc. You may have to spend 20-30k extra on the build and paperwork but if you can't afford that, you can't afford the house.
The judicial branch, just like the legislative and executive branches are appointed and/or elected at the behest of the current administration. You cannot directly vote for the president, you cannot vote directly for your senators, you cannot vote for judges and prosecutors, they are all appointed by representatives of the state(s).
Off course they will always get themselves and their cronies in, what would you do?
Decent hardware also has watchdog timers and watchdog programs have some clever/ugly hacks where no watchdog is available. That or IPMI. An Arduino and stuff is about $30, if you have a few servers, a remote KVM/Power switch may be cheaper.
One of my hacks was well before multi-boot became a thing and DOS could only boot from disk ring 0 on SCSI device 0, we would hook up the internal SCSI cables to a parallel port selector switch and put it in the computer where the 5.25 bays went. We could then switch 'boot' devices. Similar hacks would connect switches to the jumpers responsible for setting the address or later on IDE, swap master/slave between drives.
The artist who is doing well is the exception and not the rule. Regardless of marketing model, there are more artists that have served you coffee or fries than artists you may have bought an album from.
SMS wasn't even designed to be used. I remember back in the day, we had to either dial a special code or get into a special menu on our Nokia's/Philips with all of 10x4 character displays to send free "diagnostic" messages to other phones. We also could deposit voice messages in mailboxes for free rather than pay for a phone call per minute.
The problem with detecting drones is they don't use specialized stuff, so a windshield wiper motor might as well give the exact same signature as the drone motors. Same goes with RF, GPS, ... Unless you build a physical foil bubble, nothing will keep them out.
If you're going for "low" voltage DC (24V), you're just shifting the losses from the conversion to the wiring. Anyone that has done any home automation, security systems or basic electronics knows that even over a relatively low distance you can have a severe voltage drop which has to be made up with more power draw.
Electricians do consider anything sub-400V, "low" voltage. To have your home outfitted with DC you wouldn't even need to replace wiring, you might need to replace outlets. IF your outlets are correctly wired, you could simply convert from 110VAC to 150-200VDC and most of your devices that are not inductive would continue to work. Incandescent light bulbs would work, fluorescents would not, LED light bulbs would, computers, phone, laptop chargers etc. all would. Your big apparatus' (laundry, fridge etc) would need some conversion work but would always almost work better with AC (AC motors are more cost efficient and less maintenance than DC motors, that's one of the reason's Tesla won).
Federally, perhaps. State and local governments undo most of that. The requirement for local utilities to buy back is not universal and I think they'd fight that all the way to supreme court because federal gov't cannot impose laws (besides the constitution) on states.
You can get a small tax break (30% of the installation cost tax credit) on your federal taxes for installing panels IF your installation qualifies as an Energy Star-certified system (so most DIY probably won't qualify). You cannot get money back for it either, if you do not owe taxes or you owe less taxes than the credit, you can only reduce how much you owe.
The insurance would only kick in where the insured doesn't do their job securing the data. There is no in-between in computer security, you either implement security and it works or you don't and you take an insurance for when the inevitable happens.