Although the display is one of the large suckers with high-res displays like the Apple products have and most oversized Androids to make up for lack of resolution (really, a 6" display on a cell phone?) the CPU (and integrated GPU) is still a big sucker (besides also antenna's). ARM development boards (like Raspberry Pi) have similar or in some cases identical chipsets and the same number of peripherals without a display and still manage to take up almost 3-5W. On a small size battery this is still significant over 2-3 days.
128GB and even 256GB is cutting it close though. OS: 20GB, applications: 50GB (not even any large games), documents (not even music or video): 20GB.
I have a 128GB SSD in my laptop (early adopter) and it's always hovering between 2GB and 20GB free space. My home directory at work is over a TB (luckily on multi-TB NFS) just in documents a few disk images for various distro's and deployment I'm working on and a few virtual machines. My e-mail alone is 4-5GB large (granted I've kept virtually every non-spam e-mail since I was still on IRC)
Most (decent) OS'es like OS X and Linux already leave most of the programs in RAM. Look at your performance monitor (top or a GUI) and you'll see "inactive memory" besides "active" and "wired" - basically, the program has released the data (or the program has closed) but the kernel keeps the stuff around until it either needs the space or the program needs to be re-loaded.
Also, most OS'es these days use free memory to cache hard drive reads so programs may already be pre-cached.
The Google study and both older and newer studies have roughly the same failure rates across the board on all usage cases. There are actually scientific studies that you can look up. Google's study puts failure rate somewhere in the middle of all the other studies (some quote AFR as low as 1% to as high as 7%, Google I believe said 3%)
You have to actually work in the computer industry with a large enough number of computers to see that hard drive failures are actually not all that uncommon in both laptop and desktops (actually desktop drives seem to fail faster than laptop drives). 3% AFR sounds about right. I don't have enough SSD's yet to say anything but over the last 20 years I have used various SSD solutions (going from a 2MB expansion card in an 80286 (which took up an ISA slot and was the length of a full-sized computer case) to rack mounted RamSAN's and the current Vertex 4) and I have had them fail on me as well but only DOA and early failures due to bad firmware which was always replaced by the vendor. I recently had the SSD in a first-gen iPod Touch show signs of wearing out (4 years of daily and heavy usage) as songs started skipping and pausing at random but simply wiping it (which took 2 hours) solved the issues.
For a $150 pledge, you can reserve 15 imaging slots on ArduSat. You'll be able to go to a website, see the path that the satellite will be taking over the ground, and then select the targets you want to image. Those commands will be uploaded to the ArduSat, and when it's in the right spot in its orbit, it'll point its camera down at Earth and take a picture which will be then emailed right to you. From space.
-- Great, personal spy pictures. No details on the quality or if it will even work from up there. But at $10 per picture it's fairly affordable. But again, quality is what is going to make or break it.
For $300, you can upload your own personal message to ArduSat, where it will be broadcast back to Earth from space for an entire day. ArduSat is in a polar orbit, so over the course of that day, it'll circle the Earth seven times and your message will be broadcast over the entire globe.
-- Never gonna give you up... and also, what channels will this be using? How can I hear it?
For $500, you can take advantage of the whole point of ArduSat and run your very own experiment for an entire week on a selection of ArduSat's sensors. You know, in space. Just to be clear, it's not like you're just having your experiment run on data that's coming back to Earth from the satellite. Rather, your experiment is uploaded to the satellite itself, and it's actually running on one of the Arduino boards on ArduSat real time, which is why there are so many identical boards packed in there.
-- This would be great but again, no information on the sensors, quality and whether or not I can distribute my data.
Please note: this is the INDUSTRY that's complaining. I work in actual government funded research and we have a major shortage of qualified biomed graduates. The industry is complaining that after we're done (usually they start during their PhD program and stay a couple of years after until they get to secure better jobs) with them and they want to move on, they would have to pay them increasingly more to get them to move from their current location and work for them with less job security than academia provides. We pay them ~$50k/year salary + moving costs.
You also need plenty of energy to take things apart and build things on an atomic level, actually it requires so much energy that the classic alchemic grail of modifying eg. lead to gold (which is possible) is not even worth it.
Most electronics these days would actually. The problem is anything that uses the grid as a time source such as old clocks, electric motors as well as UPS, generators and the like
If they don't trust you, you shouldn't trust them. If they're trying to snoop on you for whatever reason, they think you're a criminal. Would you work for the RIAA? Would you work for a boss who every time you come in he says "you're a criminal" and then proceeds to look over your shoulder all day? No and you shouldn't accept such behavior from employers.
Data leakage can be done a myriad of other ways. And by the time you actually have analyzed the data (if anyone even looks at the reports after 2 weeks) the damage has already been done.
iPad's are easier to manage though and the tools to do so are free and Apple gives free lessons and has free engineers customizing packages even going so far as doing pre-imaged iPad's (and other systems) from the factory out (did I mention, free). Also, free unlimited support (far beyond the standard warranties) and sometimes even free parts if they feel the issue has inconvenienced you.
I work in education and Apple is by far the CHEAPEST option when you consider the whole framework of things you need to implement a digital classroom (management etc.). Dell is by far the most EXPENSIVE option given that they actually raise their base prices from consumer and business for their EDU customers. Dell Education (w/ Gold Support) didn't even want to replace my exploding caps motherboards after they already admitted to the problem for their business customers AND when I eventually was on the phone all day and threatened to cancel our contract (which I did anyway) they expected me to pay for shipping both ways.
IBM is great as well for servers etc. gives great EDU discounts but you can find cheaper shops that will just assemble you a custom SuperMicro server. Lenovo used to be good right after they took over from IBM but quality has gone down the crapper. HP suffers from the same problem, sometimes they're good, sometimes they're bad, their networking stuff is great, their laptops are crap, some of their desktops are fine but then don't ship with a video card or only have the $1500 Quadro option, you can't get heads or tails on some of their configurations.
Start with a simple tech support job which can be had anywhere. After 6 months or so you could spruce up your resume and get a better job. If he thinks he's good enough right now, look for local companies and start freelancing.
After either option, you can pretty much get a job anywhere as a second level support or junior sysadmin.
In that case they'll simply revoke your key and you'll have to pay for another one (if you can even get one at that point). If Microsoft loses their key, it won't get revoked. See the SSL certificate issue they've had recently, a root CA would (and should) immediately revoke the whole Intermediate certificate if that happened with a small company but because it's Microsoft they won't.
The point of the system is that large vendors (like Microsoft) will have keys and you won't. Also malware creators (good ones that operate on a state-level) will have the keys (see DuQu, Stuxnet etc. for examples). But YOU won't.
Also, to insert/revoke keys there has to be an OS to EFI link (just like Mac OS X has one) so that will be the point where it will be exploited.
You should also remember that Galileo was trying to fit his scientific models to the biblical accounts of how things should be in order to appease his Christian overlords.
It is wrong because it is not backed up by any data.
a) If that were true, this would HAVE to be true of other planets and other bodies too and thus observable over time.
b) If that were true, the orbit of the earth and it's effect on the moon would change massively over time as it's mass and size changes. No evidence of that, the moon still hasn't crashed into us and we're not spiraling into the Sun.
c) We would be able to measure it. Say the earth's size increased by 10% (~1300km) over it's life span (4.5 B years) then EACH YEAR we would see a difference of ~0.2mm per year, well within current day instruments' measuring capabilities (things such as GPS would drift very often) and even people like Einstein and Newton might have noticed these size shifts in their measurements regarding relativity.
For schools, 1Gbps is about $1500/month in most urban areas and can be done over Cable. Fiber and upwards may cost more. 100Mbps should be available from most ISP's (if they are willing to sell) and most business packets already have 100Mbps options ($250-300/month).
I don't know if you were being sarcastic but just to make clear: the Nazi's were very, very much Christian. The SS belt buckle had "God with us" on it and Hitler was raised Catholic and always claimed to be a Christian but wanted to actually create a more extreme form of Christianity and make himself the Messiah.
You mean to say that those three killed more together than Hitler, the Inquisition, the crusades, both world wars and the handful of wars in recent times?
Also, it was a communist (maoist) philosophy, not atheist. Atheism (the philosophy) did not influence their decisions.
Anything that requires a lot of dedicated RAM and fills it's allotment up regardless (such as databases and good file servers will cache).
I actually don't virtualize anything server-side because where I work is small enough that it will actually cost more. We do use chroot'ed environments for DNS, Apache etc but they all run on the same host, there is actually little that virtualizing would do for us (besides giving me more machines to patch/configure).
What is good to virtualize is any Windows environment, I give my clients their Windows environments virtually, it saves me a lot of time and they can always jump back easily if they screw up. The only things we need on Windows are very specific scripts and software that's only used once in a while.
From day 1 there was DLC to prevent resale of the game, then there are 2 more additions shortly afterwards. Players feel screwed if the game that was just finished has paid DLC which means it clearly could've been IN the game, players feel screwed if they can't resell a SINGLE PLAYER game because there is no intrinsic value in it because of the DLC.
Or enable encryption on your torrent. Most torrent clients have an option for encryption, most of the time it's set to 'prefer encryption' but you can set it to 'require encryption'
Should everyone in the US be driven to suicide then as they are spied upon literally day in and day out by their own government.
Look at your argument and compare, nobody is calling out our government but when (not if) those things will be used in one of the upcoming elections, people will be just as disgusted, as a matter of fact they already are and nobody is calling out those that leaked the information (look at random politicians recently that have had either gay or straight sex with people that are not their partners).
You're forgetting that creating jobs also means income taxes which are ~25-45% (depending on income levels and legislature) of the people's income.
Amazon (and other large companies) get away with paying 0% taxes regardless of the tax rate. They have headquarters in Delaware or Ireland or wherever it gets them out of paying it.
Amazon simply wouldn't do business with them if they didn't give them anything, some other town would and they would get the benefits. Amazon has fought long and hard over these sales tax and we still don't have an answer (really) from the legislature which in most legal opinions is that they have been structured so they won't need to pay sales tax. The fact that CA is getting ANYTHING is a boon for them. The state was mad they couldn't collect sales tax so they created laws and sued until Amazon gave up who then found a loophole in their own tax code to get back at them, giving them a big middle finger to the waste of resources that the state has spent on this legislature.
That's really all you need, Wireshark and a managed switch (business-grade) that can replicate the data stream from one port (or VLAN) to the other one.
And then you send the raw data packets to whoever wants to check these things, after a couple of hours they'll get bored and can the whole idea.
Problems you'll encounter: - FB/iPhone/MySpace/E-Mail... data is (or should be) encrypted, you can't read it unless you do some really nasty things like set up your own CA, generate certs for all individual domains and then proxy SSL connections through your own, which the client then also has to accept (which if there is no link for SSL exceptions (which is common in apps) to the user (such as in a browser) won't happen). It's easily detectable and easy to avoid unless you literally route ALL traffic 0/0:1-65535 through a proxy which logs and sanitizes it. - Although these days this kind of interception is possible, a simple bare bone Linux box won't do. At the level you're describing (SSL proxies and wireshark continuously logging) you'll need a disk at least 4 times as fast as your internet connection (an SSD will do) and large enough to hold the data (including frames and a bunch of other "junk" like ICMP packets) analyze it, structure it and re-write it until you're ready to view it (easily 10 GB/24h for simple household traffic). You're easily looking at a quad core or 8-core system if not a cluster.
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Although the display is one of the large suckers with high-res displays like the Apple products have and most oversized Androids to make up for lack of resolution (really, a 6" display on a cell phone?) the CPU (and integrated GPU) is still a big sucker (besides also antenna's). ARM development boards (like Raspberry Pi) have similar or in some cases identical chipsets and the same number of peripherals without a display and still manage to take up almost 3-5W. On a small size battery this is still significant over 2-3 days.
No, but there are people who did. Mythbusters for example. FAA for another.
128GB and even 256GB is cutting it close though. OS: 20GB, applications: 50GB (not even any large games), documents (not even music or video): 20GB.
I have a 128GB SSD in my laptop (early adopter) and it's always hovering between 2GB and 20GB free space. My home directory at work is over a TB (luckily on multi-TB NFS) just in documents a few disk images for various distro's and deployment I'm working on and a few virtual machines. My e-mail alone is 4-5GB large (granted I've kept virtually every non-spam e-mail since I was still on IRC)
Most (decent) OS'es like OS X and Linux already leave most of the programs in RAM. Look at your performance monitor (top or a GUI) and you'll see "inactive memory" besides "active" and "wired" - basically, the program has released the data (or the program has closed) but the kernel keeps the stuff around until it either needs the space or the program needs to be re-loaded.
Also, most OS'es these days use free memory to cache hard drive reads so programs may already be pre-cached.
The Google study and both older and newer studies have roughly the same failure rates across the board on all usage cases. There are actually scientific studies that you can look up. Google's study puts failure rate somewhere in the middle of all the other studies (some quote AFR as low as 1% to as high as 7%, Google I believe said 3%)
You have to actually work in the computer industry with a large enough number of computers to see that hard drive failures are actually not all that uncommon in both laptop and desktops (actually desktop drives seem to fail faster than laptop drives). 3% AFR sounds about right. I don't have enough SSD's yet to say anything but over the last 20 years I have used various SSD solutions (going from a 2MB expansion card in an 80286 (which took up an ISA slot and was the length of a full-sized computer case) to rack mounted RamSAN's and the current Vertex 4) and I have had them fail on me as well but only DOA and early failures due to bad firmware which was always replaced by the vendor. I recently had the SSD in a first-gen iPod Touch show signs of wearing out (4 years of daily and heavy usage) as songs started skipping and pausing at random but simply wiping it (which took 2 hours) solved the issues.
They work by using pledges:
For a $150 pledge, you can reserve 15 imaging slots on ArduSat. You'll be able to go to a website, see the path that the satellite will be taking over the ground, and then select the targets you want to image. Those commands will be uploaded to the ArduSat, and when it's in the right spot in its orbit, it'll point its camera down at Earth and take a picture which will be then emailed right to you. From space.
-- Great, personal spy pictures. No details on the quality or if it will even work from up there. But at $10 per picture it's fairly affordable. But again, quality is what is going to make or break it.
For $300, you can upload your own personal message to ArduSat, where it will be broadcast back to Earth from space for an entire day. ArduSat is in a polar orbit, so over the course of that day, it'll circle the Earth seven times and your message will be broadcast over the entire globe.
-- Never gonna give you up... and also, what channels will this be using? How can I hear it?
For $500, you can take advantage of the whole point of ArduSat and run your very own experiment for an entire week on a selection of ArduSat's sensors. You know, in space. Just to be clear, it's not like you're just having your experiment run on data that's coming back to Earth from the satellite. Rather, your experiment is uploaded to the satellite itself, and it's actually running on one of the Arduino boards on ArduSat real time, which is why there are so many identical boards packed in there.
-- This would be great but again, no information on the sensors, quality and whether or not I can distribute my data.
Please note: this is the INDUSTRY that's complaining. I work in actual government funded research and we have a major shortage of qualified biomed graduates. The industry is complaining that after we're done (usually they start during their PhD program and stay a couple of years after until they get to secure better jobs) with them and they want to move on, they would have to pay them increasingly more to get them to move from their current location and work for them with less job security than academia provides. We pay them ~$50k/year salary + moving costs.
You also need plenty of energy to take things apart and build things on an atomic level, actually it requires so much energy that the classic alchemic grail of modifying eg. lead to gold (which is possible) is not even worth it.
Most electronics these days would actually. The problem is anything that uses the grid as a time source such as old clocks, electric motors as well as UPS, generators and the like
If they don't trust you, you shouldn't trust them. If they're trying to snoop on you for whatever reason, they think you're a criminal. Would you work for the RIAA? Would you work for a boss who every time you come in he says "you're a criminal" and then proceeds to look over your shoulder all day? No and you shouldn't accept such behavior from employers.
Data leakage can be done a myriad of other ways. And by the time you actually have analyzed the data (if anyone even looks at the reports after 2 weeks) the damage has already been done.
iPad's are easier to manage though and the tools to do so are free and Apple gives free lessons and has free engineers customizing packages even going so far as doing pre-imaged iPad's (and other systems) from the factory out (did I mention, free). Also, free unlimited support (far beyond the standard warranties) and sometimes even free parts if they feel the issue has inconvenienced you.
I work in education and Apple is by far the CHEAPEST option when you consider the whole framework of things you need to implement a digital classroom (management etc.). Dell is by far the most EXPENSIVE option given that they actually raise their base prices from consumer and business for their EDU customers. Dell Education (w/ Gold Support) didn't even want to replace my exploding caps motherboards after they already admitted to the problem for their business customers AND when I eventually was on the phone all day and threatened to cancel our contract (which I did anyway) they expected me to pay for shipping both ways.
IBM is great as well for servers etc. gives great EDU discounts but you can find cheaper shops that will just assemble you a custom SuperMicro server. Lenovo used to be good right after they took over from IBM but quality has gone down the crapper. HP suffers from the same problem, sometimes they're good, sometimes they're bad, their networking stuff is great, their laptops are crap, some of their desktops are fine but then don't ship with a video card or only have the $1500 Quadro option, you can't get heads or tails on some of their configurations.
Start with a simple tech support job which can be had anywhere. After 6 months or so you could spruce up your resume and get a better job. If he thinks he's good enough right now, look for local companies and start freelancing.
After either option, you can pretty much get a job anywhere as a second level support or junior sysadmin.
In that case they'll simply revoke your key and you'll have to pay for another one (if you can even get one at that point). If Microsoft loses their key, it won't get revoked. See the SSL certificate issue they've had recently, a root CA would (and should) immediately revoke the whole Intermediate certificate if that happened with a small company but because it's Microsoft they won't.
The point of the system is that large vendors (like Microsoft) will have keys and you won't. Also malware creators (good ones that operate on a state-level) will have the keys (see DuQu, Stuxnet etc. for examples). But YOU won't.
Also, to insert/revoke keys there has to be an OS to EFI link (just like Mac OS X has one) so that will be the point where it will be exploited.
You should also remember that Galileo was trying to fit his scientific models to the biblical accounts of how things should be in order to appease his Christian overlords.
It is wrong because it is not backed up by any data.
a) If that were true, this would HAVE to be true of other planets and other bodies too and thus observable over time.
b) If that were true, the orbit of the earth and it's effect on the moon would change massively over time as it's mass and size changes. No evidence of that, the moon still hasn't crashed into us and we're not spiraling into the Sun.
c) We would be able to measure it. Say the earth's size increased by 10% (~1300km) over it's life span (4.5 B years) then EACH YEAR we would see a difference of ~0.2mm per year, well within current day instruments' measuring capabilities (things such as GPS would drift very often) and even people like Einstein and Newton might have noticed these size shifts in their measurements regarding relativity.
For schools, 1Gbps is about $1500/month in most urban areas and can be done over Cable. Fiber and upwards may cost more. 100Mbps should be available from most ISP's (if they are willing to sell) and most business packets already have 100Mbps options ($250-300/month).
I don't know if you were being sarcastic but just to make clear: the Nazi's were very, very much Christian. The SS belt buckle had "God with us" on it and Hitler was raised Catholic and always claimed to be a Christian but wanted to actually create a more extreme form of Christianity and make himself the Messiah.
You mean to say that those three killed more together than Hitler, the Inquisition, the crusades, both world wars and the handful of wars in recent times?
Also, it was a communist (maoist) philosophy, not atheist. Atheism (the philosophy) did not influence their decisions.
Anything that requires a lot of dedicated RAM and fills it's allotment up regardless (such as databases and good file servers will cache).
I actually don't virtualize anything server-side because where I work is small enough that it will actually cost more. We do use chroot'ed environments for DNS, Apache etc but they all run on the same host, there is actually little that virtualizing would do for us (besides giving me more machines to patch/configure).
What is good to virtualize is any Windows environment, I give my clients their Windows environments virtually, it saves me a lot of time and they can always jump back easily if they screw up. The only things we need on Windows are very specific scripts and software that's only used once in a while.
The problem with Kingdoms of Amalur was the DLC.
From day 1 there was DLC to prevent resale of the game, then there are 2 more additions shortly afterwards. Players feel screwed if the game that was just finished has paid DLC which means it clearly could've been IN the game, players feel screwed if they can't resell a SINGLE PLAYER game because there is no intrinsic value in it because of the DLC.
Or enable encryption on your torrent. Most torrent clients have an option for encryption, most of the time it's set to 'prefer encryption' but you can set it to 'require encryption'
Should everyone in the US be driven to suicide then as they are spied upon literally day in and day out by their own government.
Look at your argument and compare, nobody is calling out our government but when (not if) those things will be used in one of the upcoming elections, people will be just as disgusted, as a matter of fact they already are and nobody is calling out those that leaked the information (look at random politicians recently that have had either gay or straight sex with people that are not their partners).
You're forgetting that creating jobs also means income taxes which are ~25-45% (depending on income levels and legislature) of the people's income.
Amazon (and other large companies) get away with paying 0% taxes regardless of the tax rate. They have headquarters in Delaware or Ireland or wherever it gets them out of paying it.
Amazon simply wouldn't do business with them if they didn't give them anything, some other town would and they would get the benefits. Amazon has fought long and hard over these sales tax and we still don't have an answer (really) from the legislature which in most legal opinions is that they have been structured so they won't need to pay sales tax. The fact that CA is getting ANYTHING is a boon for them. The state was mad they couldn't collect sales tax so they created laws and sued until Amazon gave up who then found a loophole in their own tax code to get back at them, giving them a big middle finger to the waste of resources that the state has spent on this legislature.
That's really all you need, Wireshark and a managed switch (business-grade) that can replicate the data stream from one port (or VLAN) to the other one.
And then you send the raw data packets to whoever wants to check these things, after a couple of hours they'll get bored and can the whole idea.
Problems you'll encounter:
- FB/iPhone/MySpace/E-Mail... data is (or should be) encrypted, you can't read it unless you do some really nasty things like set up your own CA, generate certs for all individual domains and then proxy SSL connections through your own, which the client then also has to accept (which if there is no link for SSL exceptions (which is common in apps) to the user (such as in a browser) won't happen). It's easily detectable and easy to avoid unless you literally route ALL traffic 0/0:1-65535 through a proxy which logs and sanitizes it.
- Although these days this kind of interception is possible, a simple bare bone Linux box won't do. At the level you're describing (SSL proxies and wireshark continuously logging) you'll need a disk at least 4 times as fast as your internet connection (an SSD will do) and large enough to hold the data (including frames and a bunch of other "junk" like ICMP packets) analyze it, structure it and re-write it until you're ready to view it (easily 10 GB/24h for simple household traffic). You're easily looking at a quad core or 8-core system if not a cluster.