In New York, open carry of unloaded long guns is not explicitly prohibited by any law. But the SCOTUS decisions applies primarily to handguns which you are permitted to carry anywhere (safely) in the US. You can be cited for having the thing holstered with a loaded bullet in the chamber with your safety off.
The right to free assembly and speech cannot be circumvented by law. You DO NOT need a permit to assemble, you DO NOT need a permit to protest. You DO need a permit to encroach on private property or if you're going to be interrupting regular government functions and that is very narrowly defined and excludes spontaneous protests due to current events.
And yes, you can't just erect structures on public property, but that's irrelevant, if you're planning to have a protest and you're planning on interrupting public services, then a permit is necessary to interrupt said services, you don't need a permit if you manage to have a large group that does not impede other citizens, encroach on private property etc.
The right to "...keep and bear arms applies to the States and not 'in a watered-down version' but 'fully applicable'...," and does limit State and local governments in passing laws that restrict this "individual" and "fundamental" right to "...keep and bear arms," for self-defense.
Force is a tricky measurements. I can lift 2 Teslas worth of weight with my bare hands too, give me either a lever or make the area I apply force to small enough (although it would probably go through my hand at that point).
You must've misread. I never said science has any moral authority. My point is that people are much better off WITHOUT any moral authority, especially that of the church and that people that aren't controlled by a group of witch hunters, are much better off because they make better moral choices.
It's much better to make up your own morals based on the information science has provided than to base them on the information a book written several millennia ago provides.
Science says that there is nothing to believe in, to question everything, assuming everything you know is incorrect and that everyone is born equal. Religion says that everyone that doesn't belong to a particular group will die and you're supposed to bring everyone into the group, if necessary by force.
Free? There is no such thing as free. The US has a very cheap education system compared to Europe. In the US the costs are individual, in Europe they are socialized.
There is no such thing as a constitutional permit. You have the right to bear arms (typically hand guns for self defense) and free speech anywhere in the US, you don't have the right to shoot everywhere without cause and disturb the peace by screaming. You can't encroach on others property either.
The entire section of Poisson, having more drives does not make it less likely that one will fail. "Failures occur every mttf hours" - that's not what MTTF means. MTTF simply means that if you have a collection of "n" drives, that you can statistically expect 1 failure every (MTTF / n). So if you have a manufacturer says, your MTTF is 100 years (which is about what they promise), then you will have a failure amongst a set of ~1M drives every 1 hour.
Poisson's distribution simply calculates the chance at multiple failures which is easy to calculate: If you only had 1 drive: 0 or 1 drive failure per 100 years of runtime: 36%; 2 failures: 18% etc. If you have 2 drives in a set, all MTTF implies is that the chances remain the same but are now per 50 years of runtime. If you have 20 drives in a set, the same per 5 years of runtime
Even IF your calculations are correct, you're getting a MTTF of the array in the 100-200 year range, that implies that if, in the world there are 100-200 arrays set up like that, 1 will fail every year. Even a small datacenter has the capacity to hold that, so you find it acceptable that an entire array loses all it's data once per year on average? And you haven't even accounted for the rate of unrecoverable errors which is ~1 every 10-12TB. Good luck with that data though.
I know your religion tells you the things you say but they are empirically proven wrong.
Science is without morals because morals cloud your judgment and for every Mengele or Hitler who strung their countries along purely on orthodox Christian (or at least prevailing) morals you have many more Curies, Teslas and Einsteins.
The world is becoming a better place and places and communities where education and science are above religion and dogma are getting measurably better, easily correlated with the importance that is placed on education and science.
Again, you don't understand the mathematics involved, linking to your own (bad) calculation is not proof. This calculator explains it much better than I can: http://wintelguy.com/raidmttdl...
RAID5: 10 drive groups of 8 drives, 6TB drives:
MTTDL: 1.2years Probability of data loss is more than 50% in a year MTTDL due to multiple disk failures: 286 years Do you understand how incredibly low a MTTDL of 286 years is?
Just swapping it over to RAID6 with the same settings and the probability of data loss is 1% over 10 years (which imho is getting close to being unacceptable)
There are a number of other calculators and some really good explanations on how to make them, there is no situation where RAID5 does any better using real world numbers than RAID6 or RAID10.
Correlated failure is a figment of your imagination. I'm running several arrays of several 100s of TB, close to 500 drives in total, I don't think I ever bought more than 24 from the same type or vendor, yet, I've seen failures of a Seagate and a Hitachi in the same array in the same night, I don't see correlated failures (where multiple disks of the same model and same age will fail at the same time) once the disks have passed my QA. I see trends where groups of drives will fail around the 1y, 3y and 5y mark but that's a correlation of age, not by manufacturer.
Google has some interesting statistics as well, you'll see the same cluster around age of the drive being much more an indicator for failure than temperature swings and whatever else Google collects data on.
NTFS did get some updates although they're primarily failed attempts at extending the feature set. There was an attempt to replace the file description tables within NTFS with SQL Server and that became eventually Windows Search, there is Windows Disk Extender and it's spawn Storage Spaces that has attempted to somehow make RAID0 out of NTFS.
Even a single anecdote would disprove your theory of 'thousands of years'. There is no such thing as 'thousands of years' of runtime on a drive, you're talking MEAN time BETWEEN failures (or MTTDL, mean time to data loss) and even then you have to account for all the drive configurations in existence, in an ideal world.
You can do the calculations, go ahead, there are calculators on the Internet for you. There used to be an Excel spreadsheet from a Sun engineer a long time ago, but
Vulnerable adults and people with learning difficulties are amongst the most protected individuals in the US. My wife used to work for an agency that worked with all forms of severely neurologically disabled adults (Downs, Alzheimer,...), I've never seen so much tax payer money wasted on compliance frameworks and every single instance of scratches or even having to restrain them is severely documented. There are literally back-to-back commercials for vulnerable people, elderly, sick and others that have been affected to contact some form of legal assistance.
The problem in the US is people that are legally 'sane' and have no impediment to obtain aid CHOOSING not to get it. For many it's addiction, they rather get their fix. And these people choose to not address health issues with their children. In my city the school system provides breakfast, lunch and dinner FREE OF CHARGE and healthy food and they can even pick the school they want to go to for these benefits, it didn't even make a dent in the hunger statistics for our city (considered a 'crisis' according to the school board) because they simply don't want to get their asses up and walk quite literally down the street with their kids to get them some healthy dinner. But when the food stamps come in the mail, there is a line down the block right before the corner liquor and cigarette stores open.
In the US, people have much more freedom. If you did the same in say Belgium or France or Spain, your children first of all are obligated to attend school and if you don't they would be removed from your care by the state. In the US the government by design doesn't quite have that amount of power. It's perfectly normal in 'poor' neighborhoods in the US to see children aged 6-18 running around during school days, I remember when I even attempted to do that only a decade or two ago in Europe, I would get picked up by the first police car that saw me and after verification that I belonged in school, they would have brought me to my school.
The good: it makes your drives faster/better The bad: many people are quesy about touching their data structures and don't understand the importance of backups.
It's a non-story, we've known about this for a few years and it's already been rolled out to the entire iOS codebase.
All the advanced features which (especially) VMWare and other big name vendors use them and they either don't support AMD or the features don't work cross-platform so you can't do a live migration or you have to reconfigure your VMs to use different CPU architectures.
This may change with Ryzen but as you said, it's the first generation, I'm not going to entrust my datacenter on something that had trouble handling a Linux kernel compile. Encryption is about half the speed on AMD vs Intel. Check the benchmarks: https://calomel.org/aesni_ssl_...
The problem in the US has never been lack of or availability of health care. The problem is that people in the US have a choice and many make poor choices. Even at minimum wage I was never unable to afford healthcare in the US and I've lived here for over 15 years.
I come from a country where healthcare is "free" and run by the government, it's nice but certainly not excellent nor cheap.
Large count RAID5 WILL NOT DO FINE (trust me). Your RAID5 takes exponentially more time for each drive you add and during that time your data is in a RAID0 situation. RAID with at least 2 parity drives is the minimum requirement, regular mirrors if you have failover systems or triple mirrors if you're in a SAN-situation.
At these scales, a few percentage points of failure doesn't really matter if you save 25% cost. Even at relatively small densities of 100TB-1PB, 20% in disk cost savings is significant.
Additionally, you should plan for failure anyway, disks fail, regardless of manufacturer. So buying a 'more reliable' drive is no guarantee and good backups are still a good idea.
You call that good support? You are affected by a known issue, you have to call them and then they still make you jump through a bunch of hoops to get a replacement part?
Who modded this insightful - nobody serious uses AMD. Sorry, but it's a gamers platform, Intel for better or worse has captured the high-end market and there are too many minor things that are somewhat-equal-but-not-entirely-compatible (eg. encryption, virtualization, hyperthreading) that make it useless to do anything with.
This is AMD's first iteration of an Intel-buster in decades and it's been marred with problems. If they can keep track and capture some of the market with the Opteron line once again and keep on par with the bus speed to other processors, memory and peripherals they may in the next few years start being a contender again.
From the write up it seems like the second a piece of text goes over the wire (and unless you use a service with self-signed certs you can assume most US-based SSL is broken) the NSA picks it up. So in your case NSA would still have the original writing.
The only thing to do is use a different ghostwriter for every piece of text you send out. Perhaps you can write a simple AI that does this for you, you give it a piece of input and it rewrites it based on others' writing styles.
They are plugged in and can communicate with some aspects of the network as a network engineer you would know that there are many ways of achieving (some standard, some not-so-standard - looking at you Cisco) my setup. You are full of shit if you say that you are a network security engineer and think NAT is a 'good thing' to security.
If you can have a random program remotely run executables with different credentials and elevated privileges in a scripting tool, you've screwed something up.
These exploits are the equivalent of setting the setuid bit on/bin/bash
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At least make it consistent with reality and either put in a Chinese undergrad or underpaid Indian dude.
In New York, open carry of unloaded long guns is not explicitly prohibited by any law. But the SCOTUS decisions applies primarily to handguns which you are permitted to carry anywhere (safely) in the US. You can be cited for having the thing holstered with a loaded bullet in the chamber with your safety off.
The right to free assembly and speech cannot be circumvented by law. You DO NOT need a permit to assemble, you DO NOT need a permit to protest. You DO need a permit to encroach on private property or if you're going to be interrupting regular government functions and that is very narrowly defined and excludes spontaneous protests due to current events.
And yes, you can't just erect structures on public property, but that's irrelevant, if you're planning to have a protest and you're planning on interrupting public services, then a permit is necessary to interrupt said services, you don't need a permit if you manage to have a large group that does not impede other citizens, encroach on private property etc.
The right to "...keep and bear arms applies to the States and not 'in a watered-down version' but 'fully applicable'...," and does limit State and local governments in passing laws that restrict this "individual" and "fundamental" right to "...keep and bear arms," for self-defense.
In other words it was massively over engineered by a first grade engineer.
If you only need 20g/cm2 to squeeze the juice but you build something that applies 4T/cm2 you're just wasting energy.
Force is a tricky measurements. I can lift 2 Teslas worth of weight with my bare hands too, give me either a lever or make the area I apply force to small enough (although it would probably go through my hand at that point).
You must've misread. I never said science has any moral authority. My point is that people are much better off WITHOUT any moral authority, especially that of the church and that people that aren't controlled by a group of witch hunters, are much better off because they make better moral choices.
It's much better to make up your own morals based on the information science has provided than to base them on the information a book written several millennia ago provides.
Science says that there is nothing to believe in, to question everything, assuming everything you know is incorrect and that everyone is born equal. Religion says that everyone that doesn't belong to a particular group will die and you're supposed to bring everyone into the group, if necessary by force.
Free? There is no such thing as free. The US has a very cheap education system compared to Europe. In the US the costs are individual, in Europe they are socialized.
There is no such thing as a constitutional permit. You have the right to bear arms (typically hand guns for self defense) and free speech anywhere in the US, you don't have the right to shoot everywhere without cause and disturb the peace by screaming. You can't encroach on others property either.
Okay, quick scanning of your site:
The entire section of Poisson, having more drives does not make it less likely that one will fail.
"Failures occur every mttf hours" - that's not what MTTF means. MTTF simply means that if you have a collection of "n" drives, that you can statistically expect 1 failure every (MTTF / n). So if you have a manufacturer says, your MTTF is 100 years (which is about what they promise), then you will have a failure amongst a set of ~1M drives every 1 hour.
Poisson's distribution simply calculates the chance at multiple failures which is easy to calculate:
If you only had 1 drive: 0 or 1 drive failure per 100 years of runtime: 36%; 2 failures: 18% etc.
If you have 2 drives in a set, all MTTF implies is that the chances remain the same but are now per 50 years of runtime.
If you have 20 drives in a set, the same per 5 years of runtime
Even IF your calculations are correct, you're getting a MTTF of the array in the 100-200 year range, that implies that if, in the world there are 100-200 arrays set up like that, 1 will fail every year. Even a small datacenter has the capacity to hold that, so you find it acceptable that an entire array loses all it's data once per year on average? And you haven't even accounted for the rate of unrecoverable errors which is ~1 every 10-12TB. Good luck with that data though.
I know your religion tells you the things you say but they are empirically proven wrong.
Science is without morals because morals cloud your judgment and for every Mengele or Hitler who strung their countries along purely on orthodox Christian (or at least prevailing) morals you have many more Curies, Teslas and Einsteins.
The world is becoming a better place and places and communities where education and science are above religion and dogma are getting measurably better, easily correlated with the importance that is placed on education and science.
Again, you don't understand the mathematics involved, linking to your own (bad) calculation is not proof. This calculator explains it much better than I can: http://wintelguy.com/raidmttdl...
RAID5: 10 drive groups of 8 drives, 6TB drives:
MTTDL: 1.2years
Probability of data loss is more than 50% in a year
MTTDL due to multiple disk failures: 286 years
Do you understand how incredibly low a MTTDL of 286 years is?
Just swapping it over to RAID6 with the same settings and the probability of data loss is 1% over 10 years (which imho is getting close to being unacceptable)
There are a number of other calculators and some really good explanations on how to make them, there is no situation where RAID5 does any better using real world numbers than RAID6 or RAID10.
Correlated failure is a figment of your imagination. I'm running several arrays of several 100s of TB, close to 500 drives in total, I don't think I ever bought more than 24 from the same type or vendor, yet, I've seen failures of a Seagate and a Hitachi in the same array in the same night, I don't see correlated failures (where multiple disks of the same model and same age will fail at the same time) once the disks have passed my QA. I see trends where groups of drives will fail around the 1y, 3y and 5y mark but that's a correlation of age, not by manufacturer.
Google has some interesting statistics as well, you'll see the same cluster around age of the drive being much more an indicator for failure than temperature swings and whatever else Google collects data on.
NTFS did get some updates although they're primarily failed attempts at extending the feature set. There was an attempt to replace the file description tables within NTFS with SQL Server and that became eventually Windows Search, there is Windows Disk Extender and it's spawn Storage Spaces that has attempted to somehow make RAID0 out of NTFS.
Even a single anecdote would disprove your theory of 'thousands of years'. There is no such thing as 'thousands of years' of runtime on a drive, you're talking MEAN time BETWEEN failures (or MTTDL, mean time to data loss) and even then you have to account for all the drive configurations in existence, in an ideal world.
You can do the calculations, go ahead, there are calculators on the Internet for you. There used to be an Excel spreadsheet from a Sun engineer a long time ago, but
I'm sure you won't understand the content of this article, but for reference to other people: http://queue.acm.org/detail.cf...
Vulnerable adults and people with learning difficulties are amongst the most protected individuals in the US. My wife used to work for an agency that worked with all forms of severely neurologically disabled adults (Downs, Alzheimer, ...), I've never seen so much tax payer money wasted on compliance frameworks and every single instance of scratches or even having to restrain them is severely documented. There are literally back-to-back commercials for vulnerable people, elderly, sick and others that have been affected to contact some form of legal assistance.
The problem in the US is people that are legally 'sane' and have no impediment to obtain aid CHOOSING not to get it. For many it's addiction, they rather get their fix. And these people choose to not address health issues with their children. In my city the school system provides breakfast, lunch and dinner FREE OF CHARGE and healthy food and they can even pick the school they want to go to for these benefits, it didn't even make a dent in the hunger statistics for our city (considered a 'crisis' according to the school board) because they simply don't want to get their asses up and walk quite literally down the street with their kids to get them some healthy dinner. But when the food stamps come in the mail, there is a line down the block right before the corner liquor and cigarette stores open.
In the US, people have much more freedom. If you did the same in say Belgium or France or Spain, your children first of all are obligated to attend school and if you don't they would be removed from your care by the state. In the US the government by design doesn't quite have that amount of power. It's perfectly normal in 'poor' neighborhoods in the US to see children aged 6-18 running around during school days, I remember when I even attempted to do that only a decade or two ago in Europe, I would get picked up by the first police car that saw me and after verification that I belonged in school, they would have brought me to my school.
The good: it makes your drives faster/better
The bad: many people are quesy about touching their data structures and don't understand the importance of backups.
It's a non-story, we've known about this for a few years and it's already been rolled out to the entire iOS codebase.
All the advanced features which (especially) VMWare and other big name vendors use them and they either don't support AMD or the features don't work cross-platform so you can't do a live migration or you have to reconfigure your VMs to use different CPU architectures.
This may change with Ryzen but as you said, it's the first generation, I'm not going to entrust my datacenter on something that had trouble handling a Linux kernel compile. Encryption is about half the speed on AMD vs Intel. Check the benchmarks: https://calomel.org/aesni_ssl_...
The problem in the US has never been lack of or availability of health care. The problem is that people in the US have a choice and many make poor choices. Even at minimum wage I was never unable to afford healthcare in the US and I've lived here for over 15 years.
I come from a country where healthcare is "free" and run by the government, it's nice but certainly not excellent nor cheap.
Large count RAID5 WILL NOT DO FINE (trust me). Your RAID5 takes exponentially more time for each drive you add and during that time your data is in a RAID0 situation. RAID with at least 2 parity drives is the minimum requirement, regular mirrors if you have failover systems or triple mirrors if you're in a SAN-situation.
At these scales, a few percentage points of failure doesn't really matter if you save 25% cost. Even at relatively small densities of 100TB-1PB, 20% in disk cost savings is significant.
Additionally, you should plan for failure anyway, disks fail, regardless of manufacturer. So buying a 'more reliable' drive is no guarantee and good backups are still a good idea.
You call that good support? You are affected by a known issue, you have to call them and then they still make you jump through a bunch of hoops to get a replacement part?
Who modded this insightful - nobody serious uses AMD. Sorry, but it's a gamers platform, Intel for better or worse has captured the high-end market and there are too many minor things that are somewhat-equal-but-not-entirely-compatible (eg. encryption, virtualization, hyperthreading) that make it useless to do anything with.
This is AMD's first iteration of an Intel-buster in decades and it's been marred with problems. If they can keep track and capture some of the market with the Opteron line once again and keep on par with the bus speed to other processors, memory and peripherals they may in the next few years start being a contender again.
From the write up it seems like the second a piece of text goes over the wire (and unless you use a service with self-signed certs you can assume most US-based SSL is broken) the NSA picks it up. So in your case NSA would still have the original writing.
The only thing to do is use a different ghostwriter for every piece of text you send out. Perhaps you can write a simple AI that does this for you, you give it a piece of input and it rewrites it based on others' writing styles.
They are plugged in and can communicate with some aspects of the network as a network engineer you would know that there are many ways of achieving (some standard, some not-so-standard - looking at you Cisco) my setup. You are full of shit if you say that you are a network security engineer and think NAT is a 'good thing' to security.
There is OpenWRT and DD-WRT, runs on most commercial routers. Some Buffalo routers come with it.
The problem is who is going to set it up correctly?
If you can have a random program remotely run executables with different credentials and elevated privileges in a scripting tool, you've screwed something up.
These exploits are the equivalent of setting the setuid bit on /bin/bash