I recall that Amazon AWS had an issue a few months ago that took down one of their US data centers. Quite a few customers lost data/machines as they hadn't specified and paid for duplication to other locations. With cloud services, it's relatively easy for a broken fibres or power supply cables to take down services for a whole region. They try to have everything redundant, but 100% up-time is incredibly difficult to achieve.
I wouldn't assume that unless you've specifically paid for it. Amazon will charge extra if you want to ensure that your data is replicated onto different continents.
What I hate about UK schools teaching languages is that they do it so badly. They start late and then completely fail to teach even a basic level of conversational French.
I don't care whether kids are interested in it or not, but if you're going to teach a language, do it properly. It's embarassing how bad the UK is compared to other countries. We should copy the Dutch - I've never met someone from Holland who can't talk perfectly in at least 3 different languages.
I agree, which is why I love the idea of Kickstarter and I've ended up helping fund quite a few projects on there (despite living in the UK and Kickstarter being primarily US).
Good content producers have to find a way to get word-of-mouth round that they are good in order to get funding for larger projects. File sharing actually helps these people as it makes it easier for their works to get distributed.
Look at the success of The Order of the Stick on Kickstarter - a free webcomic gets over a million dollars to fund re-publishing some of the books. It shows what a dedicated fanbase can do.
I'm not asking artists to produce. My point is that artists will produce anyway. If they don't want to, they don't have to. I don't see how people sharing things has anything to do with communism - communism is where the state owns everything and there wouldn't be any sharing between individuals as the individuals wouldn't "own" anything.
I don't care if people give away stuff or not - that's down to the individual. It wouldn't necessarily be greedy for someone to not give something away - often people produce very personal works of art/fiction and don't want to publish or sell it.
Taking away people's works is never justified - it's stealing, plain and simple. Voluntary sharing of things either involves relinquishing ownership (temporarily or permanently) or in the case of digital media, it can be copied for next to zero cost.
If you're only creating stuff to make profit, then I'm not interested in paying you. Generally, talented people create things because they either love doing it or have a real need to express themselves. Often, they can also make a living out of doing that if they are good enough
Human culture has always been based on sharing. It's one of the first lessons that kids are taught ("share that toy with your sister, Bobby"). Modern capitalism seems to be moving away from this aspect of culture, but people genuinely enjoy sharing experiences with others.
If you dont want to create things without getting paid, then maybe you should just go and get a job. Maybe there's too many content creators in the world - there certainly seems to be a lot of rubbish content out there.
Fabrice Muamba (the footballer) isn't dead. He kinda died for about 78 minutes, but got better (thanks to the incredible efforts of the medical team). It looks like he's recovering nicely now, but when the offensive tweets came out, his life was in the balance.
I think the biggest problem with hate crimes is that they tend to fragment society. If a murder is committed for other reasons then other people are not going to share the same motive. It's also harder to police hate crimes as any investigation is going to have to racially profile suspects.
I agree. Thai airlines has had the best food I've found on planes. They also come round with plenty of free alcohol (after dinner brandy, anyone?) even on the cheap tickets.
I took a load of sandwiches across the atlantic from Florida to the UK and they tasted fine to me. I don't think food is a problem for airlines as it get's x-rayed the same as the rest of your hand luggage.
The only places I've seen any kind of restriction on food was in Australia and New Zealand. They are really strict on the possible import of seeds and organisms that could affect the local flora and fauna. Even so, you can take stuff onto the plane; you just have to dump it before going through Passport control. They've got lots of notices and big fines if you try to smuggle fruits in. Packaged and cooked food tends to be fine with them though.
I've never seen a problem with modern CPUs and using SSH (even including transferring files over SSHFS).
I'd still use SSH over an IPSEC VPN as it provides authentication and prevents a MITM attack. SSH also has the advantage of being ubiquitous - one tool you can use for configuring servers and network equipment in a safe fashion. Now if only Windows supported SSH natively.
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I recall that Amazon AWS had an issue a few months ago that took down one of their US data centers. Quite a few customers lost data/machines as they hadn't specified and paid for duplication to other locations. With cloud services, it's relatively easy for a broken fibres or power supply cables to take down services for a whole region. They try to have everything redundant, but 100% up-time is incredibly difficult to achieve.
I wouldn't assume that unless you've specifically paid for it. Amazon will charge extra if you want to ensure that your data is replicated onto different continents.
Nope.
The best picture I could find was http://www.emtest.com/service_support/Links_testinglabs.php but it only hints at the strange geometries.
There's a Linux client for Skype, although I've hit various issues with it's sound handling in the past. I think that's largely fixed in Ubuntu 11.10.
Since when do normal systems need to display your password to you?
A neat trick is to concatenate the ZIP archive onto a JPG image. It'lll look like a picture, but will unzip fine. The only giveaway is the file size.
There's no such thing as a free lunch
What I hate about UK schools teaching languages is that they do it so badly. They start late and then completely fail to teach even a basic level of conversational French.
I don't care whether kids are interested in it or not, but if you're going to teach a language, do it properly. It's embarassing how bad the UK is compared to other countries. We should copy the Dutch - I've never met someone from Holland who can't talk perfectly in at least 3 different languages.
I agree, which is why I love the idea of Kickstarter and I've ended up helping fund quite a few projects on there (despite living in the UK and Kickstarter being primarily US).
Good content producers have to find a way to get word-of-mouth round that they are good in order to get funding for larger projects. File sharing actually helps these people as it makes it easier for their works to get distributed.
Look at the success of The Order of the Stick on Kickstarter - a free webcomic gets over a million dollars to fund re-publishing some of the books. It shows what a dedicated fanbase can do.
Breaking the law is only breaking the law if you get caught. Otherwise, you're innocent.
I'm not asking artists to produce. My point is that artists will produce anyway. If they don't want to, they don't have to. I don't see how people sharing things has anything to do with communism - communism is where the state owns everything and there wouldn't be any sharing between individuals as the individuals wouldn't "own" anything.
I don't care if people give away stuff or not - that's down to the individual. It wouldn't necessarily be greedy for someone to not give something away - often people produce very personal works of art/fiction and don't want to publish or sell it.
Taking away people's works is never justified - it's stealing, plain and simple. Voluntary sharing of things either involves relinquishing ownership (temporarily or permanently) or in the case of digital media, it can be copied for next to zero cost.
If you're only creating stuff to make profit, then I'm not interested in paying you. Generally, talented people create things because they either love doing it or have a real need to express themselves. Often, they can also make a living out of doing that if they are good enough
Human culture has always been based on sharing. It's one of the first lessons that kids are taught ("share that toy with your sister, Bobby"). Modern capitalism seems to be moving away from this aspect of culture, but people genuinely enjoy sharing experiences with others.
If you dont want to create things without getting paid, then maybe you should just go and get a job. Maybe there's too many content creators in the world - there certainly seems to be a lot of rubbish content out there.
The one in Florida definitely has fingerprint scanners to get in the place.
Since when has Jean M. Jarre been considered a skilled musician?
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Fabrice Muamba (the footballer) isn't dead. He kinda died for about 78 minutes, but got better (thanks to the incredible efforts of the medical team). It looks like he's recovering nicely now, but when the offensive tweets came out, his life was in the balance.
I think the biggest problem with hate crimes is that they tend to fragment society. If a murder is committed for other reasons then other people are not going to share the same motive. It's also harder to police hate crimes as any investigation is going to have to racially profile suspects.
Some people don't like rape jokes.
In my experience I find it helps break the awkward tension afterwards.
Can one of those tell the difference between SSH and HTTPS without decrypting if they're using the same ports?
I agree. Thai airlines has had the best food I've found on planes. They also come round with plenty of free alcohol (after dinner brandy, anyone?) even on the cheap tickets.
I took a load of sandwiches across the atlantic from Florida to the UK and they tasted fine to me. I don't think food is a problem for airlines as it get's x-rayed the same as the rest of your hand luggage.
The only places I've seen any kind of restriction on food was in Australia and New Zealand. They are really strict on the possible import of seeds and organisms that could affect the local flora and fauna. Even so, you can take stuff onto the plane; you just have to dump it before going through Passport control. They've got lots of notices and big fines if you try to smuggle fruits in. Packaged and cooked food tends to be fine with them though.
I didn't know this was feasible. How would I do that in a Cisco ASA firewall?
I've never seen a problem with modern CPUs and using SSH (even including transferring files over SSHFS).
I'd still use SSH over an IPSEC VPN as it provides authentication and prevents a MITM attack. SSH also has the advantage of being ubiquitous - one tool you can use for configuring servers and network equipment in a safe fashion. Now if only Windows supported SSH natively.
More like 5 seconds from the terminal.
However, it doesn't have a valid password for root, so you won't be able to login remotely as root unless you've set up key authentication.