Ouch. I've seen the prices of some of the 3M inert liquids, and those are incredibly expensive. I can't imagine buying the hundreds of gallons it would take to cool an entire datacenter.
Also, like Critical Facilities above mentioned, what do you do for heat dissipation in the event of a leak?
From the first paragraph of the document you quoted, in bold,
there are no laws prohibiting the taking of photographs on public or private property. If you can be there, you can take pictures there: streets, malls, parking lots, office buildings. You do not need permission to do so, even on private property.
They only hear half a conversation on the phone, and even that requires a certain proximity, usually. You can always get the little dish thing they advertise to old ladies and kids on late-night TV, but you still only get one side.
You know, Robert Kiyosake, who is 99% full of crap, had a gem of wisdom in one of his books.
He told the story about how he met with a reporter who wanted to become an author, and she asked him for advice, since he had been published numerable times. His advice to her was to learn marketing. "You'll notice", he said, "that the cover of the book says 'best selling author', it doesn't say 'best writing author'".
There's a lot of truth in that statement.
Best is such a subjective term, but Ubuntu is the most successful distro in recent memory, in terms of users, name recognition, and having a unified interface.
It's certainly not perfect, but for usability and bringing Linux to the masses, it's a damn bit better than everything else out there
Sorry to all the Mepis, RedHat, Mandrake, Gentoo, Slack, and other distro fans.
Well, yes, but it's assumed (by me, I guess), that any system worth removing body parts to gain access to would be protected by requiring additional controls. The "turn two keys simultaneously which are 10 feet apart" type controls.:-)
There are so many reasons this is a horrible idea...
Aside from all the normal vulnerabilities to phishing and such, first and foremost, a good authentication system requires 3 things, something you know (a password), something you have (an ident card), and with today's technology, something you are (biometric scan). Since everyone doesn't have an iris scanner on their laptops yet, we typically settle for the first two (though fingerprint scanners on laptops are becoming ubiquitous).
This proposal takes away the something that you know, leaving only the something that you have. It makes it essentially the same as key based authentication for ssh. It's secure, but I don't distribute my laptop's keys for a reason. If it gets stolen, your private key is compromised and you scramble to pick up the pieces. If it was used more frequently, and from multiple physical locations, that increases the likelihood of it being compromised since it's always got to be with you
I'm really fond of some of the two way authentication systems that some banks are using now. My bank is pretty lame, it just shows me a picture with some text that I've selected beforehand. I've read online where other banks will actually send an sms to your cell phone, and you have to enter that SMS to log in. The poor man's RSA token, if you will.
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wow, that's rough, but thanks for sharing!
Our generator test-runs every Thursday for a few minutes to make sure everything will be ok. You know, theoretically
It doesn't always work out like that
Ouch. I've seen the prices of some of the 3M inert liquids, and those are incredibly expensive. I can't imagine buying the hundreds of gallons it would take to cool an entire datacenter.
Also, like Critical Facilities above mentioned, what do you do for heat dissipation in the event of a leak?
I know what you mean, but I get nervous about that much water around my computers. A leak would be catastrophic.
When my air conditioner breaks down, I don't have a life threatening situation.
I'm of a mixed mindset when it comes to water-cooled datacenters.
On one hand, you've got the makings of a biblical scale disaster with all that water and electricity mixing.
On the other hand, you can't argue with it's effectiveness.
I'll stick to non-catastrophic issues when my
air conditioner breaks down.
wait, you paid money for an tennis-racquet-shaped electronic fly swatter?
But at least we can get our taiwanese crap even cheaper!
You might be surprised, but money doesn't buy expertise or knowledge.
THIS is where they've been getting all their DN:F video and picture footage
Amen.
It's like we speak the same language.
Change is good. Unexpected change is very, very bad.
Oh come on, as a sysadmin, you know that any precipitated change is bad, or at least troubling.
Things like this are usually a sign of bigger trouble somewhere else, which may or may not be the submitter's problem.
Right, once they told you to get out, if you take pictures while you're there, the being-there part is illegal, not the taking pictures part.
It's the difference between being charged with trespassing versus trespassing AND whatever made up charge
From the first paragraph of the document you quoted, in bold,
there are no laws prohibiting the taking of photographs on public or private property. If you can be there, you can take pictures there: streets, malls, parking lots, office buildings. You do not need permission to do so, even on private property.
I don't know how much more obvious it could be
"Inappropriate speed" is a double edged sword.
A straight stretch of 35mph road surrounded for miles by 55mph roads is inappropriate when put in place for nothing other than revenue collection.
way off topic, but is there a version of that game which would run ok on modern hardware/software? I'd LOVE to play it again
Ah, yes, but we (usually) fail less spectacularly
And $deity bless you for it, because the world needs more people like you
Any chance you feel like telling a few hundred thousand unpaid programmers what to do?
To be honest, I haven't tried open or closed SuSE since 8. I decided when they signed the pact with Microsoft that I wasn't going to use them.
I suppose I could install it in a VM and see what it's like.
They probably use the same batteries they use for lojacks.
But yes, finders keepers, imo
They only hear half a conversation on the phone, and even that requires a certain proximity, usually. You can always get the little dish thing they advertise to old ladies and kids on late-night TV, but you still only get one side.
I agree with the parent (and grandparent).
That is, as long as they don't charge you for breaking traffic laws while they're investigating whatever-else
Shuttleworth paid their marketing team, I imagine.
Other successful software companies use marketing to increase revenue, there's no reason Canonical shouldn't.
You know, Robert Kiyosake, who is 99% full of crap, had a gem of wisdom in one of his books.
He told the story about how he met with a reporter who wanted to become an author, and she asked him for advice, since he had been published numerable times. His advice to her was to learn marketing. "You'll notice", he said, "that the cover of the book says 'best selling author', it doesn't say 'best writing author'".
There's a lot of truth in that statement.
Best is such a subjective term, but Ubuntu is the most successful distro in recent memory, in terms of users, name recognition, and having a unified interface.
It's certainly not perfect, but for usability and bringing Linux to the masses, it's a damn bit better than everything else out there
Sorry to all the Mepis, RedHat, Mandrake, Gentoo, Slack, and other distro fans.
Probably not?
Seriously, the reason Ubuntu has been as successful as it has is because Shuttleworth can pay people to work on it.
Free open-source developers who are volunteering their time work on problems that are fun, or are hard.
Paid developers work on what someone tells them to.
In the minds of most programmers I know, there's no glory or bragging rights in building a unified user experience. .
Well, yes, but it's assumed (by me, I guess), that any system worth removing body parts to gain access to would be protected by requiring additional controls. The "turn two keys simultaneously which are 10 feet apart" type controls. :-)
There are so many reasons this is a horrible idea...
Aside from all the normal vulnerabilities to phishing and such, first and foremost, a good authentication system requires 3 things, something you know (a password), something you have (an ident card), and with today's technology, something you are (biometric scan). Since everyone doesn't have an iris scanner on their laptops yet, we typically settle for the first two (though fingerprint scanners on laptops are becoming ubiquitous).
This proposal takes away the something that you know, leaving only the something that you have. It makes it essentially the same as key based authentication for ssh. It's secure, but I don't distribute my laptop's keys for a reason. If it gets stolen, your private key is compromised and you scramble to pick up the pieces. If it was used more frequently, and from multiple physical locations, that increases the likelihood of it being compromised since it's always got to be with you
I'm really fond of some of the two way authentication systems that some banks are using now. My bank is pretty lame, it just shows me a picture with some text that I've selected beforehand. I've read online where other banks will actually send an sms to your cell phone, and you have to enter that SMS to log in. The poor man's RSA token, if you will.