Yup, another summary that doesn't understand the difference between using a cert for authentication and using SSL/TLS to encrypt the connection. If using TLS with Diffe-Hilman key exchange, the connection is securely encrypted regardless of whether an attacker has the servers private key.
A picture of a kid in underwear is not "child porn" anyway.
I'm sure you understood the gist of what I meant. In this day and age where a burglar who slips on your front doorstep can sue you for not clearing the ice, I'm sure the parents of such a thieving kid would try to sue you for invasion of their privacy,
They pretend to be a tower and re-route all call info from nearby devices through the box, relaying the calls over to an actual cell tower. That's worse than a wiretap as it's intercepting everything in the area. Wiretap used to mean tapping into a specific line. This is full blown re-routing of all calls including those which were not within the scope of the search warrant.
hmm... I wonder if Apple's FindMyiPhone feature could be considered an illegal search and a violation of the 4th A. rights of the iPhone thief
Probably not as it's tracking your property. Some of the laptop recovery programs that take screenshoots or webcam pictures could cause privacy issues though. What happens if the thief was a 12-yr old boy who took your laptop and the Prey Project software ends up snapping a picture of him in his underwear? Does that become child porn?
No. They wipe the data so they can claim no data was recorded or actively monitored, therefore no wiretapping was performed.
The scary part is that they have the capability to handle calls while doing this spoofing. Which for all intents is the equivalent of them snipping your landline and running it through a black box, then afterwards wiping the blackbox and claiming it doesn't constitute a wiretap. Problem is that the original wiretap really was a guy hanging on the pole with a testset clipped onto your phone wires and there was no recording involved there either aside from the agents memory.
Linux is still hovering around 20% in the server market, hardly what I'd call dominating. Sure Android is based on a linux kernel, but Iit's a stretch to call it Linux. I will believe you on embedded systems though.
Sun had Virtual Box. Dunno if it is Oracle or just plane OSS now. Either way, I use it at home (VMWare at work). I'd rather have VMWare but can't quite warrant the cost. The VMWare I use at work is 5 or 6 years old, whereas VIrtual Box is less than a year old, and the VMWare install still works better for most operating systems as guests (Using Windows as a Host for VMWare, Windows or FreeBSD as a host for Virtual Box)
I use VirtualBox on the PC for many things, but find it's still a bit unstable and much of the advanced features are only accessible via command lines. By unstable, I mean the console sometimes hangs, or deleting a snapshot sometimes corrupts the virtual drive. I love it for testing things out, but I don't trust it for anything critical.
Wasn't that changed in the modifications under Ronald Reagan?
Clinton removed most of the Executive Order changes done under Reagan. Of course it's a little dubious that Executive Orders are used to alter the intent or scope of an existing Law.
I'm not talking about reliability while sitting still, I mean while being mobile, ie moving around. SSDs do have their downsides of course, but I'd prefer an SSD in all my future laptops. In my desktop I have an SSD and a HDD. I expect the HDD to outlive the SSD.
I've seen exactly one spinning laptop drive fail due to impact (the entire laptop didn't survive either), whereas I've had numerous laptop SSDs get flaky and start quietly corrupting data. Some of those SSDs actually draw more power than a spinning HD too.
For me SSDs have a ways to go before I'll embrace them without reservation.
True, but the majority of people bitching about IT here are end users with an overinflated ego and no real teeth. When I get an exec asking for stupid things like how to access HIPAA data from home, I have the role of educator and pointing out the financial and legal risks. If he still wants it, I get it in writing to cover my ass (or if blatantly illegal I'll take it to another exec who might understand the problem).
How is 5% versus 2.75% AFR not any faster!?!? Add in my experience with thousands of FC/SAS/SCSI drives with an AFR of 1.5% and the trend is obvious, more expensive drives have a significantly lower AFR.
Let me quote the paper for you, as I don't think you really paid attention to it.
"Note that in the Microsoft's Live@EDU infrastructure, we utilize nearline 7.2K SATA drives and we see a 5% annual failure rate (AFR), while in MSIT we leverage nearline 7.2K SAS drives and we see a 2.75% AFR there. Microsoft therefore recommends that if you are considering utilization of these nearline drives in a JBOD architecture that you do choose to do so with the 7.2K RPM SAS drives rather than SATA. "
That 5% versus 2.75% is SATA versus SAS, NOT consumer versus enterprise line. The nearline drives are the enterprise grade drives.
If the company decides to corporately embrace a piece of technology, then IT is there to make it happen. IT is not there to respond to the whims of one user who wants to do things different than corporate policy. You might think your new iPhone or Mac or whatever is the cat's meow, but don't expect a whole lot of help getting it to work if there is already a coroporately endorsed way of doing it.
I frequently have to deal with all kinds of people bitching that some web app doesn't run correctly under Firefox or Chrome, or that OpenOffice can't read ms Excel spreadsheet, or they really want to play with Linux on their deskto . First, I have to reminder them not to install unauthorized software on the companies computers. Then I reminder them that a personal preference for a different browser or office suite doesn't mean we have to support it. They aren't getting paid to demo every piece of OSS they think might be better.
When an employee consistently bucks the system and it's a battle, that job gets outsourced to someone else.
Because my arrays already have hundreds of drives, increasing the drive count by 400% to account for a vastly higher AFR isn't cost effective in any way.
Why would you need to expand the drive count? A higher AFR simply means you're replacing failed drives more often. Again, please cite a reference for "vastly higher AFR". All the studies done (include the ones you cited) show a higher variability in the AFR between brands and models, and no trend towards enterprise level drive being more reliable. Buying enterprise level might get you a faster drive with higher rpm or cache, but it's certainly not vastly more reliable.
Bullshit, enterprise class drives have from 1/2 to 1/3rd the AFR of consumer drives. Data from Google, Microsoft, and other large scale providers proves this out. NL SATA is about 2/3rds the AFR of common SATA according to Microsofts numbers from the hosted Exchange for education group.
Not if you want to it to be reliable while you're enjoying your mobility
Based on my experience managing a large network, SSDs have been less reliable than spinning platters. They're getting better but I'm still seeing about a 4% failure rate within the first year compared to 2% for spinning platters. I've noticed the overall reliability of drives has been going down over time. I am counting a few batches of SSD that all died within 4 months, and the 1 tb drives that all died within a year due to the firmware bug.
Detecting multiple cars crossing the finish line within a few ms is another problem.
Autocross usually doesn't have multiple cars that close to each other. They are staged and sent on the track at intervals. Sometimes as the poster pointed out, they will pass each other and finish "out-of-order" which confuses a timing system that assumes FIFO/LILO.
RFID, maybe with a camera as backup, seems like the way to go.
It certainly works for bike and running races. Last few races I attended had antenna beside the course and not a timing mat. Perhaps combining the RFID for the ID and a photosensor for more accurate timing.
Or for more low tech, a person at the start and finish keying in the numbers. Plenty of running races have hand held timers that the official just clicks the button (maybe trigger with photosensor instead) and keys the race tag number.
Very similar, although I think the key is that they've refined to process to get the cost down. Those high-end coated optics are very expensive and easily scratched.
Don't forget how TVs, monitors and Laptops all have shiny frames so you can get glare off that as well. Plus they look like crap as they attract finger prints. The last lasrge screen monitor we bought at work had a decent anti-glare screen but the frame was horridly shiny. We ended up spray painting the frame with flat black paint is was so bad.
Although, Apple is the only manufacturer that promote highly reflective glossy screen as a feature. That joke at Apple expense was funny and deserved.
Most of the laptop manufacturers advertise it as a feature, but they use their particular trademark names like TruBrite or Color Shine, Ironically, Apples trademark name is "Glossy Display". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossy_Display_Branding (Is the Ahtec brand really this feature calling it "Glare"? Seems appropriate if true.)
The glossy screens sell well as the colors do look sharper in the store, but I think most people end up hating the glare and just think that laptops should not be used outdoors or with the lights on.
First, "at a rate 10 times the previous gold standard" is interesting, but meaningless.
Rp = Reactions per time unit
Rn = 10 (Rp)
For Rp previous best rate, Rn new rate
Rp is just the benchmark of a standard method, not the previous best rate. So this isn't necessarily a 10x improvement over previous methods. Kinda like saying a standard lead-acid battery is the gold standard for batteries.
A good percentage of Android devices are not multitouch. Most of the multitouch ones are only two-touch, which is really annoying for games with multiple screen buttons that sometimes need you to hit three buttons..
As The Neonode N1m phone had a slide-to-unlock feature that predated the first Apple patent by more than a year. A Dutch court ruled that the slide to unlock patent was invalid because of this very device. Don't expect any Apple lawsuits to be successful.
Long run though, if they didn't raise their pricing, Blockbuster would have eventually had more content and ultimately cost Neflix more than 800,000 customers. YOu did notice that even though Netflix lost 800,000 customers they are still recording profits right? The stock tanking is temporary. A smart investor would recognize this as a time to _buy_ netflix stock, expecting it to recover significantly over the next year.
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this story again.
Yup, another summary that doesn't understand the difference between using a cert for authentication and using SSL/TLS to encrypt the connection. If using TLS with Diffe-Hilman key exchange, the connection is securely encrypted regardless of whether an attacker has the servers private key.
A picture of a kid in underwear is not "child porn" anyway.
I'm sure you understood the gist of what I meant. In this day and age where a burglar who slips on your front doorstep can sue you for not clearing the ice, I'm sure the parents of such a thieving kid would try to sue you for invasion of their privacy,
They pretend to be a tower and re-route all call info from nearby devices through the box, relaying the calls over to an actual cell tower. That's worse than a wiretap as it's intercepting everything in the area. Wiretap used to mean tapping into a specific line. This is full blown re-routing of all calls including those which were not within the scope of the search warrant.
hmm... I wonder if Apple's FindMyiPhone feature could be considered an illegal search and a violation of the 4th A. rights of the iPhone thief
Probably not as it's tracking your property. Some of the laptop recovery programs that take screenshoots or webcam pictures could cause privacy issues though. What happens if the thief was a 12-yr old boy who took your laptop and the Prey Project software ends up snapping a picture of him in his underwear? Does that become child porn?
No. They wipe the data so they can claim no data was recorded or actively monitored, therefore no wiretapping was performed.
The scary part is that they have the capability to handle calls while doing this spoofing. Which for all intents is the equivalent of them snipping your landline and running it through a black box, then afterwards wiping the blackbox and claiming it doesn't constitute a wiretap. Problem is that the original wiretap really was a guy hanging on the pole with a testset clipped onto your phone wires and there was no recording involved there either aside from the agents memory.
Oh shit son, did they just unthaw you?
Linux doesn't have 1% marketshare of anything. It has closer to 10% desktop marketshare and dominates the mobile, server and embedded spaces.
Recent surveys by respectable groups like Gartner put Linux at 1.1% share on the desktop.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_operating_systems
http://marketshare.hitslink.com/report.aspx?qprid=9&qpcustom=Linux
Linux is still hovering around 20% in the server market, hardly what I'd call dominating. Sure Android is based on a linux kernel, but Iit's a stretch to call it Linux. I will believe you on embedded systems though.
Installing MS Office 2010 seems to switch your search engine to install the Bing add-on as well.
Sun had Virtual Box. Dunno if it is Oracle or just plane OSS now. Either way, I use it at home (VMWare at work). I'd rather have VMWare but can't quite warrant the cost. The VMWare I use at work is 5 or 6 years old, whereas VIrtual Box is less than a year old, and the VMWare install still works better for most operating systems as guests (Using Windows as a Host for VMWare, Windows or FreeBSD as a host for Virtual Box)
I use VirtualBox on the PC for many things, but find it's still a bit unstable and much of the advanced features are only accessible via command lines. By unstable, I mean the console sometimes hangs, or deleting a snapshot sometimes corrupts the virtual drive. I love it for testing things out, but I don't trust it for anything critical.
Wasn't that changed in the modifications under Ronald Reagan?
Clinton removed most of the Executive Order changes done under Reagan. Of course it's a little dubious that Executive Orders are used to alter the intent or scope of an existing Law.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_Information_Act_(United_States)\
I'm not talking about reliability while sitting still, I mean while being mobile, ie moving around. SSDs do have their downsides of course, but I'd prefer an SSD in all my future laptops. In my desktop I have an SSD and a HDD. I expect the HDD to outlive the SSD.
I've seen exactly one spinning laptop drive fail due to impact (the entire laptop didn't survive either), whereas I've had numerous laptop SSDs get flaky and start quietly corrupting data. Some of those SSDs actually draw more power than a spinning HD too.
For me SSDs have a ways to go before I'll embrace them without reservation.
True, but the majority of people bitching about IT here are end users with an overinflated ego and no real teeth. When I get an exec asking for stupid things like how to access HIPAA data from home, I have the role of educator and pointing out the financial and legal risks. If he still wants it, I get it in writing to cover my ass (or if blatantly illegal I'll take it to another exec who might understand the problem).
How is 5% versus 2.75% AFR not any faster!?!? Add in my experience with thousands of FC/SAS/SCSI drives with an AFR of 1.5% and the trend is obvious, more expensive drives have a significantly lower AFR.
Let me quote the paper for you, as I don't think you really paid attention to it.
"Note that in the Microsoft's Live@EDU infrastructure, we utilize nearline 7.2K SATA drives and we see a 5% annual failure rate (AFR), while in MSIT we leverage nearline 7.2K SAS drives and we see a 2.75% AFR there. Microsoft therefore recommends that if you are considering utilization of these nearline drives in a JBOD architecture that you do choose to do so with the 7.2K RPM SAS drives rather than SATA. "
That 5% versus 2.75% is SATA versus SAS, NOT consumer versus enterprise line. The nearline drives are the enterprise grade drives.
If the company decides to corporately embrace a piece of technology, then IT is there to make it happen. IT is not there to respond to the whims of one user who wants to do things different than corporate policy. You might think your new iPhone or Mac or whatever is the cat's meow, but don't expect a whole lot of help getting it to work if there is already a coroporately endorsed way of doing it.
I frequently have to deal with all kinds of people bitching that some web app doesn't run correctly under Firefox or Chrome, or that OpenOffice can't read ms Excel spreadsheet, or they really want to play with Linux on their deskto . First, I have to reminder them not to install unauthorized software on the companies computers. Then I reminder them that a personal preference for a different browser or office suite doesn't mean we have to support it. They aren't getting paid to demo every piece of OSS they think might be better.
When an employee consistently bucks the system and it's a battle, that job gets outsourced to someone else.
Because my arrays already have hundreds of drives, increasing the drive count by 400% to account for a vastly higher AFR isn't cost effective in any way.
Why would you need to expand the drive count? A higher AFR simply means you're replacing failed drives more often. Again, please cite a reference for "vastly higher AFR". All the studies done (include the ones you cited) show a higher variability in the AFR between brands and models, and no trend towards enterprise level drive being more reliable. Buying enterprise level might get you a faster drive with higher rpm or cache, but it's certainly not vastly more reliable.
Bullshit, enterprise class drives have from 1/2 to 1/3rd the AFR of consumer drives. Data from Google, Microsoft, and other large scale providers proves this out. NL SATA is about 2/3rds the AFR of common SATA according to Microsofts numbers from the hosted Exchange for education group.
I believe you are the one spouting BS. Please cite a reference for this. The Google paper clearly says they are using consumer grade drives and not enterprise grade drives. http://static.googleusercontent.com/external_content/untrusted_dlcp/labs.google.com/en/us/papers/disk_failures.pdf
The Microsoft study you referred to says that consumer class disks were not failing any faster than enterprise disks. http://blogs.technet.com/b/exchange/archive/2011/01/07/robert-s-rules-of-exchange-storage-planning-and-testing.aspx http://h20195.www2.hp.com/V2/GetPDF.aspx/4AA2-1309ENW.pdf
Not if you want to it to be reliable while you're enjoying your mobility
Based on my experience managing a large network, SSDs have been less reliable than spinning platters. They're getting better but I'm still seeing about a 4% failure rate within the first year compared to 2% for spinning platters. I've noticed the overall reliability of drives has been going down over time. I am counting a few batches of SSD that all died within 4 months, and the 1 tb drives that all died within a year due to the firmware bug.
Detecting multiple cars crossing the finish line within a few ms is another problem.
Autocross usually doesn't have multiple cars that close to each other. They are staged and sent on the track at intervals. Sometimes as the poster pointed out, they will pass each other and finish "out-of-order" which confuses a timing system that assumes FIFO/LILO.
RFID, maybe with a camera as backup, seems like the way to go.
It certainly works for bike and running races. Last few races I attended had antenna beside the course and not a timing mat. Perhaps combining the RFID for the ID and a photosensor for more accurate timing.
Or for more low tech, a person at the start and finish keying in the numbers. Plenty of running races have hand held timers that the official just clicks the button (maybe trigger with photosensor instead) and keys the race tag number.
Very similar, although I think the key is that they've refined to process to get the cost down. Those high-end coated optics are very expensive and easily scratched.
Don't forget how TVs, monitors and Laptops all have shiny frames so you can get glare off that as well. Plus they look like crap as they attract finger prints. The last lasrge screen monitor we bought at work had a decent anti-glare screen but the frame was horridly shiny. We ended up spray painting the frame with flat black paint is was so bad.
Although, Apple is the only manufacturer that promote highly reflective glossy screen as a feature. That joke at Apple expense was funny and deserved.
Most of the laptop manufacturers advertise it as a feature, but they use their particular trademark names like TruBrite or Color Shine, Ironically, Apples trademark name is "Glossy Display". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossy_Display_Branding (Is the Ahtec brand really this feature calling it "Glare"? Seems appropriate if true.)
The glossy screens sell well as the colors do look sharper in the store, but I think most people end up hating the glare and just think that laptops should not be used outdoors or with the lights on.
First, "at a rate 10 times the previous gold standard" is interesting, but meaningless.
Rp = Reactions per time unit
Rn = 10 (Rp)
For Rp previous best rate, Rn new rate
Rp is just the benchmark of a standard method, not the previous best rate. So this isn't necessarily a 10x improvement over previous methods. Kinda like saying a standard lead-acid battery is the gold standard for batteries.
A good percentage of Android devices are not multitouch. Most of the multitouch ones are only two-touch, which is really annoying for games with multiple screen buttons that sometimes need you to hit three buttons..
As The Neonode N1m phone had a slide-to-unlock feature that predated the first Apple patent by more than a year. A Dutch court ruled that the slide to unlock patent was invalid because of this very device. Don't expect any Apple lawsuits to be successful.
Long run though, if they didn't raise their pricing, Blockbuster would have eventually had more content and ultimately cost Neflix more than 800,000 customers. YOu did notice that even though Netflix lost 800,000 customers they are still recording profits right? The stock tanking is temporary. A smart investor would recognize this as a time to _buy_ netflix stock, expecting it to recover significantly over the next year.