SpaceX's Dragon Capsule is going to be on display until July 10th at the Kennedy Space Center Air Force air/space museum, right down the street from the last shuttle launch (disclaimer: I'm going to see the last shuttle launch, and to see the Dragon capsule that has been to space and back). This is no accident.
The shuttle has been NASA's workhorse for the last 30 years, but its time for it to make way for the next generation of orbital launch vehicles. Goodbye Shuttle, and thanks for all the hard work.
CERN had no responsibility in maintaing it whatsoever. It took 1-2 people to admin it, and it was only a small subset of their roles (and I was one of the people).
No, absolutely. Please order a server from Dell (i mean, HP sell *serious* Servers) which should serve as the central file server for 10000s of users.
At Fermilab, working on an LHC detector team, we had 5-10 Linux boxes doing distributed NFS, boxes that cost a couple hundred bucks a piece. They were serving 1000s of machines concurrently for file server purposes.
How many organizations are serving 10,000+ users from a central file server? Not that many. And if you are, you're going to cluster the fuck out of it for redundancy and scalability. Big Iron is dead. It was killed for Linux, with it's ability to run on damn near any x86 box, it's reliability, and its cheap licensing (Redhat, etc) for scaling horizontally if your app requires it.
TL;DR Couldn't tell if sarcastic, but nobody needs Big Iron anymore.
Right. First-generation design doesn't do everything, film at 11.
It's a proof of concept chief. The first cars didn't have 4-5 star crash safety ratings while able to carry you at 80mph while achieving 40mpg (which my wife's Camry Hybrid does)
Yes, it's where you agree to cough up money without a verdict, or possibly without even trying a case, because it is cheaper then trying the case in court.
The Roadster purchasers (myself included) paid for the electric drivetrain and energy management system R&D through our purchases. The rest is easy for Tesla now.
Failed? Hardly. Awesome cars were built, knowledge was gained, and the masses will now benefit. Fuck you submitter.
I own a Roadster *and* have a deposit on a Model S. This was the plan all along, as it would not be efficient for them to keep building Roadsters while trying to ramp up Model S production.
Opinions are like assholes, even on the internet. Yet another uninformed moron spouting off.
Somewhat this. If you search online, you can find us. We do enterprise hosting for the majority of our clients (none of our clients pay less than $7K-10K/month), and a fair number of them are household names (if you use laundry detergent, purchase car tires, or drink soda, you probably know our clients).
I by no means posted on Slashdot to brag (we are quite the humble type). I posted to say "Business can do this the right way, they just have to commit to doing it".
For those that request and pay for it, yes. Note: None of our clients (to my knowledge based on the due diligence we do when on-boarding them) perform businesses that are illegal in the United States. I'm not for breaking the law. I *am* for enforcing your own rights.
The hosting company I co-own with the rest of my employees is mid-sized (several million a year, but under 10 people), but we operate this way. Equipment is owned by corporations incorporated in the jurisdiction where it resides on a country-level basis. We own gear in the US, the EU, Japan, China, and Australia. No corporate entity is tied to another, and resources are redundant through the infrastructure. Come to me in the US with a subpoena for anything on any of our gear outside the US? Fark off. When the hell did people give up on their principles?
THIS! Although, you have to be careful. If your storage is outside of US jurisdiction (Amazon S3 Asia/EU AZs), but the company is still a US company for the most part (for this example, Amazon), it's very likely LEO will get the data they're looking for. Take into account the people who run whatever equipment/storage systems you're using outside of jurisdictions you're working against.
You do realize that with an HSA I'll be able to perpetually fund my entire life's medical expenses right?
As long as your contributions to your HSA keep up with your out-of-pocket healthcare costs, yes.
Any amount in my account over $3000, I'm allowed to invest into things like mutual funds and return the dividends into the account tax free.
Does it really seem wise to invest money you may need in short notice in anything other than extremely liquid investment vehicles (i.e. money market funds)? Lets not even get into the risk aspect, as the only way you're going to get returns beating inflation (currently at roughly 3.2%) is to invest in something more risky than treasury bills, muni bonds that aren't going to default, and so forth.
So sparing some catastrophe I'll be able to put enough money in the account over a few year period to where the dividends exceed my yearly deductible, funding my healthcare for the rest of my life.
I've just bolded the whole point of health insurance.
I'll take single-payer/universal healthcare thanks. Play roulette on your own health if you choose.
Because healthcare is definitely someplace where you pick a provider based on cost, instead of quality. Good luck with your HSA, I'll keep my fully employer paid for PPO (although, I'd take universal healthcare in the US; doctors in the US make 5x the average worker's salary, where as it's 3x outside of the US).
Also, I'd love to replace most doctors with expert systems like IBM's Watson.
Or you lease the system through SolarCity, and pay your same monthly electric bill that covers the cost of your installed system. Very little to no upfront investment. Google just kicked $280 million into SolarCity for financing this sort of arrangement.
You don't think Google could find enough other tech companies who want to cripple Oracle? Deep pockets + collective effort = collective ownership of controlling interest in Oracle. Google and Microsoft could team up, eat up Oracle, and Google could let Microsoft get all the database/middleware business for their troubles (with Google walking away unscathed).
"PostgreSQL: Just a relational database, and usually behind the heavy-hitters in terms of features. Mainly notable for at least being competitive with the big, commercial databases."
Just a relational database? As opposed to what, Oracle? At least you don't get raped financially when you want to run PostgreSQL. You want something groundbreaking? Fucking build it. Don't whine on Slashdot that there isn't building the groundbreaking open source software you want to see.
Holy shit dude, you are aware that open source drives most of the world, right? Google? London Stock Exchange? The Large Hadron Collider? Linux. Most small consumer devices? Busybox linux or a variation thereof. You want a fucking app developed on top of the open tools? Get to it.
As a relay, although you could always use rainbow tables stored on elastic block storage devices EC2 instances could mount to quickly chomp through passwd/shadow files. Alternatively, you could run open source utilities that seek out web forms where SQL injections may work. You'd never know someone was looking depending on the scanner in question, as it'll just appear as GET requests.
The world is many shades of gray. My opinion (although it counts very little) is that intent matters very much. Breaking in to steal credit card/personal info? Black hat. Breaking in to get information to help political prisoners? White hat. Just because you're breaking in to a secure system that isn't yours doesn't mean you are a black hat (depending on what you're doing; http://www.google.com/search?q=wikileaks+good). Just like helping the Chinese government find holes to patch in their systems used to prevent the expression of their citizen's human rights doesn't mean you're a white hat.
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SpaceX's Dragon Capsule is going to be on display until July 10th at the Kennedy Space Center Air Force air/space museum, right down the street from the last shuttle launch (disclaimer: I'm going to see the last shuttle launch, and to see the Dragon capsule that has been to space and back). This is no accident.
The shuttle has been NASA's workhorse for the last 30 years, but its time for it to make way for the next generation of orbital launch vehicles. Goodbye Shuttle, and thanks for all the hard work.
CERN had no responsibility in maintaing it whatsoever. It took 1-2 people to admin it, and it was only a small subset of their roles (and I was one of the people).
This isn't rocket science.
Obviously you've never heard of PNFS before.
No, absolutely. Please order a server from Dell (i mean, HP sell *serious* Servers) which should serve as the central file server for 10000s of users.
At Fermilab, working on an LHC detector team, we had 5-10 Linux boxes doing distributed NFS, boxes that cost a couple hundred bucks a piece. They were serving 1000s of machines concurrently for file server purposes.
How many organizations are serving 10,000+ users from a central file server? Not that many. And if you are, you're going to cluster the fuck out of it for redundancy and scalability. Big Iron is dead. It was killed for Linux, with it's ability to run on damn near any x86 box, it's reliability, and its cheap licensing (Redhat, etc) for scaling horizontally if your app requires it.
TL;DR Couldn't tell if sarcastic, but nobody needs Big Iron anymore.
Right. First-generation design doesn't do everything, film at 11.
It's a proof of concept chief. The first cars didn't have 4-5 star crash safety ratings while able to carry you at 80mph while achieving 40mpg (which my wife's Camry Hybrid does)
You can fuse material together to create air-tight shelters, a necessity on other worlds.
Yes, it's where you agree to cough up money without a verdict, or possibly without even trying a case, because it is cheaper then trying the case in court.
Fixed that for ya.
The Roadster purchasers (myself included) paid for the electric drivetrain and energy management system R&D through our purchases. The rest is easy for Tesla now.
Failed? Hardly. Awesome cars were built, knowledge was gained, and the masses will now benefit. Fuck you submitter.
I own a Roadster *and* have a deposit on a Model S. This was the plan all along, as it would not be efficient for them to keep building Roadsters while trying to ramp up Model S production.
Opinions are like assholes, even on the internet. Yet another uninformed moron spouting off.
Somewhat this. If you search online, you can find us. We do enterprise hosting for the majority of our clients (none of our clients pay less than $7K-10K/month), and a fair number of them are household names (if you use laundry detergent, purchase car tires, or drink soda, you probably know our clients).
I by no means posted on Slashdot to brag (we are quite the humble type). I posted to say "Business can do this the right way, they just have to commit to doing it".
For those that request and pay for it, yes. Note: None of our clients (to my knowledge based on the due diligence we do when on-boarding them) perform businesses that are illegal in the United States. I'm not for breaking the law. I *am* for enforcing your own rights.
The hosting company I co-own with the rest of my employees is mid-sized (several million a year, but under 10 people), but we operate this way. Equipment is owned by corporations incorporated in the jurisdiction where it resides on a country-level basis. We own gear in the US, the EU, Japan, China, and Australia. No corporate entity is tied to another, and resources are redundant through the infrastructure. Come to me in the US with a subpoena for anything on any of our gear outside the US? Fark off. When the hell did people give up on their principles?
THIS! Although, you have to be careful. If your storage is outside of US jurisdiction (Amazon S3 Asia/EU AZs), but the company is still a US company for the most part (for this example, Amazon), it's very likely LEO will get the data they're looking for. Take into account the people who run whatever equipment/storage systems you're using outside of jurisdictions you're working against.
You do realize that with an HSA I'll be able to perpetually fund my entire life's medical expenses right?
As long as your contributions to your HSA keep up with your out-of-pocket healthcare costs, yes.
Any amount in my account over $3000, I'm allowed to invest into things like mutual funds and return the dividends into the account tax free.
Does it really seem wise to invest money you may need in short notice in anything other than extremely liquid investment vehicles (i.e. money market funds)? Lets not even get into the risk aspect, as the only way you're going to get returns beating inflation (currently at roughly 3.2%) is to invest in something more risky than treasury bills, muni bonds that aren't going to default, and so forth.
So sparing some catastrophe I'll be able to put enough money in the account over a few year period to where the dividends exceed my yearly deductible, funding my healthcare for the rest of my life.
I've just bolded the whole point of health insurance.
I'll take single-payer/universal healthcare thanks. Play roulette on your own health if you choose.
Because healthcare is definitely someplace where you pick a provider based on cost, instead of quality. Good luck with your HSA, I'll keep my fully employer paid for PPO (although, I'd take universal healthcare in the US; doctors in the US make 5x the average worker's salary, where as it's 3x outside of the US).
Also, I'd love to replace most doctors with expert systems like IBM's Watson.
Or you lease the system through SolarCity, and pay your same monthly electric bill that covers the cost of your installed system. Very little to no upfront investment. Google just kicked $280 million into SolarCity for financing this sort of arrangement.
You don't think Google could find enough other tech companies who want to cripple Oracle? Deep pockets + collective effort = collective ownership of controlling interest in Oracle. Google and Microsoft could team up, eat up Oracle, and Google could let Microsoft get all the database/middleware business for their troubles (with Google walking away unscathed).
"PostgreSQL: Just a relational database, and usually behind the heavy-hitters in terms of features. Mainly notable for at least being competitive with the big, commercial databases."
Just a relational database? As opposed to what, Oracle? At least you don't get raped financially when you want to run PostgreSQL. You want something groundbreaking? Fucking build it. Don't whine on Slashdot that there isn't building the groundbreaking open source software you want to see.
Argh. It should be using a light version of MogileFS or Walrus for storage.
http://danga.com/mogilefs/
http://open.eucalyptus.com/wiki/EucalyptusStorage_v1.4
You do know that PostgreSQL drives the .ORG domain root, right? But heh, don't let that piss all over your parade.
Holy shit dude, you are aware that open source drives most of the world, right? Google? London Stock Exchange? The Large Hadron Collider? Linux. Most small consumer devices? Busybox linux or a variation thereof. You want a fucking app developed on top of the open tools? Get to it.
Hard hat? That's fucking Dig Dug. Hardcore.
As a relay, although you could always use rainbow tables stored on elastic block storage devices EC2 instances could mount to quickly chomp through passwd/shadow files. Alternatively, you could run open source utilities that seek out web forms where SQL injections may work. You'd never know someone was looking depending on the scanner in question, as it'll just appear as GET requests.
Open Wifi/Public Locations + Proxies + Various Virtual Machine Providers + Tor + Etc. = Come at me brah
If you've got time to bury your connections across technologies and the world, good farking luck coming after the person.
The world is many shades of gray. My opinion (although it counts very little) is that intent matters very much. Breaking in to steal credit card/personal info? Black hat. Breaking in to get information to help political prisoners? White hat. Just because you're breaking in to a secure system that isn't yours doesn't mean you are a black hat (depending on what you're doing; http://www.google.com/search?q=wikileaks+good). Just like helping the Chinese government find holes to patch in their systems used to prevent the expression of their citizen's human rights doesn't mean you're a white hat.
What is your end goal?