He said 'server room', that's not necessarily a datacenter. It could just be a room with a few servers in. I'd assume it isn't a full scale datacenter. If you read the article, it appears to be a room with a rack of servers. There's a mention of the (lack of) ventilation system too. I know it's slashdot, but why not RTFA before asking questions answered in it?
Option 1 is not going to happen, the Chinese government would shut them down before they started & there's nothing Google can do about that. The best hope is option 3 & enough Chinese people noticing to start up their own ant-censorship movement.
As a UK reader, those tariffs look shocking. I thought 3g was expensive here, but they don't even sell less than 1gb (between £5-£15, depending on plan) here.
You need to negotiate a better SLA with your provider.
Try this: Find the most reliable ISP in your area, with the most comprehensive SLA you can get, get a quote for your office, it doesn't matter if it's twice as much as you're paying. Then contact your current provider, tell then you're extremely unhappy with the reliability of their service, so you're going to switch to provider 'X' who has a much better SLA & gives you compensation for any minor fault, don't mention the price. This should encourage your current provider to give you a proper SLA. Once that has happened, you need to report every single fault to them & they either fix it really fast, or you get a free internet connection for a while.
They aren't suing them in China, that'd be amazingly stupid. Instead they're suing the Chinese Government in Los Angeles, California, so it's just a publicity stunt.
From TFA: 'Santa Barbara, California-based Solid Oak Software, which sells the Cybersitter program, filed the $2.2 billion civil action in federal court in Los Angeles. '
China is not in the driving seat, it's a typical small trade dispute situation. If China starts being protectionist about this then the EU & USA will retaliate by putting import tariffs on Chinese goods. If that happened, it'd hurt everybody, China most, so they'll back down.
So it's all going to be a bit of posturing & hot air, then it'll die down. The Chinese aren't stupid enough to try it.
...get things done more than 10 times faster, than in C++
That's the whole point. A server's time is much cheaper than a developer's. Even for Facebook it's going to be totally uneconomic to write everything in C. Maybe they'd benefit from writing a few routines in C where the extra performance is needed. For smaller websites even that would be a total waste of time & money.
You missed a lot of other google owned ad tracking services & blocked the sites he wants to use. There are a huge list of google ad servers. Grab the hosts file from: http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm they keep that updated & it'll block some of the other ad & spy stuff too.
Also make sure 'Web History' isn't enabled on your google accounts (my account page), or when you're logged out (top right corner of search results).
You have to give up some privacy as the cost of using their services, but it's quite easy to block some of their tracking.
so it's perfectly fine to hold people for 10 years, outside any legal controls & torture them, before any kind of charges or trial, but 42 days without charge is wrong?
oppressive censorship laws & jailing of political dissidents doesn't encourage people to express their opinion. china does use physical coercion to prevent its people from expressing their opinion, or challenging their government.
countries like china, north korea, burma, and zimbabwe are defined as oppressive dictatorships. unfortunately, there are many others too.
I think you could make fertiliser as a waste product of the biofuel process.
its a very valid point about farmland though. food prices will still go up, because of the increased cost of land, even if you could make it slightly cheaper to transport.
do you have to pay a plumber every time you turn your tap on?
if an artist wants to actually do some work, and play a gig, and if i've heard they're good, i'll go & pay them. i don't see why they have the natural right to make a few albums in their twenties, then live off the royalties for the rest of their lives.
a lot of musicians get paid a lot more than brain surgeons, for much less work.
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However, the sale of goods act doesn't apply to Solaris because it's not sold, it's a free download. They just sell support contracts.
Read it again, that section says the exact opposite of what you said it does.
In which section?
He said 'server room', that's not necessarily a datacenter. It could just be a room with a few servers in. I'd assume it isn't a full scale datacenter. If you read the article, it appears to be a room with a rack of servers. There's a mention of the (lack of) ventilation system too. I know it's slashdot, but why not RTFA before asking questions answered in it?
Option 1 is not going to happen, the Chinese government would shut them down before they started & there's nothing Google can do about that. The best hope is option 3 & enough Chinese people noticing to start up their own ant-censorship movement.
As a UK reader, those tariffs look shocking. I thought 3g was expensive here, but they don't even sell less than 1gb (between £5-£15, depending on plan) here.
You need to negotiate a better SLA with your provider.
Try this: Find the most reliable ISP in your area, with the most comprehensive SLA you can get, get a quote for your office, it doesn't matter if it's twice as much as you're paying. Then contact your current provider, tell then you're extremely unhappy with the reliability of their service, so you're going to switch to provider 'X' who has a much better SLA & gives you compensation for any minor fault, don't mention the price. This should encourage your current provider to give you a proper SLA. Once that has happened, you need to report every single fault to them & they either fix it really fast, or you get a free internet connection for a while.
No they don't, it's just a scam to scare you into paying.
They use the magic words "up to" in their advertising, then they can sell whatever they want as whatever speed they want to call it.
The GPL would be quite unnecessary without copyright laws.
so store the private key on the card, it'll still be more secure than a number & pin code. it could be made fairly seamless to the end user.
They aren't suing them in China, that'd be amazingly stupid. Instead they're suing the Chinese Government in Los Angeles, California, so it's just a publicity stunt.
From TFA: 'Santa Barbara, California-based Solid Oak Software, which sells the Cybersitter program, filed the $2.2 billion civil action in federal court in Los Angeles. '
China is not in the driving seat, it's a typical small trade dispute situation. If China starts being protectionist about this then the EU & USA will retaliate by putting import tariffs on Chinese goods. If that happened, it'd hurt everybody, China most, so they'll back down.
So it's all going to be a bit of posturing & hot air, then it'll die down. The Chinese aren't stupid enough to try it.
...get things done more than 10 times faster, than in C++
That's the whole point. A server's time is much cheaper than a developer's. Even for Facebook it's going to be totally uneconomic to write everything in C. Maybe they'd benefit from writing a few routines in C where the extra performance is needed. For smaller websites even that would be a total waste of time & money.
The code is much more portable in php too.
You missed a lot of other google owned ad tracking services & blocked the sites he wants to use. There are a huge list of google ad servers. Grab the hosts file from: http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm they keep that updated & it'll block some of the other ad & spy stuff too.
Also make sure 'Web History' isn't enabled on your google accounts (my account page), or when you're logged out (top right corner of search results).
You have to give up some privacy as the cost of using their services, but it's quite easy to block some of their tracking.
so it's perfectly fine to hold people for 10 years, outside any legal controls & torture them, before any kind of charges or trial, but 42 days without charge is wrong?
fedora is always bleeding edge. it's a testing ground for redhat. if you don't like that, go for a more stable distro.
yes, that'd be a great idea for them to block all encrypted data. I'm sure no e-commerce sites or vpn users would notice.
that has been happening for a few years now, here in the uk.
yes its clearly racist.
its not rape if its consensual & you're an adult.
no, he's right, almost all movies are shit. nobody would want to pay a penny for half the stuff they 'pirate'.
oppressive censorship laws & jailing of political dissidents doesn't encourage people to express their opinion. china does use physical coercion to prevent its people from expressing their opinion, or challenging their government.
countries like china, north korea, burma, and zimbabwe are defined as oppressive dictatorships. unfortunately, there are many others too.
I think you could make fertiliser as a waste product of the biofuel process.
its a very valid point about farmland though. food prices will still go up, because of the increased cost of land, even if you could make it slightly cheaper to transport.
do you have to pay a plumber every time you turn your tap on?
if an artist wants to actually do some work, and play a gig, and if i've heard they're good, i'll go & pay them. i don't see why they have the natural right to make a few albums in their twenties, then live off the royalties for the rest of their lives.
a lot of musicians get paid a lot more than brain surgeons, for much less work.