They broke the law. Someone needs prosecuting for this.
I don't mind if the courts hand out a wrist-slap of a sentence, but I do think it's important that media outlets understand that breaking the law like this to get a story is not acceptable.
The BNP is not the nazi party. It just happens to also have extreme right-wing views generally considered to be racist.
It's not illegal for police to be members of the BNP. It is prejudicial to their continued employment. It hasn't as far as I know ever gone to court, and would be an interesting case if it ever did.
TPC scores (any TPC scores) do not represent a real-world evaluation of hardware performance under the load profile our usage causes. Hell, our own performance tests can't match our real-world usage profiles, some random company's haven't a hope.
Although transactions may be comprehensively well-rounded and multi-step, is all of the logging and auditing turned on. Are housekeeping tasks running in the background. Is the system tuned to disparate usage profiles (we don't have just one) or to the specific TPC profile. Are the tasks being performed even remotely comparable to the processing we require from the system.
That's not a specific response to those particular TPC measurements, that's a comment on the whole benchmarking sphere. Maybe those numbers are a little better than normal, but don't be expecting me to treat them as anything more than merely indicative.
Incidentally, I wasn't challenging Sun's power draw, and I wouldn't describe a blade based solution as a mainframe, but my point was that the number of cores is frankly irrelevant. I think you agree, as you're highlighting power consumption as a factor, which I concur is important.
My comment on 'heavy power draw' for some Sun chips is in comparison to their impressively lower power multi-core multi-threading chips.
Comedy aside, people are happily sharing files in countries where it's explicitly against the law. Why on earth should people doing it somewhere that it's not illegal be deemed irresponsible?
Take one possible perspective: The only responsible action is to propagate the cultural artefacts to those that lack the means to acquire them otherwise.
Once you've actually experienced an out of body experience, you can no longer disbelieve in the existence of hallucination, false memories and esoteric myths.
Out of body experiences exist but are not demonstrably a result of someone 'leaving' their body.
Similarly people can believe they've experienced something they're calling God and be merely unable to rationally describe and explain the event.
That the rational explanation is not at hand does not mean it should not be sought. Making up fictional characters is a surprising attempt at such an explanation and lacks credibility in the absence of verifiable evidence.
People that believe they are Napolean get treated for mental illness. Why do people that believe some imaginary friend is talking to them get treated any differently?
I can't be arsed to check your link, but at a guess: It is.
Sun offer a nice mix of hard-core heavy processing power CPUs with heavy power needs and that come in expensive boxes.
They also offer very lower power usage chips that can run hundreds of concurrent threads with ease very cheaply, but lack the grunt to handle any real work.
You pick the one that matches the load you're planning to put on it.
When comparing TPC scores (and ignoring the fact they're a crock of dung anyway) the important factors are cost, power, cooling and physical footprint. Everything else is merely part of the function to those factors, and even three of those are merely aspects of the overall cost.
When you're paying tens of millions for your hardware, the number of cores on a CPU frankly doesn't get mentioned to the CEO.
How many blade chassis do I need with what underlying virtualisation tech requiring how much power/cooling to host the various applications/databases that run parts of the business we can't use unix/zOS for?
As compared to how much footprint from the mainframe?
Throw in software licence costs, bear in mind we may have spare mainframe capacity anyway, churn the numbers and see.
It may be cheaper to rehost a chunk of x86 apps on the mainframe, and it may not. It's a valid option and one to consider either way.
I explicitly turned down an organisation in the UK when they invited me for interview because they had mandatory drug testing.
I haven't done drugs since my passive smoking as a ten year old (fortunately my mother gave up then) but that's a limit I set.
I did write to them and explain why I wasn't interested, and they wrote back and were very apologetic but weren't going to change their policy. So I got a job elsewhere.
Three options spring to mind: - buy the book. Not the e-book, the paper copy. - use a library - ask the teacher to provide the book. All the books I was asked to read at school were provided by the school.
All these options deny the author revenue from the electronic version of their work. If you want to deny them revenue from print copies too then you'd have to have words with the literature teacher.
We'd far far rather sit at a bar where we can actually talk, hear each other, and not have to put up with someone that only thinks they can sing bleating out some song so crap that we think the world would be better off had it never been written in the first place.
I think I'm going to have to completely back the AC in his desire that "the entire industry will fall into a pit, burn, and rot the death it deserves."
In the meantime I'll continue my policy of walking out of any establishment that begins karaoke while I'm in it.
I find myself utterly fucking amazed by the number of people that'll do anything their boss asks them to.
A: If your boss tells you to break the law and you do, you get prosecuted. (He may too, but that's not much comfort). B: If you've been sacked, he's no longer your boss C: Your passwords are not your boss' passwords. He does not have the authorisation to have them.
Maybe I'm just bloody weird in that I know company secrets that I can't share with my boss without getting sacked. Then again I know a lot of people with computer access that can't share those details with their boss without literally breaking the law.
As I said, learn the law. It truly is rather very nasty.
I agree with you, it's all pretty idiotic. It also helps reassure me that my decision to never pay for Microsoft's online gaming service was a good one.
Slashdot Mirror
I read somewhere (check Google News for source, I can't be arsed) that they paid between £5-6k for the botnet.
A fine use of my fucking tv licence. Time to ring Crimestoppers.
It serves a very useful purpose: It stops the media thinking that hacking computers can be done legally "in the public interest".
Or do you want Sun reporters remotely hacking your computer to see if they can dig up some dirt on you?
They broke the law. Someone needs prosecuting for this.
I don't mind if the courts hand out a wrist-slap of a sentence, but I do think it's important that media outlets understand that breaking the law like this to get a story is not acceptable.
The BBC used computing resources owned by other people without their permission.
That's illegal in the UK.
I'd hold off Empire until/unless they fix the bugs in it.
By 'bug' I mean that game managed to blue-screen my laptop last night. First piece of software to do that for two years.
To be fair, it doesn't look good in court if your breathalyser test comes out positive either.
The BNP is not the nazi party. It just happens to also have extreme right-wing views generally considered to be racist.
It's not illegal for police to be members of the BNP. It is prejudicial to their continued employment. It hasn't as far as I know ever gone to court, and would be an interesting case if it ever did.
TPC scores (any TPC scores) do not represent a real-world evaluation of hardware performance under the load profile our usage causes. Hell, our own performance tests can't match our real-world usage profiles, some random company's haven't a hope.
Although transactions may be comprehensively well-rounded and multi-step, is all of the logging and auditing turned on. Are housekeeping tasks running in the background. Is the system tuned to disparate usage profiles (we don't have just one) or to the specific TPC profile. Are the tasks being performed even remotely comparable to the processing we require from the system.
That's not a specific response to those particular TPC measurements, that's a comment on the whole benchmarking sphere. Maybe those numbers are a little better than normal, but don't be expecting me to treat them as anything more than merely indicative.
Incidentally, I wasn't challenging Sun's power draw, and I wouldn't describe a blade based solution as a mainframe, but my point was that the number of cores is frankly irrelevant. I think you agree, as you're highlighting power consumption as a factor, which I concur is important.
My comment on 'heavy power draw' for some Sun chips is in comparison to their impressively lower power multi-core multi-threading chips.
Actuaries use Excel in quite extraordinary ways.
That doesn't meant they couldn't learn to use OO.o Calc but the cost/overhead of doing so more than outweighs the price of Excel.
does that mean I should go get a hooker
In your case, yes. You clearly need it.
Comedy aside, people are happily sharing files in countries where it's explicitly against the law. Why on earth should people doing it somewhere that it's not illegal be deemed irresponsible?
Take one possible perspective: The only responsible action is to propagate the cultural artefacts to those that lack the means to acquire them otherwise.
To be fair, ignoring Catholic teachings is not something I would criticise a legislature for.
Once you've actually experienced an out of body experience, you can no longer disbelieve in the existence of hallucination, false memories and esoteric myths.
Out of body experiences exist but are not demonstrably a result of someone 'leaving' their body.
Similarly people can believe they've experienced something they're calling God and be merely unable to rationally describe and explain the event.
That the rational explanation is not at hand does not mean it should not be sought. Making up fictional characters is a surprising attempt at such an explanation and lacks credibility in the absence of verifiable evidence.
People that believe they are Napolean get treated for mental illness. Why do people that believe some imaginary friend is talking to them get treated any differently?
I can't be arsed to check your link, but at a guess: It is.
Sun offer a nice mix of hard-core heavy processing power CPUs with heavy power needs and that come in expensive boxes.
They also offer very lower power usage chips that can run hundreds of concurrent threads with ease very cheaply, but lack the grunt to handle any real work.
You pick the one that matches the load you're planning to put on it.
When comparing TPC scores (and ignoring the fact they're a crock of dung anyway) the important factors are cost, power, cooling and physical footprint. Everything else is merely part of the function to those factors, and even three of those are merely aspects of the overall cost.
When you're paying tens of millions for your hardware, the number of cores on a CPU frankly doesn't get mentioned to the CEO.
More complex even than that.
How many blade chassis do I need with what underlying virtualisation tech requiring how much power/cooling to host the various applications/databases that run parts of the business we can't use unix/zOS for?
As compared to how much footprint from the mainframe?
Throw in software licence costs, bear in mind we may have spare mainframe capacity anyway, churn the numbers and see.
It may be cheaper to rehost a chunk of x86 apps on the mainframe, and it may not. It's a valid option and one to consider either way.
More to the point, are you in fact driving a bus.
That doesn't mean they have to ship it to you.
I explicitly turned down an organisation in the UK when they invited me for interview because they had mandatory drug testing.
I haven't done drugs since my passive smoking as a ten year old (fortunately my mother gave up then) but that's a limit I set.
I did write to them and explain why I wasn't interested, and they wrote back and were very apologetic but weren't going to change their policy. So I got a job elsewhere.
Safari is made by Apple, that fact alone is enough for a very sizable portion of the Slashdot readership to ignore any reason to dislike it.
Although it's also enough for a sizable portion of the Slashdot readership to ignore any reason to like it.
It's the translation of Newton's laws into the world of fanboyism.
No, because nobody sane wants to buy that anyway.
Three options spring to mind:
- buy the book. Not the e-book, the paper copy.
- use a library
- ask the teacher to provide the book. All the books I was asked to read at school were provided by the school.
All these options deny the author revenue from the electronic version of their work. If you want to deny them revenue from print copies too then you'd have to have words with the literature teacher.
You aren't like my friends.
We'd far far rather sit at a bar where we can actually talk, hear each other, and not have to put up with someone that only thinks they can sing bleating out some song so crap that we think the world would be better off had it never been written in the first place.
I think I'm going to have to completely back the AC in his desire that "the entire industry will fall into a pit, burn, and rot the death it deserves."
In the meantime I'll continue my policy of walking out of any establishment that begins karaoke while I'm in it.
I find myself utterly fucking amazed by the number of people that'll do anything their boss asks them to.
A: If your boss tells you to break the law and you do, you get prosecuted. (He may too, but that's not much comfort).
B: If you've been sacked, he's no longer your boss
C: Your passwords are not your boss' passwords. He does not have the authorisation to have them.
Maybe I'm just bloody weird in that I know company secrets that I can't share with my boss without getting sacked. Then again I know a lot of people with computer access that can't share those details with their boss without literally breaking the law.
As I said, learn the law. It truly is rather very nasty.
Hmm. I was right, I didn't buy that game.
I agree with you, it's all pretty idiotic. It also helps reassure me that my decision to never pay for Microsoft's online gaming service was a good one.
Whoa! Teabagging? On XBox Live?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teabagging
I clearly didn't buy _that_ game.
I'd be delighted to prove I'm a lesbian.
(cf. Eddie Izzard)