I honestly don't think a real "organized" war of that kind is likely to ever happen again. We have long since passed the point where the major actors are just too big and powerful to risk war with eachother, so they engage in little more than proxy wars against eachother's minor interests.
Even that doesn't really seem to describe the present day since the major powers major interests are so aligned they don't even proxy war with eachother so much as with the fallout from the decades worth of mess they made with their proxy wars.
Maybe some small time actors will have "real wars" with each other, or maybe we will have one against a small time actor, but, I suspect anything even as large as a US/Iran war is all but impossible at this point.
In general nothing. However, in this particular case the implications are amusing.
Note he very specifically said:
Now, it is true that some of my reporting has been based on hacked cybercrime forums and hacked cybercriminals, but I can't recall an instance wherein I was the one responsible for the hacking
Now..... I would believe a hacker who was breaking into forums and stealing data might forget who he hacked and when. Similarly, if Magic Johnson told me "I don't recall sleeping with that woman", I might believe he doesn't remember THAT woman.
However the thing I have trouble with is the idea of seeing that line between investigating and actively attacking a host. You know, that line where the port scans end and the nop slides begin.....its a pretty bright line. The only way I feel he "doesn't recall" writing about his exploits is, by having so many exploits of his own he can't recall which ones he may have written about.
Great answers but, when I got to this: "Now, it is true that some of my reporting has been based on hacked cybercrime forums and hacked cybercriminals, but I can't recall an instance wherein I was the one responsible for the hacking."
I couldn't help but laugh at the lack of a true denial. I have trouble imagining not being able to recall something like this. Hell, I can recall times I was tempted to put on a dark hat and attack someone's box (I was pretty sure he was the guilty party I was helping track down as a favor for someone....pro-tip: if you are going to engage in cybercrime, don't use the same screen name known to your victims to post youtube videos showing your IP address... best part is, I didn't even know the screen name until I told them who I thought it was, and they said I just named one of their suspects)
Actually, I am pretty sure you are right but for the wrong reasons.
As I recall the existing protocols were basically finding and manufacturing specific phages for each case, which makes for a bit of a labor intensive protocol. There is probably room to profit off that but its going to be in running a clinical lab itself or supply of specialized equipment.
Its not about cheap, its about where the cost is and what it is on.
Funny thing is, those terms and stickers don't even always hold water.
There was a hilarious case a while back where some PC manufacturer lost a lawsuit where they had refused a warrantee repair. Basically the courts told them PC buyers expect to open the case so you can't refuse warantee service over an expected operating condition, but, they can require the customer to revert any changes they made before they qualify for service.
Didn't stop the proliferation of stickers of course, because they may not actually void anything, but they may make you decide not to try a warantee claim.
Hell my monitor has an ugly bracket for the stand on the bottom, if you want to put it on an arm, you have to either leave the bracket sticking down off the bottom, or, remove a sticker to get it off.... lol, sticker removed.
This. The only time I ever click on them is accidentally.
But you have to realize, most people don't really know half of whats going on behind the scenes as they browse the web. Hell, I don't, I know enough to know how much is going on and how to find out more if I want, but who really looks? All the time? At some point you have to trust trust and everyone has to do it at a high level.
Most people don't have any conception of what a potentially hostile environment they have entered. Browsing the web is like replacing the hand shake with receptive anal sex and going out to a diner party: "Hi there ReputableSite.Com my good friend" "Hey there browser, come meet all my friends, we have a private room for 500, and they ALL want to meet you! Oh, is that condom? You need to leave that here or the door wont work."
The moral of the story was that by crying wolf, the boy made him crying wolf the equivalent of him NOT crying wolf ever.
It is tempting, and even mostly correct, to think of bugs as little biological robots, but, they are robots that have very complex programs which have dealt with all manner of danger and trick in the past and survived. It shouldn't be surprising that they have coping mechanisms to detect bogus signals and adjust.
Just like the townsfolk recognized a bogus signal and adjusted. That adjustment was the correct response to the boy who cried wolf. It left them vulnerable the one time he was right, but, he was a signal they couldn't rely on.
You can take the moral several ways, but at its heart it is: If you develop a reputation for not telling the truth, people wont believe you when you do.
That makes some sense. Admittedly I started out even younger on those twitchy FPS free for alls like Quake (well I started on Wolf but, multi-player was shit before quake), so when I got into games like CS and BF, well.... I died a lot.
> My friends are roughly my age, and we all earn enough to play new games without worrying about the cost. > We're all also sensible enough to recognise that the cost isn't justified
Yup. I don't need to save up for games, I can easily afford them at full price or pre-order. I just see it as a waste, especially when I look at how many games I bought and played for single digit hours.
> Sucks for online multiplayer games, works beautifully for co-op, isn't terribly relevant for single-player games. But we're all too old and slow for online FPS anyway.
Speak for yourself old man, I still jump on BF4 once in a while and actually, I play better at 36 than I did at 24. Mostly though I think a lot of it has to do with having to compensate for slower reactions with more careful actions and, it turns out being first to pull the trigger isn't quite as important as being first to aim. I am FAR better at being sneaky and not taking the first shot available and giving away my postion all the time, or hanging back and keeping cover on my team mates.... all things I think way more about now.
All true, really....its a complicated relationship. Most people can only afford to buy so many full priced games. Hell, look at steam's own statistics on how many games bought on sale are even downloaded and played. Its funny what people value.
I have pre-ordered. I need turn my head about 5 degrees from this screen to see a "God of War" special edition plastic molded chachky box (my wife's actually, but I have a some collectors edition city of heros swag in a box somewhere).... and over time just, come to value that less.
The only thing I derived value from is the game, and they are very hit or miss, even amongst the titles I like. So I have to be really excited to buy it when it comes out new....like Fallout4....I live in Boston and I am already Bethesda's willing little whore..... but not much else.
Still best value per hour ever was Kerbal Space program, and I mostly played it before it was released. There are a few games where I have logged 1000+ hours on steam because I left the launcher up for days. That is not how it happened with Kerbal, and I paid under $30 for it.
Its funny but people who wait are the real winners. Wait until after the game is out and hits a sale. You get the game at a cheaper price AND you get the bug fixes that came out since then. The only thing it cost you, was waiting to play it a bit, and you get a better product for less. How is that not winning?
But, as you say, with Indie games, small studios.... its a different story. Hell, I will pay for early access if I like a game, I don't even mind that its buggy because I know I chose that AND I know I am supporting an indie developer who might not otherwise even be able to produce the game.
The big boys who can afford advertising campaigns and multiple major releases per year? Feel free to hold them to a high standard, they should be setting the standard not be rewarded resting on their laurels.
Everything is so specific and oversimplified. The reality is, diet is complicated and there are multiple interlocking factors. Part of the problem is we know whats bad, but its what people like to study. The better question is, what helps regulate diet?
Fat is good, fat regulates appetite. I dunno about you but if I overdo it on fatty foods and someone sets a burger in front of me, it turns my stomach. Too much fat, well, its a very high density energy source, theres a number of issues with eating too much. Fat alone will not regulate your intake.
Sugar ototh has been shown to decrease fullness, and lead to over eating. Give someone a soda before a meal, thats +300ish calories... and they eat MORE food than they would otherwise. Sugar also gets turned into fat, but funny thing, the process actually makes VLDL cholesterol.....oops.
Fiber, has little nutritional value on its own, but it regulates absorbtion, it takes up space, it really keeps those bowles working like they should. Great stuff.... but its not in everything and its often removed from anything processed.
So drink a soda with every meal and eat foods with fiber processed out or which didn't have any to begin with, and its almost a perfect storm.
Shhhhh they are trying to make money here! Don't go pointing out reality and possibly making the funding go away! Just look what you fucking realists did to the perpetual motion inventors. Do you know how many diner plates could be filled by perpetual motion projects if not for your bungling?
Who says you have all their DNA? Just because you have suspects doesn't mean you have enough evidence to mandate they cooperate. You also might be too moral (yes, I consider it quite wrong) to go about using loopholes to surreptitiously collect their DNA, or just lack the resources to pull it off.
Or perhaps, this will rule out many (or all) of your suspects before you subject them to sampling, possibly against their will.
Or more likely this will be used to generate grant money and will never be used in any criminal investigation ever.
I like how he talks about how he would envision seeing this used, but, I think he actually has it backwards. Not surprizing since, his expertise is in the technique, not necessarily in what it may be used for.
Rather than "you are looking for...." better is to hold this back and narrow down the field. "You have X suspects, now you can eliminate all that don't match this". That will give you better results than "look for people who match this".
This sort of thing has come up many times with the use of this sort of statistic. There are only a handful of blood types, for example, but, if you can say with certainty that the suspect is one of a small group of 2 or 3 people, then blood type might get you down to 1....even though it would be otherwise pretty useless without other information to go on.
I made a similar point recently with the suicide girls picture incident where some guy made a huge print of a suicide girls pic he downloaded and sold it at an art show for $90k, and all I could think was....the dude who paid 90k got exactly what he paid for.....he paid 90k to have people tell him he has an eye for art and is a patron of the arts. That is what is was worth to him.
Then the suicide girls priceless response, to make their own prints of the same size and sell them for $90; because why not?
I wish I could say I don't get it, fact is there are too many people, and the power to make policy in the hands of so few that its all gamed and nothing really matters.
We have a "country" of 300 million people with a federal government setting international policy....made up of all of ~500 elected positions. Of course it is completely gamed and owned, its almost a given at that point.
About the only saving grace is what remains of the protections that the founders wrote in for fear of falling afoul of their own creation, and even those are slowly being eroded away. We have free speech zones and can be denied a trial indefinitely....hell our police can avoid evidence laws by faking how they found information and even openly call the practice legal.
Overall its so broken its basically unfixable in its current form.
> What? I knew about the vanilla thing but not that! Do I need a PHD in ice cream to buy non-crap ice cream > these days, it's bad enough with tech. The more you know!
One amusing thing was that the video (if I wasn't in the office I would find it) named names, and as my wife said "Of course the winner was Ben and Jerry's, anyone from the Boston area could have told you they make some of the best Ice Cream around". (although, I have seen some no name store brands that list real ingredients too).
The thing that shocked me wasn't who was best, but how far down the spiritual path of "Bait and Switch" we have gone, and not just a little bit, or in one area, but everywhere. Its not just treats, its not even just food products. We even have $200 headphones that are really $20 jobbers with metal weights inside (Beats, of course).
Or to really go back a ways...... as the old song goes....
I've lived all my life in this weird wonderland; I keep buying things that I don't understand, 'Cause they promise me miracles, magic, and hope, But, somehow, it always turns out to be soap.
I normally would agree but in this case, for youtube specifically, I call bullshit.
They are not riders on a free service, the service just isn't one that exchanges cash. Fact is, every video uploaded is one youtube is going to use as a way to distribute ads or to otherwise keep eyeballs on its site so it can justify ads.
Youtube provides the distribution for videos IN EXCHANGE FOR the right to attach their advertising. Looks like quid pro quo to me.
I don't disagree that this is how he could protect himself from such issues.
However why should he have had to? He operated for years under the assumption that it was, as it was when he signed up, first come first serve, and he came first to youtube.
Lush isn't even a particularly unique word. Anyone doing business under such a name, no matter how big a fish they think they are, should fully expect others will also be using it for different things, and should suck it up and deal.
If another company named Lush becomes more popular, will they lose it?
This is yet another case where "having the right" and "being right" are just not the same. They had established operating procedures for many years which people had come to rely on. They may have the right to pull the rug out from under people, but, that doesn't make them right to do it.
Kind of like, maybe you have the right to evict your 90 year old grandmother after she signs the house over to you with no protections, but hey, I still will consider you a prick for doing it.
You know, in my face mashing "OMG why would anyone want to know so much about cosmetic brands" I realized something.... this is exactly what Scott Adams was talking about in one of his old Dilbert books..... "Life is too complicated to be competent all the time"
It doesn't matter what you are an expert in, there are way more things you know jack shit about than you could EVER even be the least bit competent and knowledgeable about. Its amazing how much of our consumer culture is based on this fact and particularly based on the fact that you are ignorant of many things, and each of those is an angle that can be used to sell garbage product.
We (my wife and I) recently watched a great video by a chef on vanilla ice cream, where various brands were directly compared. Its amazing how much quality can differ between brands to the point that, you really may not even be buying anything that you would normally call "vanilla" or even "ice cream" if you knew the difference.
For example, only the ones that actually mention vanilla bean or vanilla extract specifically actually even contain any vanilla, and many have so many stabilizers they don't even melt....and this wasn't "ice cream" it was just a single flavor they compared.
No wonder I have replaced most of my array. I don't see baracuda 2GB in there, but I imagine they probably rate like the others. I had a 2 TB array built from 750 GB drives, that I replaced with a 6 TB array from 2 TB drives, all seagate.
In the years I ran the old array, I replaced 1 drive. In a similar span of time with the second array, I have now replaced 3 drives in that array.
But this isn't even a trademark dispute, its a company policy dispute.
Though, its also an issue of well....trade. What happens when Lush Internetworking Products and Lush Sex toys and Lush tabletop games, all run by different people, all become popular....and half the customers of each have never heard of the others?
If Lush skateboards become more popular than another Lush, will it change to them? Fair is fair right?
5 minutes? That is nothing, we had a bug in one of our builds were we forgot to set hardware clock. Turns out our blade vendor was sending us systems with the clock set years in the past, so after build, the system would boot with hardware time, refuse to sync the clock due to the enormous skew, and then refuse logins because..... our ldap ssl certificates were not YET valid!
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I honestly don't think a real "organized" war of that kind is likely to ever happen again. We have long since passed the point where the major actors are just too big and powerful to risk war with eachother, so they engage in little more than proxy wars against eachother's minor interests.
Even that doesn't really seem to describe the present day since the major powers major interests are so aligned they don't even proxy war with eachother so much as with the fallout from the decades worth of mess they made with their proxy wars.
Maybe some small time actors will have "real wars" with each other, or maybe we will have one against a small time actor, but, I suspect anything even as large as a US/Iran war is all but impossible at this point.
In general nothing. However, in this particular case the implications are amusing.
Note he very specifically said:
Now..... I would believe a hacker who was breaking into forums and stealing data might forget who he hacked and when. Similarly, if Magic Johnson told me "I don't recall sleeping with that woman", I might believe he doesn't remember THAT woman.
However the thing I have trouble with is the idea of seeing that line between investigating and actively attacking a host. You know, that line where the port scans end and the nop slides begin.....its a pretty bright line. The only way I feel he "doesn't recall" writing about his exploits is, by having so many exploits of his own he can't recall which ones he may have written about.
Thats what I find funny.
Great answers but, when I got to this: "Now, it is true that some of my reporting has been based on hacked cybercrime forums and hacked cybercriminals, but I can't recall an instance wherein I was the one responsible for the hacking."
I couldn't help but laugh at the lack of a true denial. I have trouble imagining not being able to recall something like this. Hell, I can recall times I was tempted to put on a dark hat and attack someone's box (I was pretty sure he was the guilty party I was helping track down as a favor for someone....pro-tip: if you are going to engage in cybercrime, don't use the same screen name known to your victims to post youtube videos showing your IP address ... best part is, I didn't even know the screen name until I told them who I thought it was, and they said I just named one of their suspects)
Actually, I am pretty sure you are right but for the wrong reasons.
As I recall the existing protocols were basically finding and manufacturing specific phages for each case, which makes for a bit of a labor intensive protocol. There is probably room to profit off that but its going to be in running a clinical lab itself or supply of specialized equipment.
Its not about cheap, its about where the cost is and what it is on.
Funny thing is, those terms and stickers don't even always hold water.
There was a hilarious case a while back where some PC manufacturer lost a lawsuit where they had refused a warrantee repair. Basically the courts told them PC buyers expect to open the case so you can't refuse warantee service over an expected operating condition, but, they can require the customer to revert any changes they made before they qualify for service.
Didn't stop the proliferation of stickers of course, because they may not actually void anything, but they may make you decide not to try a warantee claim.
Hell my monitor has an ugly bracket for the stand on the bottom, if you want to put it on an arm, you have to either leave the bracket sticking down off the bottom, or, remove a sticker to get it off.... lol, sticker removed.
This. The only time I ever click on them is accidentally.
But you have to realize, most people don't really know half of whats going on behind the scenes as they browse the web. Hell, I don't, I know enough to know how much is going on and how to find out more if I want, but who really looks? All the time? At some point you have to trust trust and everyone has to do it at a high level.
Most people don't have any conception of what a potentially hostile environment they have entered. Browsing the web is like replacing the hand shake with receptive anal sex and going out to a diner party:
"Hi there ReputableSite.Com my good friend"
"Hey there browser, come meet all my friends, we have a private room for 500, and they ALL want to meet you! Oh, is that condom? You need to leave that here or the door wont work."
The moral of the story was that by crying wolf, the boy made him crying wolf the equivalent of him NOT crying wolf ever.
It is tempting, and even mostly correct, to think of bugs as little biological robots, but, they are robots that have very complex programs which have dealt with all manner of danger and trick in the past and survived. It shouldn't be surprising that they have coping mechanisms to detect bogus signals and adjust.
Just like the townsfolk recognized a bogus signal and adjusted. That adjustment was the correct response to the boy who cried wolf. It left them vulnerable the one time he was right, but, he was a signal they couldn't rely on.
You can take the moral several ways, but at its heart it is: If you develop a reputation for not telling the truth, people wont believe you when you do.
That makes some sense. Admittedly I started out even younger on those twitchy FPS free for alls like Quake (well I started on Wolf but, multi-player was shit before quake), so when I got into games like CS and BF, well.... I died a lot.
> My friends are roughly my age, and we all earn enough to play new games without worrying about the cost.
> We're all also sensible enough to recognise that the cost isn't justified
Yup. I don't need to save up for games, I can easily afford them at full price or pre-order. I just see it as a waste, especially when I look at how many games I bought and played for single digit hours.
> Sucks for online multiplayer games, works beautifully for co-op, isn't terribly relevant for single-player games. But we're all too old and slow for online FPS anyway.
Speak for yourself old man, I still jump on BF4 once in a while and actually, I play better at 36 than I did at 24. Mostly though I think a lot of it has to do with having to compensate for slower reactions with more careful actions and, it turns out being first to pull the trigger isn't quite as important as being first to aim. I am FAR better at being sneaky and not taking the first shot available and giving away my postion all the time, or hanging back and keeping cover on my team mates.... all things I think way more about now.
All true, really....its a complicated relationship. Most people can only afford to buy so many full priced games. Hell, look at steam's own statistics on how many games bought on sale are even downloaded and played. Its funny what people value.
I have pre-ordered. I need turn my head about 5 degrees from this screen to see a "God of War" special edition plastic molded chachky box (my wife's actually, but I have a some collectors edition city of heros swag in a box somewhere).... and over time just, come to value that less.
The only thing I derived value from is the game, and they are very hit or miss, even amongst the titles I like. So I have to be really excited to buy it when it comes out new....like Fallout4....I live in Boston and I am already Bethesda's willing little whore..... but not much else.
Still best value per hour ever was Kerbal Space program, and I mostly played it before it was released. There are a few games where I have logged 1000+ hours on steam because I left the launcher up for days. That is not how it happened with Kerbal, and I paid under $30 for it.
Its funny but people who wait are the real winners. Wait until after the game is out and hits a sale. You get the game at a cheaper price AND you get the bug fixes that came out since then. The only thing it cost you, was waiting to play it a bit, and you get a better product for less. How is that not winning?
But, as you say, with Indie games, small studios.... its a different story. Hell, I will pay for early access if I like a game, I don't even mind that its buggy because I know I chose that AND I know I am supporting an indie developer who might not otherwise even be able to produce the game.
The big boys who can afford advertising campaigns and multiple major releases per year? Feel free to hold them to a high standard, they should be setting the standard not be rewarded resting on their laurels.
Everything is so specific and oversimplified. The reality is, diet is complicated and there are multiple interlocking factors. Part of the problem is we know whats bad, but its what people like to study. The better question is, what helps regulate diet?
Fat is good, fat regulates appetite. I dunno about you but if I overdo it on fatty foods and someone sets a burger in front of me, it turns my stomach. Too much fat, well, its a very high density energy source, theres a number of issues with eating too much. Fat alone will not regulate your intake.
Sugar ototh has been shown to decrease fullness, and lead to over eating. Give someone a soda before a meal, thats +300ish calories... and they eat MORE food than they would otherwise. Sugar also gets turned into fat, but funny thing, the process actually makes VLDL cholesterol.....oops.
Fiber, has little nutritional value on its own, but it regulates absorbtion, it takes up space, it really keeps those bowles working like they should. Great stuff.... but its not in everything and its often removed from anything processed.
So drink a soda with every meal and eat foods with fiber processed out or which didn't have any to begin with, and its almost a perfect storm.
Shhhhh they are trying to make money here! Don't go pointing out reality and possibly making the funding go away! Just look what you fucking realists did to the perpetual motion inventors. Do you know how many diner plates could be filled by perpetual motion projects if not for your bungling?
Headlines like that should read "British Company convinces Pentagon to 'Make it Rain'"
Its almost better if the project has no hope of working, that way there is no way anyone is ever going to try and hold you to a production schedule.
They make it rain, you fail miserably, mission accomplished!
Who says you have all their DNA? Just because you have suspects doesn't mean you have enough evidence to mandate they cooperate. You also might be too moral (yes, I consider it quite wrong) to go about using loopholes to surreptitiously collect their DNA, or just lack the resources to pull it off.
Or perhaps, this will rule out many (or all) of your suspects before you subject them to sampling, possibly against their will.
Or more likely this will be used to generate grant money and will never be used in any criminal investigation ever.
I like how he talks about how he would envision seeing this used, but, I think he actually has it backwards. Not surprizing since, his expertise is in the technique, not necessarily in what it may be used for.
Rather than "you are looking for...." better is to hold this back and narrow down the field. "You have X suspects, now you can eliminate all that don't match this". That will give you better results than "look for people who match this".
This sort of thing has come up many times with the use of this sort of statistic. There are only a handful of blood types, for example, but, if you can say with certainty that the suspect is one of a small group of 2 or 3 people, then blood type might get you down to 1....even though it would be otherwise pretty useless without other information to go on.
I made a similar point recently with the suicide girls picture incident where some guy made a huge print of a suicide girls pic he downloaded and sold it at an art show for $90k, and all I could think was....the dude who paid 90k got exactly what he paid for.....he paid 90k to have people tell him he has an eye for art and is a patron of the arts. That is what is was worth to him.
Then the suicide girls priceless response, to make their own prints of the same size and sell them for $90; because why not?
I wish I could say I don't get it, fact is there are too many people, and the power to make policy in the hands of so few that its all gamed and nothing really matters.
We have a "country" of 300 million people with a federal government setting international policy....made up of all of ~500 elected positions. Of course it is completely gamed and owned, its almost a given at that point.
About the only saving grace is what remains of the protections that the founders wrote in for fear of falling afoul of their own creation, and even those are slowly being eroded away. We have free speech zones and can be denied a trial indefinitely....hell our police can avoid evidence laws by faking how they found information and even openly call the practice legal.
Overall its so broken its basically unfixable in its current form.
> What? I knew about the vanilla thing but not that! Do I need a PHD in ice cream to buy non-crap ice cream
> these days, it's bad enough with tech. The more you know!
One amusing thing was that the video (if I wasn't in the office I would find it) named names, and as my wife said "Of course the winner was Ben and Jerry's, anyone from the Boston area could have told you they make some of the best Ice Cream around". (although, I have seen some no name store brands that list real ingredients too).
The thing that shocked me wasn't who was best, but how far down the spiritual path of "Bait and Switch" we have gone, and not just a little bit, or in one area, but everywhere. Its not just treats, its not even just food products. We even have $200 headphones that are really $20 jobbers with metal weights inside (Beats, of course).
Or to really go back a ways...... as the old song goes....
So maybe its not all that new a problem.
I normally would agree but in this case, for youtube specifically, I call bullshit.
They are not riders on a free service, the service just isn't one that exchanges cash. Fact is, every video uploaded is one youtube is going to use as a way to distribute ads or to otherwise keep eyeballs on its site so it can justify ads.
Youtube provides the distribution for videos IN EXCHANGE FOR the right to attach their advertising. Looks like quid pro quo to me.
I don't disagree that this is how he could protect himself from such issues.
However why should he have had to? He operated for years under the assumption that it was, as it was when he signed up, first come first serve, and he came first to youtube.
Lush isn't even a particularly unique word. Anyone doing business under such a name, no matter how big a fish they think they are, should fully expect others will also be using it for different things, and should suck it up and deal.
If another company named Lush becomes more popular, will they lose it?
This is yet another case where "having the right" and "being right" are just not the same. They had established operating procedures for many years which people had come to rely on. They may have the right to pull the rug out from under people, but, that doesn't make them right to do it.
Kind of like, maybe you have the right to evict your 90 year old grandmother after she signs the house over to you with no protections, but hey, I still will consider you a prick for doing it.
You know, in my face mashing "OMG why would anyone want to know so much about cosmetic brands" I realized something.... this is exactly what Scott Adams was talking about in one of his old Dilbert books..... "Life is too complicated to be competent all the time"
It doesn't matter what you are an expert in, there are way more things you know jack shit about than you could EVER even be the least bit competent and knowledgeable about. Its amazing how much of our consumer culture is based on this fact and particularly based on the fact that you are ignorant of many things, and each of those is an angle that can be used to sell garbage product.
We (my wife and I) recently watched a great video by a chef on vanilla ice cream, where various brands were directly compared. Its amazing how much quality can differ between brands to the point that, you really may not even be buying anything that you would normally call "vanilla" or even "ice cream" if you knew the difference.
For example, only the ones that actually mention vanilla bean or vanilla extract specifically actually even contain any vanilla, and many have so many stabilizers they don't even melt....and this wasn't "ice cream" it was just a single flavor they compared.
No wonder I have replaced most of my array. I don't see baracuda 2GB in there, but I imagine they probably rate like the others. I had a 2 TB array built from 750 GB drives, that I replaced with a 6 TB array from 2 TB drives, all seagate.
In the years I ran the old array, I replaced 1 drive. In a similar span of time with the second array, I have now replaced 3 drives in that array.
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But this isn't even a trademark dispute, its a company policy dispute.
Though, its also an issue of well....trade. What happens when Lush Internetworking Products and Lush Sex toys and Lush tabletop games, all run by different people, all become popular....and half the customers of each have never heard of the others?
If Lush skateboards become more popular than another Lush, will it change to them? Fair is fair right?
5 minutes? That is nothing, we had a bug in one of our builds were we forgot to set hardware clock. Turns out our blade vendor was sending us systems with the clock set years in the past, so after build, the system would boot with hardware time, refuse to sync the clock due to the enormous skew, and then refuse logins because..... our ldap ssl certificates were not YET valid!