I just double checked and the same old attack still works on iCloud. If you forget your password, you can reset it in either of two ways. Either they can email you a new password, or you can answer the challenge questions. So let's get into Miley Cyrus's account.

https://www.google.com/?q=mile...
Her mother's maiden name is Finley

https://www.google.com/?q=mile...
Her first pet was named Cocoa.

There you go, now we can reset her iCloud password and Miley's naked pictures. [voice style="ben-stein"]Wow[/voice]

> ZFS is a layer below LVM.

Typically you'd layer raid, then LVM, then the filesystem. ZFS tries to be all three. It's raid, and it's a volume manager, and it's a filesystem. There are some benefits to integration, and some drawbacks. With the raid>lvm>filesystem approach, it's trivial to add dm-cache, bcache, iscsi, or any other piece of storage technology. With ZFS, anything you want to add has to be specifically supported within ZFS.

The Unix tradition is small, single purpose tools that do one thing well. Witness sort, grep, wc, etc. Want to count the log entries that mention Slashdot? You don't need a special tool for that, just grep slashdot | wc -l . Tools like mdadm and lvm are building blocks that can be combined to suit your need, the Unix way. ZFS is a big monolithic package that does everything, much like Microsoft Word or Outlook. ZFS is more in the Microsoft tradition.

> Is this something like a 1 year or 10 year contract?

The first words of the summary are:
      Prior to the season, Microsoft and the NFL struck a 5-year, $400 million deal

> I am sure all of them could pass it if they studied for it. That is why all certifications are uselessuselessb

With enough study, you can pass the exams to be a medical doctor. That is why exams to certify that medical doctors know what they are doing are useless. Unless of course you want someone who knows about the subject at hand. I kind of want a doctor, and a security professional, who have studied their fields. Sorry you couldn't pass.

> With enough studying, almost anyone can pass it without understanding the material, just regurgitating facts.

I suppose it MIGHT be possible to do that, but that would be the hard way. Understanding the material is a lot easier than memorizing every possible question and answer.

I'm no Oakey, but I can give you a very quick summary of geothermal, which I believe is fairly objective:

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Geothermal is stable and relatively clean. It releases some greenhouse gasses. It's often inexpensive, but available only in a very limited area, certain parts of the "ring of fire" that circles the Pacific Ocean. Half of the ring is at the bottom of the ocean, so geothermal is available in spots along the west coast of the Americas and northern Asia. Geothermal wells are often very, very deep, and therefore risky - you could spend several million dollars, then hit a section that can't be drilled through, so you're out a few million dollars with nothing to show for it.

Overall, geothermal is, in my opinion, very attractive for the people in those few places where it's available.
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Here's a bit more detail, with references:
The United States produces over 1 billion kilowatt hours of geothermal energy each year, more than any other country (EIA 2012). As calculated by Bertani & Thain (2002), greenhouse gas emissions from geothermal energy are 75% lower than natural gas and 87% lower than coal. From the earliest research into modern geothermal, it has been known that energy can be retrieved only from specific areas with appropriate tectonic activity (Elder 1965). John W. Elder found that areas where geothermal energy can be found within one kilometer of the surface are stable sources of energy at a reasonable cost and identified those areas as being primarily along the Pacific Rim and in Iceland. The areas identified as viable represent less than 1% of the earth. In all other areas, geothermal energy is not viable, primarily because forcing fluid against the high pressure at great depths would require more energy than could be retrieved.
The 2,566 megawatts of installed capacity in California and other parts of the country are certainly of benefit in those areas. The energy cannot be efficiently transported throughout the rest of the country, meaning the potential of geothermal is limited to those specific areas. Geothermal projects involve a considerable degree of risk because the energy source is buried under thousands of feet of rock, where engineers can see neither the potential energy reservoir nor the thousands of feet of rock that must be drilled to reach it. Therefore, it cannot be known ahead of time how long a geothermal well will produce, or if the intervening material is likely to cause the project to fail. Southton (2005) documented many failure modes which can stop a project after millions of dollars have already been invested. Lap leaks, compression failure, and casing cracks can ruin a geothermal well before any energy is produced (Southton 2005). Pruess (1990) considered various models for predicting when a well might stop producing, but those are only predictions. A geothermal well may stop producing at any time.
    The U.S. Geological Survey presented a procedure currently in use to extend the life of existing wells and allow geothermal wells to be drilled in new locations (Pierce 2010). The Pierce presentation of this method, known as hydraulic fracturing, also referenced the possibility that hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking”, might increase the risk of earthquakes. The potential danger of hydraulic fracturing was identified in 1994 by Bruhn, Parry, and Thompson, and the issue has received attention in the press lately. Guidelines for safe use of hydraulic fracturing may be developed by engineers and geologists, however issues of public opinion and politics exist in this area. Some proponents of renewable energy argue against the use of inexpensive natural gas by pointing out the potential risk of using hydraulic fracturing for natural gas production. It is therefore difficult for the same groups to argue for geothermal energy, which is also produced by hydraulic fracturing. Although the geothermal fields in California are the largest source of geothermal in the world, they provide less than 0.001% of energy needs, according to EIA data (2012). If it were possible to increase hydrothermal production by 1000%, this would fulfill 0.1% of U.S. energy needs.

> Sorry, writing complex queries in some imperative subset of JavaScript is totally the wrong way of doing things. Intentionally not learning SQL takes more effort than learning how to use it!

With 80 million records and heavy load, the number one priority is not "make it easy for any teenager to write queries ".
I system that requires the programmer to think things through, and therefore write an efficient query, is better in some cases.
Just as manually chosen mutexes are sometimes better than automatic full-column lovks actoss 80 million rows.
Easy isn't always best, my friend.

Ad Oakey pointed out, geothermal is produced by fracking. You were wise in your response, I think. Most people here on Slashdot know everything about everything, and have all the answers. You're smarter than that.

True or false: Detroit has for many years been a city where unions are popular, and union-style thinking about wages is common.
True or false: Detroit is in very bad shape economically, possibly the closest thing the IS has to a third- world environment.
True or false: The union mentality doesn't accept third-world wages or working conditions. In fact union families expect hifh wages.

If the above are true, Detroit has poor economic opportunities, but many of the people aren't willing to work at low-wage jobs, which are the only jobs available. Do you not see how it might be a problem when people aren't willing to work at any of the available jobs?

I guess you didn't read the summary. The batteries last about an hour. So 12 buses will replace one. At a cost of a million dollars each. Roughly 150 times the cost of diesel or CNG buses, so figure the fare will be about $150.

I know your solution to that - have the taxpayers pay the fare. So you're paying for your neighbor to ride the bus. $150 each way is $300 per day, times 250 work days = $75,000 / year in new taxes for you. Have fun with that.

Local policy makers should make preparations for what happens in a generation or two, agreed. This is, however, a solved problem. More money/jobs from the energy industry means that other businesses have paying customers- hair salons, restaurants, hotels, grocery stores - every segment of the economy benefits from the inflow of money to the area. Over the next 10-20 years, blighted abandoned areas become vibrant again. At that point, they are attractive places to build any business. That's the time that policy makers should encourage investment in any business that exports it's product or service out of the city. Manufacturing, software, universities- anything that is purchased by people outside the state will do just fine to maintain an inflow of cash to keep the local economy doing well.

Right now, these areas are so run-down that nobody wants to put any business there. It's a third- world environment, but with unions and Democrat labor laws. An influx of cash could allow Detroit to be rebuilt as a modern city again, which would then need to have intelligent policies just like any other modern city.

Simple question - would you prefer geothermal energy rather than energy obtained by fracturing?

> Then you may be surprised to know that Windows NT had a version for DEC Alpha (and possibly a couple of other RISC CPUs), along with compilers to match.

From 1995 or 1996 until 1999, as I recall. So three or four years. Windows has been around for 29 years, since 1985. So let's try this:

90% of Microsoft's effort has been focused purely on x86, while Linux as always been architecture-agnostic.

I understand where you're coming from. As you may know, I've been doing infosec for a long time, and I know the difference between "compliant" and "secure". I'm rather surprised you chose CompTIA Security+ as your example of a bad security certification. The new one especially is quite comprehensive, in my view. Not that a single certification can ensure that a candidate is ready to perform any and all jobs related to security, but I'd say that if even 10% of the people designing and maintaining these systems had enough knowledge to pass Security+, we'd be in a lot better shape.

He had a huge criminal enterprise to run, tons of money to launder, murders to order, and hopefully he'd make some time to enjoy his ill-gotten gains before he eventually made a mistake and got busted. If he was wasting his time setting up a captcha, that was pretty stupid. The smart thing would be for him to have someone eho understands banking and finance take care if the banking and finance, someone who understands programming take care of the programming, someone who understands high-capacity server infrastructure take care of the server infrastructure, ehile he ran the whole operation and spent some time on his boat. Actually, not really. He was successful before silk road,so the smart thing to do would have been to continue to make money legally. That has the advantage of not ending with a prison sentence.

> Paypal engineers do not go to prison for an extended period of time when they are caught.

Neither does the script monkey that Ulbricht hired to set up the captcha.