Comment Latency? (Score 0) 74
These tests are useless without latency measurements. For nearly all practical purposes, a 21Mb transfer rate is not significantly better than a 1Mb rate if the round-trip time is 500ms.
These tests are useless without latency measurements. For nearly all practical purposes, a 21Mb transfer rate is not significantly better than a 1Mb rate if the round-trip time is 500ms.
"endorsing the breaking of the law is also illegal"
It's not in the USA. Inciting violence is, however.
CA law incorporates the Uniform Trade Secrets Act in California Civil Code sections 3426.1 et seq., the text of which you can find here..
BTW, this was referenced in the attorney's notice, which was linked to the story.
The question of whether something is illegal/unlawful is a separate one from what the remedy is for the breach.
Breaking a civil law is still illegal. (Put differently, you don't have to commit a criminal act for something to be illegal.)
I'm not even sure that matters. It's like saying "go rob a bank, but make sure you do it legally."
Whether the data is in the cloud makes no difference with respect to discovery requests. If you are served a discovery subpoena, you have to turn over the data whether it's in the cloud or not.
The difference is that under the Stored Communications Act, the provider can turn it over to the Government without notifying you. That's what has most data security experts nervous about cloud storage.
I agree, and this is why I have nothing but contempt for typical "best provider performance" conclusions that are driven solely by single-connection TCP transfer tests (e.g. speedtest.net).
In most cases, latency matters more than bandwidth (where bandwidth is roughly the same within an order of magnitude or so). This is why there's a very strong correlation between the provider that had the lowest measured latency and the provider that had the lowest page retrieval time. In the end, real-world page loading is precisely what we use smartphones for, and so we need to know how that application performs, instead of what raw transfer rates are.
I still think the Gizmodo tests are deficient, though, as they are unclear as to whether they repeated the tests at regular intervals over a 24-hour period. Network congestion varies throughout the day, and at any given moment one path may be more congested than another. A valid test, IMO, would take the average (or median) of each metric over a 24-hour period (or even longer, covering both a weekday and a weekend, since usage varies among them).
But if you are concerned about performance, and you are already running your RDBMS servers at their limits, then you also already know way, way too much about the internal RDBMS structure, how tables are split, where they are split, and so on.
At some point the comparative cost of doing your own joins is less than tweaking your RDBMS to scale. However, this point is rarely reached in most organizations.
What if Google had won the auction?
Enron's marketplace concerned long-haul pipes. The market for last-mile connections is quite different, and is where most of the congestion is, because telcos are cheap and laying new fiber to leaf nodes (i.e., homes and small businesses) is expensive.
I think you mistook my comment to suggest a high per-bit price. There are lots of ways to charge for bandwidth utilization, the 95%ile method being one of them.
Or, they could just charge by the bit, like every other utility (water, gas, electricity).
The FCC redacted that part, not Google, presumably on behalf of Google because the Apple Developer Agreement makes your communications with Apple confidential (subject to law enforcement inquiries). The FCC *does* possess the redacted parts of Google's response.
Almost all of their tests involve working sets smaller than RAM (the installed RAM size is 4GB, but the working sets are 2GB). Are they testing the filesystems or the buffer cache? I don't see any indication that any of these filesystems are mounted with the "sync" flag.
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