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Comment Re:Moisture? (Score 3, Informative) 62

You can take a look at their official page. http://www.ohsu.edu/xd/about/initiatives/data-center-west.cfm

The tour video and text talk about plants outside filtering. The video around 3 minutes, shows additional filtering inside.

I suspect prevailing winds will really screw with the site cooling.

The "Virtual tour" has more details than the rest. Nothing about humidity.

Their security seems odd. They talk about the security being very strict. The video shows the inside of each "pod" to be open to the common hot air area in the upper part of the roof. So they have security, but you can get around it by not going through the doors. {sigh}

I never got the idea of sticking square boxes in a round hole. They're wasting a lot of good real estate by leaving all that extra space between the servers.

It seems like it was drawn up with an ideal world in mind, which usually doesn't translate well to the real world.

Comment Re:Fuck people! (Score 3, Funny) 239


echo "chaotic_evil" > /proc/morality

That's why it hasn't been working for you.

There's also a kernel patch on evil.org to change the default setting. With the standard kernel, it is set to "lawful_neutral". In that mode, it will honk and swerve for a little old lady crossing the street.

lawful_good would stop, and offer her a ride.

chaotic_evil will run her over, back up and do it again, and the lower loot collection hook will deploy to take her purse.

Comment Re:Gators (Score 2) 160

I hope it doesn't totally depend on the cellmate providing evidence of what he was told. That's fairly common for a cellmate to come up as a witness to get a reduced sentence. If he has a somewhat competent lawyer, that will get tossed.

But if he really did ask his phone where to hide a body, and he was really trying to do so, that's just plain dumb.

I was playing with Google auto-complete a few years ago. When searching "Where to hide a ", the top 3 suggestions were "bong", "tattoo" and "body". 115,000,000 results on "body".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2yIBjlx3QM.

If he couldn't find somewhere around Gainesville to hide a body, he's not very bright. The UF mascot and the nickname of the football field should be a couple good hints. Well, it seems murderers aren't always the best and brightest. Otherwise, they would have considered "I would go to jail for the rest of my life" as an unacceptable risk.

Comment Re:Grades vs IQ (Score 2) 391

Lots of brilliant people score horribly in school, usually due to boredom. I have a high IQ.

I didn't have straight A's in school, because I was completely bored with it by 8th grade. I scored well on tests, but I gave up on doing homework. 7 classes, each assigning 1 hour of homework didn't make any sense.

The only ones who excelled were the ones who teamed up to do homework together, and divided the workload. Sure, they each learned something, but they didn't learn everything they were suppose to. It was also reflected in their test scores.

Unfortunately, at my schools, homework counted for a large percentage of the grade, and I didn't live near any of my classmates.

Comment Re: Translated into English (Score 2) 306

    The article is a bit misleading. I don't know about that specific house, and the article sure isn't clear other than "Indian Rocks Beach". I know of people in the area who do use solar panels, and are grid-tied.

    I see a few potential problems.

    First, she rents the property, so the owner may not want it.

    Second, the property may be deed restricted as part of a HOA. For example, my house is in a HOA but enforces nothing. My mom's house is also, but they are strict down to how many plants you can have on your front porch (6), and screening in the porch is forbidden unless it happened before the current management took over. We can have satellite TV, solar water heater, or whatever we want. My mom can't even have a digital satellite dish or even a small mast antenna.

    And finally, the article clearly states "vintage cottages". It may fall under some local rules imposed on historic properties. That "city" is only about 1.5 miles by 0.5 miles, and I haven't lived in it so I don't know the specific rules. I did work in the county, and I did see homes and businesses with solar panels installed. So, it's not a county or state issue, it's a local government or HOA issue.

    I know there *is* work for solar. We need some electrical work done on our house, and when I was looking for contractors about half of them specialized in solar. That has a higher profit than just coming in and repairing basic electrical problems.

Comment Re:What about hybrid sites? (Score 1) 148

Really, it's not more intensive to use https. There are lots of people who have analyzed the difference.

A few more packets are sent. It's really trivial. While it is measurable, it can be recovered by removing one little picture, and/or compressing one of those pictures.

A trivial amount of CPU time is taken. Most of the measurements saying it was significant was when CPUs were single core 200Mhz or less, and memory was measured in MB rather than GB.

I've been offering or forcing users to SSL, depending on the site. Sometimes I just do it because I can.

There's no good reason to not use SSL now. I've forced it on hobby sites, and huge load sites.

There is a risk of serving even simple elements insecure. It would be mistakes or silly things that don't seem to make a difference. I've seen lots of little mistakes when packet sniffing networks (with explicit permission, of course). Once in a while, someone will make the little mistake developing a site, and I'll see a request like http://example.org/images/logo... .

Your site could be totally perfect today, and you've gone over it every which way to make sure of that. But next week or next year when you make a "simple" change, it could make a huge difference.

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