"We observe that the same objectives cannot be reached with RAID level 6 organizations and would require RAID stripes that could tolerate triple disk failures."
That's true only if you assume that three disk failures occur faster than a single disk can be rebuilt.
If you assume no more than two disk failures *during the length of time it takes to rebuild the array* then RAID 5 or RAID 6 works fine as long as you assign enough hot spares.
The airlines are not charging based on costs (since a flight *through* SF clearly costs more than one *to* SF but the ticket price is lower)
The airlines are not charging based on demand on the aircraft (since it's the same aircraft to SF whether you board another/stay on for a second leg or not).
Instead the airlines are charging arbitrary prices based on "what they can get away with" popularity matrixes... and they are upset that their customers are able to do similar manipulations back? Sucks to be them: Public data is public.
there was evidence for it, so more than hypothesis
That *is* the definition of a hypothsis. Without evidence it would be a "wild ass guess"... perhaps even a "scientific wild ass guess".
When that hypothesis makes predictions capable of falsifying the model, and those predictions are tested and shown accurate... then we can discuss "theory".
Do you want your children to be the ones dead so that the US can go avenge them? Or would you prefer they not die in the first place?
Our freedoms are, by far, our most important possession. They are more important than my life, my children's lives, your life. After 9/11, there was quite a bit of talk about us going on with our lives, still living them as we would have months earlier. If not, the terrorists get to define us. If we grant them that power, they win. This time, the terrorists won, and not because our government caved, but ball-less corporate concerns about liability. Sony was put into a bad place though; the bullshit Aurora, Colorado lawsuit is STILL ongoing. Sony didn't have a good decision to make.
That's rhetorical; unless you basically never avoid any area ever and don't want your children to either for reasons of safety.
Send your 8 year old wandering the city at night? Sure, someone may kidnap him: but his freedom is more important than his life. I suspect you are very brave on the internet. I suspect when the gun gets pointed at you, you start doing what the guy with the gun says despite it not being "free".
It's easy to sit back and arm-chair the decision when a) you don't believe it's a real threat, b) you won't be proven wrong because what you advocate will not have been tried and c) you have nothing at all on the line.
It's also a straw man. No freedom has been taken.
But of course, this is getting into rhetorical realms. Nothing would have happened. It was your usual amount of pointless North Korean bluster.
This is literally the first time I've ever discussed North Korea on Slashdot. I don't have a *usual* anything.
When Iran and Lybia were both state sponsors of terrorism against the US, what did we do?
Well in the case of Iran we funded a major war against them that killed hundreds of thousands.
How will this apply to N.Korea?
We've harmed them diplomatically and hemmed them in. We've also backed other enemies in the region like Pakistan and Saudi Arabia. As for Libya we hit them with sanctions weakened their influence and then just recently helped flip the government.
We are already doing all of that against N.Korea. So if that's our response: it's the same as saying "we will do nothing".
Where is our response to capture of the USS Pueblo?
Or their shoot down of the American EC-121?
Or their 1969 killing of four US soldiers?
Or the December 1994 shoot-down of a US Army helicopter?
What do you imagine we will do against (nuclear armed and sitting on the border of China right next to Russia) Korea?
They have no enemies to give support to... unless you count S.Korea and we already do that.
They have no insurgency to support (as Syria did).
Do you honestly think we will engage in a major military campaign on Russia's border? We wouldn't even do that to defend Ukrane.
We'd blame them and condemn them and attempt to get sanctions. We already do all those things so it's an empty threat.
I don't know why the Japanese are so blase about North Korea. I don't know why the South Koreans are. But I do know I don't want the USA to be if they are going to start that nonsense here.
I'd love to know where you got that knowledge. When Iran and Lybia were both state sponsors of terrorism against the US, what did we do? How about Saudi Arabia's support of Al Quieda? How about Pakistan's ongoing support of the Taliban? All of these actors kill Americans.
How about the Americans killed by the Russian military on KAL 007? How about MH17?
How about the N.Korean capture of the USS Pueblo?
Or their shoot down of the American EC-121?
Or their 1969 killing of four US soldiers?
Or the December 1994 shoot-down of a US Army helicopter?
So tell me. What is it you know we would do?
N.Korea has a long history of attacking foreign assets (mostly S.Korean ships, but also some land targets) and killing people. They are known to have Japanese captives. They have taken Americans traveling abroad captive. They sold nuclear technology to places like Iran.
Do you want your children to be the ones dead so that the US can go avenge them? Or would you prefer they not die in the first place?
More to the point: the OP is based on flawed assumptions.
Is the nation-state of North Korea capable of setting off a single bomb in a single (basically public) location in the US?
If we knew that 5 theaters were going to be attacked, but didn't know which, does that mean we should go forward with the opening?
While I agree with the concern over bending to threats, I think it's a straw man to claim that the issue is whether 18,000 locations can be attacked and so I think the claim of "incapable" is actually wrong.
Dear Sony,
Release the movie for free on the internet. Perhaps issue a bargain-rate DVD as well. If the people behind the hack really don't want this movie out there (as opposed to this being a smoke-screen), and you really are concerned that capitulation will inspire future attacks; up the ante and do the opposite.
To be sure: there is a fiscal cost... but that ship has sailed. Take more of a hit now to save ongoing bleeding.
Heck: Start a commercial campaign about how you stand up to terrorists.
If Sony wants to fight back ideologically: release the movie for free on the internet.
The most obvious thing to take are the backup tapes.
But if you've compromised the switches already (I believe that's in the claim?) just installing your own NAS seems even better.
There's a reason I said "something like". I was making an approximation from old memory, I used 300 million and 5,000.
And 1/108,072 is certainly "something like" 1/60,000 when compared to 1/250,000,000 that I was responding to. At least I was not 3 orders of magnitude off as was the person I responded to.
So you have 10 times the likelihood of dying in a car wreck every year than the worst year ever for terrorism. That's worth giving up all our rights for.
You correct me for a (correct order of magnitude) approximation and then respond with hyperbole.
I agree that's not worth giving up all our rights.
I remind you that "we" have not given up all of our rights (I can still vote, as an example).
I agree, however, that the reaction has been inappropriate to the danger.
I remind you that I never said otherwise. I just pointed out a rediculous number.
But I'll take a 1 in 250,000,000 chance of dieing in a terrorist attack over a 1 in 1 chance of having my mail read any day.
I wonder where that number came from: As an American civillian, my odds of dying specifically in the 9/11 attacks were something like 1/60,000
"Pluto was discovered, and for 48 years it remained the only known object whose orbit takes it beyond the gravitational pull of Neptune."
Long Period comets for example:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C... - Discovered 1948
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C... - Discovered 1911
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X... - Discovered 1106 (though I don't know if they determined its orbit at the time)
Some of these have orbits that take them 2 orders of magnitude farther from the Sun than Pluto
Was my first thought too.
I can just see having to explain to a 7-year-old-child that heard about the program and doesn't understand why he can't try to be involved that it's because he's a boy. It's not just sexist, it may literally be the first obvious example of sexism that a young child notices.
To the systems programmer, users and applications serve only to provide a test load.
