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Comment Re:How about... (Score 1) 209

I have enough "toys" to to invade a small country, does that count?

- Many Fighters (F-22, F-15, Su-37, MiGs, F-117, etc);
- Many helicopters (AH-64 Apache, two Mil Mi-24 Hind-E, Chinook, etc);
- One B1-B Lancer bomber;
- Many tanks;
- Many tank carriers for the tanks (including a M1070 and the M1000 trailer, soon will be two);
- One SR-71 Blackbird to do the strategic recon;
- Two Battleships >:-)



No, I will not tell what is the scale but is greater than 1:72 :-)

Comment Re:why the obsession with thin? (Score 1) 421

What? Dude, you are mad, dumb or on drugs? Why do you think engineers do not build "ultrathin" bridges, even if they can do them? Because is nonsense! A clear proof that one should not do certain things is exactly the iPhone6 warping with any lateral force, it simply became too thin to have the structural strength required! You never seen before a thin object made of aluminum? Never saw how easy is to fold it and how the object retains the new shape after you stop applying force?
Moon

Russia Pledges To Go To the Moon 197

An anonymous reader writes: Russia's space agency, Roscosmos, has announced it intends to bring humans to the Moon by roughly 2030. Russia plans a full-scale exploration of the Moon's surface. Agency head Oleg Ostapenko said that by the end of the next decade, "based on the results of lunar surface exploration by unmanned space probes, we will designate [the] most promising places for lunar expeditions and lunar bases.

Comment Re:Sounds like Slackware to me. (Score 1) 221

I used Slackware as desktop for a long time. Works, but the problem is that some applications are gaining ever increasing Ubuntu or Debian-centric dependencies. And so it is increasingly difficult to have a Slackware desktop that can keep up without ever larger hacks
Piracy

The Raid-Proof Hosting Technology Behind 'The Pirate Bay' 144

HughPickens.com writes Ernesto reports at TorrentFreak that despite its massive presence the Pirate Bay doesn't have a giant server park but operates from the cloud, on virtual machines that can be quickly moved if needed. The site uses 21 "virtual machines" (VMs) hosted at different providers, up four machines from two years ago, in part due to the steady increase in traffic. Eight of the VMs are used for serving the web pages, searches take up another six machines, and the site's database currently runs on two VMs. The remaining five virtual machines are used for load balancing, statistics, the proxy site on port 80, torrent storage and for the controller. In total the VMs use 182 GB of RAM and 94 CPU cores. The total storage capacity is 620 GB. One interesting aspect of The Pirate Bay is that all virtual machines are hosted with commercial cloud hosting providers, who have no clue that The Pirate Bay is among their customers. "Moving to the cloud lets TPB move from country to country, crossing borders seamlessly without downtime. All the servers don't even have to be hosted with the same provider, or even on the same continent." All traffic goes through the load balancer, which masks what the other VMs are doing. This also means that none of the IP-addresses of the cloud hosting providers are publicly linked to TPB. For now, the most vulnerable spot appears to be the site's domain. Just last year TPB burnt through five separate domain names due to takedown threats from registrars. But then again, this doesn't appear to be much of a concern for TPB as the operators have dozens of alternative domain names standing by.

Comment Re:And they wonder why I block ads... (Score 1) 226

Me too. Why I would allow advertising on my browser when all it does is try to lock the system using all the CPU time for stupid animations or videos, promotes highly questionable "products" such as the infamous "CleanMyPC", or plain and simply try to install hostile programs to take control of my computer?

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