Top of the rack tends to get toasty, but is this too simple?
I logged in to say that.
It seems obvious -- heat rises, I would expect top of rack components to fail more often unless the cooling design is well done.
Completely fabricated statistic: Only 10% of datacenters have proper cooling design.
(Sound of loud buzzer.) Ehhhhh... sorry. That's not quite the answer we were looking for. Perhaps you'd prefer to live in Cuba?
These days, if I didn't have a really important reason to stay in this country (my children), I would seriously consider leaving. I don't think Cuba would be at the top of my list.
Stuff like this is a total sideshow. It's a distraction from the fact that our government can't seem to get anything productive done.
As long as those in charge of this country (by which I primarily mean Congress and the Senate) spend more time and money bickering with each other and making absolutist "no compromise" stands, nothing here will improve.
What we really need is a changing of the guard. Vote every single incumbent out of office. Having more than two political parties wouldn't hurt either.
It has long been held by US courts that the exteriors of letters and other items sent through the mail are not considered private.
It makes sense that they are allowed to photograph and record them for later use.
I mean, did you really think that a piece of mail sent through a government controlled organization would be hidden from law enforcement?
Now, if they are doing the same for UPS/FedEx/etc, then there might be a slightly larger concern, but still not really a big deal.
Or, if they were opening (or scanning the inside without opening) and recording the contents of sealed mail without a warrant, that would also be concerning.
I think he's only referring to union shops with their soon-to-be-taxed-out-of-existence gold level coverage plans.
No, those plans are in the $20k/year ballpark.
$10k/year (employer contribution, plus an additional $2-3k/year employee paid) buys a health plan that doesn't suck. A PPO with no deductible and moderate copayments. Covers most needs but has gaps.
$4k/year only buys a crappy plan that has at least two of these flaws: doesn't cover the right things, high copayments, high deductible.
You forgot Windows 95 OSR2
OSR2 isn't nearly as fun as the ultimate version of Windows 95--OSR 2.5.
Project Cauã will aim to put a server system in the basement of all of these tall buildings
(emphasis added)
Did no one learn anything from Hurricane Sandy, which flooded all those basements?
I came here to say this. I'm thinking you might want to put them a little higher up in the building, although I have no idea what the floodplain in Sao Paolo is like.
Please mod parent up.
Who wants to be that the Windows Power option for JavaScript timer frequency only affects IE, and not other browsers on the machine?
Great info and analysis, but you made one mistake.
The stats are traffic related fatalities per 100k vehicles per year. A nation with 1000 deaths per 100k vehicles per year does not equal a 1% annual death rate for vehicle owners, or the cumulative 25% over 30 years. The reason is that not all of the traffic related deaths are of vehicle owners, or even vehicle drivers. There are passengers and pedestrians as well. In countries with low average per capita income (or other economic indicator of your choice), the average number of passengers per vehicle tends to be higher. I don't have a study to link to prove this. Sorry.
Joining, and discovering are not the same thing. You don't need to join a network for your phone to register it as near your location.
Absolutely true. But your phone won't give away the MAC address of your previous network unless it's trying to join the fake wifi network. Unless I'm greatly misunderstanding what I read.
From GitHub:
To solicit ARPs from iOS devices, set up an access point with DHCP disabled (e.g. using airbase-ng) and configure your sniffing interface to the same channel.
Once associated, iOS devices will send up to three ARPs destined for the MAC address of the DHCP server on previously joined networks. On typical home WiFi routers, the DHCP server MAC address is the same as the WiFi interface MAC address, which can be used for accurate geolocation. On larger corporate WiFi networks, the MAC of the DHCP server may be different and thus cannot be used for geolocation.
I'm pretty sure that for a device to be associated, it has to be attempting to join the network. I could be wrong, I'm not a WiFi engineer. Please correct me if I'm wrong about that.
And this is why your iDevice should never be set to automatically join wifi networks.
Actually, NO device should be configured to automatically join wifi networks.
(For those who didn't read the docs that go with the software, this relies upon running an access point with no DHCP, which is what forces the iDevice to send ARPs for the last DHCP server it used).
Also, this means that if you want to "hide" your home network, don't run DHCP on your WiFi router, use another device.
So, this guy is trying to be at least semi-pro about this, and we're supposed to care what he thinks and says, but he can't be bothered to watch one episode each of eight different shows before writing an article about it?
How long are these? I'm guessing an hour. You can't spend eight hours WATCHING TV before writing an article you're being paid for?
And then it gets put up on Slashdot?
Has online journalism/tech news fallen so low that this qualifies as worth a front-page mention?
Note that this update is apparently only applied to systems running Windows 7 pre-SP1 or SP1, Windows Server 2008 R2 pre-SP1 or SP1, or Windows Server 2008 non-R2 SP2 (any edition of any of these). If you’re running Windows XP, Vista, or 8, presumably this won’t be an issue as the update would never even have been offered via Windows Update.
If that's the case, then why does the linked bulletin list every version of Windows under the sun (including RT and Server 2012!) as affected?
Business class isn't available at most residential addresses (especially apartments) - I've looked into it. The only ISP that was willing to consider it wanted $11,000 to extend their loop one block over to my neighborhood (although they graciously offered to cover the first $1000 of it themselves).
I've had business-class Verizon FiOS at two different apartments.
At one of them, I know Comcast also offered business class.
If you're trying to get an old-school service (like a T1 or something), then I can see the difficulty. However, for a service where the difference between business and home is only in the upstream stuff (e.g. cable modem or FttP), there's no reason for them not to sell business class service to whatever address wants it.
I've noticed several design suggestions in your code.
