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Comment Re:PCI-DSS (Score 2) 217

Remember that PCI-DSS is a fairly new standard. A quick search got me a VISA document that listed january 1, 2008 as the date for phasing out old payment systems that didn't manage card numbers securely.

The plain text credit card number was apparently used in a transaction from 2005. Still a bad idea to use a plain text card number. But ompanies doing stupid stuff like that.is kind of the reason why PCI-DSS became mandatory in the first place.

Comment Re:rfc1925.11 proves true, yet again (Score 1) 83

While it is possible to fill your Data pathways up. Aggregate data is not the same as Edge Server data. In the case described above, s/he is running 300 x 10GB on 50 Servers. Okay, lets assume those are 50 Blades, maxed out on RAM and whatnot. The Only way to fill that bandwidth is to do RAM to RAM copying, and then you'll start running into issues along the pipelines in the actual Physical Server.

To be honest, I've see this, but only when migrating VMs off host for host Maintenance, or a boot Storm on our VDI.

Comment Re:Crazy (Score 1) 778

My issue is that you dont want a free market

The very core of free market theory is consensual trade. Without mutual consent you can't have a free market. And that is why the low end labor market is in no way a free market. The worker is not consenting to work, he is figuratively forced at gunpoint.

So the only negative impact the minimum wage has on the free market is imaginary as there wasn't a free market to begin with. Well, unless you had some kind of basic income to remove the figurative gun from the picture.

Comment Re:Free market economy (Score 1) 529

Anyone calling the current economy a free market is spouting bullshit. The core of free market theory is consent between seller (employee) and consumer (employer). But you can't have proper consent when the seller is under duress.

Unions are kind of a solution, but that is essentially fighting duress with duress which is a negative cold war strategy. Not what I would call a free market.

The better solution in my opinion is an unconditional basic income, that directly tries to solve the problem of sellers being under duress to begin with. All without having the government doing any extra regulations of the market. In fact, with a proper basic income you can even remove regulations such as the minimum wage.

Comment Re:rfc1925.11 proves true, yet again (Score 5, Interesting) 83

Your 300 x 10GB ports on 50 Servers is ... not efficient. Additionally, you're not likely saturating your 60GB off a single server, and you're running those six 10GB connections per server to try to eliminate other issues you have, without understanding them. You're speed issues are elsewhere (likely SAN or Database .. or both), and not in the 50 servers. In fact, you might be exasperating the problem.

BTW, our data center core is running twin 40GB connections for 80 GB total network load, but were not really seeing anything using 10GB off a single node yet, except the SAN. Our Metro Area Network links are is being upgraded to 10GB as we speak. The "network is slow" is not really an option.

Comment Re:More Like Subsidized (Score 1) 533

Company Stores and scripts are an abuse of power. Here is what I said about abuses of power ...

" Libertarianism oppose to abuses of power, and only want a government big enough to stop abuses of power. "

The fact that these types of "company towns" operated, with impunity was simply because government was NOT doing its job properly.

However, I would suggest to you that the Government taxes and fees and whatnot amount to the same " no longer free, and it's just ugly and messy." you complain about in Libertarianism. We are serfs to the Government masters.

Comment Re:More Like Subsidized (Score 1) 533

"Why don't you move to all those countries with tiny national governments that barely reach outside of the capital?"

Because

"Libertarianism oppose to abuses of power, and only want a government big enough to stop abuses of power. "

Again, I love how idiots claim to know Libertarianism, don't actually know anything. In your Strawman, you fail to take into account the primary purpose of Government which is to prosecute Crimes (you know abuses of power). However, when the Government abuses its power (Hitler), how does one stop it? This is why Government should be restricted in scope.

Unrestricted Government is tyranny.

Comment Re:Automation is killing jobs faster than ever (Score 1) 435

Well, after the third accident, we took her car away. She never drove again, and died many many years ago.

Her driving degraded over the years, as she became more timid driver. But it was that last year when it became clear, she was a danger to drivers all around, because she did "unexpected" things while driving, but nothing illegal.

Comment Re:PPC macs were awful (Score 2) 236

Macs made USB!

It was very late in coming to Windows, and early implementations on Microsoft was horrible. They almost did the same thing to Firewire, and killed off the floppy long before it happened on PCs. SCSI implementation on Mac was also better. Mac tend to lead, PCs tend to "me too".

I have a theory on why this is, and it goes ... something like this.

Apple looks towards the future, and builds what will be "standard" in 3 years with their top of the line products. Things like USB, SCSI, Firewire, No Floppies, etc

Microsoft (and PCs) are always looking to build the least expensive product, and aren't very good at forward thinking. They wait for Apple to have "standards" they can use (USB) and the struggle to make those standards fit inside PCs. By the time PCs catch up, three years later, the re-announce "new" features that "just work" (sort of) that Macs had three years before, and thus become "standard".

Now it doesn't always work out that way, Apple has picked some horribly slick albatrosses along the way. Good ideas that never caught on (FireWire) But if you look at the "standards" today, almost all of them were "standard" on Mac long before they were standard on PCs.

I am not a Mac/Apple fanatic, I'll use anything you put in front of me. Computers are tools, and a craftsman uses any tool that's in front of him.

Comment Re:Automation is killing jobs faster than ever (Score 1) 435

I actually agree. However, I do know that old people can cause accidents that are "not their fault" technically and legally, but still cause accidents. My Aunt had three accidents in one year and yet NONE of them were her fault. She was just not where people expected her to be because she "froze" in the middle of an intersection during a light change. She didn't enter illegally, and the other driver wasn't paying close attention so technically, the accident wasn't her fault. But she shouldn't have been there in the first place.

This is the same woman that would make "three rights" to avoid making a left turn, and then would get "lost" and freeze in an intersection trying to figure out which way to go. Not her fault. She obeyed all the traffic laws perfectly.

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