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Comment: Re:Until you can prove them wrong (Score 1) 819

"Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, then they will not care how devout you have been, but will welcome you based on the virtues you have lived by. If there are gods, but unjust, then you should not want to worship them. If there are no gods, then you will be gone, but will have lived a noble life that will live on in the memories of your loved ones."

If I'm wrong, I loose nothing. If I'm right, you lose everything.

Remember that being a good believer means making huge sacrafices in your life - the path to heaven isn't paved by attending church once or twice a year and professing belief in Jesus. If you are wrong, you have wasted your opportunity at life and happiness. You will have lost everything.

Comment: Re:Busy databases (Score 1) 428

by Burning1 (#40185183) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: What Type of Asset Would You Not Virtualize?

Very few tasks on modern systems are CPU limited. For highly virtualized enviornments, the major limiting factor tends to be memory, and/or disk IO.

Virtualization won't solve the disk IO problem, but it doesn't really hurt there either - you can still map a raw LUN from your san to the VM, without any real performance penalty.

Virtualization will almost always improve the memory situation - it permits the use of shared memory, where blocks of memory can be de-duplicated across multiple hosts, significantly reducing memory requirements.

I agree that there are some kinds of commute farms that really may not benefit from Virtualization... But the vast majority of apps, even DB servers, can.

Comment: Re:Busy databases (Score 3, Informative) 428

by Burning1 (#40175053) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: What Type of Asset Would You Not Virtualize?

This isn't really a problem. First, if you have a reasonable sized infrastructure, it makes sense to build a redundent vCenter instance... And IIRC, it may be clustered. Second, if you kill your vCenter instance, you can still connect directly to your ESXi hosts using the vSphere client. You'll still retain the ability to manage network connections, disks, access the console, etc.

Censorship

Backdoor Found in Anti-Censorship Tool Used in Syria and Iran->

Submitted by wiredmikey
wiredmikey writes "Simurgh, a privacy tool used in Iran and Syria to bypass Internet censorship and governmental monitoring, is being circulated with a backdoor. The compromised version has been offered on P2P networks and via web searches. Research conducted by CitizenLab.org has shown that malicious version isn’t available form the original software source, only through third-party access, so it appears that Simurgh has been repackaged.

The troubling aspect of the malicious version is that it does install the proxy as expected, however it adds a keylogging component, and ships the recorded information off to a server hosted in the U.S. and registered to a person in Saudi Arabia.

In response to this attack, the team that develops Simurgh has instituted a check that will warn the user if they are running a compromised version of the software. At present, it is unknown who developed the hijacked version of Simurgh, or why they did so."
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Wikipedia

What should we do about Wikipedia's porn problem?-> 3

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Larry Sanger
Larry Sanger writes "In 2011, the Wikimedia Board committed to installing a "controversial content" filter even weaker than Google's SafeSearch, as proposed by the "2010 Wikimedia Study of Controversial Content." Since then, after growing opposition by some Wikipedians, some board members have made it clear that they do not expect this filter to be finished and installed. Nevertheless, as TFA makes clear, Wikipedia continues to host an enormous amount of extremely gross porn and other material most parents don't want their kids stumbling across. And this content is some of the website's most-accessed. Nevertheless, children remain some of Wikipedia's heaviest users. Jimmy Wales has recently reiterated his support for such a filter, but no work is being done on it, and the Foundation has not yet issued any statement about whether they intend to continue work on it."
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NASA

Venus transit to boost the hunt for other worlds->

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techfun89
techfun89 writes "Astronomers world-wide will use advanced telescopes and other instruments to watch Venus cross the Sun on June 5th and 6th. This transit will help scientists find clues in the hunt for other planets where life may exist and will be the last transit of Venus until 2117, particularly in the study of their atmospheres.

These types of transits are often used by scientists to study distant stars and their planets. The concept of studying such a transit involves sunlight that slips through the atmosphere of a planet and that fingerprint is left on the stars light. You then separate that from the rest of the stars light by analyzing the light before, during and after the transit and look for the difference. This gives scientists clues as to what the planet's atmosphere is made of."
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United Kingdom

London 2012: The Data Analytics Olympics->

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jfruh
jfruh writes "While athletes compete in London this coming July, behind the scenes numerous computers and programmers will be combing through the reams of data the Olympics generate — often in ways that participants and spectators might find unsettling. Companies and organizers will be analyzing where people spend money to determine whether London's investment in the games was worth it; Transport for London will be tracking anonymized cell phone data to see how spectators are moving around the city; and authorities will be scrutinizing CCTV images and Facebook posts to ferret out potential terrorist threats."
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Google

Once Deemed Evil, Google Now Embraces "Paid Inclusion"->

Submitted by pacc
pacc writes "It was a long time a go google only provided a page with search links, and MarketingLand finds that the policy to have ads clearly separated from the search may have gone with newer services.
For example a hotel search will indicate that 'some' link payed to get listed, but not which ones and digging deeper gives less, not more info.
For example, Google Hotel Finder has no disclosures. In fact, the help page suggests that all listings are free. If that’s true, then why would Google be disclosing a financial relationship for when Google Hotel Finder results appear within a comparison box?"
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Entertainment

Sky Broadband blocks access to The Pirate Bay ahead of 1 June deadline-> 1

Submitted by concertina226
concertina226 writes "Internet service provider Sky Broadband has blocked access to The Pirate Bay, following similar moves by Virgin Media and Everything Everywhere.

High Court judge Mr Justice Arnold ruled in April that UK internet service providers (ISPs) must block access to the file-sharing website, on the basis that it “infringes copyright on a massive scale” by providing magnet links to movies, music and other media content.

ISPs were reportedly given different time limits for complying with the order. Sky has acted ahead of its 1 June deadline. O2 and TalkTalk said they are still working to implement the ban and BT, which asked for extra time to make the necessary arrangements, is expected to act within the next fortnight, according to BBC News."
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Kaspersky Antivirus Use Linux To Rescue Windows->

Submitted by dgharmon
dgharmon writes "What you see in the above image is a Gentoo based live cd with KDE, that Kaspersky calls Rescue Disk. This tool is dedicated to the restoration of Windows operating systems by scanning and removing viruses, Trojan and malware from infected PCs."
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