These are purpose built single occupant DCs. It doesn't get any stickier than that. Google doesn't even visit their DCs when a server fails. They just power it off remotely and power up a warm spare.
Cynicism approved.
I'm not sure I agree. I've seen lots of people in museums, the vast majority of them walk around, look at a work of art for 10 seconds and move on. Not that there's anything wrong with that, but my point is that they're appreciating it. They look and decide if they like it or not, move to the next one. The kind of deeper questioning you describe is rare I think (and to your credit). It doesn't require an education, but that does make it easier.
Incidentally, the average person today has been exposed to more art than most people in history, simply through television and architecture. Moreover, the innovations from the masters have been assimilated in later works until they are now commonplace. That makes it difficult for most people to recognize the novelty in masterworks. They just don't look as impressive when viewed from the future.
Personally, I subscribe to the 'Shoot the hostage" school of negotiating with criminals.
In this scenario, the hostage is the company who's data was stolen... the data is the gun being held to their head and the victims are the people identifiable by the data.
Your negotiation strategy would kill both the hostage and irreparably harm the victims.
A better strategy is to ensure that your dangerous gun is kept secure and away from children. Prevention is always better than cure.
People talk about it like it's a Commie plot, but if we don't even out the inequality at least a little, it's gonna be bad for the economy and bad for all of us.
Why is it, when my wealth is transferred to the already wealthy it's never called "wealth redistribution". Like class warfare... it's only called that when we fight back.
If you punish companies for firing, you get less hiring.
Countries with inflexible labor markets tend to have higher unemployment.
If you don't punish companies for firing, you end up with both less hiring and more firing... And those that are left have to do the work of 3 people because if they don't, they'll be fired too.
Countries with strong labour protection tend not to have higher unemployment but they do have a better quality of life.
You young'uns have it easy with your intuitive UI shit! In my day, we had intuitive WIMP shit! It constantly activated and moved the cursor when you were just trying to finger peck into a DOS terminal but your elbow touched the rolling box.
Point and Grunt interface, we called it, 'cause you pointed your finger at the number 0 on the numeric keypad, and your funny bone hit the box. And then you grunted.
I have the good fortune to be a mosquito repellent, for whatever reason. Not that I don't get bit, but everyone else seems to get a lot more attention.
Odd, the ones I have been in to do work on "my" racks, it wasn't uncommon for me to see nobody at all (not even a guard) the whole time.
Just row after row of servers doing their thing. Sometimes I would see the manager or a tech updating something.
Assuming that no plant ever goes offline for any reason and that there will be no other growth in Kenya ever.
That costs money. They were hoping the locals would foot that bill for them.
The rule on staying alive as a program manager is to give 'em a number or give 'em a date, but never give 'em both at once.
