Well first off all S3 is not the only option. Hell even going mid tier with an established SAN installed at a cheap colo is way cheaper than S3 and leaps ahead of their solution.
Hot spares do not provide less downtime compared to a supported drive failure (ie. 2 disks on raid 6). they just reduce the mean time to repair. Handy if your disks are at a remote site or your dealing with very large arrays but likely a waste of spindles if your sitting next to your data all day.
Or if all else fails they can blow themselves up at the security checkpoint, or on a train, or on a bus, or metro, or .... Really once a person has decided to blow themselves up their options for committing terrorism are exceedingly large. Luckily this group of people is surprisingly small but or reactions to to the risks are way overboard.
As someone who has been on the inside that last quote is almost all a smoke screen. In reality they do not know as much as they claim and many idiotic policies are there for idiotic or political reasons. Besides since government should be accountable to its people we should fully call to task idiotic or irrational behavior and the excuse of "you wouldn't understand" just does not cut it.
Funny enough Thanksgiving 2010 I accidentally left a similar sized pocket knife in my pocket. I elected for the full body scanner which did not pickup the knife. Instead I was reminded I had it when the regular old metal detector at the cruise line picked it up. On another trip while i was still in the service I accidentally flew with chained live rounds (machine gun ammo) in my back pack. Again no security picked it up. I am a fairly small sample size but thanks to these incidents I am thoroughly convinced that the TSA is utterly worthless. On the plus side they banned the carry on of lighters for our chartered flight to Kuwait. This was the same flight that we all hand carried our weapons on, go figure.
Complete FUD. I live in the DC region and dont need nearly this much to be comfortable with my family. Now if I wanted to live in a prime spot downtown and forgo any commute or other compromises that would be a different story but I see no reason why our tax dollars should support congress living like rockstars.
This is what I was going for. Everyone claims you get what you pay for but it is important to remember that some users do pay for Google services. What is worrisome is how Goggles actions in this case would apply to those users.
And what if I am a paying Google Apps Customer. Video through youtube is included in what I pay for. Should UMG have the right to control that as well?
I believe he actually stated that after the traditional sales channel gets their cut he ends up with about $5. So he is selling it for the same profit he would of seen and just cutting out all the middle men as he did not believe they where actually adding any value.
Right, and you cant just robo-sign foreclosure paperwork either. Until the justice department starts doing their job of enforcing the penalties both ways the system will continue to collapse.
like the parent or evergreen? No I have never worked anywhere that promoted such abject waste through "adherence to policy" but I likely would not have chosen to work at such a place to begin with.
Thats why policies, like contracts, should never be evergreen. Policies simply amount to internal contracts and any company that does not regularly review and refresh them is doomed to this kind of waste.
Agreed, I can think of nothing more personal than having to make that kind of decision. I do think some safeguards are probably necessary to prevent reactionary decisions such as cases where pain or disease are temporary. At the end of the day it comes down to education.
It is easy to say that pain would be worth dealing with but in reality the majority of the healthy public has no understanding of what true chronic pain entails. Ask anyone who has worked in long term or hospice care this question and you will likely find an overwhelming majority choosing option 1. The reality is that in the US death and dying are still anathema.
Although I am against most regulation I would strongly support a law that required unsubscribe/cancelations to be processed in the same manner as subscriptions. If I can subscribe/expand my service online I should be able to cancel online as well.
Unless policy has changed dramatically since I was in USB drives can be used after they have been classified, properly marked, and scanned. That being said policy and reality are very different beasts. While deployed we had exactly 0 instances of malware/virus on our unclassified NIPRNet devices and at least 2 dozen malware/virus outbreaks on our SIPRNet machines. Usually these came about from the fact that those on SIPRNet tend to be of higher ranks and "above the rules" just like in a corporate structure. The other common offenders where MI and Signal geeks who "knew" better and assumed that their stuff couldn't possibly be infected.
Except I have a plethora of buying cars and plenty of dealers willing to take my money. In the digital space a considerable amount of piracy is due to no legally available outlet for purchase of digital goods in a manner commiserate with what users want. Look at the success of iTunes and spotify as filling consumer needs. Besides if the price consumers are willing to pay for your product does not cover its production costs then you have no market (i.e. product)
IO has a tangential benefit as well when it comes to recovery. For some large disk drive raids (1tb+) the rebuild time has gotten so large that even with an available hot spare you have a considerable exposure window during a rebuild. I believe this is what helped drive the push of RAID 6 over RAID5. In theory you still had 1 disk of protection during a rebuild. Although SSD's are primarily champions ins random IO and not the linear read/write of a rebuild they still have the potential to reduce this window of risk.
Nothing is 100% reliable. The question is is the frequency/type of downtime vs. cost is more efficient (cost effective) in the cloud than doing it yourself. For some, especially small non-tech shops the answer is yes.
Dont get me wrong I love having the capability you describe, but outside of the HN community I have to believe that the greater majority of users do not travel enough to justify national plans.
But aren't the users who need cross-continental/cross-country service the edge case? I would gladly trade-off inferior quality on a national scale for superior quality locally.
This kind of thinking is what has lead us to the sorry security state we are in today. Why do we allow our providers to dictate to us that insecure software is a requirement for running their software. If enterprise pushed back on vendors for this issue we would be better off.