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Comment Re: Why should it be? (Score 1) 225

by cyb97 (#63824254) Attached to: Canadian Prisons Restrict Technology To the 1990s

So again, 27 million population so about the second or third largest state in the republic?

Wouldn't it then be fair to say that they should have a crime rate like Texas or Florida?
Or are you saying that all crime in Florida is directly influenced by being a part of the United states?

If so, consider the EU. Population of 450 million, approx â..." more than the US. With a capital murder rate of about 1/100.000 compared to the US 5point-something/100.000?

EU has about half the area as well... if cramped living conditions also was an argumentâ¦

Comment Re:Lazy ISPs (Score 1) 140

by cyb97 (#63730854) Attached to: AWS To Start Charging For Public IPv4 Addresses

This is not the case you are looking for.

If you have "thousands of servers" you are not on AWS by "accident". If you have thousands of servers with public IPv4 there are other options.

There are also a lot between "a simple static page" and thousands of servers. For scale, thousands of servers are approx 0.1% of AWS (in terms of physical servers). Or 2%+ of a single AWS DC. There aren't many operations at that scale that don't have a department for looking into these very specific OPEX/CAPEX issues every other year.

Comment Re:To put that in perspective (Score 1) 26

The challenge here is the legal standing for this is GDPR. If this sticks in Norway, it will stick through out the whole EU-area. Think Schrems, Austria is also just "one country with a small population"...

Pretty sure Schrems 1&2 ended up costing Facebook much more than 1% of annual profitâ¦

Comment Re:Awesome (Score 1) 112

by cyb97 (#33000706) Attached to: Open Source GSM Cracking Software Released

Or you can pay for it and have it both ways. This is available in quite a few countries where cloned SIMs is a legitimate use case.

Depends on your locality. Around here it is not uncommon for companies to have one number, but several phones - or even people. So you can have the same number on your desktop phone, mobile phone and car phone without having to move sims around or do cumbersome bluetooth magic.
Games

An Inside Look At Warhammer Online's Server Setup 71

Posted by Soulskill from the hate-to-see-the-power-bill dept.
An article at Gamasutra provides some details on the hardware Mythic uses to power Warhammer Online, courtesy of Chief Technical Officer Matt Shaw and Online Technical Director Andrew Mann. Quoting: "At any given time, approximately 2,000 servers are in operation, supporting the gameplay in WAR. Matt Shaw commented, 'What we call a server to the user, that main server is actually a cluster of a number of machines. Our Server Farm in Virginia, for example,' Mann said, 'has about 60 Dell Blade chassis running Warhammer Online — each hosting up to 16 servers. All in all, we have about 700 servers in operation at this location.' ... 'We use blade architecture heavily for Warhammer Online,' Mann noted. 'Almost every server that we deploy is a blade system. We don't use virtualization; our software is somewhat virtualized itself. We've always had the technology to run our game world across several pieces of hardware. It's application-layer clustering at a process level. Virtualization wouldn't gain us much because we already run very close to peak CPU usage on these systems.' ... The normalized server configuration — in use across all of the Mythic-managed facilities — features dual Quad-Core Intel Xeon processors running at 3 GHz with 8 GB of RAM."
The Gimp

Submission + - GIMP dropped from Ubuntu 10.04 (digitizor.com) 2

Submitted by kai_hiwatari
kai_hiwatari writes: It seems like the Ubuntu developers consider GIMP to be too powerful for a normal desktop user. So they are removing it from the upcoming Ubuntu 10.04. This actually feels like a good reason as most people uses GIMP as a "Paint"-like software.
Government

Voting Machines and 'Calibration Drift' 217

Posted by Soulskill from the if-it's-not-one-thing dept.
An anonymous reader writes "Tuesday saw elections for school boards and city officials throughout Kansas. In Saline, ES&S voting machines in several locations were 'mis-calibrated,' and when the voter touched next to one candidate's name, the 'x' appeared next to another one. One person I talked to said he tried to vote three times before going to the 80-something-year-old election worker, who told him 'It was doing that earlier, but I thought I fixed it.' From the story in today's Salina Journal: 'The iVotronic machines used in Saline County are sold by Elections Systems and Software. In October, the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law notified 16 secretaries of state, including Kansas Secretary of State Ron Thornburgh, that the machines are known to record votes to the wrong candidate.' The county does calibrate the machines the day before each election, but, '... in conversations with ES&S on Thursday, [the county clerk] was told that the calibration might change during the day. "What they've seen is calibration drift on a unit," Merriman said. "They're fine in the morning, but by afternoon they're starting to lose their calibration."' There was also coverage of the problems when they occurred two days ago."

Comment Re:*mucks his hand* (Score 1) 427

by cyb97 (#25216305) Attached to: "Back Door" Cheating Scandal Rocks Online Poker

there is an issue of legality and access to a brick and mortar game.

Not all card players live in countries where it is perfectly legal to or feasible to play with people, which is why some players seek out other people through (note the use of through here) mouse and keyboard.

Some players are also better at playing when hiding behind a computer than in real life (tells, patience, etc.)... your point isn't really valid. A lot of people do both, still doesn't change anything about the fact that good players will in the long run beat the pack.

Comment Re:wow,big mistake. (Score 1) 638

by Ixan (#24436971) Attached to: Blizzard Tries To Forbid Open Sourcing Glider

1) Don't let anyone mine/pick anything that there skill level makes gray to them.

You obviously haven't raided much. The repair bot requires adamantite bars, which among other places comes from Adamantite Deposit, grey at level 70.

2) put some random drift into movement.

You ever been to barrens? Ever done barrens without autorun?

3) limit the price you can sell something for on the AH to 10 times what a vendor would pay

Then you'll have to nerf gold rewards from quests, loot, dailies etc and hence accomplish nothing but removing a couple of zeroes from everything.

4) don't allow the transfer of more then 100GP a time. Maybe a one time unlimited amount per month.

Let's skim the surplus and divert it to the orphanage

All of these would be pretty trivial to implement.

Just like linked auction houses, cross-realm battlegrounds, character transfers, pve->pvp transfers and so on.
Book Reviews

Head First SQL 210

Posted by samzenpus from the read-all-about-it dept.
Anita Kuno writes "On a Sunday, a fellow user-group member suggested I learn SQL. The next day, an opportunity to review Head First SQL arrived in my email. Who was I to question? Prior to opening the couriered package, I had no knowledge of SQL, I knew databases were important, and I had seen the Head First website once or twice. Now, I can design and create databases, use mySQL databases, and understand questions and accompanying code posted to forums. The credit goes to Head First SQL's style, which introduces small bits of information, supported through multiple channels (such as photos with humorous dialogue, stick-men and stick-women, and input from critical personalities whose photos and input pop up throughout the book) regular tests and exercises so the new bit of data can find a home and settle into your memory. The regularly tested pieces of information are now in my brain so I don't have to look up the basic stuff." Read below for the rest of Anita's review.

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