It's a rather sad reflection of society, no telling how may breakthroughs we're missing out on due to the lack of cooperation in science on this front.
There is also the motivations of the scanner owner to consider. They are paid to do scans. A cheap scan might be low hundreds of dollars per hour. A more commercial rate would be well into the thousands. We don't want to dry up now do we?
The scanner owners are almost all universities. One typically does have to pay to use the scanner(and quite a bit--$500+ per hour is typical), but this is typically meant to cover the scanner costs. The equipment costs at least four million dollars, plus some ongoing costs (cryogens, typically a full-time tech or two, and maintenance; the power bill is probably not trivial either).
With that logic it doesn't make sense to store passwords encrypted in the DB then either. If an outside attacker gains access to a system it would really suck to have a bunch of passwords sitting in logs unencrypted. Security in depth and all...
The general argument here is server logs. You'll see the entire url show up for GET. By using a POST and actually putting the data in the post body you won't see it show up in logging.
Surprised you haven't heard of them -- they're a pretty big player in the datacenter space. Also, I know for a fact that a good chunk of Linode's servers are actually hosted at Softlayer DCs (e.g. any Linode server hosted in Dallas is physically at Softlayer's DAL-2 location, which used to be called The Planet).
My best friend is a tech there, he joined right after the acquisition, and he tells me that the word around the office is "IBM wanted to have a good cloud business, so they bought one".
Probably because mass consumption of carrots isn't a top public health issue? If consumption of carrots rivaled that of soda I'd be willing to bet there would be more studies on it just the same as there are studies on various other foods such as red meat, egg cholesterol, fish oil, etc.
Heh. My brother's wife was starting to look like an Oompa Loompa because of her carrot snacking habit. It was pretty funny, though it doesn't seem to have had any deleterious effect on her health.
In most parts of the US a sweet potato with soft orange insides is correctly called a "Yam" to differentiate it from the sweet potatoes with firm yellow insides.
Either name isn't great; it's neither closely related to the african yam, nor the common potato.
This isn't targeted at the DSLR crowd. It's meant for videographers shooting 1080p raw or 4k video. This card will only hold around 5 hours of raw 1080p video for me.
