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Re: Hacker wipes Romania's land registry database

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Post by wahern »

wahern wrote: post #358
lebuffon wrote: post #279

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Sure at the "end game" stage you are correct. But on the way to that stage it does what it does really well, meaning it makes lots more capital. De Soto is talking about why it "cannot" get started in a place without government controlled land registry.

> without government controlled land registry. De Soto describes the exact opposite situation. Latin America inherited Napoleonic property law, which only recognized property ownership when formally registered, which required quite alot of red tape. It was impossible to transfer ownership without registration. Moreover, any defect in prior registration meant the lawful owner might be the heirs of someone generations…

s/Napoleonic code/civil law/. Don't think Spain or Latin America directly adopted Napoleonic code stuff directly, though maybe later through reform efforts. Either way continental civil law was always big on formal state administration, recordation, and stamps.

Re: Hacker wipes Romania's land registry database

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Post by dredmorbius »

ghaff wrote: post #425
dredmorbius wrote: post #424

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Absent heatwaves and water shortages, generally, yes. Pros: Cheap land, generally predictable weather, few severe storms, little seismic activity, reasonably close to population centres (Phoenix, Tuscon, Las Vegas). Cons: Little water, wildfire hazard, heat, sand and dust storms. Inland northern locations (Dakotas, say) might also work. Moderate tornado risk, cooler weather (particularly in winter). Subject to winter…

Water is definitely an issue--I thought it and didn't write it down. The heat, yes, but also a dry heat :-) so some evaporative cooking; I think Intel has at least one fab plant in Arizona. As I say, no longer really in the space, but areas of the northern Midwest not subject to flooding are possibilities. For datacenters, onsite technical staff is not really an issue as datacenters have very little of that after ini…

Evaporator-cooking: good for preparing server / GPU jerky.

Midwest has tornado hazard, and that's both getting worse and spreading well outside traditional high-risk zones. Michigan and Illinois in particular have seen a large increase in recent incidents, though intensity has been lower.

Tornadoes are still relatively low-risk overall given their small footprint. But it's a bad day when one reaches out to touch you.

Flood risk patterns are also changing. Chicago's TARP project aka the Chicago Deep Tunnel, one of the largest, longest-in-construction, and most successful major urban civil engineering projects, recently hit > 96% capacity after one weekend's worth of rains. Begun in the 1970s, full build-out is anticipated in 2032. It's never previously been at more than about half its capacity (55% in June 2019). Draining it will take a month.

"Tunnel and Reservoir Plan": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunnel_and_Reservoir_Plan>

"Deep Tunnel has never reached its limit. After weekend's heavy rains, it’s almost full. Here's what that means." (Jul 6, 2026): https://chicago.suntimes.com/environment/2026/07/06/chicago-...>

"Deep Tunnel reservoir will take at least a month to drain" (Jul 11, 2026) : https://chicago.suntimes.com/environment/2026/07/11/chicago-...>

Re: Hacker wipes Romania's land registry database

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Post by dredmorbius »

hinkley wrote: post #427
ghaff wrote: post #422

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I've been out of direct involvement in the space for a while, but my understanding that Arizona nad parts of Nevada were probably the safest locations with respect to natural disasters that could affect data centers.

That was why they wanted to store nuclear waste in a hole in a mine in Nevada, but then someone found a fault line that we didn't know much about.

And a House Speaker.

Yucca Mountain is quite probably more than adequate to task. But nuclear waste's long-lived nature makes long-term planning problematic. Human institutions such as corporations, not-for-profits, governments, and even language, writing, and culture, are minuscule by comparison.

Consider that the world's worst nuclear accident site has seen four changes in national government (USSR -> Commonwealth of Independent States -> Russian Federation -> Ukraine), and is presently enemy occupied territory in a free-fire active war zone.

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Post by bar000n »

pqdbr wrote: post #417
alt227 wrote: post #378

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So if a hacker infiltrated your system and silently fed plausable but wrong data into your databases for 10 days, your whole system would be screwed?

My friend, our users would flood our support within 30 seconds of the first blip of this happening. I'm curious: what's _your_ defense against this?

i have daily backup instances to cold standby qemu-kvm VMs with snapshots of qcow2 storage which are kept for 10 days and i skip deleting every weekly Monday backup until space becomes a problem (usually months). sometimes the qcow2 storage backend becomes too slow with so many snapshots and that's when i qemu-img convert it which basically fixes it but removes the snapshots, so i keep both of them for a while.

Re: Hacker wipes Romania's land registry database

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Post by subsaharancoder »

inigyou wrote: post #401
kakacik wrote: post #388

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It was tried many times, it never worked for exactly 1 same reason over and over again - for all that utopia to actually work sustainably long term, it expects ideal citizens. As in selfless, truly dedicated to society above their own needs, uncorruptable and non-realistic in other ways. I've seen it personally fail miserably and destroy entire nation's spirit for generations to come (on top of other things destroyed…

China is ahead of the US right now though

A Great Leap Forward..some might say...

Re: Hacker wipes Romania's land registry database

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Post by dghlsakjg »

singleshot_ wrote: post #428
dghlsakjg wrote: post #337

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Very place dependent and not so universal in my experience. Where I live the title/deed just has street address. A completely separate agency holds the plot map that links addresses to physical measurements.

“plat map”

It’s officially called a “parcel map” where I live. That’s why I chose a generic name like plot map which describes it without needing to know jargon like parcel or plat. Your beliefs of what is universal are not as true as you believe.

Re: Hacker wipes Romania's land registry database

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Post by dghlsakjg »

amiheines wrote: post #360
dghlsakjg wrote: post #313

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I’m married and Jewish. It would be pretty surprising to me if my wife’s mother had even seen our marriage paperwork let alone possessed it. This also isn’t a tradition I’ve ever heard of in my family. Or did a joke about overbearing mother in laws just go right over my head.

Ask your mother in law. At least in Israel, during the ceremony, the Rabi gives the ktuba to the bride's mother for safe keeping.

Many might not believe this but Israel and their customs do not represent all Jewry. Israel is the country with the highest proportion of people claiming Jewish roots, but not the country with the most Jews.

I know where my documents are kept. They are not with my mother in law.

Re: Hacker wipes Romania's land registry database

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Post by throw4925753 »

dghlsakjg wrote: post #438
amiheines wrote: post #360

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Ask your mother in law. At least in Israel, during the ceremony, the Rabi gives the ktuba to the bride's mother for safe keeping.

Many might not believe this but Israel and their customs do not represent all Jewry. Israel is the country with the highest proportion of people claiming Jewish roots, but not the country with the most Jews. I know where my documents are kept. They are not with my mother in law.

You are overreacting to a claim about customs made by one person on the Internet.

The Ketubah is traditionally transferred from groom to bride as it contains his promise to protect her rights.

Under the Chuppah the bride usually wants her hands free for other things and not worry about misplacing the Ketubah at the wedding, so it’s often passed along to her mother, who’s standing close to her, to put it somewhere safe for the evening.

Re: Hacker wipes Romania's land registry database

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Post by [deleted] »

dghlsakjg wrote: post #437
singleshot_ wrote: post #428

Earlier quoted context omitted.

“plat map”

It’s officially called a “parcel map” where I live. That’s why I chose a generic name like plot map which describes it without needing to know jargon like parcel or plat. Your beliefs of what is universal are not as true as you believe.

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