If you're flying back and forth on that route that often, you're going to get upgraded quickly, I would imagine. I've done 6 flights a month domestic and have been upgraded to first class for free fairly often.
>Otherwise that sounds like a nightmare that would require an insanely high paycheck.
If the courier in question is 6'2" that might be the case, but I suspect if the person was much smaller and is a heavy sleeper, that it wouldn't be too bad.
As a person of 6’0” I found the flight from LAX to SYD, and return, miserable in coach. I slept a lot and watched some movies but any way you cut it that is a long time to be sitting in a very uncomfortable seat.
1.75m here and coach sucks for me too. For that reason and social distancing I just bought a car that can drive me to places I’d usually fly, in much more comfort.
It's an ideal job if all you need is hours of concentration, reading, and writing or drawing. A writer, a PhD student with a laptop, a comic book author, etc.
Or, maybe, even a Zen monk who spends time meditating.
Still sounds like an awful job to me flying that much.
Not sure why people said it was a good thing to do. You'd be bored of the process within a couple months and hating planes and airport... unless you're a certain type of person.
A lot of traveling sales guys have talked about this.
I wonder if tapes are more prone to some form of driveby attack, whereby instead of requiring physical or remote access to a location, a strong enough magnetic field within a certain distance of a datacentre could penetrate bricks and mortar and render them useless
I'm envisioning a huge device in the back of a van which pulses a powerful beam, similar to typical movies (Oceans 11?) cutting the power to a bank / casino prior to a raid
Unattended for 14+ hours you mean. A baggage handler on the departing side could be bribed to steal it and you would have half a day of unfettered access before the courier on the plane even knew it was missing.
Of course you don’t check it if it’s that critical.
Apologies for all the questions, I'm just curious about this.
>Checksums will identify something went wrong, and then you need to redownload the file to a quarantine network and scan it. Takes time.
Surely a sensible file transfer algorithm would compute checksums on small and easy-to-retransmit chunks? Does rsync not do this? Isn't it already happening in TCP?
>Not to mention most major studios will contractually prevent you from exposing anything to the web.
I understand that workstations with media on them are not going to have internet access, but do they really prohibit site to site VPNs?
>Amazon just released a device (forget the name) for exactly the same use case. We developed it in house.
Snowball and Snowmobile? IIRC these are primarily meant for one-time migration from on-prem storage to S3. Do people really use them on an ongoing basis?
It was faster and more secure since we were working on air gapped networks.