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Well of course, scaling is nice, but the first thing we have to do is measure, measure, and measure some more. Our tools of the trade there are Graphite, StatsD (a node.js frontend to graphite), statsderl (client for StatsD), a bunch of manual calls to statsderl, and vmstats, which pushes an Erlang VM’s details to StatsD.

Poverty/Chav Culture. Imagine millions of young teenagers (13/14/15) who are ‘pre-gang’. Generally from poor and broken homes, but not always. Don’t have much to do at night so they spend their time drinking really cheap alcohol and being arseholes. Maybe they are loud, they smash bottles, kick over bins, shout abuse at passers by. Intimidating, but not really criminal. Most of them tend to go on to be regular people but some of them stay in that kind of mentality. So you’ve got groups of 16 year olds who’ve spent a few years standing in streets being ‘anti-social’. It snowballs, they’ve never really been successful in anything, didn’t get anywhere in school, they are becoming adults, they stop caring, they think the ‘system’ is out to get them and they become petty criminals. They carry weapons, they form gangs, they step up the arsehole behaviour a few notches. Now they are stealing cars, setting fires, dealing drugs etc. Some are destined to stay like that. They might grow out of the petty crime/violence side eventually but chances are they’ll create a whole new generation of broken homes and poverty for kids to be born into. The young kids we can deal with. They are just bored rebellious kids who want a bit of freedom. It’s not pleasant, we’d like to go into shops without passing through a group of 20 of them but you can’t really blame them. We should build more parks and shit, give them stuff to do. The ones who become ‘proper’ criminals we can deal with too, every country has that problem. It’s that middle ground. Low levels of education, employment and ambition. Trapped in this storm of violence, poverty, alcoholism, drug addiction, feeling rejected or persecuted. We’ve had a good few generations of it now, generally been a worsening trend since the downfall of the working class industries like steel/mining/ship building etc. Just people left behind, left poor. Worth noting:: It’s a sliding scale obviously. Go to the poorest parts of the biggest cities and the violent crime happens at younger ages. Go to the more afluent suburbs and you’ll still find chavs but they have iPhones and detached houses with 3 car garages. Also, I personally don’t think it is a failing of the ‘system’. We provide a lot for people. Health, Education, Housing, Money and there are plenty of people who make good use of it. Just seems to be quite a large percentage of people who are either happy with what is handed to them or don’t have the means to climb upwards. Lastly, There could be an argument for cultural influences. Rap/HipHop that glorifies gang culture or reality TV ‘stars’ who go from being chavs to having the £3m house and the Bentley. I’m not certain if I totally buy the argument but for a country that is quite respected in terms of it’s media/cultural output we do still have a hell of a lot of vapid shallow dross on our airwaves and in our papers.

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Unfortunately, secrecy sounds like a good idea. … But that assumes that hackers can’t discover vulnerabilities on their own, and that software companies will spend time and money fixing secret vulnerabilities. Both of those assumptions are false.