Yes Big companies run inefficient too... They make up with making their prices higher/or lowering quality, and generally screwing over their customers.
How much of that welfare 12% Medicare 13% and Defense 25% can be cleaned up. Out of that $1 that goes to taxes where does it all go. If my $1 for Welfare taxes and 80 cents of that went to the people who needed it, it is fairly good. But if only 15 cents goes to the people who needs it than there is an issue.
But there is a line too. They like to Tout how Medicare has less administration cost than a commercial insurance, that means the bulk of the work goes to the providers who then raise their rates, in one way or another.
It seems to me 30 Months (2 1/2 years) of prison for someone being a knuckle head is over the top. Yes what he did was dangerous, and he should be punished. But I could see 2 Weeks prison as justice.
This guy was 19 years old. That 2 1/2 years cost him a good opportunity to get a college education, once he gets out his life is in screwed.
2 Weeks of prison he probably wouldn't do it again.
I remember when Digg was set to dethrone as the main tech and geeky stuff web site. At first it was good, it had a lot of interesting stories a lot of them covering stuff that was just too technical for Slashdot, links to scientific papers, and other neat stuff, with the sometimes funny of offbeat stuff that techies like. However it got political, Anti-Bush conspiracy on top of Anti-Bush conspiracy, stuff that would make the lies about Obama seem tame. Then the top 10 lists, then came the LOL Cats, by that point, I never returned.
It is the small things that add up to be the problem. It isn't welfare, Medicare, military spending. It is all these little small waste of money projects that add up. As well paying for inefficient policies in the government, which are harder to track down. Sure we like to just cut the big stuff, that is easy. But we need to focus on fixing the small stuff.
Are you still paying attention to those Nut jobs, then assuming they represent the majority of religions. Most religions are actually OK with Science, They don't see it interfering with their religion and they don't push science to push a model that fits their view of the universe.
Perhaps the religious people you know never really read past those first few chapters of the bible, and realized it isn't a book of just a bunch of miracles, but more about human interactions. Sure there are a few put in just to keep it interesting.
Well... Marage has been a religious union, for well nearly as long as they have been marage. For the bulk of the time religion and government was one. Then they split rolls a few hundred years ago and the split marage between the two because both sides didn't want to give it up. For some Christian religions marage is a sacrament just like communion or last rites.
Or more to the point. Most Americans wanted a war with Iraq, WMD were considered common knowlege even during the Clinton administration. The bulk who opposed the war were people who opposes every war, and those who just didn't like Bush and opposed every policy he has. There were only a small few of people who didn't think that Iraq was a threat to America. We were still POed from 9/11 and we wanted revenge. A twitter campaign against the war would just have a slew of supporters for it.
In many ways computing today is like not having seatbelts. Passwords are just not good for security anymore. Most hacks go around them, or just use someones elses password list and give it a shot. or the person just keeps it fairly visible. Passwords are more like Anti-lock mechanism to your breaks then like seat belts. They will prevent some of the minor problems but not help protect in the case of a major problem, and sometimes cause problems where it didn't need to happen.
The real issue there is little to no planning for a lot of these organizations on isolating their networks so systems that do not need to talk to other systems are restricted, not every system on your network needs access to the internet, and if it does, it should only be connected to sites it really need to connect too.
Stop Political Statements, and work to reduce your own energy footprint as good as you can. Turn off light you don't need, Adjust your thermostat to be a bit cooler in the Winter and a bit warmer in the summer. Find excuses to walk or bike to some places you need to be. Or if you drive try to make it in one trip vs. a lot of different ones. If you own a company, try to reduce you power needs.
For politics stop trying to push the citizens to abstain from dirty energy, you just a political response against you. You need to push for improvements in efficiency, and clean alternatives for different needs. There is no single bullet.
Just because it wasn't complex hacking, it was still hacking. Sure AT&T was stupid for their setup, however it was they guy who saw the flaw, and then exploited it. If he found the problem by mistake then reported to AT&T and then walked away he would probably be OK. He didn't, he was malicious about it and he deserves time in jail for it.
You leave you keys in your car and the door is unlocked, then some one steals your car, they get caught, they should be punished for stealing your car. Yes you were stupid to leave your car insecure, but the guy who took your car was performing the crime.
The moon. For several years, she has fascinated many. But will man ever walk on her fertile surface? Democratic hopeful Adlai Stevenson says so. I have no objection to man walking on the moon. By 1964, experts say man will have established twelve colonies on the moon, ideal for family vacations. Once there, you'll weigh only a small percentage of what you weigh on Earth. Slow down, tubby! You're not on the moon yet! The moon belongs to America, and anxiously awaits the arrival of our astro-men. Will you be among them?
Well a paid account where you actually negotiate the contract.
You can just say yes to the contract they give them to you. Or you can read it and work with them to make a contract that they both can like. If they refuse get an other company to do it.
" I call bullshit. My own servers have not been down at all in the last few years." Yea it is always someone else's servers. or your ISP. Besides the hard drive failed years ago, we are just running off of active memory.
It is more reliable then your own servers generally, Not more always more reliable then your server personally. A lot of companies have their servers running on Desktop System under their desk plugged into the wall, with a single hard-drive. Or have their systems in a server room but there are the low priority servers that are not part of the main architecture, because what they do, do not justify the cost. So if you have a cloud system you get a cheap server, to do a low/mid priority task. Say running your website, or email. Something depending on your organization can afford to be offline for a period of time.
So you personally may be a good administrator, or you may have been lucky that they didn't go down. It isn't that could is better any individual system for uptime, it is just better on the average.
That is one of the many problems with relying on Google. The quality of the cloud service is the quality of the contract you have with them.
Google is offering a free service, and they could be canceled at any time. So you really shouldn't trust it. However if you go with a company who is offering you a contract with up-time and availability, and a data collection policy. Then you are better off.
The interesting thing about software success. It isn't who is best that wins, or even who puts the most in marketing, or which system can do the most.
It is about getting the right product out at the right time and capturing the market.
Microsoft did it back in the 80's by making proving DOS to more than one manufacturer. Then holding on to compatibility allowed going to windows.
Today the phone market is new. While iOS is very strong. Android is gaining a lot of ground, and surpassed Apple in numbers. But not in development. But in time I see that changing.
Is uptime important? Yes. Not that years of uptime is needed. But it means how much your fail over should be. If you have a less reliable system (Hardware+Software) then you may need 2 or 3 equally specked systems for a hot fail over. If your system is very solid you can get away with a lower spec system for the fail over. So in case of a problem or maintenance you just have a bit of slower performance (During a slow period) while the other system gets patched.
Besides not all functions are so mission critical that you really need fail over however you do want reliable up-time.
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Yes Big companies run inefficient too... They make up with making their prices higher/or lowering quality, and generally screwing over their customers.
How much of that welfare 12% Medicare 13% and Defense 25% can be cleaned up.
Out of that $1 that goes to taxes where does it all go. If my $1 for Welfare taxes and 80 cents of that went to the people who needed it, it is fairly good. But if only 15 cents goes to the people who needs it than there is an issue.
But there is a line too. They like to Tout how Medicare has less administration cost than a commercial insurance, that means the bulk of the work goes to the providers who then raise their rates, in one way or another.
Justice or Revenge.
It seems to me 30 Months (2 1/2 years) of prison for someone being a knuckle head is over the top. Yes what he did was dangerous, and he should be punished. But I could see 2 Weeks prison as justice.
This guy was 19 years old. That 2 1/2 years cost him a good opportunity to get a college education, once he gets out his life is in screwed.
2 Weeks of prison he probably wouldn't do it again.
I remember when Digg was set to dethrone as the main tech and geeky stuff web site. At first it was good, it had a lot of interesting stories a lot of them covering stuff that was just too technical for Slashdot, links to scientific papers, and other neat stuff, with the sometimes funny of offbeat stuff that techies like.
However it got political, Anti-Bush conspiracy on top of Anti-Bush conspiracy, stuff that would make the lies about Obama seem tame. Then the top 10 lists, then came the LOL Cats, by that point, I never returned.
So we should never try something new because of the initial problems?
I sware we are entering a dark age and the tech community is leading the way.
It is the small things that add up to be the problem.
It isn't welfare, Medicare, military spending. It is all these little small waste of money projects that add up.
As well paying for inefficient policies in the government, which are harder to track down.
Sure we like to just cut the big stuff, that is easy. But we need to focus on fixing the small stuff.
Well you wanted the EGA Graphics.
Are you still paying attention to those Nut jobs, then assuming they represent the majority of religions.
Most religions are actually OK with Science, They don't see it interfering with their religion and they don't push science to push a model that fits their view of the universe.
Perhaps the religious people you know never really read past those first few chapters of the bible, and realized it isn't a book of just a bunch of miracles, but more about human interactions. Sure there are a few put in just to keep it interesting.
Well... Marage has been a religious union, for well nearly as long as they have been marage.
For the bulk of the time religion and government was one. Then they split rolls a few hundred years ago and the split marage between the two because both sides didn't want to give it up.
For some Christian religions marage is a sacrament just like communion or last rites.
Or more to the point. Most Americans wanted a war with Iraq, WMD were considered common knowlege even during the Clinton administration.
The bulk who opposed the war were people who opposes every war, and those who just didn't like Bush and opposed every policy he has. There were only a small few of people who didn't think that Iraq was a threat to America.
We were still POed from 9/11 and we wanted revenge.
A twitter campaign against the war would just have a slew of supporters for it.
So... You build a product sell it for cheap, and offer life long support. That sounds like a money sap too me.
Only to get your new updates pirated.
In many ways computing today is like not having seatbelts.
Passwords are just not good for security anymore. Most hacks go around them, or just use someones elses password list and give it a shot. or the person just keeps it fairly visible. Passwords are more like Anti-lock mechanism to your breaks then like seat belts. They will prevent some of the minor problems but not help protect in the case of a major problem, and sometimes cause problems where it didn't need to happen.
The real issue there is little to no planning for a lot of these organizations on isolating their networks so systems that do not need to talk to other systems are restricted, not every system on your network needs access to the internet, and if it does, it should only be connected to sites it really need to connect too.
Because anything new is bad.
Stop Political Statements, and work to reduce your own energy footprint as good as you can.
Turn off light you don't need, Adjust your thermostat to be a bit cooler in the Winter and a bit warmer in the summer.
Find excuses to walk or bike to some places you need to be. Or if you drive try to make it in one trip vs. a lot of different ones.
If you own a company, try to reduce you power needs.
For politics stop trying to push the citizens to abstain from dirty energy, you just a political response against you. You need to push for improvements in efficiency, and clean alternatives for different needs. There is no single bullet.
Just because it wasn't complex hacking, it was still hacking.
Sure AT&T was stupid for their setup, however it was they guy who saw the flaw, and then exploited it. If he found the problem by mistake then reported to AT&T and then walked away he would probably be OK. He didn't, he was malicious about it and he deserves time in jail for it.
You leave you keys in your car and the door is unlocked, then some one steals your car, they get caught, they should be punished for stealing your car. Yes you were stupid to leave your car insecure, but the guy who took your car was performing the crime.
The moon. For several years, she has fascinated many. But
will man ever walk on her fertile surface?
Democratic hopeful Adlai Stevenson says so.
I have no objection to man walking on the moon.
By 1964, experts say man will have established twelve
colonies on the moon, ideal for family vacations.
Once there, you'll weigh only a small percentage of what
you weigh on Earth.
Slow down, tubby! You're not on the moon yet!
The moon belongs to America, and anxiously awaits the
arrival of our astro-men. Will you be among them?
Well a paid account where you actually negotiate the contract.
You can just say yes to the contract they give them to you. Or you can read it and work with them to make a contract that they both can like. If they refuse get an other company to do it.
" I call bullshit. My own servers have not been down at all in the last few years."
Yea it is always someone else's servers. or your ISP. Besides the hard drive failed years ago, we are just running off of active memory.
It is more reliable then your own servers generally, Not more always more reliable then your server personally.
A lot of companies have their servers running on Desktop System under their desk plugged into the wall, with a single hard-drive. Or have their systems in a server room but there are the low priority servers that are not part of the main architecture, because what they do, do not justify the cost. So if you have a cloud system you get a cheap server, to do a low/mid priority task. Say running your website, or email. Something depending on your organization can afford to be offline for a period of time.
So you personally may be a good administrator, or you may have been lucky that they didn't go down. It isn't that could is better any individual system for uptime, it is just better on the average.
That is one of the many problems with relying on Google.
The quality of the cloud service is the quality of the contract you have with them.
Google is offering a free service, and they could be canceled at any time. So you really shouldn't trust it. However if you go with a company who is offering you a contract with up-time and availability, and a data collection policy. Then you are better off.
Dude, you found a way to popularize Fracking again!
Natural Gas and GOLD!!!
It is like a modern day Gold Rush.
The interesting thing about software success. It isn't who is best that wins, or even who puts the most in marketing, or which system can do the most.
It is about getting the right product out at the right time and capturing the market.
Microsoft did it back in the 80's by making proving DOS to more than one manufacturer. Then holding on to compatibility allowed going to windows.
Today the phone market is new. While iOS is very strong. Android is gaining a lot of ground, and surpassed Apple in numbers. But not in development. But in time I see that changing.
They will give the artificial fingers a pulse then. Put some tubes with a pump.
Is uptime important? Yes.
Not that years of uptime is needed. But it means how much your fail over should be. If you have a less reliable system (Hardware+Software) then you may need 2 or 3 equally specked systems for a hot fail over. If your system is very solid you can get away with a lower spec system for the fail over. So in case of a problem or maintenance you just have a bit of slower performance (During a slow period) while the other system gets patched.
Besides not all functions are so mission critical that you really need fail over however you do want reliable up-time.
Zoom and inhance.