Renting a car will also be off-limits to you unless you have a couple of thousand dollars to spare for the duration as a deposit.
Geez has anyone ever done this? I've been tempted a few times (and had the stack of hundreds in my wallet to cover it) just to see the look on the attendants face. I bet they rarely see any cash let alone the amount needed for a deposit.
The Kind of shop that operates IBM big Iron doesn't find the kind of lag in your proposal acceptable. For example the company I used to do SAS and JCL programming for expected 0.001 total downtime. Which works out to less than 10 minutes a year of scheduled and unscheduled down time. Anything but someone on site 24X7 is not acceptable. Having someone staring at a wall is cheap insurance when computer time is running $1700 a minute.
Usually the afterhours people aren't just sitting around. They are doing programming and/or operations. I was probably 20% more effective before 7AM when all the users came in.
All this is an aside to my original apparently unclear comment, my point was that any kind of 24X7 position wether it is SA or babysitting requires at least 4.5 full time positions. Even a guy who is carrying a pager should be getting some form of compensation.
I'm all in favour of this plan as long as America allows foreign intelligence agencies to operate in America at the same time under the same rules they would bind the CIA to. I wonder who the Mossad, MI5, Cuba's DGI, China's MSS, or Jordan's GID would consider to be people consorting with these groups who happen to reside in the United States.
No natural light would be the show stopping minus for sub surface office buildings. I know us techy types don't mind not seeing the Big Blue Room; however it seems to be important to the PHB/MBA types out there.
He also has a listing of 4 people supporting each platform. Even for 24x7 operation, you would not need 4 people to manage one Linux mainframe.
Looks like he was assuming there would be someone available on site 24X7. In which case you actually need more than 4 people. Do the math:
(168 hours a week) / (40 hour work week) = (4.2 people need per week). It actually work out to even more people needed once you start adding up cover for vacation (4 weeks per year = 640 hours), Stat holidays (varies say 10 days per year = 80 hours), plus sick days, family days, funeral days, moving days, professional development days, out of town meetings etc. etc.
Even something as mundane as a 24 hr rent a cop job requires at least 4 full time salaries and 1 part timer.
But by the same token a site that uses NT for file & print servers (and therefore has an existing NT support team) should be able to use the same support resources for looking after their Exchange servers
Do you actually know anyone with more than say 100 users who has anything but Exchange running on their Exchange servers?
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Yah that's what I thought. If your doing much more than file and print serving for a small shop your going to want seperate hardware for seperate functions. If for no other reason than you won't bring your mail down to reboot for your IIS patch of the week and vice versa.
They all realize that if they disobey, say, the Chinese government, that they need to do it in full public view and be accountable. Otherwise, it is pointless.
Disobeying the oppressive goverment of the day in secret may or may not be pointless (that's a disscussion for another day);however, if you do decide to disobey in secret or anonymously then you can not call what you are doing Civil Disobedience.
One vote does indeed not matter. Large elections never (for all practical purposes)
There are some fun examples that tell a different story of course but wether they are practical I guess is open for discussion
For Example: On 18 January 1961, in Zanzibar (now part of Tanzania), the Afro-Shirazi Party won the general elections by a single seat, after the seat of Chake-Chake on Pemba Island was won by a single vote.
And: In 1839, Marcus "Landslide" Morton was elected governor of Massachusetts by one vote. Of the 102,066 votes cast by the good people of that state, he received exactly 51,034. Had his count been 51,033, the election would have been thrown into the Legislature, where he probably would not have won.
"Landslide" also made the record books in 1842 when he won the same office again by one vote, this time in the Legislature. (In those days, Massachusetts governors were elected for terms of one year.)
If I have to pay $2 or $3 for a CDR its still not that bad considering that a new CD costs around $18.
Ya, but what bites my ass is that I have to pay the tax on ~100 data CD-Rs per month that I send to my clients. And this tax (acually a levy) goes to support big music. I hate it, I hate it, I hate it. Augh!
At least I'm not a garage band selling my music on CD-Rs; I think the Irony would kill me.
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A "war on hackers" fought along similar lines would be even less effective, since information is easier to conceal and deliver than narcotics.
Not only that but an information war waged by a goverment of a country with a free press has to be careful not to tread on that press. There's nothing like a free speach crack down to publisize an issue.
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So... you were given a number at birth? A lot of babies have SIN/SSN from birth now. This is for tax purposes (maximum gift amounts per year per person that can be given tax free) and health benifits (many insurance companies require unique SSN before they will issue benifts)
The government would target one or two of the most visible net-builders and the rest of us would scurry away with our tails between our legs
Ya mean like how I can no longer buy street drugs anywhere because of the oh so successful war on drugs?
SNIP
And before you point out how bizarre it is to bring the full might of the military-industrial complex against some popular victimless crime, look at the war on drugs. Drug sniffing dogs? Heat scans of neighborhoods? It's like science fiction.
I think that if they base the War on Information on the War on Drugs we will have little to worry about. I've often thought that the WoD actually increased supply because of how lucrative trade in street drugs has become. Free enterprise capitalism and all that.
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This statement is somewhat naive... One can always write a program to emulate any piece of hardware, and there will always be ways of breaking them.
Beside which some of us are a lot more handy with a soldering iron than a compiler. Or like I always say: You ain't hacking till you break out the soldering iron.
The human clock is a special data case because the data isn't randomly read. If you record the data correctly (IE: the time images in seqential order) you would only need to seek once per day. You could reduce that to once a week, month or year by repeating the storage of a day's worth of time display seven, thirty, or three hundred and sixty five times.
My comment was more of a whine than a complaint. I've done what you suggest as soon as I realized it was possible (3-4 months back) and therefor, of course, never get anything except from people I know.:)
It just amazed me the couple of times I have turned it off in order to harvest an email address (it's weird how many people don't know what their email address really is) how much spam I recieved in a few hours. I've been told that there are bulk mail programs that just guess email addresses at hotmail and send mail to everyone in a range like a@hotmail.com to zzzzzzzzzzzz_zzzzzzzzzzz@hotmail.com. Therefor with only four letters in my ID, I recieve all of these. However they go right into the not read by anyone folder.
I already have several hotmail id's including a couple for spam traps. For personal messages I find that the coolness of a four letter ID outweighs the occsional inconvience. and it sure is a lot easier to tell to some one over the phone than I_Wanted_a_different_ID_but_it_was_already_taken_1 9853@hotmail.com
You must have a high character/unlikely to be guessed ID Those of us with four letter hotmail ID's get random spam all the time regardless of of the spam filter.
However only accepting email from people in my address book has cut the spam down. It's kind of inconvient however as I have to turn it off when ever I'm expecting mail from the wild.
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Microsft already gives away a Word document reader that works under windows. I guess they could start charging for it in the future.
This is how Pachinko bars in Japan get around the law against gambling.
Geez has anyone ever done this? I've been tempted a few times (and had the stack of hundreds in my wallet to cover it) just to see the look on the attendants face. I bet they rarely see any cash let alone the amount needed for a deposit.
Usually the afterhours people aren't just sitting around. They are doing programming and/or operations. I was probably 20% more effective before 7AM when all the users came in.
All this is an aside to my original apparently unclear comment, my point was that any kind of 24X7 position wether it is SA or babysitting requires at least 4.5 full time positions. Even a guy who is carrying a pager should be getting some form of compensation.
I'm all in favour of this plan as long as America allows foreign intelligence agencies to operate in America at the same time under the same rules they would bind the CIA to. I wonder who the Mossad, MI5, Cuba's DGI, China's MSS, or Jordan's GID would consider to be people consorting with these groups who happen to reside in the United States.
No natural light would be the show stopping minus for sub surface office buildings. I know us techy types don't mind not seeing the Big Blue Room; however it seems to be important to the PHB/MBA types out there.
Looks like he was assuming there would be someone available on site 24X7. In which case you actually need more than 4 people. Do the math:
(168 hours a week) / (40 hour work week) = (4.2 people need per week). It actually work out to even more people needed once you start adding up cover for vacation (4 weeks per year = 640 hours), Stat holidays (varies say 10 days per year = 80 hours), plus sick days, family days, funeral days, moving days, professional development days, out of town meetings etc. etc.
Even something as mundane as a 24 hr rent a cop job requires at least 4 full time salaries and 1 part timer.
Do you actually know anyone with more than say 100 users who has anything but Exchange running on their Exchange servers?
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Yah that's what I thought. If your doing much more than file and print serving for a small shop your going to want seperate hardware for seperate functions. If for no other reason than you won't bring your mail down to reboot for your IIS patch of the week and vice versa.
Shouldn't that be: Free Mafiaboy!!!!!! ?
Ah, the web as it should be.
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So that's why I had to learn COBOL!
"Conservatives believe that genes determine everything except homosexuality; liberals believe that genes determine nothing except homosexuality
Disobeying the oppressive goverment of the day in secret may or may not be pointless (that's a disscussion for another day);however, if you do decide to disobey in secret or anonymously then you can not call what you are doing Civil Disobedience.
I interested, what would your top 8 (or even 3) best places to live look like? Japan? SE Asia? Central Africa?
There are some fun examples that tell a different story of course but wether they are practical I guess is open for discussion
For Example:
On 18 January 1961, in Zanzibar (now part of Tanzania), the Afro-Shirazi Party won the general elections by a single seat, after the seat of Chake-Chake on Pemba Island was won by a single vote.
And:
In 1839, Marcus "Landslide" Morton was elected governor of Massachusetts by one vote. Of the 102,066 votes cast by the good people of that state, he received exactly 51,034. Had his count been 51,033, the election would have been thrown into the Legislature, where he probably would not have won.
"Landslide" also made the record books in 1842 when he won the same office again by one vote, this time in the Legislature. (In those days, Massachusetts governors were elected for terms of one year.)
For backup and many untrue rumours of other one vote wins check out The Urban Legends Reference.
I know I could be arrested for going to the states; I'm a international arms trafficer because I downloaded encryption code.
Ya, but what bites my ass is that I have to pay the tax on ~100 data CD-Rs per month that I send to my clients. And this tax (acually a levy) goes to support big music. I hate it, I hate it, I hate it. Augh!
At least I'm not a garage band selling my music on CD-Rs; I think the Irony would kill me.
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Have to run now, there's a polar bear worrying my dog team and the kittenis near the edge of the ice flow on the pond.
Not only that but an information war waged by a goverment of a country with a free press has to be careful not to tread on that press. There's nothing like a free speach crack down to publisize an issue.
So... you were given a number at birth? A lot of babies have SIN/SSN from birth now. This is for tax purposes (maximum gift amounts per year per person that can be given tax free) and health benifits (many insurance companies require unique SSN before they will issue benifts)
Ya mean like how I can no longer buy street drugs anywhere because of the oh so successful war on drugs?
SNIP
And before you point out how bizarre it is to bring the full might of the military-industrial complex against some popular victimless crime, look at the war on drugs. Drug sniffing dogs? Heat scans of neighborhoods? It's like science fiction.
I think that if they base the War on Information on the War on Drugs we will have little to worry about. I've often thought that the WoD actually increased supply because of how lucrative trade in street drugs has become. Free enterprise capitalism and all that.
Beside which some of us are a lot more handy with a soldering iron than a compiler. Or like I always say: You ain't hacking till you break out the soldering iron.
The human clock is a special data case because the data isn't randomly read. If you record the data correctly (IE: the time images in seqential order) you would only need to seek once per day. You could reduce that to once a week, month or year by repeating the storage of a day's worth of time display seven, thirty, or three hundred and sixty five times.
It just amazed me the couple of times I have turned it off in order to harvest an email address (it's weird how many people don't know what their email address really is) how much spam I recieved in a few hours. I've been told that there are bulk mail programs that just guess email addresses at hotmail and send mail to everyone in a range like a@hotmail.com to zzzzzzzzzzzz_zzzzzzzzzzz@hotmail.com. Therefor with only four letters in my ID, I recieve all of these. However they go right into the not read by anyone folder.
I already have several hotmail id's including a couple for spam traps. For personal messages I find that the coolness of a four letter ID outweighs the occsional inconvience. and it sure is a lot easier to tell to some one over the phone than I_Wanted_a_different_ID_but_it_was_already_taken_1 9853@hotmail.com
Always keeping in mind of course that you can't trust the client :)
However only accepting email from people in my address book has cut the spam down. It's kind of inconvient however as I have to turn it off when ever I'm expecting mail from the wild.