Plenty of people care, but the available actions aren't something they're willing to do. IIRC, when Obama tried to close it, the Republicans basically required that there could be NO money spent by the military on ANY activities related to moving the prisoners at Guantanamo into US prisons, or to shut down the base itself.
Obama might be able to do something along the lines of finding another country (or non-governmental organization/NGO?) and inviting them to join in the management of Gitmo, then simply not replace any troops whose tours of duty expired. However, that would not be a terribly quick process, it would undoubtedly be stopped by Republicans threatening to shut down all military spending again, and it would then leave whoever the third-party was effectively in charge of the base, at which point they could simply release all of the prisoners (including the Super-Terrorists too dangerous for US Supermax prisons) if they so desired.
And as a side effect it would completely guarantee (rather than 95% confidence) that absolutely *nothing* could be accomplished during the remainder of his presidency.
You and towermac have both been asserting that Obama has been talking about/said he would do an amnesty, and yet when asked neither of you has provided any kind of citation.
This marks you as unreliable trolls repeating unverified claims, unless of course you'd like to actually, oh, *provide* some citations.
By doing so he put the burden of keeping it open squarely on the Republicans. It's a battle I believe he could win, but the cost of doing so would be too high - the remaining option for closing it would be to simply abandon it, presumably with some third party not controlled by Congress available to handle the release of the prisoners since Congress mandated that they couldn't be transferred to prisons within the US. It would be a solution nobody would find acceptable.
Actually I have to give credit to Fox here, looks like that court case reference I made is as badly distorted from reality as the McDonald's coffee case mentions usually are. Mea culpa.
I will repeat my basic request from elsewhere: please provide me with a citation from a reputable source. Breitbart.com, rushlimbaugh.com and any organization that has argued in court that they aren't a "news" company but an infotainment company (e.g. Fox News) are not "reputable" without further citations.
You're quite right, he didn't say Fox, and I should have included breitbart.com and rushlimbaugh.com in my list. There seems to be little basis for the claim, just as there was little basis for it when it went around in 2010 and 2012.
I regard it as being like Obama's clear desire to implement incredibly strong gun control and take away all weapons and ammo, as evidenced by his deceptively avoiding anything related to gun control.
I'll note that the Dems changed the rules so you don't need the 60 votes to override for TWO things: A) Judicial nominations below the Supreme Court level and B) Executive nominations below the cabinet level and in no other situations.
There were no changes to the filibuster for legislation (though personally I'd have loved to see it change from 60 votes to stop debate over to 40 votes to continue debate), and Mitch McConnell has indicated in the past that he doesn't see changing that should he become Majority Leader this fall.
As for the filibuster, I'd love to see it change just on the basis of "If you say you want to continue debate, don't say that then leave town." I'm fine with continuing "debate" (not that they ever actually debate the items they're delaying/killing), but by god if you're going to do it you'd better care enough to actually stick around.
I forgot to mention why this doesn't even pass the sniff test - Using what authority?
(gratuitous insult removed) even if Obama wanted to "grant amnesty to all illegal immigrants in the US," he has no legal authority to do so. The administration does have the ability to change where enforcement is happening, which is why there's so much dispute over Obama's policies on deportations - the numbers are up, but the enforcement has in many cases shifted to border enforcement, recent immigrants and those convicted of (charged with?) crimes more than long-term residents.
So can you document this? Anything that starts with "Fox News tells me that Obama is thinking about...." is immediately suspect, because honestly A) who in the administration would be talking much with Fox and B) why would you believe anything that Fox talking heads tell you without independently verifying it?
I don't know why you're so upset anyway, Fox News told me that Mitch McConnell is thinking about cheating on his wife with that sexy young tortoise at the DC zoo, and Chris Christie is thinking about having a stromboli.
Seriously, can you actually elaborate in anything more intelligible than regurgitated Alex Jones or Glenn Beck talking points? Perhaps something with anything verifiable behind it?
So would you have had a problem with someone irritated by this (say, a group of CS students, or perhaps someone on campus leasing facilities for a conference) firing up something to spam all of your connections with deauth packets? Because clearly your conclusion was that there was nothing wrong with doing so.
We've started putting Mikrotik routers in some small offices as replacements for older Linksys/Cisco VPN routers, and while they're powerful I'd definitely dispute the "easy to use" for anyone not a networking pro.
Some of the issue is that there are so many things you can change, unless you're very knowledgeable you're not going to know what to do (or refrain from doing) in a bunch of areas. You can go down the path of "I have a recipe and I will follow it exactly!" and basically copy/paste commands while changing passwords, but there are how-to articles that go back 6+ years and multiple versions, and many of them no longer apply. Setting up remote user VPN connections is also kind of a pain, in that you have to go to a half dozen different areas to configure different bits and pieces. Much of that setup is one-time even if you're setting up a bunch of remote users, but if you're only setting up one, then you still have to do all of it.
For someone wanting a home router that he can OpenVPN into (for road warrior use from coffee shops), I'd recommend getting something you can run OpenWRT on and just using that (get plenty of flash); I'm sure Tomato and DD-WRT are also decent choices, I just moved away from DD-WRT because I felt like there was a little too much "magic" going into it. I don't want to have to worry about whether I'm running the Brainslayer or EKO branch or whether I'm running build 12345 or have to roll back to 12332 because it's more stable/doesn't brick routers/whatever any more than I want to water-cool a Celeron and put a fart-can tailpipe on it.
Kolab is a "groupware" server bundle, including an IMAP based mail system, calendaring, etc. The UI is Roundcube, a browser-based mail client (PHP on backend, lots of AJAX in the browser). Some of what you're seeing here is enhancements and extensions to Roundcube to bring it closer to the capabilities of a "fat" mail/groupware client.
If you need in-house email/groupware on a budget, it's not a bad choice - it's actively developed and hasn't had some of the drama and ownership shuffles of similar products such as Zimbra and Scalix. My (possibly incorrect) understanding is that Kolab is an open source project/product with a supported enterprise version available rather than an enterprise product with a "community" open source version available.
If writing (or getting people to write) user documentation is hard, perhaps you can put together good video tutorials on how to use many/most/all of the features in each module. You can even get developers to actually do the video demonstrations, because it gives them a chance to show off their cool new accomplishments. You can probably get people to do replacement narration as well, both for developers who don't do a good job narrating (language issues, accents, mush-mouth mumblers, etc.) and for alternative languages.
Put those videos up on Youtube or Vimeo, perhaps even annotate them with links to the official docs (such as they may be), with notes about features not demonstrated in that video, or with links to related training videos.
Then you can point to those videos not just for training materials, but as marketing/demo items.
Good god, is the delta-T why my coffee keeps getting cold?!? I thought it was ice gremlins peeing in it!
I have no particular knowledge of or attachment to any particular energy storage method. Heck, if you want to use Scotsmen and inflatable sheep and can make it work, go for it. I'm very sorry I didn't mention flywheels as well, though I have to admit they always make me think of an article I read once on "spin testing to destruction" and the subsequent launching of a spin test chamber lid through multiple floors of a building and out to a parking lot. As a result of that, I'd like to add in materials fatigue as a factor you should be keeping in mind for your infinite charge cycles. I'd also be curious about the energy storage density per cubic meter of the containment vessel.
I couldn't begin to give you numbers for construction of any of these, though I imagine that air- or vacuum-insulated containment vessels for molten materials probably wouldn't be that different in cost from containment vessels for very heavy flywheels spinning at thousands of RPMs in vacuum. The details and costs of the storage medium in either case would likely be dwarfed by all of the other costs associated with building an energy generation or storage facility of any sort.
Is thermal storage inefficient? Absolutely! Are there ways to reduce that inefficiency? Absolutely! Are there possible synergies (e.g. can you combine thermal with building-size molten salt batteries)? Maybe!
If I had all the answers to what was the best energy storage option, would I be dinking around on Slashdot on Sunday afternoon?
Straight conversion efficiency isn't the only factor that matters by a long shot, and might not even be the most important factor. Maximum charge cycles / lifespan strikes me as important. Cost of materials. Safety. Regulatory complications. A 10% loss in efficiency is probably worth it to go from 3,000 charge cycles to 10000.
There's a lot of research going on, but I'm not sure what's current. Some of the things I've seen mentioned include compressed air (pumped underground - old oil or natural gas wells I think), molten-salt batteries of various types, simple molten salt (similar to what's used for solar thermal) and later steam generation, pumped water (gravity storage), etc. Any of these could be appropriate depending on location, geography, etc.
PV (photovoltaic) won't benefit much from scale, but some of the solar thermal options that use mirrors for heat that's then used for steam generation certainly do.
Well, my customers have traditionally used servers until they're mostly beyond being repurposed, and the same with desktop PCs. The only ones with anything in datacenters are ones using hosted solutions, and we and they don't have any access to the vendor's setups. That said, for retired SATA drives they'll likely get scrubbed and shelved as possible future spares - an old enterprise 250GB SATA drive will work just fine for reimaging a local PC.
For desktop machines, we don't image or wipe them before replacement, and we let them sit in a storeroom for a couple weeks just in case we need to retrieve something, but after that we're not hooking them back up just to wipe, we just yank the drive and send the machine out for recycling. This year they've tended to be old Pentium 4 boxes that were running XP acting as remote desktop terminals. It's very unlikely that there's anybody's medical data on any of the drives, but it's not a chance that we want to take and physical destruction of the drive is the quickest and therefore cheapest way to do it that I'll trust.
One special situation here is that I'm part of a small enough group that we don't really have low-paid PFYs or interns to do this - if I had someone available being paid $10-15/hour for basic technical tasks it might change things, but right now any time spent wiping drives on obsolete PCs for donation could be much better spent on billable tasks.
It's not worth my time to hook up old PCs or removed drives so I can wipe someone's 40/80/120/160 GB IDE drives for reuse. A nail punch in a few places makes it not feasible for someone to try to recover potential legally protected from possible temp files saved on an old desktop system. My concern is generally that I'm not sending used drives from medical offices out to end up "recycled" to Africa where someone might actually try to recover data from them.
I was never a user of justin.tv (and don't use Twitch either), but the impression I've gotten was that this has been coming for a long time - basically anything with more than 10 views was archived off elsewhere, and they killed a bunch of background stuff back in June I think.
Shouldn't this be titled "Justin.tv completes its scheduled shutdown on schedule"?
Some of the offices in the building I work in have "high-tech sensors" that tell them when the door opens inward by ringing a little bell. They're dangling pieces of metal that hit a momentary switch tied to a doorbell ringer. Are those the "high-tech" devices described in such detail in the article?
Given the cost (as an annual subscription no less!) and the fact that I found nothing about compatibility with 2008R2, 2012R2 or Remote Desktop Services, I'm probably better off spending half the money one time, to get another 2012R2 Standard license good for 2 VMs, then using the RemoteApp functionality in 2008R2 and 2012R2.
Agreed that Citrix doesn't guarantee anything about security, but they've been the forefront of sharing only specific applications on Windows for some time. If FroggyMed requires that users be on IE8 with Flash 10.2 and Java 1.4.2 I can put that in place and lock things down so that terminal server cannot access anything not on the specific provider's ip blocks.
A lot of hospitals have started doing that for their physician portals - they don't have to worry about client VPNs, which version of Java is installed on PCs, those weird Mac-using doctors who want to review charts from the couch every evening, etc. Their portal works on every platform for which there's a current Citrix client.
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Plenty of people care, but the available actions aren't something they're willing to do. IIRC, when Obama tried to close it, the Republicans basically required that there could be NO money spent by the military on ANY activities related to moving the prisoners at Guantanamo into US prisons, or to shut down the base itself.
Obama might be able to do something along the lines of finding another country (or non-governmental organization/NGO?) and inviting them to join in the management of Gitmo, then simply not replace any troops whose tours of duty expired. However, that would not be a terribly quick process, it would undoubtedly be stopped by Republicans threatening to shut down all military spending again, and it would then leave whoever the third-party was effectively in charge of the base, at which point they could simply release all of the prisoners (including the Super-Terrorists too dangerous for US Supermax prisons) if they so desired.
And as a side effect it would completely guarantee (rather than 95% confidence) that absolutely *nothing* could be accomplished during the remainder of his presidency.
You and towermac have both been asserting that Obama has been talking about/said he would do an amnesty, and yet when asked neither of you has provided any kind of citation.
This marks you as unreliable trolls repeating unverified claims, unless of course you'd like to actually, oh, *provide* some citations.
By doing so he put the burden of keeping it open squarely on the Republicans. It's a battle I believe he could win, but the cost of doing so would be too high - the remaining option for closing it would be to simply abandon it, presumably with some third party not controlled by Congress available to handle the release of the prisoners since Congress mandated that they couldn't be transferred to prisons within the US. It would be a solution nobody would find acceptable.
Actually I have to give credit to Fox here, looks like that court case reference I made is as badly distorted from reality as the McDonald's coffee case mentions usually are. Mea culpa.
I will repeat my basic request from elsewhere: please provide me with a citation from a reputable source. Breitbart.com, rushlimbaugh.com and any organization that has argued in court that they aren't a "news" company but an infotainment company (e.g. Fox News) are not "reputable" without further citations.
You're quite right, he didn't say Fox, and I should have included breitbart.com and rushlimbaugh.com in my list. There seems to be little basis for the claim, just as there was little basis for it when it went around in 2010 and 2012.
I regard it as being like Obama's clear desire to implement incredibly strong gun control and take away all weapons and ammo, as evidenced by his deceptively avoiding anything related to gun control.
I'll note that the Dems changed the rules so you don't need the 60 votes to override for TWO things: A) Judicial nominations below the Supreme Court level and B) Executive nominations below the cabinet level and in no other situations.
There were no changes to the filibuster for legislation (though personally I'd have loved to see it change from 60 votes to stop debate over to 40 votes to continue debate), and Mitch McConnell has indicated in the past that he doesn't see changing that should he become Majority Leader this fall.
As for the filibuster, I'd love to see it change just on the basis of "If you say you want to continue debate, don't say that then leave town." I'm fine with continuing "debate" (not that they ever actually debate the items they're delaying/killing), but by god if you're going to do it you'd better care enough to actually stick around.
I forgot to mention why this doesn't even pass the sniff test - Using what authority?
(gratuitous insult removed) even if Obama wanted to "grant amnesty to all illegal immigrants in the US," he has no legal authority to do so. The administration does have the ability to change where enforcement is happening, which is why there's so much dispute over Obama's policies on deportations - the numbers are up, but the enforcement has in many cases shifted to border enforcement, recent immigrants and those convicted of (charged with?) crimes more than long-term residents.
So can you document this? Anything that starts with "Fox News tells me that Obama is thinking about...." is immediately suspect, because honestly A) who in the administration would be talking much with Fox and B) why would you believe anything that Fox talking heads tell you without independently verifying it?
I don't know why you're so upset anyway, Fox News told me that Mitch McConnell is thinking about cheating on his wife with that sexy young tortoise at the DC zoo, and Chris Christie is thinking about having a stromboli.
Yeah, thos morans!
Seriously, can you actually elaborate in anything more intelligible than regurgitated Alex Jones or Glenn Beck talking points? Perhaps something with anything verifiable behind it?
So would you have had a problem with someone irritated by this (say, a group of CS students, or perhaps someone on campus leasing facilities for a conference) firing up something to spam all of your connections with deauth packets? Because clearly your conclusion was that there was nothing wrong with doing so.
We've started putting Mikrotik routers in some small offices as replacements for older Linksys/Cisco VPN routers, and while they're powerful I'd definitely dispute the "easy to use" for anyone not a networking pro.
Some of the issue is that there are so many things you can change, unless you're very knowledgeable you're not going to know what to do (or refrain from doing) in a bunch of areas. You can go down the path of "I have a recipe and I will follow it exactly!" and basically copy/paste commands while changing passwords, but there are how-to articles that go back 6+ years and multiple versions, and many of them no longer apply. Setting up remote user VPN connections is also kind of a pain, in that you have to go to a half dozen different areas to configure different bits and pieces. Much of that setup is one-time even if you're setting up a bunch of remote users, but if you're only setting up one, then you still have to do all of it.
For someone wanting a home router that he can OpenVPN into (for road warrior use from coffee shops), I'd recommend getting something you can run OpenWRT on and just using that (get plenty of flash); I'm sure Tomato and DD-WRT are also decent choices, I just moved away from DD-WRT because I felt like there was a little too much "magic" going into it. I don't want to have to worry about whether I'm running the Brainslayer or EKO branch or whether I'm running build 12345 or have to roll back to 12332 because it's more stable/doesn't brick routers/whatever any more than I want to water-cool a Celeron and put a fart-can tailpipe on it.
I wonder how charges like that could be reported on legally-required documents for publicly traded companies.
"USA Federal gov't fines: $10M*
* Details not available. Ask the NSA, maybe they'll tell you."
Kolab is a "groupware" server bundle, including an IMAP based mail system, calendaring, etc. The UI is Roundcube, a browser-based mail client (PHP on backend, lots of AJAX in the browser). Some of what you're seeing here is enhancements and extensions to Roundcube to bring it closer to the capabilities of a "fat" mail/groupware client.
If you need in-house email/groupware on a budget, it's not a bad choice - it's actively developed and hasn't had some of the drama and ownership shuffles of similar products such as Zimbra and Scalix. My (possibly incorrect) understanding is that Kolab is an open source project/product with a supported enterprise version available rather than an enterprise product with a "community" open source version available.
If writing (or getting people to write) user documentation is hard, perhaps you can put together good video tutorials on how to use many/most/all of the features in each module. You can even get developers to actually do the video demonstrations, because it gives them a chance to show off their cool new accomplishments. You can probably get people to do replacement narration as well, both for developers who don't do a good job narrating (language issues, accents, mush-mouth mumblers, etc.) and for alternative languages.
Put those videos up on Youtube or Vimeo, perhaps even annotate them with links to the official docs (such as they may be), with notes about features not demonstrated in that video, or with links to related training videos.
Then you can point to those videos not just for training materials, but as marketing/demo items.
Good god, is the delta-T why my coffee keeps getting cold?!? I thought it was ice gremlins peeing in it!
I have no particular knowledge of or attachment to any particular energy storage method. Heck, if you want to use Scotsmen and inflatable sheep and can make it work, go for it. I'm very sorry I didn't mention flywheels as well, though I have to admit they always make me think of an article I read once on "spin testing to destruction" and the subsequent launching of a spin test chamber lid through multiple floors of a building and out to a parking lot. As a result of that, I'd like to add in materials fatigue as a factor you should be keeping in mind for your infinite charge cycles. I'd also be curious about the energy storage density per cubic meter of the containment vessel.
I couldn't begin to give you numbers for construction of any of these, though I imagine that air- or vacuum-insulated containment vessels for molten materials probably wouldn't be that different in cost from containment vessels for very heavy flywheels spinning at thousands of RPMs in vacuum. The details and costs of the storage medium in either case would likely be dwarfed by all of the other costs associated with building an energy generation or storage facility of any sort.
Is thermal storage inefficient? Absolutely! Are there ways to reduce that inefficiency? Absolutely! Are there possible synergies (e.g. can you combine thermal with building-size molten salt batteries)? Maybe!
If I had all the answers to what was the best energy storage option, would I be dinking around on Slashdot on Sunday afternoon?
Straight conversion efficiency isn't the only factor that matters by a long shot, and might not even be the most important factor. Maximum charge cycles / lifespan strikes me as important. Cost of materials. Safety. Regulatory complications. A 10% loss in efficiency is probably worth it to go from 3,000 charge cycles to 10000.
There's a lot of research going on, but I'm not sure what's current. Some of the things I've seen mentioned include compressed air (pumped underground - old oil or natural gas wells I think), molten-salt batteries of various types, simple molten salt (similar to what's used for solar thermal) and later steam generation, pumped water (gravity storage), etc. Any of these could be appropriate depending on location, geography, etc.
PV (photovoltaic) won't benefit much from scale, but some of the solar thermal options that use mirrors for heat that's then used for steam generation certainly do.
Well, my customers have traditionally used servers until they're mostly beyond being repurposed, and the same with desktop PCs. The only ones with anything in datacenters are ones using hosted solutions, and we and they don't have any access to the vendor's setups. That said, for retired SATA drives they'll likely get scrubbed and shelved as possible future spares - an old enterprise 250GB SATA drive will work just fine for reimaging a local PC.
For desktop machines, we don't image or wipe them before replacement, and we let them sit in a storeroom for a couple weeks just in case we need to retrieve something, but after that we're not hooking them back up just to wipe, we just yank the drive and send the machine out for recycling. This year they've tended to be old Pentium 4 boxes that were running XP acting as remote desktop terminals. It's very unlikely that there's anybody's medical data on any of the drives, but it's not a chance that we want to take and physical destruction of the drive is the quickest and therefore cheapest way to do it that I'll trust.
One special situation here is that I'm part of a small enough group that we don't really have low-paid PFYs or interns to do this - if I had someone available being paid $10-15/hour for basic technical tasks it might change things, but right now any time spent wiping drives on obsolete PCs for donation could be much better spent on billable tasks.
It's not worth my time to hook up old PCs or removed drives so I can wipe someone's 40/80/120/160 GB IDE drives for reuse. A nail punch in a few places makes it not feasible for someone to try to recover potential legally protected from possible temp files saved on an old desktop system. My concern is generally that I'm not sending used drives from medical offices out to end up "recycled" to Africa where someone might actually try to recover data from them.
I was never a user of justin.tv (and don't use Twitch either), but the impression I've gotten was that this has been coming for a long time - basically anything with more than 10 views was archived off elsewhere, and they killed a bunch of background stuff back in June I think.
Shouldn't this be titled "Justin.tv completes its scheduled shutdown on schedule"?
Some of the offices in the building I work in have "high-tech sensors" that tell them when the door opens inward by ringing a little bell. They're dangling pieces of metal that hit a momentary switch tied to a doorbell ringer. Are those the "high-tech" devices described in such detail in the article?
Given the cost (as an annual subscription no less!) and the fact that I found nothing about compatibility with 2008R2, 2012R2 or Remote Desktop Services, I'm probably better off spending half the money one time, to get another 2012R2 Standard license good for 2 VMs, then using the RemoteApp functionality in 2008R2 and 2012R2.
Agreed that Citrix doesn't guarantee anything about security, but they've been the forefront of sharing only specific applications on Windows for some time. If FroggyMed requires that users be on IE8 with Flash 10.2 and Java 1.4.2 I can put that in place and lock things down so that terminal server cannot access anything not on the specific provider's ip blocks.
A lot of hospitals have started doing that for their physician portals - they don't have to worry about client VPNs, which version of Java is installed on PCs, those weird Mac-using doctors who want to review charts from the couch every evening, etc. Their portal works on every platform for which there's a current Citrix client.