Are you kidding me? The ST-251's were AWESOME. Granted, you needed to run Norton Disk Doctor before you ever used it to weed out the bad sectors from the factory, but once you were past that point, it was 40MB of pure reliability.
As yet another Scoutmaster, let me say that if they are doing things outside the "Guide to Safe Scouting" (pointed out in sibling post), you're not covered by the scouts' insurance policy. So if somebody gets hurt, BSA will deny everything, and the parent gets sue the person running the camp personally.
I am also a Manhattan-area resident. (Work in Manhattan, commute due to cheap housing with a short drive.) I did some IT work for BRI (which, as you pointed out later, is a BSL-3, and can be made into a BSL-4 with some minor, but expensive, modifications). I got to go on a tour before it went live. If I'm anywhere near that building when a tornado warning hits, that's where I'm heading. It's is as close to impervious as anywhere I've ever seen.
True, that's probably average. However, my house is <25 miles from the proposed facility. It's current value is $140k, with 3500 sq. ft. and sits on a quarter of a city block. Prices drop off rapidly outside 5 miles from the university.
I've done some IT work for the Biosecurity Research Institute - the BSL-3 "little brother" to this proposed lab in Manhattan KS, and a large reason why the committee decided to put the lab here. I guarantee you that if a tornado is heading toward this area, that's where I'm heading - it will be the safest place to be for miles around, including underground.
In this case, having the lab in Kansas probably hurts (or at least has the potential for hurting) the members of whatever House district this thing is supposed to be located in more than NOT having it would.
Yeah, having approx. 300 full-time research jobs at $100,000+/year is *really* going to hurt the district.
... but they are so accustomed to the gravy train that...
I think you've got something backwards here. My brother is a chiro, and he does accept lower prices for cash. Why? Because he doesn't have to deal with the [censored] insurance company. Dealing with cash is painless, but dealing with insurance takes almost all of his staff's time.
You're off by a few orders of magnitude - $39,999,999. (or maybe the last 9 was a 5). I remember first watching and hearing the 39,999 and thinking "wow, inflation" followed a split second later by "but I really guess that's not SO bad", and then he gave the extra '999' and I about choked.
Also, I dispute your statement that Obama supports a total ban on handguns. All you've got to support you on that is a questionnaire that he supposedly filled out in 1996. The Obama campaign says that a staffer filled that out incorrectly.
But you know damned well that 99% of the population is going to say: "Ok, great! We've got these CO2 filter thingies now, so the problem is solved. Now where's the keys to my Hummer?"
So what's the inherent problem with Hummers? If they're not polluting and the owner can afford the fuel, I don't see a problem with it.
(Yes, I realize that there's more to 'pollution' than just CO2. I'm purposely ignoring that for the sake of argument here.)
Here's the reason. First, and simply put, grey-listing and every other technique isn't free. They consume resources.
Absolutely true.
And I'll bet that they consume about the same amount of resources as a user actually accessing the message like any other.
This is where we differ. First of all, even with inefficient methods, CPU-time is cheap compared to my hourly rate. It may not be quite as accurate, but it can get close. Secondly, the amount of system resources we used on spam processing dropped to less than 10% of what it was before we started using Zen, SPF, and greylisting. In other words, they are very efficient uses of CPU time. Additionally, in the cases of greylisting and SPF, they are breaking RFCs if a legitimate mail server doesn't handle them correctly.
I run a conservative operation of about 6'000 e-mail accounts
...and...
I don't have the customer-service department to solve that. I don't have the mobile phone plan to solve that. And I don't have the training department to teach clients to find lost messages.
...don't jive. If you're running that many accounts, you should have some help-desk staff.
We run Maia Mailguard for our clients (we only have a few hundred accounts). They can either process them for themselves and we will teach them how to do it, or they can call us and we'll do it for them. I agree with you that mail shouldn't be "dropped on the floor", and that's why we use Maia. It holds onto the mail it detects as spam for a configurable period of time (we use a month). Now *those* I can go through in just a few minutes and see what it detected as spam that isn't.
I'd also be willing to bet (not that I could prove it one way or the other) that you have at some point deleted legitimate mail. Your buddy sends a message with a subject of "Hi Joe" (or whatever your name is) on the same day a batch of spam with "Hi [firstname]".
One last point. Our clients are small businesses, too, who don't like to lose legitimate mail. However, most (as in well over 95%, and probably over 99%) e-mail is with people with whom they already have a business relationship, rather than new sales leads. In the case of the former, a missing e-mail is usually easily detected (e.g. "why haven't you answered by question about xxx?") and our system lets them (or us) fix that problem quickly and easily.
The problem from a system administrator's POV here is bandwidth. Why receive and process 30,000 spam messages per day (that's about average here), when it's trivial to reject them with greylisting and zen.spamhaus.org. Sure, we run rules on the ones that come through after that point, but receiving them knowing you're going to throw them out is ridiculous.
Last year, I was contracted by Viagra's H.R. department to do some quick work
I can't believe nobody has touched this. Maybe it's just too easy?
I live in Kansas, and when I get a few free days, I'd be more than happy to load up my station wagon with books and drive them down to Greensburg.
Not a bad idea, but from somebody who was actually in Greensburg last weekend, make sure you have somebody in Greensburg to coordinate this with. They really don't have any place to put any books at the moment.
On my way out, the church where I was staying gave me several CDs and DVDs that were donated for the victims. Problem is that the victims don't have CD or DVD players, and really have other, more-pressing needs right now.
Here's a better idea for this one. Use Bibelot to convert the PG text straight to palmdoc. No PDF in the middle, and it will automagically put in the PG chapters.
And one other thing, basically everything that Google is known for--sans Search and Mail--is a PURCHASED technology. Why is it that when Microsoft "innovates by osmosis" they get slammed, but with google it's "revolutionary?"
First of all, you're excluding the #1 reason Google is a household name. It's like saying Microsoft didn't innovate anything but the OS and Office. (...and even MS-DOS has a shaky past in regards to being purely Microsoft). AND I think you're forgetting some other things. Take a look at Google's products. Yes, they purchased Blogger, YouTube, and the office stuff. That still leaves Earth, Desktop, News, SMS (one you don't hear about much, but is one of my personal favorites), and several others.
There's LOTS of innovation going on at Google (which I credit to their "20% of your time to be spent on a project of your own choosing" policy).
I'm not going to say that Google will eventually supplant Microsoft. I am saying they have the tools that they COULD. Netscape also had (at least most of) the tools that they could have done so in 1997. Obviously, they blew it. But that doesn't mean that Microsoft is "King for Life" .
I give you TMC. I found out about it because it was an option for my GPS when I bought it. I don't drive enough metro areas to make it worthwhile for me (living in the backwaters of Kansas), but I definitely think it would be worth the price.
Sounds like somebody needs to read the 9/11 Report. There were a few agents that noted something out-of-the-ordinary and sent it up the line. These were not investigated any further beyond the local FBI station level, just because it didn't rise to that concern level, not because they "were basically told to lay off and STFU by their superiors in Washington...".
Being noticed and "practically screaming about it" are not the same.
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Exactly. I'm wondering if the OP works for Verizon
Are you kidding me? The ST-251's were AWESOME. Granted, you needed to run Norton Disk Doctor before you ever used it to weed out the bad sectors from the factory, but once you were past that point, it was 40MB of pure reliability.
As yet another Scoutmaster, let me say that if they are doing things outside the "Guide to Safe Scouting" (pointed out in sibling post), you're not covered by the scouts' insurance policy. So if somebody gets hurt, BSA will deny everything, and the parent gets sue the person running the camp personally.
As a friend of mine used to say... "Children are a by-product."
I am also a Manhattan-area resident. (Work in Manhattan, commute due to cheap housing with a short drive.) I did some IT work for BRI (which, as you pointed out later, is a BSL-3, and can be made into a BSL-4 with some minor, but expensive, modifications). I got to go on a tour before it went live. If I'm anywhere near that building when a tornado warning hits, that's where I'm heading. It's is as close to impervious as anywhere I've ever seen.
True, that's probably average. However, my house is <25 miles from the proposed facility. It's current value is $140k, with 3500 sq. ft. and sits on a quarter of a city block. Prices drop off rapidly outside 5 miles from the university.
I've done some IT work for the Biosecurity Research Institute - the BSL-3 "little brother" to this proposed lab in Manhattan KS, and a large reason why the committee decided to put the lab here. I guarantee you that if a tornado is heading toward this area, that's where I'm heading - it will be the safest place to be for miles around, including underground.
Yeah, having approx. 300 full-time research jobs at $100,000+/year is *really* going to hurt the district.
I think you've got something backwards here. My brother is a chiro, and he does accept lower prices for cash. Why? Because he doesn't have to deal with the [censored] insurance company. Dealing with cash is painless, but dealing with insurance takes almost all of his staff's time.
You're off by a few orders of magnitude - $39,999,999. (or maybe the last 9 was a 5). I remember first watching and hearing the 39,999 and thinking "wow, inflation" followed a split second later by "but I really guess that's not SO bad", and then he gave the extra '999' and I about choked.
I call B.S. The upper class is called the upper class because they are winning, therefore the upper class will always be winning.
Even though it was apparently his own handwriting?
So what's the inherent problem with Hummers? If they're not polluting and the owner can afford the fuel, I don't see a problem with it.
(Yes, I realize that there's more to 'pollution' than just CO2. I'm purposely ignoring that for the sake of argument here.)
Maybe I can shed some light on this.
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We run Maia Mailguard for our clients (we only have a few hundred accounts). They can either process them for themselves and we will teach them how to do it, or they can call us and we'll do it for them. I agree with you that mail shouldn't be "dropped on the floor", and that's why we use Maia. It holds onto the mail it detects as spam for a configurable period of time (we use a month). Now *those* I can go through in just a few minutes and see what it detected as spam that isn't.
I'd also be willing to bet (not that I could prove it one way or the other) that you have at some point deleted legitimate mail. Your buddy sends a message with a subject of "Hi Joe" (or whatever your name is) on the same day a batch of spam with "Hi [firstname]".
One last point. Our clients are small businesses, too, who don't like to lose legitimate mail. However, most (as in well over 95%, and probably over 99%) e-mail is with people with whom they already have a business relationship, rather than new sales leads. In the case of the former, a missing e-mail is usually easily detected (e.g. "why haven't you answered by question about xxx?") and our system lets them (or us) fix that problem quickly and easily.
Not a bad idea, but from somebody who was actually in Greensburg last weekend, make sure you have somebody in Greensburg to coordinate this with. They really don't have any place to put any books at the moment.
On my way out, the church where I was staying gave me several CDs and DVDs that were donated for the victims. Problem is that the victims don't have CD or DVD players, and really have other, more-pressing needs right now.
Dangit, I'm even giving up mod points for this. That's just stupid. Be careful whose Kool-Aid you're drinking.
First of all, you're excluding the #1 reason Google is a household name. It's like saying Microsoft didn't innovate anything but the OS and Office. (...and even MS-DOS has a shaky past in regards to being purely Microsoft). AND I think you're forgetting some other things. Take a look at Google's products. Yes, they purchased Blogger, YouTube, and the office stuff. That still leaves Earth, Desktop, News, SMS (one you don't hear about much, but is one of my personal favorites), and several others.
There's LOTS of innovation going on at Google (which I credit to their "20% of your time to be spent on a project of your own choosing" policy).
I'm not going to say that Google will eventually supplant Microsoft. I am saying they have the tools that they COULD. Netscape also had (at least most of) the tools that they could have done so in 1997. Obviously, they blew it. But that doesn't mean that Microsoft is "King for Life" .
"95% of the lawyers give the rest a bad name."
I give you TMC. I found out about it because it was an option for my GPS when I bought it. I don't drive enough metro areas to make it worthwhile for me (living in the backwaters of Kansas), but I definitely think it would be worth the price.
Don't underestimate a society that needs to find a faster microwave oven.
Real friends don't let friends use XP Home.
Being noticed and "practically screaming about it" are not the same.