Seems to me that the only major engineering firm to have engineers able to design nuclear power plants is Brown and Root, a division of Haliburton.
Are we talking pebble bed reactors? What about Magnetohydrodynamic generators? No? Guess what, we're talking about standard heavy water or light water reactors, like the one at Three Mile Island, the only type Brown and Root has ever built, because it's "proven" technology. It's proven, all right.
I happen to think the we do need more nuclear reactors, just not the kind Haliburton builds.
Well, there's lots of reasons. First, there are a lot of things that are legal but will get you in hot water with the neighbors. I rememeber about 10 years ago, the guy next to me was being pretty seceritive about a relationship he was having. Turns out the girl was of a different race, and when his co-workers found out, the guy lost his job.
Next, I really don't think my taste (or lack of it) in movies should be bandied about.
Last, there are things that are legal now, that could be made illegal later. Sure, we're not supposed to have ex-post facto laws, but we aren't supposed to have survailance cameras in our homes, either.
Gee, if it's "their" line, why do *I* get a bill for it?
Sad to say, I think they'll be allowed to get away with it until there is a administration more willing to look out for the consumer interest than one intent on reading our email. (Yeah, monkey-boi, I'm talkin' about YOU.)
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Peace activist Cindy Sheehan was arrested Tuesday in the House gallery after refusing to cover up a T-shirt bearing an anti-war slogan before President Bush's State of the Union address.
Q. Since when is expressing a political opinion a crime in the United States?
A.Since King George took over the White House.
Yes I can agree with that. Imagine the nerve of someone sworn to uphold the constitution thinking he can simply order a government agency to violate constitutional rights without consequence.
The government has always had the authority to monitor international communications without a warrant.
I will accept that statement only after you provide a citation to a legal theroy that propounds it. In contravention of your point, I cite the FISA of 1978, the FISA court which has, in it's ENTIRE HISTORY, declined only four requests for a wiretap.
Bush didn't make up that power.
I suggest he did, out of whole cloth. The solicitor general (Alberto Gonzales) has been quoted on CNN saying he and President Bush did not seek specific authorization from Congress on exactly this point because they didn't think they'd get it. So he made a wild power grab and got away with it for many years. Now the lights are starting to come on, and they are scurring away from it like cockroaches in the kitchen.
Just let me point out, if you substitute "Clinton" for "Bush", I suggest you'd be barking at the moon for not just removal from office, but criminal prosecution as well. I tell you true, if Clinton tried pulling something like this, I'd have screamed for his head.
It just happened that in the past those communications were generally broadcast radio transmisisons and not internet or telephone communications.
Ahhh. Therein lies the rub. It was still illegal even then. Look up the law on interception of communications absent a warrent. Now, "they" (in this case, the NSA, DIA, MI6, and ANZAC) have to touch what they want to snoop on. In the past, they could just stick a wire in the air and break the law. Now they have to have cooperation. Regardless, it was still illegal since 1932.
The power hasn't changed, only the technology.
I argue that they never had the legal power. Tech has changed, that is self evident. That they have the absolute power is obvious. They can kill you if you refuse to cooperate. And likely bill your family for the bullet too. Doesn't make it legal.
Also, the communications in question are phone calls originating overseas
Incorrect. NSA is tapped directly into the Datona database. This includes ALL calls made through the PTSN, internal to the US, external, either initiated from inside or outside the US, and most Internet connections. They have SUGGESTED they were interested in only overseas initiated calls, however, I question if that is the case, and if it is, if they have the legal authority to do so even then.
by known Al Qaeda members.
Again, this is incorrect information. These are not "known" members of a terrorist orgisanation. These are SUSPECTS, some of them citizens (although I strongly believe that we should NOT be making distinctions about what civil liberties (aside from voting and holding office) should be granted to a non-citizen verus a citizen while within US jurisdiction. We then in turn expose ourselves to having to prove at every street corner that we are citizens. Think a Nazi SS Trooper shouting "PAPERS!" at every bus stop, airport (oops, too late!), train station, and highway blockade. And God help you if you don't have official permission to go to another city.)
If the NSA wasn't monitoring those conversations, it would be gross negligance and they would be ignoring their duty to the country.
Part of their duty is to make sure they aren't breaking the law themselves while trying to get the "bad guys". That's how you tell a good guy from a bad guy. The good guys always obey the law. The bad guys don't. It is an important distinction to remember. Or else you'll just have to accept someone is a "good guy" because they tell you to. And if they don't, they take you to jail.
I would probably agree that there should be oversight on this program to make sure there are no abuses,
Backup tapes and disks with data on 365,000 patients were stolen out of the car of a worker at a healthcare company in Portland.
A company I used to work for in the wagering business used 9 track tapes (many states specify it in their laws, so we just used 'em everywhere). Not only are the channels not arranged to standard form, but the data itself is encrypted according to a variable password. The only clear block on the tape is the first, which gives you the sequence and index of the password. Then you have to get the book out, look up the password to restore the tape.
I'm currently working as a Microsoft Systems Administrator
I see a lot of problems here.
First, the whole Microsoft thing.
Second, the company you work for is being cheap and short sighted. Perhaps this is why your predicessor left?
Your rest and de-stressing is just as important as your SO's. Demand it as is your right. Either he loves you enough to see he's been insensitive, you need a new SO, or you need to work somewhere else.
He can do the shopping. If I can do it, he can do it. He can also help sweep, mop, dust, and all the rest, or hire a maid. First I helped, then said, "You know what? We have too little time together to spend it cleaning. Let's get a maid."
Start giving yourself permission to be kinder to yourself. If you don't take care of you, no one else will and the kid(s) will not have a mother.
I hate to sound so cold about it, but there just isn't any real reason you need to not have a little fun, a little bit of life, and a little bit of time to spend with just yourself, just your kid(s), just the hubby and time with all of them. Sounds impossible, but don't try for all of them in any one week, spread it out over a month.
America is about freedom. I won't say it is never a good idea to limit US constitutional freedoms, but I will say it needs to be breifly, narrowly, and with a lot of reluctance.
I'm well aware of the original vote tally passing the "patriot" act. I think we've seen it was an overreaction, that it has been abused, and the White House has overstepped even the wide powers it got from that ill considered peace of legislation.
Every time Condi talks about it, she always says "The first smoking gun could be a mushroom cloud over a major city." My guess is that she's trying to scare and stampeed people into unwise actions.
America is about freedom.
The Administration is always talking about how "they" hate and despise our freedomes.
Seems to me that we shouldn't be limiting freedoms then. Otherwise, we are doing the work of destroying our country for them.
Getting down to cases, I think it's been shown what has done with the special powers granted in the act. EG: Not a lot of good things. We've invaded two countries, installed governments to our liking, and still people are shooting at each other and innocents are still dying. No improvement there, other than getting the Taliban and Saddam out of power. That is aregueably a good thing, but the price is much too high in my opinion. I thought at the time that we should have waited, but I was also concerned about the yellow cake situation. A stiuation it turns out just wasn't true.
Next is that "Congress saw all the same intelligence we did!" Well, sir, that turns out not to be the case. Seems that source assessment reports on the intelligence was NOT shared with congress, but WAS shared with the Administration. A source assessment report grades the source of the intelligence, some "spy" books range it as "Accepted as truth", "Trusted source, personally received", down to "known counterintelligence operat." There are good reasons not to share that information, but it seems most of the most damaging and most pointed to intelligence was from people known to be undependable, and that the administration knew they were but didn't say so, and there were some in the intelligence community that kept trying to point it out these sources were undependable. Some were gagged, some were transferred, some were fired, most were just ignored.
No sir. This is bad law and it isn't good for our country. I will say this, I have no doubt whatever that someone that has a known bad guy and needs the information to protect the country will do what it takes to get the information, even breaking the law to do it if it's that important. When that happens, it will either get covered up, or it will become public. Only if it becomes public will it go to a court, where 12 citizen will sit there and put themselves in the position of the agent and decide if what he did was illegal but justified. Even if it were illegal, I believe that a jury won't find him guilty if it was important enough.
Lastly, I love my country. I do not have to love the administration, and I refuse to accept being called unpatriotic because I disagree with your opinions. That is unworthy of a patriot, and the supporters of this administration should find a more mature way to disagree with people. What I see is that many confuse critizing the administrations actions with hating America. That isn't true. It's called loving your country to want to make it better, no matter how good it already is.
50 a day? pffft I get 200 a day and you should see the size of my......spam folder.
The main farm I work in sees - on average - about 150,000 per hour. I filter using an extensive local block list. For instance aside from minor white listings no RIPE, KRNIC, APNIC, LATNIC ip space can email my users. Much of APNIC is in the firewall, so they can't even browse our sites. After that, I use sevearal global block lists.
At peak, I guetimate over a million spams/viruses/trojans per hour. Normally just before a new worm is announced I'll see someone has turned on the sewer pipe full blast. Desired email runs about 60,000 to 80,000 per day.
If the FTC wants to say CAN-SPAM works, I'd say I have a lot of offers for amazing pills they should see.
...is to write a business case for it. Detail what's going on now, what you want to change, why the change will be better, and what could go wrong and what you intend to do if it does.
It will include costs, savings, milestones, and timelines. It will have evaluation and disconnect points, where the project can be scrapped if it isn't working out.
Like this: Currently our business utilizes six servers, located at points X, Y, and Z. It is proposed to move these servers to point A. It is anticipated that the change will allow IT to more easily service the machines, attend to backup tapes in a faster way, and to secure the hardware in a central location.
Upon approval, the network in area X will be upgraded with blah blah, and preperations made for users of the server to access it via the network. On date blah, the server will be unavailable for blah blah hours while it is being backed up, then moved. A spare server has been made up in case server X should experience a failure during the move.
go on like that for all the servers.
Estimates of cost: We will require funds to upgrade the networks for switches, leased lines, and so on.
At each server move, management should evaluate the impact before authorizing the next step.
You did the professional thing. You gave notice.
If they choose to remove your access, then that's up to them. If they tell you not to bother for the next two weeks, that's also up to them.
What happened to you is standard proceedure at many employers. I know that when I turn in notice, I'll be asked not to show up for work. I also know that I'll be paid for it. The only problem is when they choose not to pay you. The employer is in the wrong there, provided we are talking two weeks. If you give 30 days notice, then they could choose to only pay you for 14 days, depending on your pay cycle.
I fully support removing access to people that are terminating their employment. I also insist that they be paid.
And the nation's greatest native inventor seems to be a man who has come up with 100 different ways to make a flower pot."
100 different ways to make a flower pot... and they are all patented. And this shocks you why? Everybody and their dog knows that the US patent system is grossly broken. If you think that 100 different flower pots are grotesque, you should look into the patents held by Microsoft and NTL (the guys that are going to rape RIM-blackberry.) Slight hint: They are not the worst cases.
Well, I see a little something wrong. You are assuming guilt before a trial.
See the last sentence in my post. It says "IF they are guilty...."
The idea that match.com will send an employee on a date to save one particular subscription fails the initial skepticism test.
For a one on one date, yes, I agree to an extent. But that isn't only what they are doing. EG: See "Speed Matching". Now, think "plant". Also, one date with a very nice looking young lady that bats her eyes and smiles a lot would likely keep someone on the hook for months, looking for a repeat. One date, six months subscription. Now think of all the "extras" at Match. Speed dating. Premium memebership. Date resume fluffing. It can run to a lot of bux.
I've subscribed to Match and Yahoo (at different times) and here are my observations:
Match - great customer service, OK site.
Yahoo - NO customer service, not a great site but not bad.
Dates: Neither service provided a date over the six months I subscribed that I thought was worth it. Many freaks, fools, and poison women, what I call "Sick kittens". Perhaps I'm a harsh, but the fact is that I never met a woman on either service that turned out to be more than "No thanks, I'll pass." aside from one, and she's not a romantic interest, just friends.
For the amount of money, it wasn't worth it in my opinion.
I'm talking not about the contents of the article, but the point at which society stopped dealing with personal issues and problems and instead desperately started seeking someone to blame, and ultimately, to sue.
I don't see anything wrong here. Someone committed fraud, they get sued.
The difference between fraud and robbery is that a robber uses force, a fraudster uses persuasion, promising something without intent to deliver.
No one ever says that muggers shouldn't be put in jail, so I don't understand what it is about fraud that people think should go unpunished.
I don't know why people think suits are a way to shift blame. Sure, there are lots of silly suits out there, suing a neighbor for a too loud lawnmower and things, but suing Yahoo and Match over astro-dating and date bait is, in my opinion, fair game. And if they are guilty, they should get a whopping big judgement against them.
Get used to not having an office. IT workers are considered just slightly better than the janitor by most businesses. Hell, even the janitor has a private office where I work.
if you're restoring the data to multiple machines, then you have network issues to deal with.
Restores can go to many machines. However, I find that noramlly, my restores go to one machine. Add in that for the most part, restores are done in off peak hours, you have more bandwidth to play with.
As I've said many times in the past....
RIAA and MPAA members are evil. Quit buying their products. For those that can't quite wrap their mind around it, that means:
1. don't by music from RIAA artists.
2. Quit going to the movies.
Simple.
...the censorship of the use of good content beneficial to students because you don't like other things done by the school boards is a boneheaded idea.
No, it's a very good idea.
First, we are dealing with minds that consider teachers authority figures. These minds are not up to the task of questioning; that's why they are called "children".
Second, it isn't up to the state to teach your religion, and ID is nothing but religion. Children deserve interaction with their parents. If the parents want to teach their children religion, then they are free to do so, but keep your flawed "science" out of my kids brains. I will undertake to be their spiritual guide, it's one of my duites as their father.
Lastly, the following quote is relivent:
"It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so, and will follow it by suppressing opposition, subverting all education to seize early the minds of the young, and by killing, locking up, or driving underground all heretics." -- Robert A. Heinlein, Postscript to Revolt in 2100, (C) 1954
One might do well to review the The Trial of Socrates, who was put to death for asking too many uncomfortable questions. Science is about verifiable answers to questions, religion is about answers provided by Devine Inspiration. You decide what kind of society you want to live in. Also, that link contains a reference to "evil doers", and may be interesting for other reasons.
Baptists beleive that dancing, smoking, drinking, pornography, and premarital sex are sinful, and that failing to support your church with thithes (10-15% of your income) is immoral. While I have no arguement with someone that wants to hold those beliefs, I see no reason for them to become embodied in law and enforced by the police. ID is an attempt to enforce a belief under color of law. America doesn't need an American Taliban.
Very interesting reading on the subject can be found at the ACLU web site, and in particular this document.
It isn't censorship to withhold permission to use your own copyrighted works from someone who is twisting the point of your work. It's called intellecutual honesty, and I've yet to meet an ID proponet with it.
Sounds like the PHBs have been at this. First, *why* does it have to be a single file system?
With Oracle, MySQL, and MS-SQL you can do partitioning, if your need is databases. If your need is really a monolithic file, then I'll bet that the single file size won't be multi-hundreds of gigs.
In short, your stated objective smells. Not enough data.
WHAT is going to be done (database, file storage?)
HOW will it be accessed? (One large file, many smaller files)
WHEN will it be accessed? (During business hours, distributed over the day?)
AVERAGE TRANSFERS - will the whole schmear come over, selected parts?
SECURITY a concern? (Sensitive data, protected network)
BACKUP - a petabyte of tape storage is expensive, and takes quite a while to do.
POWER - do you have enough?
COOLING - ditto
SPACE - ditto - my $DAYJOB computer room is about 3000 sq ft... and we're going to be using all of it within 12 months.
That said, if you go with big drives over a lot of systems, use lots-o-nics to keep the nic from being the bottleneck. A single gig connection sounds fine, but wait until you have 100's of people going for files at once. It'll get swamped. And swear off V-SAN from Cisco. Not worth it at all.
Having spent all day sorting out this problem, I ask Slashdot: Isn't there a better way that the issue of peering can be handled/regulated?
Personally, I wouldn't use either of them. There are many people that say they block one or both of them on their networks. A rare few even say they don't accept ANY packets on ANY port, not just port 25.
and how would you protect the drive itself in case you did have to "swim for it"?
Nuclear blast areas: (20 megatons at 17,500 ft airburst)
8.5 miles - vaporized.
35 miles - 15% dead, 50% injured. Cite ??? miles - EMP so strong that internal components of chips melt.
Cite
Hmm. Paper seems safer, easier to deal with without computers. And if I live, so does the data.
Anyway, it's not likely someone would get a 20 megaton bomb. More likely 10 Kt to 1 Mt. Revise that for "Best be more than 50 miles away." Make that 150 miles for a 20 megaton.
Can I go live on a planet where we don't have this madness?
I've run across several MoBo's that don't run Linux well, but run Windows 2K flawlessly, not so hot on XP. One wonders. I've had SAP up and running on Linux in under six hours, starting with a blank box, no OS installed. Oracle takes a bit more than eight hours. Using Enterprise Linux, it takes perhaps another twenty minutes to get the patches on the way down. Using Fedora, about twenty seconds to get the patches on the way down.
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Are we talking pebble bed reactors? What about Magnetohydrodynamic generators? No? Guess what, we're talking about standard heavy water or light water reactors, like the one at Three Mile Island, the only type Brown and Root has ever built, because it's "proven" technology. It's proven, all right.
I happen to think the we do need more nuclear reactors, just not the kind Haliburton builds.
Next, I really don't think my taste (or lack of it) in movies should be bandied about.
Last, there are things that are legal now, that could be made illegal later. Sure, we're not supposed to have ex-post facto laws, but we aren't supposed to have survailance cameras in our homes, either.
Gee, if it's "their" line, why do *I* get a bill for it? Sad to say, I think they'll be allowed to get away with it until there is a administration more willing to look out for the consumer interest than one intent on reading our email. (Yeah, monkey-boi, I'm talkin' about YOU.)
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Peace activist Cindy Sheehan was arrested Tuesday in the House gallery after refusing to cover up a T-shirt bearing an anti-war slogan before President Bush's State of the Union address.
Q. Since when is expressing a political opinion a crime in the United States?
A.Since King George took over the White House.
Yes I can agree with that. Imagine the nerve of someone sworn to uphold the constitution thinking he can simply order a government agency to violate constitutional rights without consequence.
The government has always had the authority to monitor international communications without a warrant.
I will accept that statement only after you provide a citation to a legal theroy that propounds it. In contravention of your point, I cite the FISA of 1978, the FISA court which has, in it's ENTIRE HISTORY, declined only four requests for a wiretap.
Bush didn't make up that power.
I suggest he did, out of whole cloth. The solicitor general (Alberto Gonzales) has been quoted on CNN saying he and President Bush did not seek specific authorization from Congress on exactly this point because they didn't think they'd get it. So he made a wild power grab and got away with it for many years. Now the lights are starting to come on, and they are scurring away from it like cockroaches in the kitchen.
Just let me point out, if you substitute "Clinton" for "Bush", I suggest you'd be barking at the moon for not just removal from office, but criminal prosecution as well. I tell you true, if Clinton tried pulling something like this, I'd have screamed for his head.
It just happened that in the past those communications were generally broadcast radio transmisisons and not internet or telephone communications.
Ahhh. Therein lies the rub. It was still illegal even then. Look up the law on interception of communications absent a warrent. Now, "they" (in this case, the NSA, DIA, MI6, and ANZAC) have to touch what they want to snoop on. In the past, they could just stick a wire in the air and break the law. Now they have to have cooperation. Regardless, it was still illegal since 1932.
The power hasn't changed, only the technology.
I argue that they never had the legal power. Tech has changed, that is self evident. That they have the absolute power is obvious. They can kill you if you refuse to cooperate. And likely bill your family for the bullet too. Doesn't make it legal.
Also, the communications in question are phone calls originating overseas
Incorrect. NSA is tapped directly into the Datona database. This includes ALL calls made through the PTSN, internal to the US, external, either initiated from inside or outside the US, and most Internet connections. They have SUGGESTED they were interested in only overseas initiated calls, however, I question if that is the case, and if it is, if they have the legal authority to do so even then.
by known Al Qaeda members.
Again, this is incorrect information. These are not "known" members of a terrorist orgisanation. These are SUSPECTS, some of them citizens (although I strongly believe that we should NOT be making distinctions about what civil liberties (aside from voting and holding office) should be granted to a non-citizen verus a citizen while within US jurisdiction. We then in turn expose ourselves to having to prove at every street corner that we are citizens. Think a Nazi SS Trooper shouting "PAPERS!" at every bus stop, airport (oops, too late!), train station, and highway blockade. And God help you if you don't have official permission to go to another city.)
If the NSA wasn't monitoring those conversations, it would be gross negligance and they would be ignoring their duty to the country.
Part of their duty is to make sure they aren't breaking the law themselves while trying to get the "bad guys". That's how you tell a good guy from a bad guy. The good guys always obey the law. The bad guys don't. It is an important distinction to remember. Or else you'll just have to accept someone is a "good guy" because they tell you to. And if they don't, they take you to jail.
I would probably agree that there should be oversight on this program to make sure there are no abuses,
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A company I used to work for in the wagering business used 9 track tapes (many states specify it in their laws, so we just used 'em everywhere). Not only are the channels not arranged to standard form, but the data itself is encrypted according to a variable password. The only clear block on the tape is the first, which gives you the sequence and index of the password. Then you have to get the book out, look up the password to restore the tape.
I see a lot of problems here.
First, the whole Microsoft thing.
Second, the company you work for is being cheap and short sighted. Perhaps this is why your predicessor left?
Your rest and de-stressing is just as important as your SO's. Demand it as is your right. Either he loves you enough to see he's been insensitive, you need a new SO, or you need to work somewhere else.
He can do the shopping. If I can do it, he can do it. He can also help sweep, mop, dust, and all the rest, or hire a maid. First I helped, then said, "You know what? We have too little time together to spend it cleaning. Let's get a maid."
Start giving yourself permission to be kinder to yourself. If you don't take care of you, no one else will and the kid(s) will not have a mother.
I hate to sound so cold about it, but there just isn't any real reason you need to not have a little fun, a little bit of life, and a little bit of time to spend with just yourself, just your kid(s), just the hubby and time with all of them. Sounds impossible, but don't try for all of them in any one week, spread it out over a month.
I'm well aware of the original vote tally passing the "patriot" act. I think we've seen it was an overreaction, that it has been abused, and the White House has overstepped even the wide powers it got from that ill considered peace of legislation.
Every time Condi talks about it, she always says "The first smoking gun could be a mushroom cloud over a major city." My guess is that she's trying to scare and stampeed people into unwise actions.
America is about freedom.
The Administration is always talking about how "they" hate and despise our freedomes.
Seems to me that we shouldn't be limiting freedoms then. Otherwise, we are doing the work of destroying our country for them.
Getting down to cases, I think it's been shown what has done with the special powers granted in the act. EG: Not a lot of good things. We've invaded two countries, installed governments to our liking, and still people are shooting at each other and innocents are still dying. No improvement there, other than getting the Taliban and Saddam out of power. That is aregueably a good thing, but the price is much too high in my opinion. I thought at the time that we should have waited, but I was also concerned about the yellow cake situation. A stiuation it turns out just wasn't true.
Next is that "Congress saw all the same intelligence we did!" Well, sir, that turns out not to be the case. Seems that source assessment reports on the intelligence was NOT shared with congress, but WAS shared with the Administration. A source assessment report grades the source of the intelligence, some "spy" books range it as "Accepted as truth", "Trusted source, personally received", down to "known counterintelligence operat." There are good reasons not to share that information, but it seems most of the most damaging and most pointed to intelligence was from people known to be undependable, and that the administration knew they were but didn't say so, and there were some in the intelligence community that kept trying to point it out these sources were undependable. Some were gagged, some were transferred, some were fired, most were just ignored.
No sir. This is bad law and it isn't good for our country. I will say this, I have no doubt whatever that someone that has a known bad guy and needs the information to protect the country will do what it takes to get the information, even breaking the law to do it if it's that important. When that happens, it will either get covered up, or it will become public. Only if it becomes public will it go to a court, where 12 citizen will sit there and put themselves in the position of the agent and decide if what he did was illegal but justified. Even if it were illegal, I believe that a jury won't find him guilty if it was important enough.
Lastly, I love my country. I do not have to love the administration, and I refuse to accept being called unpatriotic because I disagree with your opinions. That is unworthy of a patriot, and the supporters of this administration should find a more mature way to disagree with people. What I see is that many confuse critizing the administrations actions with hating America. That isn't true. It's called loving your country to want to make it better, no matter how good it already is.
The main farm I work in sees - on average - about 150,000 per hour. I filter using an extensive local block list. For instance aside from minor white listings no RIPE, KRNIC, APNIC, LATNIC ip space can email my users. Much of APNIC is in the firewall, so they can't even browse our sites. After that, I use sevearal global block lists.
At peak, I guetimate over a million spams/viruses/trojans per hour. Normally just before a new worm is announced I'll see someone has turned on the sewer pipe full blast. Desired email runs about 60,000 to 80,000 per day.
If the FTC wants to say CAN-SPAM works, I'd say I have a lot of offers for amazing pills they should see.
...is to write a business case for it.
Detail what's going on now, what you want to change, why the change will be better, and what could go wrong and what you intend to do if it does.
It will include costs, savings, milestones, and timelines.
It will have evaluation and disconnect points, where the project can be scrapped if it isn't working out.
Like this:
Currently our business utilizes six servers, located at points X, Y, and Z.
It is proposed to move these servers to point A. It is anticipated that the change will allow IT to more easily service the machines, attend to backup tapes in a faster way, and to secure the hardware in a central location.
Upon approval, the network in area X will be upgraded with blah blah, and preperations made for users of the server to access it via the network. On date blah, the server will be unavailable for blah blah hours while it is being backed up, then moved. A spare server has been made up in case server X should experience a failure during the move.
go on like that for all the servers.
Estimates of cost: We will require funds to upgrade the networks for switches, leased lines, and so on.
At each server move, management should evaluate the impact before authorizing the next step.
Yeah, but only if you have four 6313's. If you have more than four, Cisco will want LOTS more money.
You did the professional thing. You gave notice.
If they choose to remove your access, then that's up to them. If they tell you not to bother for the next two weeks, that's also up to them.
What happened to you is standard proceedure at many employers. I know that when I turn in notice, I'll be asked not to show up for work. I also know that I'll be paid for it. The only problem is when they choose not to pay you. The employer is in the wrong there, provided we are talking two weeks. If you give 30 days notice, then they could choose to only pay you for 14 days, depending on your pay cycle.
I fully support removing access to people that are terminating their employment. I also insist that they be paid.
100 different ways to make a flower pot... and they are all patented. And this shocks you why? Everybody and their dog knows that the US patent system is grossly broken. If you think that 100 different flower pots are grotesque, you should look into the patents held by Microsoft and NTL (the guys that are going to rape RIM-blackberry.) Slight hint: They are not the worst cases.
See the last sentence in my post. It says "IF they are guilty...."
The idea that match.com will send an employee on a date to save one particular subscription fails the initial skepticism test.
For a one on one date, yes, I agree to an extent. But that isn't only what they are doing. EG: See "Speed Matching". Now, think "plant". Also, one date with a very nice looking young lady that bats her eyes and smiles a lot would likely keep someone on the hook for months, looking for a repeat. One date, six months subscription. Now think of all the "extras" at Match. Speed dating. Premium memebership. Date resume fluffing. It can run to a lot of bux.
Match - great customer service, OK site.
Yahoo - NO customer service, not a great site but not bad.
Dates: Neither service provided a date over the six months I subscribed that I thought was worth it. Many freaks, fools, and poison women, what I call "Sick kittens". Perhaps I'm a harsh, but the fact is that I never met a woman on either service that turned out to be more than "No thanks, I'll pass." aside from one, and she's not a romantic interest, just friends. For the amount of money, it wasn't worth it in my opinion.
I don't see anything wrong here. Someone committed fraud, they get sued. The difference between fraud and robbery is that a robber uses force, a fraudster uses persuasion, promising something without intent to deliver. No one ever says that muggers shouldn't be put in jail, so I don't understand what it is about fraud that people think should go unpunished.
I don't know why people think suits are a way to shift blame. Sure, there are lots of silly suits out there, suing a neighbor for a too loud lawnmower and things, but suing Yahoo and Match over astro-dating and date bait is, in my opinion, fair game. And if they are guilty, they should get a whopping big judgement against them.
Get used to not having an office. IT workers are considered just slightly better than the janitor by most businesses. Hell, even the janitor has a private office where I work.
Restores can go to many machines. However, I find that noramlly, my restores go to one machine. Add in that for the most part, restores are done in off peak hours, you have more bandwidth to play with.
See the SpectraLogic 950 series tape silos. up to 120 tape drives and fiber channel. Shouldn't take too long with that.
As I've said many times in the past.... RIAA and MPAA members are evil. Quit buying their products. For those that can't quite wrap their mind around it, that means: 1. don't by music from RIAA artists. 2. Quit going to the movies. Simple.
No, it's a very good idea.
First, we are dealing with minds that consider teachers authority figures. These minds are not up to the task of questioning; that's why they are called "children".
Second, it isn't up to the state to teach your religion, and ID is nothing but religion. Children deserve interaction with their parents. If the parents want to teach their children religion, then they are free to do so, but keep your flawed "science" out of my kids brains. I will undertake to be their spiritual guide, it's one of my duites as their father.
Lastly, the following quote is relivent:
"It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so, and will follow it by suppressing opposition, subverting all education to seize early the minds of the young, and by killing, locking up, or driving underground all heretics." -- Robert A. Heinlein, Postscript to Revolt in 2100, (C) 1954
One might do well to review the The Trial of Socrates, who was put to death for asking too many uncomfortable questions. Science is about verifiable answers to questions, religion is about answers provided by Devine Inspiration. You decide what kind of society you want to live in. Also, that link contains a reference to "evil doers", and may be interesting for other reasons.
Baptists beleive that dancing, smoking, drinking, pornography, and premarital sex are sinful, and that failing to support your church with thithes (10-15% of your income) is immoral. While I have no arguement with someone that wants to hold those beliefs, I see no reason for them to become embodied in law and enforced by the police. ID is an attempt to enforce a belief under color of law. America doesn't need an American Taliban.
Very interesting reading on the subject can be found at the ACLU web site, and in particular this document.
It isn't censorship to withhold permission to use your own copyrighted works from someone who is twisting the point of your work. It's called intellecutual honesty, and I've yet to meet an ID proponet with it.
Who'da thunk we'd have a replay of the Scopes Monkey trial in today's age?
In short, your stated objective smells. Not enough data.
WHAT is going to be done (database, file storage?)
HOW will it be accessed? (One large file, many smaller files)
WHEN will it be accessed? (During business hours, distributed over the day?)
AVERAGE TRANSFERS - will the whole schmear come over, selected parts?
SECURITY a concern? (Sensitive data, protected network)
BACKUP - a petabyte of tape storage is expensive, and takes quite a while to do.
POWER - do you have enough?
COOLING - ditto
SPACE - ditto - my $DAYJOB computer room is about 3000 sq ft... and we're going to be using all of it within 12 months.
That said, if you go with big drives over a lot of systems, use lots-o-nics to keep the nic from being the bottleneck. A single gig connection sounds fine, but wait until you have 100's of people going for files at once. It'll get swamped. And swear off V-SAN from Cisco. Not worth it at all.
Personally, I wouldn't use either of them. There are many people that say they block one or both of them on their networks. A rare few even say they don't accept ANY packets on ANY port, not just port 25.
Nuclear blast areas: (20 megatons at 17,500 ft airburst)
8.5 miles - vaporized.
35 miles - 15% dead, 50% injured. Cite
??? miles - EMP so strong that internal components of chips melt. Cite
Hmm. Paper seems safer, easier to deal with without computers. And if I live, so does the data. Anyway, it's not likely someone would get a 20 megaton bomb. More likely 10 Kt to 1 Mt. Revise that for "Best be more than 50 miles away." Make that 150 miles for a 20 megaton.
Can I go live on a planet where we don't have this madness?
I've had SAP up and running on Linux in under six hours, starting with a blank box, no OS installed. Oracle takes a bit more than eight hours. Using Enterprise Linux, it takes perhaps another twenty minutes to get the patches on the way down. Using Fedora, about twenty seconds to get the patches on the way down.
Again, one wonders what went wrong here.