Physics. The end of the siphon needs to be below a certain level to keep the vacuum effect going. However, if it were possible to catch the water at the end, then yes, it would be possible to recycle it (until algae became visible in the end container, anyway).
Or the GP may be protecting business. Most prospective clients don't want to see that in their contractors. They want to see relatively clean-cut people who know what they're doing. This means:
Neatly dressed If not business/business casual, then at least neat jeans and a shirt without any crass language or symbols. For men, close-toed shoes are highly suggested; Birkenstocks are not considered appropriate in most places.
Neatly groomed Long hair and even facial hair is fine, so long as it's trimmed and neatly kept.
No visible tattoos If you must have them, cover them up with long sleeves, and use a dark fabric color if necessary.
Minimal visible piercings Men and women can get away with up to two, maybe three per ear. Nose rings, eyebrow piercings, and the like should not be brought in, and if your tongue is pierced, it should have been done long enough in the past for you to learn to clearly speak with it in.
If the people are to be tucked in the back, without anyone seeing them (such as an ISP, or remote contracting), then go with whatever makes people comfortable and efficient. If it means getting in front of customers, then there's a high likelihood that they're going to need to conform to some degree.
Kennedy made it the goal of the nation to land a man on the moon and return him safely by the end of the decade, knowing that someone else would be in the White House then.
It looks to me like Griffin has decided that whether or not the president's new goal was diversion or eagerness, he's going to do his best to get it done.
On a more serious note, 20 or so years of cloaking his existence from the Emperor and Darth Vader may have taken a serious toll on him.
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I'm not sure what they plan to get out of (3). The GPL is the General Public License. It may be drafted by the FSF, but it is intended for broad usage by many different people. If they want to have a constitution, they ought to make one, for their organization. Trying to pretend like their organization represents the entire movement is silly and pure hubris.
You seem to be forgetting that RMS is the free software movement. He is its Lord and Savior, its High Regent, its Most Exalted One, its Glorious Heavenly Father. All other 'free software movements' are false cults that shall not be followed, lest ye incur the wrath of the Father.
I can see where GPL2 could use some tweaking, but I'm worried about what we're going to be seeing in v3, what it will do to the community (think of projects like Debian, who are so careful about how they deal with licenses for included packages), and maybe whether any attention will be paid to it at all (and the possible lecturing essays by RMS on this).
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Sometimes?
Almost every time he writes something, I cringe. He's seen as (one of) the father(s) of the open-source movement, but his views are often far beyond even the mainstream OSS community, let alone the software community as a whole. RMS is to the OSS community like Ralph Nader is to Democrats, or Pat Buchanan is to Republicans: they sort of agree to some core tenets in concept, and don't want to be seen really disagreeing with him. However, they find themselves saying, "Well, yeah, but..." a lot of the time.
I don't like software patents, and I don't like massive payouts designed to "make an example" where there is no justification for them. I'm not about to compromise one for the other. The courts followed a law with which I do not agree, but it is still a law, and needs to be followed. There are other ways of dealing with this, and in any case, some mega award would have been knocked down significantly on appeal anyway.
IT at this location was contracted out almost as a whole (management excluded) to another company, so they had no control over my pay.:) We were still treated as part of the company by other employees, though.
No, they don't need to figure out how to put a dent in these guys. Aside from the issue that this is over a software patent (something railed against so often, but since this is against Microsoft it must be OK), actual damages, and perhaps some punitive damages should have been applied, but the Supreme Court has in a way limited advised damages to nine times the actual damages in guidelines from the last few years (a case about a scratched BMW, IIRC).
Getting back monies lost is fine. Getting some additional monies to make a point is fine. There's no reason to push that out to billions in damages.
Just as long as they're being appropriately hidden. One of the few times that I ever snapped at a user without being provoked was when I saw, in the HR department, the name of the bank, dial-up number, account number, and password for the payroll account on a Post-It on the user's bulletin board, with the following words in big letters:
PAYROLL ACCOUNT MASTER LOGIN
I ripped it down and handed it to her, telling her somewhat angrily that she needed to lock it in a secure location, or I would escalate it to the head of HR and the head of IT. I came back everyday for a week, and periodically for a few months afterward, at times when the user was not there to ensure that it had not been placed in any semi-obvious location, and that all of the cabinet drawers were locked. I still ended up telling the mentioned managers, but in a more general way that they needed to do more to focus on security of accounts, among other things. They implemented training a couple of weeks later, fortunately.
I say it quite often. Even in things like the medical marijuana case, I applauded the stance of Justices O'Connor, Rehnquist, and Thomas, who felt that allowing this to be upheld meant that Congress could justify anything under the Commerce Clause.
The courts are the one branch that I generally trust to do the Right Thing, though I am on occasion dismayed by their actions. Can't win all the time.
I'm a skeptic of man-made global warming, but I'm willing to listen to evidence of anything, and then weigh the evidence myself. We have fairly precise global data going back only a couple of decades. We have reasonably precise data going back less than 50 years. We have some data from scattered weather stations going back perhaps a century before that. And most of the data relied upon has been from very regional items like ice and tree cores. Different teams have reported different results for the data; Mann, et al, is the most famous, but von Storch, et al, and Moberg, et al, have both produced results with much more variability.
The trouble is that we simply don't have clear ideas of the climate over much of the world for the past 1000 years in precise terms. Satellites are just now getting the capability to accurately measure atmospheric temps at different altitudes.
I'm all for making changes to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, as long as they are not induced by panic (such as requiring massive cuts to emissions in too short a feasible time), and they are not sending the entire world economy into a downward spiral. Nuclear power is the most promising method right now IMHO, but if you can get wind or tidal or solar to be as inexpensive, reliable, and long-term, then by all means implement it. I, for one, think the massive wind farms that I periodically see off the highways look majestic.
The Mojave is also deprived of precipitation because of the cold water currents that come down from Alaska, and because it sits behind a barrier of mountains that blocks most of the storms that do come in from the ocean. That desert can bloom into some pretty spectacular colors when it does get enough rain. I've seen it. It's not a carpet of greenery by any stretch, but there's plenty of life there.
Don't forget the corruption rampant in so many African countries. Zimbabwe's agricultural production has plummeted since the farms were "reclaimed" from their white owners, because they knew how to handle crop rotations, plan the planting, irrigation, and harvest, and how to deal with various pests that would invade. The people that have taken over the farms largely have no idea how to run any farm, let alone the large ones that made up the lion's share of the production, and the fields have since gone to waste.
When you started back in on breakfast, what did you do? I find that when I do have breakfast much earlier than about 9am, I feel slightly nauseated. I don't mind the idea of eggs and juice or even just cereal for breakfast, but I don't want to be distracted because I want to spew for the next hour.
This is a persistent pain for me -- I'd like to be able to see what's happening, but it stops at one IP address, and then we have to spend time reconstructing the entire chain of events. His view is that while NAT hides the source of events, it also hides potential targets from attackers, particularly viruses that spread through direct network connections. He has a point, but most of the tracking that we do is made much more difficult because of this.
I wanted to hit a colleague not long ago. I mentioned that it seemed that someone on the network had enabled IPv6 on their system, as I noticed some packets that I traced back to an IPv6 stack looking for a DHCP server. He (a network security engineer) said something about this being a threat, and that it was against policy, comments which are normal from him and which I ignore. I commented at the same time that it would be nice if we could begin converting to IPv6, at least on a trial basis for a few systems, and he said something about how IPv6 was "pointless" and "useless" since we have all the addresses we need using NAT. Arguments that NAT is a cludge and gets needlessly complex as you continue to NAT multiple layers went nowhere with him.
There is no way that a company can be out of business because of a bad backup. No way. Especially one in business for 20 years.
Especially since in order for this to happen months down the road, they would have had to do only that one backup, or at least only that one full backup, and everything thereafter was an incremental or differential backup, without a single full backup.
And I think CA's software is ArcServe. But I hate that stuff so much that I don't even want to go Googling for it.
Those 800GB tapes are also $125 each, one hundred or more times the costs TFA suggests. Big tape libraries are really impressive stuff, but if it can be done on smaller discs, why waste the time, space, and money on tape?
On a side note, what are you using for the library itself? Something from StorageTek?
Burden of proof is easy. Hook up network traffic monitors that track the port usage on all of the systems in the network. Excessive port 25 usage would be used in conjunction with reports from the outside. If they get 300 reports of spams using your e-mail address, but they look and you have virtually no port 25 usage, then it's a safe bet that you didn't send it, at least from that system. No reason to shut it down.
If, OTOH, they look and you're sending a solid 30KB/sec over port 25 for the last six days, then it's a good bet that you're either spamming or you're a zombie for a spammer. Either situation needs to get rectified quickly, and it shouldn't be hard for you to show that you do have a legitimate need for sending out all of that mail, if indeed you do.
If it's made relatively easy to get fixes for the issues, then it is possible. Instead of an absolute cut-off, that MAC address can be assigned a private address that allows access only to a very limited network that contains information about, and opportunity to buy, anti-virus software and OS/application patches. It could even, with appropriate permission from the AV vendors, provide downloads for the stand-alone tools that are created for removing small numbers of viruses. It would assist people in getting better control over things, and I think they would be appreciative of that.
My server has far more SMTP rejections from China than it does from the US. It may just be an exception to the rule, but there is a lot coming from the direction of East Asia.
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Physics. The end of the siphon needs to be below a certain level to keep the vacuum effect going. However, if it were possible to catch the water at the end, then yes, it would be possible to recycle it (until algae became visible in the end container, anyway).
If not business/business casual, then at least neat jeans and a shirt without any crass language or symbols. For men, close-toed shoes are highly suggested; Birkenstocks are not considered appropriate in most places.
Long hair and even facial hair is fine, so long as it's trimmed and neatly kept.
If you must have them, cover them up with long sleeves, and use a dark fabric color if necessary.
Men and women can get away with up to two, maybe three per ear. Nose rings, eyebrow piercings, and the like should not be brought in, and if your tongue is pierced, it should have been done long enough in the past for you to learn to clearly speak with it in.
If the people are to be tucked in the back, without anyone seeing them (such as an ISP, or remote contracting), then go with whatever makes people comfortable and efficient. If it means getting in front of customers, then there's a high likelihood that they're going to need to conform to some degree.
Kennedy made it the goal of the nation to land a man on the moon and return him safely by the end of the decade, knowing that someone else would be in the White House then.
It looks to me like Griffin has decided that whether or not the president's new goal was diversion or eagerness, he's going to do his best to get it done.
On a more serious note, 20 or so years of cloaking his existence from the Emperor and Darth Vader may have taken a serious toll on him.
I'm not sure what they plan to get out of (3). The GPL is the General Public License. It may be drafted by the FSF, but it is intended for broad usage by many different people. If they want to have a constitution, they ought to make one, for their organization. Trying to pretend like their organization represents the entire movement is silly and pure hubris.
You seem to be forgetting that RMS is the free software movement. He is its Lord and Savior, its High Regent, its Most Exalted One, its Glorious Heavenly Father. All other 'free software movements' are false cults that shall not be followed, lest ye incur the wrath of the Father.
I can see where GPL2 could use some tweaking, but I'm worried about what we're going to be seeing in v3, what it will do to the community (think of projects like Debian, who are so careful about how they deal with licenses for included packages), and maybe whether any attention will be paid to it at all (and the possible lecturing essays by RMS on this).
Sometimes?
Almost every time he writes something, I cringe. He's seen as (one of) the father(s) of the open-source movement, but his views are often far beyond even the mainstream OSS community, let alone the software community as a whole. RMS is to the OSS community like Ralph Nader is to Democrats, or Pat Buchanan is to Republicans: they sort of agree to some core tenets in concept, and don't want to be seen really disagreeing with him. However, they find themselves saying, "Well, yeah, but..." a lot of the time.
I don't like software patents, and I don't like massive payouts designed to "make an example" where there is no justification for them. I'm not about to compromise one for the other. The courts followed a law with which I do not agree, but it is still a law, and needs to be followed. There are other ways of dealing with this, and in any case, some mega award would have been knocked down significantly on appeal anyway.
IT at this location was contracted out almost as a whole (management excluded) to another company, so they had no control over my pay. :) We were still treated as part of the company by other employees, though.
No, they don't need to figure out how to put a dent in these guys. Aside from the issue that this is over a software patent (something railed against so often, but since this is against Microsoft it must be OK), actual damages, and perhaps some punitive damages should have been applied, but the Supreme Court has in a way limited advised damages to nine times the actual damages in guidelines from the last few years (a case about a scratched BMW, IIRC).
Getting back monies lost is fine. Getting some additional monies to make a point is fine. There's no reason to push that out to billions in damages.
Just as long as they're being appropriately hidden. One of the few times that I ever snapped at a user without being provoked was when I saw, in the HR department, the name of the bank, dial-up number, account number, and password for the payroll account on a Post-It on the user's bulletin board, with the following words in big letters:
PAYROLL ACCOUNT MASTER LOGIN
I ripped it down and handed it to her, telling her somewhat angrily that she needed to lock it in a secure location, or I would escalate it to the head of HR and the head of IT. I came back everyday for a week, and periodically for a few months afterward, at times when the user was not there to ensure that it had not been placed in any semi-obvious location, and that all of the cabinet drawers were locked. I still ended up telling the mentioned managers, but in a more general way that they needed to do more to focus on security of accounts, among other things. They implemented training a couple of weeks later, fortunately.
I say it quite often. Even in things like the medical marijuana case, I applauded the stance of Justices O'Connor, Rehnquist, and Thomas, who felt that allowing this to be upheld meant that Congress could justify anything under the Commerce Clause.
The courts are the one branch that I generally trust to do the Right Thing, though I am on occasion dismayed by their actions. Can't win all the time.
If all of the ice melted, it would cause a rise in sea level of only about 250 feet, so please stop spreading your FUD. :)
I'm a skeptic of man-made global warming, but I'm willing to listen to evidence of anything, and then weigh the evidence myself. We have fairly precise global data going back only a couple of decades. We have reasonably precise data going back less than 50 years. We have some data from scattered weather stations going back perhaps a century before that. And most of the data relied upon has been from very regional items like ice and tree cores. Different teams have reported different results for the data; Mann, et al, is the most famous, but von Storch, et al, and Moberg, et al, have both produced results with much more variability.
The trouble is that we simply don't have clear ideas of the climate over much of the world for the past 1000 years in precise terms. Satellites are just now getting the capability to accurately measure atmospheric temps at different altitudes.
I'm all for making changes to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, as long as they are not induced by panic (such as requiring massive cuts to emissions in too short a feasible time), and they are not sending the entire world economy into a downward spiral. Nuclear power is the most promising method right now IMHO, but if you can get wind or tidal or solar to be as inexpensive, reliable, and long-term, then by all means implement it. I, for one, think the massive wind farms that I periodically see off the highways look majestic.
The Mojave is also deprived of precipitation because of the cold water currents that come down from Alaska, and because it sits behind a barrier of mountains that blocks most of the storms that do come in from the ocean. That desert can bloom into some pretty spectacular colors when it does get enough rain. I've seen it. It's not a carpet of greenery by any stretch, but there's plenty of life there.
Don't forget the corruption rampant in so many African countries. Zimbabwe's agricultural production has plummeted since the farms were "reclaimed" from their white owners, because they knew how to handle crop rotations, plan the planting, irrigation, and harvest, and how to deal with various pests that would invade. The people that have taken over the farms largely have no idea how to run any farm, let alone the large ones that made up the lion's share of the production, and the fields have since gone to waste.
Look to the immortal Calvin for reference:
"Verbing weirds language."
Repeat after me:
Glocks are not undetectable ceramic weapons. Glocks are relatively normal guns with lots of parts in them that will set off metal detectors.
Keep repeating this until you have learned it.
When you started back in on breakfast, what did you do? I find that when I do have breakfast much earlier than about 9am, I feel slightly nauseated. I don't mind the idea of eggs and juice or even just cereal for breakfast, but I don't want to be distracted because I want to spew for the next hour.
This is a persistent pain for me -- I'd like to be able to see what's happening, but it stops at one IP address, and then we have to spend time reconstructing the entire chain of events. His view is that while NAT hides the source of events, it also hides potential targets from attackers, particularly viruses that spread through direct network connections. He has a point, but most of the tracking that we do is made much more difficult because of this.
I wanted to hit a colleague not long ago. I mentioned that it seemed that someone on the network had enabled IPv6 on their system, as I noticed some packets that I traced back to an IPv6 stack looking for a DHCP server. He (a network security engineer) said something about this being a threat, and that it was against policy, comments which are normal from him and which I ignore. I commented at the same time that it would be nice if we could begin converting to IPv6, at least on a trial basis for a few systems, and he said something about how IPv6 was "pointless" and "useless" since we have all the addresses we need using NAT. Arguments that NAT is a cludge and gets needlessly complex as you continue to NAT multiple layers went nowhere with him.
There is no way that a company can be out of business because of a bad backup. No way. Especially one in business for 20 years.
Especially since in order for this to happen months down the road, they would have had to do only that one backup, or at least only that one full backup, and everything thereafter was an incremental or differential backup, without a single full backup.
And I think CA's software is ArcServe. But I hate that stuff so much that I don't even want to go Googling for it.
Those 800GB tapes are also $125 each, one hundred or more times the costs TFA suggests. Big tape libraries are really impressive stuff, but if it can be done on smaller discs, why waste the time, space, and money on tape?
On a side note, what are you using for the library itself? Something from StorageTek?
Burden of proof is easy. Hook up network traffic monitors that track the port usage on all of the systems in the network. Excessive port 25 usage would be used in conjunction with reports from the outside. If they get 300 reports of spams using your e-mail address, but they look and you have virtually no port 25 usage, then it's a safe bet that you didn't send it, at least from that system. No reason to shut it down.
If, OTOH, they look and you're sending a solid 30KB/sec over port 25 for the last six days, then it's a good bet that you're either spamming or you're a zombie for a spammer. Either situation needs to get rectified quickly, and it shouldn't be hard for you to show that you do have a legitimate need for sending out all of that mail, if indeed you do.
If it's made relatively easy to get fixes for the issues, then it is possible. Instead of an absolute cut-off, that MAC address can be assigned a private address that allows access only to a very limited network that contains information about, and opportunity to buy, anti-virus software and OS/application patches. It could even, with appropriate permission from the AV vendors, provide downloads for the stand-alone tools that are created for removing small numbers of viruses. It would assist people in getting better control over things, and I think they would be appreciative of that.
My server has far more SMTP rejections from China than it does from the US. It may just be an exception to the rule, but there is a lot coming from the direction of East Asia.