The Internal Revenue Service(US)has benn down off and on for the last two days. And this is an agency that still uses NT 4.0 for the desktop and tape drives for archive. Newest and baddest doesn't come into it.
My current (But soon to be former) employer, The Infernal Revenue Service, has banned personal electronics from the workplace for years. First it was Notebooks, then, about six months ago, they discovered PDA's and Handheld PC's. Last week cell phones got the boot because, Hey, some of them take pictures and it's a security concern.
maybe, but the story I got from a friend on the scene was, years ago, China was selling some of it's older aircraft for dollars and a gentleman from SoCal bought one, a MIG-15,for about $100k. Not a bad price when you consider that a P-51 airframe runs twice that. The day (and Plane) arrives and our hero gets a panicked call from the freight company to get his azz down to the docks. Our Asian buddies had sent the plane with the wings detached....with the CANNONS , RACKS AND ORDINANCE STILL ON BOARD. Trying to explain this to the Customs guys (one of which was my buddy, rolling on the dock in hysterics) was the high point of this dude's year. (And yes, they let him have the plane, after he stripped ALL the offensive gear of it, dockside.)
I recommend to all of you a novel, "Term Limits", by Vince Flynn. If you're not nodding agreement by page 50, you're not mad enough yet.
And with all the high powered coders and brains here, can we not assemble a new IP that bypasses the current Internet, INCLUDING a damn-near-uncrackable encryption system. Actually, in law, the state has to prove you commited the offense before you can be convicted, even in civil trials. Having to crack an encryption system to find out what's on the drive will raise the price to stratospheric levels, especially when the RIAA has to foot the bill.
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The Internal Revenue Service(US)has benn down off and on for the last two days. And this is an agency that still uses NT 4.0 for the desktop and tape drives for archive. Newest and baddest doesn't come into it.
My current (But soon to be former) employer, The Infernal Revenue Service, has banned personal electronics from the workplace for years. First it was Notebooks, then, about six months ago, they discovered PDA's and Handheld PC's. Last week cell phones got the boot because, Hey, some of them take pictures and it's a security concern.
maybe, but the story I got from a friend on the scene was, years ago, China was selling some of it's older aircraft for dollars and a gentleman from SoCal bought one, a MIG-15,for about $100k. Not a bad price when you consider that a P-51 airframe runs twice that. The day (and Plane) arrives and our hero gets a panicked call from the freight company to get his azz down to the docks. Our Asian buddies had sent the plane with the wings detached....with the CANNONS , RACKS AND ORDINANCE STILL ON BOARD. Trying to explain this to the Customs guys (one of which was my buddy, rolling on the dock in hysterics) was the high point of this dude's year. (And yes, they let him have the plane, after he stripped ALL the offensive gear of it, dockside.)
I recommend to all of you a novel, "Term Limits", by Vince Flynn. If you're not nodding agreement by page 50, you're not mad enough yet.
And with all the high powered coders and brains here, can we not assemble a new IP that bypasses the current Internet, INCLUDING a damn-near-uncrackable encryption system. Actually, in law, the state has to prove you commited the offense before you can be convicted, even in civil trials. Having to crack an encryption system to find out what's on the drive will raise the price to stratospheric levels, especially when the RIAA has to foot the bill.