EGL (Enterprise Generation Language) is a high level, modern business oriented programming language, designed by IBM to be platform independent. EGL is similar in syntax to other common languages so it can be learned by application developers with similar previous programming background. EGL application development abstractions shield programmers from the technical interfaces of systems and middleware allowing them to focus on building business functionality. EGL applications and services are written, tested and debugged at the EGL source level, and once they are satisfactorily functionally tested they can be compiled into COBOL, Java, or JavaScript code to support deployment of business applications that can run in any of the following environments:
Isn't the fatal flaw in their product the fact that a home worker might actually have *two* computers? While he moves the mouse around on the work computer and looks like he's reading a technical manual, on his other computer he's surfing porn and building a website for his company's competitor?
Or he could just run the work computer as a virtual machine and surf porn on the host instance.
And there's the security risk - what if someone hacks the ODesk interface, so the screenshots from your home worker entering medical data get published to the web, resulting in a big HIPAA violation fine (or they store those screenshots on an offshore server, and extort you into paying them to not publish them).
Aren't there better ways to measure home worker productivity without introducing a large potential security hole with a product that is easily circumvented? Maybe managers should actually *manage* instead of relying on technology to do it for them?
Using this definition of security: "The state of being free from danger or threat", I feel that my cloud data is very secure. I tried the "send a hard drive off-site" to keep an off-site backup, but the problem with that method is that I'm never sure that hard drive is still functioning. A couple months after I sent an off-site backup drive home, I got a call from mom "Hey, I don't know what was in that box you sent home, but the cat keeps knocking it off the bookshelf. I hope it's not fragile".
My cloud backups are encrypted (both in-transit and at rest, the encryption key never leaves my home computer). The most sensitive thing I have in my backups is old tax returns. I'm not sure that any government is going to be interested in seeing my gigabytes of vacation pictures, nor my 15 years of email archives.
If I really thought someone would try to compel me to release my decryption key, then I'd use something like a Truecrypt hidden volume and release the key to my LOLCat archive instead of the key that secures my Plan To Take Over the World.
Just speaking as a person who tried and failed multiple times to get orders in for one of the firesale units with multiple vendors -- and went to multiple retail stores in search of one... only to be shut out by the douchebags who bought dozens at a time. And whose attempts to get orders in with a certain few vendors ended up tying up charges against my credit cards for weeks as, slowly -- one by one -- each vendor admitted "yeah, we just don't have enough. sorry for sitting on your cash."
You should have brought that up with your credit card bank - most merchant agreements don't allow merchants to charge your card before they ship the product (unless you agreed to it ahead of time). At the very least, they won't make you pay the charge while you wait for the merchant to refund it.
Am I - 13 year long Linux user - missing something here, or isn't it that simple?... I'm kinda weary, since no one else yet offered that sort of answer. Please enlighten me if I'm mistaken.
The only thing you're missing is the submitter's requirements:
These computers are used by the students for other purposes and we're not allowed to create special users or change the OS configuration.
It's also likely that the submitter is not technically savvy enough to configure or alter the source code of his Window Manager enough to lock it down securely.
Why don't you setup a VM on each machine that is locked down?
Even if the VM itself is perfectly locked down, what's to stop the test taker from escaping back to the host operating system and running a browser there?
Also: why the hell shouldn't your students be able to search on the internet ? Making them learn CS stuff like robots is retarded. Searching on the internet *will* be part of their jobs later (of course, almost all CS uni I've seen is doing it wrong too). Of course, they'll also be able to communicate between them. That's an advantage, not a problem - later on, they'll also need to work with other people. That leaves the *real* problem: figuring out how to rate them despite the fact they're communicating together. Logging what they do all the way would work - it'll increase the workload of rating them, though.
Why assume it's a CS test? Just because the test is running on computers doesn't mean it's a Computer Science test - I've heard that other departments have started using computers now.
Maybe it's an English Lit test where the test taker is expected to have read the book before the test, not google for answers.
And searching on the internet isn't always an option even in the real world. When I interview a developer, he better be able to write out code to solve a simple problem (I don't care if it's syntactically valid). I won't hire a developer that needs use Google to come up with an algorithm to reverse the order of characters in a string.
If you're not going to supervise them, then it doesn't matter how tightly you lock down their computers since they'll just use google/IM from their phones instead.
If you're supervising them closely enough to know that they aren't typing on a phone on their lap, then you should be able to see if they are running a web browser.
Create your own custom locked down kiosk boot image and require users to boot from that? Keep in mind that users might take the boot media home with them so they'll have a copy of the test app if you store it locally (as opposed to retrieving it from a website)
The 1:682666 and 1:1000 aren't really very far apart...you based the 1:682666 on area, but scale is normally based on linear dimension. The square root of 682666 is about 825, so the two aren't really that different. Since the model isn't square, and actually twists part of it to make it smaller, the two are pretty close...
Ahh yes, good point! I forgot to convert from area to linear scale!
What model railroad scale is the closest? I have no interest in CA, so I don't know if 1.5 acres makes that bigger than G scale or smaller than Z scale or something in between. The live steamers might want to turn it into a live steam park, if allowed. Around here, the live steam parks are not quite as elaborate as this sounds.
You don't have to have an interest in CA to read the first few paragraphs of the article:
its 1.5 acres replicate a 1,600-square-mile area that runs from the Pacific Ocean to the Sacramento Delta
1600 mi^2 is 1024000 acres, so it's a 1.5:1024000 (or 1:682666) scale if you believe the article.
However, the bay model's webpage tells a different story:
I have no interest in model trains, but Wikipedia tells me that Z-scale is the smallest commercially available scale, and is 1:220, so this is a much smaller scale than any model train system.
The main problem I've had with Indian programmers is that a lot of them don't really understand english (even though it is the official language of India)
English is an official language of India, and not the primary one. The primary official language is Hindi - you know, their native language.
I realize it's vastly preferable that they speak English if they work for you, but you're implying there's actually something wrong with Indians who don't speak English, and that's absurd. There's nothing any more backward or stupid about an Indian who doesn't speak English than there is with a Canadian who doesn't speak French or a Belgian who doesn't speak German.
Don't practice the cultural ignorance and arrogance that befalls other Americans. I think you're smarter than that.
He said nothing about the intelligence of non-english speaking Indians, but was lamenting the fact that he sometimes needs to interact with non-English speaking developers.
In my only experience with an Indian outsourced project, we never interacted directly with the developers, we had an English speaking (fluent, educated in the USA) project manager and systems analyst who handled communication with the developers.
The project turned out fine, but in the end, despite a bill rate around a third of USA wages, it only saved us around 20% over what it would have cost to do it it here. The biggest drawback was in the code -- many of the variable names were in Hindi and maybe 25% of the comments were too. I guess that's job security for them, makes sure we need to keep using them for enhancements/updates.
I can't find the blog or news site where I originally saw this, but they gave a perfect example of a design that Samsung could have used that wouldn't violate any of Apple's design patents:
Greenpeace has confirmed time and time again that their activists are insane. Who keeps giving these people money anyway?
I'm not sure that this act proves that they are insane - sounds like they proved that a very real security hole exists. (note that I don't agree with Greenpeace's message against Nuclear - I think Nuclear can be a safe, clean alternative to many other power generation methods)
They were stopped before they could penetrate several other nuclear plants, but they shouldn't have been able to penetrate any of them long enough to hang a banner.
I think the real question is - why did Greenpeace do this intrusion detection test rather than a nuclear regulatory body? if a group of crazy activists could penetrate the plants, then anyone could.
...kind of the same reasoning they use to justify high ETF's that still cost over $100 one month before the contract ends.
T-Mobile pro-rates ETFs. My wife and I are changing plans with them in a couple of weeks to save $50/mo, but it'll be costing us $50 per line in ETFs on the current plan (presumably because the new plan is unsubsidized and the existing one isn't). The reason we're waiting two weeks is because we're right on the cut from when their ETF goes from $100/line to $50/line.
I believe there was a class-action lawsuit against some other carriers (Verizon I think?) about ETFs that basically forced them to pro-rate ETFs as well, so I don't think this is exclusive to our carrier.
Verizon prorates the ETF as well, but unless they've changed their proration amount lately, their $350 smartphone ETF only gets prorated down to $120 by month 23 of a two year contract.
What difference does it make if zcat is generic or not? The point is that if the file is in a binary format, then a tool can be written that turns it into a textual format. I don't see people complaining they need a special tool to make sense of a git repository, so why should it be a big deal to need a special tool of a log file? If the log files are sitting there on the disk then the chances are the tools are there too.
The difference is that there will not be one tool that can be written to turn a binary syslog into a textual format. Dozens of different applications write to syslog, each one could potentially have its own binary format. Apache might write data as ASCII name-value pairs, ssh might use a binary data structure, while Tomcat might write out its data as serialized java objects. Maybe Ruby on Rails will use serialized Ruby objects for its log data.
Just like there is no one universal tool to parse syslog today, there will be no one universal tool to convert binary log files to text.
I credit Red Hat with not doing something stupid which is of no use to administrators.
There are lots of reasons to have a binary log file - much useful data could be encoded into a binary stream. No one is saying that it will be useless to administrators, but I'm saying that it could be a huge headache when admninistrators can't even look at the log file until they find the right tool. Even if I don't understand everything my mail server writes to syslog, I can still read it and guess what most of it means. If it wrote in a binary format, I can't even look at it until I find the tool that decodes it, and if I can't find that tool (or the developer never got around to writing it, or if access to the tool requires purchasing the "enterprise" version of the product), I'm out of luck. But it's not just one tool I'll need - I'll need one tool for each software application that writes to the logfile.
It sounds like the carriers have an incentive to brick stolen phones, not a disincentive as the summary states. If a stolen phone results in another phone sale (to the person who's had their phone stolen) this doesn't sound like a disincentive to me.
Don't underestimate the cell phone carriers - if such a stolen phone registry were to be implemented in the USA, the carriers would make sure that all off-contract phones got put on the list automatically, eliminating the used phone market. They'd justify it with some reason like "to prevent fraud" or "old phones cost too much to support on our network" -- kind of the same reasoning they use to justify high ETF's that still cost over $100 one month before the contract ends.
I've lived in two of those cities and never been mugged. I'm not saying they aren't dangerous, but it's not a part of every day life.
You don't have to have been mugged to have violence be a part of everyday life. There are many parts of my city that I refuse to go to at night, because it's known to be dangerous. There are other parts that I avoid even in the daytime for the same reason. There are many nice ethnic restaurants in those areas that I'd like to go to but in general, I don't because I don't want my car broken into or to be mugged myself.
Keep in mind that they're not talking about adding 2,000 mailboxes, just adding 2,000 devices to access existing mailboxes. So they don't need more storage, just more server compute capacity. If I had to guess, it might be as simple as them running ActiveSynch on a single, under-resourced server (or VM) as a POC, and they didn't expect (or prepare for) the increased demand of 2,000 more tablets. Should be easy to fix. Though inevitably they're trying to do a dozen other things, and it'll take three months to do the paperwork to get the approval to buy a new server and get it deployed. Remember,
Except they specifically said that their servers can't handle the load.... so it sounds like the *do* need more servers.
Which is not a big deal, all it takes is money for licenses and hardware. I don't know why this even made the news, it should read "School bought iPads without appropriate backend infrastructure to support them". It's not like Exchange can't scale to handle a few thousand Activesync devices.
No, not the diversion. That the money saved will be spent on better landfills, rather than just fewer.
It doesn't matter if they are better if there are fewer -- 75% fewer landfills means 75% less chance of failure.
Since the material that is diverted isn't typically the toxic material that contaminates groundwater, the leakage isn't necessarily more hazardous. Instead of 100 tons of material in a landfill where 10 tons can generate toxic runoff, you have 25 tons of material in the landfill where 10 tons can generate toxic runoff. The concentration may be higher, but the overall volume of contaminants is the same.
And it means that the public doesn't have to pay your healthcare costs if you do suffer from an illness that carries catastrophic healthcare costs.
If that happens today, why does everyone keep saying that people don't have health care?
Because declaring bankruptcy when facing healthcare costs you can't afford and forcing hospitals to write off the expenses does not seem like a reasonable way to provide healthcare? Because having indigent people wait until a health problem becomes serious enough for an ER visit (who has to treat everyone that comes in regardless of ability to pay) is not good healthcare policy? It seems like it would be better to visit your primary care physician for an ingrown toenail before the toe becomes so infected that gangrene sets in and you have to visit the ER and have it amputated.
Because when you divert 75% of compostables and recyclables out of the landfill, not only do you need 75% less landfills, but you can afford to build them better.
Oh, yeah...that sounds like something that will actually happen.
What? 75% diversion? San francisco is at 77%, Seattle hit 53% in 2010 with a goal of 60% in 2012. Single family homes were at a 70% diversion rates in Seattle in 2010.
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And don't forget this classic TV show from the late 70's: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078681/
Would it really be that hard to put a brief summary of what EGL is in the summary?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EGL_(programming_language)
EGL (Enterprise Generation Language) is a high level, modern business oriented programming language, designed by IBM to be platform independent. EGL is similar in syntax to other common languages so it can be learned by application developers with similar previous programming background. EGL application development abstractions shield programmers from the technical interfaces of systems and middleware allowing them to focus on building business functionality. EGL applications and services are written, tested and debugged at the EGL source level, and once they are satisfactorily functionally tested they can be compiled into COBOL, Java, or JavaScript code to support deployment of business applications that can run in any of the following environments:
Isn't the fatal flaw in their product the fact that a home worker might actually have *two* computers? While he moves the mouse around on the work computer and looks like he's reading a technical manual, on his other computer he's surfing porn and building a website for his company's competitor?
Or he could just run the work computer as a virtual machine and surf porn on the host instance.
And there's the security risk - what if someone hacks the ODesk interface, so the screenshots from your home worker entering medical data get published to the web, resulting in a big HIPAA violation fine (or they store those screenshots on an offshore server, and extort you into paying them to not publish them).
Aren't there better ways to measure home worker productivity without introducing a large potential security hole with a product that is easily circumvented? Maybe managers should actually *manage* instead of relying on technology to do it for them?
Using this definition of security: "The state of being free from danger or threat", I feel that my cloud data is very secure. I tried the "send a hard drive off-site" to keep an off-site backup, but the problem with that method is that I'm never sure that hard drive is still functioning. A couple months after I sent an off-site backup drive home, I got a call from mom "Hey, I don't know what was in that box you sent home, but the cat keeps knocking it off the bookshelf. I hope it's not fragile".
My cloud backups are encrypted (both in-transit and at rest, the encryption key never leaves my home computer). The most sensitive thing I have in my backups is old tax returns. I'm not sure that any government is going to be interested in seeing my gigabytes of vacation pictures, nor my 15 years of email archives.
If I really thought someone would try to compel me to release my decryption key, then I'd use something like a Truecrypt hidden volume and release the key to my LOLCat archive instead of the key that secures my Plan To Take Over the World.
Subject: Oblig XKCD
Why does everyone feel the need to link to a XKCD comic when it is NOT related to the discussion / article?
I think he already answered your question - Oblig is short for Obligatory: Required by a legal, moral, or other rule; compulsory
How could someone *not* post an obligatory XKCD link?
Just speaking as a person who tried and failed multiple times to get orders in for one of the firesale units with multiple vendors -- and went to multiple retail stores in search of one... only to be shut out by the douchebags who bought dozens at a time. And whose attempts to get orders in with a certain few vendors ended up tying up charges against my credit cards for weeks as, slowly -- one by one -- each vendor admitted "yeah, we just don't have enough. sorry for sitting on your cash."
You should have brought that up with your credit card bank - most merchant agreements don't allow merchants to charge your card before they ship the product (unless you agreed to it ahead of time). At the very least, they won't make you pay the charge while you wait for the merchant to refund it.
Am I - 13 year long Linux user - missing something here, or isn't it that simple? ... I'm kinda weary, since no one else yet offered that sort of answer.
Please enlighten me if I'm mistaken.
The only thing you're missing is the submitter's requirements:
These computers are used by the students for other purposes and we're not allowed to create special users or change the OS configuration.
It's also likely that the submitter is not technically savvy enough to configure or alter the source code of his Window Manager enough to lock it down securely.
Why don't you setup a VM on each machine that is locked down?
Even if the VM itself is perfectly locked down, what's to stop the test taker from escaping back to the host operating system and running a browser there?
Also: why the hell shouldn't your students be able to search on the internet ?
Making them learn CS stuff like robots is retarded. Searching on the internet *will* be part of their jobs later (of course, almost all CS uni I've seen is doing it wrong too).
Of course, they'll also be able to communicate between them. That's an advantage, not a problem - later on, they'll also need to work with other people.
That leaves the *real* problem: figuring out how to rate them despite the fact they're communicating together. Logging what they do all the way would work - it'll increase the workload of rating them, though.
Why assume it's a CS test? Just because the test is running on computers doesn't mean it's a Computer Science test - I've heard that other departments have started using computers now.
Maybe it's an English Lit test where the test taker is expected to have read the book before the test, not google for answers.
And searching on the internet isn't always an option even in the real world. When I interview a developer, he better be able to write out code to solve a simple problem (I don't care if it's syntactically valid). I won't hire a developer that needs use Google to come up with an algorithm to reverse the order of characters in a string.
If you're not going to supervise them, then it doesn't matter how tightly you lock down their computers since they'll just use google/IM from their phones instead.
If you're supervising them closely enough to know that they aren't typing on a phone on their lap, then you should be able to see if they are running a web browser.
Create your own custom locked down kiosk boot image and require users to boot from that? Keep in mind that users might take the boot media home with them so they'll have a copy of the test app if you store it locally (as opposed to retrieving it from a website)
Here's an example:
http://jacob.steelsmith.org/content/ubuntu-kiosk-based-910
(I'm not vouching for this particular implementation, I just found it through a quick google search).
The 1:682666 and 1:1000 aren't really very far apart...you based the 1:682666 on area, but scale is normally based on linear dimension. The square root of 682666 is about 825, so the two aren't really that different. Since the model isn't square, and actually twists part of it to make it smaller, the two are pretty close...
Ahh yes, good point! I forgot to convert from area to linear scale!
What model railroad scale is the closest? I have no interest in CA, so I don't know if 1.5 acres makes that bigger than G scale or smaller than Z scale or something in between. The live steamers might want to turn it into a live steam park, if allowed. Around here, the live steam parks are not quite as elaborate as this sounds.
You don't have to have an interest in CA to read the first few paragraphs of the article:
its 1.5 acres replicate a 1,600-square-mile area that runs from the Pacific Ocean to the Sacramento Delta
1600 mi^2 is 1024000 acres, so it's a 1.5:1024000 (or 1:682666) scale if you believe the article.
However, the bay model's webpage tells a different story:
http://www.spn.usace.army.mil/bmvc/bmjourney/the_model/facts.html
Model Scales (Model to the Bay)
Horizontal: 1 foot = 1000 feet
Vertical: 1 foot = 100 feet
Velocity: 1 foot/ second = 10 feet/second
So using their numbers, it's a 1:1000 scale.
I have no interest in model trains, but Wikipedia tells me that Z-scale is the smallest commercially available scale, and is 1:220, so this is a much smaller scale than any model train system.
I had a transistor radio that had much better battery life than the iPad.
It was able to do much less yeah, but you'd think for $500 the iPad would beat a $5 radio.
Of course, your transistor radio had around 6 transistors and the iPad has millions of times more than that.
The main problem I've had with Indian programmers is that a lot of them don't really understand english (even though it is the official language of India)
English is an official language of India, and not the primary one. The primary official language is Hindi - you know, their native language.
I realize it's vastly preferable that they speak English if they work for you, but you're implying there's actually something wrong with Indians who don't speak English, and that's absurd. There's nothing any more backward or stupid about an Indian who doesn't speak English than there is with a Canadian who doesn't speak French or a Belgian who doesn't speak German.
Don't practice the cultural ignorance and arrogance that befalls other Americans. I think you're smarter than that.
He said nothing about the intelligence of non-english speaking Indians, but was lamenting the fact that he sometimes needs to interact with non-English speaking developers.
In my only experience with an Indian outsourced project, we never interacted directly with the developers, we had an English speaking (fluent, educated in the USA) project manager and systems analyst who handled communication with the developers.
The project turned out fine, but in the end, despite a bill rate around a third of USA wages, it only saved us around 20% over what it would have cost to do it it here. The biggest drawback was in the code -- many of the variable names were in Hindi and maybe 25% of the comments were too. I guess that's job security for them, makes sure we need to keep using them for enhancements/updates.
I can't find the blog or news site where I originally saw this, but they gave a perfect example of a design that Samsung could have used that wouldn't violate any of Apple's design patents:
http://www.amazon.com/LeapFrog-LeapPad-Explorer-Learning-Tablet/dp/B004Z7H07K
Greenpeace has confirmed time and time again that their activists are insane. Who keeps giving these people money anyway?
I'm not sure that this act proves that they are insane - sounds like they proved that a very real security hole exists. (note that I don't agree with Greenpeace's message against Nuclear - I think Nuclear can be a safe, clean alternative to many other power generation methods)
They were stopped before they could penetrate several other nuclear plants, but they shouldn't have been able to penetrate any of them long enough to hang a banner.
I think the real question is - why did Greenpeace do this intrusion detection test rather than a nuclear regulatory body? if a group of crazy activists could penetrate the plants, then anyone could.
T-Mobile pro-rates ETFs. My wife and I are changing plans with them in a couple of weeks to save $50/mo, but it'll be costing us $50 per line in ETFs on the current plan (presumably because the new plan is unsubsidized and the existing one isn't). The reason we're waiting two weeks is because we're right on the cut from when their ETF goes from $100/line to $50/line.
I believe there was a class-action lawsuit against some other carriers (Verizon I think?) about ETFs that basically forced them to pro-rate ETFs as well, so I don't think this is exclusive to our carrier.
Verizon prorates the ETF as well, but unless they've changed their proration amount lately, their $350 smartphone ETF only gets prorated down to $120 by month 23 of a two year contract.
http://consumerist.com/2009/12/washington-to-verizon-wireless-can.html
What difference does it make if zcat is generic or not? The point is that if the file is in a binary format, then a tool can be written that turns it into a textual format. I don't see people complaining they need a special tool to make sense of a git repository, so why should it be a big deal to need a special tool of a log file? If the log files are sitting there on the disk then the chances are the tools are there too.
The difference is that there will not be one tool that can be written to turn a binary syslog into a textual format. Dozens of different applications write to syslog, each one could potentially have its own binary format. Apache might write data as ASCII name-value pairs, ssh might use a binary data structure, while Tomcat might write out its data as serialized java objects. Maybe Ruby on Rails will use serialized Ruby objects for its log data.
Just like there is no one universal tool to parse syslog today, there will be no one universal tool to convert binary log files to text.
I credit Red Hat with not doing something stupid which is of no use to administrators.
There are lots of reasons to have a binary log file - much useful data could be encoded into a binary stream. No one is saying that it will be useless to administrators, but I'm saying that it could be a huge headache when admninistrators can't even look at the log file until they find the right tool. Even if I don't understand everything my mail server writes to syslog, I can still read it and guess what most of it means. If it wrote in a binary format, I can't even look at it until I find the tool that decodes it, and if I can't find that tool (or the developer never got around to writing it, or if access to the tool requires purchasing the "enterprise" version of the product), I'm out of luck. But it's not just one tool I'll need - I'll need one tool for each software application that writes to the logfile.
It sounds like the carriers have an incentive to brick stolen phones, not a disincentive as the summary states. If a stolen phone results in another phone sale (to the person who's had their phone stolen) this doesn't sound like a disincentive to me.
Don't underestimate the cell phone carriers - if such a stolen phone registry were to be implemented in the USA, the carriers would make sure that all off-contract phones got put on the list automatically, eliminating the used phone market. They'd justify it with some reason like "to prevent fraud" or "old phones cost too much to support on our network" -- kind of the same reasoning they use to justify high ETF's that still cost over $100 one month before the contract ends.
I've lived in two of those cities and never been mugged. I'm not saying they aren't dangerous, but it's not a part of every day life.
You don't have to have been mugged to have violence be a part of everyday life. There are many parts of my city that I refuse to go to at night, because it's known to be dangerous. There are other parts that I avoid even in the daytime for the same reason. There are many nice ethnic restaurants in those areas that I'd like to go to but in general, I don't because I don't want my car broken into or to be mugged myself.
They don't need 5-10 servers.
Keep in mind that they're not talking about adding 2,000 mailboxes, just adding 2,000 devices to access existing mailboxes. So they don't need more storage, just more server compute capacity. If I had to guess, it might be as simple as them running ActiveSynch on a single, under-resourced server (or VM) as a POC, and they didn't expect (or prepare for) the increased demand of 2,000 more tablets. Should be easy to fix. Though inevitably they're trying to do a dozen other things, and it'll take three months to do the paperwork to get the approval to buy a new server and get it deployed. Remember,
Except they specifically said that their servers can't handle the load.... so it sounds like the *do* need more servers.
Which is not a big deal, all it takes is money for licenses and hardware. I don't know why this even made the news, it should read "School bought iPads without appropriate backend infrastructure to support them". It's not like Exchange can't scale to handle a few thousand Activesync devices.
No, not the diversion. That the money saved will be spent on better landfills, rather than just fewer.
It doesn't matter if they are better if there are fewer -- 75% fewer landfills means 75% less chance of failure.
Since the material that is diverted isn't typically the toxic material that contaminates groundwater, the leakage isn't necessarily more hazardous. Instead of 100 tons of material in a landfill where 10 tons can generate toxic runoff, you have 25 tons of material in the landfill where 10 tons can generate toxic runoff. The concentration may be higher, but the overall volume of contaminants is the same.
And it means that the public doesn't have to pay your healthcare costs if you do suffer from an illness that carries catastrophic healthcare costs.
If that happens today, why does everyone keep saying that people don't have health care?
Because declaring bankruptcy when facing healthcare costs you can't afford and forcing hospitals to write off the expenses does not seem like a reasonable way to provide healthcare? Because having indigent people wait until a health problem becomes serious enough for an ER visit (who has to treat everyone that comes in regardless of ability to pay) is not good healthcare policy? It seems like it would be better to visit your primary care physician for an ingrown toenail before the toe becomes so infected that gangrene sets in and you have to visit the ER and have it amputated.
Because when you divert 75% of compostables and recyclables out of the landfill, not only do you need 75% less landfills, but you can afford to build them better.
Oh, yeah...that sounds like something that will actually happen.
What? 75% diversion? San francisco is at 77%, Seattle hit 53% in 2010 with a goal of 60% in 2012. Single family homes were at a 70% diversion rates in Seattle in 2010.