While patent lawsuits are particularly important, why is it that we have to make a new law for this at all? Shouldn't we have this for all lawsuits across the board? It can still be allowed for judges to decide in specific cases if the situation does not warrant this requirement. But overall it should normally be the way it is done.
Maybe you can, at least, put the 2nd UPS on a different phase (if L-N connected like 120 volts in NA or 230 volts in EU) or phase pair (if L-L connected like 208 volts in NA or 400 volts in EU if that's a step-down UPS). That way you have a chance of ridding through single phase outages which sometimes happen.
I agree that where redundancy is important, "whole service" redundancy might be the best value (2 connections coming from different physical directions, 2 power sources from different directions, 2 UPSes, etc). In some cases, I would downgrade the equipment and set it up as shared and approximately load balanced as a minimal cost redundancy. If something fails, service is degraded until it can be fixed, but at least they have something. One must discuss usage and scenarios with the client to know if this is the solution they need or not. Similar things need to be done with power and cooling systems, too. Cooling is less forgiving. Sectioned power might work for some cases. It varies. Management rarely understands it (but one case I found a client that understood the cooling redundancy case so I explained everything else in those terms for him). It's when the vendor sales people come in trying to oversell that problems happen.
What you hate are the people and incidents that make you hate those people and incidents. In the meantime, millions of people at work in thousands of companies do sensible things every day, and have loyal customers as a result. But that never makes the news because it doesn't provide something to bitch about, and where would Slashdot be without that?
... and the CEOs and other executives that allow and even encourage this kind of activity.
In a company the size of Cisco, such things might not even be seen by C-level executives. Being as this is a case in West Virginia, though, it is very likely being at least observed, if not now managed, by the CEO, since West Virginia where he grew up and first attended college, and got his law degree.
And how is it that a consultant certified for one company can advise across the realm of many companies that should have been open to the bidding process?
Most of the report focuses on dual power supplies. Are those really needed? Maybe. Probably not in most cases.
Dual power supplies perform a couple of useful functions. If a power source fails, the other power supply fed by the alternate source keeps the router running. This is good for critical operations, and in maybe a few circumstances like the state police, it might have been useful to them. The other function is to keep the router running if a power supply dies. I've found this to be rare, but not impossible, with Cisco equipment. Again, it depends on how critical things are. Students and teachers in a school might be quite upset, and some online education processes can be disrupted, but education can still go on with substituted lessons during the time it takes for a replacement to arrive.
As for capacity, the router should have been chosen to match the designated capacity level, which did vary widely. Then when any facility needed to be upgraded to a higher capacity level, the router would be swapped out to match. A hand-me-down approach could be used for another smaller facility to use the bumped out router for their capacity growth. A range of routers in a pool could make that work. OTOH, politicians might also cry foul if a few routers are sitting in storage to support hurried replacement and hand-me-down steps.
No. Advertising is needed to help pay for stuff like servers in the cloud, etc. You think everything is to be free? You think everyone has deep pockets?
What we do NOT need is "advertisers" that have tilted the playing field with abusive practices like privacy invasions.
Not kudos to Mozilla for taking so many years to do what is obviously needed. This and many other things should not have needed a community submission. The core programmers should already know how to do these things and know that they are essential for safe browsing experience.
I assume you are suggesting we make a new filesystem that is reasonably light for for embedded devices like cameras and toasters, but can still be used from ordinary user interface devices like phones, tablets, netbooks, laptops, desktops and servers. Good idea. But will it work with Windows? If you are expecting to add software to Windows to support this, I suggest calling it a "plugin" as people seem to be willing to just install those any time anyone says to.
Shit happens. The car ahead of you can not only go into a crazy stop, but even flip around as it happens. The car behind might not get too much more than the spacing distance to get stopped. 70MPH with 2 foot spacing is just not something a vehicle of any kind, much less one that runs rubber on asphalt, can do safely... even if it is controlled by a computer. I don't want to be in such a vehicle even if it can stop fast enough to avoid a collision.
Firewalls are pretty vulnerable. In order to really defend a network, you can never make a mistake. And everybody makes a mistake from time to time And once they are in, they are hard to get out.
Much focus needs to be made on things like well made interfaces and quality documentation that has no ambiguities or errors. Many times mistakes are made because something just wasn't clear enough, and it was interpreted to be something other than what it really is. Security itself is hard in part because of so many parameters and settings. For example some value being entered might be unclear whether it is the name of something, or is being used to search for something, or is being used as a match expression. Some effort also needs to be made in security systems to reduce the configuration complexity. The more complex something is to configure, the more that creates the opportunity for a mistake.
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While patent lawsuits are particularly important, why is it that we have to make a new law for this at all? Shouldn't we have this for all lawsuits across the board? It can still be allowed for judges to decide in specific cases if the situation does not warrant this requirement. But overall it should normally be the way it is done.
... since I don't play games anymore ... but this isn't an online game where people expect a level playing field, is it? Oh wait.
But it's the only way spoiled rich kids can compete.
IPsec transport mode is sufficient. Just do the proper security association with IKEv2.
The auditor went public. Was he fired, too?
They want the sale, and they also want the upsell for the extra bonus.
Maybe you can, at least, put the 2nd UPS on a different phase (if L-N connected like 120 volts in NA or 230 volts in EU) or phase pair (if L-L connected like 208 volts in NA or 400 volts in EU if that's a step-down UPS). That way you have a chance of ridding through single phase outages which sometimes happen.
I agree that where redundancy is important, "whole service" redundancy might be the best value (2 connections coming from different physical directions, 2 power sources from different directions, 2 UPSes, etc). In some cases, I would downgrade the equipment and set it up as shared and approximately load balanced as a minimal cost redundancy. If something fails, service is degraded until it can be fixed, but at least they have something. One must discuss usage and scenarios with the client to know if this is the solution they need or not. Similar things need to be done with power and cooling systems, too. Cooling is less forgiving. Sectioned power might work for some cases. It varies. Management rarely understands it (but one case I found a client that understood the cooling redundancy case so I explained everything else in those terms for him). It's when the vendor sales people come in trying to oversell that problems happen.
... but ... but ... these are big corporations ... rules are not for them ...
So did you move on to real employment?
Apparently it was for hundreds of locations around the state ... large and small.
What you hate are the people and incidents that make you hate those people and incidents. In the meantime, millions of people at work in thousands of companies do sensible things every day, and have loyal customers as a result. But that never makes the news because it doesn't provide something to bitch about, and where would Slashdot be without that?
... and the CEOs and other executives that allow and even encourage this kind of activity.
In a company the size of Cisco, such things might not even be seen by C-level executives. Being as this is a case in West Virginia, though, it is very likely being at least observed, if not now managed, by the CEO, since West Virginia where he grew up and first attended college, and got his law degree.
They who wanted dual power supplies? I can see maybe some being used in some places like the State Police. But for all the small schools, too?
And how is it that a consultant certified for one company can advise across the realm of many companies that should have been open to the bidding process?
Most of the report focuses on dual power supplies. Are those really needed? Maybe. Probably not in most cases.
Dual power supplies perform a couple of useful functions. If a power source fails, the other power supply fed by the alternate source keeps the router running. This is good for critical operations, and in maybe a few circumstances like the state police, it might have been useful to them. The other function is to keep the router running if a power supply dies. I've found this to be rare, but not impossible, with Cisco equipment. Again, it depends on how critical things are. Students and teachers in a school might be quite upset, and some online education processes can be disrupted, but education can still go on with substituted lessons during the time it takes for a replacement to arrive.
As for capacity, the router should have been chosen to match the designated capacity level, which did vary widely. Then when any facility needed to be upgraded to a higher capacity level, the router would be swapped out to match. A hand-me-down approach could be used for another smaller facility to use the bumped out router for their capacity growth. A range of routers in a pool could make that work. OTOH, politicians might also cry foul if a few routers are sitting in storage to support hurried replacement and hand-me-down steps.
No. Advertising is needed to help pay for stuff like servers in the cloud, etc. You think everything is to be free? You think everyone has deep pockets?
What we do NOT need is "advertisers" that have tilted the playing field with abusive practices like privacy invasions.
Not kudos to Mozilla for taking so many years to do what is obviously needed. This and many other things should not have needed a community submission. The core programmers should already know how to do these things and know that they are essential for safe browsing experience.
I assume you are suggesting we make a new filesystem that is reasonably light for for embedded devices like cameras and toasters, but can still be used from ordinary user interface devices like phones, tablets, netbooks, laptops, desktops and servers. Good idea. But will it work with Windows? If you are expecting to add software to Windows to support this, I suggest calling it a "plugin" as people seem to be willing to just install those any time anyone says to.
... by cutting their connection to the doomed ship so they are not dragged down with it as it sinks.
Like in this case a decade ago.
Shit happens. The car ahead of you can not only go into a crazy stop, but even flip around as it happens. The car behind might not get too much more than the spacing distance to get stopped. 70MPH with 2 foot spacing is just not something a vehicle of any kind, much less one that runs rubber on asphalt, can do safely ... even if it is controlled by a computer. I don't want to be in such a vehicle even if it can stop fast enough to avoid a collision.
... silence stupid politicians like Ira Silverstein. But still, I must recognize, that even the stupid are protected by the First Amendment.
Then where are we going to get cheap stuff?
Firewalls are pretty vulnerable. In order to really defend a network, you can never make a mistake. And everybody makes a mistake from time to time And once they are in, they are hard to get out.
Much focus needs to be made on things like well made interfaces and quality documentation that has no ambiguities or errors. Many times mistakes are made because something just wasn't clear enough, and it was interpreted to be something other than what it really is. Security itself is hard in part because of so many parameters and settings. For example some value being entered might be unclear whether it is the name of something, or is being used to search for something, or is being used as a match expression. Some effort also needs to be made in security systems to reduce the configuration complexity. The more complex something is to configure, the more that creates the opportunity for a mistake.
This is why we need to destroy the Republican party, despite how utterly stupid the Democratic party is.
58 and building secure cloud infrastructures from home. I tried management a while back and hated it.