No it hasn't. The price is included in your room fee. Don't think that if it isn't itemized it is free. There is no such thing as a free lunch as the saying goes.
It's free if you are not charged extra to get it. For example: if you don't NEED the Wifi, you can't get a cheaper room price.
In that case, the WiFi is free.... perhaps it would be more accurate to say that it is "included" if you are a guest ----
it is free for you, if you are a non-paying visitor.
Jamming would have made a range of frequencies unusable to one device.
Instead, they merely sent normal WiFi messages to any clients connecting to the AP saying "Hey, Get off that AP.
So all radios still had full operational use of the spectrum, it's just that, there was a process preventing any clients from connecting to the unapproved APs.
The Mariott owns the property, and they have a right to dictate the use of their property, so they have a right to control what WiFi equipment can be brought into and used within their premises.
ESPN and red zone are expect from blackouts. NBC and CBS are not as cable channels as well as over the air.
As far as I know these blackout too.
If you want to get around blackouts, then as far as I know, the only way to do so legally is through internet streaming,
possibly by renting a streaming box physically located in a different market.
Some folks might subscribe to both satellite and Cable.
And "trade receivers" with a friend located 100 miles away.
They'll then have access to blacked out content. Unless they have a reveiver with new technology that uses GPS to locate itself, the receiving device won't realize they're located in a blacked out market.
FYI what do you think tax payer money could be spend on if it wasn't subsiding professional sports teams
Just in time for a cost-of-living adjustment increase for Social Security.
More funding for Executive Golf
More desk rearrangements at the SEC HQ.
More commercial farm subsidies
More 1st class tickets for federal employees to take business trips.
More government sponsorships of NASCAR races and similar events.
More plasma televisions, popcorn machines, DVD players, and government leased/purchased luxury vehicles, for congressional offices and offices of federal employees.
More beach re-sanding
Bigger, badder surveillance resources for the FBI and NSA.
Bigger prisons.
Construction of more large-scale detention camps for FEMA
Hello ass hat who doesn't understand that football games are subsidized by tax payer money.
I understand that. It doesn't bother you at all, that politicians selectively address minor non-controversial issues before election day?
The argument is that airing a game that does not sell out ticket sales cuts into their profits.
Everyone these days knows they are full of shit when they make those claims, and when they continue to repeat those claims....
The irony is the NFL makes most of it's money through TV contracts making that argument bogus - which is what the FCC found.
I'm glad they did... I really am. It's just that Woes getting the entertainment you want, because of stupid corporate shenanigans by entertainment companies ---- is at the BOTTOM of my list.
What's at the top of my list of problems the government needs to fix?
Government-created Telco monopolies raping the consumer.
The lack of competition between broadband providers.
Network non-neutrality
Ass-hat providers lobbying in favor of laws to block municipal broadband
Court challenges against community fiber efforts from big companies --- even in underserved communities with no real network provider available.
Cable/DSL companiy duopolies.
Atrociously high data rates for wireless providers.
Atrociously low data caps from network providers, or moves towards service metering.
The general lack of healthy competition in Cable, DSL, and Wireless data markets.
Telcos tearing up copper infrastructure and switching to fiber to avoid regulation.
Letting telcos walk with public funds in the past that paid for fiber to every customer, without delivering
Failing to define broadband standard as 50 megabits or higher
Something tells me this Sports Blackout rule change thing is rather sudden and a distraction related to an upcoming election day.....
Yes, I agree blackouts suck, but at the end of the day NFL/etc have the right to control distribution of their content.
There are REAL issues our legislators need to address, such as getting rid of software patents, lowering taxes,
and cutting spending, that would make me happy.
I hate to disappoint you, but the FCC note says otherwise
The Federal Communications Commission repealed its sports blackout rules, which prohibited cable and satellite operators from airing any sports event that was blacked out on a local broadcast station.....
Elimination of this rule, however, may not end all sports blackouts: sports leagues may choose to continue their private blackout policies through contractual arrangements with programming distributors.......
How about.... when a man wants to send a message to a woman for the first time, first of all they need
to spend $10 to buy a "point", the content (with sender and recipient anonymized) get sent to 5 other
random men for approval; they will be asked "Is the content appropriate and respectful" Yes/No ?.
If 3 out of 5 agree, then the voters receives a point.
If the Yes' have a plurality, the recipient gets a message, and a chance to report it if lewd.
If the recipient thinks the message is OKAY, then the sender receives their points back.
If the No's have a plurality, then the message is "Eaten", so the recipient never gets it, and the sender of the inappropriate message loses 3 points.
If their point balance is now less than 1, they will need to pay US $20 per point to send any more messages.
If the sender ever does later send an appropriate message which is accepted, then the recipient will be given an option to see their "hidden" past messages, based on that, they can decide to block if they want.
, Maroney could in theory be prosecuted for taking the original pictures.
Implies that the pictures are pornography.
They might become porn when distributed as such. The purpose and manner in which they are distributed and used affects what they are.
Michelangelo made some famous sculptures.
They are considered art, not porn.
On the other hand, if someone buys replica of one of Michelangelo's works for the purpose of personal sexual excitation/entertainment, then it is porn.
But that doesn't make the original porn, which is presented with artistic intent.
Canada's robotic Canadarm2 will install the next two Urthecast cameras on the International Space Station
Google Earth 10.0 coming.
Pretty soon, you'll be able to just type the name of whoever you want into Google search,
proprietary backend systems will identify their GPS coordinates using the Android secret location tracking
feature, then the Earthcam will be pointed and zoom in on their current position, until their head is visible,
and put them on a map with real-time position updating
Most vendors seriously over estimate their minimum requirements for servers. 40 GB is plenty for a 2008 R2 server, 60 if you're feeling generous.
You don't get to say "They overstated their requirements," and, when the software actually needs to use as much resource as was stated to be required "Oh look, they're using too many resources".
And no... 40GB is not "plenty" for a 2008 R2 boot drive; it is pretty much the absolute minimum for a couple years worth of service, with a likely space exhaustion, eventually.
An extra 20 GB for 40 servers is 800 GB on tier 0 storage (and yes, for these 40 servers they are required to be on SSD).
This is because of your broken deployment choices, and bad assumptions about OS space usage, not an issue with the software.
Attempting to Micromanage microsoft operating system storage requirements will cost you more time in man-hours, than 1TB of SSDs ever would.
And you're accusing vendors of overstating requirements, while you're suggesting servers require SSD storage for just the boot drive?
Don't you see the irony in that?
Of course servers don't need SSDs for the boot drive. Bloody SATA RAID5 is the most popular storage solution for Windows server system boot volume.
It's simply not true that SSD is needed for system boot drives.
Install the applications or databases requiring performance on SSD, not the OS.
Which is plenty for a server and expensive on Tier 0 SSD's
Microsoft's guidance on this is pretty clear last I checked; 32 gigabytes is the absolute minimum disk size for installing 64-bit versions of Windows server, and they wind up recommending a minimum of 80gb storage for most deployments, and their docs go on to state, you need to take into account the roles that will be installed, lifetime of the server and constant growth of the boot drive an additional 20gb per year due to updates. You do not need to install your C:\ drive on a SSD; there is no document recommending or stating that it is cost-effective and worth placing your boot disk on size limited high cost devices.
My recommendation would be that on servers you use the enterprise SSD devices for additional caching purposes or storing small files, such as SQL server tempdb, or your system paging file.
This means that a WinSxS folder that is 6GB costs around.90 Cents, and uses slightly more than 1 Percent of the drive.
I think you just don't understand what WinSxS is, how it works, and what the problem is that it is designed to address, suggest you start reading a bit more.
The reason the old Sxs assemblies need to be kept, is that installed software may require the usage of an old assembly.
Just because an update has superceded a certain library version, does not mean that all applications that still rely on it should be broken.
The SxS assembly backups have a vital role, and they don't actually use as much disk space as you think, due to hard linking ---
Windows Explorer gives you an impression that more disk space is consumed by this folder than actually is.
The reason is... various installed files throughout the system will be hardlinked here, causing an appearance that a lot of space is in use here,
but in reality --- these hard links are just a second Zero-usage copy of files that are installed elsewhere.
Only a couple gigabytes worth of files that have been updated and no longer have other hard links here, should actually be considered usage of the SxS system.
It's unlikely there's any significant "self reporting bias," as you seem to be implying
The question will be.... what are the circumstances surrounding most insurance quotes with these sites.
Are people obtaining new vehicles, or needing new insurance for existing vehicles, because the rates are too high?
Is a greater portion of the people applying for insurance SURVIVORS of an accident they were responsible for,
therefore more likely to have gotten a ticket than a totalled vehicle ?
Who remembers the failed Clipper chip pushed during the Clinton administration and advocated by VP Gore?
Who remembers why it failed?
Who remembers CALEA? Who remembers why it didn't fail, and why the feds can now snoop on VoIP traffic?
Wann bet on a CALEA Version 2.0 coming out, which will dictate the manufacture of consumer devices and software,
requiring a federally approved backdoor or key escrow system?
I imagine a person who is not intending on doing ill will with the disease could self monitor and quarantine himself if needed.
Could in theory, but they are not likely to do so, not only because they might miss the symptoms or be in denial about them, BUT self-quarantining would seriously inconvenience them, and it would be against human nature and not what the average person would do, to decide you're sick and impose this on yourself.
Most people would just rationalize it internally to themselves "It's probably just a cold," or "I'm just tired." "It's stress-related"
None. Just add a quarantine user fee to their ticket.
Try again. Enstating a quarantine policy would drastically reduce the number of travelers until the policy was over. Or it would likely increase the number of travelers using various tactics of avoiding the airplane quarantine, such as travelling to an intermediary country first, and then crossing in through the land border.
The CEO may not, but you're boss's boss might; or your boss might condense that 100 page report to 50 pages for his boss who might make it 5 pages for their boss
My direct boss is at the top and doesn't have any bosses, and while there is information about IT disseminated,
I believe it is mostly all financial in nature, or related to the performance of individual workers and the performance of networks
with regards to uptime and usage. There are no "Reports" gathered directly from any IT central logging systems,
which are mostly applicable for troubleshooting issues anyways --- summary information from a central logging system,
simply has nothing to do with running IT or the company, other than maintaining the logging system itself.
In other words... it's probably a report nobody needs anyways.
But if you do, your department should probably be writing custom scripts to gather and report on the data, just as they apparently have.
Even the manager above you wants a report they can easily edit, merge, and send up the chain; it makes reporting on multiple projects a lot easier to do.
Just open the region selection tool, draw a rectangle around the parts of the data you want, Control + X, and then Control +V the picture into your report... . easy as pie ^_^
Or print it out, and they can grab scissors and cut out the data and paste it onto their report.
In general self-funding government agencies are terrible idea-- that's why running the government "like a business" sounds good but is a lousy idea. Government agencies should serve the public, they shouldn't be profit centers.
Even in businesses..... a department cannot do other things on the side that generate lots of extra revenue and keep the proceeds within the department -- all inflows have to go to receivables accounting, and use of moneys to fund a department is at the discretion of management; just because department X generated an extra $1 million in revenue this year, does not mean all the extra cash coming in will be allocated to that department; it may be used to fund a new project, or it might be returned to shareholders ([taxpayers]) instead.
The NSA is developing X and licensing it to selected corporations. So, 100% wrong to be licensing it and 100% wrong to be doing so to non-government entities and 100% to be doing so selectively.
And if the NSA IS generating any revenue, then all that revenue should be going to the treasury slush fund.
The purpose of government departments is NOT to create a profit for the department.
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No it hasn't. The price is included in your room fee. Don't think that if it isn't itemized it is free. There is no such thing as a free lunch as the saying goes.
It's free if you are not charged extra to get it. For example: if you don't NEED the Wifi, you can't get a cheaper room price.
In that case, the WiFi is free.... perhaps it would be more accurate to say that it is "included" if you are a guest ---- it is free for you, if you are a non-paying visitor.
THEY DID NOT USE A JAMMING DEVICE
Jamming would have made a range of frequencies unusable to one device.
Instead, they merely sent normal WiFi messages to any clients connecting to the AP saying "Hey, Get off that AP.
So all radios still had full operational use of the spectrum, it's just that, there was a process preventing any clients from connecting to the unapproved APs.
The Mariott owns the property, and they have a right to dictate the use of their property, so they have a right to control what WiFi equipment can be brought into and used within their premises.
ESPN and red zone are expect from blackouts. NBC and CBS are not as cable channels as well as over the air.
As far as I know these blackout too.
If you want to get around blackouts, then as far as I know, the only way to do so legally is through internet streaming, possibly by renting a streaming box physically located in a different market.
Some folks might subscribe to both satellite and Cable. And "trade receivers" with a friend located 100 miles away.
They'll then have access to blacked out content. Unless they have a reveiver with new technology that uses GPS to locate itself, the receiving device won't realize they're located in a blacked out market.
FYI what do you think tax payer money could be spend on if it wasn't subsiding professional sports teams
Just in time for a cost-of-living adjustment increase for Social Security.
More funding for Executive Golf
More desk rearrangements at the SEC HQ.
More commercial farm subsidies
More 1st class tickets for federal employees to take business trips.
More government sponsorships of NASCAR races and similar events.
More plasma televisions, popcorn machines, DVD players, and government leased/purchased luxury vehicles, for congressional offices and offices of federal employees.
More beach re-sanding
Bigger, badder surveillance resources for the FBI and NSA.
Bigger prisons.
Construction of more large-scale detention camps for FEMA
All the tiddlywinks your heart could desire
A decent mail archiving system for the IRS
Universal Healthcare
More Military Escapades
Continuation of 6 day mail delivery
Hello ass hat who doesn't understand that football games are subsidized by tax payer money.
I understand that. It doesn't bother you at all, that politicians selectively address minor non-controversial issues before election day?
The argument is that airing a game that does not sell out ticket sales cuts into their profits.
Everyone these days knows they are full of shit when they make those claims, and when they continue to repeat those claims....
The irony is the NFL makes most of it's money through TV contracts making that argument bogus - which is what the FCC found.
I'm glad they did... I really am. It's just that Woes getting the entertainment you want, because of stupid corporate shenanigans by entertainment companies ---- is at the BOTTOM of my list.
What's at the top of my list of problems the government needs to fix? Government-created Telco monopolies raping the consumer.
The lack of competition between broadband providers.
Network non-neutrality
Ass-hat providers lobbying in favor of laws to block municipal broadband
Court challenges against community fiber efforts from big companies --- even in underserved communities with no real network provider available.
Cable/DSL companiy duopolies.
Atrociously high data rates for wireless providers.
Atrociously low data caps from network providers, or moves towards service metering.
The general lack of healthy competition in Cable, DSL, and Wireless data markets.
Telcos tearing up copper infrastructure and switching to fiber to avoid regulation.
Letting telcos walk with public funds in the past that paid for fiber to every customer, without delivering
Failing to define broadband standard as 50 megabits or higher
The total lack of competition for the last mile.
Something tells me this Sports Blackout rule change thing is rather sudden and a distraction related to an upcoming election day.....
Yes, I agree blackouts suck, but at the end of the day NFL/etc have the right to control distribution of their content.
There are REAL issues our legislators need to address, such as getting rid of software patents, lowering taxes, and cutting spending, that would make me happy.
I hate to disappoint you, but the FCC note says otherwise
Gender equality means gender equality.
Gender is not a protected class; they're free to discriminate against males.
How about.... when a man wants to send a message to a woman for the first time, first of all they need to spend $10 to buy a "point", the content (with sender and recipient anonymized) get sent to 5 other random men for approval; they will be asked "Is the content appropriate and respectful" Yes/No ?.
If 3 out of 5 agree, then the voters receives a point. If the Yes' have a plurality, the recipient gets a message, and a chance to report it if lewd. If the recipient thinks the message is OKAY, then the sender receives their points back.
If the No's have a plurality, then the message is "Eaten", so the recipient never gets it, and the sender of the inappropriate message loses 3 points.
If their point balance is now less than 1, they will need to pay US $20 per point to send any more messages.
If the sender ever does later send an appropriate message which is accepted, then the recipient will be given an option to see their "hidden" past messages, based on that, they can decide to block if they want.
Correct... and
, Maroney could in theory be prosecuted for taking the original pictures.
Implies that the pictures are pornography.
They might become porn when distributed as such. The purpose and manner in which they are distributed and used affects what they are.
Michelangelo made some famous sculptures. They are considered art, not porn. On the other hand, if someone buys replica of one of Michelangelo's works for the purpose of personal sexual excitation/entertainment, then it is porn.
But that doesn't make the original porn, which is presented with artistic intent.
Canada's robotic Canadarm2 will install the next two Urthecast cameras on the International Space Station
Google Earth 10.0 coming. Pretty soon, you'll be able to just type the name of whoever you want into Google search, proprietary backend systems will identify their GPS coordinates using the Android secret location tracking feature, then the Earthcam will be pointed and zoom in on their current position, until their head is visible, and put them on a map with real-time position updating
Most vendors seriously over estimate their minimum requirements for servers. 40 GB is plenty for a 2008 R2 server, 60 if you're feeling generous.
You don't get to say "They overstated their requirements," and, when the software actually needs to use as much resource as was stated to be required "Oh look, they're using too many resources". And no... 40GB is not "plenty" for a 2008 R2 boot drive; it is pretty much the absolute minimum for a couple years worth of service, with a likely space exhaustion, eventually.
An extra 20 GB for 40 servers is 800 GB on tier 0 storage (and yes, for these 40 servers they are required to be on SSD).
This is because of your broken deployment choices, and bad assumptions about OS space usage, not an issue with the software. Attempting to Micromanage microsoft operating system storage requirements will cost you more time in man-hours, than 1TB of SSDs ever would.
And you're accusing vendors of overstating requirements, while you're suggesting servers require SSD storage for just the boot drive?
Don't you see the irony in that? Of course servers don't need SSDs for the boot drive. Bloody SATA RAID5 is the most popular storage solution for Windows server system boot volume.
It's simply not true that SSD is needed for system boot drives.
Install the applications or databases requiring performance on SSD, not the OS.
Which is plenty for a server and expensive on Tier 0 SSD's
Microsoft's guidance on this is pretty clear last I checked; 32 gigabytes is the absolute minimum disk size for installing 64-bit versions of Windows server, and they wind up recommending a minimum of 80gb storage for most deployments, and their docs go on to state, you need to take into account the roles that will be installed, lifetime of the server and constant growth of the boot drive an additional 20gb per year due to updates. You do not need to install your C:\ drive on a SSD; there is no document recommending or stating that it is cost-effective and worth placing your boot disk on size limited high cost devices.
My recommendation would be that on servers you use the enterprise SSD devices for additional caching purposes or storing small files, such as SQL server tempdb, or your system paging file.
This means that a WinSxS folder that is 6GB costs around .90 Cents, and uses slightly more than 1 Percent of the drive.
I think you just don't understand what WinSxS is, how it works, and what the problem is that it is designed to address, suggest you start reading a bit more.
The reason the old Sxs assemblies need to be kept, is that installed software may require the usage of an old assembly.
Just because an update has superceded a certain library version, does not mean that all applications that still rely on it should be broken.
The SxS assembly backups have a vital role, and they don't actually use as much disk space as you think, due to hard linking --- Windows Explorer gives you an impression that more disk space is consumed by this folder than actually is.
The reason is... various installed files throughout the system will be hardlinked here, causing an appearance that a lot of space is in use here, but in reality --- these hard links are just a second Zero-usage copy of files that are installed elsewhere.
Only a couple gigabytes worth of files that have been updated and no longer have other hard links here, should actually be considered usage of the SxS system.
It's unlikely there's any significant "self reporting bias," as you seem to be implying
The question will be.... what are the circumstances surrounding most insurance quotes with these sites.
Are people obtaining new vehicles, or needing new insurance for existing vehicles, because the rates are too high?
Is a greater portion of the people applying for insurance SURVIVORS of an accident they were responsible for, therefore more likely to have gotten a ticket than a totalled vehicle ?
These are some of the questions that come to mind
So it's not a sample of drivers in general, but a sample of drivers looking for new insurance quotes online.
I imagine people who get tickets might be more likely to be looking for new insurance (due to higher rates)
If they can't win at the Federal level, they will get it done at the State level
Why not? They are already going to require a kill switch. Requiring a state-approved police backdoor is just a minor tweak.
Who remembers the failed Clipper chip pushed during the Clinton administration and advocated by VP Gore?
Who remembers why it failed?
Who remembers CALEA? Who remembers why it didn't fail, and why the feds can now snoop on VoIP traffic?
Wann bet on a CALEA Version 2.0 coming out, which will dictate the manufacture of consumer devices and software, requiring a federally approved backdoor or key escrow system?
I imagine a person who is not intending on doing ill will with the disease could self monitor and quarantine himself if needed.
Could in theory, but they are not likely to do so, not only because they might miss the symptoms or be in denial about them, BUT self-quarantining would seriously inconvenience them, and it would be against human nature and not what the average person would do, to decide you're sick and impose this on yourself.
Most people would just rationalize it internally to themselves "It's probably just a cold," or "I'm just tired." "It's stress-related"
None. Just add a quarantine user fee to their ticket.
Try again. Enstating a quarantine policy would drastically reduce the number of travelers until the policy was over. Or it would likely increase the number of travelers using various tactics of avoiding the airplane quarantine, such as travelling to an intermediary country first, and then crossing in through the land border.
Corruption also leads to poverty, since people don't work hard if their property will be stolen.
You mean income redistribution? What country are you talking about here?
The CEO may not, but you're boss's boss might; or your boss might condense that 100 page report to 50 pages for his boss who might make it 5 pages for their boss
My direct boss is at the top and doesn't have any bosses, and while there is information about IT disseminated, I believe it is mostly all financial in nature, or related to the performance of individual workers and the performance of networks with regards to uptime and usage. There are no "Reports" gathered directly from any IT central logging systems, which are mostly applicable for troubleshooting issues anyways --- summary information from a central logging system, simply has nothing to do with running IT or the company, other than maintaining the logging system itself.
In other words... it's probably a report nobody needs anyways.
But if you do, your department should probably be writing custom scripts to gather and report on the data, just as they apparently have.
Even the manager above you wants a report they can easily edit, merge, and send up the chain; it makes reporting on multiple projects a lot easier to do.
Just open the region selection tool, draw a rectangle around the parts of the data you want, Control + X, and then Control +V the picture into your report... . easy as pie ^_^
Or print it out, and they can grab scissors and cut out the data and paste it onto their report.
There are a lot of legit ways to handle this one.
In general self-funding government agencies are terrible idea-- that's why running the government "like a business" sounds good but is a lousy idea. Government agencies should serve the public, they shouldn't be profit centers.
Even in businesses..... a department cannot do other things on the side that generate lots of extra revenue and keep the proceeds within the department -- all inflows have to go to receivables accounting, and use of moneys to fund a department is at the discretion of management; just because department X generated an extra $1 million in revenue this year, does not mean all the extra cash coming in will be allocated to that department; it may be used to fund a new project, or it might be returned to shareholders ([taxpayers]) instead.
The NSA is developing X and licensing it to selected corporations. So, 100% wrong to be licensing it and 100% wrong to be doing so to non-government entities and 100% to be doing so selectively.
And if the NSA IS generating any revenue, then all that revenue should be going to the treasury slush fund.
The purpose of government departments is NOT to create a profit for the department.