tell me, when was the last time it cost you 44 cents to send something across the country? Do you really thing that doing away with this law is going to automatically cause UPS to deliver your letter to Aunt Martha for 44 cents?
It's really quite possible they could do so profitably. The USPS did so for a long time; the USPS would still be profitable if not for the explosion in budget dollars spent on worker health care and other union-protected luxuries.
The question is the cost of the trip divided by the number of items sent.
However, it's also possible the UPS would want to charge a fee that varies based on where you send an item to and from, so that each transaction is profitable.
Even the USPS varies the price by weight and size.
To achieve the efficiency for the $0.44 price to be economical, you have to have a certain amount of volume.
The monopoly helps ensure the USPS has the volume..
If there were multiple competitors, the reduced volume could lead to higher prices across the board.
No, USPS is no monopoly. If you think you can deliver letters across the country for less than half a dollar, you're free to do so.
No... you're not free to do so. That proposition would be a federal crime.
Under 18 USC S 1696 .
Also, the "unlawful letters" would then be subject to seizure by US postal workers, and US marshals.
Whoever establishes any private express for the conveyance of letters or packets, or in any manner causes or provides for the conveyance of the same by regular trips or at stated periods over any post route which is or may be established by law, or from any city, town, or place to any other city, town, or place, between which the mail is regularly carried, shall be fined not more than $500 or imprisoned not more than six months, or both.
Briefly, the growth of email clients was going to overwhelm the system eventually, but the crisis was advanced when a disk failure required a restart after some time offline.
Capacity planning is supposed to account for reduced capacity due to component failures,
system outages, and temporary demand spikes due to restart events.
GoDaddy locks the domain by default, and even if you do unlock the domain
you need an EPP or Authinfo code for.COM and other major GTLDs to effect a transfer.
None of that helps at all if your e-mail account is hijacked, though; and doesn't really
protect you against intra-registrar transfers.
As for the "auto-renewal" service, don't trust it necessarily.
There have been reports in the past of registrars' auto-renewal failing to auto-renew certain highly desirable domains.
Of course the story could be that you didn't update your CC.... credit cards do have expiration dates, you know... can't auto-renew when you can't bill, Isuppose.
Some registrars such as Moniker offer a service, where you can add a layer of security to registrar
lock, by having the registrar call you for approval before unlocking the domain.
That is more secure than e-mail confirmation; however, it comes at a very significant price increase for so called "Max Security" or "High security" features of some registrars.
The Gaining Registrar must retain, and produce pursuant to a request by a Losing Registrar, a written or electronic copy of the FOA. In instances where the Registrar of Record has requested copies of the FOA, the Gaining Registrar must fulfill the Registrar of Records request (including providing the attendant supporting documentation) within five (5) calendar days. Failure to provide this documentation within the time period specified is grounds for reversal by the Registry Operator or the Dispute Resolution Panel in the event that a transfer complaint is filed in accordance with the requirements of this policy.
If either a Registrar of Record or a Gaining Registrar does not believe that a transfer request was handled in accordance with the provisions of this policy, then the Registrar may initiate a dispute resolution procedure as set forth in Section C of this policy.
Registry Operator must undo the transfer within fourteen calendar days unless a court action is filed. The notice required shall be one of the following:
Agreement of the Registrar of Record and the Gaining Registrar sent by email, letter or fax that the transfer was made by mistake or was otherwise not in accordance with the procedures set forth in this policy;
Not required? As in, he paid for it, it's legally registered to him, and then someone just stole it away and they don't have to give it back? Isn't that theft?
There's always an option to open a UDRP dispute.
Although it is expensive to execute the process, it would likely result in the domain being returned to the rightful owner.
For Sprint's short and sweet response, compared to ATT's long-winded vague casting of aspersions against the FCC
staff.
The FCC staff’s Analysis and Findings provide a careful, substantive analysis of AT&T’s proposed takeover of T-Mobile, consistent with the FCC’s role as the independent, expert agency responsible for such merger reviews. Rather than accept the expert agency’s Analysis and Findings, AT&T has chosen to make baseless claims about the FCC’s process. [...]
It's simple.... insurance companies have more lobbyists than pharmaceuticals.
And insurance companies like generic drugs, because it lowers their costs, and increases profit
of the insurance co..
Apple has money to spare. And the damage is already done. With the Christmas shopping started, early buyers would have settled on the Ipad2 instead of the Galaxy Tab as gifts.
A real victory would have been: not just "pay the court costs", but also order them to:
reimburse Samsung for lost sales of Galaxy tablets, assuming they would have
sold just as well as iPad2 units, and send iPad2 customers an optional coupon to exchange
their purchased iPad2 during that time for a Galaxy tab, at Apple's expense.
One could say, yeah those stupid Romans shouldn't have built those highways, they just gave the terrorists mass transit abilities
OK... what's stupid is not that the Romans built the highways, it's that they failed to do something to ensure their own roads couldn't be used against them effectively.
Even third world countries have measures to deter invaders from using their roads... what do they call them.. land mines? IEDs? The Romans could have installed some defenses on their roads they were building:)
As long as the virus does not increase the intelligence of apes.
Or a retrovirus that is highly contagious and reduces the intelligence of human victims to near that of apes
by changing brain chemistry, but leaves them alive and "OK", driven by only animal survival insticts, and permanently infected?
The iPad display is already capable of pressure sensitivity.
Ten-one design/makers of Pogo sketch showed off a demo of using pressure sensitivity for sketching and
"palm rejection" back in 2010.
Until Apple chooses to include it in the API, no 3rd party apps will be able to leverage the functionality,
because it would require using 'private frameworks' which is against Apple's rules that app store applications must follow for approval by Apple.
This can't be anywhere near civilization, as a Tesla coil can fry any electronics.
It also can't be in some forest wilderness, as a Tesla coil can easily ignite trees.
As they say, they're making something that's more and more lightning like, which is also more unsafe.
So building a 10' Tesla coil is probably not the hard problem.... the hard problem is operating it
Safely, and actually being able to take experimental observations.... because, this is all very dangerous.
And also, will the FCC allow them to operate it, once they've built it?
Considering spark gap transmitters have long been banned due to the spectrum-wide interference they cause; and the earliest such radio transmitters were tesla coils... and EMI in particular can be generated across the spectrum as well, resulting in disruptions to communications, with such a large tesla coil, and such a large arc, especially if they are attempting to use frequencies associated with wireless transmissions; I wonder what will the RFI fallout will be.
; and any horizontally long metallic structure can get induced currents and also become antennae for further RFI emissions.
Yes, lightning does show up on the radio spectrum as well, but a powered up Tesla coil emits many arcs
not spread out by time, a much bigger footprint than lightning....
And as soon as the chargeback is in place, you'll see consultants start coming in and budget centers deploying their own IT disregarding common stablished best practices in favor for the short run local profit with global operational costs skyrocketing and global reliability going through the bath tub.
Chargeback is not meant as a mechanism of encouraging departments to "bypass" company policies, IT policies, and deploy their own services without the cost of complying with policies, common sense, or the law. Chargeback should be coupled with a policy that a department doesn't have the right to bypass the department that provides a service unilaterally.
For example: if the facilities department requires a chargeback for janitorial work.
A department must not be allowed to hire an outside contractor, bypassing the internal department,
without discussing and obtaining written approval from the corporate facilities department.
The outside contractor might not meet all the requirements that those responsible for that service
in the company have determined are required. For example, the corporate facilities department may
have certain background check requirements for workers, etc, etc.
For IT chargebacks to work properly, IT management must have refuse/approve authority of any IT infrastructure owned or used by the company. For example, if a department wishes to directly deploy IT, the company's IT management should be reviewing the reason the department wants to do
that and accepting or rejecting based on it being reasonable or not.
In that case, the IT department still owns the "IT service" on the department's infrastructure,
and is the authority regarding setting the rules about how that infrastructure will be implemented
and operated, and an IT chargeback still occurs for their oversight.
To the extent third party services are not justified to or accepted by IT, the internal IT services
must be used, no consultants, etc, etc.
When they are justified, and IT accepts, they may be used.
But merely adopting outside services to avoid the chargeback would as you indicated an unacceptable
attempt to dodge corporate policy/best practices.
The High Availability SAN that IT wants, costs a bunch more than the FREENAS box that some idiot thinks he can build for next to nothing with commodity parts.
IT can build this FreeNAS for you, as soon as you sign this bit of paper that says
"No mission critical enterprise data may be placed on this array. This array's defined annual availability SLA is 90% uptime during business hours Monday - Friday, 8am to 6pm; 438 business hours per year of downtime shall be acceptable. Non-business hours do not count against the SLA; this is a non-critical, non-High Availability service, so IT cannot justify the cost of supporting it outside business hours.
The count of downtime starts when the unit is not functioning, and you open a ticket.
In event that a hardware replacement or restore from backup is required, 24 hours of continuous downtime are expected for each NAS downtime incident per terabyte of data on the NAS. "
there are no forced labour camps or any such Stalinist nonsense
Who said anything about the labour being a Stalinist style forced labour camp?
The Hungarian government isn't doing anything particularly wrong here. And this is not merely "proposed legislation"; they are already implementing "you must work".
OK... It's not forced... but you can work or starve. The point is you don't get a freebie.
If you're in that situation, you might still pick jail in a country that provides more favorable / more easily
abusable rules, with a free plane ticket there!
I guess the Internet is the ticket to do that; there aren't a lot of other ways for a citizen of one country to commit a crime in a different country, except through such a scam.
Keeping in mind -- if the whole point is to go to jail, the crime has to be severe enough to get the person a trip + good long stay in their intended destination country, without being severe enough to incurring a penalty that will get them in trouble in their native country.
In Hungary, they send their unemployed to hard labor camps to get any government assist.
He would have gone from unemployed Hungarian resident to Hungarian resident with a free trip to the US,
now he gets a free taxpayer-paid vacation in an American prison for 5 or 10 years with no hard labor required.
It's a gamble regarding what the economy will be like after that, but his employment problem is solved.
if anything goes wrong during school hours, you're toast..
That's because the bright nephew is a single point of failure.
Improper planning is a sure path towards failure. Migrating any non-trivial IT infrastructure to the cloud is a lot more complex than designing a robust network infrastructure with elimination of SPOFs.
The concept of a SPOF applies to individual persons just as much as it applies to network components.
For a migration to the cloud to be successful, it has to be very carefully planned, has to involve IT, and it doesn't eliminate the requirement for IT personnel -- conversion to a cloud-based infrastructure eliminates hardware costs and the need for IT to manage hardware; instead, $$ is paid based on usage of cloud resources at a software level.
You can accomplish outsourcing of all your servers and IT equipment infrastructure through use of internal or external consultants, but you need to retain their services or the services of a dedicated IT department, because outsourcing the hardware does not eliminate the requirement to manage the software infrastructure; and it will be best if the consultant has responsibility for your organization's network and its connectivity as well; the last thing you want is services down / not working correctly, with a finger pointing game between 4 parties, your IT management consultants, your ISP and your cloud provider and your ISP and your cloud provider's ISP.
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Since then the hard drive died and I've been too lazy to hash out the replacement system.
Another system killed by spinning rust.... maybe try a read-only CF or a SSD next time :)
Me: Can we give them a 'press 1 to unsubscribe' option? Them: No, otherwise everyone would unsubscribe.
How about a reversal of this... when someone calls your home, you have a "call screening device" that asks the person to "Please press 1"
Since the robocaller cannot press 1, their call will be dropped in 20 seconds and never heard.
tell me, when was the last time it cost you 44 cents to send something across the country? Do you really thing that doing away with this law is going to automatically cause UPS to deliver your letter to Aunt Martha for 44 cents?
It's really quite possible they could do so profitably. The USPS did so for a long time; the USPS would still be profitable if not for the explosion in budget dollars spent on worker health care and other union-protected luxuries.
The question is the cost of the trip divided by the number of items sent. However, it's also possible the UPS would want to charge a fee that varies based on where you send an item to and from, so that each transaction is profitable. Even the USPS varies the price by weight and size.
To achieve the efficiency for the $0.44 price to be economical, you have to have a certain amount of volume. The monopoly helps ensure the USPS has the volume.. If there were multiple competitors, the reduced volume could lead to higher prices across the board.
No, USPS is no monopoly. If you think you can deliver letters across the country for less than half a dollar, you're free to do so.
No... you're not free to do so. That proposition would be a federal crime. Under 18 USC S 1696 . Also, the "unlawful letters" would then be subject to seizure by US postal workers, and US marshals.
My entire mail store is over 16 Gb. I have single mbox files that are larger than 2 Gb.
My entire mail store is over 1TB.
I have single LZMA compressed mbox.xz files that are larger than 16 Gb.
Briefly, the growth of email clients was going to overwhelm the system eventually, but the crisis was advanced when a disk failure required a restart after some time offline.
Capacity planning is supposed to account for reduced capacity due to component failures, system outages, and temporary demand spikes due to restart events.
It appears to be a Windows-only solution.... no version for MacOS or Linux.. less than useful I would say.
GoDaddy locks the domain by default, and even if you do unlock the domain you need an EPP or Authinfo code for .COM and other major GTLDs to effect a transfer.
None of that helps at all if your e-mail account is hijacked, though; and doesn't really
protect you against intra-registrar transfers.
As for the "auto-renewal" service, don't trust it necessarily.
There have been reports in the past of registrars' auto-renewal failing to auto-renew certain highly desirable domains.
Of course the story could be that you didn't update your CC.... credit cards do have expiration dates, you know... can't auto-renew when you can't bill, Isuppose.
Some registrars such as Moniker offer a service, where you can add a layer of security to registrar lock, by having the registrar call you for approval before unlocking the domain. That is more secure than e-mail confirmation; however, it comes at a very significant price increase for so called "Max Security" or "High security" features of some registrars.
and secondly, godaddy can't actually do anything about it because they don't own the domain anymore.
There are things they can do about it, the ICANN Inter-Registrar Transfer Policy says so, so does the ICANN Transfer Dispute Resolution Policy,
it makes it much harder for a U.S. court to seize your domain on a whim.
It also much makes it much harder for you to sue them, if they do something bad and it hurts you or you lose the domain or uptime as a result.
Not required? As in, he paid for it, it's legally registered to him, and then someone just stole it away and they don't have to give it back? Isn't that theft?
There's always an option to open a UDRP dispute. Although it is expensive to execute the process, it would likely result in the domain being returned to the rightful owner.
For Sprint's short and sweet response, compared to ATT's long-winded vague casting of aspersions against the FCC staff.
It's simple.... insurance companies have more lobbyists than pharmaceuticals. And insurance companies like generic drugs, because it lowers their costs, and increases profit of the insurance co..
Apple has money to spare. And the damage is already done. With the Christmas shopping started, early buyers would have settled on the Ipad2 instead of the Galaxy Tab as gifts.
A real victory would have been: not just "pay the court costs", but also order them to: reimburse Samsung for lost sales of Galaxy tablets, assuming they would have sold just as well as iPad2 units, and send iPad2 customers an optional coupon to exchange their purchased iPad2 during that time for a Galaxy tab, at Apple's expense.
One could say, yeah those stupid Romans shouldn't have built those highways, they just gave the terrorists mass transit abilities
OK... what's stupid is not that the Romans built the highways, it's that they failed to do something to ensure their own roads couldn't be used against them effectively.
Even third world countries have measures to deter invaders from using their roads... what do they call them.. land mines? IEDs? The Romans could have installed some defenses on their roads they were building :)
As long as the virus does not increase the intelligence of apes.
Or a retrovirus that is highly contagious and reduces the intelligence of human victims to near that of apes by changing brain chemistry, but leaves them alive and "OK", driven by only animal survival insticts, and permanently infected?
The iPad display is already capable of pressure sensitivity. Ten-one design/makers of Pogo sketch showed off a demo of using pressure sensitivity for sketching and "palm rejection" back in 2010.
The problem is apparently iPad app developer's aren't allowed to access pressure sensitivity information, because no interface has been exposed by the iOS official APIs.
Until Apple chooses to include it in the API, no 3rd party apps will be able to leverage the functionality, because it would require using 'private frameworks' which is against Apple's rules that app store applications must follow for approval by Apple.
Are you sure it's for a phone?
Maybe Apple is planning an iPad Mini ? Or say a "book style" unit with 2 separate 4" display panels, intended for use as an e-reader.
In any case, with a display larger than the iPhone, but without the iPad 2's bulkiness.
iPhone 4S: iPhone 5 Next iPhone: iPhone 6
How about Next iPhone: iPhone 4GS; for 4G support?
*** Technically the current latest iPhone ought to have been the iPhone 4G, and the iPhone 4GS should have followed it
Then next iPhone after the next one; iPhone 6.
This can't be anywhere near civilization, as a Tesla coil can fry any electronics. It also can't be in some forest wilderness, as a Tesla coil can easily ignite trees. As they say, they're making something that's more and more lightning like, which is also more unsafe. So building a 10' Tesla coil is probably not the hard problem.... the hard problem is operating it Safely, and actually being able to take experimental observations.... because, this is all very dangerous.
And also, will the FCC allow them to operate it, once they've built it?
Considering spark gap transmitters have long been banned due to the spectrum-wide interference they cause; and the earliest such radio transmitters were tesla coils... and EMI in particular can be generated across the spectrum as well, resulting in disruptions to communications, with such a large tesla coil, and such a large arc, especially if they are attempting to use frequencies associated with wireless transmissions; I wonder what will the RFI fallout will be.
; and any horizontally long metallic structure can get induced currents and also become antennae for further RFI emissions. Yes, lightning does show up on the radio spectrum as well, but a powered up Tesla coil emits many arcs not spread out by time, a much bigger footprint than lightning....
And as soon as the chargeback is in place, you'll see consultants start coming in and budget centers deploying their own IT disregarding common stablished best practices in favor for the short run local profit with global operational costs skyrocketing and global reliability going through the bath tub.
Chargeback is not meant as a mechanism of encouraging departments to "bypass" company policies, IT policies, and deploy their own services without the cost of complying with policies, common sense, or the law. Chargeback should be coupled with a policy that a department doesn't have the right to bypass the department that provides a service unilaterally.
For example: if the facilities department requires a chargeback for janitorial work. A department must not be allowed to hire an outside contractor, bypassing the internal department, without discussing and obtaining written approval from the corporate facilities department. The outside contractor might not meet all the requirements that those responsible for that service in the company have determined are required. For example, the corporate facilities department may have certain background check requirements for workers, etc, etc.
For IT chargebacks to work properly, IT management must have refuse/approve authority of any IT infrastructure owned or used by the company. For example, if a department wishes to directly deploy IT, the company's IT management should be reviewing the reason the department wants to do that and accepting or rejecting based on it being reasonable or not.
In that case, the IT department still owns the "IT service" on the department's infrastructure, and is the authority regarding setting the rules about how that infrastructure will be implemented and operated, and an IT chargeback still occurs for their oversight.
To the extent third party services are not justified to or accepted by IT, the internal IT services must be used, no consultants, etc, etc.
When they are justified, and IT accepts, they may be used.
But merely adopting outside services to avoid the chargeback would as you indicated an unacceptable attempt to dodge corporate policy/best practices.
The High Availability SAN that IT wants, costs a bunch more than the FREENAS box that some idiot thinks he can build for next to nothing with commodity parts.
IT can build this FreeNAS for you, as soon as you sign this bit of paper that says "No mission critical enterprise data may be placed on this array. This array's defined annual availability SLA is 90% uptime during business hours Monday - Friday, 8am to 6pm; 438 business hours per year of downtime shall be acceptable. Non-business hours do not count against the SLA; this is a non-critical, non-High Availability service, so IT cannot justify the cost of supporting it outside business hours.
The count of downtime starts when the unit is not functioning, and you open a ticket.
In event that a hardware replacement or restore from backup is required, 24 hours of continuous downtime are expected for each NAS downtime incident per terabyte of data on the NAS. "
there are no forced labour camps or any such Stalinist nonsense
Who said anything about the labour being a Stalinist style forced labour camp? The Hungarian government isn't doing anything particularly wrong here. And this is not merely "proposed legislation"; they are already implementing "you must work".
OK... It's not forced... but you can work or starve. The point is you don't get a freebie.
If you're in that situation, you might still pick jail in a country that provides more favorable / more easily abusable rules, with a free plane ticket there!
I guess the Internet is the ticket to do that; there aren't a lot of other ways for a citizen of one country to commit a crime in a different country, except through such a scam. Keeping in mind -- if the whole point is to go to jail, the crime has to be severe enough to get the person a trip + good long stay in their intended destination country, without being severe enough to incurring a penalty that will get them in trouble in their native country.
He gambled. He lost.
Are you sure?
In Hungary, they send their unemployed to hard labor camps to get any government assist.
He would have gone from unemployed Hungarian resident to Hungarian resident with a free trip to the US, now he gets a free taxpayer-paid vacation in an American prison for 5 or 10 years with no hard labor required.
It's a gamble regarding what the economy will be like after that, but his employment problem is solved.
if anything goes wrong during school hours, you're toast..
That's because the bright nephew is a single point of failure.
Improper planning is a sure path towards failure. Migrating any non-trivial IT infrastructure to the cloud is a lot more complex than designing a robust network infrastructure with elimination of SPOFs.
The concept of a SPOF applies to individual persons just as much as it applies to network components. For a migration to the cloud to be successful, it has to be very carefully planned, has to involve IT, and it doesn't eliminate the requirement for IT personnel -- conversion to a cloud-based infrastructure eliminates hardware costs and the need for IT to manage hardware; instead, $$ is paid based on usage of cloud resources at a software level.
You can accomplish outsourcing of all your servers and IT equipment infrastructure through use of internal or external consultants, but you need to retain their services or the services of a dedicated IT department, because outsourcing the hardware does not eliminate the requirement to manage the software infrastructure; and it will be best if the consultant has responsibility for your organization's network and its connectivity as well; the last thing you want is services down / not working correctly, with a finger pointing game between 4 parties, your IT management consultants, your ISP and your cloud provider and your ISP and your cloud provider's ISP.