Pretty much. If your procedure is that you never do backups, or don't have redundancy, and the auditors verify that as fact: ta-da SAS70 seal of approval.
If "maintenance" means doing a forklift upgrade of all the computer and networking equipment every year or two then of course your reliability is going to suck, especially the human error factor with all of that new, unfamiliar equipment.
On the other side of things if someone thinks that never changing the oil in the generator is going to make it more reliable then they're in for a surprise. When I think about datacenter "maintenance" I think: changing the CRAC air filters, cleaning any outdoor coils, changing the oil on the generator, loading the generator, replacing old lead acid batteries, checking building integrity, making sure birds aren't nesting anywhere stupid, and so forth. Physical plant won't last forever.
Yep, Amazon streaming is supported on the Roku. With HD and DD5.1, too. I haven't had cable for a while now so I'd buy season passes on Amazon for a handful of shows I wanted to watch. I'm one of those weird people who watches TV on the sofa in front of the TV (or projector on 6' screen in my case). I have no interest in watching things on my computer, phone, or tablet because when I want a break from work (on the computer) the last thing I want to do is continue to sit in front of the computer or other tiny screen thing.
The question "Is Reverse DNS a Worthy Standard For Fighting Spam?" is incorrect. Spam is not the reason; using it as a measure of clue is. Servers that emit spam and and clue level can be related, though. If someone is clueful enough to set up a mail server properly they're going to make sure it has reverse DNS. A mail server run by a less than clueful individual (or set-and-forget with no admin) is more likely to be a problem source either now or in the future than the ones that are cluefully configured and actively maintained.
Of course you are going to have spammers that are clueful mail admins and will set up their servers properly. That's why you can't pigeonhole reverse DNS as some kind of spam fighting method alone. But it can always be used as a measure of cluefulness.
I think you're missing the point. Configuring DNS means that someone with clue set out to create a mail server and intends for it to be such rather than just slapping something together without any clue. Whether or not that mail server is sending anything desirable is not related.
Colocate a server that's using whole disk encryption? Although they would probably just compel you to give up the key, although I seem to recall the EFF was arguing that should be covered under the 5th amendment.
I find it unlikely that AT&T will ever leave the market and there's no need for them to lower prices, so we're left with "because they can". I suppose we could try the antitrust thing again someday.
I wish it was an excuse rather than reality. I can get a 100 meg of transit for $1,100 from a provider that is not Cogent. That's perfectly fine until you see the loop price for the last mile is quoted at $3,200 for a cheap Verizon FastE loop. AT&T wanted $10,000 for an OC-3 port (that's not a typo, ten thousand dollars) and they couldn't/wouldn't do FastE. And AT&T already had fiber in the building. The rates are still high in dense population centers because they can and will charge such prices. We keep buying their stuff anyway and as the competition shrinks (i.e. AT&T buys T-mobile, Level 3 buys Global Crossing, and on and on) so do any incentives to lower pricing.
As far as why they try to prevent deployments in areas they don't serve it's probably as simple as they see it as their right.
There's also a lot of countries outside of North America that are smaller than many single US states or Canadian provinces. It's easier to do things on a small scale. Bandwidth is cheap in the US, too. It's the loop costs that get you.
Although you can always turn off cookies. But I can't say I've done that lately to know how that would affect today's web experience like turning off JavaScript does.
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Yet another perfect reason to not use Facebook.
But that doesn't stop others from putting you on Facebook without your knowledge, such as tagging you by name in pictures.
girls love it since its 'cute' and easy. children like it for the same reasons. are you either of those?
No, but I do interact with real girls.
Nevada does not do vehicle inspections. We only have to do a yearly smog check.
I can't tell if you're being serious or not because:
Net10: MVNO on AT&T or T-mobile
Straight Talk: MVNO on Verizon or Sprint (CDMA), AT&T or T-mobile (GSM)
Virgin Mobile (USA): Sprint's prepaid arm.
Pretty much. If your procedure is that you never do backups, or don't have redundancy, and the auditors verify that as fact: ta-da SAS70 seal of approval.
The sad fact of the matter is that to users, IT is just a bunch of computer janitors.
A lot of the time it's because when shit hits the fan then management can shift blame to the vendor and/or support contract.
Even though this is going to get lost in a sea of arguments about broadband and bandwidth:
Lack of library parity. The Netflix streaming library generally sucks eggs compared to the DVD and Blu-ray libraries.
If "maintenance" means doing a forklift upgrade of all the computer and networking equipment every year or two then of course your reliability is going to suck, especially the human error factor with all of that new, unfamiliar equipment.
On the other side of things if someone thinks that never changing the oil in the generator is going to make it more reliable then they're in for a surprise. When I think about datacenter "maintenance" I think: changing the CRAC air filters, cleaning any outdoor coils, changing the oil on the generator, loading the generator, replacing old lead acid batteries, checking building integrity, making sure birds aren't nesting anywhere stupid, and so forth. Physical plant won't last forever.
Yep, Amazon streaming is supported on the Roku. With HD and DD5.1, too. I haven't had cable for a while now so I'd buy season passes on Amazon for a handful of shows I wanted to watch. I'm one of those weird people who watches TV on the sofa in front of the TV (or projector on 6' screen in my case). I have no interest in watching things on my computer, phone, or tablet because when I want a break from work (on the computer) the last thing I want to do is continue to sit in front of the computer or other tiny screen thing.
Are you not aware of the 5GHz unlicensed bands?
And replace it with who now? Verizon? AT&T? Oh so many wonderful choices.
The question "Is Reverse DNS a Worthy Standard For Fighting Spam?" is incorrect. Spam is not the reason; using it as a measure of clue is. Servers that emit spam and and clue level can be related, though. If someone is clueful enough to set up a mail server properly they're going to make sure it has reverse DNS. A mail server run by a less than clueful individual (or set-and-forget with no admin) is more likely to be a problem source either now or in the future than the ones that are cluefully configured and actively maintained.
Of course you are going to have spammers that are clueful mail admins and will set up their servers properly. That's why you can't pigeonhole reverse DNS as some kind of spam fighting method alone. But it can always be used as a measure of cluefulness.
I think you're missing the point. Configuring DNS means that someone with clue set out to create a mail server and intends for it to be such rather than just slapping something together without any clue. Whether or not that mail server is sending anything desirable is not related.
Jacob is a contributor to the tor project, I am sure he is extremely aware of the privacy issues of using an email provider.
You'd think so, but then why would he be anywhere near gmail?
Three words: National Security Letter
Colocate a server that's using whole disk encryption? Although they would probably just compel you to give up the key, although I seem to recall the EFF was arguing that should be covered under the 5th amendment.
I find it unlikely that AT&T will ever leave the market and there's no need for them to lower prices, so we're left with "because they can". I suppose we could try the antitrust thing again someday.
The valid reason is "because they can" and they demonstrably do. There is no excuse.
I wish it was an excuse rather than reality. I can get a 100 meg of transit for $1,100 from a provider that is not Cogent. That's perfectly fine until you see the loop price for the last mile is quoted at $3,200 for a cheap Verizon FastE loop. AT&T wanted $10,000 for an OC-3 port (that's not a typo, ten thousand dollars) and they couldn't/wouldn't do FastE. And AT&T already had fiber in the building. The rates are still high in dense population centers because they can and will charge such prices. We keep buying their stuff anyway and as the competition shrinks (i.e. AT&T buys T-mobile, Level 3 buys Global Crossing, and on and on) so do any incentives to lower pricing.
As far as why they try to prevent deployments in areas they don't serve it's probably as simple as they see it as their right.
There's also a lot of countries outside of North America that are smaller than many single US states or Canadian provinces. It's easier to do things on a small scale. Bandwidth is cheap in the US, too. It's the loop costs that get you.
My take is that T-mobile not getting the iPhone is probably a good indication that the merger will happen since AT&T already has it.
Although you can always turn off cookies. But I can't say I've done that lately to know how that would affect today's web experience like turning off JavaScript does.
If you have a problem with your privacy on Facebook then simply don't use it.
When was a copper-only POTS network ever redundant?