BS the new plans have HUGE deductible's and only cover what they are forced to (mostly female and child related bits). Premiums have doubled and are looking like 3x for next year. Dental is a joke if you can even find a plan that offers it. Lets compare:
Before 400 ish a month now 800 ish. Reasonable deduct 5k but only for major stuff all the day to day excluded, now 10k and nearly everything feeds into it. Dental and Optics built in, now just for kids and maybe a realy bad tack on.
It really matters what state your in. But from my point it looks like the rates got jacked up by whatever the max the feds would pay. This is what tends to happen whenever the feds throw money at something, economics kicks in and the cost of goods goes up by whatever the feds tacked on.
They might have to use the piles of cash they get to actually upgrade them. We have paid to connect every rural home with fiber several times over. Instead they foisted off outdated slow gear on them and used the fund to pay for it.
Sure their might be some places in the US that are more than the 130ish km allowed by standard optics, it's not like we don't know how to stick a DWDM light pump on a pole for those are are to far.
Some parts are complex and successful company's often part out things to others. To bad most of the changes that drive up the price are cosmetic. Does every model year need new headlights and thus slightly different body panels? A different but otherwise the same stereo?
Frankly cars should be a platform. More like a piece of farm or construction equipment where refinements are made to efficiency, durability or safety. Upgrades are made where it makes sense, engine blow well might as well get the new one 15% better mileage.
And there is only one group who puts them in a position to do it the Democrats?
Please there is no effective difference in US politics, it's the same group. Hell politician's change affiliation and still get elected. Sure one side tends to do one thing or another you need something to campaign on after all. Neither wants any real change.
It just shows that the law is broken, LEO's frankly need to be the model drivers unless the disco-tech mounted to their roof is on (and that needs to be toned down at night).
Because we have little to no functional mass transit. That is pretty much a lifetime imprisonment being forced to live in a city to be able to get a decent job. Forget being able to take care of family life.
We really need to rethink our transport related laws, were effectively removing peoples freedom to associate/travel on the mere accusation that they did something that might hurt somebody else. It frankly seems like the buggy whip guys started us down this slippery path trying to throw roadblocks at the switch to cars. The move to self driving cars may be the answer, with licencing turning into something for enthusiasts.
Parallel construction is a farce and has no place in a legal system. The defendant is being intentionally lied to and thus unable to defend themselves. If you can not say how you got the info they should not be able to use it. Same goes for confidential informants. The people the NSA should be spying on are supposed to be dealt with via the CIA aka outside of the country assassinations.
ELK works but frankly it's defaults do just about nothing. As a stack sure it's great but it needs to be added as an adjunct to a real monitoring system and it needs useful defaults and/or some sort of add on repository. The opennms boys are working on showing rrd data into ES.
Pretty much you set up ELK and go great my logs are all one place but it does nothing by default nor is it easy to do anything useful with it. Adhoc searches of logs is great in all but your basically replacing ssh cat | grep. Take a common thing like percolating up an alert when a bit of redundant hardware fails and pushing that event into a ticketing system to the correct group and priority and ELK needs a lot of customization to do anything useful. Sure you can put an search in a window somewhere and make a human look but that is frankly going back 2 decades in sysadmin space. Devs seem to like it but it's pretty much an adhoc reporting tool for them.
That is a very different thing, if it was the companies data it matters not where the data is they have to produce it. This is about Microsoft trying to comply with an order for somebody else's data that is not under their control but they do have access to.
I run an IT business, this is much like getting an order to produce a clients data. Can I technically do it sure. If it was in the US I'm covered legally via the judge made me do it and possibly a gag order precluding me from disclosing that we did so. Now if it's foreign I'm committing a crime and do not have legal cover, some of us still want to leave the US from time to time. In neither case should my company be compelled to deliver that data, it's not ours to give. Doing so has the potential to ruin business relationships. Having it be the law in the US leads to no foreign company allowing a US one access to it's systems.
It is not hard ask an Irish judge to issue the order to Microsoft EU (or whoever). It seems they do not think disclosing this data would be legal in the EU and the request would be denied thus this end run. The US can and does get just this sort of thing all the time the EU just has better protections and thus a higher bar to meet to avoid fishing expeditions like this one.
Actually they data is in Europe the judge is trying to say since they have access to it from the US they need to turn it over. The data is under the control of a division incorporated in Europe.
There is established procedure to get this it called ask the European courts.
The federal judiciary has no enforcement powers those fall under the executive. Many state's have marshals that report to the courts and can enforce their orders.
Well look at it like the modem analogy. Dial up days you "paid" for the overhead as well the PPP overhead effectively reduced your max connection speed/throughput.
It can actually be baked into their resale bit. You know where they charge a 3rd party near as much as you or more to resell the DSL send the connections to them via an overpriced ATM circuit and they still have to deal with internet transit etc. All so they can say to the regulators that nobody else wants to sell DSL in their area or that since they have a couple token providers they are not a monopoly.
Often with AT&T they use this to separate the phone company side from the ISP side and suck the profits from the ISP side. Yup AT&T overcharges itself so it can cry poor and get rate hikes through.
Not living anyplace earthquake prone, but generally prepared.
2 Generators (need to convert one or both to propane since that stores well) A couple months supply of water, plus a reliable spring on property. A few months on food. (just regular sundries that get rotated through)
It really surprises me when a blizzard happens and people are running to stock up. Sure I make a french toast run (Milk Eggs Bread) as boxed milk is expensive to regularly use, eggs well they go bad and powered eggs same as milk, and bread well its easier than making from scratch.
As to long term prep talk to the LDS people while I don't condone there or anybody else's religion they seem to have a love of being prepared.
As far as data goes personal backups are stored at multiple offsite facilities and have a portable copy of the critical stuff.
Because reprocessing works, there is little reason to store high level waste it's valuable feed stock to our current commercial plants. New designs do not intentionally make a lot of weapons grade byproducts to feed cold war arms races.
You can skip the overwrite on a SSD just trim the whole thing reads will be all zero's as it's an unassigned block. If you need to protect the data that much you destroy the drive.
I would never expect new drives on a leased box as it's a leased box. Nor would I expect them to sanitize my data before handing it to a new customer. I work with a lot of hosting companies and it's not very uniform. One dirt cheap place runs everything through dban before handing it back others not so much. If you need to insure this happens expect to pay for it.
From the looks of it a 1d array might work rather well and get the frame rates required. I didn't say generic cell phone just fitting in the form factor or close enough to not be suspicious. This could fit in existing security camera form factors (the 18 ish inch long all weather enclosures commonly used) that are so common as to be forgotten.
We fired the tech writers 20 years ago and told the devs to do it. Remember Dec with it's bookcase of manuals? When we paid people to document they documented, I'm sure some better than others but they did it. RHEL has a decent set of docs to go with it, far from perfect but workable and obviously it works for Centos as well.
And with good optics the camera could be just/nearly as far away. Laser is old know tech so places will have countermeasures and detection setup. Miniaturization can also come into place where you can shove the camera into a cell phone etc.
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BS the new plans have HUGE deductible's and only cover what they are forced to (mostly female and child related bits). Premiums have doubled and are looking like 3x for next year. Dental is a joke if you can even find a plan that offers it. Lets compare:
Before 400 ish a month now 800 ish.
Reasonable deduct 5k but only for major stuff all the day to day excluded, now 10k and nearly everything feeds into it.
Dental and Optics built in, now just for kids and maybe a realy bad tack on.
It really matters what state your in. But from my point it looks like the rates got jacked up by whatever the max the feds would pay. This is what tends to happen whenever the feds throw money at something, economics kicks in and the cost of goods goes up by whatever the feds tacked on.
They might have to use the piles of cash they get to actually upgrade them. We have paid to connect every rural home with fiber several times over. Instead they foisted off outdated slow gear on them and used the fund to pay for it.
Sure their might be some places in the US that are more than the 130ish km allowed by standard optics, it's not like we don't know how to stick a DWDM light pump on a pole for those are are to far.
And if you look at IPv6 BGP filtering is a lot better.
Some parts are complex and successful company's often part out things to others. To bad most of the changes that drive up the price are cosmetic. Does every model year need new headlights and thus slightly different body panels? A different but otherwise the same stereo?
Frankly cars should be a platform. More like a piece of farm or construction equipment where refinements are made to efficiency, durability or safety. Upgrades are made where it makes sense, engine blow well might as well get the new one 15% better mileage.
And there is only one group who puts them in a position to do it the Democrats?
Please there is no effective difference in US politics, it's the same group. Hell politician's change affiliation and still get elected. Sure one side tends to do one thing or another you need something to campaign on after all. Neither wants any real change.
Isn't that effectively what the new autonomous cars are? Horses tended to go back to their barn so yea similar effect.
It just shows that the law is broken, LEO's frankly need to be the model drivers unless the disco-tech mounted to their roof is on (and that needs to be toned down at night).
Because we have little to no functional mass transit. That is pretty much a lifetime imprisonment being forced to live in a city to be able to get a decent job. Forget being able to take care of family life.
We really need to rethink our transport related laws, were effectively removing peoples freedom to associate/travel on the mere accusation that they did something that might hurt somebody else. It frankly seems like the buggy whip guys started us down this slippery path trying to throw roadblocks at the switch to cars. The move to self driving cars may be the answer, with licencing turning into something for enthusiasts.
Parallel construction is a farce and has no place in a legal system. The defendant is being intentionally lied to and thus unable to defend themselves. If you can not say how you got the info they should not be able to use it. Same goes for confidential informants. The people the NSA should be spying on are supposed to be dealt with via the CIA aka outside of the country assassinations.
ELK works but frankly it's defaults do just about nothing. As a stack sure it's great but it needs to be added as an adjunct to a real monitoring system and it needs useful defaults and/or some sort of add on repository. The opennms boys are working on showing rrd data into ES.
Pretty much you set up ELK and go great my logs are all one place but it does nothing by default nor is it easy to do anything useful with it. Adhoc searches of logs is great in all but your basically replacing ssh cat | grep. Take a common thing like percolating up an alert when a bit of redundant hardware fails and pushing that event into a ticketing system to the correct group and priority and ELK needs a lot of customization to do anything useful. Sure you can put an search in a window somewhere and make a human look but that is frankly going back 2 decades in sysadmin space. Devs seem to like it but it's pretty much an adhoc reporting tool for them.
That is a very different thing, if it was the companies data it matters not where the data is they have to produce it. This is about Microsoft trying to comply with an order for somebody else's data that is not under their control but they do have access to.
I run an IT business, this is much like getting an order to produce a clients data. Can I technically do it sure. If it was in the US I'm covered legally via the judge made me do it and possibly a gag order precluding me from disclosing that we did so. Now if it's foreign I'm committing a crime and do not have legal cover, some of us still want to leave the US from time to time. In neither case should my company be compelled to deliver that data, it's not ours to give. Doing so has the potential to ruin business relationships. Having it be the law in the US leads to no foreign company allowing a US one access to it's systems.
It is not hard ask an Irish judge to issue the order to Microsoft EU (or whoever). It seems they do not think disclosing this data would be legal in the EU and the request would be denied thus this end run. The US can and does get just this sort of thing all the time the EU just has better protections and thus a higher bar to meet to avoid fishing expeditions like this one.
Actually they data is in Europe the judge is trying to say since they have access to it from the US they need to turn it over. The data is under the control of a division incorporated in Europe.
There is established procedure to get this it called ask the European courts.
The federal judiciary has no enforcement powers those fall under the executive. Many state's have marshals that report to the courts and can enforce their orders.
Well look at it like the modem analogy. Dial up days you "paid" for the overhead as well the PPP overhead effectively reduced your max connection speed/throughput.
It can actually be baked into their resale bit. You know where they charge a 3rd party near as much as you or more to resell the DSL send the connections to them via an overpriced ATM circuit and they still have to deal with internet transit etc. All so they can say to the regulators that nobody else wants to sell DSL in their area or that since they have a couple token providers they are not a monopoly.
Often with AT&T they use this to separate the phone company side from the ISP side and suck the profits from the ISP side. Yup AT&T overcharges itself so it can cry poor and get rate hikes through.
PPPoE and ATM add overhead to about 16%.
Yup your paying for the encapsulation that never leaves their network.
They can cut off phone service in this and other countries but the theft is going to china etc that does not care or the be broken down to parts.
Not living anyplace earthquake prone, but generally prepared.
2 Generators (need to convert one or both to propane since that stores well)
A couple months supply of water, plus a reliable spring on property.
A few months on food. (just regular sundries that get rotated through)
It really surprises me when a blizzard happens and people are running to stock up. Sure I make a french toast run (Milk Eggs Bread) as boxed milk is expensive to regularly use, eggs well they go bad and powered eggs same as milk, and bread well its easier than making from scratch.
As to long term prep talk to the LDS people while I don't condone there or anybody else's religion they seem to have a love of being prepared.
As far as data goes personal backups are stored at multiple offsite facilities and have a portable copy of the critical stuff.
Because reprocessing works, there is little reason to store high level waste it's valuable feed stock to our current commercial plants. New designs do not intentionally make a lot of weapons grade byproducts to feed cold war arms races.
Shh the eco freaks dislike fission get with the warm fuzzy of does not actually work tech.
Fission works ok now, we have the tech to use more efficient cycles, hell we have the tech to reprocess the fuel rods for existing plants.
You can skip the overwrite on a SSD just trim the whole thing reads will be all zero's as it's an unassigned block. If you need to protect the data that much you destroy the drive.
I would never expect new drives on a leased box as it's a leased box. Nor would I expect them to sanitize my data before handing it to a new customer. I work with a lot of hosting companies and it's not very uniform. One dirt cheap place runs everything through dban before handing it back others not so much. If you need to insure this happens expect to pay for it.
From the looks of it a 1d array might work rather well and get the frame rates required. I didn't say generic cell phone just fitting in the form factor or close enough to not be suspicious. This could fit in existing security camera form factors (the 18 ish inch long all weather enclosures commonly used) that are so common as to be forgotten.
We fired the tech writers 20 years ago and told the devs to do it. Remember Dec with it's bookcase of manuals? When we paid people to document they documented, I'm sure some better than others but they did it. RHEL has a decent set of docs to go with it, far from perfect but workable and obviously it works for Centos as well.
And with good optics the camera could be just/nearly as far away. Laser is old know tech so places will have countermeasures and detection setup. Miniaturization can also come into place where you can shove the camera into a cell phone etc.