Fiber networks are fine and dandy but you need to make it an all optical passive network. CWDM is cheap and works well and you can always upgrade to dwdm if you need more to a single drop. I'm talking about at least a fiber to each house with the municipality or some other owner being responsible for the glass only. Anybody that wants to can lease space in the CO or fiber to the CO (I would expect a big market for CO to CO fiber would spring up). Let them deliver anything they want internet, phone cable, metro ethernet, etc. Once you have a clean divide between what needs to be a monopoly and whats need not you can get real competitiveness. Think of what could happen if I could order a lamda cross connect for no more than 4x the cost of any of those services for an in town link.
PS this would also get those fugly boxes off the telephone poles and rights of way, all fibers go all the back to the CO.
This has nothing to do with being convicted of a crime, this could be somebody brought to jail for speeding. The funny part is the feds and many states already ban this practice the could just said it's allowable. States are still free to ban the practice.
Using a expletive as a means of emphasis is far far away from crying fire. I think my point is were loosing more and more rights etc when you enter a public school, and that's inherently broken since the majority are forced to send there children there. Again with indoctrination it's not supposed to be the reason for them existing and people need to push that to not happen.
Personally I've chosen private school for my child, good contracts and reasonable staff seem to make for better schooling. Perhaps it's time for school choice and to close / severely reduce the public education footprint, I know the local public pay 3x per student per year than the private school and the private schools appears to give a better education.
They are punishing them because they wrote on somebody else's bathroom wall with there permission, but used a tool provided by the school. They did it on there own time. I would have to side with it's unreasonable for the school to punish a student for what they do away from school, as that's undermining the role of the parent and they do not show that it was causing a disruption in the school. Last I checked profanity was not illegal and generally protected speech. Past that expulsion is a HUGE amount of overkill as far as punishment goes, worst case should be a detention with the parents consent.
We need a clear definition that schools authority ends at the property line and is very well circumscribed to what is required to get there job done. They are not nor should they ever be parents or into the business of indoctrination to political agenda's. The majority are forced to send there children to the public schools and thus exposure of there children should be kept as neutral as possible. The trend to teach morals, religious views etc is not a good one. I watched it start with MADD/SADD/DARE, while I agree children should be steered away from things the schools are not the place for indoctrination of any sort.
Funny thing is we already have something quite like this it's called Teir 1 Peering. There are these buildings where oddly enough companies go to exchange data with each other., each side eats the cost of getting there. Often you can get a shared port to start and move to direct peering as the traffic grows.
Comcast does not want anything let that they do not want to pay for bandwidth rather they want everybody to pay to access there customers, unfortunately there customers having already paid for that services do not want this. Many big source networks are more than happy to peer with anybody they send even a modest amount of traffic to. Comcast has traditionally avoided installing a nationwide network and has used others to move there traffic for them (they like to bundle up small area's and serve them from a single providers 10ge) you can see this when your traversing cogent or level 3 going comcast to comcast across the nation.
This argument gets even better when it's AT&T who is a tier 1 network and pays nobody else for bandwidth ever. Of course internal they have divided up AT&T's main network with AT&T DSL/FIOS offerings to show that they spend so much money on paper to the parent company so they can excuse jacking up DSL/FIOS rates.
Lets not muddy this with Trayvon if anything that is a great example of why you should not let politics become entwined with a potential criminal case.
Hope they do not take Amax because there is no way that will stand up to them. You can return anything physical for a full refund period. Anything intangible you can say you do not want. It's heavy handed and some people abuse it but there is no opting out of it.
Assuming you can get all that through the usb port. Having dealt with the FBI they are in general technology challenged. My favorite was the computer forensics expert they could not get a.tgz open.
I send my kid to private school, there school explicitly states that they will not let anyone police included speak with my child without first contacting me for my approval. This should be a basic rule, these guys should be canned and sued for such idiocy.
And the correct fix for this is to fire the involved parties with cause. To insure that that principle and cop never work in there respective fields again. They each knew what they were doing and exceeded there powers. Hell the principle should have been informing the kid that they did not need to talk to the officer without there parents and should not do so, they have a responsibility to act in the parents stead in there absence, that's where a lot of there powers come from in the first place.
Unfortunately to many states have personal lawsuit shields that cover these administrators and cops, So you have to go after the school district and police force. Each has very deep pockets. Personally I blame the anti drinking programs of the 80's that pushed schools into kids out of school lives. In my view the schools authority needs to be cleanly set to school hours and needs direct buy in from the parents. The ultimate "worst" thing a principle should be during is calling parents outside of direct evidence of a crime. We have invited police into schools to shield administration, in my view police are/should be bared from speaking to children without there parents being present as they are unable to consent to not having counsel present. Anyways the only way to get these things corrected is to show that it's potentially very expensive to do so.
Want to fix litigation, stop shielding these people and direct punitive damages to the non profits of the injured parties choice to disinsentivize suing for cash.
They used to do just that, it took the 19th amendment to fix that. The TSA falls under that nebulous and overly used interstate commerce clause, yet the TSA believes they have the right to do this on in state flights and basically threatened other funding if Texas did not capitulate. The states can amend the federal constitution by themselves with not input from the federal government via Constitutional Convention they need a 3/4th majority to get it done. This method has never been used but is spelled out. As things stand were this seems like the only non radical way to get real reform of the federal monstrosity we currently live with.
Still possible to spot them, VPN's have to terminate somewhere, tricky routing as in overlay networks still need to eventually connect to command and control. Remember this need not be perfect if it just notifies the end user that they might have an issue rather than automatically blocking them.
I mean it, keep some terminal server boxen around for the stuff that really must run on windows. Pitch it as a cost savings and standardization plan. Everything running end user windows should be using deep freeze or similar so you revert back to the known good state every reboot. Linux runs on just about anything you throw at it and lets face it most lab PC's need to run a very limited set of software.
Not a bottleneck issue, my point is apache can easily handle a lot more than it's quite modest defaults and that it's not so unusual. I do a lot of work inside the hosting business throw 10 or 20k web sites on a server cluster, coupled with end users badly written code, idiotic javascript etc etc etc and you can quickly get a few k simultaneous connections mostly doing nothing. Cheap 3k a pop servers handle this quite well (with off box storage). If our average response time was even 500ms we would have piles of angry clients, mid 100's is our average and we seem to be better then our competition.
By insane you mean low? 16GB of server ram in a hundred and some bucks. 150 is pitiful try adding at least one zero. Stop buying cheap virtual or low end desktops somebody calls a server and you will not have any issue with the default settings. These numbers were low a decade ago and have not changed since.
Having gone to a good public school let me retort.
1 Teachers with some years in make a good pay for a job with a short day and a short year. According to there web site average first year teacher salary is not great at 40-46k and once they have put there time in (14 years) it's 83k. Mind you the towns median household income is 87.5k so yearly for a married couple they are on par with average to start. Lets not forget they have a couple months to pick up summer school and other gigs. Yes every industry would like to make more money but teaching is not something you should do for the money but rather because you want to and it fits with a good family life.
2 Collective bargaining I'm with you but tenure has it's purpose, those crazy tenured teachers were the best ones in HS because there were not just trying to tow the line. Moving over to the corp model would be the golden parachute contract.
3 Meh either way it's a job not a sacred cow if they don't pay you what your worth find someplace that will. The downside can be moving cross country etc etc etc. I know I'm willing to rake a reductions in pay for the perks teachers have, nearly no commute 10+ weeks of vacation etc.
4 Pensions are OK if they are fully funded as they are earned. It's not rocket science insurance companies issue annuities every day. it's the we can pay for it later plan that needs to stop.
Because it's far easier to hire somebody else into a useless powerless job. Want something effective make a real overi=sight position over the TSA with power to fire anybody on the spot and cancel any programs, methods or policies as they see fit. They only need to pay them for one day so they can close down the TSA and let the airlines go back to metal detectors run by there own people.
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Fiber networks are fine and dandy but you need to make it an all optical passive network. CWDM is cheap and works well and you can always upgrade to dwdm if you need more to a single drop. I'm talking about at least a fiber to each house with the municipality or some other owner being responsible for the glass only. Anybody that wants to can lease space in the CO or fiber to the CO (I would expect a big market for CO to CO fiber would spring up). Let them deliver anything they want internet, phone cable, metro ethernet, etc. Once you have a clean divide between what needs to be a monopoly and whats need not you can get real competitiveness. Think of what could happen if I could order a lamda cross connect for no more than 4x the cost of any of those services for an in town link.
PS this would also get those fugly boxes off the telephone poles and rights of way, all fibers go all the back to the CO.
This has nothing to do with being convicted of a crime, this could be somebody brought to jail for speeding. The funny part is the feds and many states already ban this practice the could just said it's allowable. States are still free to ban the practice.
Is it really anything if they paid out 170k to avoid having a judge rule? Did they terminate the officers involved?
Until officers fear loosing there jobs for infringing on the general populaces rights these abuses will continue.
Come to think of it the average 2.5 child home could afford a full time educator / nanny 2.5 to 1 seems like an awfully good student to teacher ratio.
Using a expletive as a means of emphasis is far far away from crying fire. I think my point is were loosing more and more rights etc when you enter a public school, and that's inherently broken since the majority are forced to send there children there. Again with indoctrination it's not supposed to be the reason for them existing and people need to push that to not happen.
Personally I've chosen private school for my child, good contracts and reasonable staff seem to make for better schooling. Perhaps it's time for school choice and to close / severely reduce the public education footprint, I know the local public pay 3x per student per year than the private school and the private schools appears to give a better education.
They are punishing them because they wrote on somebody else's bathroom wall with there permission, but used a tool provided by the school. They did it on there own time. I would have to side with it's unreasonable for the school to punish a student for what they do away from school, as that's undermining the role of the parent and they do not show that it was causing a disruption in the school. Last I checked profanity was not illegal and generally protected speech. Past that expulsion is a HUGE amount of overkill as far as punishment goes, worst case should be a detention with the parents consent.
We need a clear definition that schools authority ends at the property line and is very well circumscribed to what is required to get there job done. They are not nor should they ever be parents or into the business of indoctrination to political agenda's. The majority are forced to send there children to the public schools and thus exposure of there children should be kept as neutral as possible. The trend to teach morals, religious views etc is not a good one. I watched it start with MADD/SADD/DARE, while I agree children should be steered away from things the schools are not the place for indoctrination of any sort.
Funny thing is we already have something quite like this it's called Teir 1 Peering. There are these buildings where oddly enough companies go to exchange data with each other., each side eats the cost of getting there. Often you can get a shared port to start and move to direct peering as the traffic grows.
Comcast does not want anything let that they do not want to pay for bandwidth rather they want everybody to pay to access there customers, unfortunately there customers having already paid for that services do not want this. Many big source networks are more than happy to peer with anybody they send even a modest amount of traffic to. Comcast has traditionally avoided installing a nationwide network and has used others to move there traffic for them (they like to bundle up small area's and serve them from a single providers 10ge) you can see this when your traversing cogent or level 3 going comcast to comcast across the nation.
This argument gets even better when it's AT&T who is a tier 1 network and pays nobody else for bandwidth ever. Of course internal they have divided up AT&T's main network with AT&T DSL/FIOS offerings to show that they spend so much money on paper to the parent company so they can excuse jacking up DSL/FIOS rates.
Lets not muddy this with Trayvon if anything that is a great example of why you should not let politics become entwined with a potential criminal case.
But since they are a monopoly they do need to offer service universally. What next the power company shuts ya off?
Yea work in hosting for awhile you will get to talk to the FBI etc, so far the secret service have been the most technically competent.
And yes IRL not on TV.
Hope they do not take Amax because there is no way that will stand up to them. You can return anything physical for a full refund period. Anything intangible you can say you do not want. It's heavy handed and some people abuse it but there is no opting out of it.
Not allways that easy, not all phones have jtag headers or even a way to get to the exposed leads. Chip lapping seems rather excessive.
Assuming you can get all that through the usb port. Having dealt with the FBI they are in general technology challenged. My favorite was the computer forensics expert they could not get a .tgz open.
I send my kid to private school, there school explicitly states that they will not let anyone police included speak with my child without first contacting me for my approval. This should be a basic rule, these guys should be canned and sued for such idiocy.
And the correct fix for this is to fire the involved parties with cause. To insure that that principle and cop never work in there respective fields again. They each knew what they were doing and exceeded there powers. Hell the principle should have been informing the kid that they did not need to talk to the officer without there parents and should not do so, they have a responsibility to act in the parents stead in there absence, that's where a lot of there powers come from in the first place.
Unfortunately to many states have personal lawsuit shields that cover these administrators and cops, So you have to go after the school district and police force. Each has very deep pockets. Personally I blame the anti drinking programs of the 80's that pushed schools into kids out of school lives. In my view the schools authority needs to be cleanly set to school hours and needs direct buy in from the parents. The ultimate "worst" thing a principle should be during is calling parents outside of direct evidence of a crime. We have invited police into schools to shield administration, in my view police are/should be bared from speaking to children without there parents being present as they are unable to consent to not having counsel present. Anyways the only way to get these things corrected is to show that it's potentially very expensive to do so.
Want to fix litigation, stop shielding these people and direct punitive damages to the non profits of the injured parties choice to disinsentivize suing for cash.
They used to do just that, it took the 19th amendment to fix that. The TSA falls under that nebulous and overly used interstate commerce clause, yet the TSA believes they have the right to do this on in state flights and basically threatened other funding if Texas did not capitulate. The states can amend the federal constitution by themselves with not input from the federal government via Constitutional Convention they need a 3/4th majority to get it done. This method has never been used but is spelled out. As things stand were this seems like the only non radical way to get real reform of the federal monstrosity we currently live with.
Still possible to spot them, VPN's have to terminate somewhere, tricky routing as in overlay networks still need to eventually connect to command and control. Remember this need not be perfect if it just notifies the end user that they might have an issue rather than automatically blocking them.
Virus that make outbound connections to command and control etc can be spotted.
I mean it, keep some terminal server boxen around for the stuff that really must run on windows. Pitch it as a cost savings and standardization plan. Everything running end user windows should be using deep freeze or similar so you revert back to the known good state every reboot. Linux runs on just about anything you throw at it and lets face it most lab PC's need to run a very limited set of software.
Not a bottleneck issue, my point is apache can easily handle a lot more than it's quite modest defaults and that it's not so unusual. I do a lot of work inside the hosting business throw 10 or 20k web sites on a server cluster, coupled with end users badly written code, idiotic javascript etc etc etc and you can quickly get a few k simultaneous connections mostly doing nothing. Cheap 3k a pop servers handle this quite well (with off box storage). If our average response time was even 500ms we would have piles of angry clients, mid 100's is our average and we seem to be better then our competition.
By insane you mean low? 16GB of server ram in a hundred and some bucks. 150 is pitiful try adding at least one zero. Stop buying cheap virtual or low end desktops somebody calls a server and you will not have any issue with the default settings. These numbers were low a decade ago and have not changed since.
Having gone to a good public school let me retort.
1 Teachers with some years in make a good pay for a job with a short day and a short year. According to there web site average first year teacher salary is not great at 40-46k and once they have put there time in (14 years) it's 83k. Mind you the towns median household income is 87.5k so yearly for a married couple they are on par with average to start. Lets not forget they have a couple months to pick up summer school and other gigs. Yes every industry would like to make more money but teaching is not something you should do for the money but rather because you want to and it fits with a good family life.
2 Collective bargaining I'm with you but tenure has it's purpose, those crazy tenured teachers were the best ones in HS because there were not just trying to tow the line. Moving over to the corp model would be the golden parachute contract.
3 Meh either way it's a job not a sacred cow if they don't pay you what your worth find someplace that will. The downside can be moving cross country etc etc etc. I know I'm willing to rake a reductions in pay for the perks teachers have, nearly no commute 10+ weeks of vacation etc.
4 Pensions are OK if they are fully funded as they are earned. It's not rocket science insurance companies issue annuities every day. it's the we can pay for it later plan that needs to stop.
Because it's far easier to hire somebody else into a useless powerless job. Want something effective make a real overi=sight position over the TSA with power to fire anybody on the spot and cancel any programs, methods or policies as they see fit. They only need to pay them for one day so they can close down the TSA and let the airlines go back to metal detectors run by there own people.
Yea if you don't like being violated via method a try method b? Just refuse to get on a plane until they stop the stupidity.