The FCC is involved how? Those are contracts between the cable companies and the broadcasters. Since they only cover devices that they provide people with G3 tivo's should not be affected. I could support this law if and only if it required cable companies to utilize open standards and not impose restrictions on top of those standards. Cablecard is a step in the right direction it needs to be made more free by disallowing charging per cable card and stop the cable card people from dictating what can be done once it's decrypted the data, just like we had in the 80's when they unscrambled the pay channels per house and did not get to care how many tv's were in the house.
Are you sure? Last I knew it used sntp to send around time data thats all in UTC with the local machines converting it to local time. I could be completely off though been a long time since I was forced to run windows.
Politics have become like drug companies they prefer to not fix problems but rather stretch them out. They want consistency of there rule and will do anything to solidify that rule. Lets look at your points:
1: This is a reoccurring issue I saw it when I was a kid I see it now as a parent, schools can never be good enough but everybody wants there school to be better than the rest. Unfortunately schools have also become the battleground for every other societal ill. I want to school when DARE started now it's creationism next it will be robots rights or some such nonsense. We need a constitutional amendment separating public schools from teaching morals or political mantra. Teach them to learn teach them the basics and push them to expand, this might mean no more sex ed or gym or football. Inset faction here that will be upset about ancillary activity being missing but I'm sure that they will find other ways to fund those activities.
2: Again a basic amendment not allowing debt. This would make it harder for the politicians to spend to win and shore up fiscal responsibility. Nobody wants to do this as it takes away there power.
3: See 2
4: I'm not sure what our foreign policy is, it seems to involve dropping bombs on people. I don't mind being the big kid on the block but you have to show that you have the will to follow through. Specifically if you want to stop terrorists from hurting you the cost of doing so has to be higher than they can accept, be it destroying religious bits, hurting there family or hurting there country. It's distasteful but they only want to stop them from being willing to attack you. Look at the Palestinians suicide bombers family's are set for life this would seem to be a motivating factor.
5: Can not speak to this.
6: Get big business out of politics, remove the money the influence etc and our politicians will be better for it.
7: See 6
8: See 4, If that does not work FAE bombs do wonders and wont hurt the oil. The 51st state of Iraq would be nice but I'll settle for no army of there own and a big airbase similar to Japan.
9: Meh never see or hear any of it. Let the generals do what they need to and stop playing arm chair quarterback.
10: As to getting a good president I have no idea last good one I remember is Regan and his wife seems to be running the country most of the time.
What happens to the data in swap and temp files? Keeping the data in a secure location is a good idea but you still have to deal with keeping the data safe on machines used to view it. Keeping at data at rest secure is a good idea. You still have to deal with screen scrapers and other spyware.
I would doubt that a complete reinstall would overwrite much of the data on a modern drive simply due to capacity vs the ammount of data in the install. Any sectors not overwritten by the install will have there data recoverable by software reading all the sectors on the drive and looking for hints to piece together the files. Using expensive gear you can physically remove the hard drive platters and be able to read data that has been overwritten by simple patterns. Generally it is accepted that writing out multiple passes of random data is a method to provide secure erasure but the DOD and the likes generally degauss and chip and incinerate the drives just in case.
The 30k unloaded costs is for a low level admin to get the documentation out of the whole team of 20+. I'm talking about actual engineers billing out at 250+ an hour not break and fix or I'll configure your single ms exchange server today guys. The admin provides that nag factor, sure some hot shots will not even respond to that but the point is to insulate your high priced people from doing mundane functions. The ones that do not respond may have to leave or be moved to a 1099 sub, nothing motives time accounting like it being the only way you get paid, it's especially nice that it's not a billable function. Were probably talking cross purposes, as I look at engineering teams with PA's and Admins that are considered a perk and a leash. Most work I'm involved with is 15 minute increments so it can get a bit more complex than started at 9 took an hour lunch left at 6 worked on project foo the whole day. Anyway we are pretty off topic help desk time tracking is fairly simple and easy to automate inside the ticketing system.
Funny run a small consulting company though a midsized company CTO and I would have to wonder if it makes sense to fire the hotshot. If they generate billable hours and the customers love them it sounds like they need an assistant to deal with paperwork drudgery. I would rather add on 30k of salary expense for a low end secretary to deal with time reporting than loose a top gun guy. Technical documentation is a different story as it's billable but can still be given to a jr person to do.
OK I read the article it just looks like a fancy USB switch it still only allows one device to access another at a time you can do that now with a simple mechanical switch and a powered hub.
Assuming your in the US there is a decent chance that your average corp workstation falls under Sox, Hippa or PCI (thats the CC companies) all three require the locking down of corp PC's. You can do this in a nice way or rather draconian. Nice generally involves a simple system to install additional apps via some package management system that may include a corp "beta" section of things not supported but properly sanitized to make sure they are not full of spy ware etc, this takes a considerable amount of time and effort to do, so IT does not want to spend the time so you can get the new cool desktop widget. Sox and Hippa pretty much require the ability to log and decrypt all inbound and outbound traffic so things like skype are out a good company provides corp jabber servers or similar with gateway service to common IM services the draconian ones might not even have IM forget connecting to the outside. The fact that an IT person needs to do a desk side visit to do an install lends me to believe that you do not have a smart IT shop.
Might have something to do with the fact that myspace allows users to sign in via http. I see hundreds of myspace passwords going though corporate permimiters any way to many of them match there corporate logins when tested. Yes the fact that people sign into myspace from work is it's own separate issue. Just goes to show that you need more than just passwords, time synced pseudo random number generators for everyone:)
Agreed there are many well intentioned but broken solutions for SPAM, I have put a few of them into fortune 500's. The problem comes when you start dropping accepted emails without notification (I don't care what you throw in the users spam folder). It's generally end user config that is at issue as they set some threshold to simply delete the spam, I have yet to see anything that I can not adjust this. Yes it's more storage space to hold those spam folders but your not dropping emails into/dev/null without telling anybody or causing backscatter. This isn't a hard thing to fix but like most large systemic issues require many many admins to do the right thing. This is a trend with sales people wanting to pitch a reduction of storage requirements as part of the function of anti spam technology.
If your antispam and antivirus are running after you have accepted the email your system in broken. This is all companies playing fast and loose with the RFC's you should never accept mail that you are not going to deliver. This really is not that hard to run spam and virus checks as milters (or whatever your email application does) or place front ends that do so.
Ah so all dumb unmanaged switches? Small business I would hope, even my low end clients are running hp procurve or similar gear (lifetime maint is hard to beat) 24 +2 port fast e is a few hundred or just over $10 per port. If you really need speed I would think you would be running large MTU and cut through rather than store and forward switching.
Channel bonding is your friend. Assuming a top of rack 48-52 port gig switch you can take your 1:48 over subscription down to 1:12 or 1:6. Depending on what your doing a 48+4 switch gets you a nice 1:12 over subscription and 1:24 with a failure assuming you can split up the vlans.
Who is the bright boy that put a spam filter on a a drop box for important tax info. This is the digital equivalent of the government refusing to accept mail and claiming you missed the deadline.
Funny is some states preexisting conditions only count for things that were not covered via the previous insurers so as long as there is not a gap in coverage you can switch freely. I moved my wife from her insurance to independent insurance mid pregnancy without any issues or rate difference (I filled out the form each way online for the quotes). In your case it seems like pick up the cobra and get a new insurer.
Yes it does. Normal model rocket engine ignitors work well for the model rocket engines and bottle rockets (they do not fly very straight use them in salvo's)
Ok now that I stepped out of WWII era lets get real, most people don't care about co2 in any specific way. Personaly I don't think it's anywhere near the huge issue people believe it to be. Global warming may or may not occur and it may or may not be a bag thing, it would be change and we all know how scary that is. now lets look at reality all this bad co2 is coming from fossil fuels and that co2 has been tied up in the earth for millions of years. What do we use these things for primarily that would seem to be energy and plastics, energy we have other viable sources that are untapped, and plastics can be recycled and then burned with the co2 processed.
Bah, yes your correct that a function of particle board is supposed to be sheer force. A good builder lets in cross brace into the studs it's a few dollars of material but it's a bit more time. It's not required by code as code is at best made by comity including build builders.
I grew up in the building trade (did enough hard work to get me into computers:) and code is substandard to anything I would want my house built to. The big builders are spending there money chasing higher sales prices by installing things people will pay more for like jacuzzi baths and big kitchens and I cant blame them. It's the average consumer in America that does not care about there house as long as there home owners policy covers it.
When I get to building a house my preference is the Amish to build the frame old fashion post and beam is near indestructible, now I don't want them fitting out my kitchen or my heating systems but the frame and exterior they know how to do and among the last with the skills to do so.
Your numbers are fairly correct, the biggest interface that you can buy for a PC is 10ge assuming multiple cards per server you can get some decent bandwidth. Now PC's are not designed to do this they have high latency's and comparatively slow bus speeds as compared to say a cisco 6509 (very common managed switch) I would assume that they are looking to something more complex than just switching.
OK there is a car to give some scale to the picture the thing is what 4 - 5 car lengths wide? Even if it's a 18 wheel truck at aprox 60 feet thats a 100 yards wide and maybe twice that high it's not a whole lot of space 10 football fields roughly.
I think your missing my point, like it or not if you have any compliance requirements or even due diligence to insure things are secure your will need to have passwords to accounts that can access the data and administrate those accounts. When your talking about compliance if your storing CC data password requirements are a whole section of the requirements docs, and so are audit trails. The honor system isn't going to make it to far in court either when somebody sues that there HR data was being sold on the internet.
As to most windows servers, most servers are configured badly if at all, especially around security. Audit logs are nice if they live somewhere besides the server. It's not MS's fault as security is more about building systems that are resilient to attack and leave paper trails when they are attacked isn't something any one part of the system can do on it's own. But all these things have to be weighed risks vs cost.
I would guess you have no compliance issues to deal with then. Assuming your a US company that means a privately held, not in the medical field and does not store credit card info (or at least does very little total $ on CC transactions) does not store must anything use full in electronic form (say your tax info) and your HR department uses typewriters could get way with this. I would guess some places like that exist but cant think of any with 60 people, I wonder what the legal dept thinks about it I can see there heads exploding when somebody tells them that anybody can access the electronic HR records of anybody else.
I will agree that a big sunshade isn't a good fix for this. We apparently need to reduce reintroducing stored carbon into the atmosphere. Current tech best solution would be to utilize a new energy source and that would be nuke power, as it can be used to separate water into hydrogen / oxygen as a potential portable fuel. What matters is we need to meet our current and future energy needs without utilizing previously stored solar energy. We can start off with fission and move to fusion, waste is manageable if we stop thinking thousands of years in the future what ifs; best method seems to be a big hole in a geologically stable area with an army of robots to take care of any issues. This isn't that hard it's existing technology for the most part we need to political will to get it done.
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The FCC is involved how? Those are contracts between the cable companies and the broadcasters. Since they only cover devices that they provide people with G3 tivo's should not be affected. I could support this law if and only if it required cable companies to utilize open standards and not impose restrictions on top of those standards. Cablecard is a step in the right direction it needs to be made more free by disallowing charging per cable card and stop the cable card people from dictating what can be done once it's decrypted the data, just like we had in the 80's when they unscrambled the pay channels per house and did not get to care how many tv's were in the house.
Are you sure? Last I knew it used sntp to send around time data thats all in UTC with the local machines converting it to local time. I could be completely off though been a long time since I was forced to run windows.
If you just care about outbound SPF assuming your hosting provider also runes your DNS severs they can add it in easily.
Politics have become like drug companies they prefer to not fix problems but rather stretch them out. They want consistency of there rule and will do anything to solidify that rule. Lets look at your points:
1: This is a reoccurring issue I saw it when I was a kid I see it now as a parent, schools can never be good enough but everybody wants there school to be better than the rest. Unfortunately schools have also become the battleground for every other societal ill. I want to school when DARE started now it's creationism next it will be robots rights or some such nonsense. We need a constitutional amendment separating public schools from teaching morals or political mantra. Teach them to learn teach them the basics and push them to expand, this might mean no more sex ed or gym or football. Inset faction here that will be upset about ancillary activity being missing but I'm sure that they will find other ways to fund those activities.
2: Again a basic amendment not allowing debt. This would make it harder for the politicians to spend to win and shore up fiscal responsibility. Nobody wants to do this as it takes away there power.
3: See 2
4: I'm not sure what our foreign policy is, it seems to involve dropping bombs on people. I don't mind being the big kid on the block but you have to show that you have the will to follow through. Specifically if you want to stop terrorists from hurting you the cost of doing so has to be higher than they can accept, be it destroying religious bits, hurting there family or hurting there country. It's distasteful but they only want to stop them from being willing to attack you. Look at the Palestinians suicide bombers family's are set for life this would seem to be a motivating factor.
5: Can not speak to this.
6: Get big business out of politics, remove the money the influence etc and our politicians will be better for it.
7: See 6
8: See 4, If that does not work FAE bombs do wonders and wont hurt the oil. The 51st state of Iraq would be nice but I'll settle for no army of there own and a big airbase similar to Japan.
9: Meh never see or hear any of it. Let the generals do what they need to and stop playing arm chair quarterback.
10: As to getting a good president I have no idea last good one I remember is Regan and his wife seems to be running the country most of the time.
What happens to the data in swap and temp files? Keeping the data in a secure location is a good idea but you still have to deal with keeping the data safe on machines used to view it. Keeping at data at rest secure is a good idea. You still have to deal with screen scrapers and other spyware.
I would doubt that a complete reinstall would overwrite much of the data on a modern drive simply due to capacity vs the ammount of data in the install. Any sectors not overwritten by the install will have there data recoverable by software reading all the sectors on the drive and looking for hints to piece together the files. Using expensive gear you can physically remove the hard drive platters and be able to read data that has been overwritten by simple patterns. Generally it is accepted that writing out multiple passes of random data is a method to provide secure erasure but the DOD and the likes generally degauss and chip and incinerate the drives just in case.
The 30k unloaded costs is for a low level admin to get the documentation out of the whole team of 20+. I'm talking about actual engineers billing out at 250+ an hour not break and fix or I'll configure your single ms exchange server today guys. The admin provides that nag factor, sure some hot shots will not even respond to that but the point is to insulate your high priced people from doing mundane functions. The ones that do not respond may have to leave or be moved to a 1099 sub, nothing motives time accounting like it being the only way you get paid, it's especially nice that it's not a billable function. Were probably talking cross purposes, as I look at engineering teams with PA's and Admins that are considered a perk and a leash. Most work I'm involved with is 15 minute increments so it can get a bit more complex than started at 9 took an hour lunch left at 6 worked on project foo the whole day. Anyway we are pretty off topic help desk time tracking is fairly simple and easy to automate inside the ticketing system.
Funny run a small consulting company though a midsized company CTO and I would have to wonder if it makes sense to fire the hotshot. If they generate billable hours and the customers love them it sounds like they need an assistant to deal with paperwork drudgery. I would rather add on 30k of salary expense for a low end secretary to deal with time reporting than loose a top gun guy. Technical documentation is a different story as it's billable but can still be given to a jr person to do.
OK I read the article it just looks like a fancy USB switch it still only allows one device to access another at a time you can do that now with a simple mechanical switch and a powered hub.
Assuming your in the US there is a decent chance that your average corp workstation falls under Sox, Hippa or PCI (thats the CC companies) all three require the locking down of corp PC's. You can do this in a nice way or rather draconian. Nice generally involves a simple system to install additional apps via some package management system that may include a corp "beta" section of things not supported but properly sanitized to make sure they are not full of spy ware etc, this takes a considerable amount of time and effort to do, so IT does not want to spend the time so you can get the new cool desktop widget. Sox and Hippa pretty much require the ability to log and decrypt all inbound and outbound traffic so things like skype are out a good company provides corp jabber servers or similar with gateway service to common IM services the draconian ones might not even have IM forget connecting to the outside. The fact that an IT person needs to do a desk side visit to do an install lends me to believe that you do not have a smart IT shop.
Might have something to do with the fact that myspace allows users to sign in via http. I see hundreds of myspace passwords going though corporate permimiters any way to many of them match there corporate logins when tested. Yes the fact that people sign into myspace from work is it's own separate issue. Just goes to show that you need more than just passwords, time synced pseudo random number generators for everyone :)
Agreed there are many well intentioned but broken solutions for SPAM, I have put a few of them into fortune 500's. The problem comes when you start dropping accepted emails without notification (I don't care what you throw in the users spam folder). It's generally end user config that is at issue as they set some threshold to simply delete the spam, I have yet to see anything that I can not adjust this. Yes it's more storage space to hold those spam folders but your not dropping emails into /dev/null without telling anybody or causing backscatter. This isn't a hard thing to fix but like most large systemic issues require many many admins to do the right thing. This is a trend with sales people wanting to pitch a reduction of storage requirements as part of the function of anti spam technology.
If your antispam and antivirus are running after you have accepted the email your system in broken. This is all companies playing fast and loose with the RFC's you should never accept mail that you are not going to deliver. This really is not that hard to run spam and virus checks as milters (or whatever your email application does) or place front ends that do so.
Ah so all dumb unmanaged switches? Small business I would hope, even my low end clients are running hp procurve or similar gear (lifetime maint is hard to beat) 24 +2 port fast e is a few hundred or just over $10 per port. If you really need speed I would think you would be running large MTU and cut through rather than store and forward switching.
Channel bonding is your friend. Assuming a top of rack 48-52 port gig switch you can take your 1:48 over subscription down to 1:12 or 1:6. Depending on what your doing a 48+4 switch gets you a nice 1:12 over subscription and 1:24 with a failure assuming you can split up the vlans.
Who is the bright boy that put a spam filter on a a drop box for important tax info. This is the digital equivalent of the government refusing to accept mail and claiming you missed the deadline.
Funny is some states preexisting conditions only count for things that were not covered via the previous insurers so as long as there is not a gap in coverage you can switch freely. I moved my wife from her insurance to independent insurance mid pregnancy without any issues or rate difference (I filled out the form each way online for the quotes). In your case it seems like pick up the cobra and get a new insurer.
Yes it does. Normal model rocket engine ignitors work well for the model rocket engines and bottle rockets (they do not fly very straight use them in salvo's)
Yes because rationing is a great idea.
Ok now that I stepped out of WWII era lets get real, most people don't care about co2 in any specific way. Personaly I don't think it's anywhere near the huge issue people believe it to be. Global warming may or may not occur and it may or may not be a bag thing, it would be change and we all know how scary that is. now lets look at reality all this bad co2 is coming from fossil fuels and that co2 has been tied up in the earth for millions of years. What do we use these things for primarily that would seem to be energy and plastics, energy we have other viable sources that are untapped, and plastics can be recycled and then burned with the co2 processed.
Bah, yes your correct that a function of particle board is supposed to be sheer force. A good builder lets in cross brace into the studs it's a few dollars of material but it's a bit more time. It's not required by code as code is at best made by comity including build builders.
:) and code is substandard to anything I would want my house built to. The big builders are spending there money chasing higher sales prices by installing things people will pay more for like jacuzzi baths and big kitchens and I cant blame them. It's the average consumer in America that does not care about there house as long as there home owners policy covers it.
I grew up in the building trade (did enough hard work to get me into computers
When I get to building a house my preference is the Amish to build the frame old fashion post and beam is near indestructible, now I don't want them fitting out my kitchen or my heating systems but the frame and exterior they know how to do and among the last with the skills to do so.
Your numbers are fairly correct, the biggest interface that you can buy for a PC is 10ge assuming multiple cards per server you can get some decent bandwidth. Now PC's are not designed to do this they have high latency's and comparatively slow bus speeds as compared to say a cisco 6509 (very common managed switch) I would assume that they are looking to something more complex than just switching.
OK there is a car to give some scale to the picture the thing is what 4 - 5 car lengths wide? Even if it's a 18 wheel truck at aprox 60 feet thats a 100 yards wide and maybe twice that high it's not a whole lot of space 10 football fields roughly.
I think your missing my point, like it or not if you have any compliance requirements or even due diligence to insure things are secure your will need to have passwords to accounts that can access the data and administrate those accounts. When your talking about compliance if your storing CC data password requirements are a whole section of the requirements docs, and so are audit trails. The honor system isn't going to make it to far in court either when somebody sues that there HR data was being sold on the internet.
As to most windows servers, most servers are configured badly if at all, especially around security. Audit logs are nice if they live somewhere besides the server. It's not MS's fault as security is more about building systems that are resilient to attack and leave paper trails when they are attacked isn't something any one part of the system can do on it's own. But all these things have to be weighed risks vs cost.
I would guess you have no compliance issues to deal with then. Assuming your a US company that means a privately held, not in the medical field and does not store credit card info (or at least does very little total $ on CC transactions) does not store must anything use full in electronic form (say your tax info) and your HR department uses typewriters could get way with this. I would guess some places like that exist but cant think of any with 60 people, I wonder what the legal dept thinks about it I can see there heads exploding when somebody tells them that anybody can access the electronic HR records of anybody else.
I will agree that a big sunshade isn't a good fix for this. We apparently need to reduce reintroducing stored carbon into the atmosphere. Current tech best solution would be to utilize a new energy source and that would be nuke power, as it can be used to separate water into hydrogen / oxygen as a potential portable fuel. What matters is we need to meet our current and future energy needs without utilizing previously stored solar energy. We can start off with fission and move to fusion, waste is manageable if we stop thinking thousands of years in the future what ifs; best method seems to be a big hole in a geologically stable area with an army of robots to take care of any issues. This isn't that hard it's existing technology for the most part we need to political will to get it done.