The book "The Science of Fear' calls this the example rule. The rule that somehow because something just happened, that it is now likely to happen again. People are wired such that they usually act this way(gut), only your head can override your gut when you know you are following this rule.
Here is the deal: - If you don't pay them, your state can send you nasty grams in the mail saying "We see you have filed zero dollars in use taxes, please pay them." These notices are fairly common. IOW, the state tax departments are saying "Look, we aren't stupid, you're buying stuff on line, pay your tax". Now who here wants to keep records of the crap they buy JUST so you can pay use tax at the end of the year? - With a mandated sales tax, it means YOU don't have to keep records for paying end-of-year taxes. They just add it on to your purchase like any other state(if your state has a sales tax). I don't know about you but I'd much rather pay the friggin tax up front then worry about the stupid EOY paperwork.
One thing to make life easier for consumers AND businesses: only allow one tax rate per state. example: Wisconsin has a moronic tax system where every county can charge differing rates something up to like 1/2% on top of whatever the state charges. Some counties are 5%, some are 5.5%, or like 5.25%. So to make it easier on on-line retailers, just legislate single tax rates per state for those that have a sales tax. End this moronic madness now.
Here is the deal: - If you don't pay them, your state can send you nasty grams in the mail saying "We see you have filed zero dollars in use taxes, please pay them." These notices are fairly common. IOW, the state tax departments are saying "Look, we aren't stupid, you're buying stuff on line, pay your tax". Now who here wants to keep records of the crap they buy JUST so you can pay use tax at the end of the year? - With a mandated sales tax, it means YOU don't have to keep records for paying end-of-year taxes. They just add it on to your purchase like any other state(if your state has a sales tax). I don't know about you but I'd much rather pay the friggin tax up front then worry about the stupid EOY paperwork.
One thing to make life easier for consumers AND businesses: only allow one tax rate per state. example: Wisconsin has a moronic tax system where every county can charge differing rates something up to like 1/2% on top of whatever the state charges. Some counties are 5%, some are 5.5%, or like 5.25%. So to make it easier on on-line retailers, just legislate single tax rates per state for those that have a sales tax. End this moronic madness now.
Here is the deal: - If you don't pay them, your state can send you nasty grams in the mail saying "We see you have filed zero dollars in use taxes, please pay them." These notices are fairly common. IOW, the state tax departments are saying "Look, we aren't stupid, you're buying stuff on line, pay your tax". Now who here wants to keep records of the crap they buy JUST so you can pay use tax at the end of the year? - With a mandated sales tax, it means YOU don't have to keep records for paying end-of-year taxes. They just add it on to your purchase like any other state(if your state has a sales tax). I don't know about you but I'd much rather pay the friggin tax up front then worry about the stupid EOY paperwork.
One thing to make life easier for consumers AND businesses: only allow one tax rate per state. example: Wisconsin has a moronic tax system where every county can charge differing rates something up to like 1/2% on top of whatever the state charges. Some counties are 5%, some are 5.5%, or like 5.25%. So to make it easier on on-line retailers, just legislate single tax rates per state for those that have a sales tax. End this moronic madness now.
Good for Debian. I can't tell you how much of a pain in the ass timezone alterations are. The US one sucked big time. I wish more companies raised their middle finger to this shit. Talk about a waste of time, because it isn't as if most IT workers/organizations DON'T HAVE ENOUGH TO DO ALREADY. PLUS, if you are an international shop, knowing that some other country has legislated a timezone change could bite you. It's because of crap like this that I advise my customers to just run GMT.
when the temperatures rise, areas that are good for farming will be too hot for crop farming. Areas that have ideal temperatures for growing crops will shift north towards Canada. Canada has crap soil, the glaciers and winds moved good soil to the US. Crops don't grow in crap soil. Less crops means less food which will equal bad no matter how your fricken spin it. BTW, the world stays on average about 4 months ahead in general food supply.
People do not smoke like they use to. Thus it is probably a statistically safe bet to leave the fucking PBDEs out. Heck, I'd pay more if I had to to get a couch w/o the retardant on it. Either way, provide the market options. Let consumers choose but provide legislative protection for companies that do or do not use PBDEs so long as they label.
Believe it or not, this is huge. The CO2 as the 800 pound gorilla is not quite right. Methane is MANY times more stronger a green house gas than CO2. In fact, the United States pays BIG money to the former Soviet Union to get them to contain methane leaks because any gain on methane emissions is huge.
There is a slight disconnect between Intel and the OSS world. I have had a VERY VERY VERY good experience with Intel's OSS employees. I figured out a way to make an IDS load balancer using Linux, Policy Routing, and EBTables. I used Intel GigE NICS and had an extremely positive experience. I ran into a few snags but Intel's OSS paid resource was a champ. I was provided a 'special' version of the drivers and then was able to get back into high gear. You can check my prior posts, I give Intel a LOT of flack but I think this is one area where they deserve some kudos.
VMWare designed VMPlayer or VM Ace for just that. Those two packages are built to allow running VMs and for that matter, ACE locks stuff down. ACE was designed to help with securing VMs for those businesses who outsource. ACE is a pretty slick package.
Who runs Intel? What are they thinking? I used to work for an Intel distributor(not just CPUs). Intel is nothing but a bunch of half-baked product jokers. They make good CPUS and excellent NICs. IDSN routers = crap, T1 Routers = crap, their modular switches from 6 years ago... crap, SSL accelerators = crap. They have turned out so many crap products only to dump them. They should either get serious about consumer product dev or quit.
I remember one meeting with the Intel Sales reps about how excited they were about trying to sell a government agency T1 routers. Their router's only supported RIP. This was eight years ago. I just laughed. At the time 3com, Cisco, and Nortel all supported RIP V1/V2, OSPF, and BGP. Their implementation of RIP stunk. These jokers couldn't get in if they had to.
Sometimes I wonder how they haven't just reverse-engineered themselves out of existence.
So what... if you are stupid enough to keep downloading songs via services that are questionable then I don't feel sorry for you. Take some responsibility and don't do it in the first place. Now, RIAA's tactics are for crap but so are the dorks who download / don't pay for Music. I just can feel sorry for either one.
It's not about cathing interest. It's about having diagrams on the slide to display, with extra notes on the side, without having to maintain and sync separate word docs.
That's why teachers should provide Power Point presentations BEFORE class. Students can annotate the slides IF they have them BEFORE hand. Thus they can -listen- more during class.
Now that statement is misleading. Cisco doesn't just ship stuff within an hour. They have 8x5xnbd and 24x7x4 part replacement. That's also IF you get an RMA issued in time. The Cisco TAC engineer does not have to issue an RMA just because you say so. They can request further troubleshooting.
This does not surprise me. Open source has to mature in some really 'mature' ways these days. Businesses want accountability..ie if you make widgets, how many widgets/hour can you not make because of a cowboy network/systems engineer? How many days were we not able to sell widgets last year because of IT?
Open-source really needs to focus on what can be seen as key business objectives(stability and operational cost). The old days of 'the one guy, jack of all trades' is harder to find these days because businesses don't want that. They want an measurable and replaceable IT structure. Those managers and engineers who cannot help provide that will find themselves without jobs.
Process is taking us back to the Mainframes(for good reason too). ITIL was designed around mainframes. Mainframes were centrally controlled and help meet business objectives. This also means though that MS has to get their crap together because blue screens cost money and today's tools can see that. They are just as vulnerable.
Yes, it is a pompous headline but it's friggn true. I just spent two days on vacation at a relatives house cleaning spyware. 3 AV scanners, 4 spyware cleaners and there is still crap happening. Unix doesn't let you hide crap like that. Worst case I could boot a CD and do a scan as to eliminate kernel-based root kits. That same kind of effort is friggin prohibitive. There is something to be said for YUM and apt-get. I can very quickly assess the basic patch level of a box and ALL of its applications. Windows = Good Luck
I am not surprised. I work for a Data Center/Hosting company. I have worked with automakers, clothing companies, and several other VERY large enterprises. Companys that do hundreds of MBPS of Internet traffic. They ALL struggle getting their hands around the load. That is a fact of life AND it is worse and will always be worse for companies like Blizzard. Load testing companies like Mercury have taken YEARS to develop systems that can reasonably simulate web load. Now imagine having to develop some way to reasonably simulate hundreds of THOUSANDS of users running a THICK client like WOW. Some using modems, some DSL, and some on college campuses. Some sitting there, fishing, fighting, chatting, etc... That my friend is a BITCH to simulate, thus the real world is the only way. I do feel for Blizzard. The customers who can't understand scaling/simulating that kind of traffic has lost site of the truly monumental task they have at hand.
My advice is this, get pissed if lasts more than a week. Else give 'em slack. As a way to compare, MOST large websites(like e-com) suffer on searches. Searches to 'full table scans' of product, product text, inventory etc... Imagine all the other dynamics WoW has vs your frigging browser.
This is no surprise. IBM fixed there issues with this TWO years ago. Just shows where some companies do better work of taking care of their customers. We had to go thorugh our data centers and proactively replace a bunch of server power supplies because of bad capacitors. All free, before they failed.
Whatever. Consumption taxes don't make for fair taxes. Econ-101 guys. Progressive taxes like our current income taxes do. What is stupid and should be easily correctable is a federal law saying you only have to pay one state incoming tax at most. If your state doesn't have income tax, then you shouldn't have to pay. Pretty friggin simple
Really? Prove your point? oh wait, that's right, ID isn't testable as a 'theory' should be. I believe in much of the point of ID BUT it is NOT SCIENCE. It is philosophy at best. They should teach it in philosophy. Schools should teach philosophy, but all kinds of philosophies, not just white guy philosophies.
I live here. This is a waste. The city has been in the RED for years now and it wants to take this ON!?!?? WTF Madison is a pretty connected city. It needs to save the money and put it towards other things instead of this crap.
Host-based network load balancing stinks on almost every platform imagined. Host-based systems typically require multicast or broadcasts to perform crap trickery. MS NLB is NO different. It turns your multi-thousand dollar switches into hubs.
I highly recommend one of the following dedicated appliances for load balancing: 1. Cisco Content Service Switch 2. F5 BigIP 3. Nortel's Load balancers 4. Redline
They are appliances that respect the network rather than beat the crap out of it. Oh, and yes, when you are talking about managing enterprise networks - you treat them well.
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The book "The Science of Fear' calls this the example rule. The rule that somehow because something just happened, that it is now likely to happen again. People are wired such that they usually act this way(gut), only your head can override your gut when you know you are following this rule.
YOU ARE SUPPOSED TO BE PAYING TAXES ON ON-LINE PURCHASES. THEY'RE CALLED USE TAXES.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Use_tax [wikipedia.org]
Here is the deal:
- If you don't pay them, your state can send you nasty grams in the mail saying "We see you have filed zero dollars in use taxes, please pay them." These notices are fairly common. IOW, the state tax departments are saying "Look, we aren't stupid, you're buying stuff on line, pay your tax". Now who here wants to keep records of the crap they buy JUST so you can pay use tax at the end of the year?
- With a mandated sales tax, it means YOU don't have to keep records for paying end-of-year taxes. They just add it on to your purchase like any other state(if your state has a sales tax). I don't know about you but I'd much rather pay the friggin tax up front then worry about the stupid EOY paperwork.
One thing to make life easier for consumers AND businesses: only allow one tax rate per state. example: Wisconsin has a moronic tax system where every county can charge differing rates something up to like 1/2% on top of whatever the state charges. Some counties are 5%, some are 5.5%, or like 5.25%. So to make it easier on on-line retailers, just legislate single tax rates per state for those that have a sales tax. End this moronic madness now.
YOU ARE SUPPOSED TO BE PAYING TAXES ON ON-LINE PURCHASES. THEY'RE CALLED USE TAXES.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Use_tax
Here is the deal:
- If you don't pay them, your state can send you nasty grams in the mail saying "We see you have filed zero dollars in use taxes, please pay them." These notices are fairly common. IOW, the state tax departments are saying "Look, we aren't stupid, you're buying stuff on line, pay your tax". Now who here wants to keep records of the crap they buy JUST so you can pay use tax at the end of the year?
- With a mandated sales tax, it means YOU don't have to keep records for paying end-of-year taxes. They just add it on to your purchase like any other state(if your state has a sales tax). I don't know about you but I'd much rather pay the friggin tax up front then worry about the stupid EOY paperwork.
One thing to make life easier for consumers AND businesses: only allow one tax rate per state. example: Wisconsin has a moronic tax system where every county can charge differing rates something up to like 1/2% on top of whatever the state charges. Some counties are 5%, some are 5.5%, or like 5.25%. So to make it easier on on-line retailers, just legislate single tax rates per state for those that have a sales tax. End this moronic madness now.
You are supposed to be paying taxes on on-line purchases. They're called use taxes.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Use_tax
Here is the deal:
- If you don't pay them, your state can send you nasty grams in the mail saying "We see you have filed zero dollars in use taxes, please pay them." These notices are fairly common. IOW, the state tax departments are saying "Look, we aren't stupid, you're buying stuff on line, pay your tax". Now who here wants to keep records of the crap they buy JUST so you can pay use tax at the end of the year?
- With a mandated sales tax, it means YOU don't have to keep records for paying end-of-year taxes. They just add it on to your purchase like any other state(if your state has a sales tax). I don't know about you but I'd much rather pay the friggin tax up front then worry about the stupid EOY paperwork.
One thing to make life easier for consumers AND businesses: only allow one tax rate per state. example: Wisconsin has a moronic tax system where every county can charge differing rates something up to like 1/2% on top of whatever the state charges. Some counties are 5%, some are 5.5%, or like 5.25%. So to make it easier on on-line retailers, just legislate single tax rates per state for those that have a sales tax. End this moronic madness now.
Good for Debian. I can't tell you how much of a pain in the ass timezone alterations are. The US one sucked big time. I wish more companies raised their middle finger to this shit. Talk about a waste of time, because it isn't as if most IT workers/organizations DON'T HAVE ENOUGH TO DO ALREADY. PLUS, if you are an international shop, knowing that some other country has legislated a timezone change could bite you. It's because of crap like this that I advise my customers to just run GMT.
when the temperatures rise, areas that are good for farming will be too hot for crop farming. Areas that have ideal temperatures for growing crops will shift north towards Canada. Canada has crap soil, the glaciers and winds moved good soil to the US. Crops don't grow in crap soil. Less crops means less food which will equal bad no matter how your fricken spin it. BTW, the world stays on average about 4 months ahead in general food supply.
People do not smoke like they use to. Thus it is probably a statistically safe bet to leave the fucking PBDEs out. Heck, I'd pay more if I had to to get a couch w/o the retardant on it. Either way, provide the market options. Let consumers choose but provide legislative protection for companies that do or do not use PBDEs so long as they label.
Believe it or not, this is huge. The CO2 as the 800 pound gorilla is not quite right. Methane is MANY times more stronger a green house gas than CO2. In fact, the United States pays BIG money to the former Soviet Union to get them to contain methane leaks because any gain on methane emissions is huge.
There is a slight disconnect between Intel and the OSS world. I have had a VERY VERY VERY good experience with Intel's OSS employees. I figured out a way to make an IDS load balancer using Linux, Policy Routing, and EBTables. I used Intel GigE NICS and had an extremely positive experience. I ran into a few snags but Intel's OSS paid resource was a champ. I was provided a 'special' version of the drivers and then was able to get back into high gear. You can check my prior posts, I give Intel a LOT of flack but I think this is one area where they deserve some kudos.
As always, very greatful to Intel and Net-Dev.
VMWare designed VMPlayer or VM Ace for just that. Those two packages are built to allow running VMs and for that matter, ACE locks stuff down. ACE was designed to help with securing VMs for those businesses who outsource. ACE is a pretty slick package.
If you've used MS Search then you know how EASY it would be for Google to come in and get MS out. Microsoft's search engine is a pile.
Who runs Intel? What are they thinking? I used to work for an Intel distributor(not just CPUs). Intel is nothing but a bunch of half-baked product jokers. They make good CPUS and excellent NICs. IDSN routers = crap, T1 Routers = crap, their modular switches from 6 years ago... crap, SSL accelerators = crap. They have turned out so many crap products only to dump them. They should either get serious about consumer product dev or quit.
I remember one meeting with the Intel Sales reps about how excited they were about trying to sell a government agency T1 routers. Their router's only supported RIP. This was eight years ago. I just laughed. At the time 3com, Cisco, and Nortel all supported RIP V1/V2, OSPF, and BGP. Their implementation of RIP stunk. These jokers couldn't get in if they had to.
Sometimes I wonder how they haven't just reverse-engineered themselves out of existence.
So what... if you are stupid enough to keep downloading songs via services that are questionable then I don't feel sorry for you. Take some responsibility and don't do it in the first place. Now, RIAA's tactics are for crap but so are the dorks who download / don't pay for Music. I just can feel sorry for either one.
It's not about cathing interest. It's about having diagrams on the slide to display, with extra notes on the side, without having to maintain and sync separate word docs.
That's why teachers should provide Power Point presentations BEFORE class. Students can annotate the slides IF they have them BEFORE hand. Thus they can -listen- more during class.
Now that statement is misleading. Cisco doesn't just ship stuff within an hour. They have 8x5xnbd and 24x7x4 part replacement. That's also IF you get an RMA issued in time. The Cisco TAC engineer does not have to issue an RMA just because you say so. They can request further troubleshooting.
This does not surprise me. Open source has to mature in some really 'mature' ways these days. Businesses want accountability. .ie if you make widgets, how many widgets/hour can you not make because of a cowboy network/systems engineer? How many days were we not able to sell widgets last year because of IT?
Open-source really needs to focus on what can be seen as key business objectives(stability and operational cost). The old days of 'the one guy, jack of all trades' is harder to find these days because businesses don't want that. They want an measurable and replaceable IT structure. Those managers and engineers who cannot help provide that will find themselves without jobs.
Process is taking us back to the Mainframes(for good reason too). ITIL was designed around mainframes. Mainframes were centrally controlled and help meet business objectives. This also means though that MS has to get their crap together because blue screens cost money and today's tools can see that. They are just as vulnerable.
Yes, it is a pompous headline but it's friggn true. I just spent two days on vacation at a relatives house cleaning spyware. 3 AV scanners, 4 spyware cleaners and there is still crap happening. Unix doesn't let you hide crap like that. Worst case I could boot a CD and do a scan as to eliminate kernel-based root kits. That same kind of effort is friggin prohibitive. There is something to be said for YUM and apt-get. I can very quickly assess the basic patch level of a box and ALL of its applications. Windows = Good Luck
I am not surprised. I work for a Data Center/Hosting company. I have worked with automakers, clothing companies, and several other VERY large enterprises. Companys that do hundreds of MBPS of Internet traffic. They ALL struggle getting their hands around the load. That is a fact of life AND it is worse and will always be worse for companies like Blizzard. Load testing companies like Mercury have taken YEARS to develop systems that can reasonably simulate web load. Now imagine having to develop some way to reasonably simulate hundreds of THOUSANDS of users running a THICK client like WOW. Some using modems, some DSL, and some on college campuses. Some sitting there, fishing, fighting, chatting, etc... That my friend is a BITCH to simulate, thus the real world is the only way. I do feel for Blizzard. The customers who can't understand scaling/simulating that kind of traffic has lost site of the truly monumental task they have at hand.
My advice is this, get pissed if lasts more than a week. Else give 'em slack. As a way to compare, MOST large websites(like e-com) suffer on searches. Searches to 'full table scans' of product, product text, inventory etc... Imagine all the other dynamics WoW has vs your frigging browser.
This is old info and has been known for a while. Anyone having used Kismet or some other sniffer at a public place has see this.
This is no surprise. IBM fixed there issues with this TWO years ago. Just shows where some companies do better work of taking care of their customers. We had to go thorugh our data centers and proactively replace a bunch of server power supplies because of bad capacitors. All free, before they failed.
Whatever. Consumption taxes don't make for fair taxes. Econ-101 guys. Progressive taxes like our current income taxes do. What is stupid and should be easily correctable is a federal law saying you only have to pay one state incoming tax at most. If your state doesn't have income tax, then you shouldn't have to pay. Pretty friggin simple
Really? Prove your point? oh wait, that's right, ID isn't testable as a 'theory' should be. I believe in much of the point of ID BUT it is NOT SCIENCE. It is philosophy at best. They should teach it in philosophy. Schools should teach philosophy, but all kinds of philosophies, not just white guy philosophies.
I live here. This is a waste. The city has been in the RED for years now and it wants to take this ON!?!?? WTF Madison is a pretty connected city. It needs to save the money and put it towards other things instead of this crap.
Host-based network load balancing stinks on almost every platform imagined. Host-based systems typically require multicast or broadcasts to perform crap trickery. MS NLB is NO different. It turns your multi-thousand dollar switches into hubs.
I highly recommend one of the following dedicated appliances for load balancing:
1. Cisco Content Service Switch
2. F5 BigIP
3. Nortel's Load balancers
4. Redline
They are appliances that respect the network rather than beat the crap out of it. Oh, and yes, when you are talking about managing enterprise networks - you treat them well.