Actually, his own party (Freedom Carcass) and the Judicial branch have been blocking everything. There just aren't enough Democrats in Congress to stop much of anything. The Democrats didn't even get a chance to vote on the "new healthcare". Everything else he's done is via executive order. The only thing he has accomplished is chaos and a YUGE drop in international standing for the US.
I totally agree. That's why I think all the various "scandals" are taking his administration by surprise. In the business world, you have to fuck up Enron or Madoff level before anyone really will say or do much about it. The US federal government is an entirely different game, one that he's trying to run like one of his businesses that have virtually no "over-site", no premade investigative bodies, no need to justify anything money related, and no one is really watching who you talk to or where you do business unless you really go to extremes. He's used to operating in the semi-dark, only beholden to himself and whomever his shareholders might be. Shell companies, business with Russia, none of that mattered before he stepped into the biggest spotlight on the planet, the US Presidency.
Both lead to situations like ALEC, the "non profit" who writes up very pro-corporate laws and then gets their collaborators in various state and local governments to pass them. I'm all for "individual rights" and "market freedom", but it's impossible for a single person to be able to fight their way against the corporatist beachhead that is a blob of non-profits like ALEC, Heritage Foundation, Kock brothers, and their billions of dollars. So people need to organize together...however that is what our "government" is supposed to be. "Government of the people, by the people, for the people" as Abraham Lincoln said. Not "Government of the consumers, for the shareholders".
Because it's SO difficult for someone to write a new app with no backdoors. Britain can't stop this; they can pass all the laws they want. But terrorists really don't care what the law says by definition. Plus it is a proven fact that British police can't stay within the lines when it comes to information like this.
Well, that may not be entirely true. The Casimir effect and Hawking radiation are both potential examples of "negative energy". Hawking radiation is still entirely theoretical, and the few (I think maybe singular) experiment that actually measured Casimir forces (as described here makes no mention of negative energy. And, of course, this experiment was not designed to detect anything like this; especially seeing as Hawking radiation would only be right outside the event horizon of a black hole.
The few times I've used Let's Encrypt was during testing phases, as a place-holder until I had the time to get a "real" cert. My company has an inane procedure to get purchase orders to pay for anything, so often it takes a couple of weeks to get to the point of being able to purchase anything via a "new vendor". If you can't afford $5 or so to get a year-long cert, then your either not serious about your site or doing something wrong.
The most complicated process of getting a cert was for a "private domain", as very few places even offer them. I needed one for our "internal" domain controller to securely work with Mimecast, and since the domain ended in ".tul" it took quite some time for verification. We had to submit our Dun and Bradstreet number, verify various items, and other hoops to get a valid cert...and it costs almost $400 per year. What was really fun was trying to explain that Microsoft's "advise" used to be "don't use a real domain for your AD" until just a few years ago to upper management.
Right? YouTube seems to always only (for me anyway) play the exact same ad over and over, or a small group of ads. I'm assuming these companies get some type of "report" from Youtube with a list of what videos their ads are playing next to, or else how would they even know?
How dare the FCC impose even more regulations on teh FREE MARKET! How will we innovate bigly if corporations are denied FREE SPEECH via the phone network? THIS IS AN OUTRAGE! Robocalls will MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN! This is just more Federal over-reach, demanding that private companies bend to the will of Big Brother and implement systems at the expense of shareholders! sad.
If I had an auto wreck or a major illness my company would probably collapse within a few days. I've made a semi-secret Drupal site on our Nagios box with a ton of notes, but there is only one other network admin in our company that has 15+ sites world-wide and just under 1,000 employees.
And many US citizens still call Native Americans "Indians" because Christopher Columbus thought he made it to Indo-China. Are you saying we need another regulatory agency to regulate the Internet because the FCC was founded in 1934 and therefor should only regulate technology FDR would be familiar with?
Well, that's better than what I do at work. When I have a critical outage I work on it and don't tell anyone the full extent of it, unless someone directly above me specifically hounds me and demands an explanation. Or, I blame it on something else; being one of two IT "staff" for three countries makes the GoFH excuse chart on the wall very useful.
Sounds like how my company got it's VP of IT, our SharePoint admin, and our Great Plains admin. Luckily they have all seemed to be adequate, sometimes even better-than-ok. But still, I have many times had to come in and fix "deep IT" stuff that they couldn't figure out; mostly things that crossed outside of their nitch and into my networking or AD world.
Well, you CAN get a "guarantee". You can throw it into the river yourself. Then you are guaranteed it is NOT recycled. I know you are looking for the opposite outcome, but at least you will have a non-ambiguous result.
I would add some other items:
Have they ever watched IT Crowd? Officespace? Silicon Valley?
Have they read any books by Asimov, Heinlein, Gibson, Adams, Clarke, or such?
Do they grok?
OH YES, this is a major issue and totally blows. I've gotten calls at 2:00AM-4:00AM CST from corporate in Ireland, because to them it's in the morning. I need to reboot a production server; and am told it needs to be during off hours. BUT, we have teams in China, Japan, India, UAE (who's weekends are Friday / Saturday and are at work Sunday), Ireland, Germany, Brazil, etc. So there really isn't much of a "no use" timeslot, someone is ALWAYS using a esxi host as they have multiple servers on them...if I send out a notification I get a ton of responses "we use this server at this time" and everyone conflicts. So, now I just wait until Saturday night, take stuff down, and don't even bother to tell anyone. Last time only two people even noticed.
I know that trying to set up a new server, set up DFS, configure esxi, etc is pretty difficult when people keep walking into my office. A few weeks ago I was trying to re-cable a bunch of patch panels and switches, after the third person walked by and stopped for some random conversation I lost track and plugged a switch back into another twice and caused a small outage.
I end up working 2-3 hours after 5:00PM often because of interruptions, and usually at home on the weekends for another 10-12 hours. I figure I'm up to about 70 hours a week at this point. Almost every conversation ends in "send in a ticket, I'm not going to remember all that and am in the middle of XYZ" which often I can tell annoys them and/or they just don't believe me. Closing the door only makes the end-users knock on it. I finally put up a special sign for my lunch that says "AT LUNCH: UNLESS IT'S ON FIRE FILE A TICKET" that usually seems to help.
The fact that the recently fired my boss, and dropped all his responsibilities into my lap isn't helping either. He hated documentation, had worked there for 12 years, and had everything in his head. I've only been there for a bit over six months.
It was a bay tech RPC3 that my previous employer had thrown away, still wrapped in the original plastic. I also discovered Baytech's manual was wrong, they had the pin-out backwards in it lol. I took pictures of it and used those in an interview to get a better job!
I just used a DB9 cable and putty with (close) to those settings to connect via a console cable to a Cisco switch, our SonicWall NSA 4500, etc. I had to custom-make a DB9 connector to get into a couple of remote power systems that don't have DHCP by default. Few other "computer people" I know know enough about that to make a cable like that, at least around here.
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Actually, his own party (Freedom Carcass) and the Judicial branch have been blocking everything. There just aren't enough Democrats in Congress to stop much of anything. The Democrats didn't even get a chance to vote on the "new healthcare". Everything else he's done is via executive order. The only thing he has accomplished is chaos and a YUGE drop in international standing for the US.
I totally agree. That's why I think all the various "scandals" are taking his administration by surprise. In the business world, you have to fuck up Enron or Madoff level before anyone really will say or do much about it. The US federal government is an entirely different game, one that he's trying to run like one of his businesses that have virtually no "over-site", no premade investigative bodies, no need to justify anything money related, and no one is really watching who you talk to or where you do business unless you really go to extremes. He's used to operating in the semi-dark, only beholden to himself and whomever his shareholders might be. Shell companies, business with Russia, none of that mattered before he stepped into the biggest spotlight on the planet, the US Presidency.
Both lead to situations like ALEC, the "non profit" who writes up very pro-corporate laws and then gets their collaborators in various state and local governments to pass them. I'm all for "individual rights" and "market freedom", but it's impossible for a single person to be able to fight their way against the corporatist beachhead that is a blob of non-profits like ALEC, Heritage Foundation, Kock brothers, and their billions of dollars. So people need to organize together...however that is what our "government" is supposed to be. "Government of the people, by the people, for the people" as Abraham Lincoln said. Not "Government of the consumers, for the shareholders".
Because it's SO difficult for someone to write a new app with no backdoors. Britain can't stop this; they can pass all the laws they want. But terrorists really don't care what the law says by definition. Plus it is a proven fact that British police can't stay within the lines when it comes to information like this.
Well, that may not be entirely true. The Casimir effect and Hawking radiation are both potential examples of "negative energy". Hawking radiation is still entirely theoretical, and the few (I think maybe singular) experiment that actually measured Casimir forces (as described here makes no mention of negative energy. And, of course, this experiment was not designed to detect anything like this; especially seeing as Hawking radiation would only be right outside the event horizon of a black hole.
Harold White, working with NASA, theorizes that the Casimer effect may be able to produce the type of negative energy required to create a working Alcubierre warp drive but it's all still highly theoretical. Well, mostly theoretical but there have been some tantalizing results from a few experiments.
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The few times I've used Let's Encrypt was during testing phases, as a place-holder until I had the time to get a "real" cert. My company has an inane procedure to get purchase orders to pay for anything, so often it takes a couple of weeks to get to the point of being able to purchase anything via a "new vendor". If you can't afford $5 or so to get a year-long cert, then your either not serious about your site or doing something wrong.
The most complicated process of getting a cert was for a "private domain", as very few places even offer them. I needed one for our "internal" domain controller to securely work with Mimecast, and since the domain ended in ".tul" it took quite some time for verification. We had to submit our Dun and Bradstreet number, verify various items, and other hoops to get a valid cert...and it costs almost $400 per year. What was really fun was trying to explain that Microsoft's "advise" used to be "don't use a real domain for your AD" until just a few years ago to upper management.
Right? YouTube seems to always only (for me anyway) play the exact same ad over and over, or a small group of ads. I'm assuming these companies get some type of "report" from Youtube with a list of what videos their ads are playing next to, or else how would they even know?
On the new 2960X's we just bought, it is NOT on by default. You have to go into a second tab during your express setup and purposely enable it.
My company uses Elastix / Asterix quite a bit; this makes me wonder how these patents impact all that "open source" software.
sad. Kids these days can't even recognize "sarcasm". sarcasm != troll
How dare the FCC impose even more regulations on teh FREE MARKET! How will we innovate bigly if corporations are denied FREE SPEECH via the phone network? THIS IS AN OUTRAGE! Robocalls will MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN! This is just more Federal over-reach, demanding that private companies bend to the will of Big Brother and implement systems at the expense of shareholders! sad.
If I had an auto wreck or a major illness my company would probably collapse within a few days. I've made a semi-secret Drupal site on our Nagios box with a ton of notes, but there is only one other network admin in our company that has 15+ sites world-wide and just under 1,000 employees.
And many US citizens still call Native Americans "Indians" because Christopher Columbus thought he made it to Indo-China. Are you saying we need another regulatory agency to regulate the Internet because the FCC was founded in 1934 and therefor should only regulate technology FDR would be familiar with?
Well, that's better than what I do at work. When I have a critical outage I work on it and don't tell anyone the full extent of it, unless someone directly above me specifically hounds me and demands an explanation. Or, I blame it on something else; being one of two IT "staff" for three countries makes the GoFH excuse chart on the wall very useful.
Sounds like how my company got it's VP of IT, our SharePoint admin, and our Great Plains admin. Luckily they have all seemed to be adequate, sometimes even better-than-ok. But still, I have many times had to come in and fix "deep IT" stuff that they couldn't figure out; mostly things that crossed outside of their nitch and into my networking or AD world.
That site went away quite some time ago! There is a "new" one, but it's NOTHING like the original. From what I've seen of it, block away.
Well, you CAN get a "guarantee". You can throw it into the river yourself. Then you are guaranteed it is NOT recycled. I know you are looking for the opposite outcome, but at least you will have a non-ambiguous result.
I would add some other items:
Have they ever watched IT Crowd? Officespace? Silicon Valley?
Have they read any books by Asimov, Heinlein, Gibson, Adams, Clarke, or such?
Do they grok?
OH YES, this is a major issue and totally blows. I've gotten calls at 2:00AM-4:00AM CST from corporate in Ireland, because to them it's in the morning. I need to reboot a production server; and am told it needs to be during off hours. BUT, we have teams in China, Japan, India, UAE (who's weekends are Friday / Saturday and are at work Sunday), Ireland, Germany, Brazil, etc. So there really isn't much of a "no use" timeslot, someone is ALWAYS using a esxi host as they have multiple servers on them...if I send out a notification I get a ton of responses "we use this server at this time" and everyone conflicts. So, now I just wait until Saturday night, take stuff down, and don't even bother to tell anyone. Last time only two people even noticed.
I know that trying to set up a new server, set up DFS, configure esxi, etc is pretty difficult when people keep walking into my office. A few weeks ago I was trying to re-cable a bunch of patch panels and switches, after the third person walked by and stopped for some random conversation I lost track and plugged a switch back into another twice and caused a small outage.
I end up working 2-3 hours after 5:00PM often because of interruptions, and usually at home on the weekends for another 10-12 hours. I figure I'm up to about 70 hours a week at this point. Almost every conversation ends in "send in a ticket, I'm not going to remember all that and am in the middle of XYZ" which often I can tell annoys them and/or they just don't believe me. Closing the door only makes the end-users knock on it. I finally put up a special sign for my lunch that says "AT LUNCH: UNLESS IT'S ON FIRE FILE A TICKET" that usually seems to help.
The fact that the recently fired my boss, and dropped all his responsibilities into my lap isn't helping either. He hated documentation, had worked there for 12 years, and had everything in his head. I've only been there for a bit over six months.
It was a bay tech RPC3 that my previous employer had thrown away, still wrapped in the original plastic. I also discovered Baytech's manual was wrong, they had the pin-out backwards in it lol. I took pictures of it and used those in an interview to get a better job!
putin? Maybe, but "blow up the entire federal government" is actually Steve Bannon's stated goal.
and yet...the Computer is ALWAYS your friend!
I just used a DB9 cable and putty with (close) to those settings to connect via a console cable to a Cisco switch, our SonicWall NSA 4500, etc. I had to custom-make a DB9 connector to get into a couple of remote power systems that don't have DHCP by default. Few other "computer people" I know know enough about that to make a cable like that, at least around here.