I spent the morning read over all the news I could find about this guy.
Here are some basics: the system he managed was under his entire control, everyone in the city knew this. the city does not seem to have a security policy, so he does not have to disclose upon firing the passwords ( if they asked him on his exit interview then that's different) . He's one of those uber-geeks without the social skills.
I am guessing that he's most likely to have a huge counter lawsuit against the city in the range of 10's of millions since he wont be able to get a job again and wrongful imprisonment.
shame on the city, they could have been nice about this, but instead are using the brute force way.
OK from reading the article, who's going to start powering off the routers for the heck of it.
>>If this guy was a real dick (but a clever+smart one), knew it, knew he was going to be canned, and prepared for it
Now, no matter what unless he can cut a decent deal, he's doing 5 years in a fed pen, That's 5 long years. he'll be someone's bitch. most people can not even handle 2 weeks in jail, imagine 5 long years with troublemakers and no friends in sight.
you need to add another fact to the hull loss issue. it's air miles per incident, and/or passenger death rate per hour of flight time and/or flight time per incident.
I'm not knocking the report, but hull loss is and insurance stat, but the true risk is in the quotes from the carriers, and I hate to say it, but most USA flagged air carriers have a lower loss rate on the passenger side, cargo side it's almost equal with Europe.
what I would like to see is how the stats are put together, since the only way to know who is the safest to fly is to know whom is quoted consistently the best insurance ( those guys know much more about risk, and they can figure out the stats).
Just wanted to add my most current legal nightmare that is happening. I spent 16 hours ( over 4 days ) show a woman rental apartments. finally she choose the one she like, and we made an offer. offer accepted by landlord and fund were placed in escrow 1 day later after acceptance by landlord. she meets with the association where she is required to fill out some forms and has to wait for approval.
standard lease, great condo building, condo approval time should be 10 business days. My disclosure documents cover all these details. she just called me to tell me she found another rental via another broker and wants out of the deal, and wants her money back right now!!! DOES NOT WANT TO WAIT as she yelled at the top of her voice. Calmly I said, "Guess what, your funds are safe in escrow and you will have to file a legal claim if you are accepted, otherwise it goes to the owner of the unit"
I will end up spending to protect my license about $500 and 10 to 20 hours of time. and if I am correct ( which I just confirmed as of this writing ) she made an offer to another listing I showed her, via her cousin, guess what, that listing broker ( whom knows that I have large volume of clients ) was the one whom dropped a dime on her, so no matter what, this person is exactly what I thought she was. and I will earn my commission ( look at my last post about procuring cause ) since backstabbing is something that I don't tolerate.
want a cheap rental, 700sqft looking at the ocean ( sun in your eyes in the morning ), balcony and newly furnished, include electricity and water and a/c 1400.00 / m.... did I mention that the construction next door will have you replacing your laptop fan in 6 weeks, did I mention the mold ( you won't see it), but you'll smell it after the first day you open the balcony and enjoy that wonderful breeze. You have no idea on how really bad it can be if you don't know about waterfront property.
Hmm, I might venture to say you have never lived for a while in southern Florida. but discrimination runs rampant down here ( I will tell you that personally, I had my first experience in racism down here in my 41 years )
the law prevents me from advertising that an are is "a black area / Jewish area... " and it's understood that we should not speak to the clients that way also.
as per the quality of the schools: public record as per the crime rate : public record
we are only to provide fact : IE census data is something that I use to show people the demographics of an area.
Why am I scared : real easy, this world is lawsuit happy, I see it every day, lawsuits for dumb things.
as for "buyer might legitimately want to make a buying decision based on the neighborhood." those that want a specific area already have knowledge of where they want to live, odds are that they won't go to someone to ask those questions, they'll go to someone they have been referred to.
>>You yourself dont even seem to notice the information you are withholding from your clients, for the simple fact that it doesnt benefit you in any way. Arent you supposed to be doing whats best for the BUYER???
With-holding Information: from possible buyer and I am showing a property as the buyers agent. ( I work part-time as a realtor in the waterfront Miami area Florida ) The law prevents us from telling the future buyer some things, if it's not verifiable by fact, I can not say it. good example, I lived in a building that had a pipe bust and it flooded about 40 units over 12 floors, I happen to know exactly when, where, why and what had happen ( fact with pictures of about 4 of them ). I also know which units had suffered mold damage from it because the owners were too lazy to solve it properly. Now how did I show these units when the buyer requested to see them. I said as I was walking into the unit "GEE, IT SMELLS FUNNY, Kinda like MOLD, that's going to take about 5 to 15 grand to get rid of !", mind you the unit could have smelt like a fresh breeze with flowers. Was I with-holding info, yes, Do I want to get into a lawsuit, no. If I did not tell them that I smelled mold, and they found out that I had the info of the flood 3 years later, I would have been open to the liability of of mold. Weird, but fact, I can get sued on something I can not disclose but I know. I am also the first realtor ( or at-least I was told ) that made a custom mold disclosure document to inform all prospective buyers and renters of mold hazards )
now here is a great trick : the Internet is the best research tool used before you make an offer, I always do property searched in newspapers and police blotters, you can easily shave 15% if there was a murder in a house ( something you are now OK to disclose if you know by word of mouth prior to showing the house ). If there has been more than 3 police calls to the home in the last 6 months, that's worth at-least 2% to 3%. any negative notice in the newspaper is worth something to reduce on the offer.
With-holding Information: from possible buyer and I am showing a property as the sellers agent. again the law forces me to not to ask the seller questions, the less I know the safer the owner is from lawsuits ( and myself ) example : I review the house and I know the area floods, I see fresh paint on the first floor, I know from my gut, they got flooded and it's a cover up job. I ask 1 question, " have you filed an insurance claim for flood damage in the last 2 years? " if the answer is no, then I know I am safe to disclose to the prospective buyer exactly what I have been told and I can safely say, " see clean walls just painted for the sale and no insurance claims that I know of."
Another trick that I know no-one else does : When you look at a waterfront property, and you really like it and are willing to make an offer, do this. go to the property again, and find 3 to 5 wall outlets remove the plate and see if they just put up another layer of sheet-rock to hid any damage, you should only see 1 layer of sheet-rock inside the wall box. See what happens is that people buy fixer uppers after a storm and the fastest way to make the home look good inside is to re-sheet-rock over old sheet-rock, great way to hide problems, nightmare for the owner in about 2 years or less. and the inspector will not catch it most of the time.
>>useless for most of the needs of the younger generation: Well, from my prospective, I like old style quality service, and that's what I offer to my clients, slow and steady with facts. it's not easy to be a good realtor and make lot's of money consistently ( I did 2 sales from late 2005 to current ), did I mention that I told my clients that it's a way over valued and not really worth it. What I did do what a ton of rentals ( crowned the rental king by my peers ) and I have a ton of happy clients that are sitting with some money ready to buy a condos next year.
I don't think I am useless and I think that I'll still be around doing real estate for a long time, I must be doing something right, I get at-least 2 referrals every week. maybe I am the realtor you need to deal with and not the guys that just do it for the commission.
WOW, it's funny how well hated Realtors are. I happen to be one with a lot of dislike for my fellow Realtors.
A lot of Realtors are really not trained correctly and only have a transaction based mentality ( nothing wrong with that but they forgot the long term part of the deal )
but here is my problem with internet Realtors, let's say I have house for sale, and one of these internet companies that send the people out without a realtor wants to see the house, no problem, I show the house to the best of my ability ( I also prequalify them to make sure that they do have the money ), and I won't tell them that the house next door is for sale that's a private sale ( see I would tell them, if their realtor was their, since life is a 2 way street and Realtors remember who's a jerk and who is not. )
The other issue is liability. Do I really want to show a house to a possible thief that is casing the area. This happens more than you think, and when you show an internet couple, you have to do a tag-team ( you and an office worker ), I've had this happen to me and I just happen to get unlucky that the place got robbed 2 days later, they caught them, but I was the unlucky realtor that it happened to.
another issue of liability: what we can and cannot say, if a realtor ask me if the area is a black/Jewish/white/catholic... area I can bitch slap him via e-mail and notices and the board, if an internet person ask, I have to say "look around yourself" ( huge can of worms if anyone says anything other than a pat answer of " look around "
Another liability : Procuring cause, I have a 10 point check list, this check list is my procuring cause check list. Some basics about it http://homebuying.about.com/od/realestateagents/qt/Procuringcause.htm When I interview clients, I use my checklist ( since 99% of them never tell me that they are using an internet based agent and this only applies to them ), internet firms might try to demand the commission, but when I produce my checklist, and if it even goes to arbitration, I have yet to have to give up anything big ( unless they informed me that they were coming from an internet firm ). this issue happened already when a rebate firm sent me an offer, I just started laughing since I knew exactly whom the couple were, what I toured them on, and my entire log file of over 28 properties that I showed them, guess what, I gave up 1/2 point as a courtesy.
Now I do deal with a few internet firms and have great respect for 1 of them, they get there 33% to 50% of the split every time without issue and they have real intelligent clients.
my data on one of my web site that I manage might help ( I get posting spam issue all the time )
Captcha life in excess of 1 minute, the odds of it being a real users dies off rather dramatically, reloads typically happen 7 to 12 minutes later if they are real, reload happen within the 1 to 5 minute window are spammers of some sort.
captcha life of 20 seconds or less brought me more trouble and a huge amount of complaint mail. I'm right now leaving it at 45 second for 7 character captcha
if you take a look at craigslist, their captcha life was recently made shorter, and the amount of spam is a lot less.
captcha farming, is an automated piece of software that will follow a script that goes along the following lines open browser : load address bar with web site : get to account page : enter account information : *** user then enters captcha *** : confirmation page = success then automated credit to user with a direct-link to porn site
>>On almost every company's organization chart, they are a parallel organization with all the others, and do not sit above everyone else with extra authority.
The sad fact is that they need to be separate from the chart with oversight from the board or president, their authority should be held very high with regards to system security and data-loss/retention and anything else that could cost the company money. And they do need to sit above everyone else with extra authority. What a security consultant see's is not what everyone else see's. why do you think Vegas has those special rooms for security and they report to a completely separate group outside of the normal chain of command.
How many times have do we have to hear about the VP that thinks he's a hacker only to take down a mail-server or something along those lines. Happens all the time. it seems that VP's love to look at other peoples email.
In the latest consulting gig I just did, every system had bot's and tons of problems. I asked the owner of the company to let me work the entire weekend in the building to fix the entire system. he asked what was wrong ( I then started to give him his cc numbers and SS number and a few other personal items ). He gave me complete access and let me go to town ( also brought in his amazingly bright son which I had as a helper). That Monday morning, the owner arrived at 7:30 am and issue memo's about computer security. long story short, we caught 1 employee using the company money for herself, ton's of pirated software removed, all known virus and bot's destroyed, firewall is as tight as I can possibly make it. it's decently safe now, and everyone has a password that they hate ( could not pass up on that ).
sorry but a big company 25 systems or more, need a special person just to deal with IT issue and implement those special concerns to protect the company.
Your statement " You are also correct that it's not a "huge" amount of traffic; it's less than half of a DS-3." is correct the problem is not on the delivery to the exit port, it's the i/o road to the port, most problems that I have encountered were drive bottlenecks.
a good cache systems helps but you still need a lot of tuning to get it right, I am sure that this site is not a professional site but something that was put together without thinking of large, scalable deployment.
I am going to assume the following based that I was a host and I did care a lot about this very issue with my clients:
They might be hosted at the Telia server room, but at the meet-me-room they are also sharing pipes with multiple other providers. They have to, they need to keep the latency to a low level.
They should have few to no problems since, most likely have peering pipes directly to London, Paris and other locations ( real big peering locations ).
The current issues that they should be encountering is modifying the peering to the clients that might be affected because of this dispute ( take USA clients, route them with 1 group, Europe with another )
Since I am not sure what you are defining 'tighten' but with the teachers responsibility increasing and parents saying 'my kids not to blame', the teachers seem to be on the loosing side every-time. most teachers ( that I have met ) teach for the joy of teaching, and enjoy being teachers, but kids being kids like to push buttons and expulsion in public and private schools is never a fun choice by anyone.
I had a situation with my daughter a few yeas back and referencing another student behavior towards my daughter ( first grade ), Turned real ugly, but I never blamed the teacher, the teacher was being blamed by the other parent and I was blaming the other parent for lacking to be responsible for their kids behavior ( their boy child was hair pulling and name calling my daughter ), I just needed the teacher to tell me the facts as she saw them.
got super heated; that I was hair line way from filing charges against the child and if I could pull it, the parents. They choose to move out of the town.
As a parent, I have to look at this carefully ( I did a couple of pranks in my day ). I don't think that a student should have to suffer for a typical prank ( desk in the hall, drawer upside-down... ) but when they cross the line ( line to be defined by local community standards as in the adult video case in utah many years ago) then they should be held accountable to the full due process.
the example of pedophile accusation, that kid should be held accountable and subject to very harsh terms if the teacher looses their job ( stuff like this, not one parent will forget and it's forever noted in the back of their heads )
I don't know where that line is, but when a person's job is at stake, then I am confident that the line is real near.
they have the vote for this on the tool bar. Which to my knowledge works rather well if you are a heavy user and consistently vote pages for which you do a search. I do about 40 to 80 search per day and I am sure that I vote on 90% of it, I have come back to the same topics to search and have seen changes which were major improvements ( lag time about 4 to 6 weeks )
I currently disagree and agree with you. After careful reading, I agree with you on the basis of bandwidth throttling is currently wrong due to lack of disclosure.
in the future, people will have to start choosing ISP's that provide the proper level of service, that will lead to ISP's that have chosen to be open to no throttling. or different levels of throttling
Not sure that that would work. Most states that have buy-back ( or meter roll back ) is just a credit issued to your account for 12 months, the best case is that you never owe them, and have energy credit to your account only for 12 months ( the credit expires afer the 12th month. )
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well, a quick search confirms your pricing.
Fluorinert in 500ml bottles
http://www.mdssys.com/clearance
$ 30.00
so about 200 for a gallon
which makes this a practical fun adventure within a reasonable price.
I spent the morning read over all the news I could find about this guy.
Here are some basics: the system he managed was under his entire control, everyone in the city knew this. the city does not seem to have a security policy, so he does not have to disclose upon firing the passwords ( if they asked him on his exit interview then that's different) . He's one of those uber-geeks without the social skills.
I am guessing that he's most likely to have a huge counter lawsuit against the city in the range of 10's of millions since he wont be able to get a job again and wrongful imprisonment.
shame on the city, they could have been nice about this, but instead are using the brute force way.
OK from reading the article, who's going to start powering off the routers for the heck of it.
30 miles in the middle of no-where, that's like a short walk up in those areas, maybe you should look at 200 miles.
>>If this guy was a real dick (but a clever+smart one), knew it, knew he was going to be canned, and prepared for it
Now, no matter what unless he can cut a decent deal, he's doing 5 years in a fed pen, That's 5 long years. he'll be someone's bitch. most people can not even handle 2 weeks in jail, imagine 5 long years with troublemakers and no friends in sight.
you need to add another fact to the hull loss issue. it's air miles per incident, and/or passenger death rate per hour of flight time and/or flight time per incident.
I'm not knocking the report, but hull loss is and insurance stat, but the true risk is in the quotes from the carriers, and I hate to say it, but most USA flagged air carriers have a lower loss rate on the passenger side, cargo side it's almost equal with Europe.
what I would like to see is how the stats are put together, since the only way to know who is the safest to fly is to know whom is quoted consistently the best insurance ( those guys know much more about risk, and they can figure out the stats).
Just wanted to add my most current legal nightmare that is happening. I spent 16 hours ( over 4 days ) show a woman rental apartments. finally she choose the one she like, and we made an offer. offer accepted by landlord and fund were placed in escrow 1 day later after acceptance by landlord. she meets with the association where she is required to fill out some forms and has to wait for approval.
standard lease, great condo building, condo approval time should be 10 business days. My disclosure documents cover all these details. she just called me to tell me she found another rental via another broker and wants out of the deal, and wants her money back right now!!! DOES NOT WANT TO WAIT as she yelled at the top of her voice. Calmly I said, "Guess what, your funds are safe in escrow and you will have to file a legal claim if you are accepted, otherwise it goes to the owner of the unit"
I will end up spending to protect my license about $500 and 10 to 20 hours of time. and if I am correct ( which I just confirmed as of this writing ) she made an offer to another listing I showed her, via her cousin, guess what, that listing broker ( whom knows that I have large volume of clients ) was the one whom dropped a dime on her, so no matter what, this person is exactly what I thought she was. and I will earn my commission ( look at my last post about procuring cause ) since backstabbing is something that I don't tolerate.
want a cheap rental, 700sqft looking at the ocean ( sun in your eyes in the morning ), balcony and newly furnished, include electricity and water and a/c 1400.00 / m .... did I mention that the construction next door will have you replacing your laptop fan in 6 weeks, did I mention the mold ( you won't see it), but you'll smell it after the first day you open the balcony and enjoy that wonderful breeze. You have no idea on how really bad it can be if you don't know about waterfront property.
I was talking about brazil, the last case that I know of was about 1980, but it's a jungle ( and rather big ), and whom knows if it's still around.
Smallpox is almost gone but it keep on showing up here and thier. just a quick googl search
smallbox outbreaks in brazil http://aje.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/95/4/363
Hmm, I might venture to say you have never lived for a while in southern Florida. but discrimination runs rampant down here ( I will tell you that personally, I had my first experience in racism down here in my 41 years )
... " and it's understood that we should not speak to the clients that way also.
the law prevents me from advertising that an are is "a black area / Jewish area
as per the quality of the schools: public record
as per the crime rate : public record
we are only to provide fact : IE census data is something that I use to show people the demographics of an area.
Why am I scared : real easy, this world is lawsuit happy, I see it every day, lawsuits for dumb things.
as for "buyer might legitimately want to make a buying decision based on the neighborhood." those that want a specific area already have knowledge of where they want to live, odds are that they won't go to someone to ask those questions, they'll go to someone they have been referred to.
>>You yourself dont even seem to notice the information you are withholding from your clients, for the simple fact that it doesnt benefit you in any way. Arent you supposed to be doing whats best for the BUYER???
With-holding Information: from possible buyer and I am showing a property as the buyers agent. ( I work part-time as a realtor in the waterfront Miami area Florida )
The law prevents us from telling the future buyer some things, if it's not verifiable by fact, I can not say it. good example, I lived in a building that had a pipe bust and it flooded about 40 units over 12 floors, I happen to know exactly when, where, why and what had happen ( fact with pictures of about 4 of them ). I also know which units had suffered mold damage from it because the owners were too lazy to solve it properly. Now how did I show these units when the buyer requested to see them. I said as I was walking into the unit "GEE, IT SMELLS FUNNY, Kinda like MOLD, that's going to take about 5 to 15 grand to get rid of !", mind you the unit could have smelt like a fresh breeze with flowers. Was I with-holding info, yes, Do I want to get into a lawsuit, no. If I did not tell them that I smelled mold, and they found out that I had the info of the flood 3 years later, I would have been open to the liability of of mold. Weird, but fact, I can get sued on something I can not disclose but I know. I am also the first realtor ( or at-least I was told ) that made a custom mold disclosure document to inform all prospective buyers and renters of mold hazards )
now here is a great trick : the Internet is the best research tool used before you make an offer, I always do property searched in newspapers and police blotters, you can easily shave 15% if there was a murder in a house ( something you are now OK to disclose if you know by word of mouth prior to showing the house ). If there has been more than 3 police calls to the home in the last 6 months, that's worth at-least 2% to 3%. any negative notice in the newspaper is worth something to reduce on the offer.
With-holding Information: from possible buyer and I am showing a property as the sellers agent.
again the law forces me to not to ask the seller questions, the less I know the safer the owner is from lawsuits ( and myself )
example : I review the house and I know the area floods, I see fresh paint on the first floor, I know from my gut, they got flooded and it's a cover up job. I ask 1 question, " have you filed an insurance claim for flood damage in the last 2 years? " if the answer is no, then I know I am safe to disclose to the prospective buyer exactly what I have been told and I can safely say, " see clean walls just painted for the sale and no insurance claims that I know of."
Another trick that I know no-one else does : When you look at a waterfront property, and you really like it and are willing to make an offer, do this. go to the property again, and find 3 to 5 wall outlets remove the plate and see if they just put up another layer of sheet-rock to hid any damage, you should only see 1 layer of sheet-rock inside the wall box. See what happens is that people buy fixer uppers after a storm and the fastest way to make the home look good inside is to re-sheet-rock over old sheet-rock, great way to hide problems, nightmare for the owner in about 2 years or less. and the inspector will not catch it most of the time.
>>useless for most of the needs of the younger generation:
Well, from my prospective, I like old style quality service, and that's what I offer to my clients, slow and steady with facts. it's not easy to be a good realtor and make lot's of money consistently ( I did 2 sales from late 2005 to current ), did I mention that I told my clients that it's a way over valued and not really worth it.
What I did do what a ton of rentals ( crowned the rental king by my peers ) and I have a ton of happy clients that are sitting with some money ready to buy a condos next year.
I don't think I am useless and I think that I'll still be around doing real estate for a long time, I must be doing something right, I get at-least 2 referrals every week. maybe I am the realtor you need to deal with and not the guys that just do it for the commission.
WOW, it's funny how well hated Realtors are. I happen to be one with a lot of dislike for my fellow Realtors.
A lot of Realtors are really not trained correctly and only have a transaction based mentality ( nothing wrong with that but they forgot the long term part of the deal )
but here is my problem with internet Realtors, let's say I have house for sale, and one of these internet companies that send the people out without a realtor wants to see the house, no problem, I show the house to the best of my ability ( I also prequalify them to make sure that they do have the money ), and I won't tell them that the house next door is for sale that's a private sale ( see I would tell them, if their realtor was their, since life is a 2 way street and Realtors remember who's a jerk and who is not. )
The other issue is liability. Do I really want to show a house to a possible thief that is casing the area. This happens more than you think, and when you show an internet couple, you have to do a tag-team ( you and an office worker ), I've had this happen to me and I just happen to get unlucky that the place got robbed 2 days later, they caught them, but I was the unlucky realtor that it happened to.
another issue of liability: what we can and cannot say, if a realtor ask me if the area is a black/Jewish/white/catholic... area I can bitch slap him via e-mail and notices and the board, if an internet person ask, I have to say "look around yourself" ( huge can of worms if anyone says anything other than a pat answer of " look around "
Another liability : Procuring cause, I have a 10 point check list, this check list is my procuring cause check list. Some basics about it http://homebuying.about.com/od/realestateagents/qt/Procuringcause.htm When I interview clients, I use my checklist ( since 99% of them never tell me that they are using an internet based agent and this only applies to them ), internet firms might try to demand the commission, but when I produce my checklist, and if it even goes to arbitration, I have yet to have to give up anything big ( unless they informed me that they were coming from an internet firm ). this issue happened already when a rebate firm sent me an offer, I just started laughing since I knew exactly whom the couple were, what I toured them on, and my entire log file of over 28 properties that I showed them, guess what, I gave up 1/2 point as a courtesy.
Now I do deal with a few internet firms and have great respect for 1 of them, they get there 33% to 50% of the split every time without issue and they have real intelligent clients.
in reply to some of the above topics:
my data on one of my web site that I manage might help ( I get posting spam issue all the time )
Captcha life in excess of 1 minute, the odds of it being a real users dies off rather dramatically, reloads typically happen 7 to 12 minutes later if they are real, reload happen within the 1 to 5 minute window are spammers of some sort.
captcha life of 20 seconds or less brought me more trouble and a huge amount of complaint mail. I'm right now leaving it at 45 second for 7 character captcha
if you take a look at craigslist, their captcha life was recently made shorter, and the amount of spam is a lot less.
captcha farming, is an automated piece of software that will follow a script that goes along the following lines
open browser : load address bar with web site : get to account page : enter account information : *** user then enters captcha *** : confirmation page = success then automated credit to user with a direct-link to porn site
hey don't forget that they would charge you if you were at 1200 or 9600. Then 14.4k came out ) then that's when I think the pricing changed.
Not sure about what I'm going to say: did Google try shilling the bid?
I am sure that it's not OK to do that on eBay,
and I am sure that everyone that bids on government products will wonder
if it might happen to them.
this might be the only time we have seen this happen in US gov contract, should
not have ever happened.
>>On almost every company's organization chart, they are a parallel organization with all the others, and do not sit above everyone else with extra authority.
The sad fact is that they need to be separate from the chart with oversight from the board or president, their authority should be held very high with regards to system security and data-loss/retention and anything else that could cost the company money. And they do need to sit above everyone else with extra authority. What a security consultant see's is not what everyone else see's. why do you think Vegas has those special rooms for security and they report to a completely separate group outside of the normal chain of command.
How many times have do we have to hear about the VP that thinks he's a hacker only to take down a mail-server or something along those lines. Happens all the time. it seems that VP's love to look at other peoples email.
In the latest consulting gig I just did, every system had bot's and tons of problems. I asked the owner of the company to let me work the entire weekend in the building to fix the entire system. he asked what was wrong ( I then started to give him his cc numbers and SS number and a few other personal items ). He gave me complete access and let me go to town ( also brought in his amazingly bright son which I had as a helper). That Monday morning, the owner arrived at 7:30 am and issue memo's about computer security. long story short, we caught 1 employee using the company money for herself, ton's of pirated software removed, all known virus and bot's destroyed, firewall is as tight as I can possibly make it. it's decently safe now, and everyone has a password that they hate ( could not pass up on that ).
sorry but a big company 25 systems or more, need a special person just to deal with IT issue and implement those special concerns to protect the company.
Your statement " You are also correct that it's not a "huge" amount of traffic; it's less than half of a DS-3." is correct the problem is not on the delivery to the exit port, it's the i/o road to the port, most problems that I have encountered were drive bottlenecks.
a good cache systems helps but you still need a lot of tuning to get it right, I am sure that this site is not a professional site but something that was put together without thinking of large, scalable deployment.
I am going to assume the following based that I was a host
and I did care a lot about this very issue with my clients:
They might be hosted at the Telia server room, but at the
meet-me-room they are also sharing pipes with multiple
other providers. They have to, they need to keep the latency
to a low level.
They should have few to no problems since, most likely
have peering pipes directly to London, Paris and other
locations ( real big peering locations ).
The current issues that they should be encountering is
modifying the peering to the clients that might be affected
because of this dispute ( take USA clients, route them with
1 group, Europe with another )
Thank you for my morning laughter, I did not realize the mis-spelling.
I love slashdot humor.
Since I am not sure what you are defining 'tighten' but with the teachers responsibility increasing and parents saying 'my kids not to blame', the teachers seem to be on the loosing side every-time. most teachers ( that I have met ) teach for the joy of teaching, and enjoy being teachers, but kids being kids like to push buttons and expulsion in public and private schools is never a fun choice by anyone.
I had a situation with my daughter a few yeas back and referencing another student behavior towards my daughter ( first grade ), Turned real ugly, but I never blamed the teacher, the teacher was being blamed by the other parent and I was blaming the other parent for lacking to be responsible for their kids behavior ( their boy child was hair pulling and name calling my daughter ), I just needed the teacher to tell me the facts as she saw them.
got super heated; that I was hair line way from filing charges against the child and if I could pull it, the parents. They choose to move out of the town.
As a parent, I have to look at this carefully ( I did a couple of pranks in my day ). I don't think that a student should have to suffer for a typical prank ( desk in the hall, drawer upside-down ... ) but when they cross the line ( line to be defined by local community standards as in the adult video case in utah many years ago) then they should be held accountable to the full due process.
the example of pedophile accusation, that kid should be held accountable and subject to very harsh terms if the teacher looses their job ( stuff like this, not one parent will forget and it's forever noted in the back of their heads )
I don't know where that line is, but when a person's job is at stake, then I am confident that the line is real near.
onepoint
that was great reading, thumbs up !
they have the vote for this on the tool bar. Which to my knowledge works rather well if you are a heavy user and consistently vote pages for which you do a search. I do about 40 to 80 search per day and I am sure that I vote on 90% of it, I have come back to the same topics to search and have seen changes which were major improvements ( lag time about 4 to 6 weeks )
I currently disagree and agree with you. After careful reading, I agree with you on the basis of bandwidth throttling is currently wrong due to lack of disclosure.
in the future, people will have to start choosing ISP's that provide the proper level of service, that will lead to ISP's that have chosen to be open to no throttling. or different levels of throttling
Not sure that that would work. Most states that have buy-back ( or meter roll back ) is just a credit issued to your account for 12 months, the best case is that you never owe them, and have energy credit to your account only for 12 months ( the credit expires afer the 12th month. )