The next time something goes wrong no body wants to be the engineer who didn't warn management.
It sort of defeats the purpose of Professional Engineers being able to take responsibility of things. It sounds like NASA culture encourages top-down managment, which is bad for something as complex as what they do.
They also voted themsleves a new pay raise for the great and wonderous work they are doing in passing unenforceable laws.
Well, if we ask 100 people if they would vote themselves a pay raise, what answer should we expect? Also, a congressperson's salary is effectively much higher due to all of their perks that come with the territory. Given the immense conflicts of interest, it is probably nearly impossible to get reform in this area.
This would work only if the spammers can provide more money than their spam costs in wasted ISP infrastructure. If a spammer can buy out an ISP for, perhaps, $10,000 for a new mail server, then we're in trouble. So, needless to say, public awareness is still the most effective remedy (attack the spam market at its source: stupid people).
At least Enron and MCI Worldcom were put in their place via a civil justice system and public backlash rather than an act of Congress. Once Congress makes a mistake, how is it corrected...when is it corrected?
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1. Tell the truth. 2. Stay out of other people's business. 3. Do the right thing.
In an environment with backstabbing and power struggles, the above recipie leads to burnout and delusion. It really is better to quit and find a better work environment.
It's used for calendar / schedule collaboration, corporate messaging, email tracking, as well as the need to process and virus scan 100's of emails per day per user.
Again, a single "enterprise" server plus perhaps a dedicated e-mail scanner is more than enough for all these tasks. The one-service-per-machine-model-cause-Windows-is-bro ke architecture is pretty sad.
I've seen a real-time e-mail and virus scanner running on an old Sun Ultra 1 workstation serving at least a couple hundred users. A modern two-CPU server should be at least twenty times more capable.
I'd say a 12,000 employee company could do very well with three or four modest SMP servers for these tasks, if properly configured with enough RAM, SCSI RAID, and appropriate networking.
As a congressman you get to choose how to spend it, and if more should be borrowed if it isn't enough. Want to fund a super collider, but there is not enough money coming in, you either need to convince everyone else to drop something they like for something you like, or you need to borrow more money. And the 533 other people in congress will all be trying to get you to drop your super colider for their pet project.
And then, they still fail to realize that, perhaps, Congress shouldn't even be dabbling in such matters, anyway, and figure out a way to subtly raise taxes via "fees" or tweaking the income tax deductions.
I don't ever want to have to depend on that system for anything.
Anyone who ever thought they could depend on the system are naive. The basic truth of humanity is: once your health fails for whatever reason, you are screwed and your life is in the hands of people you never met before; may luck be on your side! If this isn't a good argument for quitting smoking/avoiding soft drinks/moderating alcohol/etc. than I don't know what else would be.
Medical people are some of the most gossipy folks I've ever met.
Especially in towns where the nurses and doctors know the patients. I always have thought it would be awkward to go to a gynecologist/urologist/proctologist in a small town, where any slight slip of professionalism can spread intimate secrets through the whole county ("Hey, Betty Sue, did you know that Mr. Smith is impotent and has a small weiner?")
And, further, it doesn't take protectionist legislation to work itself out. Where warranted, some businesses will keep operations in the US, because of sensitive information, known legal environment, etc.
I live in a big town, and still managed to find a personable doctor. He even has the balls to say that I don't need some (test|medicine|whatever) even though he (and his "associates") is clearly in a position of financial conflict of interest regarding such things and my insurance would clearly cover such things. The reason that he is a good doctor is that he is objective and wants what is right for the patient.
The reason that HMOs, and possible nationaized healthcare in the future, are so bad is that they place very rigid and artificial constraints on doctors/nurses/whomever based on criteria that isn't necessarily based in reality (I'm sure Congress will be a real hoot when designing their next big social justice plan). They don't allow people to seek the level of insurance they need, nor do they always allow people to seek doctors based on reputation and quality of service. In short, they take away the freedom of choice that people so desparately need for themselves and their families. You know, I wonder if Christian Scientists will be exempted from the mandatory payroll deductions that are inevitable for a nationalized healthcare plan...damn that pesky First Amendment always comes back to bite government in the ass.
Isn't HIPPA supposed to protect us from this type of thing?
Outside of national defense, does the government really protect you from anything? Especially today, people who let their guard down and think that someone else will stand up for their interests are people who are begging for trouble. This is true for individuals and businesses alike, where, apparently in this story, a subcontractor relationship is coming back to haunt some short-sighted executive somewhere while potentially damaging innocent people. Both the contractor and the subcontractor should be held accountable, because medical records are the property of the patients.
There's no reason why TI couldn't keep making the UltraSPARC IIi, IIe, II, III Cu, IIIi, IV, IVi CPUs for quite some time, as the UltraSPARC installed base is very large. Chips like the IIi and IIIi probably give TI much more volume in the long term than the III Cu, anyway. If Sun and TI do break up it would be more of a weaning than a pushing overboard in the Arctic.
Or the day the clock on time.windows.com ntp service dies and millions of word documents disappear.
Hopefully, NTP isn't allowed to every workstation on the network from the Internet! NTP is supposed to be hierarchical, so only one server in a company needs to synchronize with the master servers.
Also, I wouldn't be suprised at all if NTP could be hijacked, fooling an entire company's computers into thinking they are at 1900 or 2038 or something.
To be fair, you'd also need a Bill Gates S&M Slave character, a stylish iPod chick, and a smily-face Sun character, due to OO.org being multi-platform.
12,000 users in Exchange and were able to reduce the number of servers that that requires from something like 14 to 8.
Oh, by the way, is Exchange still this much of a joke? Serving 12,000 people should require no more than two redundant servers (or one "enterprise" server with built-in redundancy). If an administrator can't set up a single four-way box to handle thousands of users, that administrator is a loser (gigahertz CPUs + gigs of RAM + mirrored RAID SCSI/FibreChannel = one fucking beast of a machine for crap like e-mail).
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something like a tadpole that probably wriggled through the bottom of the ocean this little critter is a likely missing link
Actually, it is an example of early spammers and a divergence from the evolutionary timeline leading up to humans.
The next time something goes wrong no body wants to be the engineer who didn't warn management.
It sort of defeats the purpose of Professional Engineers being able to take responsibility of things. It sounds like NASA culture encourages top-down managment, which is bad for something as complex as what they do.
I'm very happy with Yahoo Mail
I just wish Yahoo! Mail wasn't so slow over a modem. Otherwise, it would be a near-perfect service.
I doubt something so simple, obvious, and practical could fit into the 500 pages that are required before Congress will consider a new bill.
They also voted themsleves a new pay raise for the great and wonderous work they are doing in passing unenforceable laws.
Well, if we ask 100 people if they would vote themselves a pay raise, what answer should we expect? Also, a congressperson's salary is effectively much higher due to all of their perks that come with the territory. Given the immense conflicts of interest, it is probably nearly impossible to get reform in this area.
buy (through settlements) access to ISPs
This would work only if the spammers can provide more money than their spam costs in wasted ISP infrastructure. If a spammer can buy out an ISP for, perhaps, $10,000 for a new mail server, then we're in trouble. So, needless to say, public awareness is still the most effective remedy (attack the spam market at its source: stupid people).
HP 16c looks like the perfect programmer's calculator. Are there any modern equivilents that have hex, oct, bin, and dec as first-class buttons?
At least Enron and MCI Worldcom were put in their place via a civil justice system and public backlash rather than an act of Congress. Once Congress makes a mistake, how is it corrected...when is it corrected?
1. Tell the truth. 2. Stay out of other people's business. 3. Do the right thing.
In an environment with backstabbing and power struggles, the above recipie leads to burnout and delusion. It really is better to quit and find a better work environment.
And the general clueless ness of most geeks it is a really good idea to generate a good solid paper trail.
What if the geeks you are forced to work with don't take notes, don't read e-mail, and reply to e-mail they do read using a telephone?
It's used for calendar / schedule collaboration, corporate messaging, email tracking, as well as the need to process and virus scan 100's of emails per day per user.
Again, a single "enterprise" server plus perhaps a dedicated e-mail scanner is more than enough for all these tasks. The one-service-per-machine-model-cause-Windows-is-br
I've seen a real-time e-mail and virus scanner running on an old Sun Ultra 1 workstation serving at least a couple hundred users. A modern two-CPU server should be at least twenty times more capable.
I'd say a 12,000 employee company could do very well with three or four modest SMP servers for these tasks, if properly configured with enough RAM, SCSI RAID, and appropriate networking.
As a congressman you get to choose how to spend it, and if more should be borrowed if it isn't enough. Want to fund a super collider, but there is not enough money coming in, you either need to convince everyone else to drop something they like for something you like, or you need to borrow more money. And the 533 other people in congress will all be trying to get you to drop your super colider for their pet project.
And then, they still fail to realize that, perhaps, Congress shouldn't even be dabbling in such matters, anyway, and figure out a way to subtly raise taxes via "fees" or tweaking the income tax deductions.
I'll have to bribe my tech-geek-congressman with the latest WiFi gadget instead?
Don't worry, the geek won't get elected in the first place because he uses the wrong Linux distribution.
Geeks are religious, too, just not always about mythical deities.
Put "set editing-mode vi" into your
I don't ever want to have to depend on that system for anything.
Anyone who ever thought they could depend on the system are naive. The basic truth of humanity is: once your health fails for whatever reason, you are screwed and your life is in the hands of people you never met before; may luck be on your side! If this isn't a good argument for quitting smoking/avoiding soft drinks/moderating alcohol/etc. than I don't know what else would be.
Medical people are some of the most gossipy folks I've ever met.
Especially in towns where the nurses and doctors know the patients. I always have thought it would be awkward to go to a gynecologist/urologist/proctologist in a small town, where any slight slip of professionalism can spread intimate secrets through the whole county ("Hey, Betty Sue, did you know that Mr. Smith is impotent and has a small weiner?")
And, further, it doesn't take protectionist legislation to work itself out. Where warranted, some businesses will keep operations in the US, because of sensitive information, known legal environment, etc.
toss their NDA in the trash by holding the source ransom over the internet.
This business model would work only a couple times, even internationally, before most people wise up about it.
they are small town doctors.
I live in a big town, and still managed to find a personable doctor. He even has the balls to say that I don't need some (test|medicine|whatever) even though he (and his "associates") is clearly in a position of financial conflict of interest regarding such things and my insurance would clearly cover such things. The reason that he is a good doctor is that he is objective and wants what is right for the patient.
The reason that HMOs, and possible nationaized healthcare in the future, are so bad is that they place very rigid and artificial constraints on doctors/nurses/whomever based on criteria that isn't necessarily based in reality (I'm sure Congress will be a real hoot when designing their next big social justice plan). They don't allow people to seek the level of insurance they need, nor do they always allow people to seek doctors based on reputation and quality of service. In short, they take away the freedom of choice that people so desparately need for themselves and their families. You know, I wonder if Christian Scientists will be exempted from the mandatory payroll deductions that are inevitable for a nationalized healthcare plan...damn that pesky First Amendment always comes back to bite government in the ass.
Isn't HIPPA supposed to protect us from this type of thing?
Outside of national defense, does the government really protect you from anything? Especially today, people who let their guard down and think that someone else will stand up for their interests are people who are begging for trouble. This is true for individuals and businesses alike, where, apparently in this story, a subcontractor relationship is coming back to haunt some short-sighted executive somewhere while potentially damaging innocent people. Both the contractor and the subcontractor should be held accountable, because medical records are the property of the patients.
There's no reason why TI couldn't keep making the UltraSPARC IIi, IIe, II, III Cu, IIIi, IV, IVi CPUs for quite some time, as the UltraSPARC installed base is very large. Chips like the IIi and IIIi probably give TI much more volume in the long term than the III Cu, anyway. If Sun and TI do break up it would be more of a weaning than a pushing overboard in the Arctic.
Or the day the clock on time.windows.com ntp service dies and millions of word documents disappear.
Hopefully, NTP isn't allowed to every workstation on the network from the Internet! NTP is supposed to be hierarchical, so only one server in a company needs to synchronize with the master servers.
Also, I wouldn't be suprised at all if NTP could be hijacked, fooling an entire company's computers into thinking they are at 1900 or 2038 or something.
Why isn't there a penguin assistant for OO?
To be fair, you'd also need a Bill Gates S&M Slave character, a stylish iPod chick, and a smily-face Sun character, due to OO.org being multi-platform.
on the Mac I liked the dog, panting and smiling
What did you do to the dog?!?
12,000 users in Exchange and were able to reduce the number of servers that that requires from something like 14 to 8.
Oh, by the way, is Exchange still this much of a joke? Serving 12,000 people should require no more than two redundant servers (or one "enterprise" server with built-in redundancy). If an administrator can't set up a single four-way box to handle thousands of users, that administrator is a loser (gigahertz CPUs + gigs of RAM + mirrored RAID SCSI/FibreChannel = one fucking beast of a machine for crap like e-mail).