I seem to recall several recent articles about new data retention laws requiring companies to do just that - store potentiality incriminating e-mails for absurdly long periods of time.
When my employer (a cell company who shall not be named) killed off our analog system we sent out notices to all analog subscribers over a year in advance. And 6 months in advance. And each month for the last 3 months. 2 weeks before shutdown one customer, an alarm company, threatened to sue us to keep it on the air because they hadn't had enough advance warning to get their customers' installations upgraded.
Apparently they didn't believe we would actually do it.
And, yes it is worth shutting it down. The power savings alone were significant. Rack space and floor space as well. It also freed up a lot of spectrum for re-deployment for high speed data and other stuff that I'm not allowed to talk about yet.
If this application actually gets approved, I'm guessing that Drew will be the first to point out the system is sooo broken that anyone can register pretty much anything.
And the rest of the Farkers will post hundreds of variations of "pOwned" or the Nelson "Ha Ha" picture
Drew is just pointing out that the emperor really has no pants, and poking fun at the fact. SOP at Fark.
About 14 years ago, I was at Ericsson in Richardson, TX for some training. They had a cell switch installed in a set of semi trailers that was specifically for disaster recovery. (though they did use it as a test bed when it wasn't required for DR) If a customer lost a switch location due to fire, earthquake, or whatever, they could deploy this unit anywhere in north america within drive time plus 3-5 days for configuration. The customer would be scrambling to get leased lines and microwave re-routed to the temporary location, but they could probably have some service restored to their customers within a week or 2. Especially if they had a few COWs (cell on wheels) to use. A lot better that the 10-12 weeks it took to install a new switch from scratch.
For anyone else wondering "WTF is Six Sigma", it appears to be yet another management method whereby you save the company money by measuring everything within an inch of it's life.
I think.
The web pages that talk about it don't seem to be written in any dialect of English that I'm familiar with.
Or anything really. Why do guns always make their way into "innocent uses" debates. It's a device designed to kill or injure, even when used with the best intentions.
The list of examples is infinite: Baseball bat, carving knife, wrench, rope, candlestick, piece of pipe.....
The important point is there are an unlimited number of things which have a beneficial primary use which, in the wrong hands, can be put to nefarious use.
Including words. Look at the sort of baseless fearmongering use this "well-written and thoughtful" article has put to innocent, harmless words.
Those of us in North America, but not living in a country with America in it's name, use the term America to refer exclusively to the USA, and not ourselves.
My family computer at home is a 1.2GHz 512MB machine that I threw together about 5 years ago. It dual-boots Ubuntu and XP, and runs everything from desktop publishing, to office apps, to web browsing to home video editing just fine for our needs.
This box would be a step up, and for half what it cost me building what I already have. Too bad this is only WalMart USA (not their Canadian branch) selling this.
I'm a manager at a tech outfit, a fairly large one. What we are looking for are high end techies, and the wage inflation is due to our desperation to get high end techies - programmers and network admins the like. A newb trying to get into this field has absolutely NO CHANCE. Go look at the job ads and see what they're looking for as far as experience is concerned. You can't even meet those requirements with internships. The wages are rising because America's pool of experienced techies is drying up, and fast. There are few to no new tech 'masters' rising in America; they're all coming from Asia, because that is where all the newb jobs are.
So, you're only looking for experienced people, just like everyone else in your position. Yet you won't hire less experienced (and less costly) people and allow your existing experienced workforce to mentor them and help them gain that experience.
Where do you expect someone to get experience?!?
You (and those like you) made the bed, now you have to lie in it.
I think the patent office should bring back the requirement to provide a patent model.
Anything that can't be built into a physical model can't be patented.
"... record high stock prices for the Reynolds aluminum foil company.
And in other news, Microsoft reports that their new software has identified a 400% increase in their users wanting steak, enjoying "walkies" and thinking about leg-humping."
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I seem to recall several recent articles about new data retention laws requiring companies to do just that - store potentiality incriminating e-mails for absurdly long periods of time.
So, to answer your question:
What if we just stored less of it?
You might get fined or jailed.
That's the first thing that popped into my mind when I read the summary.
I wonder what Lazarus Long would have to say about this?
soon, the only way to get onto a plane will be like this.
Or like this, which I think I would prefer.
They had a year to say something. Instead, they sent a lawyer's "OMFG" letter 50 weeks after we told them what we were planning to do.
And 6 months in advance.
And each month for the last 3 months.
2 weeks before shutdown one customer, an alarm company, threatened to sue us to keep it on the air because they hadn't had enough advance warning to get their customers' installations upgraded.
Apparently they didn't believe we would actually do it.
And, yes it is worth shutting it down. The power savings alone were significant. Rack space and floor space as well.
It also freed up a lot of spectrum for re-deployment for high speed data and other stuff that I'm not allowed to talk about yet.
from where?
I haven't seen any on store shelves or being pushed at online retailers.
Maybe they are on a back shelf somewhere, along with the retail boxed Linux distros, but I haven't seen any.
I think that every cop car should be required to have a tape that is rolling whenever they pull someone over.
Don't most already?
I'd almost forgotten about that.
My high school physics teacher showed "Chariots of the Gods" to us as an exercise in critical thinking.
If this application actually gets approved, I'm guessing that Drew will be the first to point out the system is sooo broken that anyone can register pretty much anything.
And the rest of the Farkers will post hundreds of variations of "pOwned" or the Nelson "Ha Ha" picture
Drew is just pointing out that the emperor really has no pants, and poking fun at the fact.
SOP at Fark.
About 14 years ago, I was at Ericsson in Richardson, TX for some training. They had a cell switch installed in a set of semi trailers that was specifically for disaster recovery. (though they did use it as a test bed when it wasn't required for DR)
If a customer lost a switch location due to fire, earthquake, or whatever, they could deploy this unit anywhere in north america within drive time plus 3-5 days for configuration.
The customer would be scrambling to get leased lines and microwave re-routed to the temporary location, but they could probably have some service restored to their customers within a week or 2. Especially if they had a few COWs (cell on wheels) to use.
A lot better that the 10-12 weeks it took to install a new switch from scratch.
What else could it stand for? .VA is the TLD for the Vatican.
/. headline?
Who knows.
Maybe the "the" that you refer to is a typo? who can tell in a
How hard is it to expand an acronym in it's first usage?
Who cares if they know or not?
He's not doing anything wrong
Cindy Lou Who: "But daddy, I gotta go to the euphemism"
Joins your first and last points quite nicely, doesn't it.
How about this for a plan:
Donations to candidates may only be made by people who are eligable to vote.
Then make sure anyone funelling corperate money thru private bank accounts gets arrested for fraud (or election tampering).
For anyone else wondering "WTF is Six Sigma", it appears to be yet another management method whereby you save the company money by measuring everything within an inch of it's life.
I think.
The web pages that talk about it don't seem to be written in any dialect of English that I'm familiar with.
They should've picked a more generic name.
More generic than ESA???
It looks like one of the most generic TLAs out there.
Rudeness is not illegal, it's just rude.
So it thinking that if something inconveniences you, then "there oughta be a law"
And vigilantism isn't any better.
Methinks someone needs to chill.
The list of examples is infinite: Baseball bat, carving knife, wrench, rope, candlestick, piece of pipe.....
The important point is there are an unlimited number of things which have a beneficial primary use which, in the wrong hands, can be put to nefarious use.
Including words. Look at the sort of baseless fearmongering use this "well-written and thoughtful" article has put to innocent, harmless words.
Those of us in North America, but not living in a country with America in it's name, use the term America to refer exclusively to the USA, and not ourselves.
Yeah, really.
My family computer at home is a 1.2GHz 512MB machine that I threw together about 5 years ago. It dual-boots Ubuntu and XP, and runs everything from desktop publishing, to office apps, to web browsing to home video editing just fine for our needs.
This box would be a step up, and for half what it cost me building what I already have.
Too bad this is only WalMart USA (not their Canadian branch) selling this.
Not saying that's right, but it is reality.
I think it's denying reality.
It seems like they expect experienced people to just appear out of thin air???
I'm a manager at a tech outfit, a fairly large one.
What we are looking for are high end techies, and the wage inflation is due to our desperation to get high end techies - programmers and network admins the like.
A newb trying to get into this field has absolutely NO CHANCE.
Go look at the job ads and see what they're looking for as far as experience is concerned. You can't even meet those requirements with internships.
The wages are rising because America's pool of experienced techies is drying up, and fast. There are few to no new tech 'masters' rising in America; they're all coming from Asia, because that is where all the newb jobs are.
So, you're only looking for experienced people, just like everyone else in your position.
Yet you won't hire less experienced (and less costly) people and allow your existing experienced workforce to mentor them and help them gain that experience.
Where do you expect someone to get experience?!?
You (and those like you) made the bed, now you have to lie in it.
Remember yesterday's story about tech you can't buy in the USA?
Let me refresh your memory
I think the patent office should bring back the requirement to provide a patent model.
Anything that can't be built into a physical model can't be patented.
"... record high stock prices for the Reynolds aluminum foil company.
And in other news, Microsoft reports that their new software has identified a 400% increase in their users wanting steak, enjoying "walkies" and thinking about leg-humping."