I've been using Slicehost for a couple of months, backed by Rackspace Cloud Files instead of Amazon. As far as I'm concerned it the best thing since the Original Nintendo.
I have two PC's and a laptop at home and a work computer backing up to it, the resync occurs and night so I don't see any performance issues and its completely encrypted on the backed so I don't have to worry about someone browsing through my collection of unpublished poetry about water fowl.
If you haven't actually used one I suggest you check it out.
I don't post comments very often but I think I need to way in on this one. I agree that the planet is absolutely warming. Just like there are those who would deny evolution is a fact even though they can see it for their own eyes, you'll find plenty of people that say that the world isn't changing.
I use the word changing because every thing on this planet cycles, lakes expand and recede, populations of jack rabbits go up and down. The climate is the same way and that was made very clear by this year's hurricane activity. All through the historical record you find evidence of a 25 year pattern of hurricane activity in the US. The overall climate is much the same way but on a larger scale.
So we know that the world warms and cools. The real question here is are we causing this or is it just one of the natural cycles?
Working in government Research and Development has given me some insight into this subject. Most government labs are a mix of grads from MIT, Georgia Tech, etc and prior service veterans, mostly from the enlisted grades.
Its common practice in the enlisted grades of the US Defense Department to go to school via online programs, "military programs" and distance learning because it works better with over seas deployments. However, if you take 100 average DoD lab employees, put them in a room, and interview them. You will, with little effort, be able to identify who went to a 4 year university and who did it at night and on the weekends.
The bottom line is that you learn more at school then algorithms and functions. It's the interpersonal skills learned from years of working with other students that makes the difference between a successful person and a lab rat.
You've got media blinders on. Theres more to a story then what you see on the evening news. The reason he was at the library was because he didn't have any internet service at home.
At the time he was caught he was viewing plain old porn (POP) and this small town library didn't have any kind of logging capability so they couldn't prove that he'd viewied anything else.
So I ask the question, he does't have an internet connection at home, he's in possesion of child porn, and caught veiwing porn at the library. Were do you think he got it from?
That may not be enough for the court system but luckly I'm not a judge or jury so my burden of proof doesn't need to be as high.
The key phrase was "tax payer funded". In this town of about 70. Most of whom are over 70, I think that they should be able to decide what they pay to support.
I live in ValP but I'm not from the area so I can tell you that this is all about context. This town, up until a little while ago, was called Boggy Bayou. My point is that its about as backwater red neck is anything you can imagine.
That's the context, just like eating a big juicy steak in Calcutta would upset people, viewing child porn on Valp is a big problem for the locals.
That's the great thing about our constitution, it allows the people who live in an area decide what kind of environment they want to live in. In this case, their upset that someone was viewing child port 20' from the children's book section.
As good as "free" sounds it's a very short sighed objective. Why would you hamper your Wifi network in the bureaucracy and complete idiocracy that plagues most city governments?
The reality of our governments, local, state, and federal, is that the people that participate in them aren't our nations best and brightest, they're running Fortune 500 companies not running for city council.
My two year old really likes "free" things too. But successful, educated, adults understand that only through free markets and sound business plans can you support the enormous technology rollout that would be required to get Wifi to the masses.
So, instead of trying to find ways to get our governments to do if for us, we should be brainstorming ways to start our own WiFi companies and start getting it out there.
Of course, we don't want the city governemts to roll in and take away our customer base. Vote down any attempt to establish a municipal wifi. Let them go back to making paper clip scrulptures or whatever it is they do all day.
It all comes down to the cost of a pizza. In 1982, Judge Green Ruled on the
Modified Final Judgment (MFJ), also known as the ruling that broke up the Bell
Telephone Company into RBOCs. Anyway, part of the judgment was that residential
users shouldn't pay more a month than the cost of a medium, one topping pizza.
Its a true story. In order to do that, the commercial customer have to pick
up part of the tab. That's done through connection charges. AT&T charges
your RBOC for every minute that they use their lines, your RBOC turns around
and charges ISP's.
With a mess of calculations, statistics, and QOS numbers it can be calculated
that if you use 3 MB a month instead of 1 MB then the RBOC will incurred an
increased fee from AT&T. They pass that along to the ISP. However, this
will all change when Qwest gets authorization to do inter-LATA calls. They can
go around AT&T and connect directly and not incurred the connection charge.
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I've been using Slicehost for a couple of months, backed by Rackspace Cloud Files instead of Amazon. As far as I'm concerned it the best thing since the Original Nintendo.
I have two PC's and a laptop at home and a work computer backing up to it, the resync occurs and night so I don't see any performance issues and its completely encrypted on the backed so I don't have to worry about someone browsing through my collection of unpublished poetry about water fowl.
If you haven't actually used one I suggest you check it out.
I don't post comments very often but I think I need to way in on this one. I agree that the planet is absolutely warming. Just like there are those who would deny evolution is a fact even though they can see it for their own eyes, you'll find plenty of people that say that the world isn't changing.
I use the word changing because every thing on this planet cycles, lakes expand and recede, populations of jack rabbits go up and down. The climate is the same way and that was made very clear by this year's hurricane activity. All through the historical record you find evidence of a 25 year pattern of hurricane activity in the US. The overall climate is much the same way but on a larger scale.
So we know that the world warms and cools. The real question here is are we causing this or is it just one of the natural cycles?
Working in government Research and Development has given me some insight into this subject. Most government labs are a mix of grads from MIT, Georgia Tech, etc and prior service veterans, mostly from the enlisted grades.
Its common practice in the enlisted grades of the US Defense Department to go to school via online programs, "military programs" and distance learning because it works better with over seas deployments. However, if you take 100 average DoD lab employees, put them in a room, and interview them. You will, with little effort, be able to identify who went to a 4 year university and who did it at night and on the weekends.
The bottom line is that you learn more at school then algorithms and functions. It's the interpersonal skills learned from years of working with other students that makes the difference between a successful person and a lab rat.
You've got media blinders on. Theres more to a story then what you see on the evening news. The reason he was at the library was because he didn't have any internet service at home.
At the time he was caught he was viewing plain old porn (POP) and this small town library didn't have any kind of logging capability so they couldn't prove that he'd viewied anything else.
So I ask the question, he does't have an internet connection at home, he's in possesion of child porn, and caught veiwing porn at the library. Were do you think he got it from?
That may not be enough for the court system but luckly I'm not a judge or jury so my burden of proof doesn't need to be as high.
The key phrase was "tax payer funded". In this town of about 70. Most of whom are over 70, I think that they should be able to decide what they pay to support.
I live in ValP but I'm not from the area so I can tell you that this is all about context. This town, up until a little while ago, was called Boggy Bayou. My point is that its about as backwater red neck is anything you can imagine. That's the context, just like eating a big juicy steak in Calcutta would upset people, viewing child porn on Valp is a big problem for the locals. That's the great thing about our constitution, it allows the people who live in an area decide what kind of environment they want to live in. In this case, their upset that someone was viewing child port 20' from the children's book section.
As good as "free" sounds it's a very short sighed objective. Why would you hamper your Wifi network in the bureaucracy and complete idiocracy that plagues most city governments?
The reality of our governments, local, state, and federal, is that the people that participate in them aren't our nations best and brightest, they're running Fortune 500 companies not running for city council.
My two year old really likes "free" things too. But successful, educated, adults understand that only through free markets and sound business plans can you support the enormous technology rollout that would be required to get Wifi to the masses.
So, instead of trying to find ways to get our governments to do if for us, we should be brainstorming ways to start our own WiFi companies and start getting it out there.
Of course, we don't want the city governemts to roll in and take away our customer base. Vote down any attempt to establish a municipal wifi. Let them go back to making paper clip scrulptures or whatever it is they do all day.
It all comes down to the cost of a pizza. In 1982, Judge Green Ruled on the Modified Final Judgment (MFJ), also known as the ruling that broke up the Bell Telephone Company into RBOCs. Anyway, part of the judgment was that residential users shouldn't pay more a month than the cost of a medium, one topping pizza. Its a true story. In order to do that, the commercial customer have to pick up part of the tab. That's done through connection charges. AT&T charges your RBOC for every minute that they use their lines, your RBOC turns around and charges ISP's.
With a mess of calculations, statistics, and QOS numbers it can be calculated that if you use 3 MB a month instead of 1 MB then the RBOC will incurred an increased fee from AT&T. They pass that along to the ISP. However, this will all change when Qwest gets authorization to do inter-LATA calls. They can go around AT&T and connect directly and not incurred the connection charge.
Expect big changes in the near future.