We used a place in NJ for a colo server called Trainyard Software. Small operation but very responsive. If you want help running your server, they'll help you. If you don't, they'll stay out of it. I originally intended to move to Rackspace, but after working with the smaller company a while, I decided to keep them as a vendor. We ran our primary app server there.
The service and uptime has been rock solid, but they are a small operation so don't expect Rackspace or Inmotion. Bigger isn't always better.
Citibank representative said the company denied any system breach or losses, according to the report.
My web host provider *cough*inmotion*cough* got hacked a couple months ago and they denied it across the board, tried to turn it back on the users by claiming all the accesses were routine FTP connections.
The move is part of the five-year search and advertising deal Verizon signed with Microsoft in January for a rumored $500m.
Reminds me of my dad saying someone was so ugly you had to hang a pork chop around their neck to find them a date. If Microsoft search is so great, why do they have pay Verizon a half-billion dollars to be their friend?
...the majority would be shocked and disgusted at the thought of experimenting on one, so why should we experiment on the monkeys?
Having been part of animal experiments in the past, this isn't easy subject. I think sometimes the scientific community does get a little impatient with animal rights organizations because they're like Republicans in that anytime you try to find middle ground, they move the center line. It's hard to negotiate with ignorant, closed-mined, intractable people.
Absent on the other side is recognition that the alternative is experimenting on humans. Cell culture experiments will only tell you about toxicity, not other systemic side effects. If a few monkeys lose their lives in the quest to save humans infected with anthrax, I'm okay with that. It's sad and shouldn't be done lightly, but there isn't really any alternative. It would be great if we lived in a world where we didn't have to use animals for food or experimentation, but it's just not the reality.
while there may be little legal recourse to issuing invalid DMCA notices...
You can't sue the organization issuing a bogus take-down notice? Tortious interference? Shouldn't be too tough to show actual damages, tripled in this state if it's deliberate. Or is there some incredibly high bar for damages?
The best man snuck into the newlyweds' house while they were away on their honeymoon and placed a pressure-sensitive device under their mattress.
So it only measures sex on the bed. How boring is that? That leaves out the walls, floor, couch, kitchen counter, pool table, the whole rest of the house and car sex un-Tweeted.
And, if you're Tiger Woods, the private jet, the yacht and the putting green.
What the fuck is it that you american's live in such state of paranoia?
There's some truth to that statement, although I think this situation might not be the best example. Friending fellow students and posting a specific, plausible threat that is then relayed to the teacher and school administration is not my definition of paranoia. It fits my definition of CYA, which the school was obliged to do.
The pat down search probably was not necessary, typical campus cop over-reaction. They could have just sat her down and explained that threatening people in quasi-public forum probably isn't the brightest idea. And keep in mind we only hear about the sensational incidents. There might have been a 100 other universities that cautioned individual students quietly that didn't make news.
I'm tired of the networks jacking the commercial sound up, its bullshit...
The networks don't necessarily boost the volume, but you're correct in the sense that they don't do anything to stop commercial developers from boosting the audio, which they can do quite easily. TV professionals have the technology to equalize the volume. There are still a lot of tricks you can employ to make your audio sound louder at the same volume, so even a limiter won't completely fix the problem. But that first step would help a lot.
Some of the networks are getting religion. I've heard a few adds that were definitely and obviously limited. They sounded like crap.
Get them a couple of these to travel around in, the pilot might be named "Virgil", a secret base on an island, maybe someone named Penelope to head it all up.
Says Fleishman, "Electricity should go to people who had money, not hooked up willy-nilly to everyone...Like electricity, the notion of whether broadband is an inherent right and necessity of every citizen is up for grabs in the US.
Same arguments being thrown at health care. But every week I help load someone exercising their right not to have health care in an ambulance because they collapsed. Even loaded one of them into a helicopter for a $10,000 trip to the ER. Unless you're prepared to stand by and let people die for lack of emergency care, then what we're doing now doesn't work. Otherwise we end up taking them to ER, with no insurance and no real income and the prices go up for the rest of us.
You could make the same argument for electricity. I have a friend building a homestead in that bastion of liberal thought we call rural Georgia. The state made him get a rental this winter or they threatened to take his kids and put them in a foster home. The state of Georgia doesn't view electricity as a luxury if you have kids. Any one you teabaggers want to argue we don't really need child protective services? Go on, make that case. Demonstrate how far gone intellectually you really are.
As technology changes what in one time was a luxury becomes an integral part of everyday life. At some point there's a blurry line between necessity and luxury. Making those choices from the perspective of some Grizzly Adams isolationist doesn't really account for the real world consequences.
Linux is expected to dominate ARM-based netbooks because Windows doesn't run on ARM, full stop.
The small internet appliance market sort of started in Japan, so it might be worthwhile to look at what's happened to the trend there. The same application and comfort level issues existed there and yet the netbook and appliance market has continued to grow, and continued to poach traditional PC and laptop sales.
30 years ago I used to hear people ask,"What would I do with a PC?" 15 years ago companies would tell me they get along just fine without the internet and electronic mail. I heard the same thing about iPods and iPhones. So when average users don't see the utility of new technology, that doesn't mean you should close the book on it.
I've noticed over the years that price and efficiency eventually win out. Every time Linux netbooks break a price barrier, $150 then $100, you'll see more people take an interest.
I MUST listen to something when I'm doing something serious.
I'm with you on that. No music, no code. Programming isn't difficult, it's tedious. If I don't have music to keep my energy level up my attention starts to drift. I use noise canceling headphones which block out everything, including the telephone.
The interesting thing...the only other really productive programmer just ignored his phone and never checked messages. It got to be kind of an inside joke around the shop. Even his message invited callers to leave a message for prosperity if they wished, which lasted until his voicemail box was full.
You have to do something to screen out the distractions around you or you'll never get anything done. I used to think programming at home would be ideal, but there are a lot of distractions here. The dog will drop her toy in my lap, the wife will need something, phone is harder to ignore.
At first glance I thought it said How To Build a Quantum Popsicle Machine. Then I thought Quantum Popsicle would have been a great name for a hair band in the 80's.
You could have flavors like Lime Quark and Strange Berry, put the stand up outside the Hadron Collider.
I remember when the internet first went private. None of the telecos minded inheriting the original infrastructure. But now that it's time to invest in new technologies, they whine like a spoiled little kid. Somebody call the whaaaambulance.
They're trying for the same deal the big banks get. Taxpayers shoulder the infrastructure investment, but the telecos get to run it and make obscene profits without any real oversight.
Our 40 year "government regulation is bad" experiment ended with disastrous results. Without a referee looking out for the interests of the public, which has a lot of skin in this game, the telecos are going to ride us all like a carnival pony, just like Wall Street.
Back in college the city was putting in a new, very large water tower. We started a rumor that it was actually a nuclear power plant disguised as a water tower and if you called the city, they would claim it was only a water tower.
They got enough calls it made the local paper. And when they tried to explain it was a water tower, "They said you'd say that!" Classic.
A data center in a silo would be almost as good. Looks like a death ray generator to me. Yeah, Canadian death ray. Pew! Pew! Pew! Eh?
They didn't mention it because it doesn't matter. Its the result of bad coding practices.
It does too matter. You don't infect 132,000 web sites with separate injection attacks. That's automated. Lot of the people running forums and CMS-driven web sites don't understand the code well enough to fix anything.
Heck, one of my sites was hacked once, through the forum software. I'm not in the habit of combing through forum code looking for unvalidated inputs. So if someone could mention what the parent exploit is, what versions of that software are effected and whether the operating system OS makes a difference, then those same webmasters could make sure their software was up to date. This article describes the client exploit. I don't care about that, surf with Windows and that's going to happen. I do care that crap isn't originating with any of my web sites.
I love the way they fail to mention what server systems might be effected. Is it SQL Server? MySQL?.NET? PHP? Windows servers? Linux? Both? What web sites are vulnerable?
It's always fun to snicker when you get to the registry entries which points to Windows. Although there was a trojan for Ubuntu in a desktop theme a few days ago, so enjoy the time to mock Windows users while it lasts.
Another possible explanation is that the original rocket was a target drone with rocket assisted take off. The light could have been a ground laser engaging the drone. If you've ever seen a test of a large scale laser, you can't really tell if the beam originates on the ground or from the target, if you can see it at all.
Although a 10 minute kill time challenges that theory. A laser anti-aircraft weapon for engaging targets that conveniently linger over the target area for an extended period of time. Not exactly a Death Star, is it?
My question is, have any Slashdotters been forced into a non-technical role, and how did it work out?
Badly. I got pushed from the technical lead into a VP position managing that whole end of the business in a mid-cap company. In that role I got pulled into budget battles, which are normal, relationship management with partners, also normal and locked into the quarterly numbers game, which means a lot of meetings with the auditors. Too keep the technical aspects on track we had to bring in a new technical guy. You can see where this is going. I could have fired the new tech guy so I had a job to go back to when we streamlined after the initial development phase but it just didn't seem fair. I got a nice bonus and severance, plus my options were golden, but I essentially worked myself out of a job and was penalized for hiring competent people.
In that scenario you'll be unhappy if you do a bad job or if you do a really, really good job. You'll put in a lot of extra hours, do a lot of extra traveling. There were some perks I miss. The secretary, the expense account, the $1,800 bar tabs, meetings on the golf course, the membership at the club and the options I cashed in. Those eased the pain a bit. But it doesn't sound like you get any of those perks.
Has anyone said 'No thanks' to this kind of promotion and managed to keep their jobs?"
After getting burned the first time, the next gig I went back to being a head down developer and stayed in my office, only coming out for coffee, to urinate and to feed. I built three critical systems and was the only person the client wanted to work with. I was that guy in Office Space. I turned down promotions, turned in paperwork late, stood up mandatory meetings, re-wrote my performance eval when I didn't like it and just generally made the people dumb enough to accept the supervisor positions miserable. Sometimes because I genuinely didn't like them, other times out of a perverse sense of tradition and once because I was being a royal dick. Wish I had that one to do over. But I got away with it.
So all you have to decide is which job would you rather have? As a manager, at some point you're going to be in a position where you either have to dick someone or take a bullet. If you're okay with that decision, then go for it.
...and that responsibility compels us to protect our rights.
I always love it when some major corporation making billions of dollars plays themselves off as some kind of victim. They were forced into it. Right. Reminds me of the the mob. We's didn't want to whack Joey, but der was no other choice. Hey, he was gonna rat, we had to do it.
Those poor, poor mega-billion dollar corporations. So victimized.
'If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place.'
Taken out of context this group might scan what you're saying, but keep in mind an unfortunate percentage of your adult audience can't find Australia on a map.
We know what you meant, but it's really okay to pause during an interview to give yourself a second to think. There's a natural tendency to keep talking when the red light is on.
Did you actually read the document (especially the part about narrowly-crafted subpoenas and court orders)?
I'm not clear who you're accusing of not reading. Because there's nothing about warrants in the article and this was in the comments.
Sprint/Nextel is being picked on here ofr its automated web portal that allows agencies to extract all manner of data without FISA court warrants or any other oversight
Part of the issue here is they're selling this data to law enforcement in the absence of any warrant or court orders narrow or otherwise. Collecting data on people without a warrant is spying and these companies are making money off of it.
Slashdot Mirror
Which providers?
We used a place in NJ for a colo server called Trainyard Software. Small operation but very responsive. If you want help running your server, they'll help you. If you don't, they'll stay out of it. I originally intended to move to Rackspace, but after working with the smaller company a while, I decided to keep them as a vendor. We ran our primary app server there.
The service and uptime has been rock solid, but they are a small operation so don't expect Rackspace or Inmotion. Bigger isn't always better.
Citibank representative said the company denied any system breach or losses, according to the report.
My web host provider *cough*inmotion*cough* got hacked a couple months ago and they denied it across the board, tried to turn it back on the users by claiming all the accesses were routine FTP connections.
Makes me wonder if denial is the new trend?
The move is part of the five-year search and advertising deal Verizon signed with Microsoft in January for a rumored $500m.
Reminds me of my dad saying someone was so ugly you had to hang a pork chop around their neck to find them a date. If Microsoft search is so great, why do they have pay Verizon a half-billion dollars to be their friend?
Having been part of animal experiments in the past, this isn't easy subject. I think sometimes the scientific community does get a little impatient with animal rights organizations because they're like Republicans in that anytime you try to find middle ground, they move the center line. It's hard to negotiate with ignorant, closed-mined, intractable people.
Absent on the other side is recognition that the alternative is experimenting on humans. Cell culture experiments will only tell you about toxicity, not other systemic side effects. If a few monkeys lose their lives in the quest to save humans infected with anthrax, I'm okay with that. It's sad and shouldn't be done lightly, but there isn't really any alternative. It would be great if we lived in a world where we didn't have to use animals for food or experimentation, but it's just not the reality.
Please replace all references to the trademarked "Pope" with "Old Guy In The Funny Hat". Now that's better.
while there may be little legal recourse to issuing invalid DMCA notices...
You can't sue the organization issuing a bogus take-down notice? Tortious interference? Shouldn't be too tough to show actual damages, tripled in this state if it's deliberate. Or is there some incredibly high bar for damages?
The best man snuck into the newlyweds' house while they were away on their honeymoon and placed a pressure-sensitive device under their mattress.
So it only measures sex on the bed. How boring is that? That leaves out the walls, floor, couch, kitchen counter, pool table, the whole rest of the house and car sex un-Tweeted.
And, if you're Tiger Woods, the private jet, the yacht and the putting green.
What the fuck is it that you american's live in such state of paranoia?
There's some truth to that statement, although I think this situation might not be the best example. Friending fellow students and posting a specific, plausible threat that is then relayed to the teacher and school administration is not my definition of paranoia. It fits my definition of CYA, which the school was obliged to do.
The pat down search probably was not necessary, typical campus cop over-reaction. They could have just sat her down and explained that threatening people in quasi-public forum probably isn't the brightest idea. And keep in mind we only hear about the sensational incidents. There might have been a 100 other universities that cautioned individual students quietly that didn't make news.
I'm tired of the networks jacking the commercial sound up, its bullshit...
The networks don't necessarily boost the volume, but you're correct in the sense that they don't do anything to stop commercial developers from boosting the audio, which they can do quite easily. TV professionals have the technology to equalize the volume. There are still a lot of tricks you can employ to make your audio sound louder at the same volume, so even a limiter won't completely fix the problem. But that first step would help a lot.
Some of the networks are getting religion. I've heard a few adds that were definitely and obviously limited. They sounded like crap.
Get them a couple of these to travel around in, the pilot might be named "Virgil", a secret base on an island, maybe someone named Penelope to head it all up.
That's a go!
Says Fleishman, "Electricity should go to people who had money, not hooked up willy-nilly to everyone...Like electricity, the notion of whether broadband is an inherent right and necessity of every citizen is up for grabs in the US.
Same arguments being thrown at health care. But every week I help load someone exercising their right not to have health care in an ambulance because they collapsed. Even loaded one of them into a helicopter for a $10,000 trip to the ER. Unless you're prepared to stand by and let people die for lack of emergency care, then what we're doing now doesn't work. Otherwise we end up taking them to ER, with no insurance and no real income and the prices go up for the rest of us.
You could make the same argument for electricity. I have a friend building a homestead in that bastion of liberal thought we call rural Georgia. The state made him get a rental this winter or they threatened to take his kids and put them in a foster home. The state of Georgia doesn't view electricity as a luxury if you have kids. Any one you teabaggers want to argue we don't really need child protective services? Go on, make that case. Demonstrate how far gone intellectually you really are.
As technology changes what in one time was a luxury becomes an integral part of everyday life. At some point there's a blurry line between necessity and luxury. Making those choices from the perspective of some Grizzly Adams isolationist doesn't really account for the real world consequences.
Besides being a hippocrite
Ah, the elusive horse-crite. I thought they were only a legend.
Linux is expected to dominate ARM-based netbooks because Windows doesn't run on ARM, full stop.
The small internet appliance market sort of started in Japan, so it might be worthwhile to look at what's happened to the trend there. The same application and comfort level issues existed there and yet the netbook and appliance market has continued to grow, and continued to poach traditional PC and laptop sales.
30 years ago I used to hear people ask,"What would I do with a PC?" 15 years ago companies would tell me they get along just fine without the internet and electronic mail. I heard the same thing about iPods and iPhones. So when average users don't see the utility of new technology, that doesn't mean you should close the book on it.
I've noticed over the years that price and efficiency eventually win out. Every time Linux netbooks break a price barrier, $150 then $100, you'll see more people take an interest.
What could go wrong?
I MUST listen to something when I'm doing something serious.
I'm with you on that. No music, no code. Programming isn't difficult, it's tedious. If I don't have music to keep my energy level up my attention starts to drift. I use noise canceling headphones which block out everything, including the telephone.
The interesting thing...the only other really productive programmer just ignored his phone and never checked messages. It got to be kind of an inside joke around the shop. Even his message invited callers to leave a message for prosperity if they wished, which lasted until his voicemail box was full.
You have to do something to screen out the distractions around you or you'll never get anything done. I used to think programming at home would be ideal, but there are a lot of distractions here. The dog will drop her toy in my lap, the wife will need something, phone is harder to ignore.
How To Build a Quantum Propulsion Machine
At first glance I thought it said How To Build a Quantum Popsicle Machine. Then I thought Quantum Popsicle would have been a great name for a hair band in the 80's.
You could have flavors like Lime Quark and Strange Berry, put the stand up outside the Hadron Collider.
I remember when the internet first went private. None of the telecos minded inheriting the original infrastructure. But now that it's time to invest in new technologies, they whine like a spoiled little kid. Somebody call the whaaaambulance.
They're trying for the same deal the big banks get. Taxpayers shoulder the infrastructure investment, but the telecos get to run it and make obscene profits without any real oversight.
Our 40 year "government regulation is bad" experiment ended with disastrous results. Without a referee looking out for the interests of the public, which has a lot of skin in this game, the telecos are going to ride us all like a carnival pony, just like Wall Street.
Back in college the city was putting in a new, very large water tower. We started a rumor that it was actually a nuclear power plant disguised as a water tower and if you called the city, they would claim it was only a water tower.
They got enough calls it made the local paper. And when they tried to explain it was a water tower, "They said you'd say that!" Classic.
A data center in a silo would be almost as good. Looks like a death ray generator to me. Yeah, Canadian death ray. Pew! Pew! Pew! Eh?
They didn't mention it because it doesn't matter. Its the result of bad coding practices.
It does too matter. You don't infect 132,000 web sites with separate injection attacks. That's automated. Lot of the people running forums and CMS-driven web sites don't understand the code well enough to fix anything.
Heck, one of my sites was hacked once, through the forum software. I'm not in the habit of combing through forum code looking for unvalidated inputs. So if someone could mention what the parent exploit is, what versions of that software are effected and whether the operating system OS makes a difference, then those same webmasters could make sure their software was up to date. This article describes the client exploit. I don't care about that, surf with Windows and that's going to happen. I do care that crap isn't originating with any of my web sites.
I love the way they fail to mention what server systems might be effected. Is it SQL Server? MySQL? .NET? PHP? Windows servers? Linux? Both? What web sites are vulnerable?
It's always fun to snicker when you get to the registry entries which points to Windows. Although there was a trojan for Ubuntu in a desktop theme a few days ago, so enjoy the time to mock Windows users while it lasts.
Another possible explanation is that the original rocket was a target drone with rocket assisted take off. The light could have been a ground laser engaging the drone. If you've ever seen a test of a large scale laser, you can't really tell if the beam originates on the ground or from the target, if you can see it at all.
Although a 10 minute kill time challenges that theory. A laser anti-aircraft weapon for engaging targets that conveniently linger over the target area for an extended period of time. Not exactly a Death Star, is it?
My question is, have any Slashdotters been forced into a non-technical role, and how did it work out?
Badly. I got pushed from the technical lead into a VP position managing that whole end of the business in a mid-cap company. In that role I got pulled into budget battles, which are normal, relationship management with partners, also normal and locked into the quarterly numbers game, which means a lot of meetings with the auditors. Too keep the technical aspects on track we had to bring in a new technical guy. You can see where this is going. I could have fired the new tech guy so I had a job to go back to when we streamlined after the initial development phase but it just didn't seem fair. I got a nice bonus and severance, plus my options were golden, but I essentially worked myself out of a job and was penalized for hiring competent people.
In that scenario you'll be unhappy if you do a bad job or if you do a really, really good job. You'll put in a lot of extra hours, do a lot of extra traveling. There were some perks I miss. The secretary, the expense account, the $1,800 bar tabs, meetings on the golf course, the membership at the club and the options I cashed in. Those eased the pain a bit. But it doesn't sound like you get any of those perks.
Has anyone said 'No thanks' to this kind of promotion and managed to keep their jobs?"
After getting burned the first time, the next gig I went back to being a head down developer and stayed in my office, only coming out for coffee, to urinate and to feed. I built three critical systems and was the only person the client wanted to work with. I was that guy in Office Space. I turned down promotions, turned in paperwork late, stood up mandatory meetings, re-wrote my performance eval when I didn't like it and just generally made the people dumb enough to accept the supervisor positions miserable. Sometimes because I genuinely didn't like them, other times out of a perverse sense of tradition and once because I was being a royal dick. Wish I had that one to do over. But I got away with it.
So all you have to decide is which job would you rather have? As a manager, at some point you're going to be in a position where you either have to dick someone or take a bullet. If you're okay with that decision, then go for it.
I always love it when some major corporation making billions of dollars plays themselves off as some kind of victim. They were forced into it. Right. Reminds me of the the mob. We's didn't want to whack Joey, but der was no other choice. Hey, he was gonna rat, we had to do it.
Those poor, poor mega-billion dollar corporations. So victimized.
'If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place.'
Taken out of context this group might scan what you're saying, but keep in mind an unfortunate percentage of your adult audience can't find Australia on a map.
We know what you meant, but it's really okay to pause during an interview to give yourself a second to think. There's a natural tendency to keep talking when the red light is on.
Did you actually read the document (especially the part about narrowly-crafted subpoenas and court orders)?
I'm not clear who you're accusing of not reading. Because there's nothing about warrants in the article and this was in the comments.
Sprint/Nextel is being picked on here ofr its automated web portal that allows agencies to extract all manner of data without FISA court warrants or any other oversight Part of the issue here is they're selling this data to law enforcement in the absence of any warrant or court orders narrow or otherwise. Collecting data on people without a warrant is spying and these companies are making money off of it.