This should be modded WAY down. There is NO DATA to support you theory of "Dead Zones". Most Dead Zones are due to Algae blooms fueled by Nitrate runoff. The water in the city is going to be very polluted and nasty with germs and disease but this isn't a drop in the bucket compared to the volume of water dumped into the Gulf by the Mississippi River every day. I wouldn't be surpried to see some localized effects around Lake Ponchatrain and at the mouth of the Mississippi but no "sky is falling" catastrophe. There have been no major oil spills or chemical spills and when some water gets pumped down and treatment plants are back on line the water pumped out will be better than what is already IN the Lake. Your "oxygen from the Gulf" is also so much BS.
You can't in any certainty say the money went for Homeland Security or the War in Iraq. There were a lot of other areas that went up in the budget, as well as a LOT of Pork (as usual). Why don't you scream at the pork guys like Robert Byrd take to West Va and Stevens takes to Alaska. If we'd get rid of pork and get real welfare reform we can take care of a lot of other issues. Those are just as likely of a culprit for the shortfall. Unless you can point me to a source that says they took money from A to pay for B it's so much speculation.
The budget shorfall in FY06 was projected at $50M, that's nowhere near the cost of the War in Iraq, not even close. I'm would have thought $50M could have been found somewhere.
Here is the COE Descrption of SELA.
Purpose
The Southeast Louisiana Project provides for engineering, design, and construction of projects for flood control and improvements to rainfall drainage systems in Jefferson, Orleans and St. Tammany Parishes.
Background
Between 1978 and 1998, Orleans, Jefferson, and St. Tammany Parishes experienced numerous rainfall flooding events. Flooding originates from excessive rainfall and outdated urban drainage facilities. The Federal Emergency Management Agency paid claims totaling over $814 million for this period. Devastating record flooding due to torrential rainfalls in southeast Louisiana occurred May 8 through May 10, 1995. In May 1995, 6-hour rainfall amounts, averaging 12 inches, caused extensive flooding throughout the area. Seven lives were lost and over 35,000 homes were flooded along with thousands of businesses and public facilities. There was significant street and highway damage. Estimated flood damages, reported for the May event, total about $1 billion for the three parishes.
As a result of the extensive flooding in May 1995, Congress authorized the Southeast Louisiana (SELA) Project with enactment of Section 108 of the Energy and Water Development Appropriations Act for Fiscal Year 1996 and Section 533 of the Water Resources Development Act (WRDA) of 1996, as amended, to provide for flood control and improvements to rainfall drainage systems in Jefferson, Orleans, and St. Tammany Parishes, Louisiana in accordance with the following reconnaissance reports of the New Orleans District Engineer: Jefferson and Orleans Parishes, Louisiana, Urban Flood Control and Water Quality Management, July 1992; Tangipahoa, Techefuncte, and Tickfaw Rivers, Louisiana, June 1991; St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana, July 1996; and Schneider Canal, Slidell, Louisiana, Hurricane Protection, May 1990.
Technical reports were prepared in April 1996 and May 1996 to identify the initial work to be implemented under the SELA project authority. These technical reports, which were approved in October 1996, were the basis of the Project Cooperation Agreements (PCAs) for Jefferson and Orleans Parishes that were executed on January 16, 1997 and January 23, 1997.
Authority
The project was authorized by the Fiscal 1996 Energy and Water Development Appropriations Act (Sec 108), and the Water Resources Development Act of 1996 (Sec 533).
Scope
The project includes channel and pump station improvements in the three parishes. The channel and pumping station improvements in Orleans and Jefferson Parishes support the parishes' master drainage plans and generally provide flood protection on a level associated with a ten-year rainfall event, while also reducing damages for larger events. St. Tammany Parish plans would provide flood protection for various rainfall events.
In Orleans Parish, approved plans involve improving five major drainage lines, adding pumping capacity to two pump stations, and adding a new pump station. Proposed plans include improving 13 canals, adding pump capacity to two existing pump stations, and adding two new pump stations.
Progress to Date
In Orleans Parish, nine contracts have been awarded, seven are complete, two are underway, and one remains to be awarded. Most of the remaining contracts had been scheduled for award in fiscal year 2003; however, funding limitations have prevented moving forward with those contracts. Overall, the currently scheduled work in Orleans and Jefferson Parishes is about 70 percent complete and should be finished in 2008, if funding can keep pace.
Ad hominen attacks only serve to prove you can't handle a content based debate on the issues. About all I can say is your User ID is pretty much your IQ.
People like you make my fucking sick really says a LOT about your character. You got problems, when you can't discuss something without resorting to ad hominen attacks on others. So, go back to playing whatever game you call life and leave the important discussions to those who a)know something about how things work in Disasters and b) can talk about it reasonably. I see that you also played the race card, how intelligent. For all you know I may be a minority too. If all you want is your scream and shout and blame others to get a few minutes of attention like JJ and LF, I suggest you go elsewhere. Folks like you are NOT a help to your race, in fact that are not a help to the HUMAN race. There are a huge number of holes in your arguments but I won't waste my keystrokes on you. Come back when you can deal in facts not emotions.
Wrong facts...Katrina is the most EXPENSIVE hurrican, NOT the strongest. The strongest recorded was Andrew. 210 MPH gust are pure BS, the MAX winds were 175 and that was offshore, in the eyewall. The storm came ashore as a minimal Cat 4, 210 MPH wind gusts is way into Cat 5 category.
New Oreleans has been below sea level for at least 40 years, the levees are that old.
I now work in the Homeland Securiy area (private company) and have read the National Disaster Plan and the way it works is this, the Governor has to ASK for Federal assistance from DHS. DHS has no power (without the declaration of a national incident from the President) to take over on it's own.
AS for FEMA FEMA isn't in charge any more, they are part of DHS, and recently underwent a lot of changes which may have contributed to the problems.
"All politics is local". The mayor is upset and frustrated at the pace of assistance, but as a former NYC police chief said they could have done more to help themselves. New Orleans as a city was given money to prepare for these things by buying comm gear for police (sat radios) that would work w/o radio towers. That was about $15M bucks, and no one has seen a single radio! By shifting ALL the blame to the Feds (I will agree there is some blame) the mayor now has the minds of the people on the failing of the DHS/FEMA and not the ineptitude of his own department (and corruption too..just read the accounts of police looting). The order to evacuate came too late, and too little was done to help. Why didn't the mayor commandeer city and school buses to move people? Why wasn't the SuperDome well stocked with supplies, why was there no list of what hospitals and their critical patient status? I could go on and on. All of these items are listed as planning and prepardness items in the DHS plans which have been published for a couple of years.
I think YOU better go read some facts before calling other people stupid. I don't have my plans in front of my but I can point out specific failings on the part of EACH level of Government if you want. Plus you got to realize aid this massive takes time to organize, otherwise it's chaos on top of chaos!! First responders and aid groups could not reach the city due to flooded roads and were stacked up.
Actually based on national IQ surveys, intelligence has nothing to do with your politics. A lot of it comes from your parents views!
Very good point, either it's and OC-48 or he doesn't know WTF he is talking about. Based on intel from a friend whose brother is in charge of all the telco infrastructure in lower MS and says it is all toast (La can't be better) I'd just about claim BS on this whole thing but I suppose it just might be true.
It's also possible that someone has mirrored a lot of the customer sites at another data center and you just think you are hitting an IP address in the affected areas when in fact the IP has been redirected to Hong Kong or California. I'll have to go read the blog and see if there are any clues to this being BS.
There are already devices you can put into a car that uses GPS to track the car and you can see it's whereabouts on a web site. There is also the "black box" in your car (2003 and newer) that now records how fast you were going and the position of the brake, etc. This data can be accessed and used by investigtors (police and insurance). If someone says they saw a car like yours driving erractically and that caused an accident they can come to your house, dump the system and tell if it was you. And of course if you have an accident and say I was doing the speed limit, the insurance company comes over reads the data and finds out you were hitting 80, then it's claim denied. Not a thing you can do, and you can't disable the box. Here in TX, starting today, car stickers have to say if the car is equipped with those sort of boxes.
Sure you can, you just have to leave the keys in the car so it can be easily stolen while the guards are checking someone's gym bag. I do however wonder if a) you can accidentally erase your key and the car won't start or b) you introduce a car virus and something really bad happens to the car.
Just remember CNET is an MS Shill, has been for a long time. Someone at MS decided to take a shot at other browsers in a way they though no one would complain to much about. After all we are good law abiding sheep ^H^H^H^H^H citizens who need police friendly software and DRM to protect us from the evil terrorists, right?? While we are being protected from the terrorists, the hackeers/scammers and spammers are cleaning up! Just change the name of your Firefox directory to Donut Store Locations and they'll find it in a flash!
I think we are between a rock and hard place here. We want our information to be secure and protected from the "bad guys" but we don't want to give the other type of "bad guys" all the tools they need to lock us out either where we can't do anything. In the hands of a few the standard could be burdensome, but I don't see the few here, it's an open standard anyone can comment on it and it doesn't specify an implementation. But I agree that it can be turned to evil just as guns can. Absolute power corrupts.
I have consulted with folks who do it each way and each has reasons for the way they do it. Have you ever looked at the price of a 4-hr turn support contract times 300 nodes? Sure you can get a discount but it's still a lot of $$$. Building and fixing things yourself can be cheaper if your staff has the skills. But it can be more expensive if you can't handle downtime (but that begs the question why you don't have redundancy if it is business critical?). You can invest the money in YOUR people and control your own destiny or give it to Dell/IBM/Sun and they may/may not respond in 4 hours. I have seen parts for servers that were on a 4hr fix take days to get in, I could have gone to Frys/BestBuy/MailOrder and got them quicker. It all comes down to what your business philosophy is, there really isn't a right/wrong answer. If you tracked your TOTAL costs of doing things one way and then tried the other way as an attempt to lower the costs then you might be able to make a solid argument for doing it yourself or buying support.
yes the can be considered fixed.
Maintenance is generally 20-22% of the license fee per year for a product.
Support & Sys Admin - X number of admins per Y boxes times thier salary. Unless you are shrinking or growing the environment drastically these costs can be considered fixed.
App Server Support - is that software or admin support? Software support can be budgeted at X heads per year and all the fixes have to fit in that budget. So it can be considered a fixed cost as it isn't going to go up or down drastically unless something unplanned happens.
Item (c) seems to overlap with (b). System admins cost is double counted it seems to me.
If the statistics show the link, it's there. Simple as that unless someone has deliberatly messed with the data. Based on my statistics that I learned in Grad School, there are only two inferences you can draw, either the IS a link, or the data is bad (flawed study?). Personally I think those who share music do so out of a love of music and to bring joy to others. Of course there are those out there doing it just to make money or piss off the RIAA.
"correlation is not causation". If I recall my statistics right, if you take a sample and calculate the co-variance and that value is positive (the closer to 1 the better) then there IS a statement that can be made that the movement of one variable (Sales) is the result of the othe variable (pirating). Of course you are using logic which works different. I think the orginal post was talking statistical terms.
Thats the HUMANs who are doing that, not the TCI software standards. I can just as easily say all the same things about ANY security mechanism on any operating system. Lets take HTTPS and IPSec for example, you probably use these secure standards every day for your benefit. Crooks like Enron and Worldcomm did to. It proves nothing. TCI is just a standard that can be used to enhance security, what you chose to secure, good or bad is a human decision
IBM pushes Linux really strong on it's servers. AIX is still available if you really want it but they charge pretty steep for it. However, if you have custom apps written for AIX it's probably cheaper to stay with it when you upgrade servers. If you are building from scratch then Linux would be IBM's reccomendation. Sun and HP servers will run various flavors on Linux but they are NOT going to be pushing them over HP-UX and Solaris 10.
I recall the mechanism to reel it in jammed due to the excess tension. They had to cut the cable or they let it all spool out, I'm not sure which one. The researchers were really bummed.
I they have a tri-band phone I could be on any US Network. My new Sprint phone has that so I can roam on anyone's net as long as I get a signal. At least that is what they told me. I've never tried it!
Funny, they will be using the COWs to BEEF up the infrastructure that was damaged. I hope someone doesn't HOG the bandwidth;)
COW = Cell on Wheels (i.e. a portable cell tower)
TCI really doesn't concern your everyday user. It is for companies who have to protect highly sensitive information from disclosure by keeping the systems the data lives on secure. Systems handling finances, classified data, etc. all these can benefit from such an initiative. Just think ig TCI had been used a lot of the recent spate of ID thefts might have been prevented because the system would never have let itself be hacked. Of course, this CAN be taken too far. It's best applied in small doses where it can do the most good.
Yes, but the lake level is actaully droppingback to normal so water may start flowing the other way!! Which complicates things, then they have to get the pumps back working which may be underwater, I guess they could bring in some huge oil rig mud pumps on barges and start with that. It's good news but it's a long way from the crisis being over. I wonder about the Mississippi river levees when all the rain in the TN and OH Valley areas gets down there.
They are bringing in COWs to help out. I don't know how many of those they have and they will have to be refueled daily.
Ham is a good idea, but with towers down and equipment underwater (in NO) that's kinda limited.
Explain how Ham radios tie into PSTN? I'm sure it can be done, but it can't be free. Does it work similar to VOIP where you are sending voice as data packets?
vxWorks is based on the UNIX pre-emptive tasking model but is has evolved way past that. The Real-Time UNIX stamdard is actually called POSIX.
VxWorks is a great product, I wrote code for embedded systems using that as the OS for many years. Of course it has to be "customized" to the processor and peripherals via a Board Support Package, so it's not "plug and pray". Lately they (Wind River) have not been doing to well financially, I think Windows CE is hurting thier market.
They don't need Blood, they need money, food, water, and places for shelter. Donate THAT via Red Cross, your church, Salvation Army, and here at work our company is using the charity matching benefit to double what we give.
Even if they had wi-fi access, how long will your battery last w/o some way to recharge it via the wall charger or your car chargeer. Cell phones can work on different carriers networks, they have to for 911 calls. It would take a little reprogramming and some co-operation among the companies but I sure don't see that happening.
From another list I am on, I know a guy whose brother is in charge of all the cellular infrastructure in MS, he says it is ALL gone South of Hattiesburg. They are going to try to bring in COWs (Cell towers On Wheels) and then those with phones can use them. Of course all landlines are out so cells (and radios) are the only way to communicate.
Slander and libel are not criminal offenses, thus no jail time. Other than that I agree with you! What he said on his blog is not any different than what someone might say in PC Magazine, or the editorial page of the newspapers. It is OPINION, slander/libel also have to have malice(deliberate attempt to harm), and that is very hard to prove
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This should be modded WAY down. There is NO DATA to support you theory of "Dead Zones". Most Dead Zones are due to Algae blooms fueled by Nitrate runoff. The water in the city is going to be very polluted and nasty with germs and disease but this isn't a drop in the bucket compared to the volume of water dumped into the Gulf by the Mississippi River every day. I wouldn't be surpried to see some localized effects around Lake Ponchatrain and at the mouth of the Mississippi but no "sky is falling" catastrophe. There have been no major oil spills or chemical spills and when some water gets pumped down and treatment plants are back on line the water pumped out will be better than what is already IN the Lake. Your "oxygen from the Gulf" is also so much BS.
You can't in any certainty say the money went for Homeland Security or the War in Iraq. There were a lot of other areas that went up in the budget, as well as a LOT of Pork (as usual). Why don't you scream at the pork guys like Robert Byrd take to West Va and Stevens takes to Alaska. If we'd get rid of pork and get real welfare reform we can take care of a lot of other issues. Those are just as likely of a culprit for the shortfall. Unless you can point me to a source that says they took money from A to pay for B it's so much speculation. The budget shorfall in FY06 was projected at $50M, that's nowhere near the cost of the War in Iraq, not even close. I'm would have thought $50M could have been found somewhere. Here is the COE Descrption of SELA. Purpose The Southeast Louisiana Project provides for engineering, design, and construction of projects for flood control and improvements to rainfall drainage systems in Jefferson, Orleans and St. Tammany Parishes. Background Between 1978 and 1998, Orleans, Jefferson, and St. Tammany Parishes experienced numerous rainfall flooding events. Flooding originates from excessive rainfall and outdated urban drainage facilities. The Federal Emergency Management Agency paid claims totaling over $814 million for this period. Devastating record flooding due to torrential rainfalls in southeast Louisiana occurred May 8 through May 10, 1995. In May 1995, 6-hour rainfall amounts, averaging 12 inches, caused extensive flooding throughout the area. Seven lives were lost and over 35,000 homes were flooded along with thousands of businesses and public facilities. There was significant street and highway damage. Estimated flood damages, reported for the May event, total about $1 billion for the three parishes. As a result of the extensive flooding in May 1995, Congress authorized the Southeast Louisiana (SELA) Project with enactment of Section 108 of the Energy and Water Development Appropriations Act for Fiscal Year 1996 and Section 533 of the Water Resources Development Act (WRDA) of 1996, as amended, to provide for flood control and improvements to rainfall drainage systems in Jefferson, Orleans, and St. Tammany Parishes, Louisiana in accordance with the following reconnaissance reports of the New Orleans District Engineer: Jefferson and Orleans Parishes, Louisiana, Urban Flood Control and Water Quality Management, July 1992; Tangipahoa, Techefuncte, and Tickfaw Rivers, Louisiana, June 1991; St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana, July 1996; and Schneider Canal, Slidell, Louisiana, Hurricane Protection, May 1990. Technical reports were prepared in April 1996 and May 1996 to identify the initial work to be implemented under the SELA project authority. These technical reports, which were approved in October 1996, were the basis of the Project Cooperation Agreements (PCAs) for Jefferson and Orleans Parishes that were executed on January 16, 1997 and January 23, 1997. Authority The project was authorized by the Fiscal 1996 Energy and Water Development Appropriations Act (Sec 108), and the Water Resources Development Act of 1996 (Sec 533). Scope The project includes channel and pump station improvements in the three parishes. The channel and pumping station improvements in Orleans and Jefferson Parishes support the parishes' master drainage plans and generally provide flood protection on a level associated with a ten-year rainfall event, while also reducing damages for larger events. St. Tammany Parish plans would provide flood protection for various rainfall events. In Orleans Parish, approved plans involve improving five major drainage lines, adding pumping capacity to two pump stations, and adding a new pump station. Proposed plans include improving 13 canals, adding pump capacity to two existing pump stations, and adding two new pump stations. Progress to Date In Orleans Parish, nine contracts have been awarded, seven are complete, two are underway, and one remains to be awarded. Most of the remaining contracts had been scheduled for award in fiscal year 2003; however, funding limitations have prevented moving forward with those contracts. Overall, the currently scheduled work in Orleans and Jefferson Parishes is about 70 percent complete and should be finished in 2008, if funding can keep pace.
Ad hominen attacks only serve to prove you can't handle a content based debate on the issues. About all I can say is your User ID is pretty much your IQ.
People like you make my fucking sick really says a LOT about your character. You got problems, when you can't discuss something without resorting to ad hominen attacks on others. So, go back to playing whatever game you call life and leave the important discussions to those who a)know something about how things work in Disasters and b) can talk about it reasonably. I see that you also played the race card, how intelligent. For all you know I may be a minority too. If all you want is your scream and shout and blame others to get a few minutes of attention like JJ and LF, I suggest you go elsewhere. Folks like you are NOT a help to your race, in fact that are not a help to the HUMAN race. There are a huge number of holes in your arguments but I won't waste my keystrokes on you. Come back when you can deal in facts not emotions.
Wrong facts...Katrina is the most EXPENSIVE hurrican, NOT the strongest. The strongest recorded was Andrew. 210 MPH gust are pure BS, the MAX winds were 175 and that was offshore, in the eyewall. The storm came ashore as a minimal Cat 4, 210 MPH wind gusts is way into Cat 5 category. New Oreleans has been below sea level for at least 40 years, the levees are that old. I now work in the Homeland Securiy area (private company) and have read the National Disaster Plan and the way it works is this, the Governor has to ASK for Federal assistance from DHS. DHS has no power (without the declaration of a national incident from the President) to take over on it's own. AS for FEMA FEMA isn't in charge any more, they are part of DHS, and recently underwent a lot of changes which may have contributed to the problems. "All politics is local". The mayor is upset and frustrated at the pace of assistance, but as a former NYC police chief said they could have done more to help themselves. New Orleans as a city was given money to prepare for these things by buying comm gear for police (sat radios) that would work w/o radio towers. That was about $15M bucks, and no one has seen a single radio! By shifting ALL the blame to the Feds (I will agree there is some blame) the mayor now has the minds of the people on the failing of the DHS/FEMA and not the ineptitude of his own department (and corruption too..just read the accounts of police looting). The order to evacuate came too late, and too little was done to help. Why didn't the mayor commandeer city and school buses to move people? Why wasn't the SuperDome well stocked with supplies, why was there no list of what hospitals and their critical patient status? I could go on and on. All of these items are listed as planning and prepardness items in the DHS plans which have been published for a couple of years. I think YOU better go read some facts before calling other people stupid. I don't have my plans in front of my but I can point out specific failings on the part of EACH level of Government if you want. Plus you got to realize aid this massive takes time to organize, otherwise it's chaos on top of chaos!! First responders and aid groups could not reach the city due to flooded roads and were stacked up. Actually based on national IQ surveys, intelligence has nothing to do with your politics. A lot of it comes from your parents views!
Very good point, either it's and OC-48 or he doesn't know WTF he is talking about. Based on intel from a friend whose brother is in charge of all the telco infrastructure in lower MS and says it is all toast (La can't be better) I'd just about claim BS on this whole thing but I suppose it just might be true. It's also possible that someone has mirrored a lot of the customer sites at another data center and you just think you are hitting an IP address in the affected areas when in fact the IP has been redirected to Hong Kong or California. I'll have to go read the blog and see if there are any clues to this being BS.
There are already devices you can put into a car that uses GPS to track the car and you can see it's whereabouts on a web site. There is also the "black box" in your car (2003 and newer) that now records how fast you were going and the position of the brake, etc. This data can be accessed and used by investigtors (police and insurance). If someone says they saw a car like yours driving erractically and that caused an accident they can come to your house, dump the system and tell if it was you. And of course if you have an accident and say I was doing the speed limit, the insurance company comes over reads the data and finds out you were hitting 80, then it's claim denied. Not a thing you can do, and you can't disable the box. Here in TX, starting today, car stickers have to say if the car is equipped with those sort of boxes.
Sure you can, you just have to leave the keys in the car so it can be easily stolen while the guards are checking someone's gym bag. I do however wonder if a) you can accidentally erase your key and the car won't start or b) you introduce a car virus and something really bad happens to the car.
Just remember CNET is an MS Shill, has been for a long time. Someone at MS decided to take a shot at other browsers in a way they though no one would complain to much about. After all we are good law abiding sheep ^H^H^H^H^H citizens who need police friendly software and DRM to protect us from the evil terrorists, right?? While we are being protected from the terrorists, the hackeers/scammers and spammers are cleaning up! Just change the name of your Firefox directory to Donut Store Locations and they'll find it in a flash!
I think we are between a rock and hard place here. We want our information to be secure and protected from the "bad guys" but we don't want to give the other type of "bad guys" all the tools they need to lock us out either where we can't do anything. In the hands of a few the standard could be burdensome, but I don't see the few here, it's an open standard anyone can comment on it and it doesn't specify an implementation. But I agree that it can be turned to evil just as guns can. Absolute power corrupts.
I have consulted with folks who do it each way and each has reasons for the way they do it. Have you ever looked at the price of a 4-hr turn support contract times 300 nodes? Sure you can get a discount but it's still a lot of $$$. Building and fixing things yourself can be cheaper if your staff has the skills. But it can be more expensive if you can't handle downtime (but that begs the question why you don't have redundancy if it is business critical?). You can invest the money in YOUR people and control your own destiny or give it to Dell/IBM/Sun and they may/may not respond in 4 hours. I have seen parts for servers that were on a 4hr fix take days to get in, I could have gone to Frys/BestBuy/MailOrder and got them quicker. It all comes down to what your business philosophy is, there really isn't a right/wrong answer. If you tracked your TOTAL costs of doing things one way and then tried the other way as an attempt to lower the costs then you might be able to make a solid argument for doing it yourself or buying support.
yes the can be considered fixed. Maintenance is generally 20-22% of the license fee per year for a product. Support & Sys Admin - X number of admins per Y boxes times thier salary. Unless you are shrinking or growing the environment drastically these costs can be considered fixed. App Server Support - is that software or admin support? Software support can be budgeted at X heads per year and all the fixes have to fit in that budget. So it can be considered a fixed cost as it isn't going to go up or down drastically unless something unplanned happens. Item (c) seems to overlap with (b). System admins cost is double counted it seems to me.
If the statistics show the link, it's there. Simple as that unless someone has deliberatly messed with the data. Based on my statistics that I learned in Grad School, there are only two inferences you can draw, either the IS a link, or the data is bad (flawed study?). Personally I think those who share music do so out of a love of music and to bring joy to others. Of course there are those out there doing it just to make money or piss off the RIAA.
"correlation is not causation". If I recall my statistics right, if you take a sample and calculate the co-variance and that value is positive (the closer to 1 the better) then there IS a statement that can be made that the movement of one variable (Sales) is the result of the othe variable (pirating). Of course you are using logic which works different. I think the orginal post was talking statistical terms.
Thats the HUMANs who are doing that, not the TCI software standards. I can just as easily say all the same things about ANY security mechanism on any operating system. Lets take HTTPS and IPSec for example, you probably use these secure standards every day for your benefit. Crooks like Enron and Worldcomm did to. It proves nothing. TCI is just a standard that can be used to enhance security, what you chose to secure, good or bad is a human decision
IBM pushes Linux really strong on it's servers. AIX is still available if you really want it but they charge pretty steep for it. However, if you have custom apps written for AIX it's probably cheaper to stay with it when you upgrade servers. If you are building from scratch then Linux would be IBM's reccomendation. Sun and HP servers will run various flavors on Linux but they are NOT going to be pushing them over HP-UX and Solaris 10.
I recall the mechanism to reel it in jammed due to the excess tension. They had to cut the cable or they let it all spool out, I'm not sure which one. The researchers were really bummed.
I they have a tri-band phone I could be on any US Network. My new Sprint phone has that so I can roam on anyone's net as long as I get a signal. At least that is what they told me. I've never tried it!
Funny, they will be using the COWs to BEEF up the infrastructure that was damaged. I hope someone doesn't HOG the bandwidth ;)
COW = Cell on Wheels (i.e. a portable cell tower)
TCI really doesn't concern your everyday user. It is for companies who have to protect highly sensitive information from disclosure by keeping the systems the data lives on secure. Systems handling finances, classified data, etc. all these can benefit from such an initiative. Just think ig TCI had been used a lot of the recent spate of ID thefts might have been prevented because the system would never have let itself be hacked. Of course, this CAN be taken too far. It's best applied in small doses where it can do the most good.
Yes, but the lake level is actaully droppingback to normal so water may start flowing the other way!! Which complicates things, then they have to get the pumps back working which may be underwater, I guess they could bring in some huge oil rig mud pumps on barges and start with that. It's good news but it's a long way from the crisis being over. I wonder about the Mississippi river levees when all the rain in the TN and OH Valley areas gets down there.
They are bringing in COWs to help out. I don't know how many of those they have and they will have to be refueled daily. Ham is a good idea, but with towers down and equipment underwater (in NO) that's kinda limited. Explain how Ham radios tie into PSTN? I'm sure it can be done, but it can't be free. Does it work similar to VOIP where you are sending voice as data packets?
vxWorks is based on the UNIX pre-emptive tasking model but is has evolved way past that. The Real-Time UNIX stamdard is actually called POSIX. VxWorks is a great product, I wrote code for embedded systems using that as the OS for many years. Of course it has to be "customized" to the processor and peripherals via a Board Support Package, so it's not "plug and pray". Lately they (Wind River) have not been doing to well financially, I think Windows CE is hurting thier market.
They don't need Blood, they need money, food, water, and places for shelter. Donate THAT via Red Cross, your church, Salvation Army, and here at work our company is using the charity matching benefit to double what we give.
Even if they had wi-fi access, how long will your battery last w/o some way to recharge it via the wall charger or your car chargeer. Cell phones can work on different carriers networks, they have to for 911 calls. It would take a little reprogramming and some co-operation among the companies but I sure don't see that happening.
From another list I am on, I know a guy whose brother is in charge of all the cellular infrastructure in MS, he says it is ALL gone South of Hattiesburg. They are going to try to bring in COWs (Cell towers On Wheels) and then those with phones can use them. Of course all landlines are out so cells (and radios) are the only way to communicate.
Slander and libel are not criminal offenses, thus no jail time. Other than that I agree with you! What he said on his blog is not any different than what someone might say in PC Magazine, or the editorial page of the newspapers. It is OPINION, slander/libel also have to have malice(deliberate attempt to harm), and that is very hard to prove