!st of all...even tho she has legal cust...that has never mattered b4. I hired an atty for him when he was hit by a DD...I signed all the paper work not his grandmother...they had no prob with me not being his guardian when he got busted with pot....I delt with his atty for that and the same prosecutor that has filed this. It didnt matter that I wasnt his legal guardian when he was skipping school...I was the the school called. They cannot pick n choose when i should be in his life and when I shouldnt. My son has had a long list of behaviorial problem for awhile now. He not only endangers himself but other kids as well. Furthermore I didnt HACK into anything...he left his FB loggied in ON MY COMPUTER....and me having his password was a given if he wanted to use my computer. I HAVE EVERY RIGHT TO MONITOR HIM.....just b/c i dont have custody doesnt mean i dont care...and maybe if grandmother was doing her JOB I WOULDNT HAVE TO!
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Hmmmm well I'll keep all this in mind when he kills sum1 and makes the news then. PPL like you all..those that dont monitor ur kids are whats wrong with this country. I hope like the world economy is better by the time your kids grow up...b/c if this generation is going to be our future I want no part of that...Id rather move to another country. Most of t hem are spoiled rotten vendictive little brats...and that is what my son is. THE ONLY REASON he is doing this is b/c of spite. AND IF I WERENT TRYING TO MONITOR HIM..... SUMHOW ID BE RESPONSIBLE for his mess ups in the end any way. Everything always bout the blame game. And no1 is responsible for anything any more. Here i am trying to be...and look where it gets me.
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!st of all I didnt lose custody. I had a mental brk down while going thru a divorce and losing our home in a fire..so that is why grandmother has him...2cnd of HE LEFT HIS FB page LOGGED IN ON MY COMPUTER...and the things I found were mind blowing eyey popping and draw dropping. SO bad they cudnt air it on TV....these types of things are now being looked at by college recruitors and future employers. Maybe if granny was monitoring him I wouldnt have to?????
Seriously, go read the whole comment section, it's illuminating.
... print server and file server local, it was now 1/2 way across the country.... Large Datacenters have always been a stupid idea. distributing your services to locations around your offices is far more efficient and significantly lowers the connectivity needs
That's a very narrow view on this issue. Office type servers are only a small part of what goes into datacenters as a whole. The one's I'm familiar with are mostly filled with web sites/services that demand the tight controls and close-to-the-backbone connections that datacenters can only give. Datacenters are also used for huge data warehouses, massive computing, etc.
Your post does illuminate one point, although somewhat obliquely: datacenters allow a small number of people to take care of a ton of critical systems. The more spread out something is physically, the more overhead and pain is going to be involved in taking care of it.
That might actually be their point, sort of. The big complaint the studios seem to have is that digital media gives perfect copies and nobody would buy a perfect copy if you could get it free. In the VCR days, the theory went, you could copy a movie for your friend but the copy was going to be sub-standard and, if you liked the movie enough, you would go buy a great copy. It was still illegal to copy but no one was going to dress like an FBI agent and knock on your door (or sue you without even knowing your name.. how impersonal can you get?). If we follow the "analog copies not so good" premise, than the RIAA/MPAA types aren't going to be as upset as with digital copies; but, then again, once the ball gets rolling, who knows how stupid things are going to get...
... someone will lose the password within days... I finally had to put a global password in every machine
Most devices that I see come with a default username/password set that you can change and, if the admin is irresponsible enough to lose a password, the device has a mechanism (clear the NVRAM by hitting this physical button and rebooting, for example) to recover from their folly. It's a pain in the ass, but it's punishment for creating a password that you can't remember. Having a default password that cannot be removed or changed is just silly.
You don't have to have a prohibition based on content. It should focus on mass mailings alone.
Ah, but you do have to look at content. Mailing lists are mass mails as well but the content is good (sometimes) and people who subscribe to those want to see it. It would be tough to differentiate between spam and legit mails from mailing lists based on bandwidth or number of emails alone.
Yep, and this is the crux of the whole spam problem: We want to be able to send as many emails with any content in it to anyone we want without any cost yet, we don't want someone to send us tons of email that we consider crap. You just can't have both these things; it's impossible to seperate the two. We can't be hypocritical and say to someone "I should have the right to this free speech medium while this guy over here can't have the same because he's doing something we don't like".
I think we're going to have to give up some of our "rights" in e-mail to get rid of this junk mail. I don't like it but I have the feeling that it's going to have to happen.
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Some quotes from the mother (drnew01):
!st of all...even tho she has legal cust...that has never mattered b4. I hired an atty for him when he was hit by a DD...I signed all the paper work not his grandmother...they had no prob with me not being his guardian when he got busted with pot....I delt with his atty for that and the same prosecutor that has filed this. It didnt matter that I wasnt his legal guardian when he was skipping school...I was the the school called. They cannot pick n choose when i should be in his life and when I shouldnt. My son has had a long list of behaviorial problem for awhile now. He not only endangers himself but other kids as well. Furthermore I didnt HACK into anything...he left his FB loggied in ON MY COMPUTER....and me having his password was a given if he wanted to use my computer. I HAVE EVERY RIGHT TO MONITOR HIM.....just b/c i dont have custody doesnt mean i dont care...and maybe if grandmother was doing her JOB I WOULDNT HAVE TO!
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Hmmmm well I'll keep all this in mind when he kills sum1 and makes the news then. PPL like you all..those that dont monitor ur kids are whats wrong with this country. I hope like the world economy is better by the time your kids grow up...b/c if this generation is going to be our future I want no part of that...Id rather move to another country. Most of t hem are spoiled rotten vendictive little brats...and that is what my son is. THE ONLY REASON he is doing this is b/c of spite. AND IF I WERENT TRYING TO MONITOR HIM..... SUMHOW ID BE RESPONSIBLE for his mess ups in the end any way. Everything always bout the blame game. And no1 is responsible for anything any more. Here i am trying to be...and look where it gets me.
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!st of all I didnt lose custody. I had a mental brk down while going thru a divorce and losing our home in a fire..so that is why grandmother has him...2cnd of HE LEFT HIS FB page LOGGED IN ON MY COMPUTER...and the things I found were mind blowing eyey popping and draw dropping. SO bad they cudnt air it on TV....these types of things are now being looked at by college recruitors and future employers. Maybe if granny was monitoring him I wouldnt have to?????
Seriously, go read the whole comment section, it's illuminating.
http://cfc.katv.com/forums/viewmessages.cfm?forum=17&topic=78400&srow=1&erow=10
That's a very narrow view on this issue. Office type servers are only a small part of what goes into datacenters as a whole. The one's I'm familiar with are mostly filled with web sites/services that demand the tight controls and close-to-the-backbone connections that datacenters can only give. Datacenters are also used for huge data warehouses, massive computing, etc.
Your post does illuminate one point, although somewhat obliquely: datacenters allow a small number of people to take care of a ton of critical systems. The more spread out something is physically, the more overhead and pain is going to be involved in taking care of it.
That might actually be their point, sort of. The big complaint the studios seem to have is that digital media gives perfect copies and nobody would buy a perfect copy if you could get it free. In the VCR days, the theory went, you could copy a movie for your friend but the copy was going to be sub-standard and, if you liked the movie enough, you would go buy a great copy. It was still illegal to copy but no one was going to dress like an FBI agent and knock on your door (or sue you without even knowing your name .. how impersonal can you get?). If we follow the "analog copies not so good" premise, than the RIAA/MPAA types aren't going to be as upset as with digital copies; but, then again, once the ball gets rolling, who knows how stupid things are going to get ...
Ah, but you do have to look at content. Mailing lists are mass mails as well but the content is good (sometimes) and people who subscribe to those want to see it. It would be tough to differentiate between spam and legit mails from mailing lists based on bandwidth or number of emails alone.
Yep, and this is the crux of the whole spam problem: We want to be able to send as many emails with any content in it to anyone we want without any cost yet, we don't want someone to send us tons of email that we consider crap. You just can't have both these things; it's impossible to seperate the two. We can't be hypocritical and say to someone "I should have the right to this free speech medium while this guy over here can't have the same because he's doing something we don't like". I think we're going to have to give up some of our "rights" in e-mail to get rid of this junk mail. I don't like it but I have the feeling that it's going to have to happen.
Y'know, I'm glad I'm not the only one who took the time to find the oldest slashdot article.