You may feel as though you have right to comment, but, really, you don't. Being a US citizen by birth, I have the disinct pleasure and right of being able to choose my own leaders who make the decisions that benefit me.
If you'd read up a little bit on Kyoto instead of just jumping on the global-warming bandwagon, you'd see that Kyoto is generally regarded as one of the least cost-effective means of controlling greenhouse gases. In fact, because it's not cost effective many policymakers feel that it violates the UN framework convention which requires parties to pursue a 'cost-effective' method of curbing greenhouse gases. The notion that the sea-level is even rising out of sync with normal climatic changes has been challenged by many scientists in the field. Why sign a document that is overly burdensome to our country for something that the scientific community can't even reach a consensus on?
If your city is under terrorist watches, why blame my president? It wasn't my president who attacked and killed over 3,000 of my fellow citizens. It wasn't my president who tried to assainate his father. It wasn't my president who regularly puts your city under terrorist alerts. Perhaps you should direct a little more anger at the actual terrorist cells instead of at the US. I can assure you, directing your anger at us will only help build the case for the terrorists.
Can you honestly blame my president (yes, he's my president, lest you forget) for trying to look out for the people that elected him. I think it's fairly easy to forget sometime that the president is only accountable to US citizens and no one else. Quite frankly, I could care less if your steel is having trouble on the global market. Perhaps if some (again, I say some because I don't know where you are -- this may not be the case in your country, forgive me if not) of the steel producing countries would have to pay their employees a decent wage, steel tarrifs wouldn't be required. Don't be angry at the president or his administration because of his steel tarrifs. He's doing exactly what we want him to do. He's doing what we sent him to do. He's looking out for US citizens.
I doubt very seriously that the 'world' would ever butt out of our interests. The United States is the strongest, most wealthy nation in the world. People are always going to put their two cents in, regardless because of our size and power. Historically, the top of the heap is generally the most criticized.
Okay, this isn't really directed at the previous poster, but I'd like to keep it in the same thread.
What do you say you guys butt out of our election? I mean, I understand you being concerned and all... but, honestly, I'm not your best forum for change. I feel a lot of countries really feel like we should all be a global nation and everyone has a say in everyone else's government.
What do you say I elect my president, you elect yours (this is assuming the post is coming from a democracy/republic) and we let them work it out. You have a problem with who I elect? Deal with it. This has never been more of a US internal matter regardless of the Bush administration's foreign policy.
One needs to be careful taking this view. The whistleblower act only protects one against losing their job because of blowing the whistle on their employer. In order to be safe from getting caught in a crack, one needs immunity from prosecution. Blowing the whistle is great... not losing you job is even better... Whistleblowing while not losing your job AND not going to jail just plain rocks!
not as much as you would think... just distributed over several machines. 150k x 10 windows and I'm sucking 1.5MB off of their bandwith a second. Take that, put it on 30 or so machines... then you're cooking with gas.
I invite all of you to investigate the E-Rate program further before you make such quick decisions.
First of all, to clarify: The universal service charge on your phone bill doesn't JUST got to schools.
1) It goes to High Cost telecom services (when Joe Blow built his house 40 miles away from the closest neighbor but wants phone service that doesn't cost $400 a month.)
2) It goes to for Low Income telecommunications. Anyone that has 'life line' service (my grandmother has it, she's on a fixed income) that's very cheap so that she can call 911 if she gets sick. Without it, her phone bill would be affordable to her.
3) It also goes to Rural Health Care to supplement the cost of providing health care to rural towns or locations. They supplement their Internet Access (for Medical purposes) and Telecommunications; without this, there would be a lot fewer resources available to rural health care clinics that may provide health care to 2,000 people who otherwise would have to drive 100 miles.
4) Finally, it provides access to Schools and Libraries to help bring a low telecommunications cost for both the telephones in a school and for Internet Access (whatever is required from the ISP all the way to the classroom demarcation point).
There are numerous regulations that must be followed in order to participate in the E-Rate program; I know this because I was an IT director for a school district. The process for filing is very technical and many school's applications are tossed out due to technicalities.
SLD (the non-profit that runs E-Rate for Schools) has hired many technican auditors that are wise to many of the schemes that unscrupulous districts and vendors use to obtain more than their fair share. Honestly, the whole program is like with anything else dealing with money. If someone is willing to break the law, there is little you can do to stop them. Most controls are put into place to keep the honest honest. When someone is determined to scam a program, all the auditors in the world aren't going to 'stop' them... all they're going to do is catch them on the back end.
I worked at a school district with over a 90% poverty rating. We had around 2000 students (it was a rural district) and could never afford to provide Internet access to every classroom if it weren't for the E-Rate program. We were able to be switches, e-mail servers, DNS servers, DHCP servers, etc. in order to build a network that will support the newest educational uses coming down the pipes. Most of the equip. that we used for these projects was carefully chosen because of it's survivability in a school environment, life-cycle, and cost (cost being the predominant factor). Even though we were only paying 10% of the cost, we didn't want to screw any other district that were trying to do the same thing we were.
In the end, when I left, we had a great network that enabled us to slash our network costs because of not having to maintain old equipment any longer that was out of warrenty. We were also able to realize a HUGE cost savings (about 9k a year) with a VoIP phone system (yes, we did the Return on Investment outlooks... it still pays yields 9k even after we paid for it.), and we have video conferencing locations through the district that enables our kids in a rural southern state to take classes that would have NEVER been available to them because of our lack of funds and size. Our kids have access to great AP science courses tought by universities in our state. Our Internet access is now usable because of this program! Kids can do research w/o having to worry if the network is going to work or not.
It all comes down to this: We changed the way our children learned for the better because of this program.
So, before you condemn it... I invite you to ask one of your local schools how it benefits them; sure, some districts are going to abuse it... but the majority are doing exactly as they're supposed to be... trying to make a difference in an otherwise bad situation.
Let's just hope that no one ever gets ahold of this network (read: slashdotters). I envision something like: "Your Child Is... a little slow". Legoland will wonder why so many adults come there with their laptops... and what's this 'snort' that we keep hearing so much about.
Slashdot Mirror
Just set the TCP timeout to 1,586,654,255 seconds. Problem solved. Next.
"...required a FOIA request to get the information."
Correction, it required an FOIA request to get SOME of the information. There are an awful lot of FOIA exceptions on this particular request.
Pilgrimage to MacWorld. Classic, I tell you, classic. (Mac users will get that joke)
"Maybe Slashdot could start a hardware review section and do some unbiased hard journalism!"
You're new to Slashdot aren't you?
You may feel as though you have right to comment, but, really, you don't. Being a US citizen by birth, I have the disinct pleasure and right of being able to choose my own leaders who make the decisions that benefit me.
If you'd read up a little bit on Kyoto instead of just jumping on the global-warming bandwagon, you'd see that Kyoto is generally regarded as one of the least cost-effective means of controlling greenhouse gases. In fact, because it's not cost effective many policymakers feel that it violates the UN framework convention which requires parties to pursue a 'cost-effective' method of curbing greenhouse gases. The notion that the sea-level is even rising out of sync with normal climatic changes has been challenged by many scientists in the field. Why sign a document that is overly burdensome to our country for something that the scientific community can't even reach a consensus on?
If your city is under terrorist watches, why blame my president? It wasn't my president who attacked and killed over 3,000 of my fellow citizens. It wasn't my president who tried to assainate his father. It wasn't my president who regularly puts your city under terrorist alerts. Perhaps you should direct a little more anger at the actual terrorist cells instead of at the US. I can assure you, directing your anger at us will only help build the case for the terrorists.
Can you honestly blame my president (yes, he's my president, lest you forget) for trying to look out for the people that elected him. I think it's fairly easy to forget sometime that the president is only accountable to US citizens and no one else. Quite frankly, I could care less if your steel is having trouble on the global market. Perhaps if some (again, I say some because I don't know where you are -- this may not be the case in your country, forgive me if not) of the steel producing countries would have to pay their employees a decent wage, steel tarrifs wouldn't be required. Don't be angry at the president or his administration because of his steel tarrifs. He's doing exactly what we want him to do. He's doing what we sent him to do. He's looking out for US citizens.
I doubt very seriously that the 'world' would ever butt out of our interests. The United States is the strongest, most wealthy nation in the world. People are always going to put their two cents in, regardless because of our size and power. Historically, the top of the heap is generally the most criticized.
Okay, this isn't really directed at the previous poster, but I'd like to keep it in the same thread.
What do you say you guys butt out of our election? I mean, I understand you being concerned and all... but, honestly, I'm not your best forum for change. I feel a lot of countries really feel like we should all be a global nation and everyone has a say in everyone else's government.
What do you say I elect my president, you elect yours (this is assuming the post is coming from a democracy/republic) and we let them work it out. You have a problem with who I elect? Deal with it. This has never been more of a US internal matter regardless of the Bush administration's foreign policy.
One needs to be careful taking this view. The whistleblower act only protects one against losing their job because of blowing the whistle on their employer. In order to be safe from getting caught in a crack, one needs immunity from prosecution. Blowing the whistle is great... not losing you job is even better... Whistleblowing while not losing your job AND not going to jail just plain rocks!
not as much as you would think... just distributed over several machines. 150k x 10 windows and I'm sucking 1.5MB off of their bandwith a second. Take that, put it on 30 or so machines... then you're cooking with gas.
I'm sitting one hop off of an OC-12. Muhahahhahaa...
I invite all of you to investigate the E-Rate program further before you make such quick decisions.
First of all, to clarify: The universal service charge on your phone bill doesn't JUST got to schools.
1) It goes to High Cost telecom services (when Joe Blow built his house 40 miles away from the closest neighbor but wants phone service that doesn't cost $400 a month.)
2) It goes to for Low Income telecommunications. Anyone that has 'life line' service (my grandmother has it, she's on a fixed income) that's very cheap so that she can call 911 if she gets sick. Without it, her phone bill would be affordable to her.
3) It also goes to Rural Health Care to supplement the cost of providing health care to rural towns or locations. They supplement their Internet Access (for Medical purposes) and Telecommunications; without this, there would be a lot fewer resources available to rural health care clinics that may provide health care to 2,000 people who otherwise would have to drive 100 miles.
4) Finally, it provides access to Schools and Libraries to help bring a low telecommunications cost for both the telephones in a school and for Internet Access (whatever is required from the ISP all the way to the classroom demarcation point).
There are numerous regulations that must be followed in order to participate in the E-Rate program; I know this because I was an IT director for a school district. The process for filing is very technical and many school's applications are tossed out due to technicalities.
SLD (the non-profit that runs E-Rate for Schools) has hired many technican auditors that are wise to many of the schemes that unscrupulous districts and vendors use to obtain more than their fair share. Honestly, the whole program is like with anything else dealing with money. If someone is willing to break the law, there is little you can do to stop them. Most controls are put into place to keep the honest honest. When someone is determined to scam a program, all the auditors in the world aren't going to 'stop' them... all they're going to do is catch them on the back end.
I worked at a school district with over a 90% poverty rating. We had around 2000 students (it was a rural district) and could never afford to provide Internet access to every classroom if it weren't for the E-Rate program. We were able to be switches, e-mail servers, DNS servers, DHCP servers, etc. in order to build a network that will support the newest educational uses coming down the pipes. Most of the equip. that we used for these projects was carefully chosen because of it's survivability in a school environment, life-cycle, and cost (cost being the predominant factor). Even though we were only paying 10% of the cost, we didn't want to screw any other district that were trying to do the same thing we were.
In the end, when I left, we had a great network that enabled us to slash our network costs because of not having to maintain old equipment any longer that was out of warrenty. We were also able to realize a HUGE cost savings (about 9k a year) with a VoIP phone system (yes, we did the Return on Investment outlooks... it still pays yields 9k even after we paid for it.), and we have video conferencing locations through the district that enables our kids in a rural southern state to take classes that would have NEVER been available to them because of our lack of funds and size. Our kids have access to great AP science courses tought by universities in our state. Our Internet access is now usable because of this program! Kids can do research w/o having to worry if the network is going to work or not.
It all comes down to this: We changed the way our children learned for the better because of this program.
So, before you condemn it... I invite you to ask one of your local schools how it benefits them; sure, some districts are going to abuse it... but the majority are doing exactly as they're supposed to be... trying to make a difference in an otherwise bad situation.
So... yeah... then you're pretty much not like an ice cream man at all are you? Interesting.
Hey! That's a great idea.
Let's just hope that no one ever gets ahold of this network (read: slashdotters). I envision something like: "Your Child Is... a little slow". Legoland will wonder why so many adults come there with their laptops... and what's this 'snort' that we keep hearing so much about.
You can get my encryption keys whenever you pry them out of my cold dead hands. (or, you execute the back door the government has in PGP)
Yeah... but can it help me find my car keys... that's the question.
Yeah? So? What's your point?
...and let the 'knock knock' and three little pigs allusions commence ad nauseam.
Greeeat. Something else in my life that won't get wet. *sigh*
No Worries. I've already changed it for you.
Correction: That WAS your root password.