Yes he was appointed to replace Salazar, but then he went on to win re-election on his own this last cycle in 2010. So yes the people DID vote for him.
"the unions" - I love how this is where people go right away. Yes some unions have over-reached no one will deny that. But funny how no one points fingers at the big fucking huge corporations and their management who are making money hand over fist by using what amounts to near-slave labor overseas.
Let me tell you this - if you abolished every union in the US, every single regulation, and cut taxes to ZERO we still would not be able to compete with the labor costs over there. They have people that work 60 hours a week for as little as 300 a month in some Asian countries. Hell 300 dollars a month in the US would not even get you a room in most inner city ghettos.
The global free marketers and the moronic, short-sighted conservative and libertarians among you who support them will be what kills the US not any union or liberal group.
A president is in the executive branch - he signs or vetoes laws passed by congress aka the legislative branch.
A president is only as effective as the congress passing (or not) bills for him to sign.
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The "Necessary and Proper" Clause in Article One, section 8, clause 18 was implemented to give the federal govt the ability to assume ANY powers not necessarily enumerated in the Constitution.
"The Congress shall have Power - To make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers, and all other Powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United States, or in any Department or Officer thereof."
The intent of this was spelled out in the federalist papers - basically they understood things would come up they would not foresee and they did not want to tie down the federal govt from doing what it felt was necessary.
I use RAID6 for several high-volume machines at work. Having double parity plus a hot spare means rebuild time is no worry.
But if you are not a fan you can always throw something together with ZFS's RAIDZ or RAIDZ2 which is also distributed parity but the ZFS filesystem checksums and keeps multiple (distributed) copies of every block to detect and fix data corruption before it becomes a bigger problem.
People using ZFS have been able to detect silent data corruption from a faulty power supply that other solutions would never have found just because of the checksumming process.
Yeah from some of the stories I have been following on this, it seems some firms even co-locate their machines in the same room with the NYSE trade systems. I imagine that could be quite an advantage over other traders, especially when coupled with some extremely high performance program trade code like Goldman Sachs has been using.
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The Raptors are already irrelevant. According to this article in the LA Times (http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-f-22-plane22-2009jul22,0,750816.story) they have NOT been used in Iraq or Afghanistan.
All the fighter jets in the world won't win a guerilla war against insurgent enemies.
What is going on now is our military is finally realizing this - the big obstacle to a more nimble military is not the military itself, but the massive multi-billion dollar military industrial complex that refuses to get weened off the teet.
Some of the points made in this report seem to eerily echo the talking points of the big comm companies against neutrality, and for allowing them to tier pricing.
If you recall they said in the past that video is using up a substantial percentage of the bandwidth and that unless they can charge the big users more (ie Google, Youtube, etc) that they won't be able to upgrade the infrastructure to keep up.
While overall your post is accurate and the title of this article is not fitting, you did not comment or touch one one issue people have with the Military Commissions Act that is the catalyst for this whole debate - the definition of "unlawful enemy combatant."
There is a loophole with how "unlawful enemy combatant" was defined in this bill in such a way that under certain circumstances the writ of habeas corpus COULD be suspended for a US citizen.
I think if this one part of the MCA was clarified most people, left and right, would have no concerns with the MCA as written.
We have military tribunals that usurp Habeas Corpus.
We have warrantless wiretaps and searches that basically ignore the Fourth Amendmant.
Now some want to curb free speech.
At some point you have to ask yourself what are we fighting for?
There was a time when our steadfast will to uphold the US Constitution gave us somewhat of a moral compass that differentiate us from our foes.
Now we are basically eroding the very document that made the US a great nation.
The very purpose of terrorism is NOT to kill. That is a means to an desired end result.
Here is a common definition of terrorism:
the calculated use of violence (or threat of violence) against civilians in order to attain goals that are political or religious or ideological in nature; this is done through intimindation or coercion or instilling fear
By us disregarding the Constitution we are giving the terrorists what they want.
The terrorists are winning because the governments of the western world are GIVING THEM WHAT THEY WANT.
And don't think for a second some of this is not for the benefit of the mega-multinational corporations either.
This is facism at it's purest. Welcome to the 21st century. I hope you enjoy your coup that George W Bush et al engineered.
Mark Cuban made his money selling Broadcast.com to Yahoo, so is it possible he still has a stake in Yahoo and this is nothing more than a territorial piss and moan contest at the competition?
That is a good post. Basically sums up WoW for a lot of the "hardcore raider" types.
MMORPG's are like being on a treadmill with someone dangling a treat in front of you. Every once in a while you might get a taste, but they will never let you have it because as long as you want what you can't have (perhaps the feeling of 'winning'?) you will keep paying 15 bucks a month to get closer and closer to and end that keeps drifting further away.
Blizzard has made what is arguably the most addictive MMO ever appealing to human nature's greed, and the need to feel accomplished.
Up until last month I was one of those types too. I played WoW EVERY night and every free moment. I would be lying if I said I did not enjoy it.
But a few things intersecting caused me to take a step back.
First was the alpha for the expansion. After a week of playing that I realized all the godly best-on-the-server epic gear my priest had would soon be shit since at level 70 (in some cases earlier) I would get gear at or better than the current gear I had. This basically meant when the expansion came out not only would I have to "grind" out 10 more levels, but from a gear standpoint it would be like re-starting the game.
Secondly, I enrolled in a couple of classes and had some family stuff come up. Between the alpha making me concerned, and real life keeping me busy several nights a week, I have gotten to the point where I do not even feel like logging in most of the time.
Logging in means raiding. Raiding means farming for consumables etc. Farming means work.
It's at this point you begin to realize WoW is like a second job - but one you pay to work at.
I find that blog post to be amusing considering it is from the CEO of a company whose business has pretty much revolved around datacenters.
Datacenters are going to be even more important with Web 2.0 applications, and if anything I see the opposite happening - more features/services WILL be centralized for the various benefits a datacenter has to offer.
Some of the more appealing features of datacenters:
1. Physical Security Most have some kind of physical security - alarms, bio-metric/proximity cards, multiple locks, surveillance cameras, etc. Some facilities are fortified to withstand the extremes of nature, and other facilities designed for mission critical purposes might even have case-hardened walls to withstand bomb blasts. I have even seen some facilities with gyroscopic racks to mitigate risks from seismic activity.
2. Redundant Power Most of the datacenters I have dealt with have multiple layers of redundancy in their power systems. Many have power feeds from more than one sub-station, they have high-volume UPS systems, and as last resort diesel generators.
3. Redundant Bandwidth Not uncommon for a datacenter to get it's bandwidth from two or more seperate backbone connections for fault tolerance.
4. Climate Control Many have excellent air conditioning and air handlers to keep the air clean. One datacenter in Pennsylvania I had done work in even had moisture sensors so sensitive if you spit on them it would set off an alarm
The pros to centralized datacenters are just too numerous.
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RIP Roblimo. His name has been synonymous with this site for as long as I can remember. He will be missed.
Yes he was appointed to replace Salazar, but then he went on to win re-election on his own this last cycle in 2010. So yes the people DID vote for him.
Does he not realize technology marches on whether we want it or not?
And does he not consider how many R&D jobs, app developer jobs, sales jobs etc all created around these devices?
"the unions" - I love how this is where people go right away. Yes some unions have over-reached no one will deny that. But funny how no one points fingers at the big fucking huge corporations and their management who are making money hand over fist by using what amounts to near-slave labor overseas.
Let me tell you this - if you abolished every union in the US, every single regulation, and cut taxes to ZERO we still would not be able to compete with the labor costs over there. They have people that work 60 hours a week for as little as 300 a month in some Asian countries. Hell 300 dollars a month in the US would not even get you a room in most inner city ghettos.
The global free marketers and the moronic, short-sighted conservative and libertarians among you who support them will be what kills the US not any union or liberal group.
Yes because the President legislates...
A president is in the executive branch - he signs or vetoes laws passed by congress aka the legislative branch.
A president is only as effective as the congress passing (or not) bills for him to sign.
The "Necessary and Proper" Clause in Article One, section 8, clause 18 was implemented to give the federal govt the ability to assume ANY powers not necessarily enumerated in the Constitution.
"The Congress shall have Power - To make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers, and all other Powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United States, or in any Department or Officer thereof."
The intent of this was spelled out in the federalist papers - basically they understood things would come up they would not foresee and they did not want to tie down the federal govt from doing what it felt was necessary.
Another thing I was thinking about - the trigger on a gun like that would NOT be easy for a 3 year old child to pull. Something does not seem right.
I use RAID6 for several high-volume machines at work. Having double parity plus a hot spare means rebuild time is no worry.
But if you are not a fan you can always throw something together with ZFS's RAIDZ or RAIDZ2 which is also distributed parity but the ZFS filesystem checksums and keeps multiple (distributed) copies of every block to detect and fix data corruption before it becomes a bigger problem.
People using ZFS have been able to detect silent data corruption from a faulty power supply that other solutions would never have found just because of the checksumming process.
Yeah from some of the stories I have been following on this, it seems some firms even co-locate their machines in the same room with the NYSE trade systems. I imagine that could be quite an advantage over other traders, especially when coupled with some extremely high performance program trade code like Goldman Sachs has been using.
http://www.reuters.com/article/fundsFundsNews/idUSN0518022220090705
The Raptors are already irrelevant. According to this article in the LA Times (http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-f-22-plane22-2009jul22,0,750816.story) they have NOT been used in Iraq or Afghanistan.
All the fighter jets in the world won't win a guerilla war against insurgent enemies.
What is going on now is our military is finally realizing this - the big obstacle to a more nimble military is not the military itself, but the massive multi-billion dollar military industrial complex that refuses to get weened off the teet.
I use a service called everyone.net - allows me to have my own domain name, they support both IMAP (my preference) as well as POP.
They also support secure IMAP/POP/etc. over SSL.
Good service overall and have not had any problems over the last 2.5 years or so that I have been using them.
until some republican apologist says "the democrats do it too" in 5-4-3-2-1....
and call themselves Brawndo
Some of the points made in this report seem to eerily echo the talking points of the big comm companies against neutrality, and for allowing them to tier pricing.
If you recall they said in the past that video is using up a substantial percentage of the bandwidth and that unless they can charge the big users more (ie Google, Youtube, etc) that they won't be able to upgrade the infrastructure to keep up.
when the traffic here was so much less that sites that were linked on the main page were NOT slashdotted lol.
According to the article, they are looking at pricing to be 30 dollars a gig. That is pretty pricey.
That means their low-end 80GB drive will be around $2400+ or so US dollars depending on tax, shipping, retail prices etc.
While overall your post is accurate and the title of this article is not fitting, you did not comment or touch one one issue people have with the Military Commissions Act that is the catalyst for this whole debate - the definition of "unlawful enemy combatant."
There is a loophole with how "unlawful enemy combatant" was defined in this bill in such a way that under certain circumstances the writ of habeas corpus COULD be suspended for a US citizen.
I think if this one part of the MCA was clarified most people, left and right, would have no concerns with the MCA as written.
Exactly! All you have to say is 10NES to know how hardcore Nintendo was at controlling things
lol and to think in school I was taught that you cannot divide by zero...
We have military tribunals that usurp Habeas Corpus.
We have warrantless wiretaps and searches that basically ignore the Fourth Amendmant.
Now some want to curb free speech.
At some point you have to ask yourself what are we fighting for?
There was a time when our steadfast will to uphold the US Constitution gave us somewhat of a moral compass that differentiate us from our foes.
Now we are basically eroding the very document that made the US a great nation.
The very purpose of terrorism is NOT to kill. That is a means to an desired end result.
Here is a common definition of terrorism:
the calculated use of violence (or threat of violence) against civilians in order to attain goals that are political or religious or ideological in nature; this is done through intimindation or coercion or instilling fear
By us disregarding the Constitution we are giving the terrorists what they want.
The terrorists are winning because the governments of the western world are GIVING THEM WHAT THEY WANT.
And don't think for a second some of this is not for the benefit of the mega-multinational corporations either.
This is facism at it's purest. Welcome to the 21st century. I hope you enjoy your coup that George W Bush et al engineered.
Mark Cuban made his money selling Broadcast.com to Yahoo, so is it possible he still has a stake in Yahoo and this is nothing more than a territorial piss and moan contest at the competition?
Who gives a shit what a bunch of homophobes are doing.
Never know what you will see in the news these days.
Only in a county like the US can we have a congressman plead guilty yet stay in his job, a Secretary of Defense getting his advice from God, a foreing president jealous of a rapist, and militants re-taking cities in that "all is going well" Iraq war that some BS about a homophobe organization like the boy scouts enforcing corporate interests would make the news.
That is a good post. Basically sums up WoW for a lot of the "hardcore raider" types.
MMORPG's are like being on a treadmill with someone dangling a treat in front of you. Every once in a while you might get a taste, but they will never let you have it because as long as you want what you can't have (perhaps the feeling of 'winning'?) you will keep paying 15 bucks a month to get closer and closer to and end that keeps drifting further away.
Blizzard has made what is arguably the most addictive MMO ever appealing to human nature's greed, and the need to feel accomplished.
Up until last month I was one of those types too. I played WoW EVERY night and every free moment. I would be lying if I said I did not enjoy it.
But a few things intersecting caused me to take a step back.
First was the alpha for the expansion. After a week of playing that I realized all the godly best-on-the-server epic gear my priest had would soon be shit since at level 70 (in some cases earlier) I would get gear at or better than the current gear I had. This basically meant when the expansion came out not only would I have to "grind" out 10 more levels, but from a gear standpoint it would be like re-starting the game.
Secondly, I enrolled in a couple of classes and had some family stuff come up. Between the alpha making me concerned, and real life keeping me busy several nights a week, I have gotten to the point where I do not even feel like logging in most of the time.
Logging in means raiding. Raiding means farming for consumables etc. Farming means work.
It's at this point you begin to realize WoW is like a second job - but one you pay to work at.
I find that blog post to be amusing considering it is from the CEO of a company whose business has pretty much revolved around datacenters.
Datacenters are going to be even more important with Web 2.0 applications, and if anything I see the opposite happening - more features/services WILL be centralized for the various benefits a datacenter has to offer.
Some of the more appealing features of datacenters:
1. Physical Security
Most have some kind of physical security - alarms, bio-metric/proximity cards, multiple locks, surveillance cameras, etc. Some facilities are fortified to withstand the extremes of nature, and other facilities designed for mission critical purposes might even have case-hardened walls to withstand bomb blasts. I have even seen some facilities with gyroscopic racks to mitigate risks from seismic activity.
2. Redundant Power
Most of the datacenters I have dealt with have multiple layers of redundancy in their power systems. Many have power feeds from more than one sub-station, they have high-volume UPS systems, and as last resort diesel generators.
3. Redundant Bandwidth
Not uncommon for a datacenter to get it's bandwidth from two or more seperate backbone connections for fault tolerance.
4. Climate Control
Many have excellent air conditioning and air handlers to keep the air clean. One datacenter in Pennsylvania I had done work in even had moisture sensors so sensitive if you spit on them it would set off an alarm
The pros to centralized datacenters are just too numerous.
Penelope is the project name at Mozilla for those that are interested:
http://wiki.mozilla.org/Penelope