This is NOT about how cheap energy is to one consumer. It's about total effect of having millions of televisions running at once. Reduced consumption on the grid. Evening is a big power consumption time at home, and the big uses are typically lighting, heating/cooling, and entertainment. Can't really do much about cooking, people have to eat. Lighting energy use is being pushed downward by movement toward CFL and eventually LED sources. Heating/cooling conversions are a huge expense and change in that area comes more slowly. Entertainment is the next easiest target. In a city with 1 million people in it to reduce their average evening power consumption by.5KW/hr, you've introduced an energy needs reduction of 3MWHrs for the course of the entire evening (5pm - 11pm). Reducing dependency on foreign energy sources helps any nation's economy.
don't know as much as their kids do about technology. Most parents can't control their kids in other aspects of their lives; computing is no different.
No matter the silly "nazi - no nazi" battle going on here, the simple problem is that if something happens with the laptops "off hours" when the kids are home, most parents in this country will abdicate all responsibility and blame the school system. The argument will be that the parents don't know: 1. what their child is doing 2. how to find out 3. how to prevent it 4. how to do anything with the computer
The school, regardless of common sense, will be held responsible for not putting sufficient filters in place on systems that it makes available to children. The school *will* be held liable. It only takes one successful lawsuit to deplete any school's budget.
Rather than have silly but typical geek arguments, it would be a good exercise for the communal minds here to help come up with some constructive input to meet the school's needs. You all know what the alternative is - it happens all the time. The school decides it can't find a way to provide the technology to the students, meet statutory and regulatory requirements, and reduce liability to an acceptable risk level.
In the absence of sufficient risk mitigation, the school will likely kill the program, and the children lose the opportunity.
The resultant article will be/.'d and another long but ultimately meaningless discussion will occur.
Most Universities mass email their students all kinds of "advertising" for University services. They often claim that they own the email systems and provide the accounts to students for "official purposes." Those are in theory related to academics. Any student who uses the email system for college-related activities is working within the College or University's "learning environment" and should be able to do so. Turnabout is fair play, and the school will always be the first to cry "foul."
All rules that apply to students on official use should also apply to faculty, staff, and administration, especially in a learning environment.
The patient information is a pretty serious concern. Any breach or loss of data covered under HIPAA, SOX, FERPA, or Privacy Act can result in some pretty severe expenses. The cost of notification to the individuals whose data was lost or exposed can run to more than $1,500 per individual, depending on the size of the breach. Base expenses start at $1-2M and go up fast. Litigation and fines can cost millions more. Anything that gets hacked or breached, that has information that should be protected, could put a company these days on the wrong side of the balance sheet.
I've been using fastmail for about 6 or 7 years. I've only experienced 2 downtimes in all that time, neither for more than a day. They're based in Australia, their hosts are basically supercomputers in New York, and their backup hot site is in Norway, if I recall correctly. Truly international, and truly business oriented. I use their paid service, upgraded within months of starting to use them. I plan on sticking with them a long time. I originally was searching for a service that would provide IMAP rather than POP, and they were one of the few that did. You can also access their web interface. They have a lot of domains already established, and you can have multiple "personalities" or names/domains associated with your account. Check it out with their free version first, to see if you like it. I use it extensively, and still only use 1/10th of my bandwidth allotment.
The US Marine Corps did this already. During Desert Storm, (1991) they had battlefield data centers in the intense desert heat. Tents, with fans to generate a breeze. The network servers were mostly Banyan servers.
I did determine that you can't run a configuration with Firefox, they only support IE browsers.
Guess Microsoft has given up on trying to convert us all.
I like the look of the XT5 better, anyway. And it comes with Linux.
I don't blame you. I have a number of "embedded Windows" devices on my network. Each of them runs for a day or so without reboot. Some require cold restarts, others can be warm-rebooted. I certainly would not want embedded Windows in my engine control system. I'm not sure that I need it for anything more than easy navigation. There are plenty of nice sound systems that don't require Windows to run. No way I'd put video systems in my car, too distracting! The only reason for a TomTom is that it can give me verbal directions and occasional planning data in areas I don't know.
I have a TomTom and it's a darned nice unit. The cheapest model is around $100 (refurbished) from places like TigerDirect.com. I bought two of them, and they're more than enough for the wife and me. I can't foresee MS making anything that cheap that goes into a car.
I find it odd that the Times would argue for forced or required invasion of privacy, at the same time they would fight for freedom of speech. This makes me wonder if someone at the Times has invested in Apple in a big way.
I don't care what anyone says. I registered my home phone as soon as the registry became available. In the many years since, I've continued to get call after call. Sales, charity, computer, all unsolicited.
Basically I don't answer calls anymore because I can't get caller ID where I live. (Lucky to get cable broadband.) I have an answering machine. Everybody that knows me knows to call and leave a message, or to call and ring once and then redial and I'll pick up.
Generally, optical disks offer the best digital storage option. Of those, the best long term storage are the ROMs. DVD-ROMs are better than DVD-RWs. CD-ROMS are better than CD-RWs. (for long term storage)
This is because of the recording method used, and the materials in the disks.
I saw a study once, but of course I don't have it at hand, that valued the lifespan of a ROM disk at nearly 2x that of its RW counterpart. It was serious research, and I wish I could find the link for you.
Exactly so. The wowjustsu site lists total players it's seeing at 2,831,425 as of today. That's a lot of people, but it's only 1/4 of Blizz's player base in WoW.
My casual all-working-adult guild is not listed at all, and we have more players than many.
Guilds are not listed by size, either. Or the "Legion of Bank Alts" would certainly be on the list.
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We don't have the technology to track his outbound transporter trail.
This is NOT about how cheap energy is to one consumer. It's about total effect of having millions of televisions running at once. Reduced consumption on the grid. Evening is a big power consumption time at home, and the big uses are typically lighting, heating/cooling, and entertainment. Can't really do much about cooking, people have to eat. Lighting energy use is being pushed downward by movement toward CFL and eventually LED sources. Heating/cooling conversions are a huge expense and change in that area comes more slowly. Entertainment is the next easiest target. In a city with 1 million people in it to reduce their average evening power consumption by .5KW/hr, you've introduced an energy needs reduction of 3MWHrs for the course of the entire evening (5pm - 11pm). Reducing dependency on foreign energy sources helps any nation's economy.
don't know as much as their kids do about technology. Most parents can't control their kids in other aspects of their lives; computing is no different.
No matter the silly "nazi - no nazi" battle going on here, the simple problem is that if something happens with the laptops "off hours" when the kids are home, most parents in this country will abdicate all responsibility and blame the school system. The argument will be that the parents don't know:
1. what their child is doing
2. how to find out
3. how to prevent it
4. how to do anything with the computer
The school, regardless of common sense, will be held responsible for not putting sufficient filters in place on systems that it makes available to children. The school *will* be held liable. It only takes one successful lawsuit to deplete any school's budget.
Rather than have silly but typical geek arguments, it would be a good exercise for the communal minds here to help come up with some constructive input to meet the school's needs. You all know what the alternative is - it happens all the time. The school decides it can't find a way to provide the technology to the students, meet statutory and regulatory requirements, and reduce liability to an acceptable risk level.
In the absence of sufficient risk mitigation, the school will likely kill the program, and the children lose the opportunity.
The resultant article will be /.'d and another long but ultimately meaningless discussion will occur.
Most Universities mass email their students all kinds of "advertising" for University services. They often claim that they own the email systems and provide the accounts to students for "official purposes." Those are in theory related to academics. Any student who uses the email system for college-related activities is working within the College or University's "learning environment" and should be able to do so. Turnabout is fair play, and the school will always be the first to cry "foul."
All rules that apply to students on official use should also apply to faculty, staff, and administration, especially in a learning environment.
The patient information is a pretty serious concern. Any breach or loss of data covered under HIPAA, SOX, FERPA, or Privacy Act can result in some pretty severe expenses. The cost of notification to the individuals whose data was lost or exposed can run to more than $1,500 per individual, depending on the size of the breach. Base expenses start at $1-2M and go up fast. Litigation and fines can cost millions more. Anything that gets hacked or breached, that has information that should be protected, could put a company these days on the wrong side of the balance sheet.
I've been using fastmail for about 6 or 7 years. I've only experienced 2 downtimes in all that time, neither for more than a day. They're based in Australia, their hosts are basically supercomputers in New York, and their backup hot site is in Norway, if I recall correctly. Truly international, and truly business oriented. I use their paid service, upgraded within months of starting to use them. I plan on sticking with them a long time. I originally was searching for a service that would provide IMAP rather than POP, and they were one of the few that did. You can also access their web interface. They have a lot of domains already established, and you can have multiple "personalities" or names/domains associated with your account. Check it out with their free version first, to see if you like it. I use it extensively, and still only use 1/10th of my bandwidth allotment.
The US Marine Corps did this already. During Desert Storm, (1991) they had battlefield data centers in the intense desert heat. Tents, with fans to generate a breeze. The network servers were mostly Banyan servers.
Ah, then there is serious hope, with Red Hat as an option. :) Thanks for that.
I did determine that you can't run a configuration with Firefox, they only support IE browsers. Guess Microsoft has given up on trying to convert us all. I like the look of the XT5 better, anyway. And it comes with Linux.
I don't blame you. I have a number of "embedded Windows" devices on my network. Each of them runs for a day or so without reboot. Some require cold restarts, others can be warm-rebooted. I certainly would not want embedded Windows in my engine control system. I'm not sure that I need it for anything more than easy navigation. There are plenty of nice sound systems that don't require Windows to run. No way I'd put video systems in my car, too distracting! The only reason for a TomTom is that it can give me verbal directions and occasional planning data in areas I don't know.
Actually, I can hook up my TomTom via USB into my pc, and download all sorts of stuff into it any time.
I have a TomTom and it's a darned nice unit. The cheapest model is around $100 (refurbished) from places like TigerDirect.com. I bought two of them, and they're more than enough for the wife and me. I can't foresee MS making anything that cheap that goes into a car.
I find it odd that the Times would argue for forced or required invasion of privacy, at the same time they would fight for freedom of speech. This makes me wonder if someone at the Times has invested in Apple in a big way.
Can you hear me now?
into PDFs and then draw blackout boxes over the usernames and IP addresses.
I don't care what anyone says. I registered my home phone as soon as the registry became available. In the many years since, I've continued to get call after call. Sales, charity, computer, all unsolicited.
Basically I don't answer calls anymore because I can't get caller ID where I live. (Lucky to get cable broadband.) I have an answering machine. Everybody that knows me knows to call and leave a message, or to call and ring once and then redial and I'll pick up.
They picked Ada. /sigh
German Euclidean and the obligatory Goblin and Gnomish.
Brings new meaning to picking through your files....
Yes, exactly. The R is just an abbreviation for ROM, which is itself an abbreviation.
Generally, optical disks offer the best digital storage option. Of those, the best long term storage are the ROMs. DVD-ROMs are better than DVD-RWs. CD-ROMS are better than CD-RWs. (for long term storage) This is because of the recording method used, and the materials in the disks. I saw a study once, but of course I don't have it at hand, that valued the lifespan of a ROM disk at nearly 2x that of its RW counterpart. It was serious research, and I wish I could find the link for you.
That first Tauren actor that Blizzard hired only received 3 coppers and a stack of Peacebloom for a snack.
Exactly so. The wowjustsu site lists total players it's seeing at 2,831,425 as of today. That's a lot of people, but it's only 1/4 of Blizz's player base in WoW. My casual all-working-adult guild is not listed at all, and we have more players than many. Guilds are not listed by size, either. Or the "Legion of Bank Alts" would certainly be on the list.
At $750 per copy, this software is apparently worth $50 more than RIAA values songs. ($700 / song)
I fart in your general direction!