And if Windows dies in the data center....? So what! Microsoft has $20 billion in the bank, I'm sure they'll have no problems innovating some new way to make up the lost revenue.;)
What I had in mind was something a bit farther away from the obvious. Just as politicians destroy precious things like freedom in the name of our safety, that post made me wonder if errant or rogue employees might take some very undesirable actions and excuse them on the basis of some nebulous "greater good" and then claim that this constitutes morality.
That might be a bit of a stretch, but it's not that far off. Basically making arguments about morality or what is 'right' and 'wrong' is just plain besides the point. In management classes, you are taught that the best decisions aren't what's right for the employees, and aren't even what's right for you: it's what's best for the company, and what's best for the company is that which lowers cost and other liabilities and increases cashflow and net assets: IOW, that which maximizes shareholder value.
Morality doesn't really have much to do with it, except that they do mention, for good measure, that it's important to be a good corporate citizen and that the results of being a good corporate citizen are usually beneficial to the company. Or some other nebulous B.S. that sounds good on paper but doesn't work that way in the real world.
Anyway, the secret to a successful business of any kind, no matter how large or small, is to balance the four 'cornerstones' that are the foundation of any busines: marketing, finance, product/service production, and administration. They all have to be in balance. The other key is that these cornerstones ALL must be customer-centric. The entire organization must be focuses on its customers, because they are the reason for any business' existence.
In the long run, if this small ISP doesn't take care of these customers, side business or not, at the very least, these customers will look elsewhere. Sounds like there is no competition, but in a free market there's always competition. Who knows? Maybe the AC will quit and start his own small ISP that takes care of its customers. 400 customers at $50/mo is a guaranteed $20,000/month gross income once it gets going. Not bad for an SMB opportunity.
Agreed. What if the city of Warren, Michigan, built a special exit on I-696 that took you directly into General Motors' Warren Technical Center and then paid for it with federal highway dollars?
I agree, but with the caveat that you have to do what your boss tells you to do. By all means, present this idea to the boss, but be absolutely sure that you are complying with the requirements of the job you are assigned: after all, in this economy, you do not want to give your boss a reason to fire you.
You will definitely have to consult your boss about this, and you would be remiss in not telling your boss to send the TOS to your company's attorney and have him advise on the legalities regarding whatever plan you and your boss ends up deciding on. You don't want your company to get sued and you don't want anyone to say it's your fault because that would be another reason you might get fired.
In the end, look over the TOS, and if your boss asked you to shape it and shaping doesn't meet with the TOS, by all means CYA and ask your boss to send his request to you in writing. Preferrably signed. Digitally signed e-mail might be okay, too. Just make sure you have some proof of what you were ordered to do, because you want to be sure if there is any fallout from the shaping that you can prove you were just doing as ordered.
It bears repeating so I'll say it again: always CYA.
Look, would we allow a person afflicted with severe schizophrenia to serve in public office? No?
Then why would we allow someone with just as severe a disconnect from reality as those who feel the need to interpret the creation stories in Genesis to be bizarre literal truth, as in the world was created in 7 literal (24 hour) days by pure magical decree 6,000 to 7,000 years ago?
Look, and I am NOT making this up, some of these people actually think that men have one fewer rib than women because in Genesis it says that Eve was created from Adam's rib. (The average ('normal') human male and female each have 12 pairs of ribs)
If that doesn't constitute insanity, I don't know what does.
If you DDoS a bank during it's nightly batch, you can cause that bank to loose a days worth of interest for example. That's a real and permanent damage.
I've never worked in a bank before, but I think it's more likely that interest accrues from the time of the actual transaction recorded by the bank, not from the time the transaction was posted electronically by the bank's nightly batch.
Am I wrong? Can someone with financial IT experience tell me if I'm right or not?
Because at the end of the day, those who interpret the Bible literally and turn a blind eye to science are very much contributing to, and may even, in fact, be at least part of the cause of the problem.
Biblical literalist wackos should never be allowed to serve in public office. Ever.
If the US doesn't eventually want to become a second-rate power then it better start seriously consider that pandering to the low-watt lightbulbs is not a route to long-term viability in the sciences or technology.
But that would mean telling people that their favorite holy book is quite literally inaccurate in its depiction of the creation stories in Genesis.
As soon as you tell people that, there's a certain politically powerful group that will be raving mad.
I don't know why some people can't simply accept that stories in the Bible are just that -- stories.
Is it just me, or does it seem the job of 'editor' on an English language news site should come with the requirement that those filling it should not fail at basic English literacy?
Agreed. OF course humans cavorted with dinosaurs! The Earth was created only 6,000 years ago, shortly after the light and the dark, so there's no other logical explanation!
To begin with, I've visited and even lived in gang-infested neighborhoods. It's not as bad as they make it out to be in the movies or in the news media outlets. Yes, it's bad, but no, it's not the same thing as living in a war zone.
Well, there's a large difference between gang-land violence and an actual military mortar attack. For one, the gangs, at the most, have AK-9s and Uzis and are primarily aiming to kill each other. A rocket-propelled grenade attack by an organized militia will generally be far more destructive and cost many more lives.
Besides, gang-land areas are probably among the last places a military or paramilitary attack by the enemies of the U.S. are going to attack. I'm sure they could think of much more valuable targets.
Sadly I think that many people would be more upset about a day's outage of their bank than a real shell and mortar attack in Somalia, Iraq, or the Gaza Strip.
Well I think that many people would be a lot more upset about a shell and mortar attack on any city in their own country than a day's outage at their bank. I speak from experience.
What makes denial of service attacks so hard to respond to technologically?
Really, it's not.
Our pipes are limited in capacity, surely. Is it not possible to build a router that can mask out requests from IP ranges as fast as they can electrically come in?
Yes, such routers actually exist, although even some commercial-grade routers tend to made with low end processors and such that if your pipe is fat enough, it can become overwhelmed.
If you want to stop a DDOS and your firewaall can't seem to mask off IP ranges quickly enough, by far the easiest technological measure is really quite simple: sever the connection. I guarantee you the DDOS will no longer be affecting your equipment at that point.
Our TCP/IP networks were built to survive connections going down. At least if they were built cluefully, anyway.
Oh, come on. This is just more hysteria manufactured by people looking for money, fame and fortune.
A DDOS attack is hardly the same the thing as a shell and mortar attack. For one thing, a DDOS doesn't do, and by definition, can't do permanent damage, nor can it kill people.
Can we all just lay off the hype machine a little bit?
Why is that every time I post a political joke, people automatically assume I'm being partisan?
Sir, I am an equal opportunity politician basher. I don't care if politicians are conservative, liberal, Republican, Democrat or Communist. They all deserve to be made fun of.
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OMFG! Dvorak likes Linux? Quickly now, everyone duck for cover! You don't want to get hit in the head aviatory swine!
And if Windows dies in the data center....? So what! Microsoft has $20 billion in the bank, I'm sure they'll have no problems innovating some new way to make up the lost revenue. ;)
What I had in mind was something a bit farther away from the obvious. Just as politicians destroy precious things like freedom in the name of our safety, that post made me wonder if errant or rogue employees might take some very undesirable actions and excuse them on the basis of some nebulous "greater good" and then claim that this constitutes morality.
That might be a bit of a stretch, but it's not that far off. Basically making arguments about morality or what is 'right' and 'wrong' is just plain besides the point. In management classes, you are taught that the best decisions aren't what's right for the employees, and aren't even what's right for you: it's what's best for the company, and what's best for the company is that which lowers cost and other liabilities and increases cashflow and net assets: IOW, that which maximizes shareholder value.
Morality doesn't really have much to do with it, except that they do mention, for good measure, that it's important to be a good corporate citizen and that the results of being a good corporate citizen are usually beneficial to the company. Or some other nebulous B.S. that sounds good on paper but doesn't work that way in the real world.
Anyway, the secret to a successful business of any kind, no matter how large or small, is to balance the four 'cornerstones' that are the foundation of any busines: marketing, finance, product/service production, and administration. They all have to be in balance. The other key is that these cornerstones ALL must be customer-centric. The entire organization must be focuses on its customers, because they are the reason for any business' existence.
In the long run, if this small ISP doesn't take care of these customers, side business or not, at the very least, these customers will look elsewhere. Sounds like there is no competition, but in a free market there's always competition. Who knows? Maybe the AC will quit and start his own small ISP that takes care of its customers. 400 customers at $50/mo is a guaranteed $20,000/month gross income once it gets going. Not bad for an SMB opportunity.
Agreed. What if the city of Warren, Michigan, built a special exit on I-696 that took you directly into General Motors' Warren Technical Center and then paid for it with federal highway dollars?
You guys would all be calling for blood.
Oh, that sucks.
I'm glad I canceled that membership, then.
I agree, but with the caveat that you have to do what your boss tells you to do. By all means, present this idea to the boss, but be absolutely sure that you are complying with the requirements of the job you are assigned: after all, in this economy, you do not want to give your boss a reason to fire you.
You will definitely have to consult your boss about this, and you would be remiss in not telling your boss to send the TOS to your company's attorney and have him advise on the legalities regarding whatever plan you and your boss ends up deciding on. You don't want your company to get sued and you don't want anyone to say it's your fault because that would be another reason you might get fired.
In the end, look over the TOS, and if your boss asked you to shape it and shaping doesn't meet with the TOS, by all means CYA and ask your boss to send his request to you in writing. Preferrably signed. Digitally signed e-mail might be okay, too. Just make sure you have some proof of what you were ordered to do, because you want to be sure if there is any fallout from the shaping that you can prove you were just doing as ordered.
It bears repeating so I'll say it again: always CYA.
Video rentals are 5 days, 3 days for new releases, unless they've changed that since last time I went to Blockbuster.
It typically takes about 3 days to get DVDs in the mail.
So unlimited? No, not really.
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Look, would we allow a person afflicted with severe schizophrenia to serve in public office? No?
Then why would we allow someone with just as severe a disconnect from reality as those who feel the need to interpret the creation stories in Genesis to be bizarre literal truth, as in the world was created in 7 literal (24 hour) days by pure magical decree 6,000 to 7,000 years ago?
Look, and I am NOT making this up, some of these people actually think that men have one fewer rib than women because in Genesis it says that Eve was created from Adam's rib. (The average ('normal') human male and female each have 12 pairs of ribs)
If that doesn't constitute insanity, I don't know what does.
If you DDoS a bank during it's nightly batch, you can cause that bank to loose a days worth of interest for example. That's a real and permanent damage.
I've never worked in a bank before, but I think it's more likely that interest accrues from the time of the actual transaction recorded by the bank, not from the time the transaction was posted electronically by the bank's nightly batch.
Am I wrong? Can someone with financial IT experience tell me if I'm right or not?
Because at the end of the day, those who interpret the Bible literally and turn a blind eye to science are very much contributing to, and may even, in fact, be at least part of the cause of the problem.
Biblical literalist wackos should never be allowed to serve in public office. Ever.
If the US doesn't eventually want to become a second-rate power then it better start seriously consider that pandering to the low-watt lightbulbs is not a route to long-term viability in the sciences or technology.
But that would mean telling people that their favorite holy book is quite literally inaccurate in its depiction of the creation stories in Genesis.
As soon as you tell people that, there's a certain politically powerful group that will be raving mad.
I don't know why some people can't simply accept that stories in the Bible are just that -- stories.
Is it just me, or does it seem the job of 'editor' on an English language news site should come with the requirement that those filling it should not fail at basic English literacy?
This is not a flame, this is a serious question.
Geography is a science.
Agreed. OF course humans cavorted with dinosaurs! The Earth was created only 6,000 years ago, shortly after the light and the dark, so there's no other logical explanation!
Nice strawman you got there.
To begin with, I've visited and even lived in gang-infested neighborhoods. It's not as bad as they make it out to be in the movies or in the news media outlets. Yes, it's bad, but no, it's not the same thing as living in a war zone.
Life critical monitoring equipment is never plugged into the Internet.
Well, there's a large difference between gang-land violence and an actual military mortar attack. For one, the gangs, at the most, have AK-9s and Uzis and are primarily aiming to kill each other. A rocket-propelled grenade attack by an organized militia will generally be far more destructive and cost many more lives.
Besides, gang-land areas are probably among the last places a military or paramilitary attack by the enemies of the U.S. are going to attack. I'm sure they could think of much more valuable targets.
Sadly I think that many people would be more upset about a day's outage of their bank than a real shell and mortar attack in Somalia, Iraq, or the Gaza Strip.
Well I think that many people would be a lot more upset about a shell and mortar attack on any city in their own country than a day's outage at their bank. I speak from experience.
What makes denial of service attacks so hard to respond to technologically?
Really, it's not.
Our pipes are limited in capacity, surely. Is it not possible to build a router that can mask out requests from IP ranges as fast as they can electrically come in?
Yes, such routers actually exist, although even some commercial-grade routers tend to made with low end processors and such that if your pipe is fat enough, it can become overwhelmed.
If you want to stop a DDOS and your firewaall can't seem to mask off IP ranges quickly enough, by far the easiest technological measure is really quite simple: sever the connection. I guarantee you the DDOS will no longer be affecting your equipment at that point.
Our TCP/IP networks were built to survive connections going down. At least if they were built cluefully, anyway.
Shhhh! Nobody tell him!
Meh. You call it 'God', I call it 'karma'.
Oh, come on. This is just more hysteria manufactured by people looking for money, fame and fortune.
A DDOS attack is hardly the same the thing as a shell and mortar attack. For one thing, a DDOS doesn't do, and by definition, can't do permanent damage, nor can it kill people.
Can we all just lay off the hype machine a little bit?
I wish I could *whooosh* this whole thread.
Why is that every time I post a political joke, people automatically assume I'm being partisan?
Sir, I am an equal opportunity politician basher. I don't care if politicians are conservative, liberal, Republican, Democrat or Communist. They all deserve to be made fun of.
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