Instead of going through all that trouble, buy a pre-paid credit card with cash, create a fake email account, then buy all the books you want and release them on the interwebs. Your serious pirates were already doing this before, not much has changed...
Get permission from your company if you want, but call M$ and say you are thinking about switching to exchange and want to know if they can help with a trail run. MSDN is great, but not free, and this way you have access to M$ support during your inital setup. Run it a few months, play with it, break it (on purpose if you have to), have M$ help you fix it again, then make sure you thank the sales agent profusely as you uninstall and decide not to buy...
I recently started a job that has me traveling regularly, and I went through similar selections. Ended up getting the asus transformer with keyboard for a few reasons:
Internal memory slot: I travel a lot, and its easier to load up some micro sd cards with movies, tv shows, music, books/pdfs, instead of being limited to internal storage. They keyboard/dock also has a full sized sd slot
hdmi output: i wanted to be able to plug in to hotel tvs where available to watch on a full sized screen
battery life: the keyboard dock doubles the battery life, i've done some six and nine hour flights without having to rely on the airline power plugs that always seem to overheat my usb adapters. granted i took a nap on the nine hour flight, so not sure how much more than six hours of games and movies i got out of it.
Aside from the standard 'wtf are you doing using your home computer to do work for' and 'i don't want my personal info on your home computer anyway' concepts, I have to ask about the IT department handing out encyrption software like candy? Unless we're talking truecrypt, what about the license costs, or should someone call the BSA? Even volume licensing costs, and i'd hate to be the hospital customer paying for it.
I work on the DoT network, and this thought scares me. Please remember the lowest bidder gets the job in most cases, we recently started putting VM servers in, and these guys can't even reboota a virtual server without screwing it up. As a regional subcontractor, I'm completely locked out, to the point that I had to spend 10 minutes on the phone with our official helpdesk explaining the runas command in windows to the guy on the other end so he could run a command I don't have access to...
I was looking to switch gyms, and when I went to tour a new one that opened up they wouldn't take me around the place unless i filled out a questionaire with my name, address, phone, and email. I'm perfectly willing to give them that info (minus email) if i sign up, but I made a stand on principle and asked them why they needed all that info just to show me the place. after he insisted that i couldn't tour the gym without it, i decided they didn't need my business and left, with them looking at me like i'm stupid...
I have reseller accounts at some of the larger hosting companies, and manage a lot of domains on the internet, i still use gmail accounts. i actually have several different accounts, most of them forwarding, and with rules setup to star emails sent to other accounts, etc, but i've never cared enough to get my own domain just for me, as a place to store my resume... I will say that when i've applied for jobs, I tend to take the application less seriously when its going to an aol account..
There's now something called Iridium Openport, which is a satalite ISDN that's always on, but you have satalite expense. Works well enough the TS Kennedy.
I had to take the test, and I laughed as I got that question wrong, but no one cares. They hire a contractor to create a test, it's only reviewed by pointed haired managers, accuracy is optional. Just because it's there doesn't mean it's official belief, just that the agency creating the test put opinions down.
Ironic. Kennedy just gave enough money to the Mass. Maritime Academy (Buzzard's Bay) to get them to rename the training ship to the TS Kennedy (I liked Enterprise better...). Mass Maritime Academy is one of the most green schools I've ever seen, they even have a wind turnbine.
To keep from energizing downed power lines, the turbine is shut down whenever the electicity goes out for saftey reasons. When the chief of the ship wants to know if they lost shore power, or if it's a problem with the ship, he looks out the window to see if the turbine is turning or not:)
I'd use all three lines to right down my waist size, inseam, how long my penis is, that i'm not circumsized, my religon, what type of food i like, how often I date, number of serious relationships, etc, and if they confront me about providing the wrong info, hey, invasion is invasion.
When on my family's 800 acre ranch, driving around, do i have a reasonable expectation of privacy? I'm not even so much as in public view, which everyone keeps mentioning. If i'm going to bury a body in the middle of private woods, they need to have a warrant to track me. Personally i just want to track the cops, and see about handing out speeding tickets to all the guys that pass illegally, speeding, and then just end up pulling into a fast food place to get a meal.
I work for the maritime administration in the gulf, pirate aren't really a concern here. Too busy of a shipping lane, with too many patrols from the coast gaurd and navy. Most of these would be just outside US internation waters, pirates would have to be based inside the US to hit them in short range craft more commonly used.
Know a DBA that wrote the software Target uses to keep track of every single purchase made by people using credit / debit cards. This database does not get emptied, they will always know everything you bought, it can even report your buying habits for toothpaste to try to predict how often you visit the store...
Common thing along the gulf after the last few hurricanes and weeks without power is for people to install propane generators (which you can even order from lowes) if you live within an area that has it piped to you. Most expensive thing is usally the labor to have it installed with cutoffs, etc. I've seen total packages up to 15K that can run an entire house, A/C (we don't even have furnaces down here), washer, dryer, you name it. But I'm sure if you could get a smaller one and only connect it to certain circuits in your house, again labor would be the big cost if you want it professionally done, which I reommend if you want it to automatticaly start vs just dealing with extension cords.
I've always had pretty big commercial grade UPSs that I put any computer equipment on, most generators just don't run clean enough for a pc power supply
I work with Marine Engineers that are trained to fix problems knowing they won't be able to order spare parts out at sea. Reminds me of a quote the Chief Engineer for the TS Kennedy is always saying. "The difficult we do now, the impossible takes a little more time". No doubt space engineers can hold up thier end of the bargain.
Mind you, not surprising from a company that charges the same for a PC with Linux as it does for Vista....
Not saying I agree with the practice, but I think some of the expense can be justified with the initial cost of setting up a new software development team, training for new support queues, and all of the other fun stuff that is already established and paid for on the windows systems. The question will be if the price lowers in the future with the initial startup cost no longer applies. I was in the ER recently and my insurance was billed 3400.00 for 10 seconds of CT time for a machine that was paid for many many years ago...
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Instead of going through all that trouble, buy a pre-paid credit card with cash, create a fake email account, then buy all the books you want and release them on the interwebs. Your serious pirates were already doing this before, not much has changed...
knowing there is a 'secret court' reviewing every 90 days....
Get permission from your company if you want, but call M$ and say you are thinking about switching to exchange and want to know if they can help with a trail run. MSDN is great, but not free, and this way you have access to M$ support during your inital setup. Run it a few months, play with it, break it (on purpose if you have to), have M$ help you fix it again, then make sure you thank the sales agent profusely as you uninstall and decide not to buy...
A camera on an officer isn't a 'public-facing camera' when the officer enters a private residence or busines.
First requirement would be to find more money to accomplish all this. Just paying cops better would bring more capable people in.
I'm curious where votevotevote.net was actually linked. Right now it looks like a 10 to 1 ratio, but is it linked on any non-biased sites?
"An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life". - Robert A. Heinlein
I recently started a job that has me traveling regularly, and I went through similar selections. Ended up getting the asus transformer with keyboard for a few reasons: Internal memory slot: I travel a lot, and its easier to load up some micro sd cards with movies, tv shows, music, books/pdfs, instead of being limited to internal storage. They keyboard/dock also has a full sized sd slot hdmi output: i wanted to be able to plug in to hotel tvs where available to watch on a full sized screen battery life: the keyboard dock doubles the battery life, i've done some six and nine hour flights without having to rely on the airline power plugs that always seem to overheat my usb adapters. granted i took a nap on the nine hour flight, so not sure how much more than six hours of games and movies i got out of it.
User: My network won't work.... Tech: Move your ficus tree so it's not blocking the light again...
Aside from the standard 'wtf are you doing using your home computer to do work for' and 'i don't want my personal info on your home computer anyway' concepts, I have to ask about the IT department handing out encyrption software like candy? Unless we're talking truecrypt, what about the license costs, or should someone call the BSA? Even volume licensing costs, and i'd hate to be the hospital customer paying for it.
I work on the DoT network, and this thought scares me. Please remember the lowest bidder gets the job in most cases, we recently started putting VM servers in, and these guys can't even reboota a virtual server without screwing it up. As a regional subcontractor, I'm completely locked out, to the point that I had to spend 10 minutes on the phone with our official helpdesk explaining the runas command in windows to the guy on the other end so he could run a command I don't have access to...
I was looking to switch gyms, and when I went to tour a new one that opened up they wouldn't take me around the place unless i filled out a questionaire with my name, address, phone, and email. I'm perfectly willing to give them that info (minus email) if i sign up, but I made a stand on principle and asked them why they needed all that info just to show me the place. after he insisted that i couldn't tour the gym without it, i decided they didn't need my business and left, with them looking at me like i'm stupid...
I have reseller accounts at some of the larger hosting companies, and manage a lot of domains on the internet, i still use gmail accounts. i actually have several different accounts, most of them forwarding, and with rules setup to star emails sent to other accounts, etc, but i've never cared enough to get my own domain just for me, as a place to store my resume... I will say that when i've applied for jobs, I tend to take the application less seriously when its going to an aol account..
There's now something called Iridium Openport, which is a satalite ISDN that's always on, but you have satalite expense. Works well enough the TS Kennedy.
I had to take the test, and I laughed as I got that question wrong, but no one cares. They hire a contractor to create a test, it's only reviewed by pointed haired managers, accuracy is optional. Just because it's there doesn't mean it's official belief, just that the agency creating the test put opinions down.
Ironic. Kennedy just gave enough money to the Mass. Maritime Academy (Buzzard's Bay) to get them to rename the training ship to the TS Kennedy (I liked Enterprise better...). Mass Maritime Academy is one of the most green schools I've ever seen, they even have a wind turnbine. To keep from energizing downed power lines, the turbine is shut down whenever the electicity goes out for saftey reasons. When the chief of the ship wants to know if they lost shore power, or if it's a problem with the ship, he looks out the window to see if the turbine is turning or not :)
I'd use all three lines to right down my waist size, inseam, how long my penis is, that i'm not circumsized, my religon, what type of food i like, how often I date, number of serious relationships, etc, and if they confront me about providing the wrong info, hey, invasion is invasion.
When on my family's 800 acre ranch, driving around, do i have a reasonable expectation of privacy? I'm not even so much as in public view, which everyone keeps mentioning. If i'm going to bury a body in the middle of private woods, they need to have a warrant to track me. Personally i just want to track the cops, and see about handing out speeding tickets to all the guys that pass illegally, speeding, and then just end up pulling into a fast food place to get a meal.
I work for the maritime administration in the gulf, pirate aren't really a concern here. Too busy of a shipping lane, with too many patrols from the coast gaurd and navy. Most of these would be just outside US internation waters, pirates would have to be based inside the US to hit them in short range craft more commonly used.
are we putting money on if they learned from the hubble mistakes?
Know a DBA that wrote the software Target uses to keep track of every single purchase made by people using credit / debit cards. This database does not get emptied, they will always know everything you bought, it can even report your buying habits for toothpaste to try to predict how often you visit the store...
Common thing along the gulf after the last few hurricanes and weeks without power is for people to install propane generators (which you can even order from lowes) if you live within an area that has it piped to you. Most expensive thing is usally the labor to have it installed with cutoffs, etc. I've seen total packages up to 15K that can run an entire house, A/C (we don't even have furnaces down here), washer, dryer, you name it. But I'm sure if you could get a smaller one and only connect it to certain circuits in your house, again labor would be the big cost if you want it professionally done, which I reommend if you want it to automatticaly start vs just dealing with extension cords. I've always had pretty big commercial grade UPSs that I put any computer equipment on, most generators just don't run clean enough for a pc power supply
I work with Marine Engineers that are trained to fix problems knowing they won't be able to order spare parts out at sea. Reminds me of a quote the Chief Engineer for the TS Kennedy is always saying. "The difficult we do now, the impossible takes a little more time". No doubt space engineers can hold up thier end of the bargain.
Mind you, not surprising from a company that charges the same for a PC with Linux as it does for Vista....
Not saying I agree with the practice, but I think some of the expense can be justified with the initial cost of setting up a new software development team, training for new support queues, and all of the other fun stuff that is already established and paid for on the windows systems. The question will be if the price lowers in the future with the initial startup cost no longer applies. I was in the ER recently and my insurance was billed 3400.00 for 10 seconds of CT time for a machine that was paid for many many years ago...
At least I'm not the only one with this problem. First thought was 'what now...'