If you have hit limits before (MySQL?) use a very mature platform that operates effectively when the DB does get larger than available memory for indexes or dataset such as DB2, Oracle and MSSQL and strongly type inputs and normalize your data set in the first place and use a language native data connector APIs, pointers and record locking. Just about anything important to the application needs to go through a Stored Procedure because database should not trust anything directly from the application to be suitable to a query at the data layer. As always set yourself up on a platform with service accounts that are RO and RW. In other words don't set yourself up outside the big data mainstream.
If your product is a unexpected hit you will have what seams like zero moments to fix the database and program design without business impact. And start with the DB and the Application/Web layer being VMs load balancing to begin with and the database in some sort of cluster.. Have the entire Apps platform packaged to go to a outsouced data center or Amazon on day one so that a 1000x user growth per day you have a plan. This is sort of Web Application Architecture and Design 101 as any code monkey can put data into NOSQL and hope to get it back through just the right query.
Scientist like Astronomers and Physicists laugh at the models of climatologists as having so many mystery factors and constants that are never described and just pushed around to get a chart that goes to a extreme a few years out so that surprise funding is assured. Data and Stats guys have issues with the models used to give a global tempetures up to 1950. Computer code guys have spaghetti code problems with the models, because it is all written by interns. We all have problems with the error bars assigned to all these predictions for the past 20 years. We are sitting below the error bars from just 5 years ago, we are crying foul and suspect the who AGW is being confused with the long term warming or cooling trend that is built into earths climate.
I am so unsure of the data and who might have last molested it I cant tell you if we are in a natural temp rise or fall since the time of Napoleon, Astronomers cant even tell you if the sun is releasing less or more energy than 200 years ago. see www.climateaudit.org
There is a 1:100 risk that a house will be destroyed in the next year with something so bad that the occupants may die. Most us citizens think one in a hundread is a long shot.... it is to common on the timescale of residential housing. I don't want my federal tax dollars spent rebuilding as I know a 1:100 event will happen again in 10 years with the darndest of regularity. Limiting our risk via building codes is the way out, or go ahead and privatize the role of FEMA and let the insurance companies hire geologist and let the red lines begin.
LA Foothills, New Orleans, Bolder, Matha's Vineyard, SFO 1:100
Any Salt water beach, Sandy Point, Omaha, Houston 1:1000
Developers and Local government have to be held to some risk, permitting has become a taxation instead of the best and brightest looking to see if what is purposed is suitable economic development vs risk wise for the community.
As a libertarian with a localist bent this is a issue I think a lot about. But if America wants a Nanny State....lets go full Nanny State where the Nanny can be fired if the kids go to the ER with a yard dart sticking out the side of little marys head.
If government worked as promised once a area becomes known as a slide, avalanche, wildfire, tusnami, tornado, sinkhole, earthquake or flood risk where the chance of total loss of the property or the occupants is a real number, permitting of new residences and major external improvements needs to stop immediately and insurance switches to high risk private insurance within the decade (or post bond equal to the value of your property).
Commercial property know are owned by people who know how to manage risk. (man I sound like a 1%er) The average citizen has no idea of the risks of home ownership until FEMA is tagging their house with spray paint. This will be beneficial to all of us who built and live in sensible locations and FEMA will have funds for the real freak events. (Johnstown Flood, Texas City, Dust Storm that swallows Phoenix, Yellowstone Super volcano, New Madrid) The plains and Midwest land in flood plains is for farming as it is most fertile and cheapest for the purpose and the risk is only a few thousand dollars per square km. Land near the seas is great habitat for birds and multiuse use parks. .
If a developer wants to attempt to improve area to mitigate the risk he can set a bond in perpetuity to pay for the losses on the high risk community and make the cost of the land closer to the true cost for the community. Corrective action may be attempted by developers but they are taking on future risk not the local, state and federal government. New Orleans, Florida, the foothills of LA, Sandy point, Martha's Vinyard and thousands of miles of coastlines will all still have there risky homes to buy but will be clearly a risky buy with not only high insurance premium but a declining value. Building on the side of a mountain or hill without rebar cemented into bedrock needs to be in the building code. Redlines will be back and drawn by Geologists, Mortgage Companies and Insurance Companies.
These local merchants (gas station and minimarts) providing a cash discount are one breaking the law and most likely are cooking the books, Owner pulls 10-30% of the cash sales out of the registrar each night and void the cash sales off the books in a orderly fashion, make the CC/Debit Card and 90-70% of the cash sales less profitable. They understate their cash sales and put the 'merchandise loss' as theft or spoilage.
A select few small businesses cook the books to avoid both local and state sales and income taxes, and have 'big shrinkage losses' to offset there reported income. After servicing that industry for a while I can tell you the only correct accounting at your locally owned gas stations is the lottery tickets. Fountain drinks unless your looking at a very modern machine are on the honor system and are a place to hammer the accounting. You will note the locals are slowly disappearing because there is no skim to speak of now that we are approaching 70% CC sales at most stations but some enterprising individuals are using cash back from EBT 'purchases' (conversion) to fill in the gap. These businesses are sold/traded between foreign aliases every 18 months because state tax authorities are slow and lazy, and the locals are on the take or political fundraiser ticket buyers club.
If a desktop OS computer command can kill an employee you have a bigger problem than end of support. There is a reason for those wacky statements in the Licensing Agreement.
Kudos to Fish and Wildlife of Alaska. Drones are no different than shooting from a quad or using a helicopter or plane for wildlife spotting, It is fine to use that gear to scout the area the day before, but once sun rises the day of the hunt it is the one sport that for all practical purposes stuck in 1910 technology. It would be nice to have a regulation that you can search for a wounded animal with a drone as that is where a few hunters run out of steam, in the tracking or chase of elk or moose that didn't get hit with the hunters goal of a ethical mortal shot.
A drone in the back woods with 3 cans of bear repellant and 3 noisemakers would be a very ethical use of drones to keep bears and hunters apart. And we are fooling ourselves if we think illegal hunters and poachers wouldn't use a easy to fly drone to monitor police activity.
For that pleasure of eating a steak, I provide a fraction of a job to a US farmer, a US rancher, a US butcher, a US truck driver, a US refrigeration specialist and a US checkout clerk, the supply chain for meat is much more constant through booms and busts and spreads the wealth effect much more than for the collection of Integrated Circuits made in china. You smugness on deciding if my lifestyle choices are good or bad for society really prove nothing but liberalism and veganism are nothing but your opinion multiplied by a political correctness that says I cant respond in a human manner. I can only conclude Vegetarianism and Veganism robs the fallowers of this cult the the fats that keep you brain sane,
Both are quick to pick up and in highest demands and really have zero impact if visualization keeps accelerating. 100% US English is also great to have.
Christopher Hull
219 613 3785
Dixiecrats are long dead, they were the last of the Conservative Dems of 1955. They were old southerners in 1965. Their kids were 40 year old Reagan dems in 1980 and most of them are voting in their last election cycle in this decade. Tea party events are full of 40-50 year old business owners who did very well in both 1990s and 2000 because of Conservatism and ultra low taxes, but now have hit a tax bracket where 50% or more of their income goes to government largeness.
We now are at the point where 50% of the population pays nothing, benefits outweigh taxes for government. No wonder controlling the debt is minor issue with both parties. Republicans desperately look for the 10% they can strip off (rural states swings) and dems sit on 90% (urban middle class independents) who are being lead to biggest economic disaster since the fall of the Roman Empire.
There is no glass door, ceiling or anything, anyplace or anywhere.
You don't even have to give your real name to be involved in a project. If you cant stand working in a boys club open an account on one of a open project 100 sites, write a doc, compile and make a installer and you can be the top of the FOSS world if you its useful to 20 million people.
Write the next app everyone needs, wants and uses daily and then give it away for no reward but complaints from everywhere, then perhaps be the one of hundreds of free products that make a jump to commercial success.
More people need to be shitcanned over this but, really, the fact that these programs are event "arguably" legal is the major issue here. The laws that allow the NSA to snoop on all of us need to be repealed first and foremost.
Our country needs a 'legal audit' - basically, sit two (non-politically-affiliated, but well versed in Constitutional law) people down with red pens, have them go over every single statute in the USC, and determine if it's Constitutional or not.
There will be obvious "this is OK" and "this is unconstitutional" stuff, and anything that seems like a grey area can be bookmarked for further scrutiny and discussion.
More people need to be shitcanned over this but, really, the fact that these programs are event "arguably" legal is the major issue here. The laws that allow the NSA to snoop on all of us need to be repealed first and foremost.
Our country needs a 'legal audit' - basically, sit two (non-politically-affiliated, but well versed in Constitutional law) people down with red pens, have them go over every single statute in the USC, and determine if it's Constitutional or not.
There will be obvious "this is OK" and "this is unconstitutional" stuff, and anything that seems like a grey area can be bookmarked for further scrutiny and discussion.
The whole USC has lets say 5000 statutes that mater to us all, and 50000 that are important to someone someplace. The USC is backed up by 20x the amount of federal regulation. USC will take 20 years to reform with a army of fair arbiters or take 1 year to reform the NSA with the budget process. Cut funding to the NSA to where they cannot pay the support contract with EMC to keep more than a month of global metadata on random access media and the project then has so much less teeth.
The SCOTUS has to make a big point and uphold the US Constitution prohibition against the General Warrants issued by other courts, unfortunately there is no good basic case to be made because who is the party to bring suit if VZ or Google are in bed with the NSA. Doesnt help that the General Warents are in the form of National Security Findings
3. Actually Iraq was more than ready to sign SOFA arranged per the SEC DEF at the time. Yet another failure of the charmed Clinton/Obama state department. The White House dragged its feet through the election because any troop number would have caused a loss of votes in swing states because it would state clearly that US solders bleeding for IRAQ was not over... and as of 2014 it is a fight between the same three factions as it was the day after Bagdad Bob was knocked off the air less the US/UK traffic cops.
I think we have great global coverage from the USGS in the form of seismic networks and the DOD in the form of SONAR and Early Warning from 1970 onwards making it 40 years of coverage that should pretty much cover all but the poles with at least two types 2 instruments. Still wondering why the timeframe is from only 1994... but I can guess the post test moratorium data is near 100% public.
Two tons of ore to produce a commodity worth near $80 per barrel is near nothing compared to metals. Digging that ton and transporting it say 5km, processing and putting the tailings/overburden back in the hole for less than $20 bucks seems to be the economic point where tar sands work.
Midwest hasn't relied on heating oil in any significant fraction since the 70s. Natural Gas costs about 30% per BTU compared to home heating oil with a delivery point being Chicago. Also in most Midwest markets one can buy Natural Gas from about 20 different companies in a completive market where you can lock in prices through contracts for up to 3 years. As the fractions of gas vs liquids increases at western US wellheads proven reserves of Natural Gas will be available for another 200 years unless the road transportation sucks it all up in the next 100.
Is the parent comment from a NOTES Admin, Dev or AS OPERATOR? I ask because those are the only folks who ever liked Notes. The bean counters who originally put enterprises on "the notes" are long dead and their 123 spreadsheets no longer rule the world.
Err. Clancys Catapillar drive, Magnetohydrodynamic was built at at several research labs within 12 months of the release of the Book Hunt for Red October and by the time the movie was out the US Navy had something like 10 million dollars in research grants out to labs to do work when the projects got pulled back into the dark in 95.
The construction of a Gadget explains the classical machining of bomb components in exportable detail.
He was best at when giving the motivation why Ryan, Chaves and Clark would work for political hack masters and got pretty tepid and juvenile when he made Ryan a political creature. The non fiction books he wrote about everything from a Air Wing to Marine Division are total rehashes of books written by every post pentagon author except Clancy got a six figure advance.
Traffic management at more than a half dozen peer points then becomes another huge hassle especially when the load varies over time in a very non regular pattern. Arrested Development hits the NETFLIX servers and the traffic peaks for a weekend as the consumers mainline the content, VZ doesn't move at a pace where they can engineer for that. If its 3 months past last years fiscal year the engineering budget is already dedicated to this FYs projects.
When you get to more than 6 interconnects with another network it is time to go up by a power of ten with a change in the media anyways. The monthly cost of pesky cables between the cages at the peer point may get a bit obscene when a third party like TELEX is running the inter-suite infrastructure at the peer point. This has a cost but these peer points are in places that already have bandwidth overbuild. Love to tell you that the cage/suite providers are smart enough to put in a TELCO row with a fiber infrastructure for distribution that can be fired up to meet daily needs.... they aren't. Its contracts, lawyers, POs, invoices and work orders as far as the eye can see for 4 hours of effort of firing up a 100Gig link over intra-building fiber..
To VZ eye, Netflix is floting in cash... they should pay the freight for the bandwidth. To Netflix, VZ has already collected the cash from the subscriber and should be reacting to their mutual customers demands.. There is the main reason for the standoff. There is one way that will certainly cause a reaction, NETFLIX block 90% of their content to VZ IPs and put a banner saying its because the subscriber is on VZ. The Netflix CEO calls the VZ CEO and says you want our distribution appliances now or do you want your call center lines to keep ringing with? I do see why that isn't what is going on...as What could go wrong with charging more for DVD distribution was just about forgotten wasnt it?.
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
None of the warrents said something like
"All emails stored on VZ servers (listed below) that mention pressurecookers as bombs from the 723 people (listed below) who visited terrorist training camps (listed below) in 2010-2013."
You got to be kidding me. NK is gone with a single strike and China isnt going to a single thing to their largest trading partners. They are capitolist now.
Battery technology has been a slow evolution and after 200 hundred years quantum leaps of performance are most expensive. The free market is working on this one, any money thrown at this just makes the market less free and less level. Wish the DOE would work on a standard "US Nuclear Power plant" design for the 21st century so all these batteries can be charged with the cheapest power possible on actual cost and pollution products basis.
At this point it is just a matter of how much you are willing to spend with 10Gig Ethernet becoming the standard method for handoff from the Telco demark. Just installed a L3 endpoint with well over 50Gig/sec of capacity with each gig/sec CIR costing less than it takes my company to write the check and split it out to the customers invoices. Storage and Power/Cooling are the last expensive item in the datacenter.
Here are the things network teams needed to much for Virtualization scheduleds and are the first to come back up when the switch/router power is restored.
1 x GPS TIME SERVER MASTERING FOR ALL SWITCH ROUTERS to Provide NTP to the CLIENTS.
2 x TACACS SERVERS FOR SWITCHS , ADMIN VPN, RSA 2 FACTOR... BLAH.
2 x DNS SERVERS BEHIND THAT SERVER AS MASTERS ( to SLAVES BEHIND THE F5s)
2 x ADMIN VPNs (JUNO, CISCO ASA)
2 x CONSOLE SERVERS to everything.
2 x CONFIG SERVERS, IOS, DOCUMENTATION STORES TFTP FTP SFTP
2 x SECURITY SERVERS THAT LET YOU IN THE DOOR
n x HVAC, POWER MONITORING, GENSET TOOLS.
2 x SYSLOG SERVER with local HHD.
2 x JUMPBOX with REAL OUT OF BAND BANDWIDTH (CABLE MODEM, CELL MODEM, VT100 in office space....sucks to work in a dark HOT DC)
1 x TIMECLOCK with cardstock because this is going to take a while.
All should have the least number of transfer switches(evil beasts) and should be at the base of the A and B sides of the Power Plan.
16 Trillion reasons not to spend more than keeping life support on for NASA. When there are less than 50% of US citizens are dependent on some type of federal aid to keep above bankruptcy it might be time to go to the moon. And when college students can afford to pay tuition from the earnings of part time job and not finance the basic education until there retirement perhaps mars would be in reach of American Astronauts. We will need to go backwards for a bit to rebuild ourselves.
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If you have hit limits before (MySQL?) use a very mature platform that operates effectively when the DB does get larger than available memory for indexes or dataset such as DB2, Oracle and MSSQL and strongly type inputs and normalize your data set in the first place and use a language native data connector APIs, pointers and record locking. Just about anything important to the application needs to go through a Stored Procedure because database should not trust anything directly from the application to be suitable to a query at the data layer. As always set yourself up on a platform with service accounts that are RO and RW. In other words don't set yourself up outside the big data mainstream.
If your product is a unexpected hit you will have what seams like zero moments to fix the database and program design without business impact. And start with the DB and the Application/Web layer being VMs load balancing to begin with and the database in some sort of cluster.. Have the entire Apps platform packaged to go to a outsouced data center or Amazon on day one so that a 1000x user growth per day you have a plan. This is sort of Web Application Architecture and Design 101 as any code monkey can put data into NOSQL and hope to get it back through just the right query.
Scientist like Astronomers and Physicists laugh at the models of climatologists as having so many mystery factors and constants that are never described and just pushed around to get a chart that goes to a extreme a few years out so that surprise funding is assured. Data and Stats guys have issues with the models used to give a global tempetures up to 1950. Computer code guys have spaghetti code problems with the models, because it is all written by interns. We all have problems with the error bars assigned to all these predictions for the past 20 years. We are sitting below the error bars from just 5 years ago, we are crying foul and suspect the who AGW is being confused with the long term warming or cooling trend that is built into earths climate.
I am so unsure of the data and who might have last molested it I cant tell you if we are in a natural temp rise or fall since the time of Napoleon, Astronomers cant even tell you if the sun is releasing less or more energy than 200 years ago. see www.climateaudit.org
There is a 1:100 risk that a house will be destroyed in the next year with something so bad that the occupants may die. Most us citizens think one in a hundread is a long shot.... it is to common on the timescale of residential housing. I don't want my federal tax dollars spent rebuilding as I know a 1:100 event will happen again in 10 years with the darndest of regularity. Limiting our risk via building codes is the way out, or go ahead and privatize the role of FEMA and let the insurance companies hire geologist and let the red lines begin.
LA Foothills, New Orleans, Bolder, Matha's Vineyard, SFO 1:100
Any Salt water beach, Sandy Point, Omaha, Houston 1:1000
Chicago, St Paul, Denver, 1:10000
Phoenix Az. 1:100000
Developers and Local government have to be held to some risk, permitting has become a taxation instead of the best and brightest looking to see if what is purposed is suitable economic development vs risk wise for the community.
As a libertarian with a localist bent this is a issue I think a lot about. But if America wants a Nanny State....lets go full Nanny State where the Nanny can be fired if the kids go to the ER with a yard dart sticking out the side of little marys head.
If government worked as promised once a area becomes known as a slide, avalanche, wildfire, tusnami, tornado, sinkhole, earthquake or flood risk where the chance of total loss of the property or the occupants is a real number, permitting of new residences and major external improvements needs to stop immediately and insurance switches to high risk private insurance within the decade (or post bond equal to the value of your property).
Commercial property know are owned by people who know how to manage risk. (man I sound like a 1%er) The average citizen has no idea of the risks of home ownership until FEMA is tagging their house with spray paint. This will be beneficial to all of us who built and live in sensible locations and FEMA will have funds for the real freak events. (Johnstown Flood, Texas City, Dust Storm that swallows Phoenix, Yellowstone Super volcano, New Madrid) The plains and Midwest land in flood plains is for farming as it is most fertile and cheapest for the purpose and the risk is only a few thousand dollars per square km. Land near the seas is great habitat for birds and multiuse use parks. .
If a developer wants to attempt to improve area to mitigate the risk he can set a bond in perpetuity to pay for the losses on the high risk community and make the cost of the land closer to the true cost for the community. Corrective action may be attempted by developers but they are taking on future risk not the local, state and federal government. New Orleans, Florida, the foothills of LA, Sandy point, Martha's Vinyard and thousands of miles of coastlines will all still have there risky homes to buy but will be clearly a risky buy with not only high insurance premium but a declining value. Building on the side of a mountain or hill without rebar cemented into bedrock needs to be in the building code. Redlines will be back and drawn by Geologists, Mortgage Companies and Insurance Companies.
These local merchants (gas station and minimarts) providing a cash discount are one breaking the law and most likely are cooking the books, Owner pulls 10-30% of the cash sales out of the registrar each night and void the cash sales off the books in a orderly fashion, make the CC/Debit Card and 90-70% of the cash sales less profitable. They understate their cash sales and put the 'merchandise loss' as theft or spoilage. A select few small businesses cook the books to avoid both local and state sales and income taxes, and have 'big shrinkage losses' to offset there reported income. After servicing that industry for a while I can tell you the only correct accounting at your locally owned gas stations is the lottery tickets. Fountain drinks unless your looking at a very modern machine are on the honor system and are a place to hammer the accounting. You will note the locals are slowly disappearing because there is no skim to speak of now that we are approaching 70% CC sales at most stations but some enterprising individuals are using cash back from EBT 'purchases' (conversion) to fill in the gap. These businesses are sold/traded between foreign aliases every 18 months because state tax authorities are slow and lazy, and the locals are on the take or political fundraiser ticket buyers club.
If a desktop OS computer command can kill an employee you have a bigger problem than end of support. There is a reason for those wacky statements in the Licensing Agreement.
Kudos to Fish and Wildlife of Alaska. Drones are no different than shooting from a quad or using a helicopter or plane for wildlife spotting, It is fine to use that gear to scout the area the day before, but once sun rises the day of the hunt it is the one sport that for all practical purposes stuck in 1910 technology. It would be nice to have a regulation that you can search for a wounded animal with a drone as that is where a few hunters run out of steam, in the tracking or chase of elk or moose that didn't get hit with the hunters goal of a ethical mortal shot.
A drone in the back woods with 3 cans of bear repellant and 3 noisemakers would be a very ethical use of drones to keep bears and hunters apart. And we are fooling ourselves if we think illegal hunters and poachers wouldn't use a easy to fly drone to monitor police activity.
For that pleasure of eating a steak, I provide a fraction of a job to a US farmer, a US rancher, a US butcher, a US truck driver, a US refrigeration specialist and a US checkout clerk, the supply chain for meat is much more constant through booms and busts and spreads the wealth effect much more than for the collection of Integrated Circuits made in china. You smugness on deciding if my lifestyle choices are good or bad for society really prove nothing but liberalism and veganism are nothing but your opinion multiplied by a political correctness that says I cant respond in a human manner. I can only conclude Vegetarianism and Veganism robs the fallowers of this cult the the fats that keep you brain sane,
Both are quick to pick up and in highest demands and really have zero impact if visualization keeps accelerating. 100% US English is also great to have. Christopher Hull 219 613 3785
Dixiecrats are long dead, they were the last of the Conservative Dems of 1955. They were old southerners in 1965. Their kids were 40 year old Reagan dems in 1980 and most of them are voting in their last election cycle in this decade. Tea party events are full of 40-50 year old business owners who did very well in both 1990s and 2000 because of Conservatism and ultra low taxes, but now have hit a tax bracket where 50% or more of their income goes to government largeness. We now are at the point where 50% of the population pays nothing, benefits outweigh taxes for government. No wonder controlling the debt is minor issue with both parties. Republicans desperately look for the 10% they can strip off (rural states swings) and dems sit on 90% (urban middle class independents) who are being lead to biggest economic disaster since the fall of the Roman Empire.
There is no glass door, ceiling or anything, anyplace or anywhere. You don't even have to give your real name to be involved in a project. If you cant stand working in a boys club open an account on one of a open project 100 sites, write a doc, compile and make a installer and you can be the top of the FOSS world if you its useful to 20 million people. Write the next app everyone needs, wants and uses daily and then give it away for no reward but complaints from everywhere, then perhaps be the one of hundreds of free products that make a jump to commercial success.
More people need to be shitcanned over this but, really, the fact that these programs are event "arguably" legal is the major issue here. The laws that allow the NSA to snoop on all of us need to be repealed first and foremost.
Our country needs a 'legal audit' - basically, sit two (non-politically-affiliated, but well versed in Constitutional law) people down with red pens, have them go over every single statute in the USC, and determine if it's Constitutional or not.
There will be obvious "this is OK" and "this is unconstitutional" stuff, and anything that seems like a grey area can be bookmarked for further scrutiny and discussion.
More people need to be shitcanned over this but, really, the fact that these programs are event "arguably" legal is the major issue here. The laws that allow the NSA to snoop on all of us need to be repealed first and foremost.
Our country needs a 'legal audit' - basically, sit two (non-politically-affiliated, but well versed in Constitutional law) people down with red pens, have them go over every single statute in the USC, and determine if it's Constitutional or not.
There will be obvious "this is OK" and "this is unconstitutional" stuff, and anything that seems like a grey area can be bookmarked for further scrutiny and discussion.
The whole USC has lets say 5000 statutes that mater to us all, and 50000 that are important to someone someplace. The USC is backed up by 20x the amount of federal regulation. USC will take 20 years to reform with a army of fair arbiters or take 1 year to reform the NSA with the budget process. Cut funding to the NSA to where they cannot pay the support contract with EMC to keep more than a month of global metadata on random access media and the project then has so much less teeth.
The SCOTUS has to make a big point and uphold the US Constitution prohibition against the General Warrants issued by other courts, unfortunately there is no good basic case to be made because who is the party to bring suit if VZ or Google are in bed with the NSA. Doesnt help that the General Warents are in the form of National Security Findings
3. Actually Iraq was more than ready to sign SOFA arranged per the SEC DEF at the time. Yet another failure of the charmed Clinton/Obama state department. The White House dragged its feet through the election because any troop number would have caused a loss of votes in swing states because it would state clearly that US solders bleeding for IRAQ was not over... and as of 2014 it is a fight between the same three factions as it was the day after Bagdad Bob was knocked off the air less the US/UK traffic cops.
I think we have great global coverage from the USGS in the form of seismic networks and the DOD in the form of SONAR and Early Warning from 1970 onwards making it 40 years of coverage that should pretty much cover all but the poles with at least two types 2 instruments. Still wondering why the timeframe is from only 1994... but I can guess the post test moratorium data is near 100% public.
Two tons of ore to produce a commodity worth near $80 per barrel is near nothing compared to metals. Digging that ton and transporting it say 5km, processing and putting the tailings/overburden back in the hole for less than $20 bucks seems to be the economic point where tar sands work. Midwest hasn't relied on heating oil in any significant fraction since the 70s. Natural Gas costs about 30% per BTU compared to home heating oil with a delivery point being Chicago. Also in most Midwest markets one can buy Natural Gas from about 20 different companies in a completive market where you can lock in prices through contracts for up to 3 years. As the fractions of gas vs liquids increases at western US wellheads proven reserves of Natural Gas will be available for another 200 years unless the road transportation sucks it all up in the next 100.
Is the parent comment from a NOTES Admin, Dev or AS OPERATOR? I ask because those are the only folks who ever liked Notes. The bean counters who originally put enterprises on "the notes" are long dead and their 123 spreadsheets no longer rule the world.
Err. Clancys Catapillar drive, Magnetohydrodynamic was built at at several research labs within 12 months of the release of the Book Hunt for Red October and by the time the movie was out the US Navy had something like 10 million dollars in research grants out to labs to do work when the projects got pulled back into the dark in 95.
The construction of a Gadget explains the classical machining of bomb components in exportable detail.
He was best at when giving the motivation why Ryan, Chaves and Clark would work for political hack masters and got pretty tepid and juvenile when he made Ryan a political creature. The non fiction books he wrote about everything from a Air Wing to Marine Division are total rehashes of books written by every post pentagon author except Clancy got a six figure advance.
Traffic management at more than a half dozen peer points then becomes another huge hassle especially when the load varies over time in a very non regular pattern. Arrested Development hits the NETFLIX servers and the traffic peaks for a weekend as the consumers mainline the content, VZ doesn't move at a pace where they can engineer for that. If its 3 months past last years fiscal year the engineering budget is already dedicated to this FYs projects.
When you get to more than 6 interconnects with another network it is time to go up by a power of ten with a change in the media anyways. The monthly cost of pesky cables between the cages at the peer point may get a bit obscene when a third party like TELEX is running the inter-suite infrastructure at the peer point. This has a cost but these peer points are in places that already have bandwidth overbuild. Love to tell you that the cage/suite providers are smart enough to put in a TELCO row with a fiber infrastructure for distribution that can be fired up to meet daily needs.... they aren't. Its contracts, lawyers, POs, invoices and work orders as far as the eye can see for 4 hours of effort of firing up a 100Gig link over intra-building fiber..
To VZ eye, Netflix is floting in cash... they should pay the freight for the bandwidth. To Netflix, VZ has already collected the cash from the subscriber and should be reacting to their mutual customers demands.. There is the main reason for the standoff. There is one way that will certainly cause a reaction, NETFLIX block 90% of their content to VZ IPs and put a banner saying its because the subscriber is on VZ. The Netflix CEO calls the VZ CEO and says you want our distribution appliances now or do you want your call center lines to keep ringing with? I do see why that isn't what is going on...as What could go wrong with charging more for DVD distribution was just about forgotten wasnt it?.
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
None of the warrents said something like
"All emails stored on VZ servers (listed below) that mention pressurecookers as bombs from the 723 people (listed below) who visited terrorist training camps (listed below) in 2010-2013."
You got to be kidding me. NK is gone with a single strike and China isnt going to a single thing to their largest trading partners. They are capitolist now.
Battery technology has been a slow evolution and after 200 hundred years quantum leaps of performance are most expensive. The free market is working on this one, any money thrown at this just makes the market less free and less level. Wish the DOE would work on a standard "US Nuclear Power plant" design for the 21st century so all these batteries can be charged with the cheapest power possible on actual cost and pollution products basis.
At this point it is just a matter of how much you are willing to spend with 10Gig Ethernet becoming the standard method for handoff from the Telco demark. Just installed a L3 endpoint with well over 50Gig/sec of capacity with each gig/sec CIR costing less than it takes my company to write the check and split it out to the customers invoices. Storage and Power/Cooling are the last expensive item in the datacenter.
Here are the things network teams needed to much for Virtualization scheduleds and are the first to come back up when the switch/router power is restored.
1 x GPS TIME SERVER MASTERING FOR ALL SWITCH ROUTERS to Provide NTP to the CLIENTS.
2 x TACACS SERVERS FOR SWITCHS , ADMIN VPN, RSA 2 FACTOR... BLAH.
2 x DNS SERVERS BEHIND THAT SERVER AS MASTERS ( to SLAVES BEHIND THE F5s)
2 x ADMIN VPNs (JUNO, CISCO ASA)
2 x CONSOLE SERVERS to everything.
2 x CONFIG SERVERS, IOS, DOCUMENTATION STORES TFTP FTP SFTP
2 x SECURITY SERVERS THAT LET YOU IN THE DOOR
n x HVAC, POWER MONITORING, GENSET TOOLS.
2 x SYSLOG SERVER with local HHD.
2 x JUMPBOX with REAL OUT OF BAND BANDWIDTH (CABLE MODEM, CELL MODEM, VT100 in office space....sucks to work in a dark HOT DC)
1 x TIMECLOCK with cardstock because this is going to take a while.
All should have the least number of transfer switches(evil beasts) and should be at the base of the A and B sides of the Power Plan.
16 Trillion reasons not to spend more than keeping life support on for NASA. When there are less than 50% of US citizens are dependent on some type of federal aid to keep above bankruptcy it might be time to go to the moon. And when college students can afford to pay tuition from the earnings of part time job and not finance the basic education until there retirement perhaps mars would be in reach of American Astronauts. We will need to go backwards for a bit to rebuild ourselves.