What exactly do you suggest? We used to buy generic servers, but the warranty/support was terrible, so we switched to Dell. We used to run Linux firewalls, but the VPN options were incompatible with iPhones. (Yes, you can use the awful kludge of an essentially adware-laden OpenVPN client now.). So, we went with Cisco.
To be honest, I am most pissed with our multifunction printers now. Ricoh has become very difficult to self-repair and expensive to operate, Minolta worse... Haven't found a good current model yet that can print PDF vector graphics quickly and with good quality, while still being easy to replace the drum or rollers without a technician.
My paywall hate is the fact that the quality of the material presented does not correlate to the "cost" of registering. Out of habit, I go to SFGate often enough, but the quality is simply junk: there might be two news articles on the front page, and a bunch of human interest slide shows... for the people that can't read? I also read Seattle PI for a while, until they started doing goofy things with hijacking the browser. There are several others that come and go, but quite frankly I have no interests in another city's local interest or politics.
Google News used to be good, but they pretty much killed that.
Most of the newspapers have so little original news content that it is hard to call them a real source of information.
If I am going to pay for a news site, I want quality, quantity, and relevance. I want at least 20 articles a day that are interesting to me; I prefer no advertising and easy access. For that, I could probably part with the same amount I give Wikimedia each year, despite the fact it is likely to provide me with less value.
If this type of box was under $100, I would jump on it. At $65 I would buy several. Currently trying to get a BeagleBone Black (when they get stock again) for the same general purpose, but being able to drive a 4k display would be worth a little extra.
Most large scale data centers have provisions to deal with loss of water. Air-cooled backup chillers, well or lake water, or large water storage tanks are all an option. Some facilities can also treat the "blow-down" water to reduce the need for make-up water.
Barring all that, I'm sure the NSA can arrange to have about 60 tanker truck deliveries per day for make-up water. Expensive, but not that hard.
It is getting to the point where domain names themselves are useless; you basically need a search engine for everything. Maybe we should just switch to IPV6 addresses instead; it will make things easier...
I have over the years as an electrical engineer used many brute-force solutions to solve what could have been done more elegantly with a different tool: often Excel becomes the Swiss Army knife.
But, without being able to use a little shell scripting, Perl and PHP, there are problems that can't be easily solved. If I was any good at C or a more modern language I am sure other things could be options.
Unfortunately, the opposite is also often true-- Visual Basic created a generation of internal office applications that should have been dealt with differently.
I like to think the best thing computer programming education teaches people is when they should hire a programmer. I still remember a problem 18 years ago where tens of thousands of files had to be modified, and my boss' approach was just to bring in 20 temps after hours and do it manually for a couple months. Fortunately we were able to hire someone to automate it instead, but that approach wasn't available to him as he had no experience in that area.
I would be much more worried if every man, woman, and child in the US carried a balance on their three credit cards.
For me, I have three business credit cards and at least 5 personal credit cards. Only 3 of the total are used with any regularity, for specific purposes. The remainder are either emergency cards (stored in home safe), contingency cards for another specific purpose, or cards I have forgotten about. None of them carry a balance.
And for the slashdot crowd, that is the problem with a binary feedback loop. An analog feedback look is much more effective.
First step is to discourage unnecessary commuting for the day: if you can work from home, please do; if you don't need to be out, stay home. Second step is plan for action on highest impact arteries: salt the freaking highways, or whatever routes are most critical. Third step is to encourage delayed start-times for businesses. Fourth is to delay start times for schools... and so on.
It isn't a decision between 500 snowplows and none, it is increments for how you deal with things. Have a few to address your most critical routes. You will never be well enough prepared for a major snowstorm, but hopefully you can be well enough prepared that you can function through a 3-year event and not turn into post-Katrina NOLA for a 20-year event.
I'd say it is something they are dropping because most people HATE it rather than a question of need.
The only reason to use column layout that would need regions is when the media is too wide to flow between lines. That width is roughly a letter/a4 sheet in landscape. It completely breaks usability on the web.
The new California Energy Code ("Title-24") effectively requires control networks to be connected to the internet to receive demand response ("smart grid") signals from the utility.
Only about 5% (maximum) of buildings can optimistically be expected to be able to secure this stuff; what I hear from the vendors is much closer to 0.01%; barely 5% of financial institutions and 20% of defense contractors pull it off. GSA is close to 30%.
All these various systems make it very difficult to make progress on the most sensitive systems. Hell, few people realize how much crap is on a consumer NAS device!
Really comes down to ground acceleration. Northridge and Loma Prieta were 6.7 and 6.9; a modern 7.9 like the 1906 SF earthquake is a more reasonable comparison to what would happen in the Midwest with an ~8.0. Similar level of structural preparedness as well.
But not having to deal with problems makes you weak and distorts your sense of risk tolerance.
A high seismic activity area is only an issue if it is ill-prepared to deal with it. Frequency of seismic events is lower though, so you don't have the hazard profile of hurricanes, or the challenges of high variable weather (plus tornadoes) in the Midwest.
Having grown up there, I figure there must be a reason they call MO Misery.
Our cubes are 8x8 and offices 10x17; I could fit the bike in the office but it is against policy.
The problem is I have a 8 laundered shirts, 8 dirty shirts, underwear, pants, and a towel from showering. Can't put any of those in a drawer. I use a valet cleaners to keep my clothes pressed, and less than 10 shirts has a higher fee.
The only reasons the managers in my company have private offices are: to simplify the process of confidential meetings; to allow conference calls to be conducted on speaker with another member of the project team present; additional work surfaces and storage; and because they were built before we moved in.
Better (more modern) office layouts with lots of teaming rooms (6x6' conference rooms), adequate medium and large conference rooms, and work surfaces and storage matched to job functions dramatically reduce the need for a private office. If you shrink the offices to 8x6 and get rid of the windows then most managers would prefer the cubes.
For me, the biggest impact is a cube would make it harder for me to ride my bike to work, as I keep all my work clothing and toiletries in the office. The savings to the company would be about $2,000/year per office eliminated.
The original hack could have been much easier... Just a well crafted series of 2d bar codes with the right escape characters could be enough to get the first machine, assuming they were not living on the corporate network for months or years.
What actually surprises me about this attack is that it was not better targeted; what is the point of millions of credit cards when you could pick and choose the cards you take at the register? Why go for the credit cards when identity fraud is so easy?
Interestingly, I had my first post-target fraud warning come through this week from the credit card company, but not a peep out of target for me.
To the OP, you can't bury lines; all you can do is bury a duct bank and give a pull string for the telco. Unfortunately, they will require dedicated pathways, so you can't have competing providers in the same conduit or boxes. If they aren't even amenable to that, provide your own network and build an "association clubhouse" at the main street. Get the fastest service (or two) to that point, and distribute out on the network.
No, the problem is that her opponents are worse. In 2012 Elizabeth Emken had exactly one issue-- autism awareness. Nothing else. Mountjoy might have been viable in 2006, but not a realistic time for democrats to cross over.
Yeah-- something seems off in their network design. You basically would just need a 24-port mini-dslam for internet, and an amplifier for cable. That should be under $5k for internals and another $3-5k for the pedestal.
Looks like they set themselves up with an expensive infrastructure; usage shouldn't be driving up costs though.
The system of logic likely starts with the fact that it is low-value transactions, and a limited maximum stored value. Hey, it's more secure than a credit card, right? Then you get creep...
The Starbucks app has much worse security problems; a photo of the 2D barcode cannot be revoked as a valid credential.
The upper limit (for diving) is a ppO2 of 1.4. 1.6 is the absolute top (hyperoxia), and usually 0.16 is the floor (hypoxia)
But, if you wanted to get all wild and crazy, you could use electrolysis and go for 4% O2/96% H2. Doesn't help you any if you are shallower than 40m, and there is still the issue of an energy source.
Slashdot Mirror
They must use the same packing department as hp still.
What exactly do you suggest? We used to buy generic servers, but the warranty/support was terrible, so we switched to Dell. We used to run Linux firewalls, but the VPN options were incompatible with iPhones. (Yes, you can use the awful kludge of an essentially adware-laden OpenVPN client now.). So, we went with Cisco.
To be honest, I am most pissed with our multifunction printers now. Ricoh has become very difficult to self-repair and expensive to operate, Minolta worse... Haven't found a good current model yet that can print PDF vector graphics quickly and with good quality, while still being easy to replace the drum or rollers without a technician.
My paywall hate is the fact that the quality of the material presented does not correlate to the "cost" of registering. Out of habit, I go to SFGate often enough, but the quality is simply junk: there might be two news articles on the front page, and a bunch of human interest slide shows... for the people that can't read? I also read Seattle PI for a while, until they started doing goofy things with hijacking the browser. There are several others that come and go, but quite frankly I have no interests in another city's local interest or politics.
Google News used to be good, but they pretty much killed that.
Most of the newspapers have so little original news content that it is hard to call them a real source of information.
If I am going to pay for a news site, I want quality, quantity, and relevance. I want at least 20 articles a day that are interesting to me; I prefer no advertising and easy access. For that, I could probably part with the same amount I give Wikimedia each year, despite the fact it is likely to provide me with less value.
If this type of box was under $100, I would jump on it. At $65 I would buy several. Currently trying to get a BeagleBone Black (when they get stock again) for the same general purpose, but being able to drive a 4k display would be worth a little extra.
Most large scale data centers have provisions to deal with loss of water. Air-cooled backup chillers, well or lake water, or large water storage tanks are all an option. Some facilities can also treat the "blow-down" water to reduce the need for make-up water.
Barring all that, I'm sure the NSA can arrange to have about 60 tanker truck deliveries per day for make-up water. Expensive, but not that hard.
Well, I think I was less offended by my least favorite registrar's ad this year, but still moving my business away from them.
Don't think Sonos ad worked too well; owning several, I understood, but it was a bit of a leap.
Other than that... Did you see the cuuuute little puppies...
It is getting to the point where domain names themselves are useless; you basically need a search engine for everything. Maybe we should just switch to IPV6 addresses instead; it will make things easier...
I have over the years as an electrical engineer used many brute-force solutions to solve what could have been done more elegantly with a different tool: often Excel becomes the Swiss Army knife.
But, without being able to use a little shell scripting, Perl and PHP, there are problems that can't be easily solved. If I was any good at C or a more modern language I am sure other things could be options.
Unfortunately, the opposite is also often true-- Visual Basic created a generation of internal office applications that should have been dealt with differently.
I like to think the best thing computer programming education teaches people is when they should hire a programmer. I still remember a problem 18 years ago where tens of thousands of files had to be modified, and my boss' approach was just to bring in 20 temps after hours and do it manually for a couple months. Fortunately we were able to hire someone to automate it instead, but that approach wasn't available to him as he had no experience in that area.
No, there must be gays working for Google. There is nothing God can do...
(Damn Fred Phelps)
I would be much more worried if every man, woman, and child in the US carried a balance on their three credit cards.
For me, I have three business credit cards and at least 5 personal credit cards. Only 3 of the total are used with any regularity, for specific purposes. The remainder are either emergency cards (stored in home safe), contingency cards for another specific purpose, or cards I have forgotten about. None of them carry a balance.
And for the slashdot crowd, that is the problem with a binary feedback loop. An analog feedback look is much more effective.
First step is to discourage unnecessary commuting for the day: if you can work from home, please do; if you don't need to be out, stay home.
Second step is plan for action on highest impact arteries: salt the freaking highways, or whatever routes are most critical.
Third step is to encourage delayed start-times for businesses.
Fourth is to delay start times for schools...
and so on.
It isn't a decision between 500 snowplows and none, it is increments for how you deal with things. Have a few to address your most critical routes. You will never be well enough prepared for a major snowstorm, but hopefully you can be well enough prepared that you can function through a 3-year event and not turn into post-Katrina NOLA for a 20-year event.
I'd say it is something they are dropping because most people HATE it rather than a question of need.
The only reason to use column layout that would need regions is when the media is too wide to flow between lines. That width is roughly a letter/a4 sheet in landscape. It completely breaks usability on the web.
The new California Energy Code ("Title-24") effectively requires control networks to be connected to the internet to receive demand response ("smart grid") signals from the utility.
Only about 5% (maximum) of buildings can optimistically be expected to be able to secure this stuff; what I hear from the vendors is much closer to 0.01%; barely 5% of financial institutions and 20% of defense contractors pull it off. GSA is close to 30%.
All these various systems make it very difficult to make progress on the most sensitive systems. Hell, few people realize how much crap is on a consumer NAS device!
Really comes down to ground acceleration. Northridge and Loma Prieta were 6.7 and 6.9; a modern 7.9 like the 1906 SF earthquake is a more reasonable comparison to what would happen in the Midwest with an ~8.0. Similar level of structural preparedness as well.
Santa Fe, NM.
Extremely low natural disaster risk, low social risk, manageable strategic risk.
But not having to deal with problems makes you weak and distorts your sense of risk tolerance.
A high seismic activity area is only an issue if it is ill-prepared to deal with it. Frequency of seismic events is lower though, so you don't have the hazard profile of hurricanes, or the challenges of high variable weather (plus tornadoes) in the Midwest.
Having grown up there, I figure there must be a reason they call MO Misery.
Our cubes are 8x8 and offices 10x17; I could fit the bike in the office but it is against policy.
The problem is I have a 8 laundered shirts, 8 dirty shirts, underwear, pants, and a towel from showering. Can't put any of those in a drawer. I use a valet cleaners to keep my clothes pressed, and less than 10 shirts has a higher fee.
Fair enough!
The only reasons the managers in my company have private offices are: to simplify the process of confidential meetings; to allow conference calls to be conducted on speaker with another member of the project team present; additional work surfaces and storage; and because they were built before we moved in.
Better (more modern) office layouts with lots of teaming rooms (6x6' conference rooms), adequate medium and large conference rooms, and work surfaces and storage matched to job functions dramatically reduce the need for a private office. If you shrink the offices to 8x6 and get rid of the windows then most managers would prefer the cubes.
For me, the biggest impact is a cube would make it harder for me to ride my bike to work, as I keep all my work clothing and toiletries in the office. The savings to the company would be about $2,000/year per office eliminated.
The original hack could have been much easier... Just a well crafted series of 2d bar codes with the right escape characters could be enough to get the first machine, assuming they were not living on the corporate network for months or years.
What actually surprises me about this attack is that it was not better targeted; what is the point of millions of credit cards when you could pick and choose the cards you take at the register? Why go for the credit cards when identity fraud is so easy?
Interestingly, I had my first post-target fraud warning come through this week from the credit card company, but not a peep out of target for me.
MB, CA?
To the OP, you can't bury lines; all you can do is bury a duct bank and give a pull string for the telco. Unfortunately, they will require dedicated pathways, so you can't have competing providers in the same conduit or boxes. If they aren't even amenable to that, provide your own network and build an "association clubhouse" at the main street. Get the fastest service (or two) to that point, and distribute out on the network.
No, the problem is that her opponents are worse. In 2012 Elizabeth Emken had exactly one issue-- autism awareness. Nothing else. Mountjoy might have been viable in 2006, but not a realistic time for democrats to cross over.
Are you kidding? She in no way represents the voters of California. She represents herself.
Yeah-- something seems off in their network design. You basically would just need a 24-port mini-dslam for internet, and an amplifier for cable. That should be under $5k for internals and another $3-5k for the pedestal.
Looks like they set themselves up with an expensive infrastructure; usage shouldn't be driving up costs though.
The system of logic likely starts with the fact that it is low-value transactions, and a limited maximum stored value. Hey, it's more secure than a credit card, right? Then you get creep...
The Starbucks app has much worse security problems; a photo of the 2D barcode cannot be revoked as a valid credential.
The flaw is apparently exposed by the crash reporting software on iOS; not sure why Android would be protected inherently.
The upper limit (for diving) is a ppO2 of 1.4. 1.6 is the absolute top (hyperoxia), and usually 0.16 is the floor (hypoxia)
But, if you wanted to get all wild and crazy, you could use electrolysis and go for 4% O2/96% H2. Doesn't help you any if you are shallower than 40m, and there is still the issue of an energy source.