They would have to perform an act with the express intent of causing terror and fear in the general populace, also typically involving idealogical goals (check) and targeting civilians with violence (not check).

I don't think that knocking down a single AM radio tower qualifies, although it is certainly vandalism, destruction of property and other things.

I mean, if I destroyed everyone's wifi devices in my building with a hammer, I'm crazy and have destroyed property in a criminal manner. But am I a terrorist?

I am gonna squeeze on that animal and drink whatever comes out!

I also prefer organic milk for different reasons (I think it tastes better, and it's expiration date is usually way further out than regular), although I suspect the main differentiator may be that organic milk is almost always ultra-pasteurized as opposed to regular pasteurization which is the norm for regular milk.

Bugatti Automobiles SAS is a subsidiary of Volkswagen, and is actually a new company founded in 2000. As far as I'm aware, none of the former Bugatti companies were ever associated with GM; even if they were, a subsidiary can certainly make cars distinct from its parent company if the corporate structure permits.

Yeah, I'm not sure what this particular site requires. I do know from prior professional experience that the 'second site' was always a very tough sell (and actually, of the places I've worked, only Yahoo was good about that sort of thing).

It's more than just the hardware too, it's the processes in place to ensure that there are very seriously no dependencies on one site. For instance, maybe you deploy everything simultaneously to both sites, you buy equal hardware in both places, you do BCP failover tests regularly to ensure the second site works as expected, and so forth.

But where do you build new packages? Where is your source control repository? Not being able to use your normal workflow can be almost as bad as a public outage, and can lead to one as well.

In this case, maybe the guy could just slap something together, but even so the amount of effort to do what you're talking about would probably take a few days to iron out. You lose a lot of time right off the bat just figuring out what happened and whether or not you are going to be seeing your equipment again anytime soon. Plus some things are just out of your control; getting a DSL or cable hookup with a static IP, if you didn't already have one, can literally take weeks.

A lot of places are not prepared for a complete site loss. They may be very redundant within the site, with multiple hosts and backups and redundant power / AC / networking, but not have a single piece of equipment not located at that colocation center.

Consider that even if they did have off-site backups (which are really the bare minimum, although a lot of small operations overlook it anyway), they probably don't physically possess any equipment to run it on or have an agreement with another colocation center to put that equipment in.

So right now they need to put an order in with Dell and Cisco and whoever to get duplicate equipment (that they probably don't have a budget for), find another colo on short notice, wait for the equipment to arrive (1-2 weeks), do the physical installation work, and then restore all of their systems types from backups that may or may not represent the complete bare metal system image.

Most disaster recovery plans only account for disasters within a finite period of time (the power goes out for a few hours) or for partial losses (you lose 2 of 4 web servers), because redundancy is the most expensive part of any computer deployment.

For the database server itself, there is no difference between MySQL Community Edition and MySQL Enterprise Edition besides the release schedule. The community edition (aka the regular one everyone uses) has been pared down to 4 releases a year, which are cherry picked from the enterprise releases.

However, the source is completely available for the enterprise releases, and you are able to compile and install them yourself. This is what Percona is doing, for instance (plus some other patches).

With that said, MySQL has other software that comes along with the enterprise edition that is not open sourced to my knowledge. A query analyzer, monitoring, and other goodies. Personally I prefer to find their equivalents in the open source world, but I'm sure some people buy and use these packages.

Right, this is what I meant by having Google Voice call one of your numbers to patch you through. To the recipient, it appears to come from your Google Voice phone number.

There is also an iPhone app to automate this, but I don't think it works with Google Voice (just Grand Central). Hopefully Google will come out with something official or the app gets updated.

I don't use it that often, because I typically don't care if someone gets my real number. However, when calling car dealers it's invaluable.

It is nice that you can turn off Call Presentation now. I wish, as I did with Grand Central, that the level of configurability would get way higher. Things like having certain people's calls go through without the Call Presentation thing.

It would also be nice if the system was complex enough to understand voice commands in addition to the numbers. The biggest pain I have is answering a call on my iPhone requires changing over to keypad mode every time to hit '1'. However, it pays for itself when I manage to avoid a call that I really didn't want to take.

Another sweet feature: the contacts are now held in your Google Contacts stuff (shared with Gmail, which caused me a few initial problems), so that you can sync that up with the iPhone (and I presume other phones somehow) as well. It's really becoming a Googlefied world.

On the plus side, they did add some settings if you're concerned about this. Under Advanced Settings for each phone, you can now control whether or not it requires a PIN to access voicemail.

With Grand Central, devices listed as 'mobile' just got special treatment, but now it's a little finer grained.

I'm not really sure how else they could handle this, besides just eliminating the PIN-less voicemail and account control features entirely or having the default as off with big warnings about the boogeymen who will get you.

It's the same service as Grand Central, which I've been using for 2-3 years now.

The basic idea is that you can hide all of your various phone numbers behind your Google Voice number. People call it and all of your phones (or the ones you have configured for that caller or at that time of day) will ring. Whichever one you pick up gets the call, and you will be told the person's name and given the choice to actually answer or bounce them to voicemail.

On the other side, you can use the web interface to have Google Voice call one of your phones and connect you with any phone number you give it. This is free, except for international calls. I don't use this too often, but it helps when you don't want people to find out one of your 'real' phone numbers.

The best part is that you can control incoming calls essentially with a spam filter. When people call you they have to state their name (the first time), which plays when you answer their calls. You can decide to bounce certain numbers straight to voicemail every time or give them a 'this number is not in service' message.

Google Voice added the following features that I like:

- Voicemails are transcribed, not very well but you can usually get the jist quickly without listening
- SMS is now forwarded as well, which was pretty much the major short-coming of Grand Central.

Overall, I really like it, and the service quality has been quite good. The main thing is that it is not a phone service in itself, but something you use with other phone services.