Agreed.

Even though it's sort of backwards due to PTSD and all that, people fighting and supporting each other need to be mentally steady at all times. I say "steady" because I mean that someone who is manically depressed, wetting themselves and crying uncontrollably whenever they hear gunfire, fighting the voices, etc, have no business being depended upon by the rest of the military and our country. So if someone is mentally struggling with anything that keeps their concentration from being fully engaged with whatever job or task they have at any given time, they need to go.

On the flip side, once the horrors of breaking things and killing people have sunk in, we damned well should be doing everything we can to get them back to the healthy state they were in prior to joining up.

Because if we can't get people back into their original, normal lives (or at least get as close as possible), we need to start cutting off all military reproductive organs. Let our eunuchs fight the wars and if they no longer can function, push them into their retirement six feet under. It's may feel kinder than what many people deal with once they get spit out of our current system.

Oh, geez. I recently was transferred after my company was purchased. I went from a data center engineer to managing data center consolidation for a dozen Enterprise sites, from a handful of legacy organizations. I started collecting lists of technologies present from my director and forming a plan. Presented a lot of information about all the steps, road blocks, pinch points, etc. My director takes a cursory view and says, "None of this is important because we're going hyper converged with VMWare NSX!"

I laughed at his joke.

He asked me what was funny.

I cried inside...

Haven't they also been trying to unbundle SMS/MMS and Hangouts for a year or two now as well? I mean, it was frustrating getting those two to work in concert but I wanted it to function in the end. I'd just like to know if all their posturing with regards to messaging is "Change for the sake of Change" or if it's really going to be useful. It'd be nice to know what the end of their road map is or if they're playing Sonic The Hedgehog and are stuck in the Casino Night Zone.

Is Jibe still a thing?? I sorta gave up on Google phones when the prices hit premium level so I'm not into all the google stuff anymore.

At any rate, I've had Voice installed for the last seven years or so and while I'm okay with Hangouts handling my VM and whatnot I do use Voice for some stuff because Hangouts is often buggy on the S5 provided by my workplace.

Can't wait until it's up on XDA Developers for the S5 from AT&T, which so far hasn't been able to be rooted, and is the phone my work gave me. Sure it's a free phone and it's a work phone... But I wanna put a different ROM on it, dammit.

I always loved Endorsement Roulette on LinkedIn. I only log in every month or so (if I'm not actively pursuing something) and nothing beats seeing that real estate agent you never actually hired endorsing me for Python Development and CPU Design. I'm reasonably certain I never discussed either of these with that dude, because at the time I wasn't heavily into Python... and Intel keeps telling me that nobody needs a CPU made out of reconstituted coffee grounds.

Touchdown...

I've never been interested in having Exchange in my phone's email client because the email clients built in with most Androids suck.. I bought Touchdown years ago because it was built to talk to Exchange and it worked very well.

Gmail is pretty good, but I'm still not interested in merging my Exchange account with it because then my phone becomes completely subject to my workplace's rules and regulations on mobiles. Touchdown keeps that separate and I like it that way. Hell, I have a company phone and I STILL use Touchdown. If some idiot Exchange admin F's up a powershell command to wipe some dude's phone and ends up wiping everyone named Steve's phone**, I don't have to worry because only my Touchdown partition is affected. And any personal stuff I have on the device (for better or worse) is unaffected. Yay.

**This HAS happened at a company where I warned the head of IT that the guy they just made a domain admin was not ready for that responsibility. Not a week goes by before he force wiped all phones belonging to anyone named Christine. Out of 1200 users. Fun day!

Little enrages me as much as these guys getting the handouts they get. The main purpose of the building is for roughly 14 days out of the year and then maybe another 30-60 days a year for other events. The public funds them and gets little to nothing in return. If public money is going to stadiums then they should be owned by the public. MN's new stadium should never have been built and popular opinion was never polled. It would never have passed popular vote. Sure, about 20-30% of the public would have been irate at the other 70-80%, but that's how it would have gone. But then Dayton just handed a multi billionaire half a billion anyways. Over half that stadium belongs rightfully to the city of Minneapolis and its proceeds shouldn't be making it into Wilf's pockets, but into the schools and policy stations that they SHOULD have been paying for in the first place.

Where does the PS4 hold its OS? If it's on the HDD you could just back it up to one or two others and let them sit around.

More than I care to admit or remember... I've seen a lot of advertising firms using FTP for transferring material to/from clients all over the place. They figure user/pass and origin IP are secure enough. Well, maybe their data isn't important enough to transfer with any level of encryption.

Very true, but many smaller websites may not have the luxury of moving their IPs about.

So I'm reasonably certain all this will do is block access to your subnet and only allow traffic to your gateway. Which in any corporate environment is a massive security risk because if they're doing it right, employees are sitting on different subnets (RFC1918 or otherwise). So, yes, random guy who happens to be a contact in Outlook.com (which literally BEGS to let you make every you ever emailed a contact) now has access to every normally permissible network node as long as he's not interested in the wifi subnet.

Yes, most corporations should be using per-employ authentication, and hopefully Sense engineers are dumb enough to share out AD/LDAP credentials (well, maybe they're not smart or interested enough to go into *nix authentication). But that's not always the case.

Can't wait until this is called "Wifigate"

"Campaign Contributions", geeze. How are the politicians supposed to make a living without them?!

I was going to suggest using a box of 3.5" floppy disks as I wouldn't expect them to have the equipment to read them anymore, but then I realized this is the post office, so maybe just a DVD would be okay since they probably haven't gotten around to procuring any of those yet.

My knowledge of this comes mostly from Wikipedia and a movie I saw called Beer Wars. I took an interest some years ago when Surly Brewing had a long battle with the three tier system in MN. Mostly I just wanted to be able to buy a pint locally.

I've been trying to pay attention to the Tesla vs Dealership battle for a while. Mostly with the hopes that some day I could afford to comfortably pay $90k for a vehicle some day. Though I'd be more than happy to get the Model 3 when it becomes available. :)

Nice summary! Off topic, but this really reminds me of the way that alcohol industry is set up. Originally people felt like it was a good idea because the manufacturers had way too much power. But in the end the manufacturers are sorta getting screwed, and the public is really getting screwed.

I try to buy my beer from independent brewers (mmm... growlers...) because the distributors can make or break them, and I'd I'd leave dealerships in the dust if I could, too.

That would be interesting, indeed.

I've never seen a corporation spring for anything greater than the smallest HDD available, though, so the returns wouldn't be too substantial for anyone on a long-term refresh, though I have seen .5 and 1TB drives shipping recently (and you'd probably want to keep your hands off the SSDs for now). Assuming 100 nodes at an average of 100GB of free space allocation each is perhaps 2TB of questionably reliable storage (10TB of very volatile data). You couldn't allow heavy access to the distributed storage during the day (tanking r/w performance for users). If the licensing and maintenance are very low cost, you could slap 1TB drives everywhere and dedicate half that space for distributed storage. Per 100 users there would be roughly 10TB of relatively redundant space that could be used for, say, deep archives of encrypted backups, logs, or whatever.

Or hell, save space by dedicating a 2nd HDD in every box to distributed storage. A descent SAN will kick its ass any day, but it could potentially cost 1/10th of the price.