That's why we have flex-hours and most people work from home most of the week. Right now, we don't even have enough desk space for everyone if they come to work at the same time.

In this area, it's not just work-life balance, but housing-work balance -- the farther you drive, the cheaper your house, which can make the difference between being able to afford living in the area or not. Even if you can afford the mortgage on a $750K starter house, not everyone can cover the downpayment, and when making offers they are competing against people paying cash.

Please go read the recent BBC interview with an ex-jihadi to see some of the ways that al-Qaeda has been taking Islamic teachings out of context and twisting them to suit their purposes.

Any of the Sennheiser or Shure wireless packs.

Countryman E6 type headset. Best every

For $700-$800+ you've solved the microphone problem. Look for used, maybe save half.

Maybe a Shure BLX14, $300

An Audio-Technica System 8 might satisfy your needs, $200 +/-

Then go fix your speaker placement and EQ the room. The Countryman likes a slight cut at 600Hz for vocals, choose the capsule cover carefully. The A-T mic I don't know well.

reasonable doubt. Different standard.

Then he's just proven to the world that the USA is not to be trusted.

If it were me, that's what I'd do, but I'd lay low and stay out of the news.

Unless your employees live in the same building as your office, there's a non-zero cost to having everyone in the office for meetings. At my office, even though employees are all "local", depending on traffic it can take up to 2 hours for some of them to get to the office.

Exactly, we have a 30 seat conference room with a polycom and 2 extension mikes. For company meetings, remote employees dial-in to the conference bridge, and the phone works surprisingly well, everyone in the room can be heard. (it does get confused though when more than one person speaks at once -- it doesn't know which microphone to use, so the two voices fade in and out)

No need to ditch working solutions just because they are "old school" -- most of our remote users use some VOIP solution to reach the conference bridge (google hangouts, skype, etc)

Once he's in custody, it's physically impossible for him to refuse to accept the results of a "fair trial".

Because a smartphone is something that nearly all of us already have for other reasons (an ultra-portable computer, a phone, a GPS, a music player, a watch, a camera, a flashlight, a gaming system, an email reader, an ebook reader, a video camera, a transistor radio...all in one handy unit)....so it's not $300 to $500 + $40..$80/month more than most people are already spending, it's $0 more.

Because not having a credit/debit card means that it's hard to shop online, and you have to make frequent trips to a "bank" to pull cash . Actually, if you pay your credit card bill on time and in full, most credit cards cost $0 too...and a debit card probably does everything you need at $0 also.

So your dinosaurian perspective isn't clever - it's just antiquated.

LACP would, indeed, fulfill the purpose but relies on you being able to obtain LACP support on upstream connections from your ISP. LACP must be enabled and known about on both ends for it to do anything.

It's not always true that you could get support on upstream connection, but they are many, and multiple, types of bonding that provide similar facilities.

However, in terms of being able to get disparate connections that can be conjoined without specific support on the other end or high-end hardware, there are fewer - but non-zero - ways of doing that too.

Really?

To distinguish between a ZIP and a JAR, you'd need to at least get to the ZIP file list. And that's assuming it's a vaild ZIP file at all that you're regexp'ing over and not just something "similar".

Think it was:

http://www.ssi.bg/~ja/

Seems to still be updated.

Strange.

I was using routing patches to Linux nearly 7 years ago to do this (admittedly it wasn't in the stock kernel, but the patches weren't huge)... you were able to specify multipath and multiple gateways and if one route went down, the others were prioritised and would take over, and also your upstream etc. were balanced properly and took account of failing routes automatically without any kind of daemon etc. running.

I ran a school off multiple ADSL and even 3G connections with it - the only manual maintenance I ever had to do was to put the ADSL modems onto a SMS-controlled relay (SMS came in on the same 3G stick!) because our ISP would often give us "dead" sessions if they'd had problems (where you'd get PPP and an IP and a remote gateway but couldn't do anything across them) and we were then able to manually reset if necessary. My bursar and I used the system for five years like that, only ever resetting it to enable VPN when all the upstream routes had got dead sessions, and that less than once or twice a year.

And, no, we didn't have to do much. It was a stock Slackware install with one set of patches to a (2.6?) kernel to enable the multipath routing etc. Pretty well advertised at the time, one plain page of simple patches (I remember porting them myself to a newer kernel version, just before the new diffs came out), I'll try and dig it up.

And "RAID-0 for upstream"? Bollocks. It "just worked" whatever interfaces were up (proven by it would even include the 3G PPP interface whenever it came up, and that only came up when we manually instructed it to connect as it cost money).

Not saying this isn't good software, but it's by far not the problem the summary purports it to be, not a first by any means, and certainly not "new".

As part of his re-patriation agreement, he should require cameras to be rolling throughout the entire trial with a live uncensored feed available to any organization that wants it (News organizations, EFF, ACLU, etc). If the government shuts down the cameras for any reason, then the agreement is null and void and the USA guarantees his return to Russia.

Then the american people can decide if the trial is "fair" -- if the government tries to redact all of the evidence due to national security reasons, then it's hard to see how the trial can be called "fair".

I realize that the USA will likely ignore the agreement once he's on american soil, but at least it demonstrates that the USA government can't be trusted to abide by its own agreements and it validates Snowden's reason for fleeing to Russia.