When I was in my 30's everyone told me that I wouldn't be getting jobs in my 40's.. I spoke to a lot of people at the time who were older and leaving the business because they could not get hired. At the time I thought such people just weren't keeping up with the times or were just B level people. Wrong. As I turned 45 and older I found less and less people willing to hire me.

The problem is not in your ability to learn new tech most likely - the problem will be that people will not want to hire you. Why is this? Several reasons:

1. You cost more. Even if you are willing to work the same wages you will be perceived as costing more.

2. Your medical insurance costs to the company will be higher. Even if you don't actually use that insurance the company will be charged higher rates if they have an older workforce.

3. You will be perceived as willing to work less. Maybe you have a family or heaven forbid - a life! Unlike a 22 year old who likely has neither of these things you will probably be less likely to work 60 - 70 hour weeks on a salary.

4. Your boss will likely be younger than you and knows less. Hence you will be perceived as a threat.

So welcome to the wonderful world of I.T.! Now go away :(
Your best options for future career are to get out of development and into management or to start your own business.
Me? Eventually I opted to get out of the field and am retraining as an RN.

Yes but consider that non-commercial IPs are almost always dynamic (surely the I.T. "genius" in Traynor's story would have told him this) and if you are going to confront your best friend's son over charges of heinous racism, threats of physical violence to himself and his wife, as well as terrorist packages sent to his door - all things that carry potentially long criminal sentences (especially in Europe) - would you REALLY do so over a dynamic I.P. or would you spend the extra week or two to confirm the link between IP address and physical address by a court order to the ISP?

Also are any of us seriously to believe that the father of the story-child's first reaction was to turn him over to the police? Just based on the word of his friend and NO other evidence (nothing from an ISP). Wouldn't you at least think maybe he would first get a lawyer for the kid maybe? It seems way too pat and easy - not to mention that the first thing the guy who has been terrorized for three years does to the kid is ... give him cookies? What/. The ? F.? !!!

One more thing. Traynor doesn't want the kid to go to jail, he wants to give him a second chance right? So what does Traynor do? He spreads this story ALL over the internet for two weeks - which maybe would carry the risk of the kid getting outed all over the internet and his life ruined. Does any of this make sense?

Come on we both have seen this thing before - attention seekers spreading stories of their fake exploits all over the internet. This one carries the double viral-inducing quality of rage at the terrorist story-kid combined with marvel at Traynor's saint-like goodness in giving the kid a second chance. It's all too pat and none of it makes sense. It's fake and I sure that will be proven in the days and weeks to come but by then Traynor will already have his 15 minutes of fame.

Had you read the actual article you would have discovered that he did NOT get the alleged IP address from an embedded web link but solely from Facebook. Had you any actual technical background at all you would know that the IP address is only part of the problem - you then have to get the ISP to translate that IP address to a customer physical name and address and THAT takes a court order - especially in Europe where privacy protections are far greater than here in the states.

But then again I would expect a troll who uses both ageism and misogynism in his post to support a likely troll like Traynor.

Yeah ... this is being pushed all over the web - likely by Traynor himself and it stinks of fakery.

1. Are we really to believe that Traynor and his wife get physicaly threatened for THREE years and Traynor does literally nothing about it? No restraining order after he finds out? He just decides to let it all go away.

2. Conveniently Traynor doesn't prosecute so there is no real record of this actually happening

3. How does Traynor's "genius" I.T. friend get an IP address from ...Facebook (wtf??) ? And how does he use that without a court order issued to an ISP to track it to a physical address?

4. After the very first drop off of a message and ashes at his doorstep Traynor NEVER puts up a cam so he never sees the OTHER TWO drop offs of messages on his doorstep? W.T.F.??! He lets at least two chances go by and NEVER goes to the police and files a report we can verify. Bogus /. has seen a LOT of Munchausen's by Internet over the years - from sad cancer tales that never were to stories of little children dying of diseases who never did and now this. It has fake written all over it and I SO wish someone would look closely at Traynor and get to the bottom of this.

Before you do anything at all consider this web page:
http://mukto-mona.net/debunk/harun_yahya/index.htm

which states that Adnan Oktar (aka Harun Yahya) and his followers have a history of using both extortion and violence against anyone who interferes in their criminal enterprises. With that said perhaps your best bet would be to pursue another DCMA process with YouTube along with proof that you own the media as another commenter suggested.

Some follow up:
This man is a both a criminal (drugs and racketeering) and apparently very much a nutcase who lives in Turkey - a self described Muslim creationist extremist. Even if you get the youtube things taken down and his .COM websit shut down he will simply put up more websites .

Consider carefully the consequences of getting involved with a criminal and nutcase living in a Muslim country who likely has followers in America as well.
Your best bet may be to simply edit the Wikipedia page regarding your legal issues with him.

His PUBLICLY AVAILABLE registration information for his website, http://harunyahya.com, is as follows:

Administrative Contact, Technical Contact:
Publication, Global ms7uh6j58c5@networksolutionsprivateregistration.com
Global Publication
ATTN HARUNYAHYA.COM
care of Network Solutions
PO Box 459
Drums, PA 18222
US
570-708-8780

Record expires on 23-Jan-2022.
Record created on 23-Jan-2000.
Bulk whois optout: N
Database last updated on 23-Sep-2012 14:42:05 EDT.

Domain servers in listed order:

NS1.P03.DYNECT.NET
NS2.P03.DYNECT.NET
NS3.P03.DYNECT.NET
NS4.P03.DYNECT.NET

Both the address and phone number are fake (they apparently are the address and phone of Network Solutions itself. However you CAN sue Network soultions in small claims since they are now attached to his company. Sue them in small claims for damages and ask alternatively that they hand over all the information that they have on the person. Attempt to take over his website via court order in small claims (it's an asset).

There is also a Wikipedia page about the guy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adnan_Oktar

Also: Some states allow injunctive relief (court order for youtube to take down the site) in small claims court and some do not. If your state does then file and ask that the site be taken down in addition to other damages.

Paid posters apparently have no shame :(

By this time you have realized that 98% of Slashdot posters don't know a damn thing about the issue that you need to resolve (... the cloud? .... Really ??? ) and are just flinging buzzwords (monkeys... poo ... ) or asking questions that you won;t know the answer to in hopes that this will get then off the hook in actually answering your question.
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Short and sweet - you want database mirroring with automatic fallover. You can set up a second SQL server on a separate machine (cost less than $500 for the machine) to be the mirror and if your primary machine fails then you are still golden. Here is an article that tells gives you an idea as to how to do this in MS SQL '08 :

http://www.databasejournal.com/features/mssql/article.php/3828341/Database-Mirroring-in-SQL-Server-2008.htm

Yes, you should hire a **competent** DB consultant to do this for you. Yes it will cost you another $800 - $1000 do have a **competent** consultant do this for you (figure 8- 12 hours work at 80 bucks an hour) - you will lose far more than that the very first time your database fails and/or you attempt to do it yourself and blow away your database because you made a mistake (you do have backups , of course.... right ??? ).

You can try to do it yourself but I do not recommend it as it's risky.

I've been doing DB work for 25 years - feel free to send me a Slashdot message should you desire to use my services.

>Another way of thinking about it: Would you be fine with $EVIL_EMPIRE deploying missile defense in Cuba, Mexico, and Canada?

Absofragginlutely!

If they are non-nuclear anti-missle defense than put those things **everywhere** as far as I am concerned. The less capability ANY country has for successfully launching a nuclear ICBM the better ! That goes for Russia, China, the freaking U S of A and everyone else.

No nukes is good nukes.

I would reinstate my mod points for your comment alone but you're already at 5.
Personally I think that /. jumped the shard with the virtually unusable and certainly unstable "web 2.0" Ajackass interface but you make an excellent point.

I'm a long time /. user but for the last 2 or 3 years I glance at the site maybe one or twice a week at best and simply don't comment anymore. The articles have become vapid, the user comments little better than Reddit, and now this ... Yeah, that's why I always log into /. - to get more business fucking intelligence. Good luck with that.

>So Slashdot is turning into a blog site?

Teh stupid still hurts.
Who knew?

The risk, for this asteroid as has been pointed out before is negligible. Anyone who follows http://www.spaceweather.com/ knows 2 or 3 times a year some small piece of rock comes between the earth and moon. Furthermore a few 10 MT nukes can easily either vaporize or at the very least break up into many small pieced a 150 foot chunk of rock. The technology to deliver such a device millions of miles out has been already proven by the recent asteroid and comet intercept probes. A single MIRV, attached to an appropriate launch vehicle could easily put from 10 to 30 nukes each containing half a megaton or more into the path of something like this. My guess is that you could create the launch vehicle for something like this in a year or so if the incentive were appropriate enough.

>Not true. The utility of a 63GPa material with the density in the 3000-2000kg/m3 department is so ridiculously awesome that its is indistinguishable
>from magic compared to today's materials

Know anyone who has a single pound on hand of that magical (mythical ) 63 GPa material of which you speak (let alone the megapounds that will be needed for a space elevator?)

No? Not a single pound?
Didn't think so.

1. The fact that we don't have the necessary structural materials yet to actually make a space elevator.

        2. Neither Japan nor any Japanese company has the financial solvency to undertake such an effort

        2. No no wants to spend a week in an elevator even if it means you get to go into orbit. Christ I can barely make it to the 15th floor without some jackass farting. A whole week. Don't think so.

        Every so often some company in need of cashflow creates some nonsensical grandiose concept in the hopes of securing ignorant investor funding (See Moller flying cars). And such companies usually have spent the bulk of the cash on P.R. - hence the slashdot article.

        It's bullshit. It's always bullshit.