$95/hr is split into:

Your $20/hr + (Plus any benefits, Federal taxes, blah, blah)
Plus the time that someone spent getting that client you just did $95 worth of work for
Plus the money that was spent marketing to get that client you just did $95 worth of work for
Plus the admin time that will be spent billing that client
Plus dealing with the clients that don't pay
Plus office rent, utilities, other office overhead that you probably have no clue about
Plus tools used to perform the work (ticketing system, remote access tools?) . Again, you probably have no clue how much that actually costs
Plus you were paid to drive to that client, and if using your own vehicle should have gotten mileage
In addition to the drive, you are likely not billing 100% of your time anyway - Company still pays you when you are not billable right?

Believe it or not, the Margin on those accounts is not that much. Does it make money? Well I hope so or your company will no longer exist - Does it make someone filthy rich? Probably not.

That's a bit extreme of an example - but yes - you are failing to take into account everything that goes into running these types of operations such as Software Licensing (Which is crazy expensive for their ticketing systems and remote management tools), tools, rent, utilities, insurance (General liability and Errors / Omissions, Bonding (really good idea if you have employees in this type of business), your benefits, your payroll taxes, marketing, the cost of doing sales (i.e. not making money to get money) ... the list goes on. If you think it's such a great deal for the owner, why don't you try it yourself - It's a lot harder to get by than you think.

Work for a small IT company that provides services to small / medium businesses. Prove yourself there and get involved on as many projects as you can - You will get a ton of experience and learn more than you ever will sitting in corporate IT. It's not easy work if you are doing it right, but if experience is what you want - that is a good place to find it.

Really? Harder to kill lots of people with a bomb? Your a special kind of stupid aren't ya?. Oklahoma City Bombing

Why would they need to? Bombs are illegal, they are going to likely stay that way - But that didn't stop the criminal did it, apparently the person who did this didn't care that a law prevented him/her from having a bomb. I doubt that a sign on the street saying "bomb free zone" would have helped either, just saying.

Wish I had mod points --- Why would you post this AC? It is spot on and correct - There is not many organizations that are actually doing anything in the 3rd world that will make a difference in the long term for even one person.

I'm sorry, but blaming Google for the web site owners that by their own choice put Google code onto their websites is kind of retarded...

Maybe Google should start charging us for their services that we get for free... They have to make their money from something, if you don't like it don't use it. Also, anyone who honestly believes that a toggle in their browser is going to prevent them from being tracked on the open internet needs an education on how things really work in the real digital world.

Guess they want to follow Lenovo's lead ... Of course, Lenovo is a Chinese company who is going to be manufacturing some of their products in the US, I like that even better than the US company who is moving a few things back to the US.

If you have a drive that you could boot windows to this setting should stick once it is set, if you configure it inside of windows you should be able to run linux and the system will respect those settings that you configured.

I do allow my X220 to run full 100% charge, but it is rarely at 100% as I plug in most of the time and my battery is set to not start charging until it is below 70% ... As I move it from place to place and leave it in standby, and occasionally run on battery power, the battery slowly runs down to less than 70% and this setting keeps my battery from getting charge current more than an average of probably 4-5 times in a month. For my T510 that is always docked, the battery is set to start at 50% and stop at 80% since I just really don't use it or need the capacity.

This is one of my favorite features of the ThinkPad ... As a reseller, I generally set all of my clients systems to start at about 90-93% to prevent the 1% charge cycles.

Regulatory red tape is PART of the problem...

But IMO it doesnt take much to analyze the environment you have and protect it using additional meathods... Any hospital IT department that leaves their medical equipment open and exposed to malware or any internet (or even LAN) based attack / infection has already failed. There is no reason for an MRI machine to talk to the internet, even if the imaging storage and PACS system is off site restrict the traffic to only what is needed for that specific function. There is also no reason for the compuer in Medical Records to have the ability to ping the MRI machine, and it should not be able to. This is basic common sense to me, of course I've found that most people don't have common sense.

I worked as an IT Manager in a hospital for a few years, and know a little bit about this... The first issue is that these systems typically CAN NOT be upgraded, and this is not due to the MFG not wanting to upgrade, this is a FDA compliance issue... If they upgrade the software, they have to do some very expensive certifications with the FDA, these same certifications delay the release of medical equipment to the point that much of the technology is already close to being outdated when it hits the market.

Our solution, which seems simple enough, was that every type of medical equipment was located on a different physical network (for critical pt. monitoring equipment) or at a minimum a seperate VLAN on the main network. All network access to this equipment was blocked except for very specific exceptions that were allowed based on the absolute need of that piece of equipment. We had no issues with any of these infections or malware, although it did increase the man-hours overhead especially when working with the vendors that would sometimes wonder why they could not hit the internet from the X-Ray machine ... but we managed just fine.

No, I was already moving my stuff from them in response to SOPA.... The stuff not moved yet was not moved because it was not expired, and I didnt have the money to move everything all at once. The remaining expiration dates are approaching. I have not purchased or renewed anything from GoDaddy since the SOPA event.

+1 Namecheap.com ... I migrated about half my domains during the SOPA deal, was going to do the rest this month (just ran out of time) .... Now some of my sites are down, and you can bet they will be moved ASAP.