No, they were 5mm thin. It was an Apple product.

Jason.

No, this is excellent news.

This means that there are absolutely legitimate reasons to ask your ISP to turn off the filter. There was an implication that if you had kids and disabled the filter you might get some funny looks from the authorities. I run several VPNs for work based purposes, so good to know I have a cast iron reason for switching off any porn filter.

Excellent!

Jason.

wow - under your scheme my employer would have to add an additional 4000 staff.

You really thought that one through.

I've actually been thinking for a while that this could be really good for challenge / response systems. Hold the phone up to the laptop, let it talk. A reliable character a second is probably less painful than dealing with a human.

Jason.

I agree for the small environment. A 50 man company will not need 1-2 IT people.

For the Enterprise, I doubt it. If you have more than 1,000 users you still have enough on-site hardware and networking to worry about, that you'll still need IT. Even if it's just for making purchasing decisions, pushing buttons for off site support, information governance, project management and resolving issues when multi-cloud services are in play, it's the latter that becomes the problem.

If you have multiple tenants for the same cloud services in one company behind one IP address, things start getting really interesting really fast. As when you and a partner company use different cloud services and you start having difficulties. Trust me.. Microsoft / Google etc. can't just stick Wireshark on their data centre to work out exactly what's happening. All current troubleshoot tends to rely on a non-cloud partner having these skills to give them the detail that they can't afford to investigate.

I'm not a nimby, I've helped and encouraged the use of a number of cloud services in my enterprise, particularly for easily solved problems or where it's so specialised or small that it's really not worth anyones time learning how to do it in house. I'm sure there will be a move to outsource a load of services to cloud providers.. It'll be when people try to switch for the first time that the difficulties arise. So I expect "Cloud Reconsidered" in 3-5 years. Probably also if there is another major 2E2 debacle or security breach or outage.

I cloud be wrong.

Jason.

That would be amusing. It would also be almost impossible to blame anything on the previous administration. It could work, but I think you could only afford to change government only once a generation...

Jason.

You are CEO of Big Business Inc... Your wife is working for your competitor under her maiden name, she is feeding you insider information.

She is caught, what would happen ?

Jason.

This isn't about illegal matters. There will be many near misses and hidden details, things that only your support staff and civil servants will know. Details that are on a need to know basis. An insider can know enough to discredit a politician with carefully worded questions that force them to expose some of these near misses or hidden details. An insider working for or against you, can make or break you politically.

Jason

You've actually just described much better than I could the reasons why you have to be politically neutral. Civil Servants remain when the individual elected members change, therefore you must effectively close your trap and not get involved in politics, except where you are permitted such as the polling booth.

You are kind of also overlooking the point that civil servants have a unique opportunity to advise and guide the politicians. Sure it might not be appropriate for you to speak out on twitter, but you would certainly be able to use your position to influence.

Just think of the power a civil servant would have if you could influence in the office, vote in the polling booth, as well as undermine in public using information that is not in the public domain. That's far too much power.

Jason.

Well in Government that's what whistleblowing procedures are for. You do not blog about it and expect to keep your job.

The best analogy is insider trading. When you are supposed to be supporting elected politicians, you need to keep some neutrality. If you have different political views you could undermine the government / elected officials through what you pick up behind closed doors and then expose. This isn't fair to the elected official and trust is breached.

Jason.

How can you have a working relationship with your employer, when in your free time you are actively working against them. You can't. Sacking is the right thing to do. As she works in the communications department and seems to be from a legal background she should have known what she was getting in for, there are no excuses.

She has freedom of speech, they have freedom to sack incompatible employees. Case closed.

Jason.

It's legal and inexpensive, better in two ways.

Jason.

SO, how would you use this with Hotmail without giving them (ie. Microsoft) your private key? Assuming that they even support S/MIME?

Jason

I think you've mis-calculated.. $1764 gets your 4 VMs. $12310 gets you unlimited VMs. So it's under 24 VMs (12 CPU licenses) that you might be better off running with many essential licenses. Of course the one advantage to running with multiple standard licenses is that you could having many more CPUs in the server than you could afford with Datacentre.

I expect this is what the plan is, this new pricing makes 4 way servers possibly interesting again and one wa or the other increases Windows licensing revenue.

What's also nice is they finally done away with the crippled standard vs enterprise nonsense. Paying almost double for one tiny feature (like ts session balancing) gets a bit annoying on a large TS farm. There are some silver linings here.

Jason

I read my Kindle Books on my iPhone 4, I don't find it a miserable experience at all.

Jason.