In the US the poles are installed at/past the sidewalk line opposite the roadway, in other words when you are standing to cross you cannot see the pole on your side because it is behind you. So, either you would have to get people to stand behind the pole, or have them turn around and look at the number before crossing (taking attention away from watching turning traffic, which a pedestrian must be very careful for).

Why can't you distribute it via a CDN, exactly? I mean someone like Microsoft has either direct control over, or actually runs their own CDN servers: firing up a SMTP service (to route mail based on proximity to destination MX) should be the easy part.

If the cost license doesn't get you, then the compute cycles, ram allocations, and administrators' salaries will... /troll

Hmm let's see if you can pick out the spot where he would be versed only in armored warfare expertise or looking at secret documents all day (this is his CV for the past 15 years):
Director of the National Security Agency (DIRNSA)
Chief of the Central Security Service (CHCSS)
Commander of the United States Cyber Command
Commanding General of the U.S. Army Intelligence and Security Command
Director of Intelligence (J-2), United States Central Command
Deputy Director for Intelligence (J-2) for the Joint Chiefs of Staff
Head of the Army Intelligence and Security Command

Do you think it's possible, after working (ostensibly successfully) as the head of so many organizations, that he knows nothing about management, leadership, best practices, and nonclassified security methodologies (of which there are many)? Do you honestly think he spent 10 years, as the head of these orgs, pushing top secret papers across his desk instead of having his underlings take care of all of that? Come on. Furthermore, I think a lot of commentators on this thread have a complete misunderstanding of what a high-level consulting firm does. Hint, it has nothing to do with configuring firewalls and antivirus apps. Big multinationals will gladly pay $1M for advice as simple as "choose off the shelf security package A, instead of B" as long as it comes from someone whose credentials are beyond repute. He doesn't have to say anything about top secret operations, techniques, or sources, he just has to put his name behind something.

It's hard to imagine that the banking industry is seen as competing with the NSA (in the sense that a non-compete would be enforceable)... Or is it?

What's more hilarious is that, apparently, the only thing to General Alexander's credit as head of the NSA was his ability to keep secrets. He was literally "the most powerful cyber-lord in the world" (for lack of a better term) and his only qualification was keeping secrets? He didn't bring anything to the table in terms of management skills, best practices, or good judgement via foresight? Because that's what you have to read into a statement like "..Without the classified information he acquired in his former position, he literally would have nothing to offer to you." Kind of sad, mostly for the US military apparatus that apparently promotes from within, those that have no real skills to offer except keeping their mouth shut about what they did/saw/heard.

It's not that the SWAT officers, their commanders, or anyone else is necessarily contriving a system where they get all the power and none of the oversight. SWAT teams are very expensive to hire, train, equip, and maintain. Hence, they need to be shared by many police districts. When the state cannot organize them any better than at the county and muni level, the solution is left up to the counties and munis to work out. And this is what they chose because it was the only thing that fit, a shared cost for shared resources.

That being said, the state really needs to intervene, now that it is painfully obvious the county/muni system doesnt work, and give them a structure (joint departments) that makes it possible. There is already too much overhead from the hundreds of different law enforcement orgs that dot each state, figuring this out is a step in the direction toward making the entire system more organized, and more accountable.

In case this is intended to be particularly critical of the French, they do indeed have 4 ballistic missile submarines and 6 attack submarines in their navy, all of which routinely spend more than 30 days underwater at a time.

They _still_ don't use Twitter, Skype, etc (even though it has been technologically possible for over a decade) whereas for some reason that is of particular interest to him. Maybe he wants to set a record for deepest depths a human has traveled into the depths of his own narcissism? I am interested to see how his Facebook wall holds up.

In case there was any doubt: here is your ongoing proof that Fox is "fair and balanced" (/sarcasm). The headline reads: "FBI: Chicago officially America's murder capital" but did the FBI report contain anything suggesting the term "Murder Capital" was appropriate? Let's see... nope. OK, maybe the report particularly damns Chicago's poor attempts to reduce gun violence? Hmm, nope it doesn't say anything specific about Chicago at all. Where is the fine print at? Oh, ok, there it is! Chicago is, per capita, safer than almost all the other large cities in the US (NYC and LA as notable exceptions). So, in case you were wondering, the "Murder Capital" race is a toss up between Detroit (54 murders per 100k), and New Orleans (53 murders per 100k).

Where do you stand on rounded corners?

You will die exactly once (barring a zombie apocalypse, in the event of which I am going to disavow any credit for this post) so why reinvent the wheel if it's only going to get one turn anyway? Hire a reputable family lawyer, set up a will detailing your important documents (and whatever else you are giving away), name an executor, choose a safe place (in meatspace) for the documents to live in the meantime, and then enjoy your retirement.

As many others have pointed out, there is no obligation for the IRS to retain email records for longer than 6 months. So what you call incompetence is really your own inability to understand the requirements. No one told anyone else to "keep these emails sacred, back them up in 3 places, never let more than 2 of the backups get within 100mi of each other, etc" so no, there is not any appropriate punishment here unless you can demonstrate that the emails would have been retained (perhaps by some ultra-vigilant employee) but were not, as a result of a higher up specifically ordering their destruction.

No need to be baffled. You are seeing his statement backward. He is not saying this case is excusable because it happened before, he is asking why this case is being treated with such fervor while the previous one wasn't. After all, this thread is metanews about the reaction to the scandal, not any reflection on the actual happenings at the IRS/Treasury.

OK, here you go: The hard drive containing her emails "crashed" (it was unusable and could not be recovered by the IRS IT staff) and as a result, it was recycled/destroyed and replaced with a new one. The actual source was a Politico story which, besides conjecture, contained only this brief line of concrete information:

So, unless there is some compelling reason to think that the drive was corrupted purposefully, or the recovery was disingenuous, then all you have here is SOP for any IT department (fix what's broke). Yet the only thing we see on Foxnews.com is a story painted to look exactly like the uncovering of a conspiracy (see all the other rants about impeachment for an example of how severely people are overreacting to this.)

Anything else I can help with?