He was not arrested for "felony assault" he was arrested for, and i quote TFA:

He was in custody Friday night, pending charges that could include criminal nuisance, endangering the welfare of a minor and obstructing government administration, Smith said.

And no i'm not new here.

They actually do track these things. It's reported under "Alternative measures of labor under-utilization" Here's the latest report I can find right now

So In July 09 it seems that the "count everyone" unemployment rate was 16.5% with the "official" rate was 9.5% That includes discouraged workers, Those who took part time job and anyone else classified as a marginally attached worker.

Practice... lots and lots of practices. Speaking of which it's time for me to do some practicing.

about an hour ago... why?

I think you are missing an even bigger problem. How many of your servers does your backup infrastructure have admin access to - or if not admin elevated access? Are your backups a push or pull? If they are a pull you now have INBOUND firewall rules from your backup segment into your other network segments allowing the backup server to talk and start the pull. Or if you have a backup segment, there is not firewall protection, except host based firewalls, which have rules to allow the backup server to talk.

Yes having multiple copies is a good idea, but backups are a very dangerous thing security wise if not done right and secured properly.

Actually quite a few - I use it as my main work machine now with an XP laptop as backup. The full office suite, all of my remote admin tools, VMWare Client, Im, etc. using your definition of usable: fully logged in and can launch applications, my machine is usable in about 30-45 seconds from off and this includes the time it takes me to enter my username/password at 9am before i've finished my first cup o joe. I'm actualy working in about 3-5 mins from boot, outlook up, im up and possible a few ssh sessions and RDP sessions going, depending on what i need to check in the morning.

No no ... i have great battery life, i get a full 2 mins and 42 seconds ! you can't beat that!

I don't have any issues with boot time in windows 7. It's up and running in about 20 seconds ... of course this is on an i7 proc w/ 6GB or ram and 15k Velocerapter drives

I second this, We have two instances, one for Ops and one for Development. Especially with the new release it is a decent product for Small to medium sized shops. The free version only lets you have one tech though, but it's a cheap product to buy between 1k and 5k/year depending on which version you buy and how many techs you need.

The CCIE - which is what they are doing this for - already has a practical section. You have to go to Cisco's site and they setup a broken network that you need to fix. I believe it's a week long affair that is graded by cisco's experts.