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Simple solution to get management to understand the value of IT have a no IT day. One day, no email, internet, IP phone etc. They'll come back crying before lunch time.
If your IT setup is so terrible that you need active workers just to keep basic services like email or an internet connection running for a single day (barring major failures), you are doing a horrible job.
Side Note #2: Kenyon didn't comment on what percentage of these Ubuntu-loaded PC sales still have users where they run Ubuntu, or namely the actual Ubuntu user count globally. The OEM/ODM count also obviously doesn't count those that install Ubuntu manually or obtain Ubuntu installations via other means. On the down side, when I talk with OEMs and others about Linux pre-loads, I commonly here a "significant percentage" of these Linux pre-loaded systems usually get wiped by their customers and replaced with pirated copies of Windows -- especially in the Asian markets, where customers are just going after the Linux PCs due to the lower sales cost.
On one hand I'm glad that there are other choices, but I wonder what the actual number of purchases just to wipe and install the latest pirated version of Windows is.
Please let it happen before the end of 2012, otherwise all those Mayan calculations that the world will end in this year will go to waste...
They already have! The Mayan calendar was made before anyone started using leap years. We've had so many extra days added that the Mayan calendar is already into 2013. Seems we missed the end of the world, whoops!
I don't see the ability to dynamically expand FreeNAS. (Just add a drive and expand the protected space)
Adding a drive to FreeNAS is incredibly simple. Especially if you are using ZFS (which you should be). It's a single command in the CLI to add a drive to the pool and get it working with the rest.
Isn't something like this immediately bypassed by things like TOR?
You're forgetting the major part of how the California road work budget is determined: If you don't spend it all this year, they give you only the amount you spent this year in next years budget. This causes the workers to purposely slow down work and soak up hours that they can put on their timesheets, because if they finish all of their work ahead of schedule they will effectively give their department a budget cut for next year.
In theory it keeps the budget cut down to only what's necessary. In practice it just causes public workers to drag out day long projects into week- and month-long freeway-clogging public-angering massive projects, just so they can protect their budget for next year.
Although police officers in most countries are issued bulletproof vests, they don't necessarily wear them at all times — would you want to heave one of those things around for an entire shift?
Unless you are retarded, yes you wear a bulletproof vest anytime it's mandated. There's a reason for it, and no you won't have a warning to put it on before it's ~*~REALLY~*~ needed. Anyone who isn't wearing it while required is putting themselves at risk and also the people who will put themselves in harms way to save them when they get hit.
I say this as a former Marine, and I can't think of a single time that I saw my squad members or even platoon members not wearing protective gear when required. If I had though, I would have chewed them out until they put it on and even after so they didn't do it again. The same is true for local police and actually anyone in any profession that requires protective gear. If you can't be bothered to put on basic equipment, you shouldn't be there.
How many bitcoins per hour is that?
Bitcoin is in a lot of trouble at the moment.
It is not popular, since the speculators have mostly disappeared at this point. They got in on the market upswing, moving the price to almost $30 per bitcoin for a brief moment. As soon as the speculators reached their plateau, the sell-off began. Bitcoins are selling for 5-10% of what they were selling at their peak. You can expect to get between $1.50 and $3.00 per bitcoin at this point. The true believers still claim that it's coming back, but a single look at any price graph shows that in the end, anything you put into bitcoin is a lost cause. The price continues to drop as more people get out and sell what they have, plus the people "mining" bitcoins selling at whatever the current lowest price is. ALL of the major exchanges have been "hacked" at some point. I say this in quotes because there has never been any proof that the owners of each exchange didn't just decide to take the money and run, which they could have done at any time with ZERO repercussions. One of the larger exchanges was blatant enough to take everything but offer 49% back of what you lost if you'd just use them again (but accept the service fees), as opposed to the others that just delete the website and sell the coins on other markets.
The reason that this is all possible is: bitcoin isn't a currency! It is the same as trading rocks with numbers painted on them to say how much they are worth; this means there is no regulation. It's not anywhere near any other currency in the world because it doesn't have a government backing up it's value. As much as the different sites claim that it is going to change the world, bitcoin itself is being challenged in court and both results are bad for it. If it is declared a currency, the regulations alone will destroy it. If it is declared not a currency (which it is not), it will be destroyed by all sorts of fraud charges.
Stay away from bitcoin at all costs.
Waking a person unnecessarily should not be considered a capital crime. For a first offense, that is.