Dumbass, listen, we really aren't afraid of the criminals, we're afraid of the government!
The demon is in Washington, the demon wears a uniform, and will kick down your door and take you to a place with barbed wire and miles of coffins stacked 20 high! A place that smells of death.

The land of the FREE...

Yeah, which dictatorship do you want to live under?

A, the one that watches and listens to your every move
B, The one that wants to cater to all the petty special interests of the Chi-Coms, Saudis, Pakistanis, Etc

And, I'm sure that every one of those dumbass cops lost their jobs, pensions, and were sued in a civil action!

HP is testing its ideas in a small data center in Palo Alto with a 134kW solar array and four ProLiant servers.

Four servers is a nerd's basement.

Wouldn't you need something like 4 racks full of servers? Running something like seti@home or distributed.net?

In its own building.

I don't know what the article is going on about but my experience is 100% the opposite.

'If music evolved as a social glue for the species â" as a way to make groups and keep them together â" headphones allow music to be enjoyed friendlessly â" as a way to savor our privacy, in heightened solitude,' concludes Thompson.

I play crap I like to drown out the distractions. If I played crap I did not like then it would be the distraction.

This has nothing to do with "friendlessly".
A friend of mine keeps having us synchronize play times and then she types the chorus to me in chat.
And how many chat windows does everyone here have open when they have their headphones on? There's nothing about "solitude" there. We're communicating and interacting.

But we're doing it without the background noise.

Why aren't the other people on the other projects capable of handling this?

We have a couple who are. They're fully subscribed on other projects and the time stolen to keep this project moving is missed.

You ALREADY have people who fit this profile and you are having trouble finding/making more of them?

That makes no sense at all.

I'm looking for a senior level operations guy who can (A) explain stuff to senior level programmers without operations experience and (B) run some nifty BGP-using networks with interesting architectures.

Again, what you'll end up with is a master-network guy who has to dumb the concepts down to novice level to get it across to the master-programmer people.

But you already know that, right, because you already have TWO people with those skills who step in and look at the project.

And BGP? BGP isn't complicated. It's almost as easy as RIP.

Amen! That's why the news story is always about the homeless man being beaten to death by the police, or the dozens of poor unarmed black men shot hundreds of times (usually in the back)! When was the last time you read a story that said heiress shot dead by police or billionaire beaten to death during DWI traffic stop?

Finally, a rational answer instead of juvenile wordplay!

Surf = Serf (TYPO)

The jobs ARE NOT hard to fill, these are self serving reports by corporate shill groups trying to get the number of H1B's increased! There are upwards of three American IT workers for every job in every field!

Don't listen to bullshit!

Very few folks here work just one project. Those who do, do so by choice.

So you have more than one project but you don't have the people to staff this project and that is because none of the resumes have the correct qualifications?

That worries me. Why aren't the other people on the other projects capable of handling this?

Big difference between what stuff looks like in the lab and what it looks like on a production network. I need someone who knows the qualitative difference. That takes years of operations experience.

That's another problem. You expect someone who is a master to be able to explain the complex concepts to a novice in such a way that the novice can turn those complex concepts into code.

That does not work.
What you end up with is a master-level programmer implementing novice-level network concepts.
Because that is the level that the master-network guy has to use to communicate with the master-programmer guy.

And you refuse to bring the master-programmers up to a more advanced network level.

But you're willing to give a phone interview to someone who knows SCRIPTING?

If this was a legitimate job opening I can see why you'd have trouble filling it with anyone qualified.