It's completely ironic that the government would prevent a corporation from requiring that if it a supplied gives a better price to another customer, it has to give the same price to that corporation. Especially since the GSA requires that any government vendor do the same thing or its a violation of the False Claims Act. So seriously, how is it that an act that hurts the consumer is good for the government?

Politicians continually want it both ways, but this is seriously a waste of tax payers money.

The point where democracy fails is when 51% of the people realize they can take all the money from the other 49%

Time can be rewritten. He'll come back. Fix deepwater horizon, prevent the disaster and then none of this thread would have ever existed. I just wonder if my mod points would survive the change :)

Actually, odds are that none of the gas you are buying at a BP station actually came from BP. The stuff all comes from the same local distributors who pass it back and forth like it's water. Local stations (none of which in the US are actually owned by BP) just pay for the right to use the name. To boycott BP you'd need to track their shipments in and out of places and then find out where things went. Unless the local distributors boycott BP (not likely) there isn't anything you'll be able to do as a customer. And besides, if BP goes under, who then will pay for the spill.

Except when it's the former :)

Yes, the shuttle was to be retired with no immediate replacement, but with one on the horizon. Now there is nothing on the horizon except Falcon 9 and Dragon. Which NASA probably would never use.

Supply vs. Demand curve. It's economics 101. There is less supply to meet demand thanks to Obama gutting NASA. And considering the only other market provider is China, we've effectively given Russia a monopoly.

Why do they always have to be villains? Tony Stark wasn't a villain.

Remember? heck, I even had a perstor controller so my 40 meg mfm drive was running as a 76 meg drive. I even had two of em in an external enclosure.

Does Ksplice Uptrack use cryptography?

        Yes. All network traffic is encrypted, and all updates are
            cryptographically signed.

http://www.ksplice.com/uptrack/faq

Look harder next time.

Last I checked, crackers actually signed openssh packages sent out over RHN for RHEL 4. Also, lets compare. Redundant oracle database server, running Enterprise edition. Lets see. Server 8K. RHEL License 300 bucks. SAN so you can support RAC - 50K. Oracle licensing for an additional server, 125K. Total cost of around 183K to run RAC compared to a standalone server. That's a lot of money to justify being immune to the major cause of downtime (Kernel patches - hardware these days just doesn't fail in a way that brings systems down).

Payback for 183K at 4 dollars a month is 45,750 months. Or 3,812 years. That's a really long time to put RAC out there as a solution just to achieve HA. Now, I'm not saying that this solution is as good as RAC at eliminating downtime, but I have 5 full time production oracle servers in a mid sized company that have had exactly 0 minutes of hardware related outage over the past 18 months. Of the outages, 95% were kernel patches. To my boss, if I can eliminate 95% of our database downtime for $20 a month, what do you think he's going to say. It's a lot more convincing then saying I can eliminate 100% of it for $180K per server, that's for sure. Maybe the economics of my company (mid sized company, supporting about 140 servers total) are the exception, but in my case, this makes damn good sense.

grr Lindor *IS* a brand name of Lindt.