In my organization programmers get paid out of the IT budget. Developers work closely with the team that manage the development environment as well as the "IT" folks who support the environment. There are programmers, database admins, sysadmins, platform engineers, network engineers all playing their part to ensure the efficient function of IT in the org. Arguing about what belongs to IT is splitting hairs.

Agree or disagree, he added to the discussion. Unlike your rebuttal.

Who cares? At least nobody gets disemboweled for talking against it. The issue isn't saving people from themselves, its about cutting out the illegal activity on the supply side.

How old are those hearing aids? Mine take diposable size 10 batteries.

will also be one massive nerdy sausage party.

..and plunge. Subby thinks he's on Fark.

Facebook will probably be seen as the "traditional" before you know it. That's when all the kids will bail for something else and the only people left on fb will be oldies like me. Then we will probably follow our kids to wherever the new and cool place to gather is.

If you read the pdf from Microsoft the first line says this;

"....In this paper, we argue that servers can be sent to homes and office buildings and used as a primary heat source."

So I don't think people have misread anything.

How can this work? Great you get free heating in the winter but your hydro bill just spiked powering all these servers. Then there is the cooling you will need in the summertime when it isn't 20 below outside.

Then as parent points out, what about the noise? There will be extra costs with retrofitting any room you have to accommodate this.

Also the cost of the redundant high speed network connections and the lack of physical security. All this to save a couple of hundred bucks for heating half the year. Does not compute.

Ah Whoosh! I now see what you did there!!

DOH!

You wrote your MP about loonies and toonies? I think you just have to like, let it go man.

Yes this is what I want, governments all over the world getting together and manipulating the internet for political reasons. Today Iran, tomorrow any other country deemed undesirable. Ok well that's enough heavy lifting for today. Let's come back tomorrow and agree on some criteria. Should be easy right?

The punishment is harsh but I don't feel sorry for him. Back in the 90's and early 2000's I was a network admin as well and had the "keys to the kingdom". Sometimes my boss was a prick and the job was thankless. But you know what I did? I copied all the passwords to all important systems on paper, put them in a sealed envelope under lock and key, and gave the trusted admin assistant directions on how to get the info should I get hit by a bus so that business could go on. I did it because I was a professional. My bet is that a good chunk of people here would or probably did do something similar. It's called having a little respect, not so much for your employer, but for yourself.

Of course it does. We are not their customers. We are their product.