The average consumer doesnt know how their internet connection is measured. All most people know is that entertainment is moving to ala carte/on-demand in HD. For example, the majority of people I know are Internet-illiterates but they all subscribe to Netflix, Hulu, and HBONow and own several streaming devices. Most of my childrens friends have never seen traditional live tv. These people dont know or care about the bandwidth required for these services, and wouldnt know how to size a circuit if they did. ALL of the major ISPs know this because they want to be common carriers AND content providers. Consolodation and local monopolies/duoplolies make caps possible. Data caps are rent extraction plain and simple. Pure greed under the guise of curbing abuse.

I adopted three from Ukraine. I can tell some stories about raising the products of East European orphanages.

Chapeau to you sir. You and your wife are kind people. Good luck on your adventure.

Its no wonder you posted AC - you very obviously have no children, no experience with any education system as a parent, an ax to grind, and a horrible agenda.

And do us all a favor and turn off Dr. Oz.

You're all close.

Along time ago, all of a company's DNS belonged to the admins, and Network handled the bill - which was lumped in with the one for the Internet connection.

These days, external DNS aka "The Brand" is usually managed by either Legal or Marketing. In those organizations, the common 'dnsadmin@company.com' email is redirected to someone who neither knows nor cares what DNS is. Even internally, no one knows whos responsible for external domains. And when the bill comes, it just sits on the department secretary's desk.

Every. Single. Time.

Find a crossfit gym:
http://www.crossfit.com/

Learn how to move properly:
http://www.mobilitywod.com/

swim/bike/run:
http://www.crossfitendurance.com/

change your diet:
http://whole9life.com/start/

measure your fitness by competing against the entire world:
http://games.crossfit.com/

This is my 3rd year crossfitting. I'm 50. My resting heart rate is 46bpm. I'm down to 8% body fat from 26%. After physicals/blood work my insurance premiums were reduced by 1/3. I recently won the St. Louis Indoor Rowing Championships. I can ride a bicycle 100 miles in 5 hours. I can run 5 miles in 40 minutes. I can lift a shit-load of weight with form, power, and speed. Yeah, Crossfit is the real deal.

Thank you, sir!

I spent '82-'89 as a radioman on an SSN. Hight of the Cold War stuff. The training was one thing. Getting qualified at sea and surviving was another.

When I got out I went straight to work as an RF tech for a major wireless carrier. The skills I learned (technical and otherwise) marketed well, but it took a long time to readjust to civilian life. Sometimes I still feel that long steel tube.

No wonder people called you names. Which pre-twentieth century turnip truck did you fall from? Are you serious? You mean indentured servitude for medical bills? Or maybe wage garnishment? How about debtors prison? Or should I take the hospital a few of the chickens from my yard? You obviously have no family to provide for.

You obviously have no real-world experience either. A modern ambulance isn't just a shiny car, you know. Its a highly specialized machine that's expensive to manufacture. It has to be stocked with very specialized supplies. It has to be manned 24/7 by very specialized staff (who have to train, eat, provide, etc). The ambulance has to be maintained. It has to be insured. And it probably gets horrible mileage; so yeah, it probably costs about $1k or better per ride.

As opposed to the monopoly they already have? The new health care law guarantees at least some coverage for everyone - including you. And expands a very successful care-delivery system thats been around since the '60's. It might even help control some costs. Overall I thought the whole package was a poor compromise slanted towards insurance companies, but they are so invested in the current system its not hard to understand. At least its a step in the right direction, and I'm willing to pony-up a little for it. Health care is a right, not a privledge or a product. Maybe later we can work out something better if we're not all trampled by the completly ignorant.

Good luck to you. You won't be singing that tune for long.

This exactly - specifically the first point. We've tested two DLP solutions including Checkpoints. They are not hard to use, especially if there's little encryption in your environment. Point it to your file servers and away it goes. It identifies everything - and similar to an IDS, you have to tell it what's valuable and what's not, and where those things should be. There's mountains of data that need to be sorted and cleared out, and getting anyone in upper management to decide what's "valuable" is a real trick.

Oh please.

Every ISP on the planet counts bytes, and packets - especially if they meter. The methods are no secret and age-old: they either pull Flows from the user tiers with something like Peakflow or NetScout, or they pull I/O right off the CPE modem. Smaller ISP's probably still SNMP poll the byte count per interface and dump it into a database for the accountants and RRDTool for the ops folks.

And yes, the stats from your edge device should always be within a few kb of your providers (fudge factors for things like uptime, maintenance, billing date range, etc..).

If you have access to your CPE (you should), you can usually pull the stats directly without having to reinvent the wheel. Either poll it, or log on and find the diagnostic screen.

Yeah, Naris in ATT's infrastucture. Who knows what else is out there. Why not put it to better use?

Without posting a lot of citations, utilities in general have a poor record of system maintenance and security and its a real concern. Having a dedicated set of well-trained analysts watching traffic to and from electric grids, water and sewer systems, and traffic control isn't a bad idea.

I wonder how reporting and incident handling would work. Assuming a given company has limited security expertise in-house, or pays a contractor for perimeter monitoring, how quick or effective would the response be if NSA did find something? Would a company be required to investigate and remediate in a given amount of time? Would monitored companies get regular reports?

What about on-going costs for operations and hardware? Costs for remediation? Training? Who pays for what?

This: http://www.zonediet.com/

Plus this: http://www.crossfit.com/

Equal this: http://www.crossfit.com/mt-archive2/Jeremy-Wann.html

In one year. Guaranteed. No bullshit.

> I really love any kind of good guitar driven, bluesy, riff-laden rock. Guitar blues...etc.

Widespread Panic!

(Also Gov't Mule, Galactic, Phish (early '90's), Umphry's McGee, String Cheese Incident, Disco Biscuits...)

> Btw, Computer savvy people may use macs...
Check.

> But techies use windows or linux often both.
Bold statement. I've been in the techie game for 25 years.

>Why would we spend extra money to have a closed source semi broken non configurable standard hating version of linux?
I spend the money because its worth my time to carry a platform that not only runs the odd Windows app, but gives me all my unix goodness in the same package without a load of sourcing/tinkering/forum-combing. Media player, document writer, network troubleshooting platform, development box, fun toy, there's nothing the Mac won't do. Its no less standards-hating and semi-broken than any other proprietary OS.

>Mostly windows/nix are more tweakable and have more tools/toys for us to use which makes them our targets.
Says who? Here's a quarter kid. Go buy yourself a good computer.

Do you want to get in shape or just work off a pound or two?

Unless it keeps you motivated or if you really want to geek your workouts, you don't need heart rate monitors, GPS, or the like. Believe me, I've tried it all. You gain nothing.

I crossfit http://www.crossfit.com/. Its pretty simple. If you puke, your heart rate is too high. After a year of it I'm in the best shape of my life.

Cycling is my primary sport. I use a CatEye V2 for cadence. That's all I need. Because of crossfit, I can ride faster and farther than I ever imagined possible.

In the end, I use iPhone apps "As Rx'd" to keep up with crossfit WOD's, and "Zone Buddy" to manage what I eat, but a paper journal works just as well. No graphs, no trends, no geeking. Just health.

Good luck!

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