not al-qaeda and the taliban.

that means we should go after them, do some damage but never actually catch/destroy wikileaks, make it more popular with "commonfolk" in poor parts of the world, and kill hundreds of thousands of civilians in the process.

then, in a few years, wikileaks can release the wikigate docs, revealing the staggering civilian death toll caused by US troops in the quest to bring down julian assange and wikileaks.

we could probably tap the defense industry for some high-dollar, high-tech, high-fail-rate crap. and we probably need more security on the internet anyway, to combat the growing threat that wikileaks poses to the american way of life.

international overnight it somewhere crazy, preferably to friends, and they do the same somewhere else, and so on, and so forth.

it's really not a fair question.

some may be paying more, or yours may be high depending upon what your storage infrastructure looks like.

are you on HP EVA or XP storage? IBM SVC?

or do you just use some basic gig-e SAN, or DAS/NAS?

let's start there, and then let's talk about how your storage works. is it tiered, is it smart, is it redundant? how important is some of the data? what type of contracts do you have in place? what is your storage plugging into, and how?

answer these questions, and give your question some context.

i had read somewhere that a li-ion battery worked best when it was never "full" or "empty", but lasted the longest (lifetime), and powered for longer when it was somewhere in the middle. thoughts?

actually, i've had some success having this fee waived. you just have to have a little patience, and be lucky enough to speak to a supervisor.

come on, these airlines are reasonable...

this is about the most donotwant that i've seen in a while.

so we should expect to see yet more encouragement of people to take the easy way out and not behave like responsible human beings? yes. i'm totally ignoring people predisposed to obesity due to genetic ailments. but really. now that we have this information (and great though it is), what are the ramifications? subsidized liposuction? do what you want, don't pay for it with your health (at least up front), and everything's cool?

i don't disagree fully, but the difference here is that it's a business. if someone came out and said here's a $2m storage array for your house(!), we'd all scream and laugh and point fingers.

since it's a business, and (especially in this case) the storage array in question is a basic and required tool for the business to function, it doesn't seem to make sense for them to skimp on it.

what they came up with is cool. but that's not the issue. the issue is yet another (in this case small/startup) company saying "we're going to do X!!!" and then realizing "oh, shit it costs how much to do X right?" and then saying "fuck it here's some hard drives*".

* can be substituted for pirated copies of whatever software, PDF creator when they need Acrobat Pro, or whatever skimpy solution many companies employ because they're not willing to shell out the $$ for the cost of doing business.

who's taking bets on how long it takes them to bight the bullet and shell out the cash for a netapp, emc, ibm, hp or other true SAN?

there are reasons that companies pay large sums of money for them. it's not because the *can* or because the *want to*.

one day they'll realize this.

why should they have the keys to the city? who are they? what do you know about them? unless there are legal, binding contracts, NDAs, and more in place, why not require that they earn remote access rights?

also, if you are looking for someone to be your local net admin, why are you considering companies that will only do it remotely?

work.

the adult in me just sighs, the child in me cries.

i feel so alone.