That's already a requirement, Lorna. "You must be paid at least the actual or prevailing wage for your occupation, whichever is higher." But that doesn't mean employers don't skirt the rules.
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Facebook already has a big presence in North Carolina. Chickens are big on the easern shore of Maryland & Virginia, and I don't know of any data centers there at all. Fiber? They could run it along the world's 25th...
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Thanks for the comments. To be clear, I didn't mean that many will have "no choice" but to upgrade to another Windows OS. Rather, I meant that many will have to upgrade to something-- including (as the article discusses,...
In reply to: Re: You can pry Windows XP from our cold dead computers
In a way cryptocurrencies are the second movers of non-governmental electronic payment systems, after failures like e-gold. Stability should increase as more vendors and employeeds accept it at payment, and as secondary...
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Thanks for reminder on the shift of emotional focus. Great observation.
In reply to: Re: The power of gratitude
Carolina pig farms and Delaware chicken farms would both be ready sources of methane. Don't know if the big backbone pipes of the Internet are there locally, but I'm sure extending the pipes would be preferrable to shovelling...
In reply to: Re: Measuring that carbon footprint
I was happy to read up on Apple's use of methane at their Maiden TN data center; didn't have space in the slideshow to go into all I learned, but most or all of the methane comes from local sources such as farms. That's...
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Now there's a fine research project. Are there more PCs on individuals' (and employees') desks, or are there more servers in racks in data centers? How does the total power consumption compare? I read one guesstimate a...
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Agreed that it will be interesting. Although, some of these larger strategic team games could turn the tables and give longer attention spans in front of the computer.
We'll find out in a few years, won't we? :-)
In reply to: Re: Rewired brains
I agree, Doug. The cartbon footprint of these modern, cloud data centers puts the enterprise data center to shame. One way of looking at it is that they tend to have a power unit efficiency of 1.1 vs. 2.0 for the enterprise....
In reply to: Measuring that carbon footprint
Not only do they not need any new software they don't need any updates to the versions they have that are running just fine.
In reply to: Re: You can pry Windows XP from our cold dead computers
Thanks for sharing this story. Many great lessons here. Most deal with how we need to shift our mental focus. But the one about giving thanks is especially important. It's a shift of emotional focus; of...
In reply to: The power of gratitude
When Hurricane Sandty struck New York, one phenomenon that emerged was how one disaster sets the stage for the next. After the Sept. 11, 2001, attack on the World Trade Center, building owners in New York were ordered to...
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Exactly. Except for a few isolated PC issues, Y2K was about the transition from days where storage (and memory) was so expensive you saved space by storing dates in Julian and two digit year formats. Compounding that, us...
In reply to: Re: Healthcare scare?
Not well disclosed (since there's no attached revenue stream except for virus folk): ~90% of malware is hosted on XP ~90% of XP machines are in China ~90% of Chineese software, including OSs like XP, is pirated (not patchable...
In reply to: Re: The issue is no one trusts Microsoft
The article states, "...many will eventually find they have no choice, due not only to increasing malware risks, but also the number of software vendors who will no longer update XP applications." That is so wrong. Most...
In reply to: You can pry Windows XP from our cold dead computers
Support for embedded XP ends on 1/12/2016.
http://support.microsoft.com/lifecycle/search/default.aspx?sort=PN&qid=&alpha=Windows+XP+Embedded&Filter=FilterNO
In reply to: Re: Healthcare scare?
Bill, your description of needing to be prepared to preserve the server and storage as is for forensic analysis is extremely interesting. Nice job of that. But tell me, doesn't that assume the damage caused by the breach...
In reply to: Leave the intruder alone for a little while longer?
What the government is doing is a disgrace There are plenty of American's that can do these jobs. There are enough people on unemployment that can fill these voids in IT and other areas. They only differences...
In reply to: What they government
I thought Bloomberg's administration was a model of efficiency and can-do management (and it always recovered from occasional overzealousness). I have to a agree that de Blasio is off to a worrying start, appointing a bunch...
In reply to: Head-in-the-sand move to the old school?
After over 20 years of "filling the gap" with foreign IT workers you would think there would be Americans available by now. When we are short of ICU nurses we don't go to India for them. When we are short...
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