In homes yes - in hospitals it is perfect.
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That is still early. You still have 15 years before you reach my age. Nearly double you're current lifetime.
One thing that would be interesting would be to add incentivized milestones: "this person is critical to getting MVP/first customer/launch/funding"
If you're doing something where you might get the FBI seizing your servers - maybe latency is not a paramount concern.
Capacity might also not be of primary importance.
I am just trying to find the 100% most resilient form of online hosting that masks the layers as much as possible.
The tin-foil-hat in me can see many many reasons why one would want to be aware of how to accomplish something like this.
Host your site/content across multiple cloud providers. Then host VPS web servers with other providers and have them balance between the backend cloud servers.
Then put cloudflare on top of that.
Ideally, you would want to have multiple service instances with the cloud providers which are silo'd from each other - but exact duplicates (e.g. they are under fully different accounts with the cloud provider)
Your front-end web servers keep a cache of content from the cloud servers - and they are pushed to. For even lower-end content needs, you can pull from a drop box account or something.
Any of the front end gear gets seized - You can bring it up with a VPS image really quickly.
No thanks.
Poor management results in both poor testing and underdeveloped project understanding.
If you have solid, well funded (with both money AND time) testing - the impact of change is minimal.
Further, the propensity for IT to say no stems from their understAnding of how poorly upper management allocates resources to IT as it is historicLly been seen as a liability/cost center rather than integral to business. (obviously this is far less true in silicon valley).
Clearly though, having good IT managers and staff are important and you find a lot less 'no' with good staff.
IT organizatiOns typically report to the CIO/CTO and are overshadowed by the CEO. If the CEO is of the typical Sales/Marketing DNA (or the "I used to be a developer - we don't need that much redundancy!" DNA, which can be worse) then they typically underfund all infrastructure projects.
Finally, IT gets the blame for all downtime, so it's their asses if the shitty managers decisions impact service.
So, ITIL is not the issue. People are. IT needs competent leadership to succeed.
http://vimeo.com/25118844 - brief overview great animation
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CS01Hmjv1pQ - ted talk on stux
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOwMW6agpTI&feature=youtu... detailed analysis of stuxnet
the last one is long and Bruce appears to be an arrogant prick, but it is clear - cyber war has been here for a while.
Other than the most blatantly obvious and mundane reasons to have a facebook account - I would like to seriously hear why one should have one. The obvious being "I keep in touch with my friends" -- well, I keep in touch with my friends - most of whom have an account. Our relationships have never suffered from my not having an account.
I find the more insidious motives behind facebook and its founder to be hands down a showstopper from my perspective.
So, other than the ambiguous "keeping in touch/sharing photos" with friends, what would be a compelling reason to have an account.
The "everybody else has one" is rather flimsy.
A lot of snide attitude done in character.
Sounds like the best reason to makerbot these things.
It would be best of they had the square areas of the PLUS where the pool is not, dedicated to some floating solar heating arrangement.
You would have an app that would have some special info from you, a password and a pin. The app would generate a unique QR code and URL for each signature. A scan of the QR code would send the reader to the URL that is specific to that document/signature such that it could be verified.
* The CEO, in addition to his regular pay, takes a commission cut on every sale the company makes
* The CIO's new BMW is also paid as an expense of the company
* The CEO shoots down your recommendation for a bonus to one of the best employees in your department and instead offers them a $200 gift card
* The CIO & CEO make uptime a priority objective for the service - but when a plan is presented that shows that in order to meet that goal, funding will be required to bolster infrastructure, they refuse to fund the plan
* The CIO regularly makes changes to the production systems outside of any change control process and brings down the service while muttering things like "Well that wasn't supposed to happen"
* The CEO and C-level execs tell the company the option price is $X - then proceed to sell the company and inform everyone that the option price is actually 20% of $X and that those who have been with the company less than a year get nothing
* There is a foosball table and this is described in any company descriptions as a part of the "Culture"
For me, this issue is a higher level debate. As we move further toward the dystopian future of a blurry mess of city-state-like government rule, where corporate interests are openly the agenda of the government focus - network security will be more paramount than physical (militaristic) security.
There will always be the deterrent of 'metal-on-target' physical force - and that deterrent will always not be enough to dissuade some groups from standing up and fighting for [whatever].
Governments really are a self-serving concept, where they exist to extract resources from the base they rule over to support themselves. The exchange is sold to the constituency as "safety" or "national security" -- but the safety and security are really there to protect the source of the governments resources -- not protect the individual people in any way shape or form. The government cant have the source of its income and resources being killed or destroyed.
As we get further into this information age (which we are just barely into its infancy) we will see that we really have economic factions at play (this is the premise for the NWO, BTW - a range of economic centers which all produce and trade in an incestuous way and historical nationalistic definitions have given way to resource/production classifications) who are ruling organizations that manage policy and law that specifically protects their economic interests (of the military industrial complex).
This is not too different than what we already have today - but it is not quite as openly obvious to people yet that this is where we are heading.
In this next phase of civilization - we will see that information warfare will be constant and (mostly) secret.
I posted previously about the Chinese hacking Lockheed when I worked there a few years ago (spear phishing, but super sophisticated) and had a bunch of people on HN not believe it.
We are at war with china already - and many have predicted that it will become physical in the next 20 years -- who knows if it will - but the information war will continue for sure.
The governments effectively have a resource base that they extract value from in order to prop up their existence. The corporate sector that serves the government infrastructure is a constant and evil feedback loop into which all this plays.
What we are seeing is the shifting of the arms race from physical to digital.
The US has just assumed a position of "we do whatever the fuck we want" (hence the global reach of sigint NSA and echelon) and china is pretty brazen in its tactics of smiling at the market place while not-so-secretly mounting massive cyber attacks against your digital borders.
While the US has massive head start in tech right now - the chinese have been doing an utterly amazing job of securing pretty much all the resources in Africa.
It is my opinion, that economic war has been waged against Africa and countries with oil in the mid-east in order to suppress progress and advancement in those areas as a method of ensuring their resources are not developed or harvested so that they are effectively stored for later extraction by corporate interests of the US and other nations where the production cost to market value is really high. E.g. Iraq, the number 2 oil reserve in the world has been prevented from developing its oil production capabilities through flimsy at best political BS and outright lies at worst in order to ensure their oil does not reach peak while at the same time the global market and oil price goes up.
We have effectively put a permanent army in place to protect those fields and control (and profit from) its later production. Much like we have done with the global supply of opium from Afghanistan.
Its all about control.
He is the non-technical co-founder nobody wants or needs.
WHY would you implement the digital version of cash, as it seems you just stated -- WHY would you create a digital currency with no ability to really track and disable and refund?
Flightr.com - I own this. Dont know if it matches what you are looking for
expecreo.com - available, latin mashup of creo = 'to make, to create' and expe - from experience....