Posts by oldcomputerguy

They have been doing this for a while

The US built a data center in the desert that supposedly captures ALL cell phone data, and EVERYTHING on the internet a while back. This is from 2012.

https://www.wired.com/2012/03/ff-nsadatacenter/

You just need more hard drives.

Pay 'em what they are worth !

I never understood this. If a sales person earns $1 million in commissions, how much added revenue did the company get? $100 million? I would kiss the sales peoples feet and honor them as rock stars. If they are that good, why is there any limit on how much they earn? If they earned $100 million in commissions, but brought in $1 billion in revenue, holy moly!!!! What's wrong with these companies ! What IBM is doing is telling their sales force to hit the MINIMUM targets. That's just plain stupid. This is from a company that is slowly dying. Cheat the sales force to hit a quarterly targets to please investors. I would not trust IBM to honor any contract with this nonsense going on.

Done way more than you think

Wow, Microsoft needs to fix this ASAP. I hate to tell you guys this, but about every small business running a server does this. That server will be the DC, and the File and Print server. It will likely be an application server too. If they are lucky, they will have enough money for a second DC for redundancy. And BTW, GPO is set to allow users to install printers. Why they hell does a Domain admin need to add printers for each user? Scream, blame, laugh all you want. Most small businesses with Domains are running off one or two servers. There's no full time admin. That's it. No Mo' money .... Remember SBS?. It would do ALL roles including Exchange on one box. Just sayin' ...... And now they want us to just turn off print services? Oh, that will go over well ...... Not gonna happen. M$, where's the fix?

He's not there to protect us

Ajit Pai and Trumps other appointees are not there to protect the public. They have one mission - to destroy the departments they are in charge of. Pai does not think the FCC should be in business at all. The same with the head of the Consumer Protection Agency, Mick Mulvaney. Even Rick Perry wanted to eliminate the the Department of Energy he is in charge of, until he found out that they are in charge of our nukes. This government is all about power to the rich and corporations and screw everyone else. Pai has said he wanted to wipe out net neutrality before he even got the job. He did not listen to anyone. He simply hit the kill switch as he always said he would.

No Secret here

The fact that the NSA is collecting EVERYTHING we do on phones and the internet was publicly documented years ago. The article is still up. Here ya go: https://www.wired.com/2012/03/ff_nsadatacenter/