I'm assuming you haven't worked for .gov.....

"Normal" practice is:
- Inside: Complete chaos, no one follows the rules and everyone but contractors can just about get away with murder.
- Outside: "We follow all rules. A contractor reconfigured something and the issue has been resolved. We've put additional controls in place to ensure this doesn't happen again." (While the "contractor" could have been an admin logging into a server to do Windows Updates instead of the idiot that configured the firewall incorrectly to get their stupid app working. Pure example here.)

Signed: A guy that was both a Full Time Employee as well as a contractor for several entities.

For the love of God, WHY do I NOT have Mod points today?!

But you're dead on. The Clintons, and MOST other politicians, have always tried to skirt around all kinds of things and it's getting old.

Looks like news came out today that the White House knew of the private domain issue.

"Press Secretary Josh Earnest corrected the statement, saying that the president must have known about Clinton’s private account because he [POTUS] had emailed that account for four years while Clinton served as his Secretary of State."

So, now we have another agency that knows that did nothing as well.

What rules. Please show me where these rules are documented to prove your point.

http://www.breitbart.com/big-g...

damn lazy people. Took me 2 seconds. Want a difference source, go google it yourself. I picked the first link.

It absolutely kills me that there are so many people raging at each other when no one has read the damn thing. I don't support the current situation because NO ONE HAS READ IT.

Not to mention that you're stuck in a 15+ year lease that could affect selling your home and such.

When I looked into this, I not only closed the browser, but haven't even looked in their general direction since.

Personal opinion here, but after doing a LOT of research on these types of deals (company comes in and "leases" the solar equipment/installation to you, and it's paid over the lifetime of the equipment or a set year range like 15-20 years), I'd stay away.

It's a crappy site, but it lays out all the arguments against doing such a thing: http://solarleasedisadvantages...

I'm not infected (checked), but perhaps about 50% of those that "haven't installed the updates" is because people refuse to upgrade? I refuse to pay for an upgrade that will no doubt slow my Macbook Pro down and cause random issues.

You might be shocked at the amount of "automatic" updates the mac doesn't install. Air doesn't get patched by Adobe's own patches, MSFT Office only gets patched by it's own update program, etc...

I had a FaceBook account, but started seeing the writing on the wall - the stalking that you see, the targeted ads, the government getting involved, etc - bailed out with 5 minutes notice to my friends. Pretty much said, if you have my email address, you're important, if not, you've got 5 minutes for me to think about giving it to you. *poof* - done.

That was 2 years ago and I haven't looked back. I don't belong to any of those sites now and I won't do so later either. I actually go so far as to block FaceBook's URL on my local firewall so I don't even have to see that crap. I would block it from the entire house, but my wife does log in about once every 4 months to check up on old friends.

This is actually very true. My wife originally woke up with my on-call phone, but now she just keeps sleeping. I've had to support stuff in the middle of the night and like grantek's situation, had no clue I had even gotten up.

Agreed - I installed Prey months ago and my Mac never leaves my house....

I personally quit Facebook last month - put one last message up for about an hour "If you're important, you have my email address.... Ciao" - then I canceled the account.

Now, I'm on Diaspora and am starting to convert others to it. Do I use Diaspora nearly as much? Nope - and I like it that way.

Another lower Gov entity (I'm no longer there)

~80,000 users
~6,000 PCs
~250 servers

6 SA's (understaffed)
3 Net Admins/Telecom
1 DB Admin for 40+ servers (understaffed)
1 Web (2 servers) / AV Admin (full time with McAfee EPO)
5 Help Desk Techs (severely understaffed)
1 Network Planning and App management (WSUS, imaging, etc)
2 Abuse Admins
4 Web Programmers
~30 onsite "goto" people for smaller problems and application training ...and a whole lot of unhappy people.

It wasn't a happy place.

Um, most hospitals in the world are like this. This is exactly why the HIPAA rules apply(in the US). They're actually much more harsh than your standard military style security as well (you should see the HIPAA requirements on the MilNet (they're actually separated, but you get the point).

So - now that you're more informed than before, do you trust your doctor's network?