Yup. we fucked up. we aren't able to make normal price cars and now we artificially want to block other countries from selling their higher quality / cheaper priced cars... and the US car companies are whining because they're making shit.

Outside of spam, dangerous websites with known trojan, and maybe obvious porn. Why would you want to block your employees? I've worked once for a big company like this. I left. A lot of websites were blocked. Even craigslist. Led to workarounds and other hacks. It was also quite counter-productive in many ways.

Honestly if you don't trust your employees don't hire them. If you have employees that aren't productive because they are doing things they shouldn't be doing then let them go.

I wouldn't work for you.

Honestly I think it's a great strategy to be bold and NOT be afraid to try new things. They are lucky to be in a position to be able to reach many of their customers and experiment. I say try, be bold. You fail, you hopefully learn from your mistakes and customers. Try again. Something will stick and could become successful.

At least Amazon compared to Samsung tries new things they do not copy. It takes courage to try and gamble with large sum of money. My hat off to Amazon even if I don't always like their product. Hell I did sign up for the Echo. I might stay in a drawer after a few weeks who knows but it's a good opportunity to try something very new. A virtual assistant that could listen to you at all time in the future. There is a lot of potential to learn from this.

I am like a lot of people, I really don't like ads. I -hate- those flash annoying ads, animated junks, popup under, whatever... I never click on those.

but... I do admit that google ads have never bothered me.

There are not obtrusive, quick to load, usually straight to the point. I have discovered many interesting websites/products because of those.

I can't believe I am saying that, but I do like google ads, mostly.

For the best performance in Virtualization, buy a Nehalem CPU, a core i7, 4 cores. We are using those at work and the benchmarks are amazing.

If you don't have much money, buy the low end quad core, core i7 920, throw in 8GB of memory and you will have plenty of power and memory to throw in a couple of 1vCPU VMs, the performance is pretty good. If you have money, buy a dual core i7, 8 or 16GB, then you have something that smoke. VMWare esxi is pretty cool. I believe they have in the work a version optimized for Nehalem.

I have seen so much police brutality, lies myself that I don't trust the police anymore and that sucks because not all police officers are corrupted.

So here is my proposal: It should be required by lay that all cops have a camera hooked up to their jacket recording both video of what they are seeing and hearing. The technology has become cheap enough that it would be easily doable, at the end of the day, all recordings to be uploaded to a central server and preserved for a certain amount of time.

No cops testimony should be allowed if they can't be backed up with the recording audio/video. I am sure it would make a lot of cops think twice about what they do... and testify about.