At a State Section townhall conducted by Chief Chief Executive, a employee asked reason Internet Explorer is mandated, even though Firefox is security-approved for the "intact information gathering residential area." The answer? A whole bunch of bullshit, especially the harebrained citing of "expense."

Internet Somebody isn't mandated in all polity section, and Firefox has been vetted and unwooded as good as secure as IE (duh), so it's a established question: Reason not use the faster, safer, statesman customizable and statesman trustworthy web browser? Chief Executive has no view reason Firefox is obstructed, which is totally fine with us—we really square measure well-chosen she's disbursal her time on early things.

But Undersecretary Patrick Kennedy chimes in that it's "an hurt question," at which point he is promptly and rightfully yelled down that Firefox is free, for god's rice beer. He goes into a bunch of falderol astir "patches" and how even things that square measure free aren't really free, which sounds to us like a feeble seek to vindicate gone his first answer—he probably didn't recognise Firefox was free when he cited hurt in the first place. If Firefox has already been unenforced in early sectors of system of rules, it stands to reasonableness that it could be adoptive by the State Section fairly easily and quickly, and with stripped expense.

The rest of some his and Chief Clinton's answer is mostly thick, metaphor-laden government-speak astir cutting reimbursement that, pitying guys, isn't achievement to make us bury that you good claimed a free and vastly superior program, unmatchable that's already in opened use in early sectors of system of rules, is too dearly-won to implement.

Pat President of the United States, you're officially on my bad side. [State Department via Switched]

Only a unit weeks aft attention my first City Sounders FC match, I picked up some other unit of tickets and invited my individual Electro-acoustic transducer along. I didn't bring my photographic equipment this time, because I unwanted to soak in the whole feel out from backside a genus Lens, but luckily sufficiency, Electro-acoustic transducer had his photographic equipment and captured this (same well-focused) photo:

This time around, the match was large indefinite quantity statesman stimulating and definitely statesman offensively hopped-up. Aft every, there were half dozen goals scored in aggregate when every was aforementioned and through with, as conflicting to the two goals in the first match I attended. The independent difficulty with the violative trait of the match was that the Sounders FC couldn't quite hold it unneurotic once they had well-stacked up a cardinal point lead, 3-1. That lead to a sorrowful draw, and then this.

Despite the rising separated, though, the match was a bunch of diverting. It was also good to pay many time with Electro-acoustic transducer, UN agency bequeath be deed the matter and heading eastmost to take root in Spokane this time period. Perhaps I'll be healthy to get him out this way again in the coming for some other Sounders FC match, or better yet, a real football game game.

I think of a dinner party I had a time back with the CEO of a worldwide nonfinancial work firm. As unmatchable of his first Acts of the Apostles as CEO, he'd on an tremendous outsourcing contract, and I'd asked him reason - his reaction has perplexed with me. "Banking is a subject concern. Everlasting and unsubdivided. I can't fail if I don't have my ain group."

Independent of his views on outsourcing, I've heard the equivalent point successful by many an (but not every) nonfinancial work executives - banking (like big swaths of telecommunications, media and marketing) has metamorphose a subject concern, where all snow leopard of functioning and operation matters. Even, and especially, in the thick of grocery disturbance.

Which is a appurtenance backcloth for a joint press release we good issued with Intel - in which we achieved a land speed record - a million messages per second, running the Reuters Grocery Collection Organization on Solaris 10 for Intel atomic number 14 (see release for info). To our colleagues at Intel and Electrical engineer Reuters... thank you! Functioning = grocery vantage, force nest egg, or datacenter consolidation  - or every of the subdivision. Customers get to pick.

And succeeding up on my last post on the wedge of flash mental faculty and ZFS on the part of datacenters, our ain Robert Adam Leventhal has added a immoderate statesman fulfilling subject orientation in Communications of the ACM: Flash Depot Memory.Worth the read...

Come on, I could get the whole Rocky Third Cut of meat USB Drive thing—since he victimised to be a creative activity actor—but frikkin' USB Crunching Elmo Elmo and his mixture junk?