BTW - I have the utmost respect for Federal Government IT Architects - they do an amazing job especially given the political environment they are forced to work in.

#10 | Posted by snoofy

I will bet big money that it's not going to save taxpayers money. If my experiences in IT have taught me nothing else, outsourcing virtually always costs you more in the end. If it doesn't it comes down to what are you willing to lose in order to save money.

#6 | Posted by boaz

It not only takes in-depth understanding it takes trust that the shared platform you are on is not full of holes.

I am not going to debate cloud is not the future - it is a perfect fit for some things today but not all things. Legacy software is best on site or in private clouds spaces. The expense is ungodly as well - again depending on what you are rolling to the cloud. Then there is private cloud (essentially co-locating) vs public cloud. I don't think it takes a more in depth (or at least not significantly so) understanding than truly securing an networks though. A LOT of it is common sense and had to be built out the way it is to support banking and the like. It certainly makes things complex in a hurry - managing the minutia gets old but you have to in order to have the a secure network.

I have an Amazon cert - I have considered getting more but I frankly don't have interest in working in the Amazon cloud though. Azure is garbage in comparison but yes it certainly is growing. Google, IBM, Rackspace and Oracle are all growing as well.

Side note - frankly I hate the term "cloud" but that's another story. I hate it more than "synergy" at this point.

How stupid can you be? Disinformation - i.e. the Russian campaign - helped us get where we are. Allowing Disinformation in ads is just wrong.

I get what Mustang is saying about politicians but that is the game. Outright lies being allowed especially by groups like PACs in addition to the candidates is wrong. And speaking frankly makes your platform look even worse than it already does.

Zuckerburg was right about people sharing data on the internet when he first started. They are stupid for doing it. Now he continues to abuse the information shared and give people seeking to manipulate a platform to do so. Yes people were stupid to trust you and believe that nothing bad could come from sharing harmless posts Mark...

I don't know if I missed this being posted but it is noteworthy.

Unexpected? Only if you are clueless. LMAO - No sheet they dropped. GM's been on strike over a month now. That's JUST GM - then there are the Tier One, Two, three and ancillaries businesses impacted. And I am sure Ford and Chrysler workers are not spending freely at the moment either. All told you are probably impacting maybe 2-3 million workers directly. 10s of millions indirectly and that includes "retail" for sure.

#19 | Posted by AndreaMackris

Sometimes someone other than the supposed leader needs to stand up and put everyone in their place. Frankly I have had to do it in contentious meetings in the past when the "leaders" lost control. It can be the only way to bring a bad meeting back to order with any hope of being on track. I am confrontation adverse, I would rather work it out through polite discourse but there comes a point people literally need to stand up to be heard.

I agree with too young - he was a mere 67. I have listened to interviews with him in the past when he spoke about the marches and the things that happened to him. He was truly a courageous man.

Honestly he is one of the few politicians on a list of people I would like to meet (John McCain was another). I didn't always agree with him but he was a well spoken, intelligent and passionate man.

Rest In Peace.

Loitering is illegal. No one is above the law.

#24 | Posted by visitor_

ONLY if in certain areas and only if those areas are properly designated with signage. This was their home.

If they own the 264 unit county housing authority development along Shannon Street where they were arrested, then, yeah they were on their own PRIVATE property.

#27 | Posted by DixvilleNotch

Renters have rights and with that statement you completely disregard that fact. What they are in this PARTICULAR case has yet to be established by any media but areas where loitering is not permitted typically require proper signage. Not apples to apples but for example, I know someone who beat their speeding ticket because the speed limit sign in the area it changed was hidden by untrimmed tree branches for years and years. Judge threw it out when provided the photo. I'm betting the fact they have a lawyer who is so willing to go public with this and make a stink about it to the media knows something that we don't.

#11 | Posted by J_Tremain

Derailing I know but I was curious...

#2 | Posted by goatman

Smells fine from here and fits this administration. I don't see Border Patrol issuing comment to refute their statements. This offense is akin to a speeding ticket legally.

Yes there are border roads like that. It's Canada and even Mexico used to have them. Apparently it was manned since they were stopped... There's thousands of miles of un-fenced border even - again it's Canada.

Yes there are large animals like that in the area. Deer, Moose, Bears, etc. I personally wouldn't turn down a road to avoid them but I'm not British either.

Article didn't say she was using formula solely as it is an infant I would go with yes breast milk. Don't be a tool.

This whole Syria conflict essentially comes down to a Proxy war (even though there was direct action by the US, Turkey, Russia and Iran. Despite what the head in the sand isolationists think we still live in a big world and have interests outside the US. If they were serious about isolationism they would be on board for the New Green Deal but they are opposed to that as well. In other words they are talking point tools and they are only serious when it is convenient. Turkey's alliance is shifting from NATO to Russia as well.

We had our butts handed to us in this proxy war thanks to Trump. He did just what his handlers would want and let them take over Syria. Now there is a whole Iran to Syria corridor in the Northern ME controlled by Iran and Russia. HUGE wins for both.

#22 | Posted by AndreaMackris

Felt the need to go up to this post. There are of course many subtleties and twists on this BUT you can thank Bush for it as he laid everything in place prior to leaving office. Thanks to Bush's agreements Obama had 2 choices - stay and expose US troops to Iraqi law and courts or pull out. A political deal could not be made to avoid that so he pulled out and in itself that was the only REAL decision he could make to protect our troops. But remember - this was Bush's deal and not Obama's.

And in all honesty Bush laid the ground work very effectively for ISIS in Iraq. The Bush treatment of the Baathist Sunni army laid the foundation and then the Shiite Iraqi policing of the Sunnis ensured their participation in ISIS. These were not religious extremists but down trodden people.

And if you go even further back "WMDs" and Al Qaeda and the invasion of Iraq to begin with.

#2 | Posted by AMERICANUNITY

Well it was August...

Leftist minds cannot conceive of the mere possibility that blacks routinely engage in more criminal activity
#15 | POSTED BY BERSERKONE

Did you just see the study about they need to search more white people because proportionally they found most often to have something illegal in Traffic stops? All things equal white people are more often breaking the law but Blacks and Hispanics are searched more often.

BTW Nice NPR link that LITERALLY says nothing about the data and what that measure is and means. But there is a nice quote "FRIDELL: The defenders of police, of course, will cherry-pick the studies that show no bias. And the other side will cherry-pick the ones that do. But we don't have any definitive studies on this."

Sickening. Purely Sickening.

BTW - I won't check out books since the feds got involved in tracking what you read thanks to Bush.

@Nulli - Liberals this and that - you are accusing them of quashing free speech when it is pretty clearly A conservative burning A book in the article. I'm not complaining - it's their free speech right - but it is hate and an attempt to quash free speech on their part. It was a really small display but hey. When you go look at people burning media look no further than conservatives. Remember the nut job burning Korans? All the burnings in the 80s and 90s? Or hey there were always the Germans.

As for the books in bins - you have to be a real tool to throw that up and cry left infringing on speech. A library disposing of old books? Really?

Now that's some freaky stuff. No evidence whatsoever either.

Note the video of the collapse. Anyone still not believing that the much larger WTC towers couldn't completely collapse on their own should watch. This was nothing in comparison and that's why the Towers pancaked.

#1 | Posted by J_Tremain

That was an illegal gambling hall...

And I don't disagree with #2. Not unlike parts of your own country I might add - I am for gun control understand.

Serious question, how many weddings have been shot up in Pakistan?

Unsurprisingly the "usual suspects" are silent so far. Must be waiting for the talking points to be issued.

#5 | Posted by LesWit

Not just inland. All over...

He needs "wins" right now...

Hillary's destruction of Libya sent a message that she was the war candidate.

#48 | Posted by Ray

You talk as if Hillary was ever President or in control. What did Hillary do to destroy Syria? Assad did all that on his own. Erdogan helped when he opened the door to ISIS fighters. etc. The US honestly didn't do all that much providing mostly non-lethal support and some small arms.