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Pink Slips at Disney. But First, Training Foreign Replacements. – NYTimes.com

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All I can say is wow…

ORLANDO, Fla. — The employees who kept the data systems humming in the vast Walt Disney fantasy fief did not suspect trouble when they were suddenly summoned to meetings with their boss.While families rode the Seven Dwarfs Mine Train and searched for Nemo on clamobiles in the theme parks, these workers monitored computers in industrial buildings nearby, making sure millions of Walt Disney World ticket sales, store purchases and hotel reservations went through without a hitch. Some were performing so well that they thought they had been called in for bonuses.

Source: Pink Slips at Disney. But First, Training Foreign Replacements. – NYTimes.com

It’s sad to see how major corporations seem to like to screw over their IT Departments.  All to save a bit of money.

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Tomorrow The Internet Will Begin to Die

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This is to anyone that thinks that those of us that live in the United States still live in ‘the land of the free’ …

Tomorrow sees one of the most pivotal pieces of internet legislation pass through the halls of power in Washington. The ‘Stop Online Piracy Act’ SOPA bill, combined with PROTECT IP Act, seeks to give the US Justice Department the power to force Internet Providers into blocking access to any website that is suspected of hosting or linking to copyrighted material.Provision for ‘going after’ ‘disputed sites’ hosting companies; search engines that link to them; payment services that support them, and other ancillary services will also be granted through the act.

via Tomorrow The Internet Will Begin to Die.

So basically, any corporation could yell out ‘Copyright Infringement!’ to any website on the ‘net, and then the site will just disappear.  It doesn’t seem that it’ll matter what site they’re talking about, any site can be brought down, by removal of it’s name from all of the DNS servers in the US.  Any US Based site taken down this way will remove it from the whole world, and it could possibly happen to some sites based in other countries. (though harder, and it’d be less likely to happen outside of our controllable area.)

Small and large businesses that are based off of the ‘net could just vanish and die, I must say that this cannot happen, if it does, there will be some huge, bad, changes to come.

Click the link below to have your say

http://www.mozilla.org/sopa/

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It’s 11/11/11!

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It’s 11/11/11 today!  isn’t that neat?

It’s a cool day for us geeks, as days where the same number is repeated many times are rare, The last one for quite a long time will be 12/12/12 at 12:12 AM and PM, as we only have twelve months in a year and twenty four hours in a day…  I’ll try to avoid missing that one 🙂

Also apparently some groups believe that this date may have something to do with the apoclypse, or some metaphysics stuff…  But I just think that it’s a neat date, being able to say that it’s 11/11/11!  In the end it’s just our clocks moving forward, and seeing the changes that are happening to the world.

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