Prez: Rick Perry selling his mailing list
I created separate email accounts to receive email from each of the 25 presidential candidates (and donated money to all them). This allows me to track their behavior -- or misbehavior.Rick Perry exited the race 50 days ago. Today, I got two emails to my special Perry address. One email was from Ted Cruz, another presidential candidate. The other was from Paul Ryan, the new Speaker of the House.
Here's Ted Cruz's email, sent to my Perry account. It's actually identical to one I received on my Cruz account. (I've hidden the To: address, except for the 'rick' part).
The email headers look like:
Received: from mail3.postup.targetedvictory.com (mail3.postup.targetedvictory.com [69.56.54.35])
by projectp (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1266C26041B
for; Fri, 30 Oct 2015 16:28:59 +0000 (UTC)
Rick Perry uses the company "TargetedVictory" for his mass emailings, where Ted Cruz uses another company. This shows that Perry didn't give his address list to Cruz, but instead let Cruz use the address list.
I saved a copy of Perry's privacy policy when I made the donation. It implies that he won't give out my private information to somebody else, but nothing in the Continue reading
Prez: donation numbers
I've given $10 to every candidate to monitor what they do. As I blogged before, just before the quarterly filing deadline, I got emails from all the candidates begging for money, to impress people how much money they've gathered. Well, here are amount each candidate received last quarter:| Hillary | 29,921,653.91 |
| Bernie | 26,216,430.38 |
| Carson | 20,767,266.51 |
| Jeb! | 13,384,832.06 |
| Cruz | 12,218,137.71 |
| Walker | 7,379,170.56 |
| Carly | 6,791,308.76 |
| Rubio | 5,724,784.46 |
| Kasisch | 4,376,787.95 |
| Christie | 4,208,984.49 |
| Trump | 3,926,511.65 |
| Rand | 2,509,251.63 |
| O'Malley | 1,282,820.92 |
| Huckabee | 1,241,737.51 |
| Graham | 1,052,657.62 |
| Lessig | 1,016,189.22 |
| Webb | 696,972.18 |
| Jindal | 579,438.39 |
| Santorum | 387,985.42 |
| Perry | 287,199.29 |
| Pataki | 153,513.89 |
Of course Hillary and Bernie are at the top, since they are the only two major contenders on the Democrat side, so split the pool between them.
What's interesting is that how Scott Walker exited the race, and Jeb! scaled back his spending, because their donations dropped precipitously. Even though they got huge donations last quarter, they spent the money as fast as they could. Presidential campaigns are like venture capital that way: you spend money aggressively in order to make more money. If you are right, this Continue reading
As HP Prepares to Split, Some Obits for an Icon
HP's final working day as a single company is marked by a look at the split companies & memories of halcyon days.
Yes, the CNBC moderation was biased
In anger over CNBC's left-wing bias, the Republican party has suspended them from moderating future debates. Is there something to this?Yes and no. CNBC, like most of the media, has a strong left-wing bias. On the other hand, the Republicans are quick to label legitimate criticism as examples of bias.
There is an easy way to detect improper bias. The principle of journalism is that there are two reasonable sides to any debate. One side may be wrong, of course, but both sides are reasonable. Partisan bias, however, involves arguing that one side in the debate is unreasonable. When the press calls somebody a "comic book clown", then it's bias. Merely saying they are "wrong" is not bias.
That's what happened many times during the CNBC moderated debate of Republican candidates, most egregiously when they called Trump a "comic book" version of a candidate. We all know that Trump is a demagogue, that he appeals to the ignorant masses more than intelligent people. But when you drill down on Trumps ideas, what you'll find is that he's usually merely wrong rather than irrational. For example, a couple months ago, Trump was attacked in the press for saying "the constitution Continue reading
SDxCentral Weekly News Roundup — October 30, 2015
Verizon gets serious about IOT while Ericsson launches a 5G exchange in Europe
WLPC 2015 @ Berlin
For the second year in a row I attended Wireless Lan Professionals Conference Europe, this time in Berlin. Location The choice of location this time was much better, last year I went to Maastrich through Brussels, most people didn’t liked…iPexpert’s Newest “CCIE Wall of Fame” Additions 10/30/2015
Please join us in congratulating the following iPexpert students who have passed their CCIE lab!
10 use cases where NoSQL will outperform SQL
This vendor-written tech primer has been edited by Network World to eliminate product promotion, but readers should note it will likely favor the submitter’s approach.
Once only used by the likes of Google, Amazon and Facebook, many industries are now adopting NoSQL database technology for crucial business applications, replacing their relational database deployments to gain flexibility and scalability. Here are 10 enterprise use cases best addressed by NoSQL:
* Personalization. A personalized experience requires data, and lots of it – demographic, contextual, behavioral and more. The more data available, the more personalized the experience. However, relational databases are overwhelmed by the volume of data required for personalization. In contrast, a distributed NoSQL database can scale elastically to meet the most demanding workloads and build and update visitor profiles on the fly, delivering the low latency required for real-time engagement with your customers.
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Xen Patches ‘Worst’-Ever Virtual Machine Escape Vulnerability
Bug remained undetected for seven years and enabled complete control of host system.Multivendor Throwdown on Tap at ONUG Fall 2015
Vendors aim to prove they're ready to support a new IT paradigm.
Worth Reading: Rebuilding with Docker
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PlexxiPulse—Don’t Let Scalability Spook You
Last week, our director of product marketing, Bob Noel, penned a blog post that identified the five new networking requirements being driven by IoT and Big Data. This week, we are shining the spotlight on one of the third era of IT requirements Bob highlighted – scalability. In today’s dynamic application environments, the ability to scale gracefully to be able to handle distributed applications is critical. The network must be scaled to match demand, but the challenge (and a pain point for many) is how. Traditional “scale up” techniques were about replacing outgrown processing and storage capacity with bigger boxes and migrating data onto the new platform. Now, as the environment grows, more physical devices will be connected to the network. Providers need to think beyond adding capacity through bigger pipes and consider how to support a rapidly growing number of storage and compute nodes. It can be spooky thing to consider, but at Plexxi we make scaling your network to meet Third Era demands a treat, not a trick.
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Enterprise Networking Planet: Better Networking Through the API
By Arthur Cole
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Book Review: ‘The Peripheral’ By William Gibson
William Gibson is working at the height of his abilities in The Peripheral. Characters move back and forth between near present-day and an unusual post-apocalyptic future, and the book blends high-tech, visionary showpieces with themes of class, opportunity, and economic injustice.
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Good Open-Source Governance: Thoughts on ‘Focus & the Big Tent’ Panel at OpenDaylight Summit 2015
Five characteristics for good project governance.