Ah, the joys of parenthood. My daughter has been feeling ill all weekend, and we decided to take her to the Doctor today. After the doctor told me that she suspected a viral infection (hence, no antibiotics), they did a strep test, and the test came back positive.
At work, we've been having some problems with the IT department's policies as it pertains to our imaging system. The discovered that our permissions were not severely restricted, as they are wont to do. This is on a server bought with our sections money, used only by our section's staff, hosting only our sections data, administered (as much as other IT policies allow) by our staff.
The heart of the problem is that we (our section) is using a file-based document management system. Its performance is more than adequate, and its support requirements are laughably small. The file-based system requires a greater flexibility in setting windows-based file-share permissions than our IT folks wish to dole out. They want to set permissions now lower than off of the root of a share (shraename-folder<== the first folder under a share)
What I am thinking about doing is setting up a client-server app where the "server" side is running on an account that has the necessary permissions. A request comes in for a certain image, and the server serves the image over TCP/IP. I'll have to play with that one for awhile to get it to work. It also can be broken by a simple policy update changing firewall settings....
You know, you can love Bush or hate him, but you have to give the guy credit. He is no shrinking daisy. He tackles sensitive political issues without the usual meaningless platitudes and empty catch-phrases trying to pander to each side. He just states what he believes in. Like this weeks issue of immigration reform.
I have no problem with folks coming to America to live. I do have problems with people who come here by breaking our laws. It puts everyone in a bad position. The illegal is in a position rife for oppression. If they are not paid minimum wage, what recourse do they have? If they are worked over 40 hours a week without overtime, who can they call? If they are stiffed their pay, to which governmental agency can they confide in?
This is in add cost of providing these folks with governmental services that they consume.
It is not the best solution. We need to control our borders. The problem will not be fixed by building a wall (which isn't a bad idea, but just understand that it makes it a little harder to come in), it will not be fixed by deporting all illegals you find (once again, not a bad idea.) The problem is that, as long as there is a demand for cheap, illegal (slave?) labor, there will be a supplier no matter how hard we make it for them to get in.
The solution is simple. Require EVERY employer to receive POSITIVE proof of residence or citizenship. This will require some form of Federal-level identification for every citizen and resident alien in the US. Some folks will gripe, but so what. Then, if a business employed illegals, the business is fined a huge, hefty, ugly, nasty fine ($100,000 a head for illegals). The fine would have to be big enough for business to say "the cheap labor isn't worth it". All of a sudden, the illegal labor market dries up, and the flood slows to a trickle.
A guest worker program could then be fashioned to provide these folks with a way to work here legally, once they are all registered and documented. This will also allow us to weed out the undesirable elements (read criminals) from migrating here.
It's doable, its simple, and it will never happen.
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