Mr. Fox

2 hours ago, Papusan said:

As it is now I think I'll have to put the rad on top and push the air out as exhaust (in push pull). With 8 strong fans in the front I mean this is the best solution. What you think about that? The intake on top is probably a bottleneck if i would take the air from there int the radiator. @Mr. Fox 

I would definitely do the radiator in top with push/pull. It might be better to pull cold air into the top and creating positive internal pressure with more intake than exhaust but you will need to test both ways to see if there is any change. I suspect the difference will be minor, if any. Pushing air out of the top might be better for dust prevention, unless the internal air pressure is low. Higher internal pressure generally is better to minimize dust collection. If it is all filtered that may not matter unless the top or bottom filter is more challenging to remove clean than the other.

5 hours ago, Samir said:

There's a reason countries have borders that aren't penetrable.  Each country's Internet should be the same really.  There's no reason anyone should have russian and chinese hacking packets hitting their routers in the US.  We don't allow the same people to come and knock on your door without permission, do we?

We used to pay attention to that, but that responsibility has been surrendered to terrorists, human traffickers and drug cartels.

On 1/31/2022 at 10:25 PM, Samir said:

Except this is where the legal waters get muddy.  Supposed there is a user in the EU that somehow has their GDPR rights violated unbeknownst to the site owners and files suit in the EU.  Because there are relationships between the EU and US as far as judgements, etc, if a EU judge adjudicates the case in favor of the user, the user now has a mechanism to seek retribution from the US company.  It's a rare case, but the EU itself has done this against places like FB and google, so there's case law there already.

And for most companies this potential liability over something that doesn't necessarily swing the bottom line is nix the liability.

Yes, I am not saying it doesn't happen, only that it should not be allowed to happen. One nation willingly subjecting itself to the jurisdiction of another nation in the realm of civil justice is ludicrous and overreaching. The United States should not honor verdicts in EU civil lawsuits, nor should the EU honor civil suits adjudicated in the United States. Doing so is a bastardization of sovereignty. I would make an exception for products, goods and services a US company sells on foreign soil, because once that company has a presence there they willingly subject themselves to the rule of law in that nation. If they don't have a presence there and the products, goods or services are not offered locally, there should be no jurisdiction. 

I despise Facebook, Twitter and Google and would love to see them go  out of business, but they should not be subject to any regulations that apply in another nation when a foreigner chooses to register an account on the internet where the site owner and domain is US-based. If this becomes a serious problem and the national leaders remain feckless in blocking it, then those companies would be wise to take appropriate measures to block registration and memberships from outsiders.

Even criminal prosecution should only be honored if and when it violates United States criminal code, and it should be tried on American soil with the same due process it would have received if the crime were committed in the United States. The EU conviction should not be ignored, but it should be sustained only to the extent it violates US code and goes through the same trial process and is decided by a jury. That is usually not an issue because the really serious violent crimes are illegal in all civilized nations. The exception would be if the crime is committed in the EU and the suspect is apprehended while in the EU or extradited for prosecution in the EU (where such an agreement for reciprocity exists). One example of this would be a violation of Sharia Law when the act is not illegal in a nation that does not observe Sharia Law.

On 1/31/2022 at 10:36 PM, Sandy Bridge said:

There also was - I would argue clearly - not a business vision for NBR at TechTarget anymore.  No reviews had been published since 2019; no notable new investments had been made in years.  At a larger company, if a division that is unprofitable or break-even wants to continue to exist more than a year or two, it needs to have a champion that believes in it and has a vision for it.  There didn't appear to be anyone who fit that bill at TechTarget, although we've read Charles was able to persuade them to keep the lights on - probably indicating it was break even/low-profit/a small enough loss to not be very noticeable.

I'm reminded of a local grocery chain that was owned by a large, diversified company, and had been for decades.  They lost a small amount of money every year, by the parent company's standards - a few million per year in losses.  The locals thought it was a great chain, but it was somewhat a specialty one, so most people only bought some things there, not all their groceries - maybe why it lost money.  Anyway, the grocery division's leader was able to convince them to keep it around, probably by appealing to the goodwill it brought the parent company's brand name, and to old time's sake.  But about a year after he retired, they announced they were closing the grocery chain.

I could see a similar situation having played out here.  Maybe there was someone sympathetic to the argument of keeping the lights on, but they left TechTarget last year.  Maybe TechTarget's profitability went down over the past few years and their bean counters started looking in more detail for what could be cut and saw a no-longer-profitable division.  We'll probably never know the answer for sure.  But having worked at a large, conglomerated company once (by way of acquisition of the company I worked for, not by choice), this seems a lot more likely to me than anything more dramatic.  Jobs and divisions get cut all the time at large soulless corporations.  It's why I prefer to work for small companies.

If I had to guess (and we have no information, so all we can do is speculate,) that would be my best wild guess. You probably nailed it with that one, but we may never know the real story.

I don't understand how or why any US Company would need to care one iota about an EU GDPR lawsuit unless they wanted to do business on EU soil. Otherwise, I would be like "bite me EU" as they have zero jurisdiction in or over the United States, its citizens and US-owned companies. If Tech Target isn't doing business there, then I wouldn't think the forum being open to members from the EU should have any bearing. It's their choice to join or not join. Likewise, they are not subject to laws and regulations of the United States, as we have no jurisdiction over them.

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