That is the same in wording only.
The pipe electricity comes down is so much larger and cheaper than the pipe
bandwidth for streaming radio comes down.
That is exactly the apples and oranges conversation. Both are edible (play
music), both are good for you (consume power or bandwidth), and both are not
required (you could be working instead).
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From: "Sam Cayze" <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, November 10, 2009 1:41 PM
To: "NT System Admin Issues" <[email protected]>
Subject: RE: INTERNET SLOWNESS
The company also provides power; can they plug in a radio and use your
electricity?
-----Original Message-----
From: Ben Scott [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Tuesday, November 10, 2009 12:05 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: INTERNET SLOWNESS
On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 12:29 PM, Sam Cayze <[email protected]>
wrote:
You fire people for Streaming Radio? Yikes.
FWIW: We haven't, but we do have it in our policy manual that
streaming media without a business purpose is forbidden, and subject
to disciplinary action. I have had to have a few people formally
written up, but it's never gone beyond that.
We also endeavor to block that stuff at the proxy server, but
filtering is imperfect.
If the network suffers, the whole business suffers -
but that's IT's fault, not the person streaming a radio station.
They get disciplined for flagrantly disregarding company policy, not
for harming the network. We always stop it before it comes to harm.
I've got no objection to streaming radio on principle; it's just a
question of resources. The company isn't providing an Internet feed
so people can listen to the radio on their PC, and we're not about to
spend money upgrading it for that, either.
-- Ben
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