Slashdot Mirror


User: sjames

sjames's activity in the archive.

Stories
0
Comments
34,276
First seen
Last seen
Profile
(view on slashdot.org)

Comments · 34,276

  1. Re:Just amazing on Study Finds Password Misuse In Hospitals Is 'Endemic' (securityledger.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    No, the devices need to be connected to a private LAN where they can, in-turn, talk to machines that may also need to talk to the internet.

  2. Re: Not necessarily on Federal Court: The Fourth Amendment Does Not Protect Your Home Computer (eff.org) · · Score: 1

    Considering the number of hacks on government and industry, no, it doesn't seem that unlikely.

  3. Re:why qualify the nightclub as "gay"? on Senate Rejects FBI Bid For Warrantless Access To Internet Browsing Histories (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Because there is reason to believe he was specifically targeting gay people. It *is* relevant to knowing what his motive might have been.

  4. Don't worry, I'm sure they will vote to do *something* about that problem too.

  5. So then he uses a bomb surrounded with nails and kills 100 people in under 1 second.

    Or he just drives through a wall at 100 MPH.

  6. Ask yourself this: When is the last time you read about identity thieves stealing PAPER records of 50,000 people?

  7. Re:Yeah. Why not? on Ask Slashdot: Should You Store Medical Details In The Cloud? (caremonkey.com) · · Score: 1

    You still need backups, of course. Without backups, the situations you mention will quickly wipe out electronic records.

  8. Re:Yeah. Why not? on Ask Slashdot: Should You Store Medical Details In The Cloud? (caremonkey.com) · · Score: 1

    None of those require that the school have extensive medical records. They only need to know the condition, any restrictions it imposes, and the recommended first aid for the condition.

    Yes, CF needs more than the others since it is a constant thing and requires regular treatment, but even there they don't need a complete history, only what must be done now and contact info for the primary physician.

  9. Part of the problem in the U.S. is that insurance is misused in healthcare based on the principle every small child "knows": If you shift the spinach back and forth on your plate long enough, it eventually disappears.

  10. Re:Unification on Fedora QA Lead Pans Canonical 'Propaganda' On Snap Apps (happyassassin.net) · · Score: 1

    We already had a way to start things. Just drop a script into /etc/init.d and link to it from the various rc?.d. Systemd broke that. Currently systemd will start scripts too, so best bet is still a script if you want all the cases covered.

    As for packaging, a lot of commercial user apps come as a tar file you unpack in /opt.

    The real problem is in library versions, especially dealing with software compiled against the latest greatest bleedingest edge version.

  11. Re:easily exploitable software? on New York Criminalizes the Use Of Ticket-Buying Bots (engadget.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Don't even present the captcha until the tickets go on sale. Don't sell a thousand tickets in a single transaction. Each transaction gets a new captcha.

  12. Re:Duh--the game has changed. on Open and Rich Co-exist But Don't Mingle So Much (scripting.com) · · Score: 1

    Funny how that works though. Everyone is expected to excel at business or they supposedly deserve to not make any money. We don't expect VCs to excel at auto mechanics, carpentry or IT. We don't claim that people deserve their flooded basement if they didn't learn plumbing along with their chosen profession.

  13. Re:So .. Security by Obscurity. on Is the 'Secret' Chip In Intel CPUs Really That Dangerous? (networkworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Like I said, the older ones did **NOT** have a bridge to the main interface. No cable in the management port, no management connectivity.

    For the first few years after the (pseudo) bridging was introduced, you really needed to use the management interface anyway as the bridging would cause the main interface to go dead occasionally and need a system reset to recover.

  14. Re:HTML5 promo ? on Delete Or Update All Adobe Flash Player Instances, Experts Warn (threatpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Lets just say Flash is a frequent flyer on security warnings. The websites haven't replaced it because it isn't a risk to them and they don't know HTML5.

  15. Re: Long time coming on Watts Bar Unit 2 Is The First New US Nuclear Reactor In Decades (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Whoooosh!

    gurgle

  16. Re:Long time coming on Watts Bar Unit 2 Is The First New US Nuclear Reactor In Decades (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Well that sure explains the shape of the emergency cooling lever.

  17. There was one guy who knew hoe to do it, but he was last seen in a picture from a Buddy Holly concert.

  18. Re:So is this a manufactured clickbait story? on Is the 'Secret' Chip In Intel CPUs Really That Dangerous? (networkworld.com) · · Score: 1

    It makes a great deal of sense in any case where an admin or troubleshooter works remote. Sometimes you need to power cycle and see the serial output (or even video on some management). I can re-install a system, across the country that way, which sure beats having to fly out there to do it.Sometimes a system is only occasionally needed, so it can be powered down most of the time.

    It's not a power grab. There's nobody at the site who is qualified diagnose and fix the systems in question, so nobody to grab the power from.

    $10 worth of built in hardware easily replaces $100 worth of external hardware that doesn't work as well.

    The internal hardware has gotten so cheap that it would cost more to have a second model without it.

    As for non-servers, it's a great way to automate boot-up of desktops in the morning just before the employees arrive, or to do backups.

  19. Re:So .. Security by Obscurity. on Is the 'Secret' Chip In Intel CPUs Really That Dangerous? (networkworld.com) · · Score: 1

    The old IPMI type BMCs had a lot less control over the platform, They had a connection to a virtual serial port, the power and reset line, and an internal USB connection. Sometimes they could see the video frame buffer. They had their own network interface NOT bridged to the host interface.

    If you don't want it, leave the management interface unconnected. If someone gains unauthorized access, they get a console, not a peek into main memory. Before that, the management card was an add-on that plugged into a special socket on the MB.

  20. Don't worry, we can give the grocer a tax break to make up the difference.

  21. One of the ways they are given money is access to declaring capital gains and paying a special lower rate on it.

  22. No. Capital gains are actually taxed at a lower rate. Warren Buffet noted that his effective tax rate was lower than his secretary's.

  23. Those deductions are justified as incentives to invest and expand business. They are not supposed to go in the nose candy fund.

  24. No, you don't have to pee in a bottle to have money, only to get a discount on your taxes.

  25. No, she is saying that if you want a special discount on taxes, you should pass a drug test. Those discounts are meant to get you to invest in improving the economy, not for you to put up your nose.