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  1. Re:How much is that doggy in the window? (song lin on LTE Upgrade Will Let Phones Connect To Nearby Devices Without Towers · · Score: 1

    Which is exactly what I thought, the second I read it. A perfect way to insert yourself in the middle of other people's privileged communications. There is no way in fuck this can't be exploited. Fake certs, sslsniff and I guarantee you we're going to find a whole new realm of exploits, with this.

    I wonder what it says about people like you and me that everyone else posting sees a wonderful opportunity for better networks and we see an obvious security risk? :-P

  2. Re:Is this related to.. on Apple Sells More Than 10 Million New iPhones In First 3 Days · · Score: 1
  3. Re:KIlling off the Microsoft Store Name Too on Microsoft Killing Off Windows Phone Brand Name In Favor of Just Windows · · Score: 1

    I actually have one - and (feel free to check my comment history on this) - I'm a long time Android fan (including running a pro-Android blog). I just got a bit bored and wanted to play with something else - also I finally cracked the shits at the lag on my Android.

    Will my next phone be Windows Phone (or Windows or whatever)? Probably not - I'll probably go back to Android - but I won't rule out staying on Windows. I've promised myself to give it a genuine go. So far, it's only been a month and it's been not bad. Not great but not bad, either. The phone is like 85% of the way there - but that final 15% matters and it's a nuisance. Apps are poorly covered and there's lots of stupid querks, such as all the eBook readers need the eBooks in One Drive, not the local disk, which is annoying when you're on a slow link. And you absolutely cannot download from the store if a file is bigger than 50mb unless you're on wifi. This is a hard coded OS fact - not an option. But my wifi is hooked up to my DSL and in Australia, DSL is slow as hell and 4g is fast. So that's annoying as shit, too. Lots of things like that are annoying but overall, I am working on it (it's a Nokia 930 btw). The camera is beautiful and the build quality is great (I'm used to Samsung, mind you). Still... those Moto X's are looking pretty nice and I'm really missing my Google Maps.

    We'll see where I go in a few months time.

  4. Bloody Wonderful! on Australian Website Waits Three Years To Inform Customers of Data Breach · · Score: 1

    I've used that site, too...

    Not only did they take eternity to fess up but I found out about it via Slashdot - not from them. I have the same email address as 3 years ago, so I don't see why they couldn't have sent me an email??

  5. It's not the worst idea on Microsoft Wants You To Trade Your MacBook Air In For a Surface Pro 3 · · Score: 1

    I actually did switch from a 2011 Macbook Air (the dual core 2GB RAM, 13" model) to a Surface Pro 1, a little while before the Surface Pro 2 came out. Why? Because, through gradual changes in my client base and their worlds, I found myself spending more and more time in powershell, Hyper-V management and other purely Microsoft centric tasks. So I ended up Bootcamping my MBA to Windows 8 (required for Hyper-V 2012+ management), so it was now basically a PC, anyway. Then, once a guy next to me got a DynaDock with his Surface Pro, I realised I could dock it to a couple of nice, big monitors and keyboard and mouse and it's frankly more powerful than my 2011 MBA was.

    So I sold my MBA on eBay (at almost as much as I paid for it, amazingly - incredible resale value) and switched to the SP1, which I am still using. I have pre-ordered a SP3, in fact, because I have been so happy with it (we don't get the Surface Pro 3 in Australia until September). It's smaller, lighter, faster and better suited to my current working life. I also love the pen, as I now spend about 40% of my week in meetings.

    So overall, I don't think this is a bad thing - I just don't expect it to get heavily taken up. I think most MBA and MBP users will prefer to stick with what they have. The trust is, I use my Surface Pro like a desktop or a notepad (a literal, paper notepad, not a laptop notepad). I basically never use it as an actual laptop unless I have no alternative but then again, I pretty much hate all laptops, compared to the desktop experience.

  6. Re:Is IPMI enabled? on IPMI Protocol Vulnerabilities Have Long Shelf Life · · Score: 1

    Oh sorry, forgot to say, yes, it's easy to find all IPMI devices on your network. Please take a look at: ftp://ftp.supermicro.com/utili... - you can download the IPMIView tool from there, which will find all IPMI devices on your LAN. The default password and username for all Supermicro IPMI is ADMIN and ADMIN, so, of course, super secure.

  7. Re:Is IPMI enabled? on IPMI Protocol Vulnerabilities Have Long Shelf Life · · Score: 1

    The majority of IPMI would be enabled by default, yes - however the majority (not all, some are virtual IPMI) are on dedicated NICs - usually labelled management interface or port or something. They're not usable as a normal NIC (although as mentioned above, yes, some are virtual and share an onboard NIC). As such, you're best putting them in a different VLAN. We use differently coloured network cables for them, too, in our datacentre, so there's no confusion. They're in a different VLAN, on a different switch (makes sense to use a different switch as IPMI is usually 100mbit and not worth wasting space on expensive switches for) and only a handful of machines can see that network, which, frankly, if those machines got compromised, we'd be f*cked anyway (domain controllers, etc).

    The default config for a Supermicro (which is what I use) is the IPMI is enabled and set to DHCP, so if you left it like that, yes, everyone on your network would probably be able to find it.

  8. "It depends" on Microsoft Cheaper To Use Than Open Source Software, UK CIO Says · · Score: 2

    I guess it depends on what you're doing, doesn't it? If you're trying to provide Microsoft Sharepoint access to Microsoft Office documents to users or Microsoft Exchange email access, then, yes, it probably is cheaper and quicker to do it with Microsoft stuff. It's a pretty ludicrous claim to say that the TCO of Linux is higher than Microsoft unless you are also clear about what your company expects your IT to do... If you're just trying to use Linux to emulate Windows, then of course that's probably a waste of time and resources.

  9. Re: In other news ... on Microsoft Issues Advisory For Internet Explorer Vulnerability · · Score: 1

    $client = new-object System.Net.WebClient
    $client.DownloadFile( $url, $path )

    Probably works on Powershell 2 however I think it requires the .NET framework installed. Powershell wasn't that good until later versions. I have to say, current versions are actually extraordinarily powerful, when working with other Microsoft technologies, like Hyper-V or Exchange but the early versions were no reason to leave VBScript.

  10. Re: In other news ... on Microsoft Issues Advisory For Internet Explorer Vulnerability · · Score: 1

    Ha! I'd give you mod points for that if I could. That's the first time I have ever tried to post using the new Beta interface on a mobile and it munted the link badly.

    http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh849901.aspx is the link.

    That requires powershell 3. Prior to that you could use: System.Net.WebClient but the Invoke-WebRequest is far easier.

  11. Re: In other news ... on Microsoft Issues Advisory For Internet Explorer Vulnerability · · Score: 1

    http://technet.microsoft.com/e... Using an old version of powershell?

  12. Re:In other news ... on Microsoft Issues Advisory For Internet Explorer Vulnerability · · Score: 1

    Invoke-WebRequest http://www.google.com/ -OutFile c:\google.html

  13. Seems legit on Apple Demands $40 Per Samsung Phone For 5 Software Patents · · Score: 5, Informative

    So Apple want $40 a phone for a few cosmetic and convenient things they were the first to bring to market, like tapping a number or bounceback when you over scroll - but they baulk at paying $2 a phone for stuff that *makes the phone actually work* like 3G/4G, WIFI, etc. etc. How the hell is that ok? And if you want to say those 3G patents Samsung hold are FRAND and essential for phones, fine - but Apple still wasn't even paying the FRAND amount. So why can't Apple's innovations be considered essential and ubiquitous to normal mobile phones, now and also be forced to be reasonable??

  14. Thanks on Dear Asus Router User: All Your Cloud Are Belong To Us · · Score: 1

    Genuine thanks. I have one of these models in my office, where there's just a couple of us. Never even thought about it, as we don't use it for anything other than establishing PPPoE on ADSL. Turns out we had those features all turned on, too. No disks attached - but still.

  15. Yeah this sounds totally efficient. on DARPA Training Cadets and Midshipmen As Cyber Warriors · · Score: 1

    Or... they could just not build insecure systems directly connected to the internet?

    Ok, ok, I know that nothing is ever totally safe and the Natanz reactor in Iran was hacked without being connected to the internet but surely, better design, better systems management and better monitoring, etc, would reduce the need for such an astronomical number of heads, just sitting in a chair all day watching logs or looking for bugs in code? And you can be quite sure some idiot will still run an out of date flash or java on their IE browser and plenty of small areas will still get subcontractors in to manage domains, scripts, small programs etc and they'll be under the radar.

    Sounds like the modern equivalent of the industrial revolution - just pay a huge number of plebs to do menial tasks. Somehow I doubt this will stop a bugged monitor cable, supplied by the NSA, from doing what it does.

  16. Video in Vimeo. Not watching any further on CmdrTaco Launches Trove, a Curated News Startup · · Score: 1

    I'm sure it's great and all but in Australia, you might as well mail the data to me in individual bits per envelope, for the speed that Vimeo buffers down here...So pretty much at that point, I lost interest and decided this is basically Pulse or Flipboard.

  17. Re:Winner! on Data Analysts Attempt To Predict World's Largest Music Vote, Again · · Score: 2

    I'd fully refute that. Triple J is barely recognisable to me, these days, and I was 100% immersed in the music scene in the 2nd half of the 90's. It's all dance and rap now - a very different sound. It's not "wrong" or "worse" but to claim it's in anyway oriented at the 30 something's, like me, is way off; it's just aimed at people who are younger than I am. It's aimed firmly at the uni student age, and always has been. Even their news articles lead with stories like rises to student fees, etc.

  18. Re:Interview ending question on Blowing Up a Pointless Job Interview · · Score: 3

    A friend of mine was asked this back in uni, when he applied for a graduate role at some company. He replied "in your chair".

    He did not get the job.

  19. Re:Open source on Accenture Faces Mid-March Healthcare.gov Deadline Or 'Disaster' · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I would assume the simply tendered out the process and got a bunch of quotes (tender responses) from companies on the government preferred supplier list. Any companies not assumed "big enough" were discounted out of hand. Then they would have had 2 or 3 left over (because at the very start of the process, they would have decided to immediately short list down to 2 or 3 people at most because bigger numbers than that is too hard to comprehend) and had some presentations from them about their success stories and then asked themselves "who was the cheapest?" and "who have I heard of before?".

    That's how it works here in Australia, anyway.

  20. Re:G+ is not market dominant... on Google Begins To Merge Google+, Gmail Contacts · · Score: 4, Informative

    They already have - but they just called it Google.

  21. All good and well until... on Western Australian Sharks Send Tweets To Swimmers · · Score: 5, Funny

    "You are now being followed by @greatwhite"

  22. Re on Partially Censored Database From Snapchat Intrusion Released · · Score: 1

    I'm actually with you on this. Hadn't tried it before - gave it a shot and I don't hate it. Fairly apathetic on the issue - I can handle either designs but the beta isn't bad.

  23. Re:Don't they have an fiber to the node cable netw on Australia's $44B Broadband Network May Settle For Fiber Near the Home · · Score: 1

    Fibre to the home might be common in Melbourne but it sure as hell isn't in Perth. We have several areas that can't even get ADSL and about 2 or 3 suburbs *in total* that can get cable.

  24. Re:...and on SSD Manufacturer OCZ Preparing For Bankruptcy · · Score: 1

    I would have thought Intel held the standard for the best SSD in terms of quality? I absolutely only use Intel SSD in servers as they're the only enterprise grade SSD I trust. As for OCZ, I have 8 in a pile on my desk at the moment (all 60GB ones) and I know 2 of them don't work and 6 probably do - but I can't be bothered trying to figure out which is which. They have been pretty bad, I would agree.

  25. Re:Most of the problems listed have a single cause on Bill Gates's Plan To Improve Our World · · Score: 1

    Not really sure what you mean, sorry? In any case, "Be Fruitful and Multiple" (pru urvu) is a commandment. It's one of the 613 commandments (mitzvot) Jews are obligated to live by (and the Torah is, after all, a Jewish text).