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  1. Dell XPS 18 on Facebook Testing Lithium-Ion Batteries For Backup Power · · Score: 1

    Essentially an all-in-one disguised as a tablet. Works as both.

    The i3 version is a dog but the i7 version is quite nice.

  2. Another Agency on Police Body Cam Privacy Exploitation · · Score: 2

    Maybe the NSA? Have them do something useful and since they already have all the video...

  3. Re:Legalities on Police Body Cam Privacy Exploitation · · Score: 1

    In most if not all US jurisdictions, no photo release is required for individuals appearing in a photo/video taken of individuals visible from a public location. Check YouTube, do you think everybody appearing in those videos has signed a release?

    Now most commercial agencies will require a photo release if using something commercially because of CYA and lawyers but legally not required.

  4. Yep, Gov InfoSec on Report: Federal Workers, Contractors Behind Half of Government Cyber Breaches · · Score: 1

    If you IA types understood how a network actually maybe we could talk but get your CISSP and make big bucks saying NO.

    Example:
    Backup program needs Port X open to initiate backups on remote servers (remember we are an Enterprise, Remote Management and all). Vendor did not adequately document port but our firewall logs and sniffer clearly indicate this message originates from the control server and goes to the Media server to initiate the backup.

    What does IA do? Stops all backups until paperwork is finished, six months without backups and guess what once the vendor documents turn it back on. No thought about the data risk just turn it off.

    Further details if you want but why not allow us a firewall rule from control server to destination server locked to IP addresses and maybe only during a defined time window to allow the backups.

    But IA has the hammer and enjoys using it.

  5. Far from the beach on Australian Post Office Opens Mail Forwarding Warehouse In the USA · · Score: 1

    Woomera wasn't too bad and though we had sand we were a ways from the beach ;-).

  6. Re:Real news on Cutting the Cord? Time Warner Loses 184,000 TV Subscribers In One Quarter · · Score: 1

    NPR stations get less than 10% of funding from the state. CBC/ABC/BBC ABC are going through funding woes because they refuse to parrot the company line that the current governments want them to. Its either state funding or corporate funding in the form of advertising, your choice but I know that for me the so-called state funded operations seem to exhibit more independence.

  7. Re:Real news on Cutting the Cord? Time Warner Loses 184,000 TV Subscribers In One Quarter · · Score: 1

    Nope, but I don't think CNN/MSNBC/FoxNews run exposes on your local politicians either.

    Didn't recommend you drop your locals, just recommending a few english-language alternatives for an informative and different view on the happenings.

  8. Sports Fans on Cutting the Cord? Time Warner Loses 184,000 TV Subscribers In One Quarter · · Score: 1

    At least the NHL now offers Internet access to the majority of their regular season games. Maybe the rest of the leagues will follow suit in the near future.

  9. Turn on some English-language Internet radio feeds:
    -- BBC
    -- CBC (Canadian)
    -- ABC (Australian)
    -- DW (Germany)
    -- Local NPR
    -- Al Jazerra

    That will get you some different views on the happenings in the world. They have been talking about the Ebola situation in West Africa for six months not the last 3 weeks of hysteria on US cable news channels. My 23 yo daughter was shocked none of her friends had a clue about the Ebola situation because she had been hearing about it for six months.

  10. Re:Do no EViL(tm) on Google To Require As Many As 20 of Its Apps Preinstalled On Android Devices · · Score: 1

    You are correct that you don't have to go to Dell to upgrade your copy of Windows but you sure as hell might need Dell to provide specific drivers for your hardware. The issue is the phone vendors need to make sure the hardware drivers are compatible with your new version of android before you upgrade or your phone might be broken. This is the reason so many phone lose a bit of function when you install CM.

    I am not defending the lack of updates just giving the reason that Andriod is updated through the manufacturer and not Google. Unfortunately too many of the phone manufacturers would prefer to sell you a new phone instead of investing the time to test the old hardware with a new O/S.

  11. Not always the Surge on The Great Lightbulb Conspiracy · · Score: 1

    Power dips can be as destructive as surges and that cheap surge protector does nothing for those. If it is valuable a line-interactive UPS is the way to go. Learned my lesson after burning out the power supplies to two TVs and a couple of desktop computers. The TV repair guy suggested the UPS and life is good.

  12. Re:Management of private companies have more freed on Now That It's Private, Dell Targets High-End PCs, Tablets · · Score: 1

    You are aware that Volkswagen and Audi are the same company? That A3 you covet is a Polo with different sheet metal.

  13. Simle fix on How Big Telecom Smothers Municipal Broadband · · Score: 1

    If you can't vote in the election, you can't contribute to the candidates in the elections. Eliminates outside money.

  14. Subsidy for the win on How Big Telecom Smothers Municipal Broadband · · Score: 1

    So you are saying that you have no problem with the city folk subsidizing you. Sounds like that's what you are saying.

  15. Re:Different era on The Executive Order That Led To Mass Spying, As Told By NSA Alumni · · Score: 5, Informative

    Yes, Yes he is.

    Union breaker
    Deficit balloons
    Trickle Down
    Sandinistas
    Iran-Contra
    Ollie North
    Nancy making decisions when he gets Alzheimer's

    You fucking got me started

  16. Re:Why is this treated differently on Calif. Court Rules Businesses Must Reimburse Cell Phone Bills · · Score: 2

    Nope, as a carpenter I bring the hammer (phone) but sure as hell don't pay for the nails (minutes/GB).

    See the difference now?

  17. Another reason to avoid BYOD on Calif. Court Rules Businesses Must Reimburse Cell Phone Bills · · Score: 2

    Just because it's an accounting cluster fuck doesn't meat that the company should get out of paying.

    It's an accounting cluster fuck to determine your vacation eligibility so guess what, no vacation for you.

  18. Re:Answer needed on Verizon's Accidental Mea Culpa · · Score: 1

    How about so that Verizon customers can access Internet resources at something near the speed advertised and paid for.

    I think Verizon customers have a case to sue Verizon for non-performance.

  19. Re:Walled garden? on Is the Software Renaissance Ending? · · Score: 1

    Not really, worked a consulting job for Rolls Royce a couple of years ago (Derby). Twenty network design guy in the room (FUCK open offices) and as the only American I was the only one not wearing a tie every day.

  20. GPS on Mars on ESA Shows Off Quadcopter Landing Concept For Mars Rovers · · Score: 4, Funny

    Really, are you sure it isn't Galileo?

  21. Re:Laugh-worthy on Former NSA Chief Warned Against Selling NSA Secrets · · Score: 1

    Yeah, the jumping back and forth doesn't happen when you wear the uniform, or did you miss the General part. Not defending General Alexander here just commenting on the lack of moving from government to industry and back.

  22. Re:Wait, monitoring lead to improvements? on Workplace Surveillance Becoming More Common · · Score: 1

    Well he is AHuxley, whad did you expect?

  23. Hippocracy much? on IRS Recycled Lerner Hard Drive · · Score: 1

    All of you TP types that want the IRS to retain e-mails forever refuse to give the government a dime to build the system to retain that e-mails forever. It ain't cheap to build a backup system to maintain all the e-mails generated by a decent sized business or government agency. That's why retention dates are established and followed. Also why so many users have PST files on their local computer that violate the retention policy and gets the company in trouble with the lawyers and get deleted when a computer is rebuilt or the drive crashes.

  24. Major IT departments and lost e-mail on IRS Recycled Lerner Hard Drive · · Score: 1

    I thing the whole thing reeks of conspiracy BUT having worked for multiple government agencies many of them severely limit the size of a users Exchange mailbox and because network storage is scarce they routinely counsel users to keep archived e-mail in a PST stored on the local drive. They tell the user that Outlook runs better this way (mostly true). Problem is this violates government policy on maintaining permanent records (not that the user cares) and means if the local drive crashes or is wiped for a new user all the old e-mail is lost.

    Many corporations do the same BTW.

    For my money the excuse is just a bit too convenient but plausible.

  25. Re:The actual appeal on Even In Digital Photography Age, High Schoolers Still Flock To the Darkroom · · Score: 1

    On thing that working in film does for a student, not for a pro or hobbyist but for a student, is make them pay more attention to the process of taking the picture. With the cost and time of processing film the student has more incentive to pay attention to framing the picture and getting it right in camera. Digital has very little penalty for taking several shots just to "get it right".

    For the pro and hobbyist I completely agree with your comments.