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  1. Re:Automate it on What Do You Do When Your Mind-Numbing IT Job Should Be Automated? · · Score: 1

    Or do what I do, tell management to fornicate themselves and their horse by getting a job with the competition who will give me a 15%-25% pay increase to jump ship.
    Recycle this every 5 years and you are golden.

    Nobody gives raises, my current job is royally fucked when I leave because the other guy left 5 months ago and instead of hiring someone, they threw me an intern and said, "train him to be as good as you are".

    Gave my 2 weeks notice today and the boss is shitting himself as there will not be anyone to do my job, and it will cost them $60K to hire even a mildly competent replacement..... suddenly that $10K a year raise they should have given me 3 months ago when I ask looks like it would have been a good idea.

    I love how non competes are illegal in this state....

  2. Real router hardware is the next step. on Ask Slashdot: Life Beyond the WRT54G Series? · · Score: 4, Informative

    I abandoned the toy routers a while ago, bought a used Firebox X700 on ebay for dirt and installed pfSense. Is it fast enough to route a 10,000Base T internet II connection? nope, but it's fast enough for anything that Comcast can throw at it, plus there is a metric buttload of add-on's plus you get epic street cred with your digital posse'.

  3. SSD to rule the world. on AMD Prepares To Ship Gaming SSDs · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I recently added a 64gig SSD To a Panasonic Toughbook CF-18. yes a billion year old PATA laptop and it made an insane difference. Enough that the laptop was useable again for emergency services tasks. So instead of spending $4500 per truck again for new toughbooks, we are just upgrading all of the old laptops to SSD drives.

    Dirt cheap too if you use mSATA and mSATA to PATA adapters.

  4. Re:Automate them on What Do You Do When Your Mind-Numbing IT Job Should Be Automated? · · Score: 2

    Your fault for opening your mouth and telling them.

  5. Re:Automate it on What Do You Do When Your Mind-Numbing IT Job Should Be Automated? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Absolutely, but DO NOT TELL ANYONE. honestly automation will not get you a raise or a promotion, it will just get you extra work. for the same pay.
    Automate all of it and keep your frigging mouth shut.
    Hell I used to automate emails to be sent at 2am so that management though I was working 24/7.

  6. Not as fast as what I get.... on Expensive Hotels Really Do Have Faster Wi-Fi · · Score: 1

    nice small directional antenna and small tripod + pocket router with antenna wire coming out running OpenWRT...

    I have my choice of faster wifi from my hotel window.... Starbucks is really fast after hours.

  7. Re:Are you kidding me? on California Man Sues Sony Because Killzone: Shadowfall Isn't Really 1080 · · Score: 1

    sit more than 9 feet from the screen and 1080p becomes meaningless.

  8. Re:You go girl on California Man Sues Sony Because Killzone: Shadowfall Isn't Really 1080 · · Score: 1

    or the fact that 99% of blurays are actually worse than the DVD. I have a superbit DVD of the 5th element that looks drastically better than the crap they released for the blu ray. OOOOOOHHHHH FILM GRAIN!!!!!

  9. Re:They deserve it on California Man Sues Sony Because Killzone: Shadowfall Isn't Really 1080 · · Score: 2

    wrong. 480p is the LOWEST upgrade to NTSC. Learn your ATSC standards.

  10. Re:not suprising... on Idiot Leaves Driver's Seat In Self-Driving Infiniti, On the Highway · · Score: 1

    Plus it seems they cant drive at all, every rich person car comes with lane assist, brake assist, etc.. It's as if they are incompetent idiots and need this tech...

  11. Sweet! Now we can start the Judge program. on Algorithm Predicts US Supreme Court Decisions 70% of Time · · Score: 2

    Install software in the helmet, Set the judges loose on the city....

    I AM THE LAW!

  12. not suprising... on Idiot Leaves Driver's Seat In Self-Driving Infiniti, On the Highway · · Score: -1, Troll

    Rich people generally are pretty stupid.

  13. Re:Sounds like ABC / NBC / FOX and others on Justin.tv Shuts Down Amid Reports Google Is Acquiring Twitch · · Score: 1

    Tech TV was Leo Laporte, and Leo took his game to TWIT and has the largest internet TV empire out there right now.

  14. No suprise.... on Justin.tv Shuts Down Amid Reports Google Is Acquiring Twitch · · Score: 1

    Youtube has a larger user base and now has live available to most users.

    Justin.tv has no chance of fighting that.

  15. Will never ever pass on Aaron's Law Is Doomed and the CFAA Is Still Broken · · Score: 4, Insightful

    When your lawmakers are low IQ low education level types that put more weight in the opinions of the lobbyists that stuff their pockets full of money... You will NEVER get fair and balanced laws.

    DMCA and PATRIOT are two prime examples of how the people on capitol hill work. most of those idiots do not even READ the laws they are voting on.

    The proper answer still remains, if you want to be a white hat, you MUST remain anonymous when you release any information. DO NOT ever let someone know who you are because good deed will be punished harshly by the scared and uneducated lawmakers.

    And the laws are only going toget worse as big business buy even more legislation to shore up out of date business practices.

  16. Re:That number seems low on 40% Of People On Terror Watch List Have No Terrorist Ties · · Score: 2

    Posting on Slashdot? Watchlist.

  17. Same as the 60's on 40% Of People On Terror Watch List Have No Terrorist Ties · · Score: 1

    The govt had a communist list full of people that the administration did not like.

    The "terror list" is honestly nothing more than a shit list.

  18. Re:Who'd buy a Tek? on Hack an Oscilloscope, Get a DMCA Take-Down Notice From Tektronix · · Score: 1

    Only for the no skill guys that dont really do any design or hacking.

    Please feel free to show me your technique for RF transmitter hacking without a scope, hell there are thousands of things that a scope is useful for that really open up abilities.

    Honestly only the poesur that really cant do shit in electronics say that a scope is not needed.

  19. Re:No they cant. on Planes Can Be Hacked Via Inflight Wi-fi, Says Researcher · · Score: 1

    Pay per view, all that juicy credit card info....

  20. No they cant. on Planes Can Be Hacked Via Inflight Wi-fi, Says Researcher · · Score: 5, Insightful

    They did not get into the aircraft avionics.

    They got into the satellite communications for the Infotainment system.

    NONE of the systems like that have any interconnection to avionics or telemetry.

  21. Re:Bulletproof? on Ask Slashdot: Bulletproof Video Conferencing For Alzheimers Home? · · Score: 1

    Why do you give them the remote, you can easily automate them to make a specific call or have a person at a help desk initiate the call.

  22. Re:Why is this news? Seriously? on Google Sells Maine Barge For Scrap · · Score: 1

    wild speculation. Are you new here? Slashdot has always been based on wild speculation. And dupes..

  23. Re:Minimal maintenance? on Ask Slashdot: Bulletproof Video Conferencing For Alzheimers Home? · · Score: 1

    Compatibility with a standard like h323 video conferencing. Would be a great start. Skype only = locked in.

  24. Bulletproof? on Ask Slashdot: Bulletproof Video Conferencing For Alzheimers Home? · · Score: 2

    Polycom or Cisco. Nice devices that work great and cane even be automated.

    Problem is no nursing home will pay for them.

  25. Re:Why buy a product that you're going to jailbrea on Georgia Tech Researchers Jailbreak iOS 7.1.2 · · Score: 1

    Then why does a Friends LG phone have the SAME THING just under a different brand name?