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  1. Re:This is why God invented encryption on Loss of a Single Laptop Leads to $50k Fine Against Idaho Hospice · · Score: 1

    Sounds great.

    but you forgot to send the memo to management to double IT works salaries so they can attract competent people. Around here Medical IT staff get less than $21 an hour. you need to be paying $26-$31 to start to attract the competent people.

  2. OMG!!! on FBI Publishes Top Email Terms Used By Corporate Fraudsters · · Score: 1

    Those are the same words that investment bankers and banks in general use all the time!

    I knew the whole banking industry was just a ball of fraud.

  3. Re:I envy your InfoSec team on Ask Slashdot: Should Employers Ban Smartphones? · · Score: 1

    The Bane of BYOD is the fault of upper management and their scumbaggy ways. HONEST companies supply the employee with the tools they need. Scumbags try and scam the employee by having them use their own devices and cellphone plans.

  4. Re:Its not malware, its called "analytics" on Ask Slashdot: Should Employers Ban Smartphones? · · Score: 1

    "because they know you have no way of stopping them."

    I do. They get nothing from my home computers, and they get nothing form my phone or tablet Rooted Nexus 4 and nexus 7.. Both have blocking hosts files that eliminate all that crap. I also block all adverts to my devices. They want me to see adverts , they can pay my data bill.

    Smart people can stop them. They know that most people are not smart enough to take control of the devices they own.

  5. Why? on Ask Slashdot: Should Employers Ban Smartphones? · · Score: 1

    They wont ban using windows for the exact same reasons, so why would they ban smartphones?

  6. Re:How can ... on What Are the Unwritten Rules of Deleting Code? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    "Code that needs to be completely rewritten is crap code. We can argue how it came to be, but the reality is that every developer for one reason or another has created crap code. It is unavoidable."

    I have found this to be the case for all code that comes out of TI for their MSP430 embedded processors. They use a convoluted system for their code that only a nutjob would love. I have thrown out their drivers for interfaces and rewrote them by hand just to avoid their crap. You DO NOT declare a function for your device driver in the .h file of another driver. WTF is wrong with their programmers?

  7. Re:The premise - are you kidding me? on 'Gorilla Arm' Will Keep Touch Screens From Taking Over · · Score: 1

    http://h30094.www3.hp.com/product/sku/10287678/mfg_partno/E554632

    When you find the price you will utterly crap yourself. Most people drive cars that cost less than these things. And I got them for about $600 each in an auction. Like new.

  8. Re:Working with his father... on Teenager Makes Discovery About Galaxy Distribution · · Score: 3, Funny

    I made pizza completely from scratch in my kitchen. Something that 70% of the population cant do. That makes me a genius on this planet.

  9. Re:Working with his father... on Teenager Makes Discovery About Galaxy Distribution · · Score: 1

    Most underlings do all the real work. Look at the early work in radio astronomy. Most of the discoveries were actually by the underlings. The "professor" got credit because the corrupt scum that run the "system" say that only a published professor can publish any new discoveries.

  10. Re:Because nothing says "dream spaceport" on Want To Buy a Used Spaceport? · · Score: 4, Informative

    Texas is far closer and far more useful. Hugs expanses of worthless zero population desert/land.

  11. Re:Oh, boy! on Supercomputer Repossessed By State, May Be Sold In Pieces · · Score: 1

    Say's the' gu'y tha't has' N'o' balls' to p'o'st 'as him'self.

  12. Re:Oh, boy! on Supercomputer Repossessed By State, May Be Sold In Pieces · · Score: 1

    No it's not. IO means absolutely nothing at all in this context.

    If you cant have a $2500 "supercomputer" to learn on because you are all IO snobby, then you will never ever learn how to code for a supercomputer.

    I would rather have a lab with 50 of these Rasberry Pi supercomputers than 1 out of date one that quadruples the universities power bill.

  13. Re:I don't want crap smeared on my screen on 'Gorilla Arm' Will Keep Touch Screens From Taking Over · · Score: 3, Funny

    Those are called "windows(tm) wipers" From microsoft.

  14. Re:The premise - are you kidding me? on 'Gorilla Arm' Will Keep Touch Screens From Taking Over · · Score: 1

    Mine. 32" Touhcscreen. I have 2 of them on my desktop.

  15. Re:Pain on 'Gorilla Arm' Will Keep Touch Screens From Taking Over · · Score: 1

    No it doesnt. not if you have it placed right. Let me guess you are doing something dumb like putting it up on a Desk like a TV screen. Mine is on the desk laying there like a piece of paper.

    Wacom Cintiq and DTU's are standard tools for graphic artists and CAD people who use them for hours on end every single day. And have been doing so for the last 5 years now.

  16. Why? on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Deploy Small Office Wi-Fi SSIDs? · · Score: 1

    Why write off a proper wireless network right away?

    http://www.ubnt.com/unifi I can put in a 4 AP managed system with a cheap PC as the controller for less than the cost of ONE stand alone Cisco AP.

    Plus it's better quality that anything you can buy from Dlink, Cisco, etc...

  17. Re:Oh, boy! on Supercomputer Repossessed By State, May Be Sold In Pieces · · Score: 1

    not really. There is already a project to make a 1024 processor RasberryPi "supercomputer" that will give mepople the ability to do "supercomputing" at an affordable level.

    This thing is a waste of money now to do anything but grind it up for it's metals. its already 5 years out of date and it's processing power per Kw used is so high it's useless to most universities.

  18. Re:Start with the basics on Ask Slashdot: How Can I Explain To a Coworker That He Writes Bad Code? · · Score: 1

    Or better yet use reverse indentation.

  19. Re:You don't on Ask Slashdot: How Can I Explain To a Coworker That He Writes Bad Code? · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Bingo.

    I will not code to Boutique standard #47 that snot nosed brat thinks is great. Follow the standard that we have set here in the office. If I'm senior coder, than that means I set the standard.

    I'll use a goto once in a while just to make a newbie convulse on the floor.

  20. FOR SALE! on Raspberry Pi Gets an Open Source Educational Manual · · Score: 2

    Empty hard bound books. They come with a FREE document printed inside!

  21. Re:PEAK OIL! on 2012 Set Record For Most Expensive Gas In US · · Score: 1

    Yeah. I am for that. Chicago's toll roads pay for themselves without gubment money. Plus have money left over for chicago politician bribery!

  22. Re:Who uses FourSquare anymore? on Foursquare Will Display Users' Full Names By Default · · Score: 1

    Most americans are pretty stupid. I personally stopped using anything like it completely.

  23. Re:Dear America, on 2012 Set Record For Most Expensive Gas In US · · Score: 1

    bull. I have friends in northern canada that have no problems in a Suburau Outback. Low ground clearance and only AWD.

  24. Re:Dear America, on 2012 Set Record For Most Expensive Gas In US · · Score: 0

    Wahh! the dang canadians wont send us more Gravy and cheeses curds for our French Fries!

  25. Re:PEAK OIL! on 2012 Set Record For Most Expensive Gas In US · · Score: 1

    I actually support making all the highways TOLL roads and force people to pay a toll to use them based on the weight of their vehicle.

    Let the idiots that own that F350 supercab they drive to work in alone and empty every day pay an extra $14.95 to get to work each day... oh and another $14.95 to get home.

    Only the leaches of society will use entitlements like Highways, Police, Fire, etc...