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  1. 30 day notice to remedy the problem(s) on Ask Slashdot: Dealing With Service Providers When You're an IT Pro? · · Score: 1

    It sounds like they wanted to pull the "managed service" bullshit on you. When I get into that situation I give them written notice that they are not providing service as described in their agreements and that they have 30 days from receipt to remedy the situation or you will take any action necessary to fix their problem. I've done this a few times, it works. Usually though in an MSA you have an escalation clause and you do have to give them all the chances to fix their problem. Under contract law you can't be shackled because they're failing to provide service or if the services are "unusable" as long as they're getting paid under the agreement. If you just signed their boilerplate agreement, you'll still have remedies available to you but in a business don't take their boilerplate at face value especially when it comes to service levels. If they won't work with you on terms and conditions especially if they're extremely one-sided, find another provider.

  2. network partitioning/firewalls on German Parliament May Need To Replace All Hardware and Software To Stop Malware · · Score: 2

    I call BS. Their parliament is not partitioned and isolated behind firewalls so they can at least drop the malicious outgoing / incoming traffic at the perimeter?
    They don't have a spy agency capable of tracking this down and at least isolating it?
    There's no competent network/system admins?

    It's one thing to acknowledge you've been exposed, it's another to let it continue. Maybe they do deserve to be hacked.

  3. They're virtually guaranteed to lose. No amount of tech is going to save that team except if they brought a robot in to shut Jones up and push him out of meetings about team strategy and player personnel.

  4. Re:Due to stupid security warnings, security on Ask Slashdot: Options After Google Chrome Discontinues NPAPI Support? · · Score: 1

    You say something? Citation maybe? Studies from some well known experts on the subject? No? The NPAPI thing was all about some strongly typed language and its sandbox. Oh yeah, that was Java right? Sure hackers will go for easy targets, the sandbox for example and other things. That means there's architectural deficiencies, not deficiencies with the language or if it's strongly typed or not. Both have their place and their uses. If you don't believe me I have some nice CGI I'd like to deploy on your site.

  5. Re:Due to stupid security warnings, security on Ask Slashdot: Options After Google Chrome Discontinues NPAPI Support? · · Score: 2

    Static typing doesn't make an application more or less secure.

  6. Re:I'm betting the full phase out will be delayed on Ask Slashdot: Options After Google Chrome Discontinues NPAPI Support? · · Score: 2

    While it's a good idea to push the discontinuation of NPAPI, I think Google are being too aggressive in their phase out. ... and they'll end up shooting themselves in the foot.

    Hasn't stopped them before. Google could give a shit really about what the developers and customers want with Chrome. Just like the BS they introduced with the walled garden approach. Thousands of "don't do it's" were ignored.

  7. Sorry DOJ on US Prosecutors Say Clearing Browser Data Can Be Obstruction of Justice · · Score: 1

    My browser cache flushes every time I exit it or restart the machine. Any cookies are also deleted from only those sites that I allow cookies from. Other than that my drives are encrypted. This is standard practice. Have at it.

  8. Or easier still on Baidu Forced To Withdraw Last Month's ImageNet Test Results · · Score: 4, Insightful

    They'll just go in and steal the research from another competitor and call it their own. Cheating and espionage are familiar bedfellows.

  9. Re:From a Disney employee on Disney Making Laid-Off US Tech Workers Train Foreign H1-B Replacements · · Score: 2

    It's Wipro, Tata or Infosys coming in and pushing the lower cost of labor hype. Rather than invest in retraining or letting the staff grow into new positions they'll just axe them because it's the MBA way of doing things.

  10. Re:How can they legally do that? on Disney Making Laid-Off US Tech Workers Train Foreign H1-B Replacements · · Score: 2

    getting away adding years to copyright law

    They're not getting away with it. They're buying congressmen and senators who pass laws protecting the Mouse and its assets. The lobbying is one aspect but nobody in DC will stand up to Disney is because of the propaganda machine and media empire they've built up. Let's not forget who owns ABC, A&E and a host of other networks, movies and entertainment property.

  11. Re:It's very real on Professional Russian Trolling Exposed · · Score: 2

    Well you can listen to the Dutch and the BBC about a little thing called a Russian Buk missile system with photos that was seen in that area of the crash. A Buk isn't a simple system. It's very sophisticated and it takes months to learn how to use it so it's doubtful that it didn't have a Russian crew with it; or maybe that's why the 777 was accidentally shot down by it because of incompetence either way it's linked into the investigation. Of course blaming the Ukranians is of course the easy thing but here's a couple of links out there.

    http://www.bbc.com/news/world-...
    http://www.bbc.com/news/world-...

  12. Re:Only Putin Can on Professional Russian Trolling Exposed · · Score: 1

    While he wrestles a bear without a shirt on?

  13. It's very real on Professional Russian Trolling Exposed · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Look at any site, twitter, instagram, facebook, reddit. If you post something about say MH17 and the information about the Russians being involved, all of a sudden the trolls come out about Ukrainian aggression, whores in Kiev etc. As the TFA indicates, this can create panic considering how hooked people are on Social Media but it'll also be more than anything else, the death of anonymity on the Web. Why? because people on Social Media sites will demand it because of the trolling activities and having to filter through a bunch of propaganda and targeted misdirection.

  14. This is why we need O/S Level control on Uber Revises Privacy Policy, Wants More Data From Users · · Score: 1

    I'm an Uber and Lyft user. I guess I'll be uninstalling Uber if I can't fully disable this and using Lyft more. I really do wish Google and Apple would get off their asses and let things like individual privilege access into the mainstream, such as being able to deny access to your contact list. For example, you can do this on Cyanogen but not in lollipop. In having this feature any app changes like this can be one 1) opted out or if no opt-out is available 2) deny access to the information these apps want.

  15. Re:astrophysicist? on Neil DeGrasse Tyson Urges America To Challenge China To a Space Race · · Score: 1

    Or hawking video collections about introductory astronomy.

  16. Re:The race is already on we're just not in it on Neil DeGrasse Tyson Urges America To Challenge China To a Space Race · · Score: 1

    yes I've also heard that the Earth is flat too so they must have faked the round blue ball thingy that we all saw.

  17. Bouncy Castle? on Australian Law Could Criminalize the Teaching of Encryption · · Score: 2

    This isn't a good omen for The Legion of The Bouncy Castle..

  18. Hey don't be biased on Four Quasars Found Clustered Together Defy Current Cosmological Expectations · · Score: 4, Interesting

    They're just in a new intergalactic living arrangement is all.

  19. Re:Are you sure this is a good idea? on In-Database R Coming To SQL Server 2016 · · Score: 2

    You can already do that with the CLR.

     

  20. Re:and yet, the GOP blocks private space. on Russian Rocket Crashes In Siberia · · Score: 2

    Sorry, that article was published and you somehow don't provide any citation that it's wrong. Strange.. Obama asked for funding of Proton's and Manned rockets to service the ISS and change crews, it's his decision and its hypocritical but he's fucked himself by his administration's decisions regarding NASA and manned launch capabilities. The smart thing would be to mothball the ISS until the US manned capability returns because it appears that international politics and Russian failures put the ISS mission at risk anyway.

    Oddly, the GOP is split. About 1/2 of them are pushing it, and the other half are joining O and the dems in saying NO.

    Oddly the Democrats are concerned on Obama's key trade policy in the TPP, are not advocating that there should be dissent? http://www.theguardian.com/us-...
    http://delauro.house.gov/index...

    Stop blaming the GOP for all the worlds problems and stop sniffing Obama's farts, it'll cause brain damage.

  21. Re:and yet, the GOP blocks private space. on Russian Rocket Crashes In Siberia · · Score: 1

    And it was the Obama administration who came up with the plan, you have it wrong. The Obama administration stopped the shuttle, the Bush administration had a plan to replace it and I think you'll find that both sides of the aisle wanted to keep the shuttles and not lose any US manned launch capabilities.

    It's interesting to hear these comments from a few years ago.
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/...

    Also, you should review the mixed messages about NASA and space exploration that have come from this administration. Sure, blame the GOP but without any leadership it's no wonder why we're in the predicament we are now.

    Neil Armstrong, Jim Lovell, and Eugene Cernan, commanders of Apollo 11, Apollo 13, and Apollo 17 respectively, said:

            "When President Obama recently released his budget for NASA, he proposed a slight increase in total funding...the accompanying decision to cancel the Constellation program, its Ares 1 and Ares V rockets, and the Orion spacecraft, is devastating."
            "It appears that we will have wasted our current ten plus billion dollar investment in Constellation and, equally importantly, we will have lost the many years required to recreate the equivalent of what we will have discarded."[18]
            "For The United States, the leading space faring nation for nearly half a century, to be without carriage to low Earth orbit and with no human exploration capability to go beyond Earth orbit for an indeterminate time into the future, destines our nation to become one of second or even third rate stature. While the President's plan envisages humans traveling away from Earth and perhaps toward Mars at some time in the future, the lack of developed rockets and spacecraft will assure that ability will not be available for many years."[19]

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  22. Re:Strange quality problems on Russian Rocket Crashes In Siberia · · Score: 3, Informative

    You're still full of shit

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

    As of May 2015, ten Proton-M launches have failed.

    How is somehow a western conspiracy that these rockets have failed. What motivation would the US have in sabotaging a launch system that's still used by the ISS of which NASA spends over $3B supporting?

    If you also would bother to read here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... I think you'll find that although it's gotten better with the Proton K and Proton M, they still have a failure once in awhile. As you go back in time, you'll find that those beloved Protons had more failures than you'd probably like to admit. To be sure, the Atlas/Delta and Titan launch vehicles have also had their share of failures. It comes with the territory so drop the bullshit of it being
    a conspiracy or sabotage and just admit that shit happens!

  23. Re:and yet, the GOP blocks private space. on Russian Rocket Crashes In Siberia · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Sabotage huh? Any proof of that or are you just echoing what Russia Today says? Launching things into space isn't without risks and it knows no geopolitical boundaries.

    I think you'll also find that NASA's budget continually grows yet they're not flying shuttles, they still have the ISS (3+ Billion/yr) and they still
    have their other programs.

    Also, if you look at the administrations request for NASA they were funded above their 2015 budget. If the Executive Branch asks for X dollars and Congress funds them above X, your argument about "funded NASA accordingly" is full of shit. If you exclude ISS, NASA has $15B to play with.

    https://www.nasa.gov/sites/def...
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

    Oh and the privatization of space launches was pushed for by the current administration. http://www.space.com/7835-moon...

    Get your facts straight next time please.

  24. Re:and yet, the GOP blocks private space. on Russian Rocket Crashes In Siberia · · Score: 3, Informative

    Actually you'll find that the request for funding for Russian rockets comes from the current administration. Last time I checked, he wasn't a member of the GOP.
    It's hypocritical to say you'll sanction Russia for issues in the Ukraine yet lobby congress for money to buy the rockets.

    http://www.theblaze.com/storie...

  25. requisite Yakoff on Russian Rocket Crashes In Siberia · · Score: 1, Funny

    In Soviet Russia Rocket Sputniks you!