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  1. COPIED ENTIRE SUMMARY !! on AOL Reverses Course On 401K Match; CEO Apologizes · · Score: 3, Informative

    um whoever is doing submission checking should at least check that your not copying the ENTIRE summary from techcrunch... hence the subsidiary notice

    Guys sort it out otherwise your going to get in trouble with lawyers and users !

    John Jones

  2. degaussing fails on SSD on Where Old Hard Disks (with Digital Secrets) Go To Die · · Score: 1

    so when you want to take a storage device into rough environment would you take spinning media...

    so the question would be what do they do to SSD...

    John Jones

  3. Re:should have gone with a browser... on 95% of ATMs Worldwide Are Still Using Windows XP · · Score: 1

    HTTP server is local... browser is local !

  4. should have gone with a browser... on 95% of ATMs Worldwide Are Still Using Windows XP · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I never understand why ATM's dont use HTML/SVG and then the OS is replaceable as a browser is the interface and a HTTP server security is well understood and network security would be part of a core competency

    thoughts ?

    john jones

  5. Australians willpay more tax money to investigtors on Australian Spy Agency Offered To Share Data About Ordinary Citizens · · Score: 1

    we want to do that...

    oh wait no we don't... yes thats what centrelink etc are trying to do is catch fraud...

    its not like they leave windows machines administrators full access to classified documents...

    how many australians are concerned about immigration ?

    thanks

    John

  6. that and Sydney... should have gone bluetooth on New Zealand's Hackable Transport Card Grants Free Bus Rides · · Score: 2

    frankly they should have used a software system that worked with phones with optional card if you wanted it rather than a phone

    Oyster has been hacked again and again...

    http://www.wired.com/autopia/2008/06/hackers-crack-l/

    regards

    John Jones

     

  7. good ! on Mozilla Location Service: Geolocation Lookups From Cell Towers and WiFi Data · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Finally a decent system for cell towers... I trust mozilla a lot more than "commercial" interests who skew the results biased around a particular provider and don't update their DB when new equipment is installed !

    OSM should be helpful to verify exactly where these towers and what frequency they are as well...

    should this not be public knowledge anyway ??

    John

  8. everything snowden had... on Snowden Says He Took No Secret Files To Russia · · Score: 1

    everyone else has...

    if you where to think otherwise would be a strategic error...
    huawei own too much of the interconnect to not have the majority of the same information as NSA...
    signing authorities are compromised...

    move on and self sign

    thanks

    John Jones

     

  9. serpent on Silent Circle Moving Away From NIST Cipher Suites After NSA Revelations · · Score: 2, Insightful

    mathematics depts are interesting things...

    I personally trust in s box's

    regards

    John Jones

  10. Werll said sir ! now... on Feature-Rich FreeBSD 10 Alpha Released · · Score: 1

    it drives me insane when I get linux zealots (the uninformed type...) banging on about Mach...

    however I have 1 question...

    why is the most deployed Mach version unable to implement IPv6 ?
    (the most deployed linux versions being part of the android stack vs Mach being most deployed in Apple iOS)

    having a TCP stack and then hobbling it seems weird and to me very annoying !

    regards

    John Jones

  11. Qantas RFID tags on British Airways Set To Bring Luggage Tags Into the 21st Century · · Score: 2

    Yes the qantas system is RFID standard tag embedded in a rather durable plastic you can see it here :

    http://www.qantas.com.au/travel/airlines/q-bag-tag/global/en

    WHY don't all airlines embed a RFID chip on the barcoded label at least ?
    (frequent flyers can have a permanent tag such as Qantas )
    makes sense to me

    regards

    John Jones

  12. Why not block by IMEI -what the rest of world do. on It's Time To Start Taking Stolen Phones Seriously · · Score: 4, Informative

    cut them off at the network... NYC are talking to the wrong people they need to speak to GSM and CTIA.

    they do it in Europe as well the USA is very slow about this...

    " Carriers AT&T and T-Mobile offer a joint database, as the carriers use the same basic networking technology. Verizon and Sprint offer a second database. By the end of November 2013, the four carriers will combine databases, and adding smaller carriers like Nex-Tech and Cellcom. Plans exist to link the US database with an international version hosted by the GSM Association to prevent stolen phones from being shipped to overseas markets and used on other networks."

  13. Re:Not in touch with reality on Ask Slashdot: Moving From Contract Developers To Hiring One In-House? · · Score: 1

    a good specification can be written, only difference is then translating that into machine code and proof is relatively easy

    in fact IBM etc tried and was successful in producing a model that worked only thing was it took someone who knew how to write the specification in a formal language and guess what... those very same people with those skills where programmers/engineers that the "management" got annoyed about after they told them to do things like please produce a "traffic control optimisation system" (in relation to what...).

    all I can say really is "do not be a DICK"

    cheers

    John Jones

  14. Cars dont have bugs WTF ?? on Ask Slashdot: Moving From Contract Developers To Hiring One In-House? · · Score: 2

    right and rockets dont blow up because the spec has been followed and tested several times the tolerances tested etc\

    never heard of a car being recalled ? - BTW they try not to do this but...

    WTF - seriously everyone involved in this thread seems to have very little to say... study some history or repeat yourself...

    cheers

    John

  15. they are dropping IP address's on Australian Government Initiates Covert Internet Censorship · · Score: 2

    ok they are not even filtering they are producing a drop list

    clearly they do not understand how a IP network functions and are simply taking whatever huawei can fund...

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship_by_country

    surveillance via huawei marketing dollars... working well...
    (just ignore the fact huawei copy cisco kit and install backdoors and your fine...)

    have fun

    John

  16. 28GHz... thats WiMAX... how about 1.05 Petabit/s on Samsung Testing 5G Phones With 1gbps Download Speed · · Score: 1

    its 2 Kilometres distance so its a repackaging of WiMAX... and we all know how well that turned out...

    now personally I prefer the 1.05 Petabit/s that fibre will provide... though thats in development oh wait thats what this wireless speed is in "development"

    cheers

    John

  17. EXACTLY... SMIME is Standard ! on Ask Slashdot: What Is the Best Email Encryption Gateway For a Small Business? · · Score: 1

    please pretty please kill these gateway "hacks" just send mail correctly using a standard http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S/MIME

  18. chrome fails MathML acid1 on Firefox Is the First Browser To Pass the MathML Acid2 Test · · Score: 4, Funny

    I simply cant believe this...

    MathML is a pretty important to allowing papers to be...

  19. IPv6 on DARPA Wants Huge Holy Grail of Mobile Ad Hoc Networks · · Score: 1

    includes broadcast

    basically you need to figure out the phy/eth portion of the network not the software side

    so if you can do SDN/Software defined radio and come up with a nice way to scale then your good

    I would have thought that zigbee / sensor networks would already scale you just have to boost range but hey thats me just guessing

    regards

    John Jones

  20. Re:web applications on Spain's Extremadura Starts Move To GNU/Linux, Open Source · · Score: 1

    actually I'm refering to being dyslexic, as such not being able to spell dyslexia. google does not have all the answers, but good try...

  21. web applications on Spain's Extremadura Starts Move To GNU/Linux, Open Source · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Thats nice I still don't understand why my tax's are spent on OS license only for the users to login to web applications

    Linux supports kerberos so authentication is not a problem its down to choices and management

    what would be interesting would be what applications they need to run... is there a list somewhere ?

    regards

    John Jones

  22. the BBC at least... on Margaret Thatcher Dies At 87 · · Score: 5, Informative

    at least the BBC have :

    In quotes: Margaret Thatcher

    Obituary: Margaret Thatcher

    Video obituary

    whatever the politics at least link to the BBC...

    John Jones

  23. CALDAV access ? or calendar ? on Google Launches 'Keep' To Rival Evernote · · Score: 1

    so its a task list...

    can I sync it with my task's for calendar via standards such as CalDAV ?

    otherwise forget about it

    John

  24. thank you google !!! on Google Implements DNSSEC Validation For Public DNS · · Score: 1

    personally I have been looking forward to this !!

    thank you finally validation works

    John

  25. already in as a file server.... on ARM Based Server Cluster Benchmarked · · Score: 1

    ARM based servers already has file server cluster design win's

    http://www.eetimes.com/electronics-news/4407353/Baidu-taps-Marvell-for-32-bit-ARM-storage-server

    what will be intresting is ability to leverage designs for phones as clusters because then you can use the volume e.g. SOC for phones costs $20 roughly so imagine filling a DC with those...

    have fun

    John Jones