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  1. Re:you need to kill the botnets on Ask Slashdot: What Should We Do About the DDoS Problem? · · Score: 1

    DDoS attacks are only possible because of the ready availability of huge networks of compromised computers. Fix that, and the world becomes a better place.

    Also, this peace on earth thing has been a while coming, you might want to take a look at that. too.

    And flying cars.

    I'm told flying pigs as well, for whatever reason.

  2. Use Pubcookie on Ask Slashdot: Single Sign-On To Link Google Apps and Active Directory? · · Score: 1

    What you want is Pubcookie. I've configured Kerberos SSO across a network before and found pubcookie at a different job. Its a little tricky at first, possibly because of some of the thin or confusing documentation but its very good. Its also Free.

    Pubcookie wiki link
    How it works

  3. Re: Just imagine "if" on Congressman Asks NSA To Provide Metadata For "Lost" IRS Emails · · Score: 1

    So true. Just wait until the agency comes back with "we can't use our technology for frivolous legal matters".

  4. It all makes sense on US May Prevent Chinese Hackers From Attending Def Con, Black Hat · · Score: 2

    The implied ending to "Yes we can" is "do whatever the hell we want"

  5. That sucks on Ask Slashdot: Communication With Locked-in Syndrome Patient? · · Score: 1

    Well I'm a little disappointed in the narrow-minded responses of "just pull the plug". Regardless, I understand its just a TV show, House did an episode with a patient in locked in syndrome. Episode 5x19 in that they used a brain computer interface, that looks like it took a lot of effort for little return. If it was me I would start asking the doctors to do deep brain stimulation or ECT, in hopes that electricity can help open up some of the damaged passageways. There is a good tech talk about how ECT is used here. Realistically her brain is probably going to have to learn to re-wire and understand how it needs to communicate with the rest of the body again.

    Best of luck!

  6. Wait what on Verizon's Plan To Snoop On Its Customers · · Score: 1

    They haven't been doing that all along anyway?

  7. Re:Will not matter. on FTC Approves Tesla's Direct Sales Model · · Score: 1
    Why is there so much about computers,

    "There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home." Ken Olsen, co-founder of Digital Equipment Corporation, 1977

    Snopes

  8. Re:I'm Inferior To A Tree on Pine Tree Has Largest Genome Ever Sequenced · · Score: 1

    Need is a rather subjective term.

  9. Re:How do you change your fingerprints on Can the iPhone Popularize Fingerprint Readers? · · Score: 1

    Really good point, "well my fingerprint is compromised, time to have this one burned off"

  10. Tricks on Interviews: Q&A With Guido van Rossum · · Score: 1

    Do you have any personal tricks or methods to learning new things, and what are the benefits/shortfalls or situations where it didn't work?

  11. how long... on Ask Slashdot: Experiences Working At a High-Profile Game Studio? · · Score: 1

    will you continue to be friends if he hates it, you duty as a grind is to dispense advice (if requested or appropriate). and empower the decisions he does make, it is NOT your duty to make sure he makes the decision you like.

  12. Re: Yeah, that's just what the world needs on Aging Is a Disease; Treat It Like One · · Score: 1

    and it would quickly turn out that only the rich would be able to afford it while the poor die at the same rate, how does this improve society?

  13. Don't worry on Google Blocks YouTube App On Windows Phone (Again) · · Score: 1

    It only effected a small handful of people unlucky enough to have windows phones.

  14. The system works! on NSA Broke Privacy Rules Thousands of Times Per Year, Audit Finds · · Score: 1

    See, they told us about it! Surely we can trust them. Don't worry next month we'll get some new tidbit after this calms down, as they "turn up the heat a little more".

  15. Yea.... on Larry Ellison Believes Apple Is Doomed · · Score: 2

    Because publicly traded companies breed and promote people who stay within the box, and apply the model that the investors, accountants, and whoever else are OK with. Bureaucracy and politics are self perpetuating cycles that assimilate good ideas to meet their wold view.

  16. Solid on NSA Firing 90% of Its Sysadmins · · Score: 1

    That's hard core millitary logic right there. "lets not fix the real problem, lets just fire people who could point them out"

  17. Re:2 points on Other Agencies Clamor For Data NSA Compiles · · Score: 1

    How about, if it ever was misused in those ways, will we even know...oh right, that's number 1.

  18. Re:No Catfood on Other Agencies Clamor For Data NSA Compiles · · Score: 1

    Surely they won't abuse it after this!

  19. Ask about the problem children and squeaky wheels (regarding to servers), that will get you down to the one-off fixes that are held up by bits of string and expect scripts that rely on chaining ssh across 5 machines to touch a file that doesn't exist. Ask about the oldest equipment, and spend some extra time getting to know your world. Leverage the time you have with him, when he goes home for the day scour the network and start looking at boxes and going over notes, when you run into problems write them down and ask him about those.

    And you dont have a week you have 4 days, because the last day he may show up but you most likely wont get much out of him unless its a quick Q and A. That and keep your resume up to date because you may want to use it again soon.

  20. Re:No but Google did on With Microsoft Office on Android, Has Linus Torvalds Won? · · Score: 1

    I was referring to the narrative that since Microsoft released software for Android Linus won. Pointing out with the title that Google really builds and controls the SDK to a point and that Microsoft has released Office on Mac's for a long time, before windows in fact, http://www.microsoft.com/mac/products, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Microsoft_Office. So if Office is the measure of making it, isn't apple on top? Or more to the original point, this isn't really a good metric since "it's just on android". Now Office running without wine on a desktop Linux distribution, where Microsoft actually has a large market share would be impressive. Microsoft has never done well with mobile, and continues to do bad, they've just started caring about it because its starting to displace full blow desktops.

  21. No but Google did on With Microsoft Office on Android, Has Linus Torvalds Won? · · Score: 0

    Android is not Linux, and by that definition apple won a long time ago.

  22. Relivent in 10 years on Early Surface Sales Pitiful · · Score: 1

    Some day Microsoft will make a really good case study as a company that had the PC world on a string and ended up making themselves irrelevant by trying to copy a model that works and turning it into something that doesn't.

  23. Re:"Controversial?" on Obama Praises Amazon At One of Its Controversial Warehouses · · Score: 1

    Controversial or not its not a permanent position

    "Integrity Staffing places qualified candidates to work on assignments at Amazon Warehouses on a temporary basis. Assignments vary in length. There is no guarantee to the length of the assignment. Length of employment is based on client’s business needs which can change."

  24. Nothing to see here on Lawmakers Who Upheld NSA Phone Spying Received Double the Defense Industry Cash · · Score: 1

    This is how it works every day of the week so...

  25. or maybe on Psychopathic Criminals Have "Empathy Switch" · · Score: 1

    It might be more about who the person identifies with. If someone grew up to be an abuser they identify with the person doing the deed and get a rush from the hormones they would usually get. Because encouraging someone to feel bad about something just isn't going to stick.