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  1. It doesn't need to on Will PCIe Flash Become Common In Laptops, Desktops? · · Score: 2

    Apple is the king of put what you don't need into computers. Unless your doing intensive video editing or mass virtualization, you simple don't need the bandwidth that is given from PCIe flash. A standard SSD over a Sata 3 interface is more then fast enough for 97% of general computer users. I would really like to hear the actual reason, beside price increase, that Apple can give as to why anyone needs this. How about they put the Ethernet port back on the notebook, they include more USB ports and a solid optical drive. The next thing Apple is going to include is a 10GB Fibre interface, because they can and it looks / sounds cool.

  2. If they give you the password on Sharing HBO Go Accounts Could Result In Prison · · Score: 1

    As long as the person who owns the service gives you the password then it's not stealing.

  3. How ever this is a great example as to why you keep a copy of all the work you do with timestamps and revision control. Then when some ass hole takes the work and tries to run with it you can always show the originals.

  4. Nothing on What Keeps You On (or Off) Windows in 2013? · · Score: 1

    Windows is dead, I run Linux on all but one of my servers, I run Windows on none of desktops and I've never missed it. I'm not going to preach about Linux on the Desktop but I have to admit that I haven't needed a Windows Desktop in a few years. Now what keeps my Mom on Windows, simple, she doesn't have the computer skill to learn a new OS, what keeps my Dad on Windows, he's lazy and doesn't see the need to learn anything different.

  5. Re:OS support actually does work on Pondering the Future of a Re-Org'd Microsoft · · Score: 1

    Faster then Microsoft! I actually have a server right now where Windows WILL NOT install on to it and Microsoft if basically giving us the F u response.

  6. Re:Given my existing posts about this on Seeking Fifth Amendment Defenders · · Score: 1

    It should instantly evaporate your rights to the fifth. Secondly this bullshit theory of innocent till proven guilty is retarded. Once you've been found to have Illegal material on you, such as child porn, your GUILTY! You should then be guilty until you prove yourself innocent, because it's not a question of if he did something illegal and wrong, they know he did, it's a question now of how much illegal material does he have. Now to be clear if NONE of the volumes ever got opened I would agree he is innocent until proven guilty, but that's not the case and I think the laws need to change to be more dynamic.

  7. Why would it change? on Ask Slashdot: What Will IT Departments Look Like In 5 Years? · · Score: 2

    The technology will change but I don't see the administrator changing. Just like modern code monkeys mirror there counter parts from 30 years ago, modern day administrators mirrors the old guys who started networking. The system doesn't change, the technology does.

  8. Re:Given my existing posts about this on Seeking Fifth Amendment Defenders · · Score: 1

    We might now and that's a fair statement but I'm drawing off what I've been told about it.

  9. Given my existing posts about this on Seeking Fifth Amendment Defenders · · Score: 1

    Once one volume had been opened and the files discovered he could not long self incriminate himself because he was guilty. I know the broken system considers someone innocent until proven guilty in a court of law but to be fair if your not going to come at least 1/2 way and help prove yourself innocent then you shouldn't have that right. In this case the files had been seen, the file were illegal and hence he at that point should be found guilty unless he can prove himself innocent!

  10. Re:[OT] A+ = F on Ask Slashdot: Getting Exchange and SQL Experience? · · Score: 1

    Ya good point! When I took my A+ it was a joke, I wrote final test with out ever reviewing the material and got 99.9% on the test. Any medium skilled user could pass it, at least could of a few years ago.

  11. Re:Free? Not remotely on Pondering the Future of a Re-Org'd Microsoft · · Score: 1

    There are cases where Windows is the right call and of course with something like a Fob access system I might have to run 1 Windows server but that doesn't mean I need to replace all my servers with Windows. Windows has a place but it's seldom at least as far as I need in my company.

  12. No, I'm just smart, I'm not going to cause a big shit fit when I have nothing to hide. The government already has access to all your records, phone calls, credit information and mostly likely everything you've ever googled. You can either keep living in blind ignorance of the fact privacy is dead or accept it. If I can clear my name quickly by just submitting a DNA sample or by handing over volumes of illegal material that aren't mine then I'll gladly do that. It's sad people think they have privacy from the powers of the government, if they want you they will take you.

  13. Re:Better Idea on Pondering the Future of a Re-Org'd Microsoft · · Score: 1

    Your joking right? Things Windows can't do:

    Install itself with out crashing!
    Configure itself correctly in 70% of cases
    A server shouldn't update itself, the head administrator or security specialist should update it
    Teach end users how to use it, why are the end users on the servers, only skilled IT admin's should be on them and if they don't know Linux show them the door.

    But good attempt, If your building a server you need to know every piece of software going onto it, you need to be there to configure it and you need to have control on every aspect of it. Windows fails all of those points, the only pre-configured package I'll accept is the installer for the OS, everything else needs to be accessible and configurable.

  14. Re:Free? Not remotely on Pondering the Future of a Re-Org'd Microsoft · · Score: 1

    Well yes I agree with you there but when I say I laugh at Windows on the server its because in my company it has almost no use, the only one thing is runs is an outdated fob control system that we have on some of the doors. For that I have a VM with a copy of 95 running. Everything else, the 30+ servers are all Linux host based, of course some of those are on VMware.

  15. Re:Better Idea on Pondering the Future of a Re-Org'd Microsoft · · Score: 2

    Because even 10 years ago the average user didn't know crap software from good software, now the average user is changing.

  16. Better Idea on Pondering the Future of a Re-Org'd Microsoft · · Score: 5, Insightful

    How about just stopping the crappy product releases? Windows 8 is a joke, the Xbox 360 is over engineered, your server product make me laugh because Linux can do everything for free and better. When will Microsoft wake up the fact they release crap, users are getting fed up with it. They're losing market share because finally the average user is noticing that better, cheaper and more reliable software and hardware exist. The key to Microsoft becoming successful is to just reboot itself and start turning out high quality products.

  17. It's a stupid list! on TSA Decides Against Allowing Small Knives On Aircraft · · Score: 1

    When travelling in the US I actually got my bag pulled because I had a candle, I'm not joking a candle! It was considered a hazard. I argued the TSA guard for a while and got it back, then I had my cigar lighter taken because it used compress gas. After pointing out that a lighter is a lighter and if a cigarette smoker can carry lighters I was finally allowed to check it, of course the can of butane was FINE, in my check luggage, didn't ask why. My cigar cutter, which is sharp as hell, was allowed on no problems. I got in trouble for having a chip bag in my carry on, with no reason given :S, I don't really understand how the list of acceptable items works. A cigar cutter that could easily hurt someone is fine but a candle and chip bag aren't? Now I can understand the lighter issue but I think to make it fair all lighters, compressed or not should be taken away.

  18. It's the same logic behind people who refuse to give DNA after a rape's been committed when they haven't done anything wrong. You only look guilty by refusing, the smart and innocent people offer up the DNA right away and get themselves excluded from the investigation. When you don't corporate and you don't try to help yourself look innocent your just going to make yourself look guilty. Two states, innocent and guilty and you can't be innocent when you avoid at all costs proving it, regardless of what the law says, your guilty until you prove your innocent in my books.

  19. Re:How on Beer Fridge Caught Interfering With Cellular Network · · Score: 1

    For the Nth time, I'm not saying it couldn't of happened, I just want to see more detail instead of some very general articles. You can walk around your entire life blind and clueless but I prefer not to, hence seeing something in the way of actual analysis would help.

  20. Stop completely ignoring the point, it's not just you but almost everyone. The police can't ask him for the password to a volume when they have no clue what's in ANY of the volumes. That would mean they can suspect what ever they want but they have no PROOF! If the man in question didn't even know about them then he should act in good faith and submit the computer / notebook for inspection, therefore in no way looking or acting guilty, it's the same theory behind people who refuse to submit DNA when they haven't done anything wrong, you look guilty by holding out.

    The exact second one of those volumes got opened and the police saw the contents they had a valid reason to demand access to the rest. If the man in question really doesn't have any idea what's in them then why not just state that very boldly and hand the computer / notebook over with out hesitation. If he does know what's in the other volumes or if he's trying to hide something then he would act defensive. Innocent people don't act defensive because they have nothing to defend.

    So by refusing them access to the volumes and for refusing to hand over the passwords to the volumes AFTER one has been opened he is acting guilty and by that act assuming ownership of the material.

  21. If they aren't his pictures then he's still fine, any skill computer analysis and security expert should be able to tell his the computer has been compromised. I think if the pictures weren't his, he should be coming clean faster, to pass any possible guilt he could have. However that still doesn't account for why the volumes are encrypted, being encrypted usually means you either have something to hide OR something to protect, if they aren't his pictures he shouldn't be doing either.

  22. I can accept you're innocent when there isn't 100% proof your guilty. If they can't prove beyond any doubt you committed a crime then your innocent. The issue here is that once a volume was opened and once they saw child porn this guy was 100% guilty. He can no longer violate his fifth amendment because from this point on he's not incriminating himself, he's already guilty and so giving the rest of the material to the police wont cause the guilt.

  23. Once one of the volumes was opened and they noticed it contained illegal material they had cause to believe that the rest would also contain that same material, he then has to prove they didn't. If in the process of proving they didn't he incriminated himself then it's not a violation of his fifth amendment, because he was guilty.

  24. Funny story on New Drugs Trail Many Old Ones In Effectiveness Against Disease · · Score: 1

    My doctor won't even offer me new drugs, he will fall back to the tried and true warriors that have been known to work over the last 30 years. He knows for the most part the kind of side effects they give off and how they will work with my body. The new stuff is to unpredictable, and well I know that new medication gets tested ( be it poorly ), they just can't plan for the side effects, as I've developed side effects off new medication that weren't even known.

  25. Re:How on Beer Fridge Caught Interfering With Cellular Network · · Score: 1

    All I'm saying is that we need a little more proof then a small article which doesn't cover any detail. It's possible, but I want to see more.