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  1. Re:Linux only, as usual. on 'Let's Encrypt' Project Strives To Make Encryption Simple · · Score: 1

    Yeah, let me know when OS X runs on server hardware and we can talk about encrypting web sites being hosted on OS X.

  2. Re:Strictly speaking... on The Last Time Oceans Got This Acidic This Fast, 96% of Marine Life Went Extinct · · Score: 2

    That is the stark assessment of Nasa scientist and leading climate expert Jim Hansen

    Are you saying that Jim Hansen isn't a NASA scientist or leading climate expert?

    Or are you saying that he didn't say these things and the journalist just made them up?

  3. Re:Can we stop pretending this isn't low level war on China's 'Great Cannon' -- a Cyber-weapon to Accompany the Great Firewall · · Score: 1

    Stuxnet was an act of mercy for the rest of the world. Iran with a nuke is a scary thing. Look at North Korea if you want to see where it goes. Fortunately NK can't build a nuke small enough or a missile powerful enough to hit the US, but they could hit South Korea or Japan, and they have shown a willingness to attack both.

  4. Re:Can we stop pretending this isn't low level war on China's 'Great Cannon' -- a Cyber-weapon to Accompany the Great Firewall · · Score: 2

    Take a look at the stories about China in the South China sea. China is blatantly hostile, this is just another of the many hostilities. Also, it appears that they pay people to AC astroturf on /. This is the only explanation I can come up with for the ACs claiming that we don't know it was China when TFA is quite clear on the research that was done to determine how the attack occurred.

  5. Re:Clickbait-ish Headline on Has Google Indexed Your Backup Drive? · · Score: 2

    I have a Synology. It tries to do uPNP, but luckily, it has no idea how to do so with my Verizon FiOS router, so I guess I dodged that bullet. It never occurred to me that Google would Index it, and I do IT for a living. I feel like a moron :)

  6. Re:Clickbait-ish Headline on Has Google Indexed Your Backup Drive? · · Score: 2

    The comment had nothing to do with Google. All search engines are opt-out. If they discover your web site, they index it. If you have no robots.txt telling them what you want them to ignore, they put it all in the index.

  7. Re: And it's not even an election year on Ten US Senators Seek Investigation Into the Replacement of US Tech Workers · · Score: 1

    Immigration limits are higher now than they have ever been in history. We take in 675k a year, plus some exceptions in just immigration visas.

    http://www.immigrationpolicy.o...

    If you care so much about their home country, perhaps we should have a 0 immigration policy.

  8. Re: And it's not even an election year on Ten US Senators Seek Investigation Into the Replacement of US Tech Workers · · Score: 1

    That isn't pricing themselves out of the market. That is expecting the going rate.

    If you aren't willing to spend what people want to do the job, than you aren't really looking for someone.

    So, either you aren't offering enough, or you want the star not a admin. A competent systems administrator is someone with around 10 years of industry experience, and a few different technologies (Win Server (or Linux), Exchange, AD) not 20 different technologies, and not 30 years experience in them all.

    Ask your HR department to see the job requisition and you will probably see that they are asking for someone who is a rock star, not just competent.

    I live in a high pay area and I don't even make 100k with 15 years of experience, so if people are asking for 250k in Denver, you are asking for someone who has been in the industry for 30 years, has a PHD in computer theory, has worked with every piece of technology and has been working with some of them since before they were invented.

  9. Re:And it's not even an election year on Ten US Senators Seek Investigation Into the Replacement of US Tech Workers · · Score: 2

    Alright Mr CEO, calm down and send your assistant out for some lattes.

    In the real world, you are full of shit. You can't keep pushing salaries down for qualified Americans while whining about not enough workers, that isn't the way the economy works.

    If you want to have your company in the bay area, you pay the going rate for people. You can't expect your programmers to live in a box out back of the office.

  10. Re: Leading the pack... on Microsoft Creates a Docker-Like Container For Windows · · Score: 1

    The Hindmost approves.

  11. Re:Screw that on Reason: How To Break the Internet (in a Bad Way) · · Score: 1

    Due to the use of a less than sign, some of my message got eaten.

    when I request (less than) 7 mbit of traffic (according to https://help.netflix.com/en/no...), Verizon shouldn't be crying foul for it.

  12. Re:Screw that on Reason: How To Break the Internet (in a Bad Way) · · Score: 1

    So, Netflix is forcing their traffic on poor defenseless Verizon? Or am I requesting every bit of that traffic I am receiving from Netflix, and I pay for my FiOS, therefore, I should get what I request?

    It doesn't matter who hosts Netflix, all the ISPs will cry foul. It is not Netflix's fault that I subscribe to their service and request traffic from them. I pay for Verizon to provide me with 75/75 service, and when I request https://help.netflix.com/en/no...), Verizon shouldn't be crying foul for it.

    Why should I pay for a service I am already paying for (Internet) twice when Verizon wants to charge Netflix for the bandwidth I am requesting that they send to me?

  13. Re:Screw that on Reason: How To Break the Internet (in a Bad Way) · · Score: 1

    Does Netflix even need to peer? Netflix isn't an ISP. IT used to be that Netflix had Alexia like caching servers on everyone's network, then Verizon removed the caching server, and Netflix usage became painful with all the rebuffering, and lost connections ("sorry, your video wasn't found, please retry" in the middle of a tv show). Then Verizon extorted Netflix for a Verizon internet connection to fix the problem. Perhaps if Verizon and Comcast would stop screwing with services, things would work better.

    Netflix pays for internet, there is absolutely no reason that they should have to buy internet from multiple vendors, that is the point of peering agreements (between Netflix's ISP and your ISP). Why should MS pay their internet provider and your internet provider? Do you believe you should be buying an internet connection from any network you need to get data from too?

  14. Re:It's true! on Apple Leaves Chinese CNNIC Root In OS X and iOS Trusted Stores · · Score: 2

    Are you sure? Have you performed a double blind study to determine that is performs better than placebo, and how much better to determine that it is the best?

  15. Re:Google politicking? on Apple Leaves Chinese CNNIC Root In OS X and iOS Trusted Stores · · Score: 2

    Except, the way SSL works, you have to remove the CA until the CA revokes the Intermediate CA's authority, or people are open to MITM attacks. Google did absolutely the correct thing, and MS and Apple are failing at security. There is no other right thing here. Once the intermediate is blocked, then you can say Google is in the wrong if they don't reinstate the CA's cert.

  16. Re:Systemic and widespread? on The Courage of Bystanders Who Press "Record" · · Score: 1

    As for legality of videotaping officers (AC posted this below): It is legal to videotape officers, but in some jurisdictions they can charge you with wiretapping if there is sound on the video, but it's another thing to make that stick (It's mostly a tactic to get and destroy the evidence). This is why you should set your phone to back things up on the cloud, so if the phone is destroyed, you keep all your data (I *love* cloud computing).

    Except that the Supreme Court already shot down the wiretapping offense unless you are attempting to conceal that you are video taping.

  17. Re:Arbitrary judgement of driving style on Phone App That Watches Your Driving Habits Leads To Privacy Concerns · · Score: 1

    I am pointing out that which you still seem to fail to grasp. The insurance companies are right and you are wrong. The driving which you speak of IS dangerous driving. It may be that you haven't had it effect you YET, but that does not mean that it won't happen eventually. You can keep coming up with excuses as to why you are the exception, but you are just making shit up at this point. Your fancy braided brake line covers will not prevent a blow out of that part of the brake system. It will also not prevent a rock becoming embedded between the brake pad and the rotor, or any number of other scenarios that could cause an accident because you decided that you know you can brake at the last moment and it will always work. The type of driving you have described is incredibly dangerous, which is why racing happens on a track, and not on normal roads, and why you should stop driving like that when you are on the roads.

  18. Re: And It's Illegal to Videotape Police on The Courage of Bystanders Who Press "Record" · · Score: 1

    I think you mean Disobeying a LAWFUL order of a police officer, of which this is not one.

  19. Re:Red pill please. on Phone App That Watches Your Driving Habits Leads To Privacy Concerns · · Score: 1

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

    I didn't determine the restrictions, we just live by them. If your GPS works, more power to you, but not all GPS are guaranteed to work.

  20. Re:Arbitrary judgement of driving style on Phone App That Watches Your Driving Habits Leads To Privacy Concerns · · Score: 1

    So when the rubber portions of your brake lines burst from the constant overpressure?

  21. The other parts of the negotiation can be for more time off, which is essentially a raise. If you hold out for 4 weeks instead of the standard 2, you are making two weeks pay more a year.

  22. Re:It Isn't Privacy on Phone App That Watches Your Driving Habits Leads To Privacy Concerns · · Score: 1

    According to the supreme court, there is an expectation of privacy, which is why putting a GPS tracker on your car requires a warrant.

  23. Re:Arbitrary judgement of driving style on Phone App That Watches Your Driving Habits Leads To Privacy Concerns · · Score: 1

    Braking harder and later puts you at risk if your braking is degraded for any reason.

    The rest of that could easily be taken up by letting your insurance company know. However, you have to understand that idiot ricers also drive pimped out Miatas, and think they drive better, but generally don't.

  24. Re:Red pill please. on Phone App That Watches Your Driving Habits Leads To Privacy Concerns · · Score: 1

    Another point. I once drove onto the George Washington Bridge (double decker bridge in New York) and my GPS showed me going 1000M/H south along the river. GPS isn't terribly accurate all the time, and is easily defeated/attenuated by even water in the air.

  25. Re:Red pill please. on Phone App That Watches Your Driving Habits Leads To Privacy Concerns · · Score: 1

    The altitude reading should be a keying factor there. In fact most GPS units refuse to work over like 15k feet on the assumption that it could be used as a bomb trigger or missile guidance (though I think the real reason is so that aviation GPS can be freaking expensive).