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  1. Can't have your cake and eat it, too. on Ask Slashdot: How To Work On Source Code Without Having the Source Code? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    You cannot simultaneously keep something secret and share it.

    This question really doesn't make sense... How do you have a highly-valuable source code repository and simultaneously require external developers to modify/maintain it? How was the code developed initially? Did you have contractors develop it initially, and then have some kind of falling out? Did you have a mass walkout of your staff?

  2. Re:But.. that's exactly what they SAID it does. on EFF: T-Mobile "Binge On" Is Just Throttling of All Data (eff.org) · · Score: 1

    Like I said, optimized for T-Mobile, not optimized for the customer.

    Assuming best intentions, they're mistakenly assuming that every mobile-data video stream is being watched on a small cell phone screen. Meanwhile, users may be tethering to their phone and watching on/downloading to a laptop.

    Assuming greedy/selfish intentions, they're trying to degrade the performance so that folks won't watch high quality video over mobile data.

  3. Re:But.. that's exactly what they SAID it does. on EFF: T-Mobile "Binge On" Is Just Throttling of All Data (eff.org) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Well, to begin with, can you please advise what "optimization" is taking place?

    Stating that the stream is "optimized for mobile" implies something more than just rate-limiting the video stream.

    Oops. I'm sorry, they meant "optimized for T-Mobile" not "optimized for the customer."

  4. The opportunity presented itself... on Microsoft, Law Enforcement Disrupt Dorkbot Botnet (technet.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    ...while Dorkbot's operator was trying to decipher Microsoft's new core-based licensing structure.

  5. Re:I'm glad, now, ... on Dell To Buy EMC For $67 Billion (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    No more than it sucks be any other random schmo who doesn't work for VMware.

    I didn't turn down a job offer, I just didn't get the job. What part of "compromise formation" do you not get? ;)

  6. Re:I'm glad, now, ... on Dell To Buy EMC For $67 Billion (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    I interviewed in the last couple of months, so no.

  7. Re:Your mortgage got you stressed? on Dell To Buy EMC For $67 Billion (nytimes.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Uh.... They H1B visa program would seem to refute this assertion.

  8. Re:I'm glad, now, ... on Dell To Buy EMC For $67 Billion (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Don't get me wrong, I love the VMware product.

    I just don't want to work for Dell. It has a worse reputation in Austin than Samsung, and that's saying something....

  9. I'm glad, now, ... on Dell To Buy EMC For $67 Billion (nytimes.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...that I didn't get that job with VMware.

  10. Brilliant on 'RipSec' Goes To Hollywood: How the iCloud Celeb Hack Happened · · Score: 1

    Social engineering the hackers....

  11. Re:Hammer Attack on Misusing Ethernet To Kill Computer Infrastructure Dead · · Score: 1

    The protection provided by the hard case can be bypassed by the use of a torsion device applied at the point where the metal plates are affixed to each other. The "screws" can be removed, or "driven" from the case.

  12. Uber is a corporation, yes? on IT Departments Try To Avoid Getting "Ubered" · · Score: 1

    Pretty sure Uber has "corporate IT."

    Will all "corporate IT" functions shift to managed services? Hell no. Managed services suck.

    If Uber achieves market domination, then Uber will suck, too.

  13. Wanted: on Ask Slashdot: Herding Cats, Aging Systems? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Wanted: IT Director
    Pay-scale: Entry level.

  14. Let's hope... on Robot Submarine Poisons Sea Stars To Save Coral Reefs · · Score: 2

    ...we don't look like sea stars to some galactic race.

  15. In-vehicle Voice Texting is Awesome! on Many Drivers Never Use In-Vehicle Tech, Don't Want Apple Or Google In Next Car · · Score: 1

    Going to lunch with my co-worker while texting him a string of profanity never gets old.

  16. Re:Have you ever been to a grocery store? on Life With the Dash Button: Good Design For Amazon, Bad For Everyone Else · · Score: 1
  17. Have you ever been to a grocery store? on Life With the Dash Button: Good Design For Amazon, Bad For Everyone Else · · Score: 2

    Milk, cheese, and eggs WAAAAAAY at the back. And you have to walk past candy and general merchandise (the high profit stuff).

  18. Double-plus goodful this memory hole is.

    Speedfully rectify this double-plus-ungood write or I will upsub this to minitruth.

  19. Re:Enterprise Storage on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Store a Half-Petabyte of Data? (And Back It Up?) · · Score: 1

    "same way as" not "same was as"

  20. Re:Enterprise Storage on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Store a Half-Petabyte of Data? (And Back It Up?) · · Score: 1

    Yup. Inadequate retention can screw you the same was as just depending on replication.

  21. Re:Enterprise Storage on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Store a Half-Petabyte of Data? (And Back It Up?) · · Score: 1

    Replication is not backup. I cannot stress this enough.

    I know of major companies that depended on replication and ignored backup, and then the original copy gets corrupted and the corruption gets replicated to the recovery sites.

    Now if you're doing SAN snapshots, and replicating those, then you might be covered, but mounting one of those snaps, and recovering some portion of your data, can be a real pain in the behind.

  22. Cisco SOHO routers will do it on Ask Slashdot: VPN Solution To Connect Mixed-Environment Households? · · Score: 1

    Cisco devices have a feature called VTI - virtual tunnel interface. Basically it's an IPSec-protected GRE tunnel, but it looks like just another interface on the router.

    Then you just set up your routing rules. Policy-based routing will allow you make decisions based on the source IP.

    This stuff works great in a SOHO environment. Doesn't scale well, though.

  23. Re:Illogical on Wi-Fi Router's 'Pregnant Women' Setting Sparks Vendor Rivalry In China · · Score: 4, Funny

    Insert obligatory dihydrogen monoxide reference.

  24. "Do more with less" is the mantra on Is IT Work Getting More Stressful, Or Is It the Millennials? · · Score: 2

    I hear it all the time from vendors and at conferences. "IT is being expected to do more with less."

    Our IT budget has been flat for five years, and we're supporting double the number of employees.

    Do we have difficult users? Yes. I haven't noticed any correlation between difficulty and age, though.

  25. Re:Well.... on Is IT Work Getting More Stressful, Or Is It the Millennials? · · Score: 1

    Have you considered that maybe instead of an entire generation being antisocial morons, your company just has crappy hiring processes?