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  1. Re:Not all of Facts on Florida Teen Charged With Felony Hacking For Changing Desktop Wallpaper · · Score: 1

    You have problems with reading comprehension:

    "One of the computers Green, 14, accessed also had encrypted 2014 FCAT questions stored on it, though the sheriff and Pasco County School District officials said Green did not view or tamper with those files."

  2. Re:wrong assumptions on Reddit CEO Ellen Pao Bans Salary Negotiations To Equalize Pay For Men, Women · · Score: 1

    Yup. Or older and more experienced....

    I'm much more comfortable negotiating now (mid-forties) than I was when I was younger. I'm more comfortable keeping my cards close to my chest, too.

    This goes for everything... cars, houses, jobs, etc. Car salesman asks me where I live? Nope. Those car ads about "bring in your W2?" Nope. Employer asks for salary history? Nope.

  3. Re:Yeah, right. on Reddit CEO Ellen Pao Bans Salary Negotiations To Equalize Pay For Men, Women · · Score: 1

    So train your employees to eliminate this bias.

    Start boot camps targeted at women to teach them negotiation.

    Fight the cultural bias, don't paint over it.

  4. Re:Negotiation on Reddit CEO Ellen Pao Bans Salary Negotiations To Equalize Pay For Men, Women · · Score: 1

    Salary negotiation starts long before a company makes an offer, so I don't really see how a "take it or leave it" approach is going to help.

    Figuring out a position's value to the business is hard. Finding out what the prospect makes now and offering incrementally above it is easy.

  5. Matryoshka Trolls on How Professional Russian Trolls Operate · · Score: 2

    Inside each Russian troll is another, slightly smaller Russian troll.

  6. Penetration testing vs. vulnerability scanning on Ask Slashdot - Breaking Into Penetration Testing At 30 · · Score: 1

    Penetration testing and vulnerability scanning are not the same thing.

    It's not difficult to make vulnerability scanning a "value add", and then consult on how to fix the issues found. It's also a way to get your foot in the door to do more work, if you can create a good relationship with the client. Vulnerability scanning is reasonably easy (there are online services that you can resell). It's a good place to start, while you ramp up your skills.

    Penetration testing is considerably more technical, and it can cause problems with the relationship to the client. The whole point of a penetration test is to show that the admins have egg on their faces.... And not just admins, since you can also test physical security if the project is scoped right. (Google "how I legally robbed a bank.")

    It's entirely possible to provide both services. A blue team for for vulnerability scanning and remediation, and a red team for true penetration testing.

  7. What a hunk of junk! on Harrison Ford's Plane Crashes On Golf Course · · Score: 1

    He's braver than we thought.

  8. Re:how is this possibly news? on Low Vaccination Rates At Silicon Valley Daycare Facilities · · Score: 1

    DING DING DING!

  9. Automation is your friend on Ask Slashdot: Is There a Web Development Linux Distro? · · Score: 4, Informative
  10. Re:Green with Envy on The Mainframe Is Dead! Long Live the Mainframe! · · Score: 1

    Maybe they mean digit as in finger. Touchscreens and all that.

  11. Re:And this is good why? on Wireless Keylogger Masquerades as USB Phone Charger · · Score: 1

    It's good, because it reveals a security flaw that could be exploited. By providing plans, it allows people to verify the finding.

    If someone, like myself, is security conscious, then it helps to identify another threat vector.

  12. Re:Come on, MS Keyboards are secure. on Wireless Keylogger Masquerades as USB Phone Charger · · Score: 1

    Is it a joke? Dunno. Do you define satire that way?

  13. Re:growth is good... on The Fire Phone Debacle and What It Means For Amazon's Future · · Score: 1

    "and these trust fund babies are below average"

    Well, usually they're closer to the average than their parents. That doesn't necessarily make them below average.

    (Although we're speaking in very general terms, and we haven't defined what we're measuring, or how we're measuring it, or what "average" looks like....)

  14. Become a consultant on Ask Slashdot: Can a Felon Work In IT? · · Score: 1

    Self-employment is the way to go....

  15. Can't believe it hasn't been said.... on Debunking a Viral Internet Post About Breastfeeding Racism · · Score: 1

    I'll be in my debunk.

  16. Reads like an ad... on Making Best Use of Data Center Space: Density Vs. Isolation · · Score: 1

    He mentions just one product, while ignoring a host of other offerings.

  17. Re:We are surprised because... on Leaked Documents: GCHQ Made Port-Scanning Entire Countries a Standard Spy Tool · · Score: 1

    Well, I'm sure that the military has all sorts of contingency plans.

  18. Government waste on Leaked Documents: GCHQ Made Port-Scanning Entire Countries a Standard Spy Tool · · Score: 1

    Wasted time and money, but hardly shocking or evil.

    Every IP address exposed on the Internet is constantly scanned.

  19. Flaw in your reasoning on Are DVDs Inconvenient On Purpose? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    "they already allow Netflix to "compete" with the studios own DVD sales by offering physical DVDs for rent,"

    The studios do not allow it. The law allows it, because the law allows Netflix to rent physical DVDs that it has purchased.

    The media companies would love to be able to block Netflix, lending libraries, etc. but the first-sale doctrine prevents them from doing so.

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

  20. Indentures are still popular! on More On the Disposable Tech Worker · · Score: 1

    Since you can't change employers under an H-1B, it's not a free market. Which is why the employers love them. It's not a lack of talent that they're trying to fill; it's a lack of CHEAP talent.

  21. Re:Moshi moshi on MtGox Sets Up Call Center For Worried Bitcoiners · · Score: 1

    Telephone is too
    High tech let me send you a
    Telegram instead

  22. Flappy Bert on Code.org Resurrects 'Flappy Bird' As Programming Lesson · · Score: 1
  23. Re:True innovation on 'Google Buses' Are Bad For Cities, Says New York MTA Official · · Score: 1

    I worked from home for eleven years. It was great for a while, but humans are social animals. I felt isolated, and I missed out on all of those social opportunities at work, informal discussions, scuttlebutt, etc. Eventually, I moved to a traditional office environment, because the isolation was so detrimental to my career opportunities.

  24. Why on 'Google Buses' Are Bad For Cities, Says New York MTA Official · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Why is commuting from suburbs to town centers good, but commuting from town center to a suburb bad?

  25. Google uncertainty on First Evidence That Google's Quantum Computer May Not Be Quantum After All · · Score: 2

    Google may or may not want to acquire D-Wave Systems....