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  1. Re:No backups? on Computer Crashed New Orleans Real Estate Market · · Score: 2, Informative

    Anything dealing with realestate seems to have this lalala mentality to it. When I used to do work on various MLS systems for offices here in Ontario, I was working with netware 1.0 to netware 3. They had no backups, no tape drives, no remote site copies, no UPS system, etc, etc, etc. When I told them repeatedly that backups were required to ensure that they remained operational, I was dismissed and never got another contract with them.

    Now you might think, why wouldn't I do it? Because the people who own many of these offices like to hand-hold, and have oversight with everything that's done. Well whatever, no great loss for me. I found a better job.

  2. Re:At-will employment on Seagate To Pay Former Worker $1.9M For Phantom Job · · Score: 1

    You know in the old days we call this "unionization" and "collective bargaining," of course in the US right now there seems to be 2 problems. One is that unions have become radicalized and political, the second is people are anti-union rather than fixing the problem with unions themselves.

  3. Re:ireland = end of right wing economics on Google Warns Irish Government Against Tax Increase · · Score: 1

    They were in trouble before the bailout, the covering of banks defaulting on bad loans only sped up the process. Aging population, low population growth marked with high local and federal taxes. You can do the math on your own, it's not that difficult if you've ever done basic economics.

  4. Re:ireland = end of right wing economics on Google Warns Irish Government Against Tax Increase · · Score: 1

    Yes. Because the government there doesn't pay fully or large parts of: Education, Healthcare(including medication), and other specialized services. Oh wait, they do!

  5. Re:ireland = end of right wing economics on Google Warns Irish Government Against Tax Increase · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Meh hardly. Ireland is for a lack of a better term fucked, because it taxes businesses little to not at all, but relies heavily on income and sales tax to fill it's coffers. While this makes it a wonderful tax haven, it's economic death for any country as heavily socialized as they are.

    It's not anywhere close to 'right-wing' economics. If you've been paying attention to the news, they're on the brink of defaulting now because of their taxation policies.

  6. Re:Israeli Airport Security folks are professional on Bruce Schneier vs. the TSA · · Score: 1

    Yeah well Americans pay their cops on average around $30k a year too. The average canadian cop makes $80k, you get what you're willing to pay.

  7. Re:Israeli Airport Security folks are professional on Bruce Schneier vs. the TSA · · Score: 1

    Fortunately, TSA seems not to require any substantial evidence supporting a methodology before they deploy it. I think this is going to lead to the Isrealification of our airports long before we have the empirical evidence to justify it.

    I agree with that 100%. My point on the reid technique is just that, it was fast, easy and simple to learn. While not the most optimal for an airport setting, there are other. I do know that the Israelis also rely on Kinesics, so do police services world wide to determine if someone is lying. That plus statement, counter statement, non-statement, random statements foul people up because if they're lying, they've already practiced a script.

    Good liars are rare. Good bullshitters are very rare. The majority of people are both bad liars, and bad bullshitters.

  8. Re:Israeli Airport Security folks are professional on Bruce Schneier vs. the TSA · · Score: 1

    Again it's not impossible. You only need to train people properly and have each set to their own specializations. Which is how Israeli security works. If you're going to go with a replica of their security, you're going to be going with the same methods they use.

  9. Re:Israeli Airport Security folks are professional on Bruce Schneier vs. the TSA · · Score: 4, Informative

    Scale doesn't matter. There's no shortage of proven interrogation techniques that work, and they're very easy to learn. I learned the Reid Technique in the span of about a month. Saying it's impossible to train people is a plain copout, and excuse making.

  10. Re:"believed to infringe copyright" . . . ? on Senate Panel Approves Website Shut-Down Bill · · Score: 1

    "Due Process" also implies innocence before guilt, unless you're in France, or a 3rd world dictatorship.

  11. Re:Can't wait! on Toyota Introduces Electric RAV4, Powered By Tesla Motor · · Score: 1

    Why would you bother to do your own research and find out that I'm right. In /. where opinions are mostly set in stone, even with a well supported argument.

  12. Re:Can't wait! on Toyota Introduces Electric RAV4, Powered By Tesla Motor · · Score: 1

    Most batteries are pre-manufactured china, made with nickle from Canada, transported to japan for post-manufacturing, then transported back to North America or Europe for final installation.

  13. Re:Disappointed on New Device Puts SSD In a DIMM Slot · · Score: 1

    Depends on if you're using DDR2 or DDR3, DDR2 is dirt cheap. DDR3 is expensive as hell.

  14. Re:Can't wait! on Toyota Introduces Electric RAV4, Powered By Tesla Motor · · Score: -1, Troll

    Why would you want to drive something that's more damaging to the environment than fossil fuel vehicles?

  15. Re:Nothing new here on 200 Students Admit Cheating After Professor's Online Rant · · Score: 1

    They wouldn't make it at any type of trade school. There are practical components, and you have someone standing over your shoulder as you complete them.

  16. Re:Eh what? on Canada To Mandate ISP Deep Packet Inspection · · Score: 1

    The same thing that stops them from doing searches on their own with terminals in Canada now. There are flags, and the PSA(police services act), doing it is an automatic suspension and then it goes to the police tribunals.

  17. Re:Eh what? on Canada To Mandate ISP Deep Packet Inspection · · Score: 1

    Sorry - is this opinion Spoken As A Lawyer?

    As someone who can read law, and interpret it.

  18. Re:Eh what? on Canada To Mandate ISP Deep Packet Inspection · · Score: 1

    Point me to the article in the bill, because I've read it 3 times and I haven't seen where it precludes that.

  19. Re:Eh what? on Canada To Mandate ISP Deep Packet Inspection · · Score: 1

    You obviously never read any of the "evidence" or lack there of that it takes to get a warrant in Canada then, all it takes is a police officer calling up a Justice of the Peace saying they want one and it will be faxed to them no problem at all you then get to fight it out in court as to whether it was a valid one or not..

    Wrong. So very wrong that it makes my head hurt. You must provide full information of where the warrant is to be served, you must clearly specify the place, and items which you are looking for. You must have evidence, end of story.

    You don't call up to get a warrant either. You can fax one to a JP for non-serious criminal matters unless it's after midnight. Otherwise you must go before a JP for a normal warrant, and a superior court judge for anything serious.

  20. Eh what? on Canada To Mandate ISP Deep Packet Inspection · · Score: 5, Informative

    C50: Modifies existing wiretap laws so that instead of having to rely only on mechanical interception it allows the use of actual monitoring tools on internet connections. But you still have to have a warrant for it. And extends the existing tap law to cover internet related crime such as: "if there's mention of another crime, or purpose of trying to commit another offence, or planning to commit another offence, or is working as part of a conspiracy, or commissioning an offence", and the AG must be a party to the understanding of the warrant, and extentions to the warrant my only be extended by a SC judge, or AG, and my not exceed 3 years.(useful to know that the average long-term investigation in canada is ~4yrs), blahblabhblah, 1yr major criminal issue(terorrism, criminal enterprises aka organized crime) warrants may be allowed, exigent circumstances and so on. Usual stuff, if you need the warrant modified you must go back and have a judge authorize it.

    C51: I'm not seeing anything earth shattering. Except that if someone commits a criminal offence to which has been modified, the ISP isn't to delete the offending content which wasn't admissible before, but rather they must preserve all information to ensure that there's a continuity of evidence. And it modifies existing mischief, and impersonation of a person(aka written/published/print/etc) to cover electronic communications.

    C52: Again nothing earth shattering, but rather it requires ISP's to be able to allow CSIS, the RCMP and other police services the ability to monitor communications with a warrant, and as such be able to it within a reasonable period of time. This includes that the ISP must have up to date information on their subscribers, including their home address and IP address, but this can only be disclosed by warrant. However if exigent circumstances exist and an officer has reasonable and probable grounds to believe a person is in immediate harm, they must be able to disclose this information. Even then the officer must still within 24hrs, submit a request and a full explanation of why they used exigent circumstances for the information. And like all 3 of these bills, the officer must maintain a chain of evidence, and have it submitted on a regular basis. It can not be done without permission, all requests will be audited on a regular basis, and will be tracked. And police services that request any of this will pay a fee for such information. Oh and earlier on it covered that any form of interception must not impede the networks in any shape or form, or violate the telecommunications act.

    To me it looks like Giest is going off on a tangent, I don't see anything covering deep packet inspection or to mandate it. Rather that ISP's must be able to have the tools, and allow police to use the tools with a warrant provided by a superior court judge, or via the AG of the province--who will have to explain to the court why he gave permission for the warrant, the ability to track, copy, and find information. Again with a warrant.

    Now the interesting thing in Canada is, warrants are very hard to get. When I say very hard, I mean very hard. They're not that common place.

  21. Re:Another form of tyranny from Canada: on Canada To Mandate ISP Deep Packet Inspection · · Score: 1

    Infowars? Okay. Maybe you can point to me where in the criminal code this is, because it's sure not in my 2011 edition. And it's sure not part of the CBSA code.

  22. Re:Just goes to show... on Canada To Mandate ISP Deep Packet Inspection · · Score: 1

    Go look up the HRC and the kangaroo court system. The HRC tries to operate "above" government, and the courts.

  23. Re:Bring back Neutron Jack on GE To Buy 25,000 EVs, Starting With the Chevy Volt · · Score: 1

    Incorrect. It's more expensive, NG is about twice the cost of diesel.

  24. Re:Ahh... automotive, that brings back memories on Auto Industry's Fastest Processor Is 128Mhz · · Score: 2, Informative

    Metro's 90-04 were about the same. The block containing the electronic controls for the engine would actually corrode from the inside out. Things with automotive electronics only started to get "good" around 94 when GM first kicked out the 3800 series that was fully electronic controlled, and everyone and their grandmother saw "it was a good design" and copied the piss out of it.

    By around '96 things were leaps and bounds ahead of where they were even 2 years before that.

  25. Re:There's a saying... on Facebook Postings Lead To Arrest for Heresy In the West Bank · · Score: 1

    Yeah let me know how those 6 wars of attempted extermination against jews worked out for you.