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  1. Re:This bothers me on Microsoft Has Created Its Own FreeBSD (microsoft.com) · · Score: 1

    Productivity of your productive workforce I already covered. As far as productivity of your IT force, the real world called and they did the math and found the sweetspot between productivity and costs, particularly as it relates to the very real problem of employee turnover. There is absolutely zero productivity reason to go with a completely *nix/BSD IT solution from top to bottom. There is very much a reason to go with a hybrid approach, which is what I advocated, for a large variety of reasons, which I touched upon.

  2. Re:This bothers me on Microsoft Has Created Its Own FreeBSD (microsoft.com) · · Score: 2

    Why? I don't want to teach the receptionist how to use Debian. Anyone with real understanding of IT and business acumen knows that IT infrastructure has users, and those users have to be productive in order for your job to be worth anything, and IT is almost invariably responsible for making sure those users can use it effectively. I have *nix servers. I have Windows servers. The desktops for people that I'm responsible for use Windows. And they use Office. And Sharepoint. And Outlook. And we use Exchange. And Active Directory. And that's all because it makes my life easy in that area so I can focus on more important shit, and so it's easy to find someone to hire to pick up those extra duties that I don't want to pick up or that I'm too busy to pick up when necessary.

    It barely takes any business acumen and barely any understanding of IT to know that the less basic skills such as basic computer use you have to train the people you need to be productive, the better off your organization is. And that doesn't get into replacing/adding IT staff. Competent *nix admins are not a dime a dozen and they are not as cheap as competent Windows admins.

  3. Re:This bothers me on Microsoft Has Created Its Own FreeBSD (microsoft.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    No one with any real understanding of IT would be using Microsoft products for anything serious anyway.

    You know how I know that you have no real understanding of IT?

  4. Re:Literally six years old, still not real/practic on China Unveils 'Straddling Bus' Design To Beat Traffic Jams (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    As long as people live and work where the bus goes somewhat efficiently(as in it doesn't take my to the next town over and back to get to my destination, or I don't have to transfer 5 times). I have no idea how urban/suburban China is laid out, but it's definitely problematic in many other places.

  5. Re:Literally six years old, still not real/practic on China Unveils 'Straddling Bus' Design To Beat Traffic Jams (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    I wouldn't say not practical. Just not as practical as building an elevated train, which is much cheaper than a subway. The problem with elevated trains is the nimbys hate them. Fuck the nimbys.

  6. Re:"Begins?" on Facebook Begins Tracking Non-Users Around the Internet (theverge.com) · · Score: 2

    And NoScript takes care of this problem pretty well.

  7. So the shit referenced here doesn't apply to the paid version? Just want to make sure before I pay. I don't mind supporting useful software if they're not going to bludgeon me to death with ads.

  8. Well, the positive is that this technology goes obsolete pretty quickly, though maybe a little slower in recent years than the previous 20

  9. Err, we already know what she pushed through her servers, what classification level it was, what classification level it should have been, and her telling people to strip the classification before sending emails and faxes(see her conversations with her staffer Jake Sullivan).

    Regardless, the problem is that people who work for their clearance would not be allowed to work in government ever again at best if they were caught doing what she was doing, and charged with a felony/set of felonies at worst, as happened to Patraeus(who still got off easy). As someone who went through the process and jumps through every goddamned hoop required to keep seemingly innocuous data marked as sensitive or higher secure, this upsets me, and this upsets a lot of people that work in similar capacities. While the Congressional shitshow has been partisan, the real issue is not partisan at all. If there are no consequences for her actions, there are disturbing double standards set for people like me who would likely be jailed for doing the exact same thing.

  10. Patraeus on Obama: The Word 'Classified' Means Whatever We Need It To Mean (techdirt.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I'm sure Patraeus didn't want to hurt the country, either, but it didn't save him from his felony charge and subsequent plea deal.

  11. Re:Captcha cracking using AI is a losing battle on Google ReCAPTCHA Cracked In New Automated Attack · · Score: 1

    Please select all images that reflect different forms of Goku

  12. The difference with Chrome is that each tab is a process(plus a few extra for plugin container, etc). Just kill the bad tabs.

  13. No, it doesn't. As far as Kies, the whole point is backup. If it works.

  14. or have a huge memory leak problem.

    Well, people do use Firefox

  15. Kies isn't so much a resource hog as it is just outright terrible.

  16. Re:No one plays games any more on AMD Wants To Standardize the External GPU (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Eh, Alienware still sells external PCI-E expansion bays for their high end laptops for this purpose. They're built to fit the largest cards. Some laptop makers are modularizing the videocards as well. You can technically replace the videocard in certain MSI laptops.

  17. Re:The gun is pointing at the foot on Firefox 44 Deletes Fine-Grained Cookie Management (mozilla.org) · · Score: 1, Funny

    Some kind of Navigator needs run this ship.. Some kind of.. Netscape Navigator..

  18. Re:Discriminatory? on Utility Targets Bitcoin Miners With Power Rate Hike (datacenterfrontier.com) · · Score: 1

    Which has what to do with tiered pricing?

  19. Re:Discriminatory? on Utility Targets Bitcoin Miners With Power Rate Hike (datacenterfrontier.com) · · Score: 1

    That's not how it works in California. Be interested to see where that pricing platform would be in effect

  20. Re:Discriminatory? on Utility Targets Bitcoin Miners With Power Rate Hike (datacenterfrontier.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    And, really, if you use more power, you should be charged more. Tiered power rates based on use are pretty much universal in the bulk of the west

  21. Re:My thoughts exactly on Ask Slashdot: How Do I Reduce Information Leakage From My Personal Devices? · · Score: 1

    Life is not safe.

  22. Re: safe rooms on Ask Slashdot: How To Work On Source Code Without Having the Source Code? · · Score: 1

    The places I'm describing are typically air gapped.

  23. Re: safe rooms on Ask Slashdot: How To Work On Source Code Without Having the Source Code? · · Score: 2

    Various government offices work that way. I work at one such office on occasion. Check your electronics at the door, put them in a locker, go through a security check, and off to work you go on a secured and locked down computer. And there are people standing in line to make the kind of money a govt contractor makes doing IT/dev

  24. Re:what on IPv6 Turns 20, Reaches 10 Percent Deployment (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Subnetting.

  25. Re:The price worries me a bit. on Oculus To Ship "Lucky's Tale" Game With Rift (oculus.com) · · Score: 0

    The problem is that it's been there for a long time. I played Duke3d in VR at Slam Site in the mid 90s. The only effective change from an end user perspective is that you don't have to stand on a DDR type platform to use it anymore. That's 20 years of innovation.