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  1. 3D Print on Ask Slashdot: Recommendations For Beautiful Network Cable Trays? · · Score: 2

    Buy typical cable trays, and 3D print some sort of fancy colorful casings for them. You can use a variety of designs and colors for aesthetic appeal. Plus even if it doesn't look all that great it will still be "cutting edge" technology in use, which will likely appeal to your business folks. Plus you can throw a 3D printer in your budget...

  2. Re:Use Yourself for an Example on Ask Slashdot: Interviewing Your Boss? · · Score: 1

    Geeze not only did you read the article, but you googled the terms. The point of the example was that you want to ask a question the interviewee can reasonably be expected to not know the answer to. OP should probably choose something relevant to the interview he will be conducting. The question I asked was relevant to an interview I had conducted.

    Its also an extremely bad idea to ask a question you don't know the answer to, logically you will need to be able to determine when an interviewee lies... Its always possible the liar was right and I was wrong, if that was the case then he probably wouldn't have wanted to accept the job offer I didn't make.

  3. Re:Use Yourself for an Example on Ask Slashdot: Interviewing Your Boss? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    A similar strategy I use a lot of times is ask them a question they don't know the answer to. The purpose of the questions isn't to make them look bad, but to gauge their reaction. For example in some interviews I've asked "Can you define and explain the purpose of ASLR and DEP?" for a technical interview. The answer I'm looking for in this case is "I don't know, but I'll find out." But I've gotten people who got flustered, confused, and worst totally lied.

    Its an interesting strategy I think to find someone with an open mind who can be honest with themselves. You also want to be prepared to provide the answer, and let them know "I didn't expect you to know that, its something you would learn or blah blah blah." Either way the reaction to tough questions is the most valuable tool I have as interviewer I think.

  4. Re:Bullshit on Google's Image Search Now Requires Explicit Queries For Explicit Results · · Score: 1

    Blame Research In Motion for that one, no surprise that google wouldn't return useful results for someone looking for a job at RIM.

  5. Re:Wow ... on Who Needs CISPA? FBI Has a Non-Profit Workaround · · Score: 1

    Since you were too lazy to comprehend what I wrote, or google what I wrote here is a decent summary of some good work:

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

    Here is an example for you as well regarding the sharing of information. If I am a bank and I have a bunch of customers with stolen credit cards, already compromised and being used for fraud. I can't legally provide those to the FBI for both legal and regulatory reasons. The customers are already taking losses, as a bank I am taking losses, and the bad guys have no issues. I can point law enforcement to the carding site (IE Dark Market) above, or I can prompt them to subpoena me for information I can't tell them about?

    CISPA is terrible legislation as far as I am concerned, but don't shit on a legitimate and valuable organization because you don't understand it. Sacrificing mod points, because this is an organization that helps more than it hurts.

  6. Re:Wow ... on Who Needs CISPA? FBI Has a Non-Profit Workaround · · Score: 3, Interesting

    This is an absurd characterization of the NCFTA and the work they do. As someone who's worked with the NCFTA and actively opposed CISPA, SOPA etc I can say for certain they do very different work. NCFTA facilitates a common sense exchange of "personal" data in order to better combat fraud across the board. The NCFTA is a great organization and does very good work preventing internet based crime.

    For a good example do a little reading on Dark Market and the take down the occurred there. Throwing the NCFTA and CISPA/SOPA into the same container is completely ignorant end poor journalism imo.

  7. Re:So we all get to pay more for health care on Should the FDA Assess Medical Device Defenses Against Hackers? · · Score: 1

    "Rich asshole"? Seriously, a pacemaker isn't just for the rich asshole. Failing to assess these devices for security controls would be ridiculous negligence. Malicious software has a tendency to spread where it can, it doesn't need a reason to compromise a pacemaker if its able to. I guarantee that if proper security controls aren't implemented in medical devices you will see deaths related to failed or compromised devices. It doesn't even have to be intended malice, if a piece of malware compromises a device and decides a reboot is necessary, guess what happens to the heart behind the pacemaker...

  8. Re:Not hacking on 15-Year-Old Arrested For Hacking 259 Companies · · Score: 5, Funny

    Actually I believe he was going for 640 companies broken into, and that really ought to be enough for anyone.

  9. Re:Keep the pjs on? on One Third of Telcom Staff More Productive Working From Home · · Score: 1

    Because it gets awkward buying girl scout cookies.

  10. Re:Have fun on RDP Proof-of-Concept Exploit Triggers Blue Screen of Death · · Score: 3, Interesting

    That code is not real, it was a fake release from yesterday. Actual POC code is available in a number of places though and looks very similar.

  11. Re:How important is this? on RDP Proof-of-Concept Exploit Triggers Blue Screen of Death · · Score: 2

    Windows Server 2008 64 bit is vulnerable to the POC, I've confirmed it myself.

  12. Re:CmdrTaco is a hip arbiter of tech trends? on Rob Malda (CmdrTaco) Joins the Washington Post · · Score: 5, Interesting

    If we judge the majority of slashdotters by the content in that thread, then sadly most of us probably shouldn't be commenting on technology news:

    A charming example:

    by (Sanitized to predict the innocent) Alter Relationship on Tuesday October 23 2001, @01:52PM
    Raise your hand if you have iTunes ...

    Raise your hand if you have a FireWire port ...

    Raise your hand if you have both ...

    Raise your hand if you have $400 to spend on a cute Apple device ...

    There is Apple's market. Pretty slim, eh? I don't see many sales in the future of iPod.

  13. Re:"does some spying and reporting on you" on Ask Slashdot: Copy Protection Advice For ~$10k Software? · · Score: 2

    A lot of software does report back, but to quote op "that does some spying and reporting on you." That doesn't sound like its going to be a legitimate implementation of some minor reporting back to the parent company. Especially given his goal of then filing a lawsuit against the violators with "big pockets". Of course firewalls should be able to identify outbound connections, but the point isn't that the implementation is weak. The point is that its a bad idea from the start.

  14. Re:"does some spying and reporting on you" on Ask Slashdot: Copy Protection Advice For ~$10k Software? · · Score: 5, Interesting

    To the already great questions above, I would also add:

    How will you feel when your product is flagged by Anti-Virus companies as malicious, and what will the impact be to your reputation?

  15. Re:That was England... on Alan Moore on V For Vendetta and the Rise of Anonymous · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Really.... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_England_riots

    or perhaps this.... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_England_riots#Police_shooting_of_Mark_Duggan

    Doesn't matter where you live, people can still lose it...

  16. Seems rediculous but... on Indian Engineers Modify Kinect To Help the Blind Walk With Confidence · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The more I hear about Kinect the more it makes it seem like one of the more revolutionary products that Microsoft has ever come out with...

  17. Re:Not much better than it was before on Makers Keep Flogging 3D TV, Viewers Keep Shrugging · · Score: 1

    I can name all three, I don't have the memory of an infant you insensitive clod!

  18. Re:Here's the response from an email to them on PR Firm Unwisely Tangles With Penny Arcade · · Score: 0

    Awesome!

  19. Re:Simple Solution, and the only one that will wor on Congress's Techno-Ignorance No Longer Funny · · Score: 1

    Lets take a moment to remember Jibekn, and the humor he brought to slashdot. We can only hope that the rural ass prison he was incarcerated in will get that dial up line soon so he can join us again.

  20. Re:WP7 sales suck everywhere. on Nokia Exec: Young People Fed Up With iPhone and Android · · Score: 3, Funny

    "I'm only waiting to see how the iPhone 5 changes things."

    Then you don't have to worry, I am sure it will change everything.

  21. Re:All this in the mist of global warming. on Russian Scientists Say They'll Clone a Mammoth Within 5 Years · · Score: 0

    Its awesome this was modded up "Interesting" I will get my three year old nephew on here, the mods will be shocked and amazed at all the stuff he saw at the Zoo the other day. Although he only will accept a low UID for the cred, so not sure how that is gonna work out.

  22. Re:Private pictures? on Facebook Flaw Exposed Private Photos · · Score: 1

    BTW if you want to google that you might be surprised at how hard that is to find, try this "google ceo privacy quote"

  23. Re:Private pictures? on Facebook Flaw Exposed Private Photos · · Score: 3, Informative

    "If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place," Eric Schmidt

    Not quite... but close.

  24. Re:PCI on Ask Slashdot: To Hack Or Not To Hack? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    While you make a good point that Visa and MC won't sit on their asses about data, that is only from a PCI perspective. And realistically its trivially easy to maintain PCI compliance and have an insecure product.

    What I would recommend however is work through a professional service like Secunia: https://secunia.com/company/blog_news/news/271. They can lend credibility to your claim and they provide what I personally would describe as an ethical approach to remediation. I would strongly not recommend any further testing on your part unless you are prepared to deal with legal consequences. Not that I agree with companies going after researchers, but it does happen.

    Good luck.

  25. Re:what's the problem? on Patriot Act Clouds Picture For Tech · · Score: 2

    Not quite:

    "I've noticed that you have cleaning products under your sinks. Didn't you know that those chemicals could be combined to make a bomb. I'm sorry, I'll have to take you to jail now. Whats that, you want to resist arrest, how silly. I'm sorry about your daddy 2 year old son, but he was a terrorist. Now please ready yourself to be probed for further explosives by our professional TSA agent."

    You were close, but not quite there.