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  1. DOD has banned Forbes on Microsoft Ad Campaign Puts a Hotspot Inside a Magazine · · Score: 1

    Department of Defense has sent a memo around banning this magazine from intallations for this very reason. Violates ALL kinds of TEMPEST requirements for secure spaces. As an Information Assurance guy I am used to making people take their cell phones back to their car and checking over their laptops. The idea I have to now check their reading material makes me facepalm.

  2. Old is new again on Largest DDoS In History Reaches 300 Billion Bits Per Second · · Score: 4, Informative

    I find it very interesting that they are using a variation on the Old Smurf attacks for this. Sending a message to other places that work as an amplifier. You would think that after 10 years we would have learned that blind, unchecked, forwarding is not a good thing.

  3. Time to ask some hard questions on "Red October" Espionage Malware Campaign Uncovered · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Its time we started to grill our malware detecors and virus scan makers because somethnig is going very very wrong. This makes the third or fourth MAJOR espionage virus/malware/trojan of a very large size that has been apparently rampaging for years. How can I now trust symantic to find a zero day and protect my systems when they have been unable to find things like red october and flame for years, and they are huge programs!

    I am not a big conspiracy theorist, but something is going on here. Why aren't these things being spotted and reported?

  4. proper term on Bushfire Threatens Major Telescope · · Score: 1

    I beleive this is a brushfire, not a bushfire. Bush is the singular, brush is the pural (www.dictionary.com Brush - a dense growth of bushes, shrubs). Now I could be wrong, this could have been a REALLY big bush, but otherwise it is brushfire.

    Side note : A bushfire is more commonly known as a STD (sexually transmitted disease)

  5. hidden message on Microsoft Has Been Watching, and It Says You're Getting Used To Windows 8 · · Score: 1

    according to Julie Larson-Green, the Microsoft executive who leads Windows product development also showed she enjoys getting a paycheck and is willing to skew any set of numbers as she is told to. Early adoption of her pay check as an executive has led to a quick adaption of weasling positions and stats to make the higher ups, and HR, happy. She expects, as an early adopter of her pay, that future trends will encourage more of this same behavior leading to hoped for increase in pay adoption.

  6. Re:Civil Disobedience Idea on Federal Appeals Court Orders TSA To Explain Delay In Body Scan Public Hearing · · Score: 1

    You know, if one person, just one person does it they may think he's a 'bro and they'll just taze him. And if two people, two people do it - in harmony - they may think they're both faggots and they won't take either of them anywhere except Chick-Fil-A. And three people do it, three, can you imagine, three people walking through the scanner singing a bar of Alice's Restaurant and walking out? They may think it's an organization. And can you, can you imagine fifty people a day, I said fifty people a day walking in singing a bar of Alice's Restaurant and walking out. And friends they may think it's a movement.

    No they will call it a terrorist orginization, place everyone on the no fly list, disapear to gautanomo anyone who complains and hit anyone who collects any money with, at a minimum, a RICO.

    See you got it wrong, the more people the TSA bans and sends away the less dirty underwear they have to touch, so its a win for them. If all they had to do was just make sure NO ONE flew they would be much happier. TSA are the ahmish of the security world.

  7. Contractor wear on Ask Slashdot: Is There a Professional Geek Dress Code? · · Score: 5, Informative

    In the computer contracting field, which tends to be semi-profesional dress, what you are shooting for is bussines casual Slacks, black shoes, button up shirt (short or long sleeve) with no patterns on it.

    Remember two things, you should not be climbing under things anymore. Directors direct others to do this work. Secondly you are now going to have to play interdepartment politics. this means you are going to have to make sure people take you seriously. this, unfortunatly for humans, means a dominance display in the form of your clothing. You are not going to win a budget fight and be taken seriously wearing clown shoes no matter how correct your argument is.

    So accept that in your new world clothes still donates status and ability. You need to adapt because you are not going to change the course of human evolution overnight.

  8. stupid Scientists! on Injected Proteins Protect Mice From Lethal Radiation Dose · · Score: 5, Funny

    Great! Just Great! Now how are we going to defeat the coming mouse revolution now that scientists have taken nuclear weapons off the table!

    Don't they think before they hand out things like radiation immunity to something that wants our cheese?

  9. Quick way to Tuff Guy Status on Iran Claims New Cyber Attack On Its Nuclear Plants, Blames US and Allies · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Quickest way to tuff guy status? take Credit for someone else work. Guy drops dead all of a suddent take credit for his death, even if you had nothing to do with it. The US and Isreal are riding this wave that now everytime something in the cyber world drops dead its because they did it, no matter what happens, even if they are just as suprised as everyone else. This plays well into the Iranians need to blame their inability to produce anything in their nuclear program on someone else. We would have had a Bomb if it was not for those medling kids!

    I can say without a doubt that their is no Goverment Service worker that could have produced Stuxnet or Flame. I doubt it was a US contractor. They would have worked on it for sure, but they would have never delivered a final product and had that gravy train dry up.

    I have a strong feeling that all this "accidental" leaking is just a way to take credit without actually claiming you took credit.

    So when the iranians claim another attack I take it with a grain of salt. To many people have to much at stake claiming that something happend. Having something actually happen is besides the point.

  10. Job Movement on Why Bad Jobs (or No Jobs) Happen To Good Workers · · Score: 2

    I remember in the 80's when I joined the job market having moved jobs a lot was seen as a bad thing. You stuck with a crappy job for at least 18 months because you wanted to show you could stick with things. You moved to often and in interviews you were perceived as a flake and were not desireable.

    Now is the exact oposite. If you don't move every three years you are seen as stagnant. Lots of movement shows a lot of desireability! As long as their are no major breaks in employment then moving jobs every 4 to 6 months is seen as a good thing! Obviously these other people sniped you away from someone else and now its this companies chance and you should be hired immediatly.

    Whats sad is trying to explain this to my father, he can't understand why I HAVE to move jobs reguarly to make my raises and improve my job status. Things have truly changed in the last ten years.

  11. unmentioned factor on Why Bad Jobs (or No Jobs) Happen To Good Workers · · Score: 4, Interesting

    A lot of job postings are also created by going in and asking the person leaving what they do. While on the org chart they were a electrical engineer, over time they took on DB admin because that person got downsized, then network admin when they downsized that person, and janitor, when they got rid of the cleanig service and someone had to vacume and take out the garbage. This continues until the person does no electrical engneering anymore, but spends all his time being a sysadmin.

    So the posted job, based on what the person leaving did, becomes "wanted : electrical engineer. Must have Oracle cert, VMware cert, CCNA, and MCSE and be able to lift 50 pounds reguarly and have a CS degree. " Jobs have so diverged from what the postion was for originally it screws up being able to hire because the listed skills no longer have any reference to the actual job being done.

  12. life but no civilization on Tropical Lakes On Saturn Moon Could Expand Options For Life · · Score: 2

    Implications of the fact that step one in building a technology base/civilization is the discovery of fire, which for a methane based life source is not going to go over so well. I can only assume that development is going to be stunted in an enviroment where a strike anywhere match is the same equivilant as the deathstars laser.

  13. Biggest Change on US Defense Contractors and Universities Targeted In Cyberattacks · · Score: 5, Interesting

    This is low level Cyber warfare and its starting to ramp up. this is like the introduction of planes in WWI. At first they waived at each other on their scouting mission. then someone brought a pistol, then a rifle. Then it was gunners and machineguns until we get the Red Baron and Fighter Aces. Next thing we know its jet Propulsions and heat Seakers, Stealth fighters launching! Make no mistake, Stuxnet was the First pistol at 1000 feet, what comes next no one can guess.

    what is obvious is that Information Assutrance is no longer a support service, somewhere behind tech support and first to be cut, IA is now a front line warfighter task. Lets just hope the bean countes realize in time!

  14. Awesome! on Diablo 3 Banhammer Dropped Just Before RMAH Goes Live · · Score: 4, Funny

    A game now so immersive they included a hardcore mode for botters!

  15. Dumb Terminal on Lenovo to Sell Blade Desktops · · Score: 1

    This is just a dumb terminal with a new coat of paint, the emporers new close and works just as well cause if the network goes down, or the server, it idles all the workers just like it did "back in the day". This is why corporate america put fully functional machines (with storage) onto the american desktop.

    In this case the Dumb refers to the rehashed idea and the terminal indicates their profit statement.

  16. Computer Problems linked on FBI Wants To Limit Document Searches · · Score: 1

    I have to wonder if the FBI's recent revelation about their computer woes is linked to this. They may take the tact that since their computers are not up to snuff they are not required to find the information. Saying that they do not have to do a paper search and that a computer search is enough, but unfortunatly the computers are all down so you get nothing. Typical Lawyer finegling of the spirit of the law IMHO.

    Papa Legba

  17. The counter attack on Sal Wise, Philly eBay Scammer Strikes Back! · · Score: 1

    I find it interesting that the Justin Spence site has been slashdotted out of oblivion but the Sal Wise site is still up. I bet Warlock7 is really sal waise and this is all a plan to knock Justin Spence offline and get his defense in place.

    Once again slashdot is the tool of the evil doers, when will it ever end!

  18. Missed it on HP Recall on 900,000 Notebooks · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Sometimes a guy lucks out. I bought a 1500 not to long ago. I got it with the minimum amount of RAM in it. I wanted a gig of RAM but HP wanted almost $700 for that upgrade. I decided that upgrading the screen was far more important as I could not alter that myself later at a cheap price.

    As soon as I got the laptop I orderd a gig of third party RAM from an online vendor, total cost less than $200. Installed it right away and now I don't have this problem and never have had it.

    Moral of the story: Sometime it pays to be a cheap bastard.

  19. Because I want one in space on Mars Rovers Update · · Score: 4, Funny

    I suggest a solar panel Zamboni! If for no other reason that Zambonis are cool and a space Zamboni would be a magnitude cooler. Imagine the great PR if NASA could send back shots of there Zamboni working on another planet.

  20. Great plan on Visual Autopsy Of An ATM Card Skimmer · · Score: 4, Funny

    recover 800 pounds worth of equipment and incurr 2000 pounds of bandwidth costs bragging about it. The guy who lost the 550 pounds is going think that was nice compared to what just got done to him by slashdot.

  21. A fun idea on Rapid Internet Growth In Iran · · Score: 4, Funny

    Let's call the BSA and the RIAA on them. Let's see how well these two orginizations do with their sudo draconian tactics in a draconian state. Should be pretty fun to watch I figure.

  22. Character Generation on Paranoia RPG Returns in New Edition · · Score: 3, Informative

    Long live Pax Computer!

    That said one of the things I most enjoyed about playing paranoia was the lack of character generation. You could generate a chracter if you wanted, but what was the point? It was going to be dead soon. This got rid of the four hour character generation marathons caused by people taking 20 minutes to decide if they wanted to buy an extra flask of oil or a ten foot pole with the last of there money. More games ended before they started due to the fact that character generation bogged the night down so bad the adventure never got started and no one was hooked to come back the next night. Paranoia was great, people got together, you handed them a character, they read it for ten minutes and bam you were playing and having a good time.

    So I guess the question inherent in this babbling is. Are you going to keep the preferences for pre-generated characters in the new edition?

  23. Re:Ugh. on Warspying in San Francisco · · Score: 5, Insightful

    You sir, have destroyed a peice of my faith in humanity that I was unaware that I had. This revelation is wrong on so many levels. I weep for the humanity of it all.

  24. No Comment on Microsoft-Funded Linux Studies Benefit ... Microsoft · · Score: 1

    I suspect the lack of comments is due to the fact that this topic is SSOOOOOOO Obvious. What news flash are they going to pop next. Workers expected to produce when they are payed? Duh....

  25. Re:Calling Captain Obvious... on Fighting for Your Overtime? · · Score: 1

    Yes I did. The national department of labor refered me to my local office. The local office does not answer there phone but instead has a machine take your name and number. They still have not called me back.