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  1. Virus scanners. on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Automatically Sanitize PDF Email Attachments? · · Score: 1

    Beside that, if you sue a less feature rich pdf reader, that is safe,

    the virusscanner will STILL find the suspicious js code, flag it, and set of all kinds of big alarms. And then they will be back at the mail guy.

    Maybe you want to run mail in a virtulized sanatized citrix box, where you cannot infect an pc that has access to al internal systems.

  2. Re:Agile? on Ask Slashdot: Development Requirements Change But Deadlines Do Not? · · Score: 2

    Thx for the link, but then the only reference to avalanche is mainly that wiki article... i am suprised it was not taken down without citations.

  3. According to scrum.... on Ask Slashdot: Development Requirements Change But Deadlines Do Not? · · Score: 2

    Do agile proper. Choose a method. stick to it. Not a bit waterfall and a bit agile. then basically you are doing waterfall with some new term, but not new procedures.

    Eg. with Scrum at the end of a sprint, the product is Done, or it is taken out. The development team decides how much work to take on. Since the development process is transparant business can guess that extra criteria will add load.

    Business decides what are the priorities. Development determines how much can be done in a timebox and how they engineer it.

    If there are more requirement that take extra time, then those requirements are taken to the next sprint. If there are delays, then those delays are the time of a full sprint, (3-4 weeks). And realize that 80% of perfect often is enough.

    Things like "not an option" "business decides". "too costly"... are all in the big excuses book.

  4. std: terminate. on VLC And Secunia Fighting Over Vulnerability Reports · · Score: 2

    Then who you are going to call?

  5. Re:Errmmmh ... what was your question? on Ask Slashdot: Node.js vs. JEE/C/C++/.NET In the Enterprise? · · Score: 1

    If the question is about languages?

    maybe the question is about frameworks instead. A framework is a set of libraries for a certain language. E.g. The language is java, the framework is J2EE.
    For C/C++ the question leave it open, but i think C/C++ should be mainly used for support/intermediate software, and not for the business logic.
    Node.js is not a complete framework, you need to add things to make it complete. .Net is not a language, but mulplie languages can use the .Net framework.

    In a enterprise you have your enterprice level software (SAP/Dynamics/mainframe), your set of your supporting application arround it, glue software (SOA... nowadays, ftpíng files arround 10 year ago). And nowadays you glue some sort living mobile app to it that has some glue to the backbone applications. Each has its onw langueage and support. Minimizing the number of platform/languages will make your life simpler.

  6. Way to much text.

    Security:
    -Something you know (password)
    -Something you have (HSM? hardware with key).
    -Something you are (biometrics, or gummy bear)

    You steal the server, you steal the HSM. It is like requiring a hardware token with a laptop, and then storing the token with the laptop. A HSM does have it uses, but it is again key management that is the trick.

    The words tamper resistant HSM sombdy uses.. realize that it is like, kill the data, so nobody can steal it. NOT always the best scenario :) :'(

  7. Failover vs 0 downtime vs no brokenconnection. on The Simian Army and the Antifragile Organization · · Score: 1

    I wonder how this behaves in the eye of the customer.

    From cluster solutions i know there are those in the maintain of it that mistake a redundant system with zero downtime.

    The problem is that if you take down a server , all connections to it are down. Some application gracefully swtich to an other server. Some application however first have to time out. Some applicatons crash.

    THe question is, do those interruptions get reported correctly, or are people just blame the app, restart their PC?

    Very few of those user-problems actually get reported, and the first line help desk just instructs them to restart, and since by then an other VM / region has taken over, everything works. But doing this on purpose is not a gooed user expierence.

    Just remember, 0 downtime does not mean that there are no interruptions, to minimize these you need a differnet mindset.

    Yes sir, I like uptimes of 1 to 2 years.

  8. Double rot13 for the win! ;)

    One thing: Encrption of laptop drives and external usb/harddisk is usefule against stupid loss/theft . Encryption of company servers is only buring cpu cycles, since the key is available to users that have to use ist

  9. Re: not the world's last on India To Send World's Last Telegram · · Score: 1

    Someone is delivering the "telegram" to your door. It has always been that way?

  10. Re:not the world's last on India To Send World's Last Telegram · · Score: 1

    Exactly.

    The wikilleak affaire was about telegrams between ambassies that were leaked.

    The queen of the netherlands (now replaced by a king) still sends telegrams to congratulate people.

    The telegram is dead, long live the telegram.

  11. All well until on Dreambox: the World's First 3D Printing Vending Machine · · Score: 3, Informative

    Someone starts printing out controversial things.
    - Sex toys.
    - Weapons.
    - Copyrighted stuff (like Mickey Mouses)
    x all of the above.....

    As long this stays small it will stay under the radar. But if the scale is increased there will be more rules about this.

  12. Re:Same as last time on No, the Tesla Model S Doesn't Pollute More Than an SUV · · Score: 1

    PWR is a button that is the little brother of michal knights K.I.T.T. turbo power button. It makes the accelerator pedal a little more responsive.

  13. Re:Same as last time on No, the Tesla Model S Doesn't Pollute More Than an SUV · · Score: 1

    +1.

    I tried it on the autobahn. while fuel effiency is lost there, the top speed nothing to be ashamed of. You still get passed by some BMW or mercedes, but that will happen always if your speed is below 200 km/hr.

    And your last comment (taxes) is far too short. If tax was the entire story we still would use 100% coal power and the skies would be dark.

  14. Re:Same as last time on No, the Tesla Model S Doesn't Pollute More Than an SUV · · Score: 1

    Well you are right... in power mode it uses somthing like 10% more fuel... depending how and where you drive it. It still is much more power efficient than simlar sized cars.

    The problem is more the people that rate the cars. Most magazines are written by fuelheads that gauge each car if it is a sports car. however most daily use is not how fast you get away at the stoplight, it is how comfortable it is. Beside that, the prius image is still that of the 10 year old prius one that was driven by hippies with too much money or people that were trying to break their own personal fuel efficientcy. The current model is just a good car that is fuel efficinet in a lot of day to day scenarios.

  15. Re:This is about the cpu gpu? on Intel Claims Haswell Architecture Offers 50% Longer Battery Life vs. Ivy Bridge · · Score: 1

    No, sorry, you did not understand. The northbridge may be very savy now. (compared to???) But beside the CPU with ingegrated north bridge you also need a lot of other supporting hardware.

    Notice in the pictures that it is targeted for tablet size, not phalet, or phones. They need a lower kind of power usage I suppose.

  16. This is about the cpu gpu? on Intel Claims Haswell Architecture Offers 50% Longer Battery Life vs. Ivy Bridge · · Score: 2

    Without checking the source, i bet it is only the cpu/gpu/power thtat is getting lower values. It is the old intel story again. First it was the atom cpu that was supposed to be super low power. However they forgot to mention you needed a chitset along with it for the video networking pci that was not so super savy with power.

    Now the cpu/gpu is super power savery. But the wifi/display/battery/2g/3g/nfc/audio/cam/gps might still drain your battery in 3 seconds.....

  17. Re:Did they break any laws? on Web of Tax Shelters Saved Apple Billions, Inquiry Finds · · Score: 1

    Laws can change. And that is what your government will do. However Also note that such compannies might be highly mobile, and the production might move to china/india/africa very fast, it that will generate 1% more profit.

  18. Re:Elephant in the Room? Serve coffee on its back! on Judges Debate Patents and If New Software Makes a Computer a "New Machine" · · Score: 1

    You cannot use the same exact science you use to prove math equation and chemical reaction on social siences and macro economics.

    So please Sheldon, stop judging the patent system as a scientist.

  19. Resistant bacteria. on FDA To Decide Fate of Triclosan, Commonly Used In Antibacterial Soaps · · Score: 1

    The hospitals here are already asking in their long list of questions if you are living on a farm. In that case they might have to consider you carry bacteria that are resistant to multiple antibiotics. I already heard about cases of these people not getting a bed in the hospital , because the extra quarantine bed that are required for people carrying Multiple Resitant bacteria are not available.

  20. Re:Poor Management on Microsoft Developer Explains Why Windows Kernel Development Falls Behind · · Score: 1

    The problem is then shifted to measuring lines of codes produced to measuring co-operation scores. The Lower level mananager will then optimze their processes for the optimal coorperation scores. And you have new problem instead of solving the other. And no good manager will start to kick out talented people because they fail on something that is not their main business, and do their job "ust good enough"

    Most project work with business goals that have to be solved within a plannable period. That is what you manage. Stepping outside this planning to do some hard to justify incremental optimisation is hard to justify if you have a big stacks of others tasks in the queue that have higher priority.

    The linux model is not the ultimate solution. Look what happend to reiserfs (v4) after the main man reiser got arrested. That is not something that MS is letting happening to any of their OS components.

  21. Re:Google will block it on Microsoft YouTube App Strips Ads; Adds Download · · Score: 1

    And google can stop serving them video they choose if they violate the TOS. That or send a lot of expensive lawyer that might do somthing in 3-10 years (billed by the hour of course).

  22. Re:Google will block it on Microsoft YouTube App Strips Ads; Adds Download · · Score: 1

    It is even possible that the advertising api just is not (yet) implemented in the microsoft client. The requiremnets for ads, counting and billing for them are different than for videos, where you ust want to count the views for completely (far less billable) reasons.

    Google will require to move them in in a no skippeable way into the main stream to solve this.

  23. apple bashing. on Microsoft YouTube App Strips Ads; Adds Download · · Score: 1

    How could a story of MS and google turn into a apple bashing in the comments.. ????

  24. well Apple did F**K up. on Chinese Court Fines Apple For Copyright Violations · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Somebody uploaded best-sellers to the store. It is like some john doe uploads the (chinese) Dan Brown books to iTunes, and apple get 30% of all the sales.

    Too bad there are so many anti-chinese sentiments here. But this is really a case of chinese seaking part of apple making a boo boo.

    Note that in AmericaN law would allow up to $150,000 per infringment, the chise case was for multiple infringements, but the article does not state how much.

  25. Re:astounding that defaults are not tougher on The Search Engine More Dangerous Than Google · · Score: 1

    MAC addres? If they manage to sniff the local (WLAN) then that is no good security as wel..