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  1. Re:Airplane Mode on Most Companies Will Require You To Bring Your Own Mobile Device By 2017 · · Score: 1

    Remote wipe? Try an airplane mode with wifi and Dropbox. If you own your device, you can image your device to your SD card.

    What's your point? I didn't buy a phone to keep it in Airplane Mode.

  2. Re:The old days... on Most Companies Will Require You To Bring Your Own Mobile Device By 2017 · · Score: 1

    Used to be you got a job, if you were good at it, the company would pay for your education to get even better.
    Used to be, you got educated by your company, you could take a sabbatical.

    The jobs you describe are still around. Hint: If there is a foosball table anywhere on company property you probably don't have one of these jobs. If you do it won't be for long.

  3. Re:wait what??! on Most Companies Will Require You To Bring Your Own Mobile Device By 2017 · · Score: 1

    The remote tools only do what you've agreed to let them do in a BYOD agreement/policy, so someone who opted in doesn't have much room to complain.

  4. Re:Just Say No to BYOD on Most Companies Will Require You To Bring Your Own Mobile Device By 2017 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    BYOD is no different than using a personal car, or a breifcase, and having company documents in either.

    It's very different. There are regulations about how different classifications of data can be moved around and stored. You can have things on your phone that you can't have in a briefcase in your car. And there is more opportunity for a phone to be lost or stolen.

  5. Confused on Happy Hardware Freedom Day · · Score: 1

    I visited the site and am not sure what they're talking about. All I can say is there is a lot of non-open hardware in their photos. Oh, well... Time to free my monitor from displaying this bullshit.

  6. Re:Conversion on Is Bitcoin Mining a Real-World Environmental Problem? · · Score: 1

    982 MWh/day / 24 = ~41 megawatts

    My physics teacher would laugh you out of the room. Watch your units. You might get a correct result but your solution is half-assed.

    982MWh : 1d = 982MWh : 24h = 982/24 MW.

    Thanks for reminding me why I skipped school so often.

  7. Re:Using a blacklist ... on Maintaining a Publicly Available Blacklist - Mechanisms and Principles · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I don't disagree with your premise. I work in a health based organization and the SPAM and "dirty word" lexicons block legit e-mails. I've also found that for receiving e-mails SPF and most other common sense checks block too much legit mail. God forbid businesses configure their hosts / gateways correctly. And don't get me started on third party mailer services. It makes an impossible job more impossibler.

  8. Re:Greylist instead on Maintaining a Publicly Available Blacklist - Mechanisms and Principles · · Score: 1

    If you ran an open relay you were on the right end of a blacklisting.

    I wish I had mod points for you.

  9. Re:Blacklists are evilu even for spam filtering on Maintaining a Publicly Available Blacklist - Mechanisms and Principles · · Score: 2

    The nice thing about yelling at yourself is you can be pretty sure someone is listening, even if they don't agree with you.

  10. Re:Regulate Video Cameras Now! on Eric Schmidt: Regulate Civilian Drones Now · · Score: 1

    A buddy at work was having problems with his neighbor and did just that.

  11. Re: How would you feel about it? on Eric Schmidt: Regulate Civilian Drones Now · · Score: 1

    I live near a large-ish airport so depending on how the airspace is carved up the drone's owner may need to worry more about how other people feel about it than me.

  12. Re:so what is different on Eric Schmidt: Regulate Civilian Drones Now · · Score: 2

    Where is it illegal to put a camera on your property that can see someone else's property? Legit question. We're not talking about targeting a bedroom window full frame.

  13. Re:backups on S. Korea Says Cyber Attack From North Wiped 48,700 Machines · · Score: 2

    NK waged war in 1950. What they just did was declare... Never mind, you've ignored history and current events until this point so I'll leave you with this.

  14. Be happy that their data is secure? on Ask Slashdot: Dealing With Unwanted But Official Security Probes? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    They do know about HIPAA penalties for leaking data, right?

  15. Re:Gravitational tides will kill you on How Would an Astronaut Falling Into a Black Hole Die? · · Score: 1

    I'm afraid there would be no retina rupturing. I've seen a documentary about this with Dr Samantha Carter. It's also quite easy to escape the gravity. You just need a big enough explosion between the ship and the centre of the black hole.

    Ejecting a few warp cores worked nicely but it still wasn't enough to escape the lens flares.

  16. Re:Automated backup on Happy World Backup Day · · Score: 1

    The backup disks are cycled every 4 weeks: the existing set goes to an insulated box in the garage (a separate heated building), while the previous disks come in and start with a full backup.

    That's a bad strategy: Conflagration, flood, tornado, hurricane, theft, landslide, sinkhole, etc. Pretty much anything catastrophic wipes them out.

  17. Re:Done it the hard way on Happy World Backup Day · · Score: 1

    I've committed every one and zero to memory.

    That's too much work when I can just read them off Fry's ass.

  18. Re:Good. on Man Who Pointed Laser At Aircraft Gets 30-Month Sentence · · Score: 1

    You've never seen people swinging the laser around and have it flash across something reflective? It only has to be big enough to swing the beam back (chrome / metal trim around something, light fixture, doorknob, etc.). Outside is worse because things are designed to throw light back like traffic signs, etc.). Again, at high power it just takes an instant for eye damage, even from a reflection. And keep in mind that not everyone that has a laser pointer is a responsible adult. Or even an adult.

  19. Re:Good. on Man Who Pointed Laser At Aircraft Gets 30-Month Sentence · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I bought what I thought was a quality UV flashlight and the next day I felt like I had sand in my eyes. So either it was a really good UV flashlight or it was spitting IR.

  20. Re:Good. on Man Who Pointed Laser At Aircraft Gets 30-Month Sentence · · Score: 2

    If it's the one I'm thinking of (a video from the police helicopter shows the capture) the helicopter was able to get a squad car in the vicinity quickly and doofus was still flashing his laser around, not necessarily at the 'copter the whole time.

  21. Re:Good. on Man Who Pointed Laser At Aircraft Gets 30-Month Sentence · · Score: 1

    No. High powered lasers can cause eye damage even from reflection / refraction. Even at the power of a high power laser pointer, you don't go without goggles in a lab because you don't plan to look directly in the beam. A recent case did cause eye damage to one of the pilots and the other landed the plane. The affected pilot sought medical treatment and his eye and sight were affected.

  22. Re:Stop asking for my password all the time on Apple Makes Two-Factor Authentication Available For Apple IDs · · Score: 2

    You don't want to use a password when you buy something? What are you talking about when you say "all the freakin' time". I go for weeks without using my password.

  23. Re:Developer Evangelist on SendGrid Fires Employee After Firestorm Over Inappropriate Jokes · · Score: 1

    I am pretty sure being a developer evangelist doesn't involve you alienating more than half of developers with your tweeting.

    Which is exactly why she got canned. Yesterday on Twitter she said SendGrid stands behind her. Today she gave a couple of availability updates early in the morning and then Jacob took over. What a difference a day makes. It's strange watching this play out in real time.

    Back when I did Lotus Notes IBM brought in a Notes Evangelist. To this day I cannot hear the word "evangelist" without thinking "Bat-$hit Crazy" and this incident only reinforces it.

  24. SendGrid reports a "DDOS" attach on SendGrid Fires Employee After Firestorm Over Inappropriate Jokes · · Score: 1

    When I first read this article today I wondered if SendGrid's site would be targeted. Status page: http://support.sendgrid.com/entries/23417077-21-Mar-Website-Down-Refusing-Mail

    I've seen some negative comments directed towards SendGrid for firing her but their CEO's comments are IMO pretty classy: http://send.gd/11pgIMj

  25. Re:Really? on SendGrid Fires Employee After Firestorm Over Inappropriate Jokes · · Score: 1

    Sounds like she's quasi-evil.