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  1. Re:The best thing Keurig can do is die on Keurig Stock Drops, Says It Was Wrong About DRM Coffee Pods · · Score: 1

    DRM implemented for piracy prevention is not fair it's not even functional. Media DRM is just as much of a lock in you can only use it on things the allow you to use it on.

  2. Re:Yep, they were... on Keurig Stock Drops, Says It Was Wrong About DRM Coffee Pods · · Score: 1

    Tell that my my lexmark toner carts.

  3. Re:PowerShell is yucky yucky yucky! on Microsoft Releases PowerShell DSC For Linux · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately that unambiguous seems mean obtuse. I've not coded in assembler in a rather long time but yes I know several variants. Touch screens are for consumer devices WTF use do they have in systems work? Are you saying you liked that addition of the metro interface to 2012? Do you have more than one screen in front of you at work, do you ever use RDP? ever tried a metro interface when not in full screen locked to a single screen? Lets not even get started on just use the apps, PS lacks basics like SSH support it's a fsking CLI yet does not support the standard method of working with one.

    Some of us have actual workstations with real keyboards a dozen square feet of monitors, it's nice and all to sysadmin from starsmucks on your tablet it's just not as productive.

    Sure I appreciate PS it's a better interface than tinkering with the fsking registry for everything, it's still not holding a candle to a good unix CLI is all.

  4. Re:Powershell is sweet as hell on Microsoft Releases PowerShell DSC For Linux · · Score: 1, Troll

    Unfortunately the leap is backwards.

    I don't think I've had to use cut sed awk or tr in more than a decade none of those are really for day to day sysadmin work. If I want well defined objects I use SNMP you know an extendable standard that has been around forever with a functional and extremely fine grained security model. Newer kit tends to some sort of rest API, XML is similar in structure to SNMP it's just it's overly verbose bastard child. Most of the stuff I used to use bits like awk for are log processing/report generation and thats pretty much all gone the way of logstash etc.

    This is another round of the same thing WMI is, a bad replacement for a standard method.

  5. Re:PowerShell is yucky yucky yucky! on Microsoft Releases PowerShell DSC For Linux · · Score: 1

    Wordy is the key issue, look at your average unix app generally all the flags can use a short - or a long -- for the same function.

    PS forget that 30+ years of unix shell to near perfection and rolled their own verbose and obtuse creation.

  6. Re:One small problem on What To Say When the Police Tell You To Stop Filming Them · · Score: 4, Informative

    Thats fine that 1 in 1000 officer is still significant enough to justify correcting the system. We have learned time and time again authority must be tempered with oversight. We now have the technical means to reasonably oversee all interactions the police have on duty.

    It has been shown police do not follow the law hell even use ignorance of the law as an excuse. Real substantial change in policing will take decades, with unions and politicians scratching and clawing to keep the status quo.

    I grew up with cops, I've seen a lot more than a one night ride along and I pretty much don't watch TV. Having been around cops I will tell you the number is a lot higher than 1 in 1000, I would want to loose at least 1 in 10 cops and suspect that number would go far higher. I can say cops policing their own community tend to be far better than those that live elsewhere. I can also say police chiefs feel/are handcuffed by the unions and lawyers in getting rid of these bad cops.

  7. Re:One small problem on What To Say When the Police Tell You To Stop Filming Them · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Don't forget that after the camera is off and nobody is watching you will resist arrest, get physically assaulted and tazed because you know you resisted. In the end resisting arrest will stick and see it was all justified.

    Cops need body camera's and a hard and fast law that anything not captured on body camera the cop can not testify to. Were past the time where we need to or should trust the cops word as to visible facts, technology is capable of giving an impartial viewpoint.

  8. Re:The 30 and 40-somethings wrote the code... on Recruiters Use 'Digital Native' As Code For 'No Old Folks' · · Score: 1

    It's a fairly bad channel for that, pingdom and the like do a much better job.

  9. Re:The right way to do this: on USBKill Transforms a Thumb Drive Into an "Anti-Forensic" Device · · Score: 1

    So your worried about security but not running something with a working IOMMU?

  10. Re:The 30 and 40-somethings wrote the code... on Recruiters Use 'Digital Native' As Code For 'No Old Folks' · · Score: 1

    If you can not figure out how to use twitter's API in short order, turn in your keyboard back away from the laptop and find another career path.

    20+ years in the industry twitter has never been useful to me or mine but I tend to hard tech companies that actually make things work, rather than a sales/marketing type.

  11. Re:The 30 and 40-somethings wrote the code... on Recruiters Use 'Digital Native' As Code For 'No Old Folks' · · Score: 2

    Twitter does something useful?

  12. Re:Random Cell Phone Tap on US Gov't Will Reveal More About Its Secret Cellphone Tracking Devices · · Score: 1

    Na you just do like some states did and the radar gun is always right under law.

  13. Re:Time for indictments on US Gov't Will Reveal More About Its Secret Cellphone Tracking Devices · · Score: 1

    You forget the prosecutors that would indict them are knowing or at least complicit in this. Core issue is police and prosecutors should be adversarial but are not. Sire issue is police units have manged to carve out special exemptions protecting from these sort of indictments rather requiring an internal review.

  14. Re: Secrets on US Gov't Will Reveal More About Its Secret Cellphone Tracking Devices · · Score: 1

    I take it you have never heard of "Parallel construction" by which they do not disclose such things. They rationalize it as protecting sources and methods.

  15. Re:LA times is a Libtard Bastion on AT&T Bills Elderly Customer $24,298.93 For Landline Dial-Up Service · · Score: 1

    It was not a billing error, this guy spent nearly all month on long distance with AOL.

  16. Re:AT&T Autopay - Ha! on AT&T Bills Elderly Customer $24,298.93 For Landline Dial-Up Service · · Score: 1

    Many moons ago had an autopay mess up 240 turned into 24000, sue they would refund me the overdraft not the 17 others who all came out on the first. Had to take them to small claims.

    Now I only use my banks system far better and if they screw up it's their issue to fix.

  17. Re:no DNSSEC+DANE certficate validation on Mozilla Begins To Move Towards HTTPS-Only Web · · Score: 1

    Because they are sponsoring a nonprofit to give out certs.

  18. Were no longer an island on FBI Slammed On Capitol Hill For "Stupid" Ideas About Encryption · · Score: 2

    Mandatory encryption backdoors pretty much means we become a backwards island as nobody else will willingly use our crypto. It's already become a valid concern over networking gear from US companies since the NSA has been shown to subvert them, when people are buying chinese gear because it's a better option security wise than US gear you have a serious image issue.

  19. Re:Speed cameras reduce fatalities? on The Engineer's Lament -- Prioritizing Car Safety Issues · · Score: 1

    It's worse than that people suddenly brake checking at speed camera's causes a lot of minor accidents.

  20. Re:what are they really trying to achieve? on New Privacy Threat: Automated Vehicle Occupancy Detection · · Score: 1

    HOV is a money grab, they all fail at the most important task making it faster than not. Get busses out of HOV and increase the speed limit.

  21. Re:Burden of proof on New Privacy Threat: Automated Vehicle Occupancy Detection · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Passenger seat, how about the back seat. Last I checked if somebody has kids with them it's ok to use the lane. So this thing is not even close to accurate.

  22. Re:Nuke or hydro on Audi Creates "Fuel of the Future" Using Just Carbon Dioxide and Water · · Score: 1

    Nuke can run cogen with this as it's high temp electrolysis aka you can use the waste heat.

  23. So what now on Google Officially Discontinues Nexus 7 Tablet · · Score: 1

    Nexus 6 to big for be useful as a phone, costs 2x as much as the 5 did. Nexus 9 again size sucks, to big to carry around in front pocket to small to be a useful laptop and again 2x the price of the 7 it replaced.

    Cyogen (sp) seems to be the only option to keep things close to stock android anymore.

  24. Re:Progressive Fix 101 on Cheap Gas Fuels Switch From Electric Cars To SUVs · · Score: 1

    It would seem people want a cheap large vehicle. Station wagons were gas guzzlers with v8's etc. CAFE pushed people to buy even bigger gas guzzlers because they were cheaper and and fit their desire for a large vehicle. CAFE issues is it's complete lack of transparency and it's abuse of the of the you can tax anything therefor you can regulate by tax constitutional loophole.

  25. Re:Solar rarely enough for the whole house on Tesla To Announce Battery-Based Energy Storage For Homes · · Score: 1

    Thats a 600 a month electric bill around my parts of the US. WTF are you running I average 24kwh with 2 people home all day, all electric kitchen and dryer. A server (12x drives 2x 2.5 2xSSD and 8x3.5) that draws 160w or so steady state combined with UPS and power bricks for cablemodem, firewall, picocell, and poe injectors for voip phones and ip camera's. Hell the office UPS load is 207w with 2 desktops a laptop and a mix of 4k and 1080x1200 monitors.