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  1. Re:WordPress Flash exploit .. on WordPress Hacks Behind Surging Neutrino EK Traffic · · Score: 1

    I feel it makes Youtube BETTER. It may take an extra click, but keeping it from autoplaying ads, skipping forward, etc is worth Flash-blocking on it too. Even CNN and other major sites are better with Flash click-enabled on them.

  2. Re:WordPress is a security problem on WordPress Hacks Behind Surging Neutrino EK Traffic · · Score: 1

    And your suggestion for an alternative is what? Drupal? Sharepoint? I don't know of any other free content management systems with Wordpress's functionality...but that's not my area of expertise anyway. I've only ran Wordpress and Drupal as my hobby CMS, and at work we only use Sharepoint. I'm open to suggestions though!

  3. Re:WordPress is a security problem on WordPress Hacks Behind Surging Neutrino EK Traffic · · Score: 1

    My base install does NOT auto-update automatically. It notifies me via email. As Wordpress is presented as a GUI-driven system, modifying config files by hand in a text editor to get auto-update working is a negative for qualifying as "default". Installing a plug-in to get auto-update working isn't considered "default" either. I've looked through the GUI and see no mention of enabling auto-updates, nor see any references to this being "by default".

  4. Re:Stupid comment on Hyperloop Getting Closer To Reality, Groundbreaking Set For 2016 · · Score: 1

    I always use a supersonic jet to take me to my camping sites!

  5. The emerging meta statistics on New Tool Allows Scientists To Annotate Media Coverage of Climate Change · · Score: 1

    Already, with just these few articles, we can see certain sites tilting in specific ways. The Telegraph shows alarmist climate changes, that score low. The Wall Street Journal slants toward climate denial and also scores low. The data set is too small though, no other magazine has more than one review. How various magazines trend will be interesting, and if we could get multiple reviews in a same issue...perhaps we could have evidence of top-down editorial manipulation. Who owns which magazines? News Corp, I'm looking at you!

  6. Run for the hills! on How an Obscure Acronym Helped Link AT&T To NSA Spying · · Score: 1

    Oh no, the NetWare 3.X bindery server has been compromised! Everyone better shut down their Windows NT and Novel Netware servers down and wait for a patch to be issued on a 5 1/4 floppy disk.

  7. Re:A Huge Affair on Cheap, 3D-Printed Stethoscope Challenges Top-of-the-Line Model · · Score: 1

    We in the US are the ones paying for the research and development of such tech like this. Some doctor in Africa might now get a .30 printed scope, but the path to get that scope in the first place is paid for by the US. The US developed most modern operating procedures, drugs, devices, etc. We are still paying for all that via our higher costs. If we could actually spread out those costs better, everyone's cost across the world would increase while ours here in the US decrease. That's why drugs cost so much...your also paying for all the failed drugs that company every tried to make and market.

  8. Re:Only as good as the person using it. on Cheap, 3D-Printed Stethoscope Challenges Top-of-the-Line Model · · Score: 1

    hand it to me, and the next thing you'll probably need is a quick ride to the hospital.

  9. Re:Only as good as the person using it. on Cheap, 3D-Printed Stethoscope Challenges Top-of-the-Line Model · · Score: 1

    "Your hardware is only as good as your wetware." Shadowrun axiom.

  10. Re:30 cents... on Cheap, 3D-Printed Stethoscope Challenges Top-of-the-Line Model · · Score: 1

    " 3-d printer operator" I'm guessing you haven't used a 3-d printer. It doesn't take some specialized, months long training. Their not designing a car or a building. It's filling the material bin, pushing a button, and waiting. "the building"? Really, are you saying the printer is some huge machine that takes up a whole building? Like some material-producing ENIAC? 3-D printers are the same size (or actually smaller) than most workgroup laser printers, and use less electricity.

  11. Re:Profits. on Cheap, 3D-Printed Stethoscope Challenges Top-of-the-Line Model · · Score: 1

    This is the real reason why medical costs are so high here in the USA, and it's odd that no politician as made this a talking point yet. For most of the 20th century, the US was the leader in medical devices, new surgeries, new medicines, etc. With time and the sharing of information, that tech has spread out quite a bit now. Yet for a long time the US was the #1 medical research system. And since we're a capitalist society, someone has to pay for all that and those costs have been amortized down into every other part of medical care here. So, when people say "medical costs in the US are super high", that's because your also paying for all the research and development it took for that tech to reach you.

  12. Re:Profits. on Cheap, 3D-Printed Stethoscope Challenges Top-of-the-Line Model · · Score: 2

    Some places in India offer stem cell treatments that don't even exist in the US because "stem cells=aborted babies". We gave up our medical lead due to our morality, and probably have cost millions of people the chance at a better life because of (to quote Bush) "beginnings of life and the ends of science". Because, as the GOP see it, science must end if life is to continue?

  13. Re:Profits. on Cheap, 3D-Printed Stethoscope Challenges Top-of-the-Line Model · · Score: 1

    Totally, India is KICKING THE USA's ASS when it comes to stem cell therapy. The elite rich have managed to shift it into some "stem cells=aborted babies" and pretty much killed all research here. But since their rich, they can just go fly to whatever country isn't held back and get whatever life-extending therapies they can buy but leave their servants (the 99% others) here to die from those exact same problems. I only wish this was some conspiracy theory idea...but I personally know of at least four people who have went to India to get treatments that are not available here in the US, and all four of them are at least millionaires on paper.

  14. Re:Do doctors still use them? on Cheap, 3D-Printed Stethoscope Challenges Top-of-the-Line Model · · Score: 2

    " comparing blood pressure readings from my GP (an older man) versus that of the younger nurse." I totally agree, my blood pressure often goes up too when the old man doctor leaves and a younger, far more attractive nurse comes in.

  15. Re:Oh Canada on CNN and CBC Sued For Pirating YouTube Video · · Score: 1

    Maple Syrup addiction can really mess up your head. It's summer time, and the snow / syrup addiction subsystem is kicking in with full cravings.

  16. Re:Settle on CNN and CBC Sued For Pirating YouTube Video · · Score: 1

    How much? By RIAA / MPAA logic, not only is CNN and CBC on the hook for this, but also anyone working there is also personally liable, as are the various data pipe providers that helped facilitate this. If anyone working at CNN / CBC happened to take a laptop home that someone in their household MIGHT have seen this on, then everyone in the house is also an infringer. If anyone in CBC / CNN used, operated, or associated with an "open wifi" during this time period, then all MAC addresses in those WAP tables may also be infrigers and fined. You can probably see where this is going...

  17. Re:WTF does that mean? on CNN and CBC Sued For Pirating YouTube Video · · Score: 1

    Probably because when this first started, no one but CBC / CNN knew this. It's CBC's logo on the video, not CNNs. Only through this discovery process did we learn that they are claiming "CNN said it was ok".

  18. Re:Party loyalty is a huge problem ... on Clinton Surrendering Email Server/Data To Feds After Top Secret Mail Found · · Score: 1

    Here in Oklahoma, when your a total fuck-up like our Attorney General Scott Pruitt you somehow get to run unopposed. Still trying to figure out how that happened.

  19. Re:Party loyalty is a huge problem ... on Clinton Surrendering Email Server/Data To Feds After Top Secret Mail Found · · Score: 3, Insightful

    This is really why the GOP is pissed at Trump. He's supposed to pay for someone else to run as President, not actually use his own money and do it himself.

  20. Re:For Unclassified is Fed IT diff from Corp IT? on Clinton Surrendering Email Server/Data To Feds After Top Secret Mail Found · · Score: 1

    So you demanded employees couldn't even have their personal phone on them in their car, or use it while traveling to / from work? "home phones left at home"? So...if your employee happen to have an accident / break down on the way to work...per your employment contract you would fire them if they called AAA / your office / their spouse since they didn't leave the mobile sitting on their dining room table? God forbid if they wanted to call someone after work and do something...Nope, if you work for ihtoit you better GO HOME FIRST AND GET YOUR MOBILE or your fired, right? I suppose that idea might work, but only if your paying your people from the time they leave the house until they get home again...

    Did you follow your own policy? Perhaps that's why it's in past tense...halfway to work you realized your cell is in your jacket pocket and you had to fire yourself, right?

  21. Re:Why is Clinton(s) not in jail???? on Clinton Surrendering Email Server/Data To Feds After Top Secret Mail Found · · Score: 1

    Petraeus was just the sacrificial goat offered up by the intelligence community for their own lapses in security and policy / procedures.

  22. My person Alex Jones level conspiracy theory on Clinton Surrendering Email Server/Data To Feds After Top Secret Mail Found · · Score: 1

    is that her email server was compromised almost the entire time she was using it...and someone who hacked it also turned over information about the CIA's "The Annex" outpost to the eventual attackers in Benghazi. Of course, the idea that the people living around the area might have noticed the additional CIA agents (at least, what, 20-50 people working in The Annex?) and told someone might be more realistic...but I like the idea that she accidentally burned our agents via poor ITSEC just seems far more satisfying.

  23. Re:Like All Defenses... on 'Privacy Visor' Can Fool Face-Recognition Cameras · · Score: 1

    I betting that someone like Google could just keep telling their face recog expert system "no, that IS a human, look again." Have some people wear these glasses, then not wear them, same lighting etc...eventually the expert system itself will figure out how to work around it.

  24. Re:IR LEDs did it better years ago on 'Privacy Visor' Can Fool Face-Recognition Cameras · · Score: 1

    TFA mentions this, and mentions the fact that LEDs require power...so you'll need some type of attached battery pack too. You could probably rig up some LR44's to run a couple LEDs, since those are at least rechargeable. But still need batteries.

  25. Re:It was always a scam on Why the Freemium Business Model Isn't What It Used To Be · · Score: 3, Informative

    No one runs iOS on enterprise level hardware. Nor do you play any games on it. This guy tried to compete in an IBM level world, "enterprise class" like Oracle, SAP, RHEL, Microsoft (haha) and is running into requirements coming in from SLA's signed between other contractors. The enterprise world is a maze of cross-competing contracts that are all industry-standard set by external (ITIL, NIST, HIPAA, etc) policies. "It's free!" doesn't help with an SLA fine that can be in the millions.