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  1. Re:Security is possible, but you must focus. on Former NSA Honcho Calls Corporate IT Security "Appalling" · · Score: 1

    Tell me which university do you work forthe biggest problems in academia range from "we have open policies", to political problems. And thing is, most technicians talk about getting technical solutions for political problems that can be fixed with technology.

  2. I can't get one thing on Another 100 Gigabit DDoS Attack Strikes — This Time Unreflected · · Score: 4, Insightful

    If they haven't identified the attacker how can they say with 100% certainty it only came from one source, and was un-reflected? For I all I know, you could have a botnet fabricating packets with the same characteristics simultaneously.

  3. Re:Future!? on The Memo That Spawned Microsoft Research · · Score: 1

    Easy, because they can't "innovate" as they have done in the past because Apple and Google are too big to buy. Even so, they can trow a large amount of money to nokia for them to go under with them, and to some airplane companies to come forward and say they will use their products, even when infuriating their own employees, which is quite a brilliant strategy, lets say.

  4. Re:Microsoft then and now on The Memo That Spawned Microsoft Research · · Score: 1

    The only thing I can see now and then, is that they lost they foothold of OEM bullying with vendors with the mobile platform, and Apple and Google are too big for them to "innovate" as usual, trowing money around to buy the new products (i.e. too big to buy). That is the bigger of their problems

  5. Re:Microsoft then and now on The Memo That Spawned Microsoft Research · · Score: 1

    Microsoft was in OS/2 only to make sure it didnt go forward and to get new ideas. They didnt want to share the status quo with IBM.

  6. Re:The future of Microsoft now in question ... Huh on The Memo That Spawned Microsoft Research · · Score: 1

    You need a link for that? In which cave have you been living in the last couple of decades?

  7. Re:Future of Microsoft in question? on The Memo That Spawned Microsoft Research · · Score: 1

    Your sir, you rock. That is exactly the problem of MS nowadays, that it can't extend their predatory model to the tablet/phone world, and Apple is too big to buy. and about them being obsolete, they should have had started worrying with that in 2000, not now.

  8. Re:Self-driving cars on Saudi Cleric Pummeled On Twitter For Claiming Driving Damages Women's Ovaries · · Score: 1

    I don't mind the driving as long the face is not *covered*. I lived in mozambique where they often drive with burkas on, and I would like to be clarified, 1) how you identify the person in an accident 2) how you enforce driving licenses in that case (very easy to drive with an ID of a relative)

  9. Re:Lived in a country with the most liberal muslim on Saudi Cleric Pummeled On Twitter For Claiming Driving Damages Women's Ovaries · · Score: 1

    This got an error. I don't mind to see them anywhere, butno good writing at 4AM.

  10. Lived in a country with the most liberal muslims on Saudi Cleric Pummeled On Twitter For Claiming Driving Damages Women's Ovaries · · Score: 1

    AndWhat I don't agree is women driving with the face covered, as I have seen many times. Mind you, I don't want to see them anywhere, but if I someone has accident, or I hit by a car, the police and the persons involved ought to know who is responsible. I am not allowed to drive with a mask, and as far as I know in the UK people have already been arrested for that ( for evading fines, I know, but you get the gist ).

  11. Re:I can't get it on LinkedIn Agrees To Block Stalkers · · Score: 1

    meh, don't play with serious things. I have been already harassed by mobile, and I solved it in days. Just changed the number, and presto. That is a very efficient way of dealing with stupid people. And a linked.in account is a far less valuable asset than a mobile number. Get the proportions of things man, and grow out of that mentality, for Chrissake. One that lets be harassed by something as disposable as a social network account or a mobile account is not thinking well.

  12. I can't get it on LinkedIn Agrees To Block Stalkers · · Score: 1

    If people are being harassed in linked.in, whats the difficult part of erasing the profile? The truth is linked.in anti-contact or anti-spam measures are largely non-existent or work very badly, or endorsements are critically flawed and you can't freeze/block/pre-aprove them because linked.in wants the network to grow as large as possible no matter what. It is their business model.

  13. Cant get the news on Students Hack School-Issued iPads Within One Week · · Score: 1

    So running an app to hack iPads is news?

  14. Please no more starwars on An Animated, Open Letter To J.J. Abrams About Star Wars · · Score: 1

    I can't take it anymore, and definitively is so 80s; is was already out of place in 2000 IMO, we already are tired of seeing star wars, move on and invent something good for a change.

  15. Re:Gross, but... on First Cases of Flesh-Eating Drug Emerge In the United States · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Fairly easy, the difference between alcohol and marijuana is that anybody can grow the plant without having middle man or paying taxes, and that cant be allowed.

  16. Re:This is a bully. on Arrest Made In Webcam Highjacking Extortion Case · · Score: 1

    I bet he will be a sensation in jail and will pick up many soaps in the shower.

  17. Re:XT was a mistake on Bill Gates Acknowledges Ctrl+Alt+Del Was a Mistake · · Score: 1

    The original ones had manual, I remember handling them at school. But they were very simple.

  18. Re:XT was a mistake on Bill Gates Acknowledges Ctrl+Alt+Del Was a Mistake · · Score: 1

    They build it to be CPM/compatible and cheap, with text mode and a 16-bit processor with an 8-bit data bus, to use off-the-shelf components, TTL logic and outdated hardware. i.e. to be build in the cheap. That is also why they were big boxes btw. The BIOS/OS was also ridiculously simple, didn't do much. In an era the competition was running all graphic operating systems and multitasking and specialised co-processors. Where Motorola was starting pumping processors with 64 bit instructions. When you already had home systems built with custom ASICs to cut on the number of processors and gain performance. The 640KB limit, and associated problems with it just to be able to run directly CPM/software, still plague the Intel consumer family to this very day. The operating system didn't do anything besides providing CPM/compatibility and managing the storage, diskettes, and latter mapping the diskette operation to the hard drive, also in a time you had far much more operating systems for academic and home use. This nonsense that got widespread due to you have to be compatible myth sold so well by IBM, set us back in CSI science for at least 25 years.

  19. Re:Too much competition on The MinnowBoard is a Low-Cost, Open Hardware Single-Board Computer (Video) · · Score: 1

    because: I can; it provides better security, far better than jails or VServers; you can copy pre-made virtual machines or migrate them to other boxes depending on load; you can build fail-over scenarios; it is easier to administer, and finally, because it is fashionable.

  20. Meat for the rich on Clinton Grants $1 Million To Edible Insect Farmers · · Score: 1

    Insects for the poor. Eat your cockroach

  21. Too much competition on The MinnowBoard is a Low-Cost, Open Hardware Single-Board Computer (Video) · · Score: 1

    We have already raspberry pi and others. What I would like was a more potent cheap "appliance" with VT instructions to run XEN and 3-4 virtual machines with low requirements, like DNS and DHCP servers.

  22. Re:own OS, routers and firewall too on Can There Be a Non-US Internet? · · Score: 1

    Hey, I will sell you this nifty Cisco router with a couple of extra CPUs and this special filters for your police to catch pedos and pirates, yah know? I have had this same recurrent problem with pure sysadmin or network people that don't understand you have got to see the performance, security and stability of the platform as a whole. Or else, don't get lost in the tree, and look at the forest. The problem is your weakest link, and everything is interconnected. Of course we won't expect a politician to understand that.

  23. Re:It's not just an Asia thing on Existing Drugs Fight Antibiotic-Resistant Bugs · · Score: 1

    My bad, you are right, I was just referring to shrimps in Asia and haven't noticed the last word caught the cattle and fish part.

  24. XT was a mistake on Bill Gates Acknowledges Ctrl+Alt+Del Was a Mistake · · Score: 2, Interesting

    if we start thinking in what was wrong building a computer with 25 years technology then we would lost count of the mistakes. If it weren't for the backing of IBM, it would been an instant market failure.

  25. own OS, routers and firewall too on Can There Be a Non-US Internet? · · Score: 2

    So Brazil will develop also his own OS, is own hardware, CPUs, routers, and firewalls? idiots. The bigger problem of all is reliance on Windows.