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  1. Raritan Dominion KX series on Ask Slashdot: Old Technology Coexisting With New? · · Score: 1

    Sounds like you want what I get. Check eBay for the Raritan Dominion KX series. They have them with various numbers of ports. KX232 is the 32 port version, etc. It's browser based, a Java client, though the old Java doesn't work with SOME browsers.

  2. To make this discussion old and new on Ask Slashdot: Old Technology Coexisting With New? · · Score: 1

    To make this discussion old and new, to match the topic.

  3. Keyboards no, $750 RAID cards yes on Ask Slashdot: Old Technology Coexisting With New? · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I can get a new keyboard at Big Lots for $8, so no need to keep them for decades. I do use older top-of-the-line enterprise equipment, though. Raid cards that were $750 new can be found for $35, old IP KVMs that were $1200 new are actually BETTER than current models because don't require proprietary software. The other day I used a serial cable to transfer files from an Win98 laptop that didn't have USB mass storage drivers.

  4. Communism invariably creates authoritarinism on The Rise of Feudal Computer Security · · Score: 1

    Communism means goods and services are controlled by a central AUTHORITY. That centralization of decision making authority is authoritarinism. So there is no communism without authoritarinism. On the other hand, in a democratic free society people will have econimic freedom - capitalism - right up until they vote themselves largesse, which in practical application is communism. When they vote to have the government take care of them, they are also voting to give givernment the power and the money - authoritarian communism.

  5. b) is required under DMCA - Google is not a court on Movie Studios Ask Google To Censor Links To Legal Copies of Their Own Films · · Score: 1

    To qualify for the protections under the DMCA, Google is required to so b), accept them at face value UNLESS the other side calls BS (files a counterclaim.) . If they call BS, Google has to accept that unless the complainant comes back sating they are filing suit in federal court. So either way Google doesn't have a choice, if the notice is in the proper form. They can't play judge and jury -they are required to act based on what the parties tell them.

  6. Pretty certain for a solar company with no product on Even Capped Prediction Markets Can Be Manipulated · · Score: 1

    How concrete is it? If you own a solar company with no products and no real chance of ever making a useful product, it's pretty concrete. If Obama wins, he hands you $100 million of tax payer money. If Obama loses, you have to get a job and work for a living. Pretty concrete indeed.

  7. Solution: $1 million minimum trade on Even Capped Prediction Markets Can Be Manipulated · · Score: 1

    Many of tne objections to such markets could be solved not with a maximum cap, but with a minimum of say $100,000 or $1 million. The proper use of such markets is as a hedge. If a chain of grocery stores, for example, thinks that an Obama win will make them lose $3 million, they can reduce or eliminate the risk by putting $1 or $1.5 million on Obama. (If he wins the election, his policies cost them $3 million, but the trade makes them $1.5, so they only lose $1.5 net.) At $1 million minimum, Bubba Gambler wouldn't be involved. It would only be used by people and companies who are really affected by these events, who would think carefully about what kind of hedge really makes sense.

  8. Researchers use responsible disclosure on Researcher Discloses New Batch of MySQL Vulnerabilities · · Score: 1

    "Researcher", insomuch as it implies a level of professionalism, should be reserved for those with a modicum of professionalism, such as responsible disclosure. I could have had my 15 minutes of fame with a vulnerability I discovered that could have been used to take fown wikipedia and many other sites, but instead I reported it through the proper channels so it was fixed, not exploited. Perhaps "security attention-seeker" would be a better term.

  9. LG USB much faster than IDE on Slashdot Asks: SATA DVD Drives That Don't Suck for CD Ripping? · · Score: 1, Informative

    I have five LG brand USB drives which I found were much faster than IDE for BURNING. They may also be much faster for ripping. I use a little shell script which keeps them busy. All I do is swap disks once the job is started, I don't touch the keyboard or mouse.

  10. 4G or 4G LTE? on Ask Slashdot: DIY 4G Antenna Design For the Holidays? · · Score: 1

    While 4G was 2.3 Ghz, microwave range and therefore a cantenna style waveguide would be good, LTE is 750 Mhz. For LTE you would want a more conventional desig.s. (Antenna designs are pretty much the same until you get about 1Ghz or so, then you use different designs.)

  11. Misleading. Hidden at the bottom of the story ... on FBI Asked Megaupload To Preserve Pirated Files, Then Used Them Against Dotcom · · Score: 4, Informative

    Hidden at the bottom of the story, in internal emails Mega said they had 2,000 users with those 39 infringing files. They weren't supposed to delete the NinjaVideo account, but what about the other 1,999? If you believe one side is right, why not tell the truth about why that side is right? Why the need to mislead and lie? (Answer - writers try to mislead users users like tnat when they know the truth isn't on their side.)

  12. I'm one of those, but to be the best on Cyber Corps Program Trains Spies For the Digital Age, In Oklahoma · · Score: 1

    The security software I developed runs on tens of thousands of web sites. I don't have a college degree. Some might say I have a natural talent. Yet, to really be the best I can, to be an NSA level expert, schooling would really help I'm sure. Natural talent and self-study has gotten me to a certain point, but I'm sure studying with other bright people would take me up a notch or two, even if that's not my comfort zone.

  13. They don't specialize in hiding the perpetrator, on "Anonymous" File-Sharing Darknet Ruled Illegal By German Court · · Score: 1

    ISPs move packets as efficiently as possible, and they do follow laws that give them certain immunities as long as they adhere to accepted protocols, like responding to lawfully filed notices. ISPs do NOT work really hard to hide the source of an act, making it slower and more costly in the process. These "darknets" expend ten times as many resources specifically for the purpose of hiding people who don't want to be held accountable for their actions. The whole point of the proxy is "I'll do your dirty work for you so you don't get caught." If I volunteer to do something that people don't want to get caught doing, I would expect to be held responsible for my actions. "I was doing it for some stranger" is a weak excuse. Here's an analogy. If a stranger at an airport asks you "will you carry this bag on for me, but don't tell anyone because I don't want to get caught", that's not a good excuse when it turns out the bag is full of heroine. A willingly ignorant drug runner who doesn't look in the bag is still a drug runner. A thief or child porn distributor who willingly carries "I don't want to get caught" packets without looking at them is still a thief or a CP distributor.

  14. I would expect to be held responsible on "Anonymous" File-Sharing Darknet Ruled Illegal By German Court · · Score: 3, Interesting

    If I knowingly delivered packages from people who wanted to hide their identity, making it more expensive and slower due to the extra steps required to hide, I would expect to be held responsible for any bombs or drugs I delivered. How Is this different from.an ISP? An ISP delivers content as efficiently as possible - they don't take extra steps to hide the perpetrator of unlawful acts.

  15. Choose the false positive rate. Random is all FP on UK To Use "Risk-Profiling Software" To Screen All Airline Passengers and Cargo · · Score: 1

    "many, many false positives." No. Like a spam filter, you select the false positive rate you're okay with, setting the thresholds accordingly. The corresponding true positive rate defines how good the system is. Randomly searching 5% of passengers has a 5% false positive rate. Can this system do better than random chance? Probably a little better.

  16. A lot of people no security skills are cocky on UK To Use "Risk-Profiling Software" To Screen All Airline Passengers and Cargo · · Score: 1

    I see a lot of contents from people who seem pretty sure of themselves, but clearly have no training or experience in security. Machine learning? That's nothing to do with it, humans can and do input the parameters. You think these criteria can't be effective? There are a number of characteristics which have been true of every single hijacker ever. The most obvious - it's politically to incorrect to notice that they are ALWAYS young males, every single time.

  17. First 4 results say electrcute = kill on High-Voltage Fences For Zapping Would-Be Copper Thieves · · Score: 1

    Aside from the definition Google shows in preview, the first four results in YOUR link all say electrocute = kill. Only the one displayed in full indicates it's ever used to mean injure. So four dictionaries say it means lethal, one doesn't. It's okay to be wrong, that's how we learn.

  18. Not proportional because it's not continous DC on High-Voltage Fences For Zapping Would-Be Copper Thieves · · Score: 1

    "Amps and volts are proportional" ... "you don't get the amps". See how you realized they sometimes are NOT proportional? Ohm's law is for continous DC. Pulses are different. I'm sure you intuitively understand that the 12,000 volt spark you get when touching a metal object after walking on carpet is not a hundred times as powerful as sticking your finger in a light socket. Amps is basically the flow rate of electrons. Dividing pressure (voltage) by resistance will give you the flow rate, but there's no flow here. It's a pulse, more like getting hit with a fast moving drop of water, not a stream going through you.

  19. Laundry static is 20,000 volts, what's your point on High-Voltage Fences For Zapping Would-Be Copper Thieves · · Score: 1

    3V across the heart can kill you. 750 volts behind 2 milliamps is a prank sold in toy stores. (Shock pen.) 100,000 volts behind 0.1ma you wouldn't even notice. Volts aren't dangerous, amps are.

  20. Note to copper thieves - gloves won't work on High-Voltage Fences For Zapping Would-Be Copper Thieves · · Score: 4, Informative

    I once touched an electric fence with a three foot stick. I got quite a jolt. It's current, amps, that are dangerous, but it's volts that jump through insulation, and these things have a lot of volts. If you're unsure whether gloves, say thick leather work gloves, will help, consider this - an electric fence is designed to drop a 2,000 bull. A bull covered in non-conductive hair, and under that, covered in leather. Hmm, I'm giving advice for THIEVES. Come to think of it, everything I just said is a lie. All you have to do is use your T shirt to cover the wire, so your hands don't touch it directly. It'll work, I promise.

  21. Try it for a week and see if it's acceptable on High-Voltage Fences For Zapping Would-Be Copper Thieves · · Score: 1

    For every grocery item you buy, fill out a form with it's UPC code, expiration date, etc. Make a copy of your ID for each. Then do a forensic examination on each piece of trash so that you can distinguish between one milk carton and another. Do that for a week, then tell us if it's acceptable to you to spend your days doing that.

  22. Tried it here, doesn't work. Simple reason. on High-Voltage Fences For Zapping Would-Be Copper Thieves · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Where I live that is one of many regulations related metal recycling. It hasn't worked. There is no way to identify a particular piece of pipe, wiring etc. and say it came from some specific location. Even where you COULD match it up, that would require forensic inspection of every piece of metal trash, then comparing each to all thefts. We're talking about vast amounts of scrap, trash, every day, not the occasional mysterious body evey few years, so the forensics to match them aren't anywhere near feasible.

  23. This. I teach cybersecurity for DHS on Will It Take a 'Cyber Pearl Harbor' To Break Congressional Deadlock? · · Score: 4, Informative

    I'm involved with teaching cybersecurity for DHS. Our network, that we use to develop cybersecurity classes, is about as secure as the "lock" on a bathroom stall. But we sure are in compliance with a lot of regulations! A coworker and I were just discussing the fact that agency "security" regulations prevent us from making things secure. Example "anything hashed must be hashed with MD5". MD5 is broken, so we were going to use SHA-256, but regulations don't allow SHA-256. The other end refuses to use MD5 since it's broken, so we have to send the data in clear. With no"security" regulation it would be SHA-256 hashed. To comply with the "security" rules, we have to send it in the clear, out in the open. Such is government regulation.

  24. Hiring a hitman on Papa John's Sued For Unwanted Pizza-Related Texts · · Score: 1

    It could be argued that unless they specified in the contract that it was to be opt-in, or double opt-in, they are responsible, especially given evidence that they knew it was "probably illegal". "I told the hit hitman to 'get rid of him', I didn't specifically say 'kill him'" doesn't fly.

  25. 5th amendment, "wiretapping" laws on Salt Lake City Police To Wear Camera Glasses · · Score: 1

    Anything a suspects SAYS os protected by the fifth amendment, so the jury would never hear the drunk. Add to that federal and state "wiretapping" laws prevent audio recording, but not video. Maybe tjey could do it within the law, but "wiretapping" laws are a bit of a minefield.