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  1. Re:Back Door on Cuba Connecting Universities With Fiber · · Score: 1

    What would the US embargo have done that the Iron Curtain wouldn't have already done anyways?

  2. Re:Bad Summary, Only new part is the sharing optio on Windows 10 Shares Your Wi-Fi Password With Contacts · · Score: 0

    Why would I be mad? I'm not the one of us who has to wake up every morning to a brain dead existence.

  3. Re:Bad Summary, Only new part is the sharing optio on Windows 10 Shares Your Wi-Fi Password With Contacts · · Score: 1

    And if they're doing it in public, you'll probably be aware enough to change your password.

    Not only that, but I don't want my passwords being stored on Microsoft's servers.

    Oh wait a minute, you're that moron who thinks layer 3 switches are merely "bad routers." Go back to whatever high school you dropped out of, and for the good of the world NEVER go into IT or anything else besides janitorial work.

  4. Re:Back Door on Cuba Connecting Universities With Fiber · · Score: 2

    That, and the fact that they're deploying long ago obsoleted last mile technology (DSL), I doubt their infrastructure will be any kind of marvel. One would think that an all new deployment would be at least kind of modern.

  5. Re:Bad Summary, Only new part is the sharing optio on Windows 10 Shares Your Wi-Fi Password With Contacts · · Score: 4, Insightful

    And if you give your wifi credentials to a guest who needs access to your network, they can opt you in without your permission or even your knowledge.

    The only way then to prevent unknown people from having your wifi password is to forbid Windows 10 mobile users from accessing your network.

  6. Re:alogrithms aren't racist on Google Apologises For Photos App's Racist Blunder · · Score: 1

    I did open the article moron, but for whatever reason no pictures were showing on my mobile.

  7. Re:alogrithms aren't racist on Google Apologises For Photos App's Racist Blunder · · Score: 1

    I can't help but wonder if this person (which I haven't seen) actually did resemble a gorilla. Wouldn't be the first time I've seen such a thing.

    I suspect that if the person misidentified was white, this wouldn't be news however.

  8. Re: Altough I agree on Microsoft To Sell Bing Maps, Advertising Sections · · Score: 1

    They've been holding out for the long term for about 5 years now. Presently Microsoft loses 12 cents on every mobile device they sell, and that doesn't even count the R&D and marketing costs. There is all of zero indication that things will turn around. Every so often there's a new WP, and the fanboys jump for joy saying that "this is the one that will fix it all, omg its so awesome!" and the result is just crickets.

    I've heard it described that developing apps on WP feels as restricted as writing code in javascript on a web browser.

  9. Re: Altough I agree on Microsoft To Sell Bing Maps, Advertising Sections · · Score: 1
  10. Re: Altough I agree on Microsoft To Sell Bing Maps, Advertising Sections · · Score: 1

    if they can find that itch to scratch, things could change within the course of two or three years.

    We've been hearing that every year for the past (almost) 5 years since WP came out.

  11. Re:Drone It on Test Pilot: the F-35 Can't Dogfight · · Score: 2

    Yeah but GP was talking about soldier housing. The housing at Fort Knox is located just off of that public highway.

  12. Re: Competition on Microsoft To Sell Bing Maps, Advertising Sections · · Score: 2

    BTW for historical reference:

    Sega Genesis, SNES, and Turbo Graphix 16

    Windows, Mac OS, and OS/2.

    Android, iOS, Windows Phone

    There are a lot of examples, but while people have heard of the third, basically nobody uses it.

  13. Re: Competition on Microsoft To Sell Bing Maps, Advertising Sections · · Score: 4, Insightful

    In technology platform wars, there tends to only be two major competitors at any given time, with the third being niche at best, and almost always ignored by the dominant two anyways, so it doesn't change things much IMO.

  14. Re: Altough I agree on Microsoft To Sell Bing Maps, Advertising Sections · · Score: 1

    I kinda doubt it. Satya Nadella really didn't seem to like the first Nokia purchase, only backpedaling after he himself was stuck with it. Likewise, buying here maps sounds like such a Ballmer move.

    In fact I wouldn't be at all surprised if Microsoft finally kills windows phone. It's really not Microsoft's bread and butter. Their bread and butter is enterprise grade SaaS and enterprise grade workstations and applications.

    Xbox *may* have a future as this third generation is finally profitable, however they've already dumped so much money into the first two that they're still in the hole, and will be for some time.

  15. Re: Competition on Microsoft To Sell Bing Maps, Advertising Sections · · Score: 1

    I think that competition is coming in the form of Apple, who it seems is poised to compete with Google's search, in addition to their maps service.

  16. Re:Drone It on Test Pilot: the F-35 Can't Dogfight · · Score: 2

    Depends on the base. Fort Knox, which all of the movies have you believe is lock down tight secure, has a public highway going right through the middle of it. When I used to serve there, I sometimes went through this trailer park called Radcliff to get to the mall in the hillbilly city of Elizabethtown. No checkpoints anywhere along the way, just plain open road, with lots of deer and tick filled bushes.

  17. Re: Using Linux would prevent these Cisco mishaps on Cisco Security Appliances Found To Have Default SSH Keys · · Score: 1

    Poverty = ignorance. Have you ever touched anything not sold in Bestbuy?

    I think it's worse than that. He's a real life Nelson "Big Head" Bighetti. Makes himself look knowledgeable but is really just fucking worthless.

  18. Re:Using Linux would prevent these Cisco mishaps! on Cisco Security Appliances Found To Have Default SSH Keys · · Score: 1

    Wow. Not only is everything you said way wrong (way way way WAY wrong,) but it's also approaching retardation.

    In fact, I strongly recommend there be a restraining order to prevent you from going anywhere within a mile of any enterprise grade network. You're of those guys who talks down to other employees at IT shops while always being the biggest cause of down time. 100% Dunning-Kruger.

  19. Re:Using Linux would prevent these Cisco mishaps! on Cisco Security Appliances Found To Have Default SSH Keys · · Score: 1

    Quite a difference between using any old Linux server as a router, and using an actual device that is purpose built for that which includes an ASIC to make faster and more efficient forwarding decisions.

  20. Re:Using Linux would prevent these Cisco mishaps! on Cisco Security Appliances Found To Have Default SSH Keys · · Score: 1

    A layer 3 switch is in many ways better than a router because it makes forwarding decisions in hardware. Meanwhile dedicated routers don't offer any big advantages over a layer 3 switch unless you happen to be using old shit like frame relay where you need special WICs and can't use ordinary ethernet or SFP adapters.

  21. Re:why not crack down on the rioting protesters? on After Protest, France Cracks Down On Uber · · Score: 2

    Well at least we can now distinguish protest from celebration, because it seems that in France, setting your neighbors car into a blazing inferno is a sign of celebration.

    http://europe.newsweek.com/940...

    So there you have it:

    Car flipped, somebody is angry.
    Car burned, somebody is happy.

  22. Re: Kong Fristy the First! on SpaceX Breaks Down Its Rocket Landing Attempts · · Score: 1

    The shuttle wasn't a rocket, rather it was the rocket's payload.

  23. Re:Using Linux would prevent these Cisco mishaps! on Cisco Security Appliances Found To Have Default SSH Keys · · Score: 4, Informative

    Cisco is very much a "configure it yourself" type of deal. In fact their whole certification track above the CCENT level revolves heavily around knowing the IOS command syntax.

    You can substitute their routers for Linux, but NOT their layer 3 switches, unless you really don't give a shit about performance in an enterprise environment.

  24. Re:There Are More Rooms than People on The Vicious Circle That Is Sending Rents Spiraling Higher · · Score: 1

    It looks like Amnesty International: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org]

    Coincidentally, there are 116M housing units in the US, median size say 4-5 rooms. If you had one person per room in every house, we could house everyone easily--318 million people in the US vs. 464M rooms. But the market isn't doing that.

    That seems to be working under the assumption that, for example, the exact number of people who need to occupy an empty room and/or house want to live in the location of said room/house. I know that Detroit has a lot of unoccupied space, but I can't think of many people who would actually want to live in that turd. Personally I'd much rather be homeless than live there.

  25. Re:GMOs have so many different problems on Controversial Trial of Genetically Modified Wheat Ends In Disappointment · · Score: 1

    That only explains why you didn't throw out a warning call for organic food. Why did you throw out a warning call for GMO food?