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  1. Re:Helps but not a complete solution. on Some Windows XP Users Can't Afford To Upgrade · · Score: 1

    Good firewalls can limit inbound and outbound traffic.

  2. Re:Helps but not a complete solution. on Some Windows XP Users Can't Afford To Upgrade · · Score: 1

    That sort of thing could be and should be automated. They can probably save $100k a year with a simple shell script, or autoit if you are windows only.

  3. Re:Helps but not a complete solution. on Some Windows XP Users Can't Afford To Upgrade · · Score: 1

    Because he probably can't type, or enough docs can't that they bought some hideous point and click system that doesn't have usable keyboard shortcuts. Every MA suddenly has carpel tunnel.

  4. Re:Helps but not a complete solution. on Some Windows XP Users Can't Afford To Upgrade · · Score: 1

    Docs always want someone to follow them around and input everything into the computer or chart. They just don't want to pay for it.

  5. Re:Helps but not a complete solution. on Some Windows XP Users Can't Afford To Upgrade · · Score: 1

    Internet access doesn't have to mean full internet access. Sounds like a job for pfsnse, or a good firewall. Don't bother trying this with one of those SMB home user firewalls.

  6. Re:If humans can't get it right.. on Boston Police Chief: Facial Recognition Tech Didn't Help Find Bombing Suspects · · Score: 1

    Who wants to pay for HD video storage, that disk space gets expensive fast.

  7. Re:Wasn't It As Much Individual Photog & ID? on Boston Police Chief: Facial Recognition Tech Didn't Help Find Bombing Suspects · · Score: 1

    My mod points seem to have been used up, but I appreciate your knowledgeable posting.

  8. Re:Wasn't It As Much Individual Photog & ID? on Boston Police Chief: Facial Recognition Tech Didn't Help Find Bombing Suspects · · Score: 1

    That's a false argument. Someone might be stupid enough to go to the ER for a sniffle once, but after they get that bill and the hospital garnishes their wages they won't be going back. They might not even be allowed to go to that hospital. They will definitely refuse you service for a sniffle if you owe them money.
    The ER's only requirement is to treat life threatening situations. They will happily bandage you up and send you home with an antibiotic or painkiller prescription you can't afford. They will also treat your shortness of breath and let you die of lung cancer even if it is an easily treatable early stage.
    There are many reasons ER is not the answer for the uninsured, and they can and do deny service every day.

  9. Re:Wasn't It As Much Individual Photog & ID? on Boston Police Chief: Facial Recognition Tech Didn't Help Find Bombing Suspects · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I recently had to turn down a job. It would have been about an 18% raise for me, around $10k. Unfortunately I would have taken a pay cut on my take home, all due to the price difference between insurance for small businesses and insurance for large businesses.

    Lack of single payer is hurting the economy. How many people do you know who hold onto crappy jobs in order to keep the insurance? How many people that could be starting the next Google, or contracting to other companies that need part time expertise? It's really a shame.

  10. Re:Wasn't It As Much Individual Photog & ID? on Boston Police Chief: Facial Recognition Tech Didn't Help Find Bombing Suspects · · Score: 1

    Let me guess, you get a 20% cash discount because you are saving your doctor on paperwork.

    My last doc bill was $120 for a kid's appointment. My insurance negotiated rate ended up around $58. How does that cash discount sound now?

  11. Re:Enhance it and zoom in on Boston Police Chief: Facial Recognition Tech Didn't Help Find Bombing Suspects · · Score: 1

    I deal with security DVR's. There are so many that take terrible pictures, so many that nobody knows how to pull the video, and so many that just plain aren't working. Video is only a starting point.

  12. Re:Lenovo - a collector of IBM garbage on IBM In Talks To Sell x86 Server Business To Lenovo · · Score: 1

    That's a steal, last time Germany paid over $37 billion. Although they thought it was a buy one get one (France & Belgium).

  13. Re:Lenovo - a collector of IBM garbage on IBM In Talks To Sell x86 Server Business To Lenovo · · Score: 1

    I don't think speculators is the right word, but I also don't think you understood his argument.

  14. Re:nope on Windows: Not Doomed Yet · · Score: 1

    try explaining the difference between a slash and a backslash...
    #techsupportveteran

  15. Re:How relevant is the PC, still? on Windows: Not Doomed Yet · · Score: 2

    They just seem unimportant until she can't do that 10% that she needs to do.

  16. Re:Lack of necessity on Windows: Not Doomed Yet · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The stability and real multi-user support of win7 is head and shoulders above XP. Win7 was a definite improvement.

  17. Re:Shrug... on Windows: Not Doomed Yet · · Score: 1

    It's not paranoia to realize that an unmanaged network of computers is a disaster waiting to happen.

  18. Re:nope on Windows: Not Doomed Yet · · Score: 4, Interesting

    If I could right click anywhere and get a menu I wouldn't need a start menu. Since I have to swipe from the side with my mouse, or click a tiny portion of the screen that hijacks the rest of the screen, a simple button starts to make sense.

  19. Re:Not Random on LinkedIn Invites Gone Wild: How To Keep Close With Exes and Strangers · · Score: 1

    Well, they are definitely doing something shady to link users.

  20. Re:Not Random on LinkedIn Invites Gone Wild: How To Keep Close With Exes and Strangers · · Score: 1

    Yeah, then your lists disappear during an update, or won't load when you are trying to add someone.

  21. Re:Not Random on LinkedIn Invites Gone Wild: How To Keep Close With Exes and Strangers · · Score: -1

    I have never given linkedin access to my google account, I think they scrape other tabs on your browser for email addresses.

  22. Re:Microsoft Security Essentials... on Botched Security Update Cripples Thousands of Computers · · Score: 1

    Every computer i have installed it on eventually stops updating it. It appears to happen after a couple months and it has happened to me several times. I have cleaned several computers protected by MSE.
    I gave up on it and went back to Avast, just my experience.

  23. Re:Won't help you on Researchers Hack Over a Dozen Home Routers · · Score: 1

    Nothing a vpn won't fix

    Oh, your router can't act as a vpn client? Guess you should check out pfsense.

  24. Re:Won't help you on Researchers Hack Over a Dozen Home Routers · · Score: 1

    Try that with IP-tv, like Uverse. I have to allow their router to function, but I tell it to passthrough my router on the external address. It usually forgets the configuration every couple of months and I have to reset it, lots of fun.

  25. Re:Use a FreeBSD box as your firewall on Researchers Hack Over a Dozen Home Routers · · Score: 1

    I would go Mikrotik before I would try a rasberry pi. For about the same price you get 5 ethernet ports and 802.11n in a low power, tiny package.