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  1. Re:Not many people want you to support consumer te on Consumer Tech: an IT Nightmare · · Score: 1

    Of course there is a little bit on the network, it's called a DMZ and firewall policies! All personal device can do on my network is talk to the Exchange server, access the internet, and talk to my Citrix servers. If you have a corporate supported device we install an MDM on it, lock down the apps that are installable, and install a VPN client if you have a need to access more than that (most do not since between Exchange access and salesforce access 90% of our mobile users needs are met). If your personal device has problems accessing on of the standard interface points we will provide best effort support and then tell you to use your corporate supported asset if we are unable to make it work. I know not all departments get quite that much support but since we support 99.9% of access methods and are fast and efficient at meeting all the other businesses needs we get some leeway.

  2. Re:Not many people want you to support consumer te on Consumer Tech: an IT Nightmare · · Score: 1

    Disable your Activesync access and/or wipe your device.

  3. Re:Apple has jumped the shark on Consumer Tech: an IT Nightmare · · Score: 1

    Not every Android device allows sideloading.

  4. Re:Very True on Consumer Tech: an IT Nightmare · · Score: 1

    Because my arrays already have hundreds of drives, increasing the drive count by 400% to account for a vastly higher AFR isn't cost effective in any way.

  5. Re:Very True on Consumer Tech: an IT Nightmare · · Score: 1

    Bullshit, enterprise class drives have from 1/2 to 1/3rd the AFR of consumer drives. Data from Google, Microsoft, and other large scale providers proves this out. NL SATA is about 2/3rds the AFR of common SATA according to Microsofts numbers from the hosted Exchange for education group.

  6. Re:take their servers and router on US Marshals Ordered To Seize Righthaven Property · · Score: 1

    Righthaven doesn't have any clients and has a few lawyers, not hundreds....

  7. Re:A pity... on US Marshals Ordered To Seize Righthaven Property · · Score: 1

    The other situation where this can differ is an S corp, there the assets of the owners are shielded from private parties but are open to the government because the profits and tax liabilities of the S corp flow through them without being taxed separably.

  8. Re:take their servers and router on US Marshals Ordered To Seize Righthaven Property · · Score: 1

    Why would a law firm own their IT infrastructure, that stuff is all outsourced I can pretty much guarantee.

  9. Re:We don't support terror organizations on US Defunds UNESCO After Palestine Vote · · Score: 1

    Not really, as an outsider who brought in more outsiders he was nearly as despised by the Mujahideen as the Russians. At most they would use his fighters as cannon fodder. The CIA also had little use for him as they had unlimited funds and far superior methods of smuggling weapons into the theater. Osama liked to say he was a big party of the resistance, but it was almost purely propaganda on his part.

  10. Re:We don't support terror organizations on US Defunds UNESCO After Palestine Vote · · Score: 2

    Which organizations were freedom fighters and became terror organizations? Most of the Mujahideen who were the freedom fighters we supported against the Russians became the norther alliance which was very much opposed to the Taliban and Al Quada. That opposition had more to do with tribal tensions than geopolitical ideals, but the guys we backed last time are mostly the guys working with us this time (despite the fact that we left them with near zero support last time once our geopolitical aims were achieved). The one bad thing about our allies over there is not that they want to kill us, it's that they are addicted to the opium money.

  11. Re:So basically... on Smarter Thread Scheduling Improves AMD Bulldozer Performance · · Score: 1

    Actually for first generation HT if you cared about performance you turned it off in the BIOS, it wasn't until Nehalem that HT actually added to performance in the majority of situations and that was mostly from a combination of better HT aware schedulers and actually better chip design.

  12. Re:no one got fired buying intel on Smarter Thread Scheduling Improves AMD Bulldozer Performance · · Score: 1

    Apples to apples they cost difference between an R810 and R815 should be on the order of $200, not $8,000.

  13. Re:Actual implementations on ARM Goes 64-Bit With Its New ARMv8 Chip Architecture · · Score: 1

    Huh? I've run plenty of 32-64GB PAE systems, the only reason they weren't bigger was affordable ram modules and the number of slots available on then current generation hardware didn't allow for bigger and by the time the hardware progressed the software was fully caught up and using the much more sensible (for that sized workload) 64bit OS's.

  14. Re:Really needed? on ARM Goes 64-Bit With Its New ARMv8 Chip Architecture · · Score: 1

    Several of the apps on my Android phone use SQLite =)

  15. Re:Really needed? on ARM Goes 64-Bit With Its New ARMv8 Chip Architecture · · Score: 1

    You have an interesting definition of soon since no mobile device yet produced even has 4GB of ram. Heck it was this year when the 1GB barrier was broken. I would guess in 3 years we'll have a 4GB phone, but it will be a while before 4GB/process is any kind of barrier, it's not like you'll be running a RDBMS on your phone.

  16. Re:WTF? on Avira Anti-Virus Detects Itself · · Score: 1

    So it's not their unit testing that's incompetent it's their version control? How is that any better?

  17. Re:Shred? on DARPA: Reconstruct Shredded Docs, Win $50K USD · · Score: 1

    Only if you have some way to agitate the shreddings, otherwise you'll still end up with significant amounts of non-combusted material.

  18. Re:Correct me if it's mentioned in the article on Opera's Haakon Wium Lie On CSS, Web Standards, and More · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Yeah, webkit is basically 90-95% of mobile browser usage since it's used for iOS, Android, and modern (OS6+) BB units. Then again I personally use Opera Mobile since I find the user experience vastly superior to the default Android browser on 2.2.

  19. Puny prize on DARPA: Reconstruct Shredded Docs, Win $50K USD · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Someone with a unique way of reconstructing shredded documents can probably earn more than that in one afternoon of dumpster diving.

  20. WTF? on Avira Anti-Virus Detects Itself · · Score: 1

    I mean shouldn't the most rudimentary of unit testing have shown this to be a problem?

  21. Re:Not my job.... on How To Rob a Bank: One Social Engineer's Story · · Score: 1

    We don't have security, a bank should, but most businesses do not. Hell, when I worked for Cisco, a defense contractor, neither of the offices I was responsible for had a security department. I mean as long as you escort any outside personel and observe what they are doing you should be good most of the time, I mean I'm more likely to spot a port scan or attempt to attach an access point than a security guard.

  22. Re:Not my job.... on How To Rob a Bank: One Social Engineer's Story · · Score: 1

    The only problem I see is not that he was allowed in, it was that he was left without an escort. Only 10 people have access to our datacenter and all of them know that a) they should clear the person with me and b)they should not be left alone unless I specifically say so (some vendors technicians we are comfortable enough with to allow them unescorted, besides we have video monitoring of the datacenter). The same goes for the IDF closets. The only time we're really vulnerable is when an IDF closet has an AC unit go down, then we prop the door open as the cost/benefit didn't allow for redundant cooling in those rooms.

  23. Re:swingers? on HPV Vaccine Recommended For Boys · · Score: 1

    Yes, and your government has spent $400M providing it which is far from free.

  24. Re:My car has a fail-safe device... on Jaguar Recalls 18,000 Cars Over Major Software Fault · · Score: 1

    Yep, double clutch transmissions can change gears faster and more smoothly than any human and the weight penalty is so inconsequential that they use them even in F1. The biggest barrier has been cost and complexity, as they move down the model range costs have been reduced and the reliability has been worked out to where it should never be an issue for the vast majority of owners.

  25. Re:swingers? on HPV Vaccine Recommended For Boys · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Thanks for the information, seems awfully expensive. In fact Merck only spent $250M on research of HPV but sold $365M in vaccine in the first quarter after introduction. It's the most expensive vaccine in the world, and for something which frankly isn't anywhere near the top of the deadly transmittable diseases. I think I'd rather give the $510 to an organization that will distribute the new Malaria vaccine where I know it will actually save many lives and also help to reduce world population growth.