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  1. Laws driven by corporate interests/social moires on No Pardon For Turing · · Score: 1

    Damn, we're still doing it...please freeze me for awhile longer.

  2. Sustainability=reliability on DARPA Targets Computing's Achilles Heel: Power · · Score: 1

    The real concern is how to maintain the mission critical applications when the power grid fails. The only fallback outside of tons of fuel (And even this won't last for decades) is a sustainable solution.

  3. A matter of degree on NinjaVideo.net Founder Gets 14 Months · · Score: 2

    The idea of subjecting one individual who is simply enabling the sharing of data to time in a US prison is an absurd horror. This should be a civil case, not one we as taxpayers pay for, even as we cry out against it. It is an abuse of justice.

  4. A wonderful example on Megaupload.com Shut Down, Founder Charged With Piracy · · Score: 1

    I think this is a wonderful example of proactive government. Now, if we were to to simply go after every corporate entity(and please, let's start with the ones operating within America before we go crazy) we could probably have a huge impact on the climate and those crimes which more directly effect humanity.) Oh...what's that? Not going to happen? Oh...right. It's like when we attacked some small 3Rd world country who we suspected might possibly (not likely) have nuclear capability, and ignored North Korea who (metaphorically) rubbed their nuclear arsenal in our face. It's absurd, and it looks like the operators did what they could to cover their own asses, but this is happening anyway...kind of like date rape. And yeah...this is just as wrong. There are much better ways of dealing with this issue.

  5. Symantecs Free Public Service on Symantec Admits Its Networks Were Hacked in 2006 · · Score: 1

    I like to think that Symantec provides a self maintaining honeypot for those of us who use more obscure, less intrusive, and less expensive solutions which aren't so highly exploited. Thanks Symantec. I also like Backup Exec, somewhat.

  6. The Peculiar thing about the Pecuniary on Reinventing Xerox PARC As a Money Maker · · Score: 1

    When an organization is focused on providing a corridor to augment human technology it is a service to humanity in the sense that often great and profound things come from these services. As soon as it focuses on making money, and generating revenue, the deeper mission statement is lost, and it becomes just another business concerned about the lowest common denominator to minimize overhead and maximize profit. This is what sucks most of what could be great and interesting about us, and contributes to our deterioration. You have to ignore a great deal of actuality when you buy into smaller realities, like monetary systems.

  7. Security is integral to a stable environment on How To Thwart the High Priests In IT · · Score: 1

    In order to create a stable and productive environment, it's necessary to control the network. Every device connected to it becomes a part of that network. If the device is connected to an internal port not controlled by a highly restrictive firewall or gateway, the network becomes exposed and possibly compromised to any malware, exploit, or virus on this device. Any IT manager who is required to provide a secure stable network infrastructure can't do this without policy and procedure. Of course, some managers out of laziness or ignorance implement broad sweeping policies from templates because they see 'High Security in the label' and probably don't get that more security=less accessibility. You may not get, and are probably not responsible for maintaining a secure stable network. If a virus infects the network it probably isn't your problem. If you take a balanced approach to the issue, you may agree in the final analysis that the people responsible for the network have a good reason for denying unfettered, uncontrolled access to the infrastructure that many organizations can't make money without. It would be like giving you a set of keys and alarm codes to the building and saying, "Hey make a copy for your friends if ya wanna." This analogy, of course, hangs on the sensitivity of the data, and the importance of IT in your organization.

  8. It's a shitty job at any price on Java Apps Have the Most Flaws, Cobol the Least · · Score: 1

    I've taken COBOL and RPG, but I don't believe there is enough money to intice me to program in these languages professionally. Even when my dignity and self esteem are at an ebb, some things I just refuse to do to myself.

  9. Re:Orwellian Surrealism on TSA Facing Death By a Thousand Cuts · · Score: 1

    ...short but=short bus...

  10. Orwellian Surrealism on TSA Facing Death By a Thousand Cuts · · Score: 1

    Only the police are allowed a free ticket to humiliate and abuse American Citizens with no more than some ethereal justification (Of which there now exist a multitude.) How dare they emulate the status quo. To adress the real issue is difficult. I think the basic problem is that these people (TSA, and too many Police Officers) are not chosen for their good judgement, intelligence, and common sense. They are not allowed to use their intuition and common sense, because they might be wrong. The resulting paradigm is so much worse. It just misses all of the bases. I get that you need thugs sometimes, but can't they be a special division driven in on a short but in very limited situations as opposed to representing the norm?

  11. Don't try to eat the whole elephant on Ask Slashdot: Getting a Grip On an Inherited IT Mess? · · Score: 1

    The best approach is to define your systems, break them down into modules, and replace them in a systematic fashion. Eventually you'll be working in an infrastructure of your own design while avoiding disruptions.

  12. Coming from a position of mistrust on Ask Slashdot: To Hack Or Not To Hack? · · Score: 1

    I've done this in the past for ISP's and organizations. I explained that I didn't modify or download any information I thought might have been confidential, but could have. The security holes were patched, but I never recieved any sort of recognition or response from the organizations. This was probably 13 years ago. I could now be prosecuted for this...so...be careful. Even if you're cool and trustworthy, some people are jerks and take this as a slight to their ability. I don't know exactly why, but some people are jerks. If I were to do this in todays climate, I would remain anonymous but report the issue only to them. Don't expect kudos or a job offer though.

  13. Stating the Obvious on The Problem With Carbon-Cutting Programs · · Score: 1

    If you step on a grasshopper and destroy it, accidentally or otherwise, no amount of money can rebuild him. For clarification please replace the word grasshopper with ecosystem.

  14. Bootstrap your career on How Does a Self-Taught Computer Geek Get Hired? · · Score: 1

    I went the same way with my career. I taught BASIC in high school. I didn't get my first computer related gig until I was 19. I worked very hard to gain and demonstrate my knowledge to my prospective employer. It took a great deal of work to get my foot wedged into that first door. I've since found that real world experience is cherished as much as certifications and degrees with many employers. If you have demonstrable knowledge and a good work ethic you can build a career. Having examples of you work, a portfolio, as suggested previously is a good thing. Industry certification is also a great way to show you know what you're talking about. You really need to get and keep that first job for at least two years and walk away with a good reference. Demonstrating a good work ethic is just as important to most employers. An unproductive genius is no good to them.

  15. The How is the issue, not the Why. on Police Encrypt Radios To Tune Out Public · · Score: 1

    Police have been trying to encrypt or scramble their transmissions since piezoic crystal-based scanners. I guess in the 80's they assumed most criminals were either stupid or poor, which might have provided an effective filter at the time. Now we know the best criminals are quite bright in important ways, and as a result, quite wealthy... I think that if there were something in place so that they couldn't control the local police, that might be a shortcut to reason. In the US, police would then have to be very bright switched on individuals, and this would be a distinct paradigm shift. These things take time.

  16. Canned Air on Bionic Implants and Spectrum Clash · · Score: 1

    This is another example of some organization selling off what belongs to everybody. It would be a different proposition if we were to decide who would get this bandwidth, at no charge. I posit that this would resolve a great many issues.

  17. Balancing the Union on OSHA App Costs Gov't $200k · · Score: 1

    This is a fantastic example of the power of onions...umn...unions influence. In order to justify their existence, they often tilt the balance of power which invariably results in a waste of resources. I am an advocate of unions, and am certain they do have a place...but as they take on business models they become cumbersome, and more troublesome than positive influences in the workplace for everyone but their direct benefactors. You can debate the first sentence all day, but the second sentence is obvious in most cases. This always happens when a community service becomes a business...invariably.

  18. Tampering with Genetics on In-Vitro Muscle Cells, It's What's For Dinner · · Score: 1

    Please travel down the slippery slope with me...isn't it possible that since replications invariably have some degree of error, that eventually this cloning of meat will lead us into a situation where we can no longer eat the cloned meat due to the lack of ability to reconcile global deleterious mutations in humans with those that might occur but can't possibly be accounted for in bovine populations? I don't know. I'm just asking.

  19. Re:Purpose driven on Google Tweaks Algorithm As Concern Over Bing Grows · · Score: 1

    Didn't realize I was not logged in....Coment by Neurosine...and I don't know why it might matter...I mean, I am certainly a coward when the situation calls for it, but this simply isn't one of those situations....:)

  20. My Current Lab on Ask Slashdot: Computer Test Lab Set-Up For Home? · · Score: 1

    My current lab consists of an old HP DC7700 with a Core 2 Duo CPU running SVR 2K8 Enterprise, 6GBRAM 5TB HDD, PERC6 card, (2) 1GBNICS, I use this as my ISO repository, File Server, and Domain controller, I have a Quad Core Core 2 Duo in another white box PC with 6GBRAM, 3TBHDD, and (3) 1GB NICS running Xenserver. My Exchange is virtualized here, and I'm labbing out Xendesktop currently. My 3Rd is an older Xeon server with a 200GB LTO3 tape backup (2) 1GB NICS, Svr 2K8 standard and Symantec Backup Exec. I use this as a backup server. This combination of enterprise and home software and hardware works well. I can lab out almost anything, including iSCSI NAS. I get ~80 to 110 MB/s across the network, which is surprising considering many of my NICS cost 10.00$. My partnerships with Microsoft, Symantec, and Citrix go a long way. I'm able to lab out complicated scenarios before planning client infrastructure. Good luck. Just remember to buy solid workstations which are capable of virtualization and have at least 4 memory slots, and go Gigabit all the way. It's inexpensive these days. You can choose VMWare or Citrix for virtualization, it depends on your preference and requirements.

  21. Maybe YOU don't need GB long haul networks.... on Why We Don't Need Gigabit Networks (Yet) · · Score: 1

    Common situations where you'll easily saturate a number of these circuits: -If I want to address an iSCSI NAS from across town practically without shelling out enterprise dollars(to be read 10's of thousands), and I do...I could use a Gigabit connection. - When you have 20, 50 100 Wi-fi cards,each only access at ~54Kb/s, you need tech to deal with the higher aggregate number of transactions while managing large packets and there's a great deal of data flowing. Common situations where you will not: -Posting to Slashdot while downloading porn.... I feel I'm entitled to unimaginable bandwidth, and I'm so disappointed...I mean, I don't want it to travel to me from somewhere, I want to step into it and go there.... but that's just how I roll.....but I need much bandwidth...so I'm just rolling slow....

  22. The end result of this law on NZ Illegal Downloading Crackdown Law In Effect · · Score: 1

    What this does is gives big media authority over the police, to use public resources for their private purposes. It also allows them to say "We've got you....Pay up, or else." This is a huge misappropriation of funds, as you can imagine, in most cases.

  23. Elasticity on Ask Slashdot: Could We Deal With the End of Time Zones? · · Score: 1

    The metric system is still slowly and painfully gaining foothold in the US. Sure, what you're saying makes sense for cosmopolitans, but most of the world isn't even remotely there yet.

  24. I'd like to talk real talk on Tesla CEO Wrong About Model S Timeline? $1,000,000 Says Yes · · Score: 1

    I feel so manipulated by this article. It's like my legs and my, for lack of a better word, dick...are both being tugged. I don't know if there is an appropriate response.

  25. Complicating the issue on Canadian Judge Rules Domain Names Are Property · · Score: 1

    The registrant, as listed in the admin contact would be the owner of the domain name. Any other legalities would be dictated by the registrants contract with anyone they gave rights to. This seems rather obvious.