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  1. Re:With Jews you lose on Akamai Employee Tried To Sell Secrets To Israel · · Score: 1

    In this case you're totally correct. They meddle in HIS marriage by allowing the wife to "jump citizenship" to get preferential treatment because of her RACE. the man's wife committed a CRIME and the Jew government is hiding her because she's a Jew and not honoring the LEGALLY BINDING contract she made in the USA with this man.

  2. Re:Tumbled on Akamai Employee Tried To Sell Secrets To Israel · · Score: 1

    It's clear the US government won't go to bat for it's citizens in these custody cases, especially in countries that allow dual-citizenship... A CRIME had already been committed and they were looking to take advantage.

    His plea to the government for help from a position like this is probably what got him flagged in the first place... There's some entrapment argument.. Guy should have volunteered to be a "consultant" ... Seems to work for companies sending the same tech jobs to Israel!! There's companies like IBM that outsource this stuff all the time for Fortune 100 companies. Akamati is far from a "national security" risk..

    I'd guess the plea dropped the spying charge down to just the corporate charges (multiple computer trespass and trade secret charges would add up to 15 easily) or he'd be facing a lot more time. They can argue the charges down based on intent and circumstance. While he's in prison he can get the proper charges filed in the US court for his wife.. Then she won't be able to leave Israel without being on Interpol's kidnaping list. They can catch her flying across Europe or something.

  3. Re:Here's a better idea. on Social Media a Threat To Undercover Cops · · Score: 2

    It's not the "organization" it's the girlfriends that get together and social all day. They tag you in some party pics... Then 6 months later a girl in a different case tags you... Facebook "you might be friends with" does the rest and the boyfriend looking over her shoulder connects the dots...

    Next up concrete shoes!

  4. Re:Here's an idea. on Social Media a Threat To Undercover Cops · · Score: 1

    The problem is that your undercover profile gets "Kevin Bacon'd". If you are investigating crime in Detroit, eventually the busts hit the news, "cousin's boyfriend's" of the current case got pinched last year and there you are in the background... Some clever girl puts your fake name as a tag and "you might know" pops up...

    It's the girlfriends and little sisters that accidentally dig you up. "six degrees of Kevin Bacon" style.

    Like others have said, you need the profile for street cred.. But Facebook and Google are REALLY good at catching fake profiles.. Even if there was no REAL profile, they'll still link the fakes...

  5. Re:Here's an idea. on Social Media a Threat To Undercover Cops · · Score: 1

    What about the people BEING investigated?

    Google and Facebook match your HABITS as much as actual data.. If you make friends with 2-3 different groups to investigate illegal drugs, chances are that Facebook might suggest one of your fake profiles, "follow" one of the people being investigated... Under the "wrong" name...

    Combine that with photos from various groups that might tag you and after 2-3 cases you have a good chance of your fake names being linked... Even if YOU didn't post anything!

  6. Re:Why.... on Do You Want Best Buy Opening Your New Laptop? · · Score: 1

    An Apple Store

  7. Re:Why.... on Do You Want Best Buy Opening Your New Laptop? · · Score: 1

    Time Machine rocks when you need to upgrade or replace...

  8. Re:Why.... on Do You Want Best Buy Opening Your New Laptop? · · Score: 0

    My experience is that I've had white MacBooks for 4 years now. they have held up on par with the HP Business laptops my work buys... A little worse for wear because my kids were like 8-10 when I got them. One had to go in for water damage (kids) but it's been rocking every day for 1.5 years after being repaired.

    I'd put All the Macs at "Business Class" easily...

  9. Re:Not all plans on Verizon Makes It Easy To Go Over Your Data Cap · · Score: 1

    You just proved my point...
    A) you just pointed to a web page. They can change whenever they want.. They just have to NOTIFY you, you do not have to AGREE. your sole option it to stop having service and pay all your money in the 30-day window.... Which means... Absolutely nothing to things like caps...

    B) that 5% is entirely open to THEIR interpretation without spending LOTS of $$$ on lawyers to see their numbers which are a "business secret".

  10. Re:Welcome to Australia on Verizon Makes It Easy To Go Over Your Data Cap · · Score: 1

    It's like their government thinks they are running a penal colony or something.

  11. Re:Not all plans on Verizon Makes It Easy To Go Over Your Data Cap · · Score: 1

    You do know there is no "paper" version... The online version of the contract is "Da Rules".. About the only redress you have Is to escape without an ETF... And then have no phone...

  12. Re:Not all plans on Verizon Makes It Easy To Go Over Your Data Cap · · Score: 1

    They're supposed to learn from the cable companies... Duh.

    Most cable companies ran 20Mb+ to everybodies house... But only sell YOU 3-5 of it. The rest they keep and use for THEIR video service... That doesn't count toward your cap... And nets them a tidy monthly fee.

    In the meantime they throttle iTunes, hulu, netflix.. Silly Verizion...

  13. Re:Don't they do this every couple of years? on The GIMP Now Has a Working Single-Window Mode · · Score: 1

    The problem is that Gimp needs to go after mobile and laptop apps ... Lighten up, build a streamlined branch that can port to iPads and android!! Inkscape needs the same treatment...

    The computing world moved to MUCH simpler apps... OSS apps should be jumping at the new expectations.

  14. Re:Don't they do this every couple of years? on The GIMP Now Has a Working Single-Window Mode · · Score: 1

    I'd give up the multiple monitor and gobs of little pallets for a streamlined Full screen, "Kai"-like interface for us newbies. Most people use laptops now, so The Gimp would get more mileage building a streamlined interface, with fewer gadgets and better previewing features.
    People are mopping up apps on iPhones and iPads .... THAT is what Gimp needs to target versus Photoshop.

  15. Re:Panic. on Rare Earth Restrictions To Raise Hard Drive Cost · · Score: 1

    We did just fine so far... ENTERPRISE drives are still 3-4x as expensive. Doesn't hurt anything except useless posts on Internet boards... They MIGHT have to send THIS post to the bitbucket in the sky ... Someday like 5 years from now...

    To free up space for LOLCats!

    Seriously, the machine I admin with all my company's data is only 500GB of meaningful data. that's up from about 450 or so a few years ago. The business factor is not very high for manufacturing related things..

  16. Re:FIrefox 8 Alpha... on Firefox 7.0 Beta Released · · Score: 1

    Fix the report?

    While you're at it make the report cross browser, tidy, and validated to the latest DTD.

  17. Re:Windows 8 is mobile-only on Windows 8 To Fight Piracy With the Cloud · · Score: 1

    Why? Most Admins would LOVE the chance for machines to be forced to phone home more often. Microsoft will add a "keep alive" function to Enterprise copies for sure. It would Still get keyed every time a user hit the AD which is at least daily in the enterprise world. Users would never know unless the went on long vacations with their machines away from work.

  18. Re:always seemed weird on Windows 8 To Fight Piracy With the Cloud · · Score: 1

    Because Windows is the promise to OEMs that they will get a sale. Pirate copies take away HARDWARE SALES from the OEMs like Dell Microsoft has bullied for decades. Microsoft views all PC parts sold not for repair as potential Pirate platforms. They can't stop WHITEBOX because 25% of the windows copies sold are from small vendors... That Microsoft gets triple profits from too. If Microsoft broke the whitebox market they'd be an instant monopoly actor because the rest of the market is only 10 other players. (including Apple)

  19. Re:enough already with the version bloat! on Firefox 7.0 Beta Released · · Score: 1

    Write to the HTML5 spec, validate, and don't worry about the other stuff. HTML was never designed to be "pixel perfect". That's a limitation that has been in the first page of the spec manual since forever.

  20. Re:FIrefox 8 Alpha... on Firefox 7.0 Beta Released · · Score: 1

    Why on such an old version? There's no reason because Firefox is FREE and it's not like they're making soul-sucking changes to the license lately.

    Firefox is moving to Chrome's release model. There are no more "versions" just the latest, best product they can make right NOW.

  21. Re:I'm impressed he could do that much damage... on Fired Techie Created Virtual Chaos At Pharma Co. · · Score: 1

    THIS is why companies "perp walk" you to the door IMMEDIATELY after you had in the letter to resign. They certainly don't let you come back as a contractor... Unless you are leaving for a scheduled retirement or something amicable.

    As much as the "perp walk" seems like a bad thing, it helps make sure YOU don't get accused of crap like this later on.

  22. Re:I hope they throw the book at him on Fired Techie Created Virtual Chaos At Pharma Co. · · Score: 1

    ADA Lawsuit?
    The case you just stated is EXACTLY what they're for.

    Easy money for some vulture lawyer... As mich as we dint like them.

  23. Re:He is right on Analysis of Google's Motorola Acquisition · · Score: 1

    Bingo!
    Google is looking to buy enough patents to get a 3-way cross license out of the deal. Then Android becomes a "real boy".

  24. Re:HTML5 on Hard Truths About HTML5 · · Score: 1

    but in reality many of Google's projects are something somebody could whip up locally quite easily. The fact is that people didn't want all THEIR information in the "cloud". Companies LOVE having their stuff in their own data centers. There's little reason for many, many apps to be native anymore. But you have to remember, even then most "corporate" apps are 20% "secret sauce" for whatever industry they are in and 80% window dressing and boilerplate, even then they're almost always front ends for databases anyway. Moving to "web" apps make sense because with a small bit of extra effort, you readily add iphones, iPad, and all those other devices in addition to PCs. 75% of the programmers out there spend their time on stuff the public never sees... like designing exciting new TPS reports!

    I think many people really miss what HTML5 was supposed to do. It's origins are in the COMMUNITY not the big software makers. In fact it was probably a mistake to even bother with the Adobe, IBM, Microsoft because they don't make their livings USING HTML. HTML5 was from Opera, Mozilla, KHTML, A List Apart, etc. The group of small companies that make their living writing browsers and designing pages for companies. HTML5 was a "cleanup" job to take what the industry learned in the NINE years since HTML4.01 was finalized and implement some shortcuts that are meaningful for DESIGN work. They also figured they'd grab some ground back from Flash for stupid-simple stuff nobody should have been using Flash for in the first place.

    HTML5 won't be the "desktop killer" people are hyping.. except that in most companies procedures are so regimented that moving stuff from native apps to HTML5 really isn't that much harder. HTML5 is a good break point. It's been 9 years since HTML4.01 was finalized. Plenty of time for an upgrade and there's enough added of value to start breaking things rather than supporting the past. Personally, I think HTML5 should have FORCED the XHTML issue more as well as FORCED validation to DTDs. That would start culling the old pages to "legacy" mode pushing them to be updated just to make the "warning box" go away.

  25. Re:It depends on contracts on Music Copyright War Looming · · Score: 1

    That's like the MO... of course it's in a few more layers as "industry friends" who "hook you up". Then the kids find out their deep in debt, owe "taxes" on the loan they got, and can't repay it. It's all crooked as hell. if you're really lucky they'll off you in a celebrity plane "accident".

    I mean come on, it's so cliche they made Josey and the Pussycats and aped the whole thing 10 years ago.