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  1. Wha? on Supermicro Fails At IPMI, Leaks Admin Passwords · · Score: 1

    It's not super-clear from the article what sort of systems there are, even with the Wikipedia link to IPMI. I mistakenly assumed that BMC was the configuration management company at first...

    Without linking to XKCD, can anyone explain this to me like a child?

  2. Re:Easier on Researchers Find "Achilles Heel" of Drug Resistant Bacteria · · Score: 1

    Oh, our predecessors weren't preying on sick animals for millions of years, just cats and dogs?

  3. Re:Been an advert fest for as long as I remember on After 47 Years, Computerworld Ceases Print Publication · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Sometimes it was the advertising that we craved.

    Computer Shopper was something we used to eagerly await the arrival of.

  4. Re:Did anyone care anymore? on After 47 Years, Computerworld Ceases Print Publication · · Score: 1

    Even though it was the quintessential collection of text files, something about having a physical copy kept me buying the occasional 2600 magazine until the early 2000's.

  5. Isn't that exactly what's supposed to happen?

    Malware discovered and removed. News at 11.

  6. Re:Fix Is Available on Malware Posing As Official Google Play Store Evades Most Security Checks · · Score: 1

    Google Play doesn't. Go ahead. Provide the link to it -- you can't because it's not there.

    Unless I install the developer tools on a separate machine, there's no telling if the downloadable .apk on f-driod matches the provided source on f-droid.

    Using f-droid requires lowering your machine's security, and trusting another source -- f-droid, just because you said so.

  7. Re:Fix Is Available on Malware Posing As Official Google Play Store Evades Most Security Checks · · Score: 1

    So, all I have to do is enable apps from outside the official store, download from an unknown site, and then I'll have full access to 1,100 apps!, which almost all also exist in the Play store, which I don't have to enable outside apps and download from an unknown source?

  8. Re:You mean the malware isn't Google Play itself on Malware Posing As Official Google Play Store Evades Most Security Checks · · Score: 1

    Because there are 1100 total apps on f-driod, and, at most, a couple dozen are useful and not redundant?

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  11. Re:Fox News? on IRS Recycled Lerner Hard Drive · · Score: 1

    They keep records.

    Emails are not inherently records. The National Archives has a site full of government-legalese pages describing what documents are and aren't.

    Server retention is low at the IRS and they used PST files if people wanted to keep old mail.

    At some point in the last decade they lost some PST files -- just like at every company I've ever been at where we allowed local storage of old mail. Them recycling the hard drives was just what they do to old computers.

  12. Re:Fox News? on IRS Recycled Lerner Hard Drive · · Score: 1

    Government requires document retention of just about everything.

    No, it only requires record retention, and how posts like this get modded insightful is beyond me.

    Government, as a rule, doesn't have to keep email items unless they're specifically "records" on those emails. [If you have a record, and you mail it, it's still a record, but email in and of itself isn't necessarily a record.] To simplify this, certain mailboxes are designated as the sort that hold records, and those are managed differently.

    http://www.archives.gov/record...

    Capstone - which sought to use a broader capture methodology for mailboxes for important roles wasn't implemented until 2013.

  13. Re: Controversy? on Was Watch Dogs For PC Handicapped On Purpose? · · Score: 1

    If you think GTA3 and GTA5 are the same game, you're sadly mistaken.

  14. Speculation... on NADA Is Terrified of Tesla · · Score: 5, Insightful

    While possibly true, it's complete speculation to tie this to Tesla.

    But hey, Tesla gets page views.

  15. Re:Gotta love the right wing conspiracy nuts on IRS Lost Emails of 6 More Employees Under Investigation · · Score: 1

    Absence of proof isn't proof of absence.

    The fact that the report had to specifically call out the fact they didn't look at any other BOLO triggers speaks volumes. It might just be saying they didn't want to invite any more controversy, but it certainly says something.

  16. Re:simple on US Wants To Build 'Internet of Postal Things' · · Score: 1

    The Direct Marketing Association accounts for, well, pretty much all mail. They own the USPS. If it weren't for spam, there'd be no USPS.

    http://www.postalreporternews....

  17. Re:Mirrorlink on Google To Take On Apple's CarPlay · · Score: 1

    About $20 is what it takes to get a fair Bluetooth ODB2 scanner and a copy of Torque Pro for your Android phone.

    Pays for itself the first time you don't have to drive to AutoZone to get your next CEL read.

  18. Re:Chicago Blackhawks too? on Washington Redskins Stripped of Trademarks · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Braves, Indians, etc. are not as offensive as Redskins (and obviously Cardinals doesn't even enter the picture). Brave or Indian means "Native American, the way your ancestors would have referred to them". Redskin means "top of scalp taken from a dead Native American to be turned in for a bounty to the US government (which paid for the murder of Native American men, women and children)".

    Why? Who gets to decide what is and isn't offensive, and to what degree? Unless you're making a case that it's obscene - which would be quite the challenge, since the community standard includes a lot of people wearing team colors/logos for the 'Skins - it "offending you" isn't the basis for anything; and it certainly doesn't offend me.

  19. Re:I'm so confused how to feel on Restored Bletchly Park Opens · · Score: 1

    Codes are just DRM, so I'm pretty sure we hate them...unless we're using them for anonymity or security, in which case we love them...unless they're protecting State secrets...in which case we hate them.

  20. Re:Bletchley, not Bletchly! on Restored Bletchly Park Opens · · Score: 1

    All Bourbon is whiskey.

    [Just not all whiskey is Bourbon.]

  21. Re:Chicago Blackhawks too? on Washington Redskins Stripped of Trademarks · · Score: 5, Funny

    Catholics to complain about Cardinals next.

  22. Re:Massive conspiracy on IRS Lost Emails of 6 More Employees Under Investigation · · Score: 1

    Yes.

    ...then let me laugh even harder.

  23. Re:Gotta love the right wing conspiracy nuts on IRS Lost Emails of 6 More Employees Under Investigation · · Score: 1

    You keep repeating the same tired argument.

    "We added 'Tea Party,' '9/12,' and ''Patriots' to the BOLO list."

    And then they specifically fail to mention the other watchwords they put on the BOLO list which weren't right-leaning. ...and they specifically mention in the report that they didn't bother to look. The "16" in your quote is the footnote you keep ignoring where it says exactly that.

  24. Re:Gotta love the right wing conspiracy nuts on IRS Lost Emails of 6 More Employees Under Investigation · · Score: 1

    All of you idiots keep linking that without reading the actual report

    Page 6

    We did not review the use of other named organizations on the BOLO listing to determine if their use was appropriate.

    Can you read the things you link for us? Do you see that the "investigation" didn't even both to review other named organizations? Yes, the BOLO list included "Tea Party," but the report didn't bother to look at any of the other names on the BOLO list.

    "Tea Party" absolutely found more conservative groups, but there's no indication if "ACORN" was on the list(spoiler alert: it was!), and if it absolutely found more liberal groups.

  25. Re:but LEGALLY, how do you proove on IRS Lost Emails of 6 More Employees Under Investigation · · Score: 1

    This explanation - the simple obvious one - is posted in every thread here, and people are too damned blind to get it.

    The IRS doesn't archive exchange, they only back it up. Huge difference.

    Some dudes lost some PST files. Whee!