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  1. Re:The Most Secure Mobile OS on Ask Slashdot: Most Secure Mobile OS? · · Score: 1

    Apple almost always published a fast patch to the remote exploits, IE jailbreakme only worked if you DIDn't update right away... Apple now publishes updates over the air so if you say up to date you actually are very safe.

    The iPhone 3GS and higher have had very few remote exploits, almost all exploits for jailbreaking have required direct access for DFU mode to load, and in some cases you needed backup of SSH blobs to do it.

    However if someone has direct physical access to your iPhone all bets are off.

  2. Probably still waiting for their security software on Akamai To Offer IPv6 To All In April · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Based on my own company checks for readiness I assume the big hold up feature parody with IP4 and IP6 security software and equipment.

    I know many of our security appliances have been able to route IP6 for a long time, but few of them could filter or manage the traffic with any sort of detail close to that of IP4 since the features had not been ported.

  3. Both can be equally bad on Do Women Make Better Bosses? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I have seen examples of both male and female boss fail... I don't see much difference, I think they are equal.

  4. You are looking in the wrong place. on How Big US Firms Use Open Source Software · · Score: 5, Insightful

    We don't often use open source products directly, instead we use tools supported by 3rd parties that are built on them...

    For example:
    Firewalls are based on BSD but since BSD licensing allows it they are closed systems forked form BSD a long time ago.
    Our firewall management platform runs on Linux and contains many open source packages, you even have the option of running the management tool on your own linux but we don't, we purchased a rack-able appliance that is maintained as a whole. We get "releases" that update the whole app, server services and kernel as a working supported package..

    Our ANTI spam package runs on linux and is based on spam assassin at the lowest level, however again, we purchase a racked supported appliance that gets frequent updates so we don't waste time trying to piece together all the little things.

    Hell even our desk phones run linux under neath but do I care? no I wan a phone that just works, so I never touch the open source part..

    If you are doing a survey on open source and you are looking at desktop apps and web-servers in an Enterprise, you are missing the open source software right under your nose.

  5. Re:There's this little problem with Ender's Game on Teacher Suspended For Reading Ender's Game To Students · · Score: 2

    That makes if violent, not pornographic.

  6. Re:KeePass? on Throwing Light On Elcomsoft's Analysis of Smartphone Password Managers · · Score: 1

    MiniKeepass for iOS is good, doesn't have built in sync but supports passing the database between apps like dropbox.

    Don't know if the implementation is good. It defaults to a pin / remember password option but you can dissable that.

    There are several others however only look at the ones that have updated recently. Several are in the app store but are very out dated.

    MiniKeePass is the cheapest one that supports the current 2.x file format.

  7. Re:That's what America needs to be competitive! on Bring Back the 40-Hour Work Week · · Score: 1

    Something are mandated in law, like hours and overtime for types of work, others are not.

    I have lived and worked in both Alberta and BC, and found vacation and sick days depended on the company not Country / Province.

    I have had 2 weeks vacation and sick days depended on the work place average (very bad in small offices where other don't seem to get sick) to having 4 weeks vacation and nearly unlimited sick days (at some point it gets considered excessive but could allow for two weeks or more in a year)

  8. Re:Meh. on Wikipedia Didn't Kill Brittanica — Encarta Did · · Score: 1

    So did I, I liked that if you copy and pasted from it, it would inject a reference automatically.

    Also I can't remember how many times I watched that Hindenburg video or played with the planet orbits demonstrations.

  9. Re:Kaleidescape is... on Ruling Prohibits Kaleidescape From Selling, Supporting Movie Servers · · Score: 3, Informative

    A really high end, nearly fully automated ripping station, mostly use in the entertainment systems of the wealthy.

  10. It all depends on distance... on Ask Slashdot: What Is an Acceptable Broadband Latency? · · Score: 3, Informative

    I can't see 300ms being acceptable anywhere in North America unless you are on a satellite link, however if you are testing over continents then yes.

    Testing to the providers own test servers within the same country seems insane to be that high.

  11. Re:Struggling with this in my household on Is Poor Numeracy Ruining Lives? · · Score: 1

    Children's brains use it or loose it.. For children developing their brains are strengthening the connections they use and pruning the ones they don't. A large amount of this activity happens up to age 5-6 and almost completes between 14-18. Not to say you can't learn at that point, but it is much easier before then to develop new skills.

    http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/teenbrain/work/adolescent.html

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synaptic_pruning

  12. Re:convert to electric, quick! on One In Eight Chance of a Financially Catastrophic Solar Storm By 2020 · · Score: 0

    Too bad they stuck computers in all of the gasoline cars, non of them work after an emp pulse ether.

  13. Re:sleep apnea on Interrupted Sleep Might Be the Best Kind · · Score: 1

    Exactly, this theory seems to go against everything they try and tell you when you are diagnosed with apnea...

  14. Re:Apache Never Again on Apache 2.4 Takes Direct Aim At Nginx · · Score: 1

    Apache isn't the application, it the platform that applications are running on... there are many exampled for complex under the hood but easy to manage platforms..

    The issue is that the "Default" setup is not performing as well as the "Default" of another product offering the most of the same services.

    Not sure what IT department you work in, but many have been cut all to hell in the last few years meaning fewer Experts can be hired and your a left with a small team trying to do everything.

  15. Hope you stored them well on Tapeheads and the Quiet Return of VHS · · Score: 2

    http://kingtapes.net/index.php/faq/2-do-vhs-tapes-degrade-over-time

    VHS degrades very quickly at room temperature and regular viewing... I know I could not stand watching some of my old ones after watching DVD for a few years, the color was so faded, it was awful!.

  16. Re:Good on Kindle Fire and Nook Upgrades Kill Root Access · · Score: 1

    Voil8s point was the the exploit was not a remote one and required local physical access.

    The difference between lets say the on the iPhone jailbreakme (high risk remote website remote exploit) and redsnow (difficult local direct access exploit).

    However once rooted and code signing is dissabled you are right nedlohs the devices are less secure.

  17. Re:missing link to actual users, dynamic IPs, etc on Site Offers History of Torrent Downloads By IP · · Score: 2

    True but they state in there chat area that they store a full time stamp, they just display a vague one. Probably to keep other companies from scraping their database.

  18. Re:OH NOES on RIM Gives Up After Losing Initial Battle Over BBX Trademark · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I look around all the time, I take a commuter train into work every morning, the phones have gone from Blackberries to almost 100% iPhones in the last 4 years.
    In the office we have supported BB and Activesync for just as long... in the Windows Mobile days we had a handful of WM users and hundreds of BBs, now we offer a corp BB or opt out and user Activesync program... We now have fewer than 100 BBs and hundreds of attached Activesync devices almost all iPhones and a few Android.

  19. Re:OH NOES on RIM Gives Up After Losing Initial Battle Over BBX Trademark · · Score: 2

    The blackberries network is almost the only alternative to Microsoft's Activesync so I would imagine getting it out of the way would be a big win for them.

  20. Re:Um on Hybrid Storage Solutions Compared · · Score: 2

    According to Seagate the Momentus XT will fail back to being a regular hard drive if flash failure is detected by the controller. All data in flash is also stored on the drive, the SSD part only caches a copy of already stored data for faster read performance.

  21. Re:Language matters on Ask Slashdot: To Hack Or Not To Hack? · · Score: 1

    Bingo!

  22. Re:Language matters on Ask Slashdot: To Hack Or Not To Hack? · · Score: 2

    You're such a geek no I mean nerd no wait.... what where we talking about?

  23. Re:Time for the scientists to ge to work on Genome Researchers Have Too Much Data · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Research team finds important role for junk DNA
    http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S24/28/32C04/

    Accept in the field of DNA they still don't know what is and is not important.

  24. Re:Assuming it is windows on Ask Slashdot: Networked Back-Up/Wipe Process? · · Score: 1

    USMT is more geared to moving between systems, and handled some issues going between versions of windows. However you are right, it is much faster to just DUMP the date if archiving a system going out of service.

  25. Re:Assuming it is windows on Ask Slashdot: Networked Back-Up/Wipe Process? · · Score: 1

    It should be possible to build a PE image that boots and mounts the disk directly then copies files off for the backup process if you really needed to, thus not needing local admin.

    If the OP is doing such a large volume of these systems and then are window and they are not part of a domain, then the OP has other issues to deal with.