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  1. Re:Once again RIM leads the way on Dual Interface Mobile Devices To Address BYOD Issue · · Score: 1

    My issue with the Good approach (apart from the fact that they sue companies they can't effectively compete against...) is that it takes you out of the native user experience which is the reason the owner chose that device in the first place. Using either an MDM SDK or app wrapping technology to secure the corporate apps and data preserves the native UX, secures the data, and doesn't have the overhead of a virtual OS approach.

  2. Re:As a blackberry user, I don't need a crystal ba on RIM Unveils New OS Based On QNX · · Score: 1

    That's funny, when I googled 'CES 2007 Android', I couldn't find any related hits. So then I check wikipedia:

    The unveiling of the Android distribution on November 5, 2007 was announced with the founding of the Open Handset Alliance, a consortium of 84 hardware, software, and telecommunication companies devoted to advancing open standards for mobile devices.[10][11][12][13] Google released most of the Android code under the Apache License, a free software license.[14] The Android Open Source Project (AOSP) is tasked with the maintenance and further development of Android.[15]

    Which I interpret as 5 months after Apple sold their first iPhone and 10 months after they announced it.

  3. Re:Thanks for all the Fish Wrapper on Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda Resigns From Slashdot · · Score: 1

    CdrTaco, I found /. all those years ago via C&D when looking for animation videos on the web. Possibly the longest internet diversion ever, but undoubtably the most interesting of all. Live long, and prosper, friend.

  4. Chips & Dips on So Long, CmdrTaco, and Thanks For All The Posts · · Score: 1

    CdrTaco, I found /. all those years ago via C&D when looking for animation videos on the web. Possibly the longest internet diversion ever, but undoubtably the most interesting of all. Live long, and prosper, friend.

  5. Re:I'd love to develop for it. on Apple Announces iPhone 4 · · Score: 1

    incalculable risk exists, and it is simply too much to bear.

    Incalculable? A competent developer aught to be able to calculate the risk.

  6. Re:act of treason on When the US Government Built Ultra-Safe Cars · · Score: 1

    Treason?! I do not think that word means what you think it means...

  7. Re:full quote on Say Nothing About the Failing Satellite · · Score: 1

    Except for the unfortunate fact that it was due in large part to the founding fathers' manipulation of reality (read: propaganda) that the colonies went to war (mostly grudgingly) against Britain. John Adams was speaking *against* the rest of the founding fathers when he defended the *British soldiers* in the above quote...

  8. Re:The Netherlands on If Not America, Then Where? · · Score: 1

    I've lived here in The Netherlands for 7.5 years--in the center of Amsterdam, The Hague, and now purchased a home in the region 't Gooi (something like New England). It's certainly easier living here as an American...there are still prejudices against Muslims (sorry, but mostly deserved based on individual behavior) and Eastern Europeans, but overall the quality of life if you are middle-class or better is excellent. There are problems (customer service is a bad word here...it drives me crazy) but the people are genuine, and the history, architecture, culture, and joy of life is worth it. Mostly, I think, it's the personal freedoms. In the US, I've gone to the end of my rope with tolerating the nanny-state attitudes and "we must protect the children". The red state-blue state is a symptom of the christianists imposing their belief system on the rest of the country and have so far ruined the US foreign policy and domestic culture as well.

    Sorry, was I ranting? Back to work now...Greetings from Holland!
    Hup Holland!
    Go USA!
    Remember people, we're all on this rock together...

  9. Re:What about 802.1x security ? on How Do You Handle Ethernet Port Management? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Actually, you do not necessarily have to replace the access layer switches to enjoy dot1x. Placing a dot1x-capable switch upstream that supports mulitple logins on a single port can be an intermediate step and bring most the benefits.

    In general, I advise customers to lock down every port in their network with 802.1x and to provision guest VLANs that are GRE-tunneled to a switch in the DMZ. This segregates all the guest traffic from corp traffic at L2 so the only way for a guest to access local corp servers is via the internet and back through the corp firewall rules.

  10. Re:Requires Sharepoint Server? on Visual Tour of Office 2007 Beta 2 · · Score: 1

    <Nelson> *Slugs parent in the gut" "Ha, ha! Windows Dork!" </Nelson>

  11. Re:Hypocrisy? on Blizzard Made Me Change My Name · · Score: 1
    mod parent redundant--I think that was covered:
    and if nothing less, it will make me take changes in Slashdot a little more seriously next time.
  12. Re:The Inevitable "What Use" Question on Going Beyond Fermat's Last Theorem · · Score: 1

    ...meaning Plato was right!?

  13. Who cares in two months? on Google Adds Features and Plugin to Desktop Search · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Does this matter in the face of Apple releasing search throughout Tiger in the next two months? Microsoft are behind, but still have search coming in Longhorn next year.

    Search is great, but I don't see a value-add for anyone other than the OS company itself to develop it.

  14. Re:Wait... on That's Sir Tim to You · · Score: 1

    Gee, republican much? That was a pretty balanced parent post.

  15. Re:Security? on Security evaluation of 802.11i · · Score: 1

    Here's your answer: http://www.trapezenetworks.com/technology/whitepap ers/illusionofsecurity.asp

  16. Economist on What Magazines Do You Read? · · Score: 1

    The same newspaper the world leaders read: The Economist.

  17. Re:Just use a phased-array wireless switch. It's e on Sluggish WiFi Connections Hurt Everyone · · Score: 1

    Please mod this parent down. Vivato claims to do wireless switching but this is simply a marketing term. They do interesting work on antennas, (from what I understand, similar to what is described in July's SciAm), but ~11Mbs on a single channel is an immutable law. What is more interesting as a solution for this WLAN problem is to set a Minimum Association Rate as described in this whitepaper.

  18. Re:yeah, wardrive and prove it! on Study: Wi-Fi users Still Don't Encrypt · · Score: 1

    Note that one of the SSIDs is "EXTREME" as in...Extreme Networks. Odd that a Wireless vendor selling to enterprise/business customers who care about security would be so blasé about it at a public event.

  19. Re:triangulation on AirTraf 802.11b Security Package · · Score: 1

    Trapeze Networks (www.trapezenetworks.com) does this. It's an option in their user profile definitions (including QoS, ACL, etc.)--their RingMaster tool rocks.

  20. Re:We should mourn! on Teledesic Comes Down to Earth · · Score: 1

    Ahem...don't you know? Haven't you seen AntiTrust the movie? BillG will 4ule the w041d!!!, when the global communications platform "Synapse" (geekspeak for: "Teledesic") is completed...

    Thankfully, there is apparently a nameless beaurocrat somewhere deep in Washington, D.C. who rented this video last night, and has put a stop to Dr. Evil^WBillGates' plans for world domination!

    "...You can all relax now, the crisis has been averted.."

  21. Re:Chips, Dips, Taco and the Dot on Slashdot Turns 5 · · Score: 1

    I was referred to Chip's 'n Dips site from another webpage, where I was looking for animation clips. Chips 'n Dips said it had closed down recently and moved to /. So I took a look around and actually bothered to get an account a few months later.

    Taco: why haven't you produced anymore animation? The hamster wasn't bad, and that was...hmm...5 years ago?

  22. Re:Schiphol system works but it�s unsafe on Iris Scanners in Canadian Airports · · Score: 2, Interesting

    And unfortunately, it is only available for citizens of the EU--as a US expat, I'm stuck in line watching with envy those lucky enough to have 5 second processing times going through customs. This is not a small problem when you're passing through Schipol at least once a week.

    These devices, in conjunction with the automated checkin kiosks make flight travel almost tolerable again...

  23. Re:Another important point on WorldCom Fraud Doubles · · Score: 1

    First, I believe part of this is due to the fact that white collar criminals simply aren't seen as criminals. Criminality suggests violence, and since the only damage committed by these individuals to others is monetary, it doesn't register as a crime.

    I'll give you an example--if you've ever been mugged (I have--he used an icepick for a weapon), one of the things you think afterward is "why couldn't he just take the money and leave me the wallet". It's not the money that you think of primarily; it's your life, the contents of your wallet, etc.

    Second, I disagree with your premise that white collar criminals are equal to the "typical" criminal element. While Bernie Ebers and crew may have been responsible for billions of dollars of fraud, they also *created* thousands of jobs, and *earned* millions of people billions of dollars in the process.

    Don't misunderstand--I'm not condoning their actions, and I do think jail time is appropriate. But don't tell me that someone who genuinely was a net producer to society, but cooked the books is morally equivilent or worse than someone who puts a knife to your throat for a $20.

    That--and the fact that anyone putting their life savings (and more) into the stock market without paying attention to the fundamentals of the companies they were investing in deserve to suffer the consequences of a lack of due diligence--are why I'm not very mad about this...

  24. Re:Arm Pilots on More On Tragedy · · Score: 1

    It occurs to me there may be a simple, low cost solution: biometrics. Put a fingerprint scanner on the wheel of the aircraft...if it is not one of the pilots, the plane goes into auto-pilot. This prevents the situation of a hostile taking over the wheel.

    I wonder if you could also use it to detect stress, in order to avoid the situation of forcing a pilot to fly against his/her will.

  25. Re:Why not change? on Pentagon Wants IPv6 by 2008 · · Score: 1

    You are more likely to be pitched about Voice over IP than IPv6 from a vendor salesperson.

    I'm responsible for product support of a major networking vendor, across Europe, Middle East, Africa, & India (EMAI).

    plcurechax is correct--while I'm wholly on the post-sales side of the vendor equation, all our future plans revolve around VOIP solutions, with nary a mention of IPv6. I've plugged I2, IPv6, Linux support for our client software, etc. to those in engineering who would listen, but ultimately the market (and by extention, our products) are driven by what the customer requests. NAT, and the multitude of other options to alleviate the address allocation crunch, make IPv6's benefits secondary concerns to QOS, price per port, VOIP, redundancy, etc., etc.

    End result? Don't expect to see IPv6 deployed in EMAI or the US in the immediate future. It's simply not on customer's radar. Not to mention most network admins are so poor in knowledge about networking fundamentals, that the leap to IPv6 won't happen for a long time yet.