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  1. Problem? on The iPhone Is a Nightmare For Carriers · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I can't see the problem with this. Phone carriers, internet carriers too since many seem to be doing both, should be dumb pipes. There's no dark side to that.

  2. Re:LOL! on Tapeheads and the Quiet Return of VHS · · Score: 1

    To be quite frank, many of us don't to have all our music digitized. Your computer gets fried from a serious power surge and it's all gone. It happened to me once and no amount of analyzing or voodoo could resurrect it. My tables? they kept on turning but that was ages ago. I have an iPod docked to a great system right now and the quality is FAR beyond vinyl - however, there are some albums I haven't found digitally, or care to take the time to convert. Old habits are hard to break, but as long as people still press records for bands of my own taste, who am I to argue?

  3. Re:Whitelist on Sandboxed Flash Player Coming To Firefox · · Score: 1

    you never need flash with the appropriate plugins such as "click to plugin" always loading the video directly in a similar manner to direct video embedding does. The only benefit to flash is for sites like youtube that have and utilize flash advertisements before videos.

  4. Re:Here's my hope. on Sandboxed Flash Player Coming To Firefox · · Score: 1

    Exactly. I uninstalled flash/java/silverlight/etc plugins all the time for people and they praise me for how fast everything loads now.

  5. Re:Here's my hope. on Sandboxed Flash Player Coming To Firefox · · Score: 1

    Dont' forget request policy.

  6. Re:I Guess This Means ... on Anonymous Posts Audio of Intercepted FBI Conference Call · · Score: 1

    Cereal: Snoop onto them... Nikon: ... as they snoop onto us

  7. Re:Way More Complicated Than That on Apple Forcing IT Shops To 'Adapt Or Die' · · Score: 1

    Any network that will allow you to plug in a device and not filter out rogue routers like this obviously aren't staffed properly or set up their services properly.

  8. Re:Apple in enterprise is hard on Apple Forcing IT Shops To 'Adapt Or Die' · · Score: 3, Informative

    This is ridiculous. You can manage that amount of iOS devices with a single account and using the iPhone configuration utility can push settings and security policies to the phones themselves. You haven't done your research as this is a simple matter to read up on apple's own website. I know this b/c we use it here at work!

  9. Re:From: critical@paypal-warning.com on Big Internet Players Propose DMARC Anti-Phishing Protocol · · Score: 1

    I have and it's the only way I run the network and systems my employer gave me responsibility over. Users have no right at the office to install software that's not approved for business reasons, nor visit websites that aren't in any way applicable to their position of responsibility. Those sites are whitelisted in a similar manner to what programs are allowed to run. This has effectively shut down all the 'bandwidth hogs' and time wasting game sites not to mention all the shitty sites that love to give people malware. And management has praised the work I've done. So yes, the users absolutely *WILL* tolerate it or they can find another job. That's been tested and proven to be effective.

  10. Re:Is this news? on Shmoocon Demo Shows Easy, Wireless Credit Card Fraud · · Score: 1

    false. I've build my own reader, sat at the front of the bus and was able to glean 90% of the people who had cards with this. Both cc and bus fare cards.

  11. Re:$0 Now, on Apple's iBooks EULA Drawing Ire · · Score: 1

    I never paid for any Xcode version. Whoever you are, you're smoking crack. you only have to pay when you get signing keys and sign up for the developer program to publish things on the app store (Mac or iOS). Can I get any clearer?

  12. Re:So when did... on AT&T Caps Netflix Streaming Costs At $68K/Yr · · Score: 1

    bandwidth is an artificial commodity. no one should pay per byte, but only the access to said pipe.

  13. Re:And now script kiddies everywhere on Downloads of DoS Attack Tool LOIC Spike · · Score: 2

    Too many people confuse NAT as being an actual firewall, which is what I think symbolset did.

  14. Re:Evidence on What Happens To Your Files When a Cloud Service Shuts Down? · · Score: 1

    Please tell me you're trolling.

  15. Re:And terrorists thank you for running windows on Hackers Steal $6.7M In Bank Cyber Heist · · Score: 2

    I do this with my web servers. Make them report as if they were IIS while it's really apache or lighttpd.

  16. Re:StackExchange on Ask Slashdot: Setting Up a Wireless Catch-and-Release · · Score: 1

    He made an inappropriate (and wildly inaccurate assumption) about any faith I do or do not happen to believe in and continued his tirade blindly. Very similar to the blind tirades of the crusades.

  17. Re:StackExchange on Ask Slashdot: Setting Up a Wireless Catch-and-Release · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Who knew such unabashed idiocy and bigotry would exist on slashdot? He's asking a tech question for a NPO and you retort with such drivel?

  18. Re:LOL on Music Industry Sues Irish Government For Piracy · · Score: 1

    I find it funny you're against selling a poison which is deliberately sold to be ingested or inhaled for the general public to consume.

  19. Re:Well that's funny, cos my country just on Vint Cerf On Human Rights: Internet Access Isn't On the List · · Score: 1

    Same could be said of medical coverage, but I digress. Don't want to be too offtopic for the mods

  20. Re:Don't want on Draft Alternative To SOPA Released · · Score: 1

    they wrap it in a friendly name and it'll pass *cough*patriotact*cough*

  21. Re:Netflix on USPS Ending Overnight First-Class Letter Service · · Score: 4, Informative

    as a former UPS employee (unload/load, night shift) this is absolutely true.

  22. Re:Easy work-around on Browser History Sniffing Is Back · · Score: 5, Insightful

    well, if sites would stop using so much garbage for simple content we wouldn't have this problem now would we?

  23. Re:Wrong prioroties on W3C Proposes Unified "Do Not Track" Privacy Standard · · Score: 1

    So why don't advertisers track the way they used to? Just because it's available to spy on people doesn't mean it's right or legal to do so.

  24. Re:but but but... Apple on CarrierIQ: Most Phones Ship With "Rootkit" · · Score: 2

    Care to explain how it doesn't keep the carriers out of the phone? Last I checked, and yes employing traffic monitoring is standard on my network, there was no remote access nor capabilities to do so.

  25. Re:So... on Tor-Enabled Browser For the iPad, and Easy Tor Nodes on EC2 · · Score: 1

    I have a vpn with the username of "tor" that I can use from the iPad. keeping all the bookmarks in the browser and it's easy to use. not sure why anyone needs an app though.