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  1. WAAD or Okta on Ask Slashdot: Single Sign-On To Link Google Apps and Active Directory? · · Score: 1

    Use WAAD or Okta, or learn how to setup a proper SSO environment since both platforms you mention offer excellent SSO interop.

  2. Re:Terrible summary, unwarranted inferences on Ford Develops a Way To Monitor Police Driving · · Score: 1

    Data collected by this type of system would fall under state FOIA laws meaning the data would be available and consumed by the public either directly or indirectly. Additionally the largest municipalities already have open government mandates that include law enforcement reporting that must be machine readable.

  3. Override Button on Ford Develops a Way To Monitor Police Driving · · Score: 1

    Of course cops will need an override button so that it can switch off these functions when patrolling poor neighborhoods of color. /sarcasm

  4. Re:Easy to solve - calibrate them to overestimate on Speed Cameras In Chicago Earn $50M Less Than Expected · · Score: 2

    Civil servants used to have these skills in the mid 50's because we built an economic system that wasn't focused on useless financialization. Now we have a legacy 20th century infrastructure that no longer has a 20th century revenue stream. The 21st century revenue streams are so messed up and unbalanced that only Fraudsters and liars can get elected, because no sane person could promise the things most of our elected officials promise.

    At the heart of all this is the lack of federal deficit spending. Hasn't been the same since Reaganomics and the economics of Friedman took over. Probably the two most economically destructive influences in modern economic history.

  5. Re:Easy to solve - calibrate them to overestimate on Speed Cameras In Chicago Earn $50M Less Than Expected · · Score: 2

    many municipalities have found that the companies installing these have turned down the timing between amber and red

    Citation please. I am unaware of a single time where a company has changed the timing. In every instance it has been our elected officials that made the decision.

    The revenue stream for the speed camera company comes from a share of the traffic citations. The legal contracts are drafted in such a way that incentivized both parties, the municipality and the firm. To deny the soft and hard influence that takes place to "tweak" revenue is just be ignorant.

  6. Re:Two words on Former Department of Defense Chief Expects "30 Year War" · · Score: 1

    Sovereign country with its own non-convertible floating exchange rate currency can never be bankrupt.

  7. Only because governments aren't issuing digital on Bill Gates: Bitcoin Is 'Better Than Currency' · · Score: 1

    Bitcoin's value as a payment system isn't really novel. Tommorow if the governement chose to excercise it's authority, it could make bitcoin obsolete by making all currency digital and providing free transaction services via the credit/debit/postal systems. Credit cards would still exist, but debit cards would die, and the credit card industry would be collapse to a fraction of what it is today. Economy would also be better off because business would retain an extra 2-3%, which wouldn't goto Wall Street.

  8. Most sold machines are MS Windows logo partners on Lost Opportunity? Windows 10 Has the Same Minimum PC Requirements As Vista · · Score: 1

    The post summary is forgetting the fact that most machines sold to businesses and in retail are Windows certified which has a far higher spec requirement than minimum. Additionally, low minimum specs is what you want because it forces engineers to build efficient code rather than be adhere to Gates' Law.

  9. Re: Missed opportunity on Microsoft Announces Windows 10 · · Score: 5, Funny

    The coolest things have X:

    OS X
    Windows X
    Xbox
    Malcolm X
    Mega Man X
    X-wing ...
    Xylophone

  10. Re:Survival on Energy Utilities Trying To Stifle Growth of Solar Power · · Score: 1

    Wouldn't housing associations and streets be better off with something like Bloom energy fuel cells? This plus solar seem to be the way to go.

  11. Re:is anyone really surprised here on The Secret Goldman Sachs Tapes · · Score: 1

    I was just about to link to Bill Black. kudos. It is laughable for any person to say laws were not broken. Such person should be labeled a psychopath.

  12. Re:With a budget of 74M ,,, on Mangalyaan Successfully Put Into Mars Orbit · · Score: 1

    ... I wonder what NASA can do with a budget of $74 million ... ... hmm .....

    Hire India?

  13. Dial up can still access gmail on Ask Slashdot: Remote Support For Disconnected, Computer-Illiterate Relatives · · Score: 2, Interesting

    What is the issue with using a web mail provider? Gmail optimizes for low bandwidth links.

  14. Re: RT.com? on Cuba Calculates Cost of 54yr US Embargo At $1.1 Trillion · · Score: 4, Insightful

    You mean like economic sanctions that prevent me from buying Cuban cigars in a voluntary economic transaction?

    *see what I did there?* :)

  15. Re:I don't see how MS can comply on Microsoft Agrees To Contempt Order So It Can Appeal Email Privacy Case · · Score: 1

    They already do this. Microsoft Ireland, Microsoft UK ltd. Etc.

  16. Re:Yep. on Hackers Break Into HealthCare.gov · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Federal government isn't spending your money either. Federal government is not revenue constrained.

    "Taxes for revenue is obsolete."

  17. Ayatollah is right! on Grand Ayatollah Says High Speed Internet Is "Against Moral Standards" · · Score: 1

    The Ayatollah speaks the truth. Just look at America. Everywhere there is broadband, heathens have flourished, while is REAL America, where dial-up reigns, people are living nobly under god's laws and the Bible. Preach it Brother Ayatollah! AMEN!

  18. Re:Crowding Out Effect on How Big Telecom Smothers Municipal Broadband · · Score: 1

    I don't get the context of your comment. What are you commenting on?

  19. Alien attack...meh on This 'SimCity 4' Region With 107 Million People Took Eight Months of Planning · · Score: 1

    Man! Aliens would invade and most people wouldn't even know!

  20. Re:Crowding Out Effect on How Big Telecom Smothers Municipal Broadband · · Score: 1

    I did public finance and Econ in grad school...post Keynesian bent. :)

  21. Re:Crowding Out Effect on How Big Telecom Smothers Municipal Broadband · · Score: 1

    No one I know says this. It should pretty cleanse that telecoms, cable, are not functioning in any Market. As you correctly say they are local government monopolies whic are further protected by the states, for stupid and nonsensical reasons.

  22. Re:REAL RISC? on Research Shows RISC vs. CISC Doesn't Matter · · Score: 1

    I'm waiting for a 'true Scotsman' comment :)

  23. Intel x86 CISC is converted to RISC via Microcode on Research Shows RISC vs. CISC Doesn't Matter · · Score: 1

    As mentioned over many years of slashdot posts, x86 as a hardware instruction no longer truly exists and represents a fraction of the overall die space. The real bread and butter of CPU architecture and trade secrets rests in the microcode that is unique in every generation or edition of a processor. Today all intel processors are practically RISC.

  24. Charge stations gonna BOOM! on $33 Firefox Phone Launched In India · · Score: 1

    Can't wait to see how the market for chargers batteries and charge stations take off. There everyone is so use to 10 day standby.

  25. Re:I like... on U.S. Senator: All Cops Should Wear Cameras · · Score: 1

    I'm pretty sure a 25tb synology NAS setup by a certified and audited by a law enforcement watchdog would suffice. The hardware costs are TINY! It's the governance of the system might require extra people. Last I checked unemployment is up :)