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  1. Re:Identity Theft? on UK 'Virtual ID Card' Scheme Set For Launch · · Score: 3, Funny

    Um, yes? And if a FaceBook profile is official documentation in England, they just got a LOT of new residents. Scary!

  2. Re:Unfunded mandate on UK 'Virtual ID Card' Scheme Set For Launch · · Score: 1

    I can't wait until carrying a telephone is mandatory.

    How would people with low income, who until now have relied on payphones for the occasional call away from home, meet such an unfunded mandate?

    Oh I don't know... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpAOwJvTOio

  3. Re:Is there one? on Ask Slashdot: Best Cell Phone Carrier In the US? · · Score: 0

    Actually...

    That's like asking what the best fast food restaurant is the best one for steak.

    Stay in South Korea or you will find out how bad are cell phone coverage is.

  4. Re:Optical fiber link to every desk on Ask Slashdot: What Would You Include In a New Building? · · Score: 1

    All the better to introduce the Stuxnet Virus.

    You do realize that wireless can be made secure much easier than ethernet right?

    You do realise that hundreds of unshielded electrical motors ... It is not security. It is signal to NOISE!

    You do realize that the GP was replying to someone who claimed a wireless network was more likely to introduce the Stuxnet Virus, right?

    You do realize that the OP said fiber, and the first reply said wireless, and it degenerated from there. (OK, This is getting silly, but I can't stop)

  5. Re:Optical fiber link to every desk on Ask Slashdot: What Would You Include In a New Building? · · Score: 1

    For now... And at one times Fast E was enough too. Prices will come down, and then people will start to get it. As for switches, you can do link teaming now and get as much as you have free ports for. Harder on a server with only 2 ports.

  6. Re:Some suggestions on Ask Slashdot: What Would You Include In a New Building? · · Score: 1

    There is not Cat 6 E. There is a Cat 6A. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat_6_cable#Category_6a Why have consistency when we can have STANDARDS! :)

  7. Re:Cooling on Ask Slashdot: What Would You Include In a New Building? · · Score: 1

    And have it somewhere near and exterior door. That way if you need a generator to get you past an extended power outage, you can run one without 8 miles of power cable. (Think VoIP phones, and company web site.)

  8. Re:Cooling on Ask Slashdot: What Would You Include In a New Building? · · Score: 1

    Why? Colder is better for most computer systems, and they generate no small amount of heat themselves. I doubt you are going to get cold enough to be a problem... Especially with a heated office outside the door.

  9. Re:Enough copper in the walls... on Ask Slashdot: What Would You Include In a New Building? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    What he said. I do wireless for a living, and I am a big fan of cable.

  10. Re:Cat 5 and patch panels on Ask Slashdot: What Would You Include In a New Building? · · Score: 1

    Cat6A cable. Always get the latest, because 10 years from now you will have a building full of Cat3. (By today's standards) Cat6A will support 10GbE Base-T, and should be good for quite a while.

  11. Re:Optical fiber link to every desk on Ask Slashdot: What Would You Include In a New Building? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    You do realize that wireless can be made secure much easier than ethernet right?

    You do realise that hundreds of unshielded electrical motors inside what is for all practical purposes a giant Faraday cage might cause some small amount of interference, don't you? It is not security. It is signal to NOISE!

  12. Re:Optical fiber link to every desk on Ask Slashdot: What Would You Include In a New Building? · · Score: 2

    Unless you are in a wildly electrically hostile environment, or forsee a need for 10GbE to the desktop, why bother?

    Just the hostile environment. 10GbE will be copper. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/10-gigabit_Ethernet#10GBASE-T It needs Cat6A for full runs, and Cat6 for short runs.

  13. Re:Working phone number in whois on EU Privacy Watchdog To ICANN: Law Enforcement WHOIS Demands "Unlawful" · · Score: 1

    Law Enforcement is done by private organizations in your country? (Law enforcement is pushing for it)

  14. Re:"Law Enforcement?" on EU Privacy Watchdog To ICANN: Law Enforcement WHOIS Demands "Unlawful" · · Score: 2

    The entertainment industry. (I default to looking for the worst case scenario...)

  15. Re:Working phone number in whois on EU Privacy Watchdog To ICANN: Law Enforcement WHOIS Demands "Unlawful" · · Score: 1

    It's not like whois is the only hope to track down a domain owner. IF they have a sufficient reason to track them down they can follow the IP address to a provider and present a warrant for the account information OR they can present the warrant to the domain registrar. If they don't have good enough reason to get a warrant, they shouldn't be pursuing it in the first place.

    Why is your comment not +5 Insightful yet? All this will do is increase business to "Protected Listings" in whois. Oh, wait... I forgot who government works for.

  16. Re:Trolling? on The Day Leo Traynor Confronted His Troll · · Score: 1

    Read the GP's post history. He is an obsessive anti-Muslim bigot. Constantly trolling and looking for fights. Downmods are appropriate when it comes to the crap he posts.

    Also, true. But in this case he was both on-topic, and correct.

  17. Re:Trolling? on The Day Leo Traynor Confronted His Troll · · Score: 1

    That's why I don't even say words like trojan or virus anymore but just tell them "You got a bug"

    So you are the one who is resposible for the abuse of the term "bug" as whatever instead of an error in program code.

    A virus has been referred to as a bug since before there were computer viruses. And a listening device has been referred to as a bug since before there were common keyloggers. But even with your argument, how does most mallware get installed? Through a software bug... (If you answered "Adobe" you still get credit.)

  18. Re:Trolling? on The Day Leo Traynor Confronted His Troll · · Score: 1

    Does it have to be either / or? It could never be that our rather screwed up sociality is raising people that have less value and empathy for others?

  19. Re:Trolling? on The Day Leo Traynor Confronted His Troll · · Score: 1

    You can't identify sociopaths with the loose definition, and then treat them according to the stringent definition. Logic error.

    There is more than one person on slashdot. And sometimes they disagree. So I will see your "Logic Error" and raise you a "False Premise."

  20. Re:Trolling? on The Day Leo Traynor Confronted His Troll · · Score: 1

    Take it from personal experience... Being run over by a car takes almost no prep. Getting away with it takes more, but that is the case with anything.

  21. Re:Trolling? on The Day Leo Traynor Confronted His Troll · · Score: 1

    You really think that Leo Traynor will not be watching his friends kid who tortured him for a year? He still has all the data and proof, so if he does devolve, the record is still there.

  22. Re:Trolling? on The Day Leo Traynor Confronted His Troll · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Internet is the main form of communication for kids today and depriving someone of internet access will isolate them socially completely.

    We used to call that "grounding" and somehow I survived it more than once. I know this may come as a shock, but punishment is supposed to be unpleasant.

  23. Re:Trolling? on The Day Leo Traynor Confronted His Troll · · Score: 2

    Uh, no... RTFA again. "A couple of days after that conversation I met my friend, his wife and their son in a quiet and discreet location. The son, The Troll who almost driven me mad, was totally unaware that I'd be joining them." This was a man telling a friend how crazy his life was getting. The kid MAY have been smart enough to catch on, but they did what they could to trap him. A true socio-path might have been just enjoying the results of his work.

  24. Who's job is it? on EU Privacy Watchdog To ICANN: Law Enforcement WHOIS Demands "Unlawful" · · Score: 4, Interesting

    What is this push the past few years that technical companies need to do the job of law enforcement? The craigslist hooker scandal is a prime example... Here is this nice list of criminals for you to arrest, yet it is the websites fault?

  25. Re:Youngins. on XBian's Koenkk Replies To the XBian/RaspBMC Flap · · Score: 2

    One day, after there had been a much-heated debate, a vote was held, and it was declared the ISP (AT&T), would be given the ultimate punishment: The Usenet death sentence.

    It is Usenet Death Penalty, or UDP. And I remember the UUnet vote, and the Compuserv vote, but not ATT. (Also some odd little ISP in Michigan, if I remember right. That one went through, and is not mentioned anywhere for some reason.) Anyway, tinc. :)