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  1. Re:Same as every day on How Are You Celebrating National Sysadmin Day? · · Score: 2

    If they get too uppity give them a chroot that looks like the production environment. They won't figure out why nothing they do works for at least a week or two.

  2. Re:Same as every year on How Are You Celebrating National Sysadmin Day? · · Score: 1

    You must either be the best developer on earth or work in one hell of a big company. I constantly have to go chase after our devs when they decide to have me push code they screwed up.

  3. Re:i like cyanogenmod..but... on Meet Focal, the New Camera App For CyanogenMod · · Score: 4, Informative

    Sounds like you made some pretty poor choices.
    Here is a list of devices with that sort of stuff available:
    https://developers.google.com/android/nexus/drivers

    Buying devices without drivers available is voting with your dollars for this to continue. If you want it to stop you have to take some responsibility.

  4. Re:Moniker catching on? on Blizzard Breaks For Independence As Kotick Plans $8.2 Billion Dollar Buyout · · Score: 1

    Upon doing more investigation it does appear the term predates what I had thought. I guess whoever taught me this gypped me.

  5. Re:Moniker catching on? on Blizzard Breaks For Independence As Kotick Plans $8.2 Billion Dollar Buyout · · Score: 1

    Not if you ask them.
    The older set might find that insulting and the younger would likely pretend to be offended for the humor value of it.

    I am guessing you are not white, or are an american fi you are. For non-american whites and even in america in places with strong ethnic neighborhoods white is not a singular group. Where I live there are still polish, italian and irish neighborhoods. This means you will often hear the use of the words Polack, Wop, and Mick used in either a joking or serious manner.

  6. Re:Moniker catching on? on Blizzard Breaks For Independence As Kotick Plans $8.2 Billion Dollar Buyout · · Score: 2

    http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/jerry-rigged

    Those are two different terms. Jury-rigged is nautical in origin. Jerry-rigged is a racist term first used in ww1 or ww2 by british soldiers. It started in ww1 as jerry-built.

  7. Re:Network diagram anyone? on Chinese Firm Huawei In Control of UK Net Filters · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Oh come on, you know exactly what is happening. The chinese log that data and the NSA trades it for intelligence on folks the chinese want info on.

    This very likely has nothing to do with filtering, since you can have that turned off, the logging is what they were really after the whole time.

  8. Re:Moniker catching on? on Blizzard Breaks For Independence As Kotick Plans $8.2 Billion Dollar Buyout · · Score: 2

    Yet, jerry-rigged is still somehow acceptable. I am not suggesting we should go back to using racist phrases, just we should abandon them equally.

  9. Re:High risk on Hackers Reveal Nasty New Car Attacks · · Score: 1

    Way to read words I never wrote.

    I would want the law to state the keys must be transferred to the owner of the car at time of sale. They must also be changeable by the owner of the car.

  10. Re:Of course... on Study Questions H-1B Policies · · Score: 1

    You really think Infosys does that?

    I am sure real tech companies do, but check what percentage of H1Bs they get vs the contract companies.

  11. Re:Just use Windows Backup on Ask Slashdot: Asynchronous RAID-1 Free Software Backup For Laptops? · · Score: 1

    This is no different than claiming ls is an automation tool because you can cron it. Anything you can call from a cron like system can be automated, but cron/scheduled tasks is the secret sauce not this tool.

  12. Re:High risk on Hackers Reveal Nasty New Car Attacks · · Score: 1

    I would ideally want the law to demand the keys are given to the owner of the car at sale. Each car has it's own set.

  13. Re:High risk on Hackers Reveal Nasty New Car Attacks · · Score: 1

    Good reason not to buy a Ford I guess. Are all car companies this bad?

  14. Re:High risk on Hackers Reveal Nasty New Car Attacks · · Score: 1

    So far they need physical access. Onstar and Hyundai's similar thing likely make decent remote access points.

  15. Re:High risk on Hackers Reveal Nasty New Car Attacks · · Score: 1

    Also encrypt everything. The packets the brake sensors send the controller and back should be signed with the a key for that wheel/brake. This way even spoofing packets onto the wire is not possible.

  16. Re:High risk on Hackers Reveal Nasty New Car Attacks · · Score: 1

    Modern cars have to have computer controls. How do you think they get that gas milage?

    Sure, the infotainment can do without it, but the engine sure as hell can't. How would traction control work?

  17. Re:High risk on Hackers Reveal Nasty New Car Attacks · · Score: 1

    ODB to wireless is normally bluetooth, they are closer to $10 than $100. Are there any that do wifi?

    Patching a million cars should be easier, you have the VINs and can call the owners. Lots of windows machines never get any updates.

  18. Re:High risk on Hackers Reveal Nasty New Car Attacks · · Score: 2

    I will notice that when pulling out of the driveway, and just have the car towed to the shop.

    The lock up brakes at random on single wheels at 75 mph hack is a lot scarier.

  19. Re:High risk on Hackers Reveal Nasty New Car Attacks · · Score: 1

    If that is true the people who designed those should be hit by a clue by four. You do not put the doors unlock mechanism on the same bus as engine control. You sure as hell don't use it for the radio too.

  20. Re:High risk on Hackers Reveal Nasty New Car Attacks · · Score: 1

    They should not be on the same network. Have the CAN bus logout to a device that every X seconds is copied to another device on a bus OnStar can read from. Data must never flow the other way.

    That form of authentication very likely has a default password of some type. Hackers will find that very quickly.

  21. Re:It is OBVIOUSLY cost reduction on Study Questions H-1B Policies · · Score: 1

    No, just high expectations. I would do it in a heartbeat.

  22. Re:H1B or Outsourcing, choose one. on Study Questions H-1B Policies · · Score: 1

    That is not the argument at all, that is a side effect.

    We want these folks for the skills they have now, you are talking about a side effect.

  23. Re:Just use Windows Backup on Ask Slashdot: Asynchronous RAID-1 Free Software Backup For Laptops? · · Score: 1

    You can use it for automation sure, but out of the box it does not do any. Nearly no windows user will know how to use that. It would need a shiny wizard and other mythical figures to do that for you.

    My personal favorite is to have bacula do it, that is even less end user friendly though. It does mean all the schedules live on the server not the client, which is nice.

  24. Re:My solution on Ask Slashdot: Asynchronous RAID-1 Free Software Backup For Laptops? · · Score: 2

    You don't transfer anywhere near as much data over it.

    You leave that on the server and use the internet just for the nice cheap display.

  25. Re:Just use Windows Backup on Ask Slashdot: Asynchronous RAID-1 Free Software Backup For Laptops? · · Score: 1

    Lots of backup software uses VSS, pretty much any credible backup software on windows. It totally lacks automation, which is a pretty big downside.

    I doubt he is using windows, since he mentions rsnapshot.