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  1. Re:Cisco on Fighting Rogue Access Points At linux.conf.au · · Score: 1

    That's not really a differentiating feature, there are a quite a few companies that have the similar capabilities and are more accurate that Cisco. I find Cisco's wireless security offerings to be pretty damn weak. They target a very small slice of WLAN issues and exploits (granted, they are typically the most severe), than other vendors who focus solely on security.

    For WLAN Cisco is adequate (I have issues with some of their config and engineering choices), but for WIPS/WIDS I can think of perhaps two (maybe three) companies I would recommend over Cisco. Cisco would be a "heavily invested in Cisco gear and can't get a real budget for wireless security" choice.

  2. Re:the answer is yes on Do Companies Punish Workers Who Take Vacations? · · Score: 1

    Well, sort of. For entry level and mid level positions what you say is true. However, in the tech industry if you're looking to fill positions higher up the expertise and skill ladder, it can be a real bitch to find qualified workers regardless of the economy. My group has been growing as our business is expanding, and we actually spent almost 5 months recently looking inside and outside the company looking for a candidate with the right skills, knowledge and experience.

  3. Re:the answer is yes on Do Companies Punish Workers Who Take Vacations? · · Score: 1

    One was Dutch, and one is in the US (my current). While the Dutch one was good, my current company is way more on the ball when it comes to role management and actual honest-to-god defined processes. However, at both I was (and still am) actively encouraged to use my PTO.

  4. Re:the answer is yes on Do Companies Punish Workers Who Take Vacations? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Exactly. Any company or department or group that actually needs any one person to actually get stuff done is one that will eventually crater and crater hard. It shows they lack focus and have no defined processes or perhaps even lack documentation and definitions of roles and responsibilities. Good companies have some level of redundancy built in so the absence of any one person does not bring things to a screeching halt.

  5. Re:the answer is yes on Do Companies Punish Workers Who Take Vacations? · · Score: 3, Informative

    Wow. I must be lucky in my last two jobs. At both places (both multinationals), we were encouraged to not only take our allotted time, but we were told you're on vacation you will not be called or expected to work. Most of us bring at least our phones "just in case", but I can honestly say I've never been called when taking scheduled time off.

    Of course it helps if your group or department has a well defined processes and documentation. We have redundancy and some overlap in responsibility built in so that the absence of one person will not bring the show to a screeching halt. This is even at the management level. Team leads will usually act as proxy for the vacationing manager and are empowered to make decisions in his or her absence (or course they have to justify those decisions when the manager returns...)

    So I guess at a poorly run company or department, yes you can get punished. But a well run company that has a clear strategy and well defined processes and workflows, not so much.

  6. Re:We'll be whatever you want... on Are Engineers Natural Libertarians Or Technocrats? · · Score: 1

    In other words, write overcomplicated code that ships late?

    What takes longer? Actually spending to time to write code blocks in a an easy to understand format using descriptive variable names, or trying to unravel what for all that is unholy was this coder actually trying to do?

  7. Re:And the name says it all on Boxee 1.5 Will Be the Last Supported Desktop Version · · Score: 1

    No, you just need the cable card from the cable company. Like the one that gets put into current gen TiVOs. Like the one you get in lieu of a set-top box if you request. If you actaully look at the InfiniTV 4 PCIe card, there's a HUGE slot in the back to put the card. So it can decrypt the signals.

  8. Re:You're... on Linux Mint Developer Forks Gnome 3 · · Score: 1

    Suitable renumeration should be sent in Mint's general direction.(emph. mine)

    Must... resist... must... resist.... AAGGHH!!

    REMUNERATION

  9. Re:Google versus Apple on Google Working On Siri Competitor Majel · · Score: 1

    Wait... isn't Google Voice what replaced Grand Central? At least that's what the "Google Voice" app on my iPhone is. A centralized location for SMS and ties in my various phones and filters incoming calls, etc...

    Is there another Google Voice, or are you thinking of another product, because I don't recall using any voice recognition with the Google Voice I'm aware of (it may be there, but I've never stumbled across that function)

  10. Re:Hey hold on there... on Why Developers Still Prefer iOS To Android · · Score: 1

    And you seem to have forgotten that the suits are still ongoing. Only the injunctions to halt sales during the trial were denied or lifted.

  11. Re:"And" ? what "and" ? This is the egg jobs laid on Microsoft Can Remotely Kill Purchased Apps · · Score: 5, Informative

    That may be the case, but I've never had Apple yank an app from my iPhone. Even an app that I purchased that Apple subsequently removed from the store for "violations". Still have it and I used it many many times since it was no longer "legit".

    I have had Amazon delete a book I was in the middle of right off my Kindle (not in mid-read, when the kindle went to sleep). They did refund me, but that's not quite the point is it Amazon?

  12. Re:Simple on Facebook Tells India It Won't Help Censor the Web · · Score: 1

    They only really care about /one/ of the exit pipes...

    Yeah, the one they screw us in.

  13. Re:Free market for the win on Will Firefox Lose Google Funding? · · Score: 2

    Wait. So we're being irrational when we prefer to use Chrome over Firefox? Your post seems to imply that we need to have recorded a valid bug report before deciding to use Chrome instead.

  14. Re:Someone correct me if I'm wrong but... on Quantum Entanglement of Macroscopic Diamonds · · Score: 1

    Not a PhD, but I think the point is they actually aren't in particular state before they are measured (observed). They're smeared across all possible states at the same time. So the coins are equally heads AND tails. It's not until observation happens that it collapses into a this coin is heads or this coin is tails. Look up the double slit photon experiment. I seem to remember reading it and ALMOST having an epiphany. You may fare better.

    And no, I cannot explain it or even understand WHY that is. All I know is it makes my brain hurt.

  15. Re:Do you know what Breitling is? on Jetman Yves Rossy Flies In Formation With Jets · · Score: 2

    So... you're saying this shouldn't be done? Or it should, but only after the sponsors are vetted by you.

    Be sure to forward your email to him. I'm sure he'll sign right up to your newsletter.

    I'll bet you're a real hoot at parties.

  16. Re:Government failure? on Failures Mark First National Test of Emergency Alert System · · Score: 1

    Air Raid Sirens? Not in the midwest. They've always been for storm and tornado alerts. In Illinois municipalities test them at 10am every first Tues of the month.

  17. Re:Decades? on Failures Mark First National Test of Emergency Alert System · · Score: 1

    Please listen to those of us who know how engineering works and stop trying to decrease our intelligence by listening to your uninformed whining.

    Well, that wouldn't be you.

    No matter *which* stage a test is performed, if it doesn't perform as expected, THEN THAT IS A FAILURE. Period. Full Stop. I don't care if it's in Development, UA, QA, or Pre Prod. If you don't pass that's called a FAIL. You then regroup, analyze the data you collected and determine why the failure occurred. Which is what happened here. The EAS did NOT perform as expected and as such was a FAILURE.

  18. Re:Innovation in perspective on Cringely's Lost Jobs Interview: Coming To a Theater Near You · · Score: 1

    So... you compare one company against the collective sales of *all* PC companies? How about at least making it a fair fight. I think you'd be surprised.

  19. Re:Maybe they need to rethink their policy... on Apple Security Chief Steps Down After iPhone Gaffe · · Score: 1

    Facts are pesky things if they interfere in your world view. Just look at creationists or 9/11 "truthers" for an example.

  20. Re:Good Grief. on Apple Security Chief Steps Down After iPhone Gaffe · · Score: 1

    He did in fact "lawyer up". His lawyer is currently in talks with Apple, and from a legal standpoint pushing the head of security out the door is going to look pretty bad for Apple.

  21. Re:How many platforms do they need? on HP Announces ARM-Based Server Line · · Score: 1

    I'd even be willing to entertain the notion that they have a concurrent build of Lion that's able to run on ARM. That's what they did for the Intel version OS X version long before they released the hardware. It may never see the light, but I can't believe they aren't exploring it as an option.

  22. Re:Before anyone else says it... on Cutting Open a Heatsink Heatpipe To See Inside · · Score: 1

    We don't have a typographical function to denote sarcasm.

    Maybe *you* don't, but almost every site with comments (forums, blogs, etc...) /s is pretty recognized as "the preceding is sarcasm and I wrote that so as not to invoke Poe's Law".

    I'm serious. /s <---- Ooo, I'm being META!

  23. Re:All of your are disgusting and immoral on Anonymous Hackers Take Down Child Porn Websites · · Score: 2

    Wah! The child-raper is a victim.

    Fuck that. Child-rapers, while *perhaps* having been victimized as children, still had a choice as adults. They chose wrong.

  24. Re:I don't think this is new? on Researchers Demonstrate Quantum Levitation · · Score: 1

    It's not the Meissner effect. That is for Type I superconductors. This is Flux Pinning and is a different effect for Type II superconductors. You can't change orientation and "lock" it (the Pinning part of the phenomenon) with the Meissner effect. There are some very informative links above regarding this.

  25. Re:Having Read Both Papers on FTL Neutrinos Explained... Maybe · · Score: 1

    I think the fact that most of us are not qualified to understand the raw data let alone the analysis, lends to believe this summary (and associated article) are vastly oversimplified.

    That it's taken a relatively decent amount of time for this to come out leads me to believe that the answer is non obvious and non trivial to obtain.