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  1. Re: Meh on 'The Big Bang Theory' Is Finally Ending (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah, right... have you ever watched an episode one it aired? There is no studio audience in history that laughs that easily, that loudly, at the most obvious and simple jokes and then immediately goes silent once the joke passes. If there _is_ a studio audience and if they laugh at all, then in post they're laying over a heavy laugh track.

  2. Re:Jumped the shark a decade ago on 'The Big Bang Theory' Is Finally Ending (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Sadly laugh tracks are still going strong, and as soon as you hear one, you know they show you've tuned into has bad writers and isn't worth continuing. There isn't a single "good" show on now, or in the past decade, that uses a laugh track, but there are loads of awful ones: Two Broke Girls, Big Bang Theory, Two and a Half Men, and on, and on...

    None of those shows were good, but found success by appealing to the dumbest of the dumb with obvious humor and constant laugh tracks.

  3. That photo in ad is so obviously heavily professionally retouched, nobody would see that an think, "Boy, that phone takes great pics!"

  4. Re: Earlier police failures... on Kansas Swatting Perpetrator 'SWauTistic' Interviewed on Twitter (krebsonsecurity.com) · · Score: 1

    He's already been found and arrested, thankfully. Now to hope they can give him more than just a few years in lockup.

  5. Re:Ubiquiti Wireless on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Deploy Small Office Wi-Fi SSIDs? · · Score: 5, Informative

    It's available for linux, go to the forums at their site, the UniFi section and look at any version announcement. They even have a Debian/Ubuntu repo, if you're on RHEL/CentOS you just grab a tarball and install the mongodb bits yourself.

  6. Re:Smugness Overload on Dell Announces Private Cloud Built On OpenStack · · Score: 1

    *tucks plaid scarf into ironic sweater vest* "It's a small indie brand, you wouldn't have heard of it."

    Actually, we're just as you describe, tons of Dell in the computer room and on the desktop. No real troubles with any of it, and anything that needs to be replaced is quickly handled.

  7. Re:maybe on Do Recreational Drugs Help Programmers? · · Score: 0

    Probably more like 12 years, if WIkipedia and the U.S. Govt are right about this bust drying up 90% of the world's LSD supply: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Leonard_Pickard

  8. Re:Points 4. and 5... on Duqu Attackers Managed to Wipe C&C Servers · · Score: 0

    There's nothing foolish about it, he's wrong. That is, provided you continue to keep up-to-date with patches. Given two equal SSH daemons, both fully updated but one on a random high port, the one listening on 22 will log hundreds or thousands of attempts per day, the one on a random port will log *zero*. Which do you think makes log auditing easier to look for truly dangerous threats? (If you see failures on your "obscured" SSH daemon, you _know_ you have a problem because someone has fully scanned your address(es) and is actively attempting a break in, while those attempts just disappear in the noise on the port 22 daemon). Similarly, if/when that next SSH 0-day hits, which of the two is in immediate danger of being rooted? The one that is in the logs of dozens or hundreds of scanning script kiddies, or the one that has never been hit a single time by an unknown user, that nobody in the world even knows exists?

  9. Re:Just remember the first rule of RAID 0 on RAID Trust Issues — Windows Or a Cheap Controller? · · Score: 0

    The RAID 1 solution gives you resiliency, not safety. RAID 1 doesn't help you at all in that "Oh shit" moment where you've just mistyped a destructive command or deleted the wrong folder. It covers you when a drive dies. not when the virus-of-the-day goes nuts on your data. It's so cheap to do a much simpler backup solution than what was discussed above, there's just no reason not to. You can get any simple external drive and copy everything important to you, and you're better off than running only a RAID solution. The difficulty is the discipline to maintain it, and copying everything everytime isn't efficient. That's where "true" backup solutions come in and get you doing automated backups at full and incremental levels, eliminating forgetfulness and/or laziness. Now you want a 2nd external drive, so you can write backups to one for a week, then take it offsite and swap in the second, which will get your backups for the next week and so on. In the case of a flood/fire/tornado/theft, you do stand to lose up to a week's worth of data, but that's better than losing absolutely everything, which is what happens with your RAID solution. Backup doesn't have to cost a lot. 2 $100 external drives and something like Bacula, or BackupPC, or one of many other options can take care of you.

  10. Re:Spammer dead, woo hoo ! on Spam King Escapes From Federal Prison · · Score: 0

    The wife and child dying is horrible, absolutely terrible. The spammer? I couldn't care less. Hope he rots in hell.

  11. Just cooperate! on Students Put UCLA Taser Video On YouTube · · Score: 0, Troll

    There are not capital letters big enough to say this: HE DESERVED IT 110%!! Jesus Christ, you moron, the police have asked you to leave because you don't have proper ID to be in a facility that requires you to have an ID. Let's scream and resist and fight it, instead of leaving peacefully, going and getting your ID, and coming back. After all, it was YOUR dumbass mistake to be there without proper ID in the first place! The so-called victim had ALL the power to prevent this from happening at all, and to stop it immediately after the first taser by cooperating instead of continued resistance. Then, after the first taser, how f'ing stupid do you have to be to continue to yell and resist, despite countless warnings that you are about to be tasered again? If my kid came home crying that she'd been tasered by police, and I saw a video like this of the incident, I'd say, "Well, kiddo, you definitely got what you deserved, I'm just glad you didn't get shot or beaten, and instead have only the memories of some temporary, non-scarring electric shock induced pain."

  12. Re:Alter the routing table... on Whitelisting Websites with Windows? · · Score: 1

    argh, should have previewed, formatting got massacred :(

    route -p add "ip of webserver" mask 255.255.255.255 "ip of default gateway"

    Maybe that will survive. Anyhow, the gist was just delete default route, add routes for what they need, and they won't be able to go anywhere else at all.

  13. Alter the routing table... on Whitelisting Websites with Windows? · · Score: 1

    Well, if they aren't administrators on the machines, then just change the routing tables. "route delete 0.0.0.0" does amazing things to limit internet access from a host. Just do a "route add" for the webserver they need to access, and they'll already have a route in their routing table that lets them talk to servers on the same local network. If the machines are pulling DHCP, this isn't going to survive reboots, of course, but if you can statically assign their IP info, just do that, but don't enter a default gateway (many people seem to errorneously believe you *have* to put something for the default gateway, which isn't true at all). Your machines will come up with the ability to talk to the local network, and nothing else. To add additional routes for 'outside' hosts, i.e. the webserver you want them to hit, you'd just set up a persistent static route so it will live across reboots: route -p add mask 255.255.255.255 Now you have a machine that can talk to local net, one outside webserver, and nothing else at all. Add additional routes for other local networks if needed.

  14. Re:SSH on Critical Flaw Found in VNC 4.1 · · Score: 1

    "Your entire explanation is complete and utter gibberish to me." The fact that you are clueless about ssh tunneling (it's not point-and-click, but it's *very* close to that easy if you have some basic knowledge) isn't a reason to tell the responder that his reply is gibberish. That comes across as rather rude. If you'd take an hour or two to read some documentation, you'd be setting up your own ssh tunnels without assistance.

  15. Nice.... on Windows Drives Company To OpenBSD · · Score: 1, Insightful

    I wish I could pull this off at my current gig...

  16. Re:We're not persuing this as fast as we can becau on Stem Cells Mend Spinal Injuries · · Score: 1

    You're wasting your time. People simple-minded enough to believe the bible is the word of God instead of realizing that it was written by mere humans (with no direct contact with God) for the purpose of controlling the behavior of the masses will never understand the point you're trying to make. An embryo is NOT a human life, and using stem cells from one "ends a life" exactly as much as you idiots do when you "rub one out" and flush the toilet/use a sock/whatever. KILLERS!!!!

  17. Re:Don't just take this lying down, IMO on DJB Announces 44 Security Holes In *nix Software · · Score: 1
    would you be so opposed if a professor failed an astronomy class that failed to put the planets in the correct order or an economics class that couldn't describe how supply and demand affect prices?

    Are you truly saying that you can't see that an astronomy professor whose entire class can't put the planets in order has just shown himself to be a completely incompetent teacher? If you spend a semester with a group of students and at the end of that time, after all of your lectures and exams, not a single student can complete your homework assignment, one of two things is 100% certain: either A) your assignment was far too hard, or B) you suck *badly* as a teacher.