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  1. Re:More likely on Inside PRISM: Why the Government Hates Encryption · · Score: 2

    It's called "port mirroring" and it's a standard feature on all mid-to-high range network gear.

  2. Let me google that for you on Japan's Radiation Disaster Toll: None Dead, None Sick · · Score: 3, Informative
  3. The magic answer on Can Microsoft Survive If Windows Doesn't Dominate? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Windows can't be used to crash Android apps that compete with Microsoft's.

  4. If you really need a VPN and know why you do on Disposable VPN: Tor Gateways With EC2 Free Tiers · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Then using somebody else's ain't gonna work.

  5. Re:Copper? on Ask Slashdot: What Is the Future of Old Copper Pair Technology? · · Score: 1

    About 50 cents a pound.

  6. Re:hypocrisy on PETA Wants To Sue Anonymous HuffPo Commenters · · Score: 1

    OK, fine. All animals are mostly made of food. I don't think somebody obeying the dictum "if it moves, eat it" is going fishing for puffer fish livers - and if they were, the second guy would figure that out.

  7. Re:BYOD means I/T loses some control over it on Why Everyone Gets It Wrong About BYOD · · Score: 2

    1 IT person is good for nothing because humans need downtime to function correctly and tech needs to function correctly 24/7. At 400 users a good minimum is 4 IT folk. Fewer users: outsource it. From 400 to 3,000 you shouldn't need more though. After that somebody needs to assume a leadership posiiton.

  8. Re: BYOD means I/T loses some control over it on Why Everyone Gets It Wrong About BYOD · · Score: 1

    At Google you can't even interview without being IT tech qualified. Even for accounting, marketing or shipping. I'm pretty sure the guy who sweeps the warehouse could teach IT at your local community college.

  9. Re:BYOD means I/T loses some control over it on Why Everyone Gets It Wrong About BYOD · · Score: 3, Funny

    Could you tell a little bit more, please? What is the IPv4 address range for your routers?

  10. Re:BYOD means I/T loses some control over it on Why Everyone Gets It Wrong About BYOD · · Score: 1

    You said you do it successfully, but didn't say how. I can respect that.

    People are going to attack you for that because they don't know how. It's not your job to teach them how.

    Incompetence reigns in enterprise IT, as it always has. Fixing that isn't your problem as long as you do well by your charges.

    Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines.

    Quite.

  11. WTF is a trusted network or network device? on Why Everyone Gets It Wrong About BYOD · · Score: 2

    30 years a network and systems admin and such a thing has to now been hypothetical or mythical. I'd love to hear about this wonderful new thing and the miraculous science through which it was achieved. Does it involve quantum physics?

  12. Re:Billion on Planetary Resources To Build Crowdfunded Public Space Telescope · · Score: 1

    This is probably more about getting people engaged in the process. The designs aren't really expensive though, and microsats don't cost as much as you might think to launch. They will probably wind up selling some of the tech they develop too. I think it's pretty slick.

  13. Re:Out of curiosity... on Planetary Resources To Build Crowdfunded Public Space Telescope · · Score: 1

    They're looking for asteroids, likely best seen in the infrared.

  14. Re:Oh brother on PETA Wants To Sue Anonymous HuffPo Commenters · · Score: 4, Insightful

    PETA's position is that we ought not kill any animals any where. But they kill 95% of the pets entrusted to their care.

  15. Re:Oh brother on PETA Wants To Sue Anonymous HuffPo Commenters · · Score: 1

    WBC's power is in being a nuisance, and they're good at that.

  16. Re:Humans life on Australian Intelligence HQ Blueprints Hacked · · Score: 1

    It averages out.

  17. Humans life on Australian Intelligence HQ Blueprints Hacked · · Score: 1

    Humans live in Antarctica, equatorial Africa, and everything between. Even vacuum. We'll have no trouble adapting our tech to supporting us wherever we care to be.

  18. Re:Will Tesla buy them? on Electric Car Startup 'Better Place' Liquidating After $850 Million Investment · · Score: 1

    I guess you missed the point that the US Federal government subsidized this operation with loan guarantees.

    Why is a different thing I can't answer. I don't know why. Apparently you have the interest and energy to investigate the matter.

  19. Re:Dear slashdot mods on NASA TESS Observatory Will Hunt For Alien Life On "Super-Earth" Exoplanets · · Score: 1

    I've put a million words here: more work than most famous authors. Some that I regret. I would like to have many of those words back. And still I say: "no."

    The uncensored nature of /. is its special offer, unique in all the world. If /. censors it loses what makes it special.

  20. Re:Not true - hyperbole on PETA Wants To Sue Anonymous HuffPo Commenters · · Score: 1

    Given the fractured nature of your post I'm not really sure how to respond to it.

    PETA shelters kill more than 95% of the pets entrusted to them. That's a fact. Could you try to be coherent in replying to that statement? Please?

  21. Re:how long will this behavior be tolerated... on Australian Intelligence HQ Blueprints Hacked · · Score: 1

    Whoa. The post was on topic, insightful, informative, relevant, all that anybody could possibly hope a /. post would be. And moderated overrated without any other mods. I'm thinking somebody needs to lose their mod points.

  22. Re:Will Tesla buy them? on Electric Car Startup 'Better Place' Liquidating After $850 Million Investment · · Score: 1

    Battery swap is the right answer to the recharge time problem until we get supercapacitor tech. Elon doesn't need to buy this company to make that happen. Even if he did, their patents will be available at firesale prices. Musk is wary though, as white kid brought up in South Africa without the benefit of wealth and power ought to be. He's made much of himself and I can't wait to see how much more he achieves. He's the ultimate Cinderella story.

    This company ("Better Place") was a shell engineered to fail from the beginning to suck up federal electric vehicle dollars. That was its purpose, and it did it well. Its closure is a victory to the people behind it as these dollars didn't go to something useful. What is the purpose of putting battery swap stations on tiny Hawaiian islands where you can't drive a vehicle farther than its charge time before you hit the ocean? It is to prove that the battery swap thing is not economically viable in a use case where nobody in their right mind would use it. If you can't run out your vehicle's basic charge making three laps around the island, you don't need a battery swap so battery swap stations are redundant. An investigation into the genesis of "Better Place" will probably find at least some connections to BP, Exxon and so on. Many Senators knew the nature of this company, and pushed it anyway knowing their votes went to waste.

    I'm really sad that legislative action can get this bad before people start to do something about it - and I think it must get much worse before we actually do.

    Once upon a time I'd hunt down and finger the federal reprobate responsible for approving this, but I'm old and tired. You do it if you still care.

  23. Re:how long will this behavior be tolerated... on Australian Intelligence HQ Blueprints Hacked · · Score: 1

    "Life finds a way."

  24. Re:People Eating Tasty Animals on PETA Wants To Sue Anonymous HuffPo Commenters · · Score: 1

    If we weren't supposed to eat animals they wouldn't be made of food.

  25. Re:hypocrisy on PETA Wants To Sue Anonymous HuffPo Commenters · · Score: 2, Informative

    All animals are made of food. Many forms of plant and fungus are edible but others have evolved to be poisonous to animals - including humans. But if it moves, it's edible. Not only that, but mobile animals are nutrient concentrates that provide more energy per pound than any sort of plant.