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  1. Re:It's tough to protect against inside jobs on Withhold Passwords From Your Employer, Go To Jail? · · Score: 1

    What would you have them do to avoid this problem in the future? Perhaps they could hire someone who is a technical expert with overall responsibility for the department, whose job is to make sure something like this can't happen. Oh, wait...

    There are AAA systems with RBAC for a reason. Childs was not the only network admin and there is no reason he should have been the only one with administrative access.

    However, SF's failures in this regard still do not absolve Childs colossal dickery. He brought the worst of what can be made to stick on himself.

  2. Re:PolyHeme on Artificial Blood Made In Romania · · Score: 1

    Looks like there may be a few issues with PolyHeme. It would be interesting to see how this new stuff stacks up against the disadvantages of PolyHeme.

    Of course, there's no reason there can't be two (or more) different solutions to the problem, that would probably be beneficial to the patient.

  3. Re:one more thing.. on The Case Against Gmail · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The writer likes Outlook.com, clearly government spying is not a problem to them.

  4. Re:Dear Anonymous on RIAA Targets 21 Sites For Shutdown · · Score: 4, Funny

    Not your personal army.

  5. Re:Pathetic on A Year After Sandy, Do You Approach Disaster Differently? · · Score: 1

    Well, it was also very large.

    More to the point the cost of the damage it caused is passed only by Katrina in 2005 by virtue of hitting areas that do not normally have to worry about major storms of this type. Calling it a 'Superstorm' (it 'merged' with a nor'easter which is what started the name) was stupid, but it wasn't just another rain storm in New York.

  6. Re:Uh... on Debian To Replace SysVinit, Switch To Systemd Or Upstart · · Score: 4, Funny

    systemd: good idea, horrible implementation.

    No Solaris SMF was a good idea, systemd is what you get when someone looks at that idea and says "you know what, I can fuck that up."

  7. Re:I'm not surprised. on The Cybersecurity Industry Is Hiring, But Young People Aren't Interested · · Score: 1

    This is basically what I thought of when I read the summary. Information security work isn't glamorous, like the rest of the industry, it's pretty damn boring. It just doesn't draw kids out of school who are looking to hit it rich and famous, it pulls people who have some experience and are looking for a steady job.

  8. Re:Is anybody surprised? on Nuclear Officers Napped With Blast Door Left Open · · Score: 1

    Any questions?

    Uh ya, since alarms and shit are going to sound when I need to bring an end to humanity, why do I have to stay awake until then?

  9. Re:Young stupid people on What Employee Lock-In Means At Facebook · · Score: 1
    None of this is new, or specific to the current downturn. Kids out of school or otherwise without a family would work these very long hours when times were good. Zuckberg said the hire only young workers in 2007, before the current downtrun, and was working that way before he said it.

    "Young people just have simpler lives. We may not own a car. We may not have family." In the absence of those distractions, he says, you can focus on big ideologies. He added, "I only own a mattress." Later: "Simplicity in life allows you to focus on whatâ(TM)s important."

    The message is hire young people and burn them out before they realize their job isn't the whole life they want. Before they find out the job isn't that important.

  10. Re:It's not "bells and whistles!!!" on Nest Protect: Trojan Horse For 'The Internet of Things'? · · Score: 0

    How much do they pay you?

  11. Re:Why? on AMD Intentionally Added Artificial Limitations To Their HDMI Adapters · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Why do you assume that AMD did this voluntarily?

    Because there is no evidence to indicate otherwise. Anything else is in the realm of speculation and conspiracy theory.

  12. Re:Gonna miss Slashdot on Come Try Out Slashdot's New Design (In Beta) · · Score: 1

    Clearly you don't belong here. It is not Slashdot's fault that your default handler for mailto: is a client you don't use.

  13. Re:Future of Microsoft in question? on The Memo That Spawned Microsoft Research · · Score: 1

    (Tech-support for parents and friends doesn't count)

    You just killed your own point.

  14. Re:Future!? on The Memo That Spawned Microsoft Research · · Score: 0

    Because this is Slashdot. BTW, it's also the year of the Linux desktop.

  15. Re:This is gonna be awesome! on No Upper Bound On Phone Record Collection, Says NSA · · Score: 2

    Never going to happen in the US.

  16. Re:Why not SysRq? on Bill Gates Acknowledges Ctrl+Alt+Del Was a Mistake · · Score: 1

    First one that comes to my find is "Why do I click 'Start' to stop?

    shutdown is a process the system has to start. You basically are telling the OS to start the shutdown routine.

    Also, organization.

  17. Re:Service is meh... on Hulu "Kicking Back Into Action" Says CEO, Adding New Content · · Score: 1

    I don't see ads on hulu.

    HuluPlus on the PS3 is fine, on the TV I bought a few months ago it didn't work at all.

    Honestly, it works well enough for me and I don't have to wait for a torrent to download to see many popular things. Saves disk space that way too.

  18. Re:Talking from experience on Insiders Say B&N Will Launch New Nook,Tablet In October · · Score: 2

    What issues with PDF's do you have? I have a Nook Color and don't seem to have issues with PDF's, I haven't noticed anything anyway.

  19. Re:This just in on The Windows Flaw That Cracks Amazon Web Services · · Score: 1

    Including you!

  20. Re:The alternative on New Drug Mimics the Beneficial Effects of Exercise · · Score: 1

    And for those that can't? Or those that want to get healthy and can't exercise enough yet?

  21. Get that fucking nature out of here on Canadian City Uses Drone To Chase Off Geese · · Score: 1

    Decent people shouldn't have to put up with that natural world shit.

  22. Re:Burning bridges on Ask Slashdot: When Is It OK To Not Give Notice? · · Score: 1

    If the employee is motivated to just leave, it's doubtful they're going to be open to coming back, that's basically a fuck this shit move.

    A company gives notice when they have to let someone go for reasons that are not performance related, they escort you out when you have to go now. An employee should view it the same way, notice when your leaving on good terms, walk out now when you are not leaving on good terms.

  23. Re:Birth of PC - Altair, not Apple on Early Apple Employees Talk Memories of Steve Jobs, Thoughts On New Movie · · Score: 3, Informative

    I knew someone was going to say something like this, because people can't read. The article doesn't say Apple was the birth of the PC, it says Apple was at the birth of the industry, not the birth but at the birth, which is true. Therefore those who were part of Apple were at the birth of the industry as well.

    The interviewees also lament that the movie in question doesn't even mention all the others that were there to provide context, and that Apple was by no means a sure thing.

  24. Expired on "451" Error Will Tell Users When Governments Are Blocking Websites · · Score: 1
  25. Re:I get the reference but... on "451" Error Will Tell Users When Governments Are Blocking Websites · · Score: 1

    4xx doesn't always mean the client screwed up, 403:Forbidden is usually a permissions problem. Yes it could mean the client didn't send the correct credentials, but it can also mean that you genuinly don't have access to that resource.

    3xx definitely doesn't make sense here, I doubt the server is going to redirect you somewhere to get the now 'illegal' material.

    I will say that I prefer on looks that this would be a 5xx error. It fits very well with the description of the 5xx class of messages "Response status codes beginning with the digit "5" indicate cases in which the server is aware that it has encountered an error or is otherwise incapable of performing the request."