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  1. Re:Lovely and Intuitive? on Microsoft Launches Windows 8 Consumer Preview · · Score: 5, Insightful

    And the ribbons interface for Windows Explorer? WTF?! I would rather be waterboarded. Screw that!

  2. Re:Not that they needed nukes to begin with... on North Korea Agrees To Suspend Nuclear Activities · · Score: 1

    There's also money to selling either the refined material or other components to make a bomb. I'm sure Iran among other nations are one some sort of waiting list to purchase at a moments notice.

  3. Re:Still in violation on North Korea Agrees To Suspend Nuclear Activities · · Score: 1

    There's that. There is also the possibility of starting on real reform after the "Dear Leader" died knowing that leading the way his father did only leads to ruin. Assuming for a moment he even remotely cares. I doubt the son has much power though. The consolidation and stronghold, while impressive, has always been on the waning side starting with Kim Jong Il. Perhaps it's all smoke in mirrors and what we're really seeing is political infighting. Who the hell knows. Just my two cents.

  4. Re:Important to note on LightSquared CEO Resigns Amid Appearance of Bribery · · Score: 1

    How you vote is up to you. But just so you know, the Green Party espouses core values of Marxism. Essentially, it's a hybrid Communist party. No joke. Read it for yourself.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eco-socialism

    Last I remember, Cynthia McKinney joined the Green Party. That women has a foul rap like you wouldn't believe. Corrupt and intimidating to the core against journalists. I can't find the video, but there was one floating on YouTube for awhile with her telling the press that "you are not going to report this, you hear?" or some such.

    Perhaps you know all this. But just in case you don't. The Green Party is far worse that either the Democratic or Republican party.

  5. Re:since 9/11 on What The DHS Is Looking For In Your Posts · · Score: 1

    I'm surprised I'm not longer surprised anymore. If you can think it, you can google it. Pretty effed up world we live in if you ask me.

  6. Re:Have him/her sign off after your training on Ask Slashdot: Best Practices For Leaving an IT Admin Position? · · Score: 1

    Sign off on a password exchange. Get management or even the CxO involved. Validate the account exchange and have multiple witnesses (they don't all need to know the new password of course) and have multiple signatures on the hand-off document.

    Have I ever done this before? Nope. But that's about the gist of how I might proceed if placed in a similar circumstance. Comments and critique are welcome.

  7. Re:Just Leave on Ask Slashdot: Best Practices For Leaving an IT Admin Position? · · Score: 1

    When working for a managed service provider IT company, maintaining a professional attitude is a must. And while there is job security (multiple clients and all), it's also extremely difficult and stressful. Not because we have to keep one network in our head, but about 30+ (network, servers, workstations...ect)!!! We keep everything documented to the best of our ability, and we are staffed accordingly to make it all work. Sure, we have our "regular" clients that we each maintain, but we can pass off a client to another one of our co-workers if needed. There are of course pros and cons with regards to in-house IT vs outsourced support. Overall though, it's extremely important to be professional and work with other in-house IT departments on an as needed basis. Sometimes they just need to offload some work or need help with a migration project. In the end, we hope those people will pass on our name within the industry.

  8. Re:AT&T Investigated on AT&T Should Be Investigated For 'Fraudulent' Data Policies, Says PK · · Score: 2

    Part of the problem is lack of internal carrying capacity from the cell towers. Each tower has a limited amount of bandwidth available. From what I understand, the data links to the towers are the choke point. Perhaps there's room for improvement in this area. I wouldn't know. Secondly, you can only allocate so many channels within the cellphone spectrum. And then there are giant buildings in a downtown district that are known to create shadows or blind-spots of limited to no service.

    Basically, the wireless carriers overhyped the product way way waaay beyond reasonable carrying capacity. I understand that with any business you need a stream of income to spend on capital expenditures (future products and upgrades) so as to plan ahead. But honestly, I think the entire industry bit off more than they can chew. The laws of physics are not forgiving.

  9. Re:Why? on Rearview Car Cameras Likely Mandated By 2014 · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    And people wonder why cars are so fucking expensive. Buying one new is almost like buying a house! Nanny state bitches.

  10. Re:Hey, the pirates can help on Master Engineer: Apple's "Mastered For iTunes" No Better Than AAC-Encoded Music · · Score: 1

    I wholeheartedly agree. For the best consumer grade mastering, two sources come go mind.

    1. CDs released between 1985 through 1999.
    2. SACDs.

    Mastering still matters however. I can find many excellent mastered LPs that still blow the doors off the shit encoded on CDs and vise versa. So while technology technology raises the bar, mastering is still required to put any technology to good use. I only recommend SACDs because the format tends to market audiophiles who will want good mastering behind the format anyways. An exceptional example of the SACDs capability would be The Eagles - Hotel California. Simply beautiful!

  11. Re:Hey, the pirates can help on Master Engineer: Apple's "Mastered For iTunes" No Better Than AAC-Encoded Music · · Score: 1, Insightful

    The MBA types will say that most consumers don't care and many are simply uninformed. The loudness war was the result of improved numbers in the listening audience. There are all sorts of marketing data points to draw upon that ultimately come to this conclusion.

    Simple, short, and to the point. Minority audiophiles such as yourself ultimately cost businesses money when it comes to providing downloadable content. The extra cost of bandwidth and master engineering is currently not accountable in the current business scope of services. So while business changes could be made to cater to the audiophile, it's extremely unlikely. It's one of those MBA sayings of "If it ain't broke, don't fix it". I'm sure placing unnecessary restrictions or anything else burdensome is frowned upon too.

    It's all about the numbers and how efficiently you can generate them.

  12. Re:Stop it. on Santorum Defends Robocalls To Democrats · · Score: 2

    Aye.

    Unless this story is in regards to the robocalling technology or a political technology stance, submissions such as this one should be left to the generic political sites.

  13. Re:Duh on Ship Anchor Damages African Undersea Cables · · Score: 1

    I recall a political science class with a circular diagram... something about extreme fascism and extreme socialism going about achieving their ends using the same methods

    Correct. Fascism and socialism are two sides of the same coin. It goes by the name of statism. Statism is pure unabashed *evil* and should be fought with the sacrifice of blood from every man, women, and child whom values freedom. You just don't earn freedom for life. You must always act as a counter force to maintain it. For civil nations, we do it at the political level. For all others, bloodshed is required. It's just one of those sick-sad truths of life unfortunately.

    People suck.

  14. Re:What's Java? on New Version of Flashback Trojan Targets Mac Users · · Score: 1

    Thanks! That command did the trick. Currently no Java is installed. Just the way I like it.

  15. Re:What's Java? on New Version of Flashback Trojan Targets Mac Users · · Score: 1

    Java, Acrobat, and Flash are all vectors by which a Windows machine can get infected via drive-by web surfing. And this can happen even if your PC is cought up with the latest updates available.

    JRE scares the hell out of me. As a sysadmin, I've see the damage it can do through one of those FakeAV malware programs. Unless Java is needed for a specific application, it should never be installed. Unfortunately I'm not a Mac expert...yet. The whole corporate BYOD policy is making my life difficult in maintaining security and cross compatibility.

  16. Re:What's Java? on New Version of Flashback Trojan Targets Mac Users · · Score: 1

    My MacBook came preloaded with Leopard. Does that version of OSX come with Java already installed? I'm concerned that Java (if it exists) may have gotten carried over from my previous upgrades of Snow Leopard and now Lion.

  17. Re:can you hear me now? on Fraunhofer IIS Demos Full-HD Voice Over LTE On Android · · Score: 1

    Nobody needed to use MP3 as the standard. But the majority did. When you paid for a license to MP3, you bought into the standard. At that point, just how much better or worse the codec was compared to all other alternatives is a moot point after the fact.

  18. Re:Buttons required on Your Next TV Interface Will Be a Tablet · · Score: 1

    For most, TV isn't so much an active experience where they know exactly what they want as it is a passive one. People live busy lives or are just plain lazy to begin with. They want to be entertained with minimal effort. Something that is therapeutic. Channel surfing is that ballanced compromise between being fully engaged in the experience and comatose.

  19. Buttons required on Your Next TV Interface Will Be a Tablet · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The whole point of TV is to veg out and channel surf. It's called an "idiot box" for reason. Anything that takes your eyes off the screen ruins the experience. This is why a pad remote will never work in a million years on the market. You simply must have physical tactile buttons on a remote. Some virtual interface on a sheet of glass will not do.

    This idea is an epic fail!

  20. Professional? on RIM Trying To Woo Customers With Porn, Gambling Apps? · · Score: 0

    Blackberrys were mainly used because of the messaging capabilities, security, and corporate centralized control they provided. For RIM to be moving in this marketing direction seems like an unprofessional use of the products whom they cater to.

  21. Re:50 million URLs on Pakistan Looking For Homegrown URL Blocking System · · Score: 2

    Given the state of the Middle East and the radical Islamic movement, I'm really surprised that an entirely new Islamic Internet hasn't already been thought of and joined by other islamic participating nations.

    Two Internets. The rest of the world, and the Islamic one.

  22. 50 million URLs on Pakistan Looking For Homegrown URL Blocking System · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Why not just block everything and only allow what's whitelisted? Examples to include in the whitelist are Corporations, Universities, and other governmental sites. All others seen as non-islamic get blocked outright. If you're not on the list, you simply fill out a form for internal review and hopefully added to the whitelist.

    If they're going for total control, do it right. Better yet, just create an entirely new Pakistani network without any outside peering. A pakistani version of Wikipedia could be translated and updated via an air-gapped network scheme.

    And no, I'm not the first person to think of this. I'm not that much smarter than everyone else :-P

  23. Re:NP on Physics Is (NP-)Hard · · Score: 1

    Basically, the optimization for each itinerary requires its own formula.

  24. Define e-mail? on MIT Lecturer Defends His Standing As Email Inventor · · Score: 2

    I think the invention of the Teleprinter and the Fax machine soon after got him beat. Modern e-mail requires IP based servers and DNS.

  25. Re:So what is your suggestion then? on Proposed Video Copy Protection Scheme For HTML5 Raises W3C Ire · · Score: 3, Insightful

    That's a bit harsh to call someone as shill don't you think. I don't doubt they exist on Slashdot, but still. There are many great indi films out there, many of which get showcased at the Sundance Film Festival. While cheap technology is closing the quality gap between the indi artist and a full-blown Hollywood production, the differences are still quite noticeable. I think the previous poster was correct. If you want to enjoy a fully fleshed out flick (or block buster), you're still going to have to pay to watch. It's arguable how much longer this will last but none the less.