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  1. Re:So if your network is also from 1997 on Windows Remains Vulnerable To Serious 18-Year-Old SMB Security Flaw · · Score: 1

    So there's your problem - you want this polished turd because it's all shiny, but it's still a turd. You never wondered why it's free? You will have to pay to get one of the secure ones if the host of other free solutions are not to your liking.

    The real question with disk space being so damn cheap is why would you want a "performant, local" network share anyways with AD permissions to boot on 10s of TBs per FS? That sounds more like a content management system that you've co-opted SMB to do, and it is wholly unsuited to that task. I'll bet it keeps your Win admins hopping though. This just screams "Just because you can, doesn't mean you should" and "You get what you pay for". (You're paying, just not a software vendor)

  2. Re:So if your network is also from 1997 on Windows Remains Vulnerable To Serious 18-Year-Old SMB Security Flaw · · Score: 1

    Hence the reference to an enterprise solution, one that is targeted to windows even. Pretty much everything is better than the insecure disaster known as SMB.... and if you think those alternatives are "bad", then blame MS for foisting the horrors of insecure and crappy SMB on the masses.

    I believe "Just because you can doesn't mean you should" applies to all facets of SMB like playing with frightened skunks (with similar results for those slow on the relationship)

  3. Re:So if your network is also from 1997 on Windows Remains Vulnerable To Serious 18-Year-Old SMB Security Flaw · · Score: 1

    try scp or rsync sometime: fully supported by all operating systems that try to be secure. Oh, you meant "GUI" access, in that case, use a web based service that allows directory views and uploads. Or use some dropbox like enterprise solution. In any case SMB is a terrible terrible solution. None of my *nix based boxes run it.

    Disclaimer: I use scp and rsync - I have not used any of the other solutions.

  4. Re:So if your network is also from 1997 on Windows Remains Vulnerable To Serious 18-Year-Old SMB Security Flaw · · Score: 1

    The better question is why would any competent IT staff have any SMB services installed or allowed?

  5. Re:Why stop there? on UW Scientists, Biotech Firm May Have Cure For Colorblindness · · Score: 1

    There are 5 cone receptor types, which is why we have the potential for tetrachromats, as there are only the possibility of 4 receptors.

  6. Re:Why stop there? on UW Scientists, Biotech Firm May Have Cure For Colorblindness · · Score: 1

    This is incorrect, women have up to 4 as do some men. The X chromosome normally carries 2, and women have two. The Y chromosome, IIRC, generally carries 1. (yes, I'm aware that's wikipedia, but it had most of the details from numerous other links, so...) Color blindness occurs commonly in men if the Y chromosome carries a duplicate of the X chromosome's receptors (resulting in a 2 cone system). If all 4 are unique, you get a tetrachromat. But if you're going for sheer number, why not be like a mantis shrimp with 12-16?

  7. Re: And it's not even an election year on Ten US Senators Seek Investigation Into the Replacement of US Tech Workers · · Score: 1

    Finding good labor anywhere is a major challenge, especially in IT. The good talent is rarely "available", because if they're "available", their friends and former colleagues know it and they will find a home rather quickly. Networking is important like never before especially as you age in this industry.

  8. Re: And it's not even an election year on Ten US Senators Seek Investigation Into the Replacement of US Tech Workers · · Score: 1

    Their old people, if they're still looking for jobs, should offer to work for them again at a 50+% raise.

  9. Re:Hahahaha - But it will be replaced on Ask Slashdot: What Would a Constructed Language Have To Be To Replace English? · · Score: 1

    English will be replaced by ....
    English (2020)
    Most of what's spoken today will be halfway unintelligible garbage to someone 200 years ago, and the change is accelerating.

  10. Re:Lets encrypt on Google Let Root Certificate For Gmail Expire · · Score: 1

    Certs are fine, it's the CA management piece that's lacking, and how browsers deal with it. While cert management sucks with the OS/dev env tools, across the board, you can create a pretty straight forward interface for this process that's a whole lot easier than the provided crap.

  11. Re:easy one on Google Let Root Certificate For Gmail Expire · · Score: 1

    Only if your "real browser" runs NoScript or something similar.

    Precisely.

  12. Re:easy one on Google Let Root Certificate For Gmail Expire · · Score: 1

    I installed Chrome specifically to deal with Google, and only Google. It's almost like a self-contained dedicated mail/calendaring program, although the interface sucks compared to my desired mail programs so I don't often use it. Seems to keep Google out of my real browser's history as a bonus.

  13. Re:title wrong on Google Let Root Certificate For Gmail Expire · · Score: 1

    it was the root cert for gmail, it's not a root cert for a CA.

  14. Re:Lets encrypt on Google Let Root Certificate For Gmail Expire · · Score: 1

    I became the SOA for facebook.com, and a few others a long time ago. This is not a problem.

  15. Re:Lets encrypt on Google Let Root Certificate For Gmail Expire · · Score: 1

    Considering I have implemented an entire CA chain, yes, I am aware of the massive pain in the ass it is. Also, the real answer here is you never issue a cert with a CA that exceeds the lifetime of the CA's cert. When you get to that point, you issue a new CA cert, and issue new certs based on that new CA cert, and that applies all the way up the chain. That way, you never have this problem. So there's multiple failures here, it's not as simple as it appears on the surface, and makes the failure all the more egregious on Google's part.

  16. Re:Relatively clean? on TrueCrypt Alternatives Step Up Post-Cryptanalysis · · Score: 1

    There's only 3 issues for me, as I don't run windows.

  17. Re:This should be illegal though on How Comcast Bankrolls Organizations That Support TWC Merger · · Score: 1

    In actuality, it was supposed to be representative of everyone with skin in the game, so to speak. Yes, that would by definition be the wealthy. That's how our founders set up our government, a republic, not a democracy.

  18. Re:Too bad (?) on Uber's Hiring Plans Show Outlines of Self-Driving Car Project · · Score: 1

    The "utopian" future is coming whether we like it or not. The question is whether it will be Star Trek or Blade Runner.

  19. Re:Too bad (?) on Uber's Hiring Plans Show Outlines of Self-Driving Car Project · · Score: 1

    The number of jobs that take their place will be minimal.

    There will still be people needed to load and unload the cargo from automated delivery vehicles. Humans are great at manipulating and sorting small and medium sized objects--still better than robots. Instead of the fish company employee unloading the truck, a restaurant employee will instead. If the soda truck is driverless, who stocks the vending machines?

    It's going to be disruptive, and people will lose their jobs, but delivery encompasses more labor than just driving the truck. Self-driving trucks won't replace all of that.

    That is extremely short term as robots will also be doing that work within 5-10 years. Personally, the self-driving car bits will be 10 years or less, probably closer to 5 before it starts making large inroads.

  20. Re:What an Embarrassingly Vapid Article on Focusing On Tech Alone, You Miss How Autonomous Driving Will Change Society · · Score: 1

    You're missing the point of course...

    You're asking a woman with kids to go from "having a car all the time" to "having to schedule a car".

    Why? This is a solution in search of a problem. This is not progress or an improvement.

    And we return to the original statement - no need to buy or maintain a car, nor a place to park it. If you're willing to pay for both, and the extra insurance, that's your choice.

    As for the fire engine/police car comment, I have to say that those things are usually not needed, even once a year. In 9 years of living here, we've had to call the police once on a non emergency basis and the paramedics once on an emergency basis.

    On the second call, they were here in less than 5 mins, that is darn hard to beat.

    That was my point.

  21. Re: What an Embarrassingly Vapid Article on Focusing On Tech Alone, You Miss How Autonomous Driving Will Change Society · · Score: 1

    No faith at all, this is a punitive system, and you're automatically out if you violate it. It would rapidly remove those worst elements permanently, and that would allow the rest to enjoy the system. The removed group would be a different problem, I don't address that here.

  22. Re:Seriously? on EFF Fighting Automakers Over Whether You Own Your Car · · Score: 1

    Sadly, a mere ODB-II scantool isn't going to do it for me. I need something that allows me to actually read the car specific codes and potentially do some coding, certainly reset vendor specific codes. As for high schools, what on earth are they teaching their students these days? If they're gutting those types of things, surely they replaced them with something worthwhile?

  23. Re:Seriously? on EFF Fighting Automakers Over Whether You Own Your Car · · Score: 1

    I can unequivocally state that dealers absolutely don't know what they're doing. Changing brakes, oil, gaskets, sensors, etc, isn't hard, otherwise your average high school shop kid couldn't work on their cars. The only "hard" part is the tuning and diagnosing electronics which may require an adapter cable for your ODB-II plug on 2000 and later cars and special software. It's all available, although it may cost you.

  24. Re:Give It To Them on DHS Wants Access To License-plate Tracking System, Again · · Score: 1

    You do realize that essentially only 2 things combined caused him to fail? The invasion of Russia being delayed by a month alone might have made the difference, but the attack on Pearl Harbor sealed the deal. Without the latter, the US likely would not have entered the war in time to save Britain, which was on the brink of surrendering. Without Britain as a staging area, WWII could have had very different results. You're seeing a similar territory and power grab being made by ISIL today.

  25. Re:What an Embarrassingly Vapid Article on Focusing On Tech Alone, You Miss How Autonomous Driving Will Change Society · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I looked at them, wasn't overly impressed for the price. When they come down to $250 (price of current lawn mower) and work easily enough for Joe SixPack to plugin, you'll see them take off.