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  1. Re:Create something that violates a bunch of paten on Dealing With an Overly-Restrictive Intellectual Property Policy? · · Score: 1

    A good example of why you should think twice before setting up agreements about the right to all works of an employee.

    Just make sure that you as an employee really make that agreement stick.

    Of course - you can create an application on your free time that requires a lot of support and credit it to the employer. Then end your employment.

  2. Re:Two mostly similar choices on Dealing With an Overly-Restrictive Intellectual Property Policy? · · Score: 1

    This explains why firearms are so popular in Texas.

  3. Re:NASA not any different today on Robert Boisjoly Dies At 73, the Engineer Who Tried To Stop the Challenger Launch · · Score: 2

    Not very different from any other business you will encounter.

    "Shit happens" is the attitude and many in the top layer gets a good payoff and goes on to their next job as a punishment.

  4. Re:Joseph Kilminster ? on Robert Boisjoly Dies At 73, the Engineer Who Tried To Stop the Challenger Launch · · Score: 1

    I'd rather trust Lemmy Kilmister instead...

  5. Re:UK police have had TETRA for yonks... on Pasadena Police Encrypt, Deny Access To Police Radio · · Score: 1

    Add to it the fact that it from time to time there are screwups with the system resulting in units being out of communication and even have to resort to mobile phones.

    (Cell phone - Phone for inmates)

  6. Re:So? on Pasadena Police Encrypt, Deny Access To Police Radio · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Why not present the radio traffic time lapsed on the web?

    A delay of up to an hour wouldn't hurt the news agencies that much and still would keep any criminals off track.

    It also allows for the possibility to further delay or even cut traffic in special cases.

  7. Re:Inside my HD there are two very important files on Defendant Ordered To Decrypt Laptop Claims She Had Forgotten Password · · Score: 1

    Two volumes - one for your clandestine operation and one with porn, which is plausible to have encrypted to shield from someone accidentally viewing it - like your spouse or kids.

    Just add to the porn collection now and then and all is OK as long as you don't have any type of porn that's illegal where you live. The investigators wouldn't find it questionable if they find porn on an encrypted volume even though they may have some issues with your mental health if you have 2 girls 1 cup or lemonparty images there.

    4chan is another great source for odd pictures...

  8. Re:Inside my HD there are two very important files on Defendant Ordered To Decrypt Laptop Claims She Had Forgotten Password · · Score: 1

    The plain text file itself is used as a password.

    You can actually use a file as a passkey when running Truecrypt.

    That way you have the diversion quite ready, just change one character in the file and it's useless as a passkey but still useful as a diversion.

  9. My cold dead hands... on Study Finds Social Media Harder To Resist Than Cigarettes, Alcohol · · Score: 1

    Will be linked to Slashdot.

  10. Not surprising. on Satellite Phone Encryption Cracked · · Score: 1

    The encryption is a trade-off between performance and security. And you don't want too much lag caused by the encryption so that means it has to be relatively simple.

    And what this does is to allow the average person to eavesdrop on satellite calls in his/her area. It's something that at least some governments already have done for years. Or what do you think that Echelon has been doing all these years?

  11. Re:Two-dimensional? on Researchers Create Glass Just 3 Atoms Thick · · Score: 1

    And then it would be interesting to see what properties this thin wafer actually has. There's a chance that this can behave in a different way compared to ordinary glass.

  12. Re:Zeig Heil on DHS Sends Tourists Home Over Twitter Jokes · · Score: 1

    Emporer is obviously someone that creates pores.

    What other use could you have for that word?

  13. Re:Corruption. on Google Fiber Work Hung Up In Kansas City · · Score: 3, Interesting

    And why use poles at all? Place everything underground where it's protected from weather. And it looks a lot tidier too.

    It's a bit more expensive but the maintenance is a lot lower so the total cost will even out.

  14. Re:Finally some common sense! on Israel Says It Will Treat Online Credit Card Theft As It Would Terrorism · · Score: 1

    They should declare it identity theft and then declare identity theft as a capital crime. That would put an end to most fraudsters.

  15. Re:Reminds me of the 2008 Democratic Primary on Mathematics Says Romney and Santorum Tied In Iowa · · Score: 1

    Romney will probably be a tougher nut for Obama to crack than Santorum. The fight in the election will be about the center field among the voters - not the extreme right or left.

    And the win for Romney with eight votes would be more a moral win than a factual win considering the statistical error margin. What's more interesting is the upcoming elections where we will see what the alternatives really are.

    But considering how tough it will be the upcoming four years it's a bit surprising that there actually are candidates for the office.

  16. Re:IT seems like... on Feds Now Plans To Close 1,200 Data Centers · · Score: 1

    Just be aware that over-consolidation can also cause problems. A very centralized solution means that any downtime will cost a lot more.

    And even when things works as they should you may suffer from the little devil called network latency that slowly eats up man-hours.

  17. Re:Different Perspective on Why Do All Movie Tickets Cost the Same? · · Score: 1

    In the price there are a lot of costs involved including the coverage for the theater itself. So the part of the ticket that actually pays for the movie is just one part. And a big expensive movie may have more viewers than a small cheap one so the ticket price will even out. If the big movie did cost more then it would have had less viewers.

  18. Re:Wow, what a stupid post on How To Thwart the High Priests In IT · · Score: 1

    As working in IT the simple way when someone comes with a new model smart phone or gadget is that we can sure provide information about server addresses and similar but the user will be on his own to make it work in practice.

    Since devices comes new every week there's a challenge to keep up with everything new all the time.

    It's not to be evil that IT departments doesn't support every potential device on earth - it's just to keep the nose over the water. Unfortunately some IT managers goes the obnoxious way of it by saying that everyone shall have a specific phone regardless of if it suits the task or not.

  19. Re:The "religion" of the knowledge economy. on Apple Outsources A5 Chip Manufacture ... To Texas · · Score: 1

    So in other words the "knowledge economy" will not be our economic savior?

    You can't have a sustained sell of knowledge - sooner or later the knowledge you have is getting obsolete and if you don't work with the knowledge you have it won't develop. So if you sell knowledge in manufacturing and you don't manufacture yourself then the stepping stone you use will collapse.

    ProtectIP

    Is a great tool for lawyers but won't feed anyone else.

  20. Re:FF ignored speed for too long on Chrome 15 Overtakes IE 8 For Top Browser Spot · · Score: 2

    It's not browsing speed that is my main issue with Firefox. And if I really want browsing speed I choose Opera instead.

    But one reason for Chrome to get up on the ladder is that it's today bundled with a lot of other softwares which means that you may get it even if you don't want it. (not very different from how IE acts) while Firefox never have been seen bundled with any apps that I have seen unless the app itself required it.

    One thing that I like Firefox for is all the available add-ons like Firebug and AdBlock Plus. They may be available in versions for Chrome too.

    And all browsers do have their quirks.

  21. Re:They must not be too rare on Rare Earth Magnets Pose Threat To Children · · Score: 1

    Reality is that the problem applies to all magnets or a combination of a magnet and iron piece too, so keep magnets away from small kids completely.

  22. Re:you can track your laptops on Ask Slashdot: Protecting Tech Gear From Smash-and-Grab Theft? · · Score: 1

    It still requires software somewhere in the PC that actively reads that data and propagates it to a server somewhere to enable the track function. A complete wipe of HDD and NVRAM and a BIOS reflash may mess up that functionality enough for it to not work anymore.

  23. Re:you can track your laptops on Ask Slashdot: Protecting Tech Gear From Smash-and-Grab Theft? · · Score: 1

    As soon as thieves realizes this they will find a counter-measure for it. But the locating tech is probably good enough to catch a weed-head or two.

    An alternative is that you have a "dummy" laptop in your car that's loaded with a small explosive and a lot of sticky colorful material that's spread all over the perpetrator at a convenient moment for you.

  24. Re:Trying to do too much on Firefox Too Big To Link On 32-bit Windows · · Score: 1

    Swap to Opera if you want something that's relatively lean and still competent.

  25. Re:Wow on Firefox Too Big To Link On 32-bit Windows · · Score: 1

    And it's the linking, not compilation that's the problem.

    However it also means that it may be a question of the application structure rather than anything else. Time to see how much that can be broken out to shared libraries (DLL:s) and also see how much that shall be public and how much that shall be internal to each DLL.