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  1. Re:So... on IT Executives Believe Service Management Is Key To Digital Transformation (betanews.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    Yes, and it's actually worse than that because what it reveals (since ITSM is policies, procedures and management philosophy) is that this group of IT executives thinks that IT management and bureaucracy is the most important factor in IT success. Kinda self-serving which isn't a surprise.

  2. Re:Isn't parody protected in the US? on Peoria Mayor Sends Police To Track Down Twitter Parodist · · Score: 4, Insightful

    We have it here too, but it's enforced by the courts not by the police.

  3. Re:IIS better in almost every way. on Will Microsoft IIS Overtake Apache? · · Score: 1

    Probably because it costs them exactly $0 to do it.

  4. Re:Hopefully on Will Japan's New Government Restart the Nuclear Power Program? · · Score: 1

    If you manufactured viciously poisonous equipment that was fundamentally unsafe "at any speed" you would disagree too.

  5. Re:Unauthorized export resale? on New Hampshire Cops Use Taser On Woman Buying Too Many iPhones · · Score: 1

    Sounds fishy to me. I'd be interested in a source for this. Especially where they were manufactured.

  6. Re:They want money, that's what they want on Brazilian Newspapers Leave Google News En Masse · · Score: 1

    I don't disbelieve but I went and looked for the usual ads from their regular and didn't find them. I may have overlooked them.

  7. Re:They want money, that's what they want on Brazilian Newspapers Leave Google News En Masse · · Score: 1

    I'm curious, how does Google make money from this service? I don't see any advertising on front or any other page when I use Google News.

  8. Re:Well... on Why Fuel Efficiency Advances Haven't Translated To Better Gas Mileage · · Score: 1

    It's only presumed in your mind because you haven't gone to look. There's a ton of very telling economic research on the costs of smoking to society and it doesn't take a degree in rocket science or even economics to understand why. End of life care is expensive and end of life care for smokers is often even more expensive. Also are you asserting the federal and state govts lack the power to levy an excise tax for whatever purposes congress and the legislature deem fit? You can say that but just saying doesn't make it so. There is a *very* long history of those kind of taxes and plenty of jurisprudence on the subject.

  9. Re:Configuration management on Ask Slashdot: Getting a Grip On an Inherited IT Mess? · · Score: 2

    It may not just be a reliability problem. It may also be a time problem. The time to restore 10TB for example may be prohibitive for many applications. That used to be a big enterprise problem, but now everybody can afford such things. In other words make sure you have a data protection plan and not a backup plan and that you've tested the system and your assumptions.

  10. Re:Configuration management on Ask Slashdot: Getting a Grip On an Inherited IT Mess? · · Score: 4, Informative

    Lots of folks here have talked about backups but if you're company is really successful then restores could be more of a problem than backups. Large databases and system configuration can take a loooong time. Develop a plan for restore and execute it regularly as a test. Make sure management understands the time for restoration. Two other things--virtualize (that reduces the coefficient of friction for moving things considerably) and consider using Amazon or some other cloud provider in your restore plan to in case your cage/server room/whatever burns. Some of those services are low or no cost until you start loading things up. If you go the cloud route be sure to get a read on your traffic, storage and other billable numbers. If that's the disaster plan then if the numbers are of any size at all you need to run the cost by the CFO to make sure that it's sustainable.

  11. Re:We know what private industry would have done on Ron Paul Suggests Axing 5 U.S. Federal Departments (and Budgets) · · Score: 1

    All of these followed the work on packet switched networks funded by ARPA--all of them.

  12. Re:I like his IRS plan! on Ron Paul Suggests Axing 5 U.S. Federal Departments (and Budgets) · · Score: 3, Informative

    I like how libertarians and teahadists if that's the particular stripe of know-nothings just boldly stuff up. This is an oversimplification but early on it was mostly funded by ARPA and was looked at least initially as a strategic investment in network technologies that could be used for military command and control. The IMPs (routers) which tied together the early ARPAnet sites were built by BB&N under contract to the federal government and yes the universities were involved from the beginning. That's where the ideas but not the $$ came from. Go read the Wikipedia article on the History of the Internet. It's the 2nd unpaid article that shows up for a google search on Internet.

  13. Um no on Linus Thinks Virtualization Is 'Evil' · · Score: 1

    VMware's devices emulate standard devices that are included with the OS distributions unless you choose otherwise.

  14. Re:What about Silent Video? on Cop Seeks Wiretapping Charges For Woman Who Videotaped Beating · · Score: 1

    Link?

  15. Re:It's called Kalocin. on New Drug Could Cure Nearly Any Viral Infection · · Score: 1

    I wouldn't start planning that spree just yet, I understand that we also have drug resistant gonorrhea to worry about.

  16. Don't Be An Idiot on Science Fair Entry Shuts Down Airport Terminal · · Score: 1

    The last time somebody seriously tried this (1861) about 500K Americans were dead back when the population was around 31M total. Most of them in the area that was in favor of the idea. Today the result would much likely be worse. Don't be a dead idiot. Even if you did win, you'll lose so much financially and otherwise you'll likely wish you'd died instead *and* the likely result in terms of rights will be you will have less.

  17. Get A Tinfoil Hat! on Ask Slashdot: Overcoming Convention Hall Wi-Fi Interference? · · Score: 1

    That will block out all the crazies. In this case it needs to be a little bigger than the traditional one. More seriously, I'm guessing that putting your router in an aluminum foil dunce cap above your booth would be sufficient to allow the clients below to connect. Put another router underneath for decoration. You'll have to experiment with how to make it look good but I'm thinking that you could take a cone or hemisphere made with standard lightweight tradeshow construction and cover it with aluminum foil from the grocery store and save yourself the cost of the copper.

  18. McAfee Has A History... on China's 5-Year Cyberwar Met With Western Silence · · Score: 4, Insightful

    They're like fire extinguisher salesman who rave about the dangers of fire. They sell FUD. There's I'm sure some truth to this, but let's not accept whole the idea that what's good for McAfee is good for the nation.

  19. Re:Ad infinitum on What Happens After the Super-Hero Movie Bubble? · · Score: 1

    If they prove true to form, in the low part of the cycle resulting from shoveling too much of the same tripe for too long, I'm guessing they'll focus on having the MPAA after all their customers.

  20. Re:NuclearCognitive Winter valid concept. on Could the KGB Infiltrate LulzSec? · · Score: 1

    So if I read your post then I'd know that the western agencies (CIA, FBI or maybe the John Birch society, hmm?) invented the whole idea of the KGB inventing the whole idea of nuclear winter that was fed to Carl Sagan because everybody knows that famous physicists with PHDs are likely dupes of communist agencies?

  21. Re:Outdated Headline on Could the KGB Infiltrate LulzSec? · · Score: 2

    C'mon Communist infiltrators? Really? I can see sophmoric but you seem to think the Lulzsec people are stupid or something. This is cointel PR bs like we saw in the 60s. Your clue, if you decide to accept it, is that the TFA didn't refer to the current foreign intelligence organizations but rather to the great boogie man of the cold war, the KGB.

  22. Re:Democratic Socialists on Fed Audit's Initial Report Reveals Trillions in Secret Loans · · Score: 1

    You're a troll. By any definition that covers the Democratic party most of the Republican's qualify as well. If you support social security then you're a socialist along with a large number of very popular and successful gov't programs that have been in existence for longer than you've been alive. The Republican majority house, senate and president passed the Medicare drug benefit. If that isn't socialist then what is? The current trouble with our government is obviously agency capture by various industry groups for anyone who is paying attention. This is particularly true of banking. Both democrats and republicans are kowtowing to the bankers. And Ron Paul is still a racist.

  23. Re:Ron Paul 2012 on Fed Audit's Initial Report Reveals Trillions in Secret Loans · · Score: 2

    Fascinating that you didn't seem to notice that this came from Bernie Sanders who's the only self described democratic socialist in the national legislature. Unlike Ron Paul there's no indication at all that Bernie Sanders is a racist (http://www.realchange.org/ronpaul.htm).

  24. Re:National Sales Tax on Slate: Amazon's Tax Stance Unfair and Unethical · · Score: 1

    Mod parent up. I'm not sure this is what we should do but it's an idea which deserves consideration. The end game to the current situation is no sales tax collected on durable goods(i.e. not gas or food) in any jurisdiction.

  25. Re:Nothing new on Slate: Amazon's Tax Stance Unfair and Unethical · · Score: 1

    Except that's not why California is going after them. They have a serious revenue problem. Ever heard of prop 13 (assessments and taxes are essentially fixed and tax measures require a super majority) and the crash in property values? That's lead to a huge shortfall. The governor is working overtime to find ways to raise taxes that the Republican's will go along with. This is one. It's not great in my book but it's better than issuing bonds to fund current expenses which is what Schwarzenegger did not too many years ago.