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  1. My advice? on Ask Slashdot: How To Deal With a Persistent and Incessant Port Scanner? · · Score: 1

    Get a hobby. Seriously. Port scans are nothing. It's a waste of time trying to track them or stop them.

  2. Re:Let's not on Cisco Systems Will Be Auditing Their Code For Backdoors (cisco.com) · · Score: 1

    If that were true then the TAO wouldn't have had to intercept routers during shipment to backdoor them.

  3. Re:Er... What's wrong with this exactly? on FAA Admits Names & Addresses In Drone Registry Will Be Publicly Available (forbes.com) · · Score: 1

    It's one thing that the government has the information, but to make it searchable by every spammer on earth? Why? If a drone lands in your yard, call the cops. They can check the registry. There's no reason it needs to be publicly available to anyone. This is just begging for it to be misused.

  4. Re:I highly doubt it. on Israeli Firm Creates a Device That Can Hack Any Nearby Phone (softpedia.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    If the NSA wanted something from you then they'd just put a bag over your head and hit you with a pipe wrench until you told them what the want. The only difference is you live a life of inconvenience under the guise of security.

  5. Re:Just as I suspected... on North Carolina Town That Defeated Solar Plan Talks Back (newsobserver.com) · · Score: 1
    I read the original story as well:

    But the best/worst reason came from local Bobby Mann, who claimed that the solar panels would ⦠âoesuck up all the energy from the sun.â

  6. Re:WIKIPEDIA OBVIOUSLY. on Ask Slashdot: What's the Biggest Open Source Project of 2015? · · Score: 1

    Even after I've donated. Which is really making me consider not donating next year.

  7. Re:hoarding mentality on Ask Slashdot: Best (or Better) Ways To Archive Email? · · Score: 1

    I use archiving in gmail. Out of sight, but I can dig them up if I ever need them. Best of both worlds.

  8. Re:Uhm, greed? on Why Electronic Health Records Aren't More Usable (cio.com) · · Score: 1

    There's a lot of truth to that, and it really helps make the point.

  9. Re:Uhm, greed? on Why Electronic Health Records Aren't More Usable (cio.com) · · Score: 2

    Healthcare in this country is the opposite of capitalism. It's arguably the most regulated industry in the country.

  10. I think the real question is FLOP/Watt. I really don't know how the two will stack up. Might also depend on whether or not the stream processors in nvidia gpus are better suited to the workload than x86 cores?

  11. rxvt on Ask Slashdot: What Terminal Emulator Do You Use? · · Score: 1

    Specifically urxvt256c. dwm with rxvt is a beautiful thing.

  12. Re:Sure... they're large enough... on GE CTO On Moving 9,000 Apps To the Public Cloud · · Score: 1

    Sure, you have to manage the hardware. We're talking about comparing a particular feature of the two deployment models. Of course, if you manage hardware you need humans to manage the hardware. But if we're talking about dealing with the failure of an individual guest or host, I don't see much of a difference between "the cloud" and a highly virtualized datacenter.

    As far as dealing with spikes in demand, you really have to think that there are two very different environments. There are internal IT departments where demand spikes like that don't exist, and there are public facing operations (ie big web operations) where the cloud makes a lot more sense. I deal with the former, not the latter.

  13. Re:Sure... they're large enough... on GE CTO On Moving 9,000 Apps To the Public Cloud · · Score: 1
    People also forget about networking and storage, along with the associated support staff. If you operate a very small staff already, you likely won't be able to get rid of anyone. But if you've got a mid to large staff, you can definitely make considerable cuts. But ..

    (Something's wrong with Server-447? Just drop it and provision a new one, 5 minutes max.)

    We had this before the cloud became popular, and still do. Who isn't running a (nearly) fully virtualized environment these days?

  14. Re:And now you know ... on Tech Unemployment Rising In Some Categories (dice.com) · · Score: 0

    We need H1B for QUALIFIED workers. Unfortunately the US is full of a bunch of dipshits who installed Windows NT one time 20 years ago and call themselves "Systems Engineers".

  15. Almost Perfect on Hands-On WIth Dell's 4K Infinity Edge-Equipped Laptops (hothardware.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    They even make a developer edition running Ubuntu. The problem is, all the reviews point out the poor keyboard and trackpad. Deal breaker for me. I'll stick with Macbooks until I can get something at least as good. Why is it so hard for anyone else to build a trackpad that good?

  16. Re:General Security on Ask Slashdot: Worthwhile Security Training Courses? · · Score: 1

    Yeah way too many words, not that interested. But with that said, I'd say specialize in something. Just getting "security training" with no particular objective or aim is kind of a waste of time.

  17. General Security on Ask Slashdot: Worthwhile Security Training Courses? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Generalized security is mostly bullshit. It's all an inch deep over a broad area. For it to be worth a shit you need to be a specialist who understands a particular area and knows enough about it to understand how to secure it.

    But as far as what bullshit security certification generates the most cash in your pocket? I'd guess CISSP.

  18. Why would you want it in a DIMM socket? You can already get M.2 drives that slot directly into the board and operate over PCIe.

  19. Re:Rating vs. Warranty on Samsung Demos PCIe NVMe SSD At 5.6 GB Per Second, 1 Million IOPS (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1

    If it's measured in drive writes per day, why would the size matter? My guess is that the PCIe SSDs are using SLC NAND which has a much higher write endurance.

  20. Re:Rating vs. Warranty on Samsung Demos PCIe NVMe SSD At 5.6 GB Per Second, 1 Million IOPS (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1

    Most likely the PCIe SSD is using SLC NAND. The Samsung Pro line uses some form of MLC (eMLC, HET, whatever).

  21. I can hardly wait for the "SSDs are unreliable!" guys to show up. They always give me a giggle.

  22. The Perfect Setup on Ask Slashdot: What's Your Media Setup? · · Score: 1

    CentOS fileserver with ~16TB (4x2TB + 1x8TB) running Plex and Roku's attached to each TV (or projector). The new Roku 4 is available today, by the way, for $129 and supports 4k streaming.

  23. Re:Never again on Nexus 5X and Nexus 6P Reviews Arrive (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    It would be better if you could stick with an older, faster version of iOS and just get security updates like you can with Android.

    Except even on Nexus devices you can only get security updates for 3 years. On anything else you're lucky to get them after one year, let alone two. And when you do get them they arrive months late.

    Android "security" is an absolute joke.

  24. Re:Never again on Nexus 5X and Nexus 6P Reviews Arrive (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1, Informative
    http://www.stuff.tv/news/googl...

    According to the source, major Android system updates will be provided to Nexus phones and tablets for two full years after the starting operating system's release date, while security patches will be provided for three years from that date.

    Meanwhile, iOS 9 was available on the iPhone 4S (from 2011) the day it was released.

  25. You sure? on Ask Slashdot: Local Navigation Assistance For the Elderly? · · Score: 1

    but 24/7 oversight is not an option

    It is in a higher acuity setting, like a skilled nursing facility.