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  1. Re:Most likely to hide PRISM on CNET: Feds Put Heat On Web Firms For Master Encryption Keys · · Score: 1

    Having the keys helps prism get more data. PRISM doesn't magically have access to encrypted data.

    The fix is to avoid US based services, either their servers are compromised by the NSA, or their keys.

    Right, because you KNOW of a country that you KNOW isn't doing it as well ...

    Let me give you a hint: The only countries not doing it ... are only not doing it because they have a grand total of 3 computers in the entire country with Internet connections. You aren't hiding from this behavior by running to another country.

  2. Re:In related news: Domestic spying got the OK on CNET: Feds Put Heat On Web Firms For Master Encryption Keys · · Score: 0

    I will blame you.

    I'll blame you for resorting to childish name calling, which makes your point completely disappear as people instantly flag you as just some other ranting lunatic.

    Second ... STOP USING FUCKING BOOK REFERENCE WHEN YOU UTTERLY FAILED TO UNDERSTAND THAT PLOT. God, the slashdot meme of all time is for people to reference 1984, while Animal Farm is closer, you still failed to get the actual point. Stop trying to reference it to look smarter.

  3. Re:Good, someone needs to fix FreeNAS on FreeBSD Co-founder Jordan Hubbard Leaves Apple To Join iXsystems · · Score: 2

    As someone who uses FreeNAS and who has many customers running it in high demand environments, I'm going to have to disagree with you.

    Speaks more of your lack of experience than FreeNAS itself.

    FreeNAS has felt kludgy and broken for years now. Perhaps just because you work with even shittier and ridiculously expensive NetApp crap, you think that FreeNAS is impressive, but its really not.

    I dropped FreeNAS some time ago, its ZFS support (due to using old releases of FBSD) was asstastic, and as such, performance was absolutely pathetic. Unless they've bumped up to AT LEAST 9.1-STABLE, ZFS performance is still going to be asstastic, forget about how shitty the UI is for it.

    In the end, you're better off just using a bare install of FBSD and the CLI to setup a NAS. Using it for replacing high end NetApp gear? No fucking way.

    Note: All my NAS equipment is FreeBSD based now, none of it is FreeNAS.

    Great idea, shitty shitty shitty implementation.

    JKH on the other hand, is one person I trust to make it not suck anymore.

  4. Re: I don't know about the 'cluster' mailboxes. on Door-To-Door Mail Delivery To End Under New Plan · · Score: 1

    You really don't understand 'the terrorists'.

    Standing in line to be shot is something many of them would ... Line up for. To them, that would be God-like and ensure them a good place in the afterlife.

        Reverse terrorism, which is what you suggest, doesn't work on them. They,ve been bombed and watched executions of their own since birth.

    Nothing you can do in a single lifetime will stop them. This level of hate takes generations to fix, and killing mommy and daddy execution style isn't going to help at all.

  5. Re:Congrats, Unknown Lamer... on Google Launches Cloud Printer Service For Windows · · Score: 1

    So? Its OSS, not exactly possible to lock you in.

  6. Re:The reasons have disappeard. on Former WaPo Staffer Rob Pegoraro Talks About Newspapers' Decline (Video) · · Score: 1

    Perhaps you should consider getting a job so you don't have to get evicted and move so often that your worry about the local paper disappearing is that you won't have packing materials.

  7. Re:Congrats, Unknown Lamer... on Google Launches Cloud Printer Service For Windows · · Score: 5, Informative

    Every Mac user on the planet who prints ... does it through CUPs.

    I.E. there are more CUPS users than Linux users.

    Want to try again?

  8. Remember when ... on Google Launches Cloud Printer Service For Windows · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Google supported existing open APIs instead of pulling a Microsoft and inventing their own for everything and dropping support for open APIs?

    Whats next to be replaced by some Google specific protocol for Google users? SMTP?

  9. I've been reading about the Helix for over a year now and its been on sale for months, can you please tell me what your definition of 'new' is?

  10. Kinect on Disney Algorithm Builds High-Res 3D Models From Ordinary Photos · · Score: 1

    Yes, its fairly easy to build a 3d model given enough input and the right algorithms. Look at all the 3d scanner software that uses kinect and multiple frames to construct a higher resolution model.

  11. Re:Can we discuss the fourth amendment now? on NSA Admits Searching "3 Hops" From Suspects · · Score: 1

    The watch list is also worldwide and covers all acts of terror, even tiny ones like blowing up cherry bombs in the school toilets and includes aliases. If I were on the watch list I'd have probably 15 entries that I'm aware of ... and I'm not trying to hide anything. You would have at least 2 considering your real name and slashdot user id, presumably many more as well.

    If you put it in context, its not really that big.

  12. Re:No repeaters on Bell Labs Break Record With 31Tbps Via a Single 7200km Optical Fibre · · Score: 3, Informative

    No its not. This cable uses amplifiers, and the article mentions a previous 10,000km cable that didn't require repeaters but only has a 4Tbps data rate.

  13. Its built into each of the amplifiers stretched along the cable every 100km.

  14. Re:Not going to happen. on Bell Labs Break Record With 31Tbps Via a Single 7200km Optical Fibre · · Score: 1

    No, they'll just hook this new equipment up to the existing fiber. Thats how this works you know, right?

    What do you think they are testing it on? Some new 7200km fiber they cooked up yesterday? They do this with existing trunks.

  15. Re:Veteran network admin trait No. 10 on Nine Traits of the Veteran Network Admin · · Score: 1

    My switches diagnose switching loops on their own. I don't know of a managed switch that doesn't do spanning tree detection and disable a looped port on its own, what Chinese knock-offs are you guys buying?

  16. Re:Clarifying #4 on Nine Traits of the Veteran Network Admin · · Score: 1

    You're fired.

    Logs on those devices should be going to a syslog server, the fact that they aren't means your ass is fired immediately.

  17. Re:As someone who has worked in IT for 20 years... on Nine Traits of the Veteran Network Admin · · Score: 1

    Then you and everyone you've ever worked with are shitty admins.

    Not admitting to your mistakes is a big 'I'm afraid you'll realize I don't know what I'm doing if I tell you it was my fault' sign.

    Its not unique to network admins, its there in all trades and its equally indicative of incompetence. Its also a grounds for immediate termination for anyone on my staff.

  18. Re:This is great! on Nine Traits of the Veteran Network Admin · · Score: 1

    The CCNA and NP are meaningless to anyone with a clue. Sorry you wasted your money but you need to know what they teach you before you even considering getting into the field, you need far more authoritative certifications to be useful job hunting. A CCNA or CCNP in network is roughly like saying 'I got a certificate because I could spell my own name ... given at least 3 tries.'

    The reason you are still working at a help desk is simple. You aren't qualified to do anything else. Hate to burst your bubble, but your position in life is your own doing.

  19. Re:I RTFA on Nine Traits of the Veteran Network Admin · · Score: 2

    If you think 'software defined networking' and OpenFlow are going to make it more understandable you completely fail to understand how any software works at all.

    Networks are ALREADY SOFTWARE DEFINED and ALWAYS HAVE BEEN.

    You seem to think running software on your software that runs on your hardware is magically and unintuitively going to work better than software on hardware.

  20. Re: Meh.... on New Moon Found Orbiting Neptune · · Score: 2

    ... Luna isn't proper enough for you?

  21. Re:No point on Visual Studio vs. Eclipse: a Programmer's Comparison · · Score: 2, Informative

    C++ developers are rare? In what world do you live in that most of your computing doesn't depend on C/C++ code?

    Just because you play with a few scripts for your website doesn't mean the rest of your software is written in some crappy scripting language.

  22. Re:From C++ perspective on Visual Studio vs. Eclipse: a Programmer's Comparison · · Score: 2

    Ironically, everyone else who makes IDE's doesn't use GCC for code parsing because it sucks ass ... Maybe when you get around to using LLVM, you'll really that Eclipse is actually the shitty one.

  23. Re:A real study is needed on Visual Studio vs. Eclipse: a Programmer's Comparison · · Score: 2

    There is no benefit to knowing how to make a Make file if you're only going to compile a Windows app. Pretending that we all need to know the inner details of make is retarded.

    Protip: You can edit visual studio project files in VIM!!!! So its pretty hard to say it hides stuff from you when you have access to everything in a .proj file that you do in a Makefile and can use the same editors.

    I guess you think visual studio hides stuff because it doesn't require you to use a shitty editor for the project files? You seem to think using a shitty editor is a good thing?

  24. Re:Copyright notices in source files on Github Finally Agrees Public Repos Should Have Explicit Licenses · · Score: 1

    Awe, aren't you a such a cool rebel!

    No, no you aren't, you're just a little kid trying to show us how you aren't conforming!@!@%!%#!#

    Heres reality: You'll do what society demands, like it or not. You can 'not recognize' it all you want, and thats roughly the same as not recognizing water is wet ... all it does is makes it clear you're out of touch with reality.

  25. Re:Simple... on Github Finally Agrees Public Repos Should Have Explicit Licenses · · Score: 1

    That would be illegal in every possible way.

    All content created in America is explicitly copyrighted, all rights reserved by the author.

    Github has absolutely no authority to change that, the only reason this topic is even in play is because the shear number of people who completely fail to understand copyright, such as yourself, think there needs to be some 'default'.

    There already is a default, and its not there so you get other peoples works because they forgot to tell you that you can't.

    Its not your code, you don't get to decide what gets done with it.