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  1. Re:Not a security risk, but a fake risk on Ask Slashdot: Is Non-USB Flash Direct From China Safe? · · Score: 1

    You can run a network connection over an SD card. http://www.eyefi.com/products/... But that's still not an attack vector. You'd have to auto-run the drivers, and have a root-kit in the drivers to be able to really do much with it. And the constraint was "no autorun", so are you going to install the network adaptor on your memory card, with manual clicks and past multiple warnings?

    There's no practical way to compromise a machine with an SD card. There are theoretical ways. You are throwing up uninformed comments hoping someone gives you a constructive answer? Go take a class on something. Deliberately hijacking a "discussion" to be your personal Kahn academy isn't going to help the discussion or your knowledge.

  2. Re:uh, no? on Alleged Satellite Photo Says Ukraine Shootdown of MH17 · · Score: 1

    I would just prefer if they did it openly enough so we wouldn't have to question whether or not results were "corrected".

    I submit that's impossible, so it's a waste of resources to try. Yes, people suffered a loss. But no lives would be saved by any investigation, unlike nearly all other investigations (including other shoot-downs, like KAL 007), so it isn't a CAA/ICAO matter.

    "Civil" aviation? That doesn't sound like it has much relation to a military action. Other than knowing to stay away.

    It's done. It can't be undone. Knowing whether to be mad at Kiev-backed Ukranians in Ukraine or Moscow-backed Ukranians in Ukraine (or Russians) doesn't do anything for those who had loss. And with military from both sides in the area, and "disinterested" observers being very interested, the results will never be without question.

  3. Re:Sue Them or Give Up on Ask Slashdot: Dealing With VoIP Fraud/Phishing Scams? · · Score: 1

    There's still no way to spoof it outside the CO. The difference is that the CO no longer cares. The CO is fully capable of setting CLID (and does so on the residential lines). But they choose to accept money to bypass protections on business lines. The CO effectively sets the CLID to the "requested" CLID. It's still the CO's fault. In this case, Level 3 for setting the CLID for the numbers based on the requested CLID.

    You no longer have to physically be in the CO, but you have to have the CO's permission and cooperation to do so.

  4. Re:MCP is the entry exam on World's Youngest Microsoft Certificated Professional Is Five Years Old · · Score: 1

    EE and CS have *nothing* to do with IT. At least an MCSE shows an interest in IT.

  5. Re:The problem with certifications on World's Youngest Microsoft Certificated Professional Is Five Years Old · · Score: 1

    Or why. E.G FTP uses TCP because you're transferring files, if part of the file is missing, it's toast. So you need acknowledgement for each packet sent.

    You fail. FTP works fine over UDP. You just call it TFTP then.

    . If it was TCP, people would cut out a lot more vs the odd artifact in the sound.

    If your transit time is less than your jitter buffer, you'd have better quality with TCP voice over UDP voice. As they aren't, the "lower overhead" (not better quality) is the deciding factor.

    Again, I'd mark you as a fail.

    Double fail for posting this as an example, and being wrong on all points. Though you are close.

  6. Re:Exactly why we test all candidates. on World's Youngest Microsoft Certificated Professional Is Five Years Old · · Score: 1

    You can't buffer your way out of duplex mismatches. And basics, like the L2 issues (including ARP) cover why you want everything set to auto/auto, or fixed/fixed.

    People still don't believe that auto/auto on one side and 100/full on the other should have the auto/auto set to 100/half under proper (Standards based) operation. Yes, even on 100FX (two-strand fiber, only one strand used on one side, causing massive issues, didn't help that they exceeded the distance for Ethernet, increasing the number of collisions).

    So long as the admins think they need to know layer 7 only, the networking gurus will make a comfortable living.

  7. Re:Exactly why we test all candidates. on World's Youngest Microsoft Certificated Professional Is Five Years Old · · Score: 1

    When troubleshooting your load-balancer and/or reverse proxy to your web server. If you can't keep your server running LAMP up, what good does all the LAMP training do?

  8. Re:Note to IT recruiters. on World's Youngest Microsoft Certificated Professional Is Five Years Old · · Score: 1

    I don't see a grammar error.

    http://www.gpuss.co.uk/english...

    And the OP is strictly correct if MS is pronounced "Microsoft" and the abbreviation is only for saving typing letters.

    For me, I always sound out "Microsoft" because one wouldn't say "MS" in mixed company in the spoken sentence, because the meaning would be so unclear.

  9. Re:Note to IT recruiters. on World's Youngest Microsoft Certificated Professional Is Five Years Old · · Score: 1

    Depends on the local laws in the country you are outsourcing to.

  10. Re:Note to IT recruiters. on World's Youngest Microsoft Certificated Professional Is Five Years Old · · Score: 1

    And how does a computing degree relate to server admin?

  11. Re:Which says what? on World's Youngest Microsoft Certificated Professional Is Five Years Old · · Score: 1

    They even changed what MCSE stand for. Microsoft Certified Solutions Expert (MCSE) now, was Systems Engineer.

    And another reason for the name change was because they "withdrew" the old cert.

  12. Re:Dagnabbit! on World's Youngest Microsoft Certificated Professional Is Five Years Old · · Score: 1

    And here I was picturing you counting with your feet and your 7 fingers per hand.

  13. Re:Goddamn it! on World's Youngest Microsoft Certificated Professional Is Five Years Old · · Score: 1

    I got my CCNA in 1999, and the test had nothing Cisco specific I can remember on it. CCNP had lots of Cisco specific CLI knowledge needed. (Brocade) BCNE had a class that was "CCNA uplift", but the test was interchangeable with the CCNA. Perhaps it's because they, like so many, just ripped off Cisco's CLI.

  14. Re:No protection against self incrimination ... on Former Police Officer Indicted For Teaching How To Pass a Polygraph Test · · Score: 1

    If it happens outside the US, then you likely don't have a 2nd Amendment protection of speech, so the question of whether the speech is illegal is simplified.

    But given that you refuse to answer any question that might form a framework for a logical discussion, you are obviously here to argue until you "win." Congratulations, you've run off everyone, and the last man standing wins. You've managed to convince everyone that you aren't worth talking to. Wasn't that your point?

  15. Re:This is a legal matter. on Ask Slashdot: Dealing With VoIP Fraud/Phishing Scams? · · Score: 1

    He's already asked nicely. Paying a lawyer to ask nicely is extortion by the legal profession. If he has to pay a lawyer, he should pay them to sue.

  16. Re:Level3? on Ask Slashdot: Dealing With VoIP Fraud/Phishing Scams? · · Score: 1

    How do you know where the number originated?

    You can spoof CLID, but not ANI. If you could spoof ANI, then nobody would ever pay for calls, other than the one grandma everyone set their billing identity to.

    This is settable by the CUSTOMER. which is how this fraud is created.

    Which was by design. You can spoof the CLID all you want, but not the ANI. The idea is that anyone spoofing CLID for fraud would be caught. Instead, we get police much more interested in drug charges and other victimless crimes, and nobody investigating fraud, with identifiable victims.

    But it's required so that when I get two trunks, one in-only and one out-only, I can set the 800 number as the CLID of the outbound trunk, so that if someone doesn't already know your DID, they'll call back the company main number. This is how most places that do sales and such like it. You call the "main" number, until you have a relationship with someone to call their DID. All the CLID-protection schemes that don't allow this behavior are rejected by carriers and corporates.

    Level 3 should be thrown in jail for fraud and conspiracy to commit fraud.. They allowed numbers to be advertised that were provably not in their blocks of numbers.

  17. Re:Level3? on Ask Slashdot: Dealing With VoIP Fraud/Phishing Scams? · · Score: 1

    Not true. I had a problem with my phone line in the '90s. I sent a letter to the FCC and the phone company. The phone company, who had insisted the problem was "impossible" to fix had it fixed withing 48 hours of me putting the letter in the mailbox. They did so so that when the FCC contacted me, I could tell them that the problem had been fixed.

    If they were as powerless and uninterested as you say, they wouldn't have reacted so fast.

  18. Re:Wonderful idea. on US School Installs 'Shooter Detection' System · · Score: 1

    I've never thought about that one. Are you implying that the gap between the chamber and barrel would produce gun-level sound? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v... Possible to suppress, but not likely.

    And a plane with a large hole won't suck everyone out for 30 minutes, as it shows in some of those movies. It'll blow things around, but won't always be in suck mode.

  19. Re::-) Your presumptuousness precedes you.. dig it on Former Police Officer Indicted For Teaching How To Pass a Polygraph Test · · Score: 1

    Yes, you are fighting the uphill battle because you are wrong. When everyone is against you, sometimes it's because you are the one swimming upstream. It's easier to change yourself than change the world.

    Not only are you tired, you are tiring.

  20. Re:No protection against self incrimination ... on Former Police Officer Indicted For Teaching How To Pass a Polygraph Test · · Score: 1

    Walking up to someone and saying "I have a gun in my pocket, and I'll take it out and kill you if you don't give me your wallet" is considered assault with a deadly weapon in most US jurisdictions. It doesn't matter whether you do or don't have a gun.

    Can we agree on that?

  21. Re:THIS is the kind of thing that GamerGate is abo on Assassin's Creed: Unity Launch Debacle Pulls Spotlight Onto Game Review Embargos · · Score: 1

    Yet, like all SJWs, you feel compelled to do so anyway.

  22. Re:Comcast tried to steal $50 from me on Overbilled Customer Sues Time Warner Cable For False Advertising · · Score: 1

    Why not? The instant ones I've seen require filling out the same form, or being a member of the loyalty program that has all the same information.

    Have you never used an "instant rebate"?

  23. Re:I thought the lower receiver is the weapon.. on Online Payment Firm Stripe Boots 3D Gun Designer Cody Wilson's Companies · · Score: 1

    The true spirit is held with the National Guard. Local armories, for quick arming of the population in the event of an invasion.

    There should be more effort put forth for raising the level of the Guard, and lowering the funding for the standing military.

    We could survive (and balance the budget without cutting any pork) by cutting the standing army. We'll keep the guard for the lunatics who claim that without a standing army with 600+ bases and a military presence in (roughly) half of the countries in the world would result in an immediate invasion of the US by China and ISIS.

  24. Re:Not a security risk, but a fake risk on Ask Slashdot: Is Non-USB Flash Direct From China Safe? · · Score: 1

    What's the theoretical attack vector of a blank SD card? Some "memory cards" can run video cards and wireless, so are you asserting that someone could put those functions on an SD card (that also has functional memory) and capture things? Or are you just saying "Asia sucks"?

    Because so often in these discussion it comes down to the latter.

  25. Re:THIS is the kind of thing that GamerGate is abo on Assassin's Creed: Unity Launch Debacle Pulls Spotlight Onto Game Review Embargos · · Score: 1

    how does it add to the discussion to call the guy an outright liar?

    One of the two is. And he's the one that started it.

    At best, he tried to ruin someone's life without proof (or even any evidence at all). That makes him more horrible than Quinn was made out to be.