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  1. No reason not to have Gigabit Ethernet in the walls. A 1000 foot spool of CAT 5E is under $90 at Home Depot and a decent quality set of terminating tools is under $60. Gigabit switches are cheap now too. You'll also need something to use to fish the wires thru the walls. Make sure you know how to terminate your cables correctly or you'll slow things down due to errors (or they just won't work at all). You can buy pre-terminated cables but they're more expensive (but might be good if you're in a hurry).

  2. Re:Amazing progress... on First Birth From Human Womb Transplant · · Score: 4, Funny

    Indeed. There is still a lot of womb for improvement.

  3. Re:Why only LGBT? on Facebook Apologizes To Drag Queens Over "Real Name" Rule · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Orwell said it best: "All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others."

  4. Plausible deniability on Mass. Supreme Court Says Defendant Can Be Compelled To Decrypt Data · · Score: 1

    This case illustrates why it's so important to have something like the recently-shut down TrueCrypt project out there. If prosecutors can't prove the existence of an encrypted volume, they can't keep you in jail for not giving up the keys for something which might not exist.

  5. Awesome on Tech Workforce Diversity At Facebook Similar To Google And Yahoo · · Score: 3, Interesting

    So when can we expect to see the diversity reports on players in the NFL and NBA? How about gender diversity as it relates to employment in the healthcare industry?

  6. Re:unions are needed before the bathroom break tim on Workplace Surveillance Becoming More Common · · Score: 1

    Yeah . . . no thanks. I don't need anyone negotiating my salary on my behalf. I don't need some deadweight lazy incompetent being promoted ahead of me just because they've been at the company forever. And as a manager, I sure don't need to lose the important ability to fire a worker who just isn't working out. If I don't like my job or my employer, I will simply leave and find a new one. This is technology, not bureaucracy . . . please don't try to ruin it for the rest of us.

  7. Re:Harder Idea - Shutter the team on The Ethics Cloud Over Ballmer's $2 Billion B-Ball Buy · · Score: 1

    How racist could he really be? Sterling was about to be awarded his second Lifetime Achievement Award by the NAACP. You can't make this shit up.

  8. Not in CA on The Ethics Cloud Over Ballmer's $2 Billion B-Ball Buy · · Score: 1

    Sorry Jack . . . CA is an all-party consent state, and therefore the recording itself was illegally obtained. What that bitch did absolutely violated CA law and the real question people should be asking right now is why she isn't in jail yet. You think that wouldn't happen if one of us upstanding citizens decided to record some CA legislature, for example, accepting a bribe? We'd be in the clink faster than Ballmer can throw a chair.

  9. Re:Open season on the white male on Misogyny, Entitlement, and Nerds · · Score: 1

    Yes . . . that's my exact point. The hypocrisy on display is shocking. Apparently it's OK to label these fringe, statistically anomalous mass shootings a "white male" problem (conveniently leaving out incidents like Ft. Hood x2, VA Tech, the DC Navy Yard, etc.) and to shit all over the 2nd Amendment, but it's just plain racist if you point out that drug-related handgun crimes -- which make up the vast majority of gun crime in the US and which, if were eliminated, would put levels of US gun violence on par with or better than most countries which have *outlawed* guns -- are perpetrated almost exclusively by a single demographic group UPON OTHERS also belonging to the same group (I'll leave that one for you folks playing at home).

  10. Open season on the white male on Misogyny, Entitlement, and Nerds · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Good to see the PC police out in full force. Wonder why these folks don't focus their energies on the dozens shot in inner cities around the country EVERY NIGHT rather than trying to score political points by pointing out "Look! an angry white guy did it!" every time a mass shooting happens (and by that, I mean the statistically insignificant one or two times a year it happens)? It's an election year, bitches.

  11. Re:Beats sound like garbage on Apple Reportedly Buying Beats Electronics For $3.2 Billion · · Score: 1

    20 years ago, I had a pair of the 7506's predecessor . . . the MDR-V6. I used them until one of the drivers died in the late 1990s. They were wonderfully accurate, and sounded just as good as my (now-discontinued) 7509s. Sony has been making great reference headphones for a long time, and it shows.

  12. Re:Monopolies? on The Mere Promise of Google Fiber Sends Rivals Scrambling · · Score: 1

    One person saying "no" can stop an entire city from getting new infrastructure.

    Wrong. Ever heard of eminent domain?

  13. Re:Monopolies? on The Mere Promise of Google Fiber Sends Rivals Scrambling · · Score: 1

    Governments don't create cable monopolies.

    They absolutely do just that when they subsidize the creation of the network infrastructure with our tax dollars, then allow a handful of huge conglomerates to profit off of that forced community investment while gouging the shit out of us and fight back any competition via litigation. Yeah, in the US, not only does the gov't create cable monopolies, it protects them.

  14. Beats sound like garbage on Apple Reportedly Buying Beats Electronics For $3.2 Billion · · Score: 5, Informative

    Artificially-inflated bass crap. Do yourself a favor a get yourself a pair of real studio reference headphones like the venerable Sony MDR-7509s (for a lot less money too) if you want to hear what your music really sounds like. There's a reason that studios around the globe use these and not fuckin' Beats. Beats are a fashion accessory, not a critical listening device.

  15. Re:Static DH is not better than Static RSA on TLS 1.3 Draft Prepares to Drop Static RSA Key Exchange · · Score: 1

    Nope -- I didn't miss it. 1982 was a long time ago, and RSA (the company) bears little resemblance today to RSA (the company) of 1982. In any case, was RSA (the company) involved in the development / imporvements / other iterative activities related to RSA (the crypto suite in question) or not, especially recently? Because if that's the case, my original point stands, as there's plenty of evidence that RSA (the company) has been complicit in NSA's efforts to backdoor and other undermine / weaken components which they (RSA the company) had developed.

  16. Re:Static DH is not better than Static RSA on TLS 1.3 Draft Prepares to Drop Static RSA Key Exchange · · Score: 1

    Got it . . . easy for someone who doesn't work with crypto every day to get confused, especially as RSA the company has developed many security-related bits of infrastructure. In fact, as far as I can tell, there's no relationship between RSA (the company) and RSA (the crypto suite). My bad.

  17. Re:Static DH is not better than Static RSA on TLS 1.3 Draft Prepares to Drop Static RSA Key Exchange · · Score: 0

    But why the hate for RSA? It's a well understood algorithm.

    Maybe because RSA has proven time and again that they can't be trusted?

  18. Re:Severla months ago... on Police Departments Using Car Tracking Database Sworn To Secrecy · · Score: 1

    *If* that is true -- and I'm seeing conflicting information as to whether or not it is -- expect FL to close that loophole to prevent fascist states like MD from targeting FL motorists on interstate highways. FL probably permits database access to allow for CCW reciprocity checks in other Shall-Issue states, and its legislators definitely won't allow abuse of its data by rogue police units like MDTAP.

  19. Re:Hiding shady practices on Police Departments Using Car Tracking Database Sworn To Secrecy · · Score: 1

    You won't be flagged in the database if you aren't already in trouble for something else.

    Are you sure about that? With the contractually-enforced anti-transparency provisions baked into these agreements with various police agencies, how would you even know? By design, the gov't is FORBIDDEN from discussing any of it with us serfs.

  20. Re:Severla months ago... on Police Departments Using Car Tracking Database Sworn To Secrecy · · Score: 0

    Ahhh, so you're saying it's legal for MD to automatically scan license plates, cross-check them with FL's published list of CCW permit holders, and make a traffic stop *solely* based on that info? That's what happened here, and that's a clear violation of the 4th Amendment.

  21. Re:Severla months ago... on Police Departments Using Car Tracking Database Sworn To Secrecy · · Score: 4, Informative

    Reading comprehension not so good, eh? He left the gun in FL at home, locked up . . . MD cops stopped him, somehow knew of his FL permit (there is absolutely no legal way they could have, of course), and ordered him to give them them the gun. When he wouldn't (couldn't) comply, they proceeded to tear the car's contents apart on the side of the highway and terrorize his family. So just maybe, it's the "batshit-crazy" behavior of jack-booted fascist states like Maryland that is the problem here.

  22. Re:Severla months ago... on Police Departments Using Car Tracking Database Sworn To Secrecy · · Score: 2

    RTFA. The guy had no gun in the car (he'd left it locked up in FL), but the MD cops knew he had a CCW permit even though he was a FL resident . . . how is that possible?

  23. Re:Severla months ago... on Police Departments Using Car Tracking Database Sworn To Secrecy · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The state refuses to stop spending more money each year than the last and is addicted to revenue like it's crack. According to Gallup, 67% percent of Marylanders think their state taxes are too high and 47% of them literally want to leave the state.

  24. Re:Severla months ago... on Police Departments Using Car Tracking Database Sworn To Secrecy · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Link to the story that you mention from the Tampa newspaper. Maryland police forces have a history of this kind of thuggish behavior; even now, the MD State Police and the MD press (e.g., the Baltimore Sun) refuse to comment or even report on this story.

  25. Re:Jury Panel on Oklahoma Botched an Execution With Untested Lethal Injection Drugs · · Score: 2

    You are stating that the only reason someone would act the way this killer did was because they were mentally ill. You are dangerously assuming that every one of these violent people is unable to tell right from wrong. I would say that history is filled with examples of people who committed mind-blowing atrocities for political reasons, greed, lust, revenge -- you name it. These are people who knew that what they were doing was wrong and chose to do it anyway. To blame every extreme act of violence on "severe mental illness" is an oversimplification at best. The vast majority of criminals absolutely consciously choose to do what they do. Face it -- people generally have free will, and some choose to commit heinous crimes. Saying that *every* violent killer is unequivocally severely mentally ill because "there's no other reason they would do that" is just silly, and some might say that such a statement seeks to remove accountability and personal responsibility from the equation.