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  1. doesn't NY buy most of its electricity from Hydro Quebec? Also, why target coin miners when they could more simply charge more based on consumption? oh, that's right they already do that.

  2. lef to right on Ask Slashdot: How Would You Teach 'Best Practices' For Programmers? · · Score: 1

    easy walk them through this poster from left to right https://uk.sans.org/security-r...

  3. whatever happened to the idea of transponders; where every smart car would talk to the cars immediately around it about its current speed and direction so that they won't hit each other and share sensor data about objects including people so they won't hit those.

  4. lack of vision on Slashdot Asks: How Long Before Self-Driving Cars Become Mainstream? · · Score: 1

    meh. it is all yesterday tech. privately owned, operated, and maintained transportation was never meant to last. it has never been cost efficient. never will be. never been the most efficient way to move carbon based life forms. never will be. driverless public transportation is the future. lets tear down the parking garages and build paradise!

  5. old news on GAO Warns FAA of Hacking Threat To Airliners · · Score: 1

    http://www.sans.org/instructor... Mike Poor has been saying this for years

  6. summer camp and homeschool on Slashdot Asks: What Will You (Or Your Kids) Learn This Summer? · · Score: 1

    kids want to do basketball camps so they will but I also ordered the next grade up of a state approved home school curriculum. I don't expect them to finish over the summer but it will definitely keep them learning and prepare them for the Fall.

  7. try homeschool and watch the pace on Ask Slashdot: Pros and Cons of Homeschooling? · · Score: 1

    Bottom line up front (BLUF). My recommendation is; Try the homeschool over the summer if you find your child is NOT keeping up to a pace to complete within a year then enroll them in a brick and mortar school in the Fall and maybe keep going on the home school curriculum as a supplement. Background: Neither my wife nor I were educated in the United States so we didn't have a good frame of reference for what to expect from the school system here. Our oldest son went to a great full day preschool and we (all 3 of us) were really happy with the activities, soccer, piano, taekwondo that they offered. For the first half of kindergarten, we sent him to public school which in this school district is only half day. He was bullied when they weren't teaching and bored when they were since he had covered all the same material in pre-K. We pulled him from that and sent him to a private school that offered full day Kindergarten. 3 years later, we can't afford the private school anymore and put him back in public school and his homework takes him less than 10 minutes. They put him in a gifted/independent study program that only happens a few hours a week. Our youngest we home schooled using a state approved curriculum and now our oldest is also using the same homeschooling program over the summer to skip grades in the public schools because the state says that the public schools have to accept it. Kids are sponges they are going to retain what ever they are interested in and is near enough for them to reach so home/private/public doesn't matter as much as exposure and practice.

  8. some ideas on Ask Slashdot: Can a Felon Work In IT? · · Score: 1

    Some ideas; Do check this link http://money.cnn.com/2014/12/0... Contribute to open source projects when you don't have work https://guides.github.com/acti... Freelance through the elance or other coder for hire type sites https://www.elance.com/ Start your own IT support company/freelance/contract/game development, whatever your strongest skills are https://www.sba.gov/ Get your company registered as a state/federal contractor and bid http://www.procure.ohio.gov/pr... http://www.gsa.gov/portal/cate...

  9. Sid? on Ask Slashdot: Getting Hired As a Self-Taught Old Guy? · · Score: 1
  10. Re:Circular logic on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Prove an IT Manager Is Incompetent? · · Score: 1

    i suppose it sounded that way. what i really meant is that a lot of decisions are based on the CFOs figures. Accurate or not, that is all that would be required to sack him/her. Bringing a consultant in is just a way to not be the person to make the recommendation, i.e. not be the bad guy.

  11. Re:Circular logic on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Prove an IT Manager Is Incompetent? · · Score: 1

    I agree. if the CFO says they the IT department is operating at twice budget for a company their size that pretty much cut and dry for replacing the head of IT. 2nd choice if the guy can't be fired. I see this a lot. Instead of quitting. I would go with 1. plan to train that person, something like obtaining a PMP or other appropriate training or personal development goal that would get him the tools he needs to be an effective manager. 2. Reorganize so that he less negative impact. Pull out a reorganization plan. maybe, split out overhead often IT services(support for the functional areas) from the IT as an R&D/ profit center. that kind of thing. 3. Create a new positon for him where he has no real authority. You see this at a lot of companies. These people have titles like "Subject Matter Expert", "Cyber Visionary", "IT advisor", "Futurist", etc... Maybe suggest hiring an enterprise architect so that all IT projects must meet the constraints of the Enterprise. create a process improvement, 6sigma or whatever group that must sign off on the requirement for an IT solution to the process improvement effort. etc...

  12. no worries on Ask Slashdot: Rectifying Nerd Arrogance? · · Score: 1

    that is what MIS majors are training for, they will be conduit to management, treat them nice

  13. sharp on South Korea Plans Hashtag-Inspired Skyscraper · · Score: 1

    in korea, they call this the sharp symbol. so, sharp just sounds like a cool name for apartment complexes. there are several complexes all over the country built by posco (i think) with the # symbol on them.

    further, many complexes, like the daewoo trump complex i lived in had an elevated playground and fitness center. so, while this is a kind of neat variation. it is hardly news.

  14. that used to be us on The Real Job Threat · · Score: 1

    friedman and forgothisname suggested in their book that there are basically 4 classes work creative creators, routine creators, routine servers, and creative servers routines will be automated so if your job is one of those categories then you need to be more creative there was a sci-fi story where you place in society was based on your ability to wear out the stuff that robots made, the protaganist found a way to turn his robots into consumers, been so long that i forgot author and title another comment is that according to some singularity proponents we don't have to figure it out we just have to task the robots and super computers to figure it out. let's just remember to include paramaters like exterminating humans is bad, using us as a power source while trapping us in the 90s is also bad

  15. wizard101 on Ask Slashdot: Best Adventure Game To Start With? · · Score: 1

    I play this game with my 5 year old son. The combat is card based a la magic: the gathering so less than scary. some of the undead bad guys are bit scary to him in appearance. there is zero gore. the defeated enemies fall down and fade away.

  16. worked for 2 companies that did this... on How Does a 9/80 Work Schedule Work Out? · · Score: 1

    1. Generally, your managers always try to convince you to move your personal appointments to the off friday and start enforcing leave/sick leave/PTO if you don't. 2. IT workers usually have to do all their disruptive stuff on the off friday in return for future comp time that never materializes or ends up looking more like 5x8 anyway. Despite that, the occasional long weekend where you can get away to someplace on a friday that is usually way crowded on the weekends makes it worth it.

  17. rogue wireless hunting on (Useful) Stupid BlackBerry Tricks? · · Score: 1
    this only really useful once your already pretty close, still better than lugging your wardriving kit around, turn the beep on for dramatic effect.

    it's a long way to get to it. Start on the main screen and open the Manage Connections app. Scroll down to Wi-Fi options and click. Click on the Blabkberry Key (the one with the little dots on it) and scroll down to and select Wi-Fi Diagnostics Click on the Blackberry Key and select Site Survey. You are there.

    http://www.blackberryforums.com/aftermarket-software/139443-looking-netstumbler-type-bb-app.html

  18. Re:Penny Arcade called it on Microsoft To Announce Jerry Seinfeld Ads Cancelled · · Score: 1

    abilene paradox?

  19. Re:Typical government response on Lt. Col. John Bircher Answers Your Questions · · Score: 1

    um, it is called DISA, try this link http://iase.disa.mil/stigs/stig/index.html

  20. Recruitment on Lt. Col. John Bircher Answers Your Questions · · Score: 1

    try one of these programs. http://www.defenselink.mil/cio-nii/iasp/ https://www.sfs.opm.gov/ OR if you already have the skills then try any of the big defense contractors or even some of the small ones. For most of the jobs, you must have U.S. citizenship, the ability to obtain a clearance, and most importantly the ability to withstand hours of pointless meetings.

  21. this guy is so wrong it is scary on USAF Considers Creation of Military Botnet · · Score: 1

    He tries to draw an example from the physical world. first, I don't know how many air force bases he has been too but most have some hardened concrete defenses beyond the chain link fence. many, in fact, have bunkers which are very much the most physical sort of fort ever. His example from WWII, only illustrates how important is to control the airspace above your fortifications. bunkers again have roofs. air dropping people on top of it would not have the same affect. in fact, would be completely ineffective. Second, he is totally overlooking the role physical placement, security, and access controls have in the role of the security of a network, of the internet core. Then, when he describe a bot net. He really just described how most networks are run. He coud do everything he says he wants to from a typical Network Operations center because GET THIS, THEY ALREADY CONTROL A GEOGRAPHICALLY DISBURSED NETWORK OF DESKTOPS, SERVERS IN SEVERAL CLASS B ADDRESS SPACES. moron.

  22. recharge it on Hobbyist Renewable Energy? · · Score: 1
  23. buy from australia on NASA Running Out of Plutonium · · Score: 1

    i was just in Perth a few months ago, and China is letting all kinds of contracts for that kind of mining. hmm, we may have to get it from the Chinese. uranium ingots with "made in china" on them shouldn't be so bad. watch out for the lead poisoning though.

  24. outlook auto-completion on Air Force Emails Sensitive Information to Tourism Site · · Score: 1

    did anyone mention that the problem was probably with outlook autocompletion or some such where if you don't type the whole the address it appends .com to the end? as far as IT goes, air force enlisted seem to be more savvy than the other services.

  25. Re:And free content....well, sort of. on Which eBook Reader is the Best? · · Score: 1

    the big market and advantage for ebooks would be at the university textbook level but then we don't really need a reader-only but a tablet PC. unfortunately, text book publishers are luddites who hate ebooks and loath the idea of students actually havin up-to-date and relevant textbooks that don't require a wheelbarrow to move from class to class. bleh