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  1. Re:English accents sound sexy on Accent Monitoring: Innovation Or Rights Violation? · · Score: 1

    Yeah. Better check 'em. Might not be good. People might need to use their brain a little bit. Those HR people, they're shit. They don't know nothing about what's intelligible, and what's not.

    Xenophobia has many manifestations. This is one of them. If an HR department can't decide this, then checking up on them isn't going to do much. It's all part of the slippery slope.

  2. Re:English accents sound sexy on Accent Monitoring: Innovation Or Rights Violation? · · Score: 1

    How droll. I'll bet I can guess your background.

  3. Re:English accents sound sexy on Accent Monitoring: Innovation Or Rights Violation? · · Score: 1

    The United States is made mostly of non-indigenous people. Some came from the British Isles, most of them from somewhere else.

    They speak with an accent. To grade that accent is to discriminate, literally, based on their national origin. I agree that people need to be understood. I disagree that they need to be flawless. To demand the degree of "accent-free" diction is to exercise both xenophobic tendencies, and also to discriminate. Both are wrong; both have become typical of caucasian attitude, as manifested in legislation and attitude of elected government officials.

  4. Re:Bitnami on Newb-Friendly Linux Flavor For LAMP Server? · · Score: 2

    turnkeylinux.org has great LAMP appliances, along with other loadable VMs. Free.

  5. Re:to and extent.. on Why We Love Things We Build Ourselves · · Score: 1

    Even complete projects need periodic code reviews and lib checks. But I understand what you're saying. Some projects are also eclipsed (no pun intended) by new thinking, or project amalgamation-- or funding changes.

  6. Re:to and extent.. on Why We Love Things We Build Ourselves · · Score: 1

    And there are many reasons for project slowdowns and death, ranging from "it was a bad idea to begin with" to "wow, look at that cool stuff over there" and everything in between.

    The importance of self-made items is that there's a Darwinian direct benefit. We like them because they're likely customized in a way that more generic items are not. Consider also that if we didn't like them, we would be unlikely to make them, and where would we be now? Ikea has nothing to do with it save you're the screwdriver artist.

  7. Re:Bring back WebOS please on Sources Say Meg Whitman To Become HP CEO · · Score: 1

    It sure does change the game. Makes me wonder if Ray Lane still has some Oracle DNA working for him, and it makes me speculate that he's an Oracle plant. Probably not, but it won't instill confidence from anyone. I don't envy her in the slightest; it'll be a long row to hoe.

  8. Re:Bring back WebOS please on Sources Say Meg Whitman To Become HP CEO · · Score: 2

    Worst. Idea. Ever.

    You thought Carly was a disaster? Just wait. Someone needs to clean clock over there. Now.

  9. Re:Doesn't the consumer lose regardless? on Verizon Chief Defends AT&T-T-Mobile Merger · · Score: 2

    These are all chess moves by monopolies that can't deal with competition. The game is so small that they're scared to death at what might happen.

    First, Sprint has NO MONEY and won't be able to raise enough debt to acquire T-Mobile, even if Deutsche Telekom GAVE IT TO THEM. Sprint has no GSM experience, and they'r desperately wound up in trying to deliver 4G/LTE.

    Second, Verizon wants this to happen so they can justify their acquisition of SPRINT, who is the only other CDMA carrier of note in the world.

    This is all about empires, and Verizon's protecting their ability to have one.

  10. Re:Hmm... on OnStar Terms and Conditions Update Raises Privacy Concerns · · Score: 1

    Perfect.

  11. Re:Hmm... on OnStar Terms and Conditions Update Raises Privacy Concerns · · Score: 1

    Time to get a screwdriver and cut out the cancer that OnStar has become. In one policy change, they remove all white-knight status and become boorish, privacy robbing satans. Good Job, OnStar. Hope that wears well on ya.

  12. Re:VeriWave in Portland on Ask Slashdot: 802.11n Bake-Off Test Plans? · · Score: 2, Informative

    There have been large tests, and it can be done by using Linux boxen that allow one to change out the raw socket to emulate numerous concurrent IP/MAC address pairs concurrently.

    Then you decide what kind of duty cycle of transactions will be typical. All surfers checking Facebook? Or are their apps with sockets?

    The biggest part of this is the backhaul; what's behind the AP in terms of next hop to a thick layer 2/3 switch/router. How skilled is the person that programmed it?

    Are you going to use bi-freq N? If so, many possibilities open up, because you've now got a bunch of fresh 5Ghz channels, and the AP can handle more concurrence. Do you need to preserve session? Xirrus can handle a bunch, but you MUST have sufficient backhaul, or backhaul is a bottleneck for any AP vendor, including XIrrus.

    What apps? https pageloads? sftps in a script? What's the profile of your proposed activity? What's the density of radios per proposed diameter?

    You ask a lot of questions, but they open up more questions, then more. My recommendation: go with dual-bands that can have concurrent dual band conversations, use a fat backhaul, and encourage users to do the upper-band N by giving them a script, hive, whatever, so that they go upstairs where there's much more room rather than fight for 1, 6, and 11.

  13. Re:Scram on Authors' Guild Goes After University Book Digitization Projects · · Score: 1

    If a book becomes dead, it might be because of the bad content, although I would hate to see one become lost because of that specific reason. I'm the author of ten books. All are trade paperback format. All will disintegrate one day. I've digitized them all, because I inarguably own the copyright.

    Yet two of them have turned up in Google Books, then were taken down at my demand. If they turn up in the universities, there is a fair-use copy they can manage (or more than one, depending on how many copies they purchased). If more than that number of copies are released, then we have issue as they cannot control the repurposing for profit unintended by fair use.

    My digital copies are clearly marked, as are the originals. The Author's Guild is within their rights to test the property rights and how copies are managed. I don't work for free, and you shouldn't either, unless that's what you specifically intended.

  14. Re:It's not 7 billion on Evaluating Patent Troll Myths · · Score: 2

    Sadly, not true. There are many patent treaties, although this is not universal both in terms of types of patents, or their term. Whether or not they're enforced with the same vehemence is another story for another time.

  15. Re:I don't know. on Apple's iCloud Runs On Microsoft Azure · · Score: 1

    Azure is PaaS. There's no reason to use it beyond development stages, if they're even doing that. That Apple would use Windows 2008 R2, which is what Azure is built on, to host, is very unlikely. These are ideologically different practices, and Azure's been mostly in beta or "technology preview" for eons. Methinks El Reg has succumbed to rumourmongering. Quelle surprise.

  16. Re:Biggest tight wad of all time on A Look Back At the Career of Steve Jobs · · Score: 1, Insightful

    You could turn around and say this, and you'd still be a running dog lackey libertarian fool. Investment strategies are understood very well, and the power of cogent capitalism. It needs oversight because there are assholes out there that think nothing of the lives of others and what their product methodologies can do to fuck them up. You need oversight because you're not trustworthy, and the greed motive makes quote unquote "moral" decisions for many abberant capitalists, just like it does for abberant socialists.

    So, be careful of that high horse there, fella. We need conscience and scrutiny to prevent the assholes from taking over.

    Oh, wait....

  17. Re:LAND OF THE FREE? on Environmental Enforcement Agents Targeting Guitars · · Score: 1

    I know guitar construction very well, and I know the nature of the woods and construction techniques. I'm not comparing quality, but I am comparing bills of materials, and you'd be surprised. Ask Gibson, ask Fender-- if they'll tell you.

  18. Re:LAND OF THE FREE? on Environmental Enforcement Agents Targeting Guitars · · Score: 1

    There are loads of guitars built in Mexico, the imported into the USA. The exotic woods used by guitar makers cause deforestation in sensitive areas.

    But the advice of not bringing your old guitar back into the company after a trip is total bullshit and a scare tactic to defend Gibson (maybe Fender, Taylor, and others, too). They should be ashamed.

  19. Re:It's hard to take seriously... on GA Tech: Internet's Mid-Layers Vulnerable To Attack · · Score: 1

    I've been really surprised by all of the purported ftp use cited in this thread... tftp as well. Web hosting sites are in need of some updates. Using https would at least prevent part of the problem. Yet it's up to people that understand infrastructure to help educate those that don't understand the nature of hacks and cracks. Organizations get banged with hammers that most people aren't willing to understand. Yesterday, my primary web facing server was under attack from two different places trying to beat my ssh into bits. While they didn't succeed, they could have if I hadn't been looking at the syslogs. There's not much behind it to steal, thankfully, but they don't know that.

  20. Re:It's hard to take seriously... on GA Tech: Internet's Mid-Layers Vulnerable To Attack · · Score: 1

    The problem isn't really the downloader. It's the fact that the host is vulnerable to iterative attacks until it cracks. Then it's hijacked. Ftp can be cracked like an egg in its Unix and GNU form.... and that's not the only problem.

  21. Re:It's hard to take seriously... on GA Tech: Internet's Mid-Layers Vulnerable To Attack · · Score: 1

    You can only hope that a cogent argument, repeated until PHBs take it seriously, then think it's theirs, will do some good. Too many systems get p0wn3d because of stupid stuff, and ftp is old, and is just plainly irresponsible-- save places where a secure channel exists. Mostly, they don't; secure channels are another problem for a different day.

  22. Re:It's hard to take seriously... on GA Tech: Internet's Mid-Layers Vulnerable To Attack · · Score: 1

    Oh. Right. I was cleaning up DEC tape spews when you were a zygote. FTP may be common, but it's intensely insecure. Do your research. If you use it, you're irresponsible and endanger your organization.

  23. Re:FTP over TLS on GA Tech: Internet's Mid-Layers Vulnerable To Attack · · Score: 1

    You can shave five bits off. Whether other attack vectors will emerge are unknown. People use AES 128 then use the same salt over all of the base keys generated, too. That one takes a while.

  24. Re:It's hard to take seriously... on GA Tech: Internet's Mid-Layers Vulnerable To Attack · · Score: 1

    There might be one practical use where you won't violate security ideals-- anonymous ftp. Otherwise ftp is swiss cheese. I'm not joking. SO it sounded like you were finding the smart ass narrow exception. But you may in fact not really know the dangers otherwise.

  25. Re:It's hard to take seriously... on GA Tech: Internet's Mid-Layers Vulnerable To Attack · · Score: -1, Troll

    >>Does that include anonymous FTP?

    Smartass, aren't ya?

    >>Or using FTP between two computers in my apartment?

    Yeah, because you probably use WEP for security.