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  1. Re:The Blame Game on Scammers Work Around Two-Factor Authentication With Social Engineering · · Score: 1

    Does that forward SMS? I've only ever seen calls forwarded.

  2. Re:Account security on Scammers Work Around Two-Factor Authentication With Social Engineering · · Score: 1

    My brother has one from Commonwealth. He spends a lot of time outside mobile coverage but with 'net access. (At least when the generator is running.)

  3. Re:Victim never knew a thing? on Scammers Work Around Two-Factor Authentication With Social Engineering · · Score: 2

    Or tell you about it.

  4. Re:Wt on Ask Slashdot: One Framework To Rule Them All? · · Score: 0

    What makes Wt unique is its approach: widgets. You develop web applications like you were developing desktop applications.

    Just like ASP.NET. It was designed to be web dev for VB programmers.

  5. Re:Phone isn't bricked, its just blocked on An Easy Way To Curb Smart-Phone Thieves, In Australia · · Score: 1

    Yeah, because tourists / foreign travellers are the most likely people to buy a hot phone in a pub.

  6. Re:Do carrier make money off phone sales? on An Easy Way To Curb Smart-Phone Thieves, In Australia · · Score: 1

    Not in Australia. They'll do deals. You won't get a free phone, but you won't pay full price. I've seen it and Telstra, of all people, made a decent deal for a replacement unit.

  7. Re:Is that really an URL? on Merck Threatens Merck With Legal Action Over Facebook URL · · Score: 1

    The URL contains an FQDN. Maybe you should ask your question without trying to use the wrong abbreviations. It's not in their own domain, correct. I'm still stumped by companies needing to have Facebook pages. Why can't they just have a web site like everyone else?

  8. Re:Companies suing companies? But, but........ on Merck Threatens Merck With Legal Action Over Facebook URL · · Score: 2

    Actually, the 700 claims prior to this one indicate that McDonalds knew about and should have dealt with it.

  9. Re:Companies suing companies? But, but........ on Merck Threatens Merck With Legal Action Over Facebook URL · · Score: 1

    Yes, if Craftsman has already settled ~700 claims for damage and knows all about this situation.

  10. Which Legend? on Legend: Tabletop Gaming For a Good Cause · · Score: 2

    So Mongoose says they'll put out a game called Wayfarer using RuneQuest rules. Someone points out that there's a game called Wayfarers. So they changed the name to... Legend. Now we have two Legends. Maybe they should rename one to Firebird.

  11. Re:Reflections on Why Everyone Hates the IT Department · · Score: 1

    Only if you don't know the difference between disk and storage. I quoted the second. You're stuck on the first.

  12. Re:Reflections on Why Everyone Hates the IT Department · · Score: 1

    You keep saying 'should'. I used to be like you until the first time someone needed something back from a scratch drive that wasn't backed up.

  13. Re:Reflections on Why Everyone Hates the IT Department · · Score: 1

    The latest one we've got is a complaint that we didn't tell them about a proxy change. "Why am I blocked from downloading?" Read the page that comes up and it will tell you that it's downloading and virus checking. Click the link at the bottom that says 'Download file' and you'll get the file.

  14. Re:Reflections on Why Everyone Hates the IT Department · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Well, why haven't you taken this to management? I've asked my customers to do this in the past. "Sorry, we're locked down but if you can get management to loosen up, we'll be happy to sort it out."

    2 TB costs us about $1000 all up. I guess you're pretty expensive.

  15. Re:Reflections on Why Everyone Hates the IT Department · · Score: 1

    Yeah, developers. The ones I've got right now. We managed to convince them to use version control. Issue tracking is being discussed. They're still too busy for ANY documentation.

  16. Re:Reflections on Why Everyone Hates the IT Department · · Score: 1

    For us, point 1 is the problem. We're not allowed to tell the users anything. Communications is choked down because other staff were spamming everyone with BS. Rather than smacking down the problems, we now have to filter all communications through management.

  17. Re:Reflections on Why Everyone Hates the IT Department · · Score: 3, Insightful

    You see that mostly when discussing storage. "I can buy xTB drives for $100 so why can't I keep all of my kitten emails on the mail server?" Don't get me started on Dropbox/ It's a great service, but it violates all kinds of statutory requirements.

  18. Re:Canon or Nikon on Ask Slashdot: Best Camera For Getting Into Photography? · · Score: 1

    Agreed. I'd also mention the Canon Ixus series. Easy to carry, easy to keep charged and easy to start taking shots when the mood strikes. Taking lots of shots is probably the key. Trial and error with lighting as well as learning composition. I've seen too many technically excellent photos that had no life in them.

  19. Re:The article is much too kind ... on Dell's Misleading Graphics Card Buying Advice · · Score: 2

    Do that with an Optiplex 790 and a 4m VGA cable and yes, you get crap output. Use the cheap, thin, short Dell supplied cable and everything is right again.

  20. Re:Not just meth on 88-Year-Old Inventor Hassled By the DEA · · Score: 1

    Funny story. I went looking for instructions on how to make nitroglycerine when I was a kid. Not in the Encyclopedia Britanica but the Childrens Britanica had it. (Not a recipe but enough description to cause trouble if I could be bothered.)

  21. Re:This is nonsense. on JavaScript JVM Runs Java · · Score: 4, Funny

    More like writing a Python interpreter in Perl. It'll work, but you'll feel a little dirty afterwards.

  22. Re:Hey Bro... on JavaScript JVM Runs Java · · Score: 1

    Just run it inside VMWare or Virtual PC and you won't have any problems.

  23. Re:Hey Bro... on JavaScript JVM Runs Java · · Score: 1

    They're working on JIT compilers though. Not sure when they'll be ready. It will allow the local machine to optimize the byte-code for local conditions.

  24. Re:First I was like D: .... on JavaScript JVM Runs Java · · Score: 1

    Microsoft JScript JVM anyone? I can see 'tweaks' to this JVM happening a lot. Then it's write once, test everywhere you can find, pray. Anything web guys can mess with...

  25. Re:Javaception on JavaScript JVM Runs Java · · Score: 1

    Geeks: making Marketing's screw-ups reality since the beginning of time.