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  1. Re:"most advanced" in what area? on Facebook Building World's 'Most Advanced' Data Center In Irish Village (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    Datacenters are very low employment areas, a handful of staff onsite (including security staff) can run a huge datacenter once operational. Their is not a lot of positives for local economies apart from the building phase.

  2. Re:Can't be too much competition... on Facebook Building World's 'Most Advanced' Data Center In Irish Village (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    Only the US has such insane tax laws for both its citizens and companies. most countries have broken tax laws with regards to companies though that let tax havens like Ireland happen.

  3. Re:Can't be too much competition... on Facebook Building World's 'Most Advanced' Data Center In Irish Village (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    given the number of companies basing themselves in Ireland for tax purposes it would not surprise me if their are a shit load.

  4. Is Blockchain the Most Important IT Invention of Our Age? No!

    more complete Answer "FUCK NO, to think it is laughable"

  5. Re:This can be a huge can of worms... on Utah Bill Would Require IT Workers To Report Child Porn (ksl.com) · · Score: 1

    The same concept does apply. Your hospitals legal and or security team have absolutely no legal authority to tell you not to report something to the proper authorities, nor can they legally instruct you not to report it as they would themselves be in breach of a raft of laws.

  6. The only thing the government is interested in preventing is the backdoors being so blatantly obvious and not in their hands.

  7. Re:"Facebook users" on Fake Facebook Emails Deliver Malware Masquerading As Audio Message · · Score: 2

    The reality is that with choice comes a certain amount of responsibility. a woman should be able to wear a skimpy outfit and walk down dark alley's at night safe, a rich person should be able to have hundred dollar bills hanging out his pocket without fear of being mugged. The reality is that if you want the freedom to do that it comes with certain risks that society (or computer programmers) can't fully mitigate without you giving up some freedoms.

  8. did we suddenly go back in time? on Fake Facebook Emails Deliver Malware Masquerading As Audio Message · · Score: 2

    Sooo why is this an article here? seriously this has been a common attack method for over a decade.

  9. perhaps a good thing? on 'Star Wars: Episode VIII' Delayed By Seven Months (hollywoodreporter.com) · · Score: 2

    maybe it will give them time to actually come up with a story this time rather than just rehashing the original movies.

  10. Why is it FUD? you have evidence that says otherwise or are you just casting your own FUD as you don't like GM foods?

  11. Re:$3000!? on Microsoft Leaks New HoloLens Details (mashable.com) · · Score: 1

    who said anything about email or spreadsheets? The core audience is supposedly engineers and designers. People that make stuff and actually want to see what their computer generated models will look like in the real world.

  12. Re:not leaked, released on Microsoft Leaks New HoloLens Details (mashable.com) · · Score: 1

    The Xbox One launch information was not drip fed at all, the information was released at conference on mass (at least as much as was available as MS and Sony were both still very much in development right up until the release date), immediately following the information release they saw massive negative feedback up until the point they decided to reverse the decision prior to launch.

  13. Re:$3000!? on Microsoft Leaks New HoloLens Details (mashable.com) · · Score: 2

    These aren't being made to wear for privacy invading arseholes to walk around with. They are being made for use in an office for technical work.

  14. Re:late again? on Microsoft Leaks New HoloLens Details (mashable.com) · · Score: 1

    it ISN'T VR, it is augmented reality, they are related but definitely not the same and so far they are pretty much alone in this space.

  15. Re:Putting it in orbit would solve all these probl on The Engineering and Logistics of Building the Giant Magellan Telescope (theconversation.com) · · Score: 1

    As was seen with Hubble. Building something for space is an entirely different ballgame, building something large scale even more so given the cost of getting every kilo into space and the difficulty of maintaining it afterwards. Would be great if they were looking to build such a telescope in space but we are a long long way from being able to create such a precise piece of engineering on that scale in space and even further from being able to lift something that large into space.

  16. Re: Netflix? Try the studios instead on Geoblocking, Licensing, and Piracy Make For Tough Choices at Netflix (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    Actually Netflix have stated repeatedly they want to buy global distribution rights for ALL content, however exclusive distribution rights that have been sold in various countries prevent them from doing this. e.g. in Australia Foxtel has long term licensing locks on a lot of content.

  17. Re:Netflix? Try the studios instead on Geoblocking, Licensing, and Piracy Make For Tough Choices at Netflix (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    copyright laws. They do not have licenses to distribute certain content in certain countries, laws differ from country to country but generally you are in breach of quite a few laws by distributing copyrighted material without a license or approval to do so.

  18. Re:iptables + fwbuilder on SSH Backdoor Found In Fortinet Firewalls (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    what level does your non fancy schmancy hardware scale too? Do you really think people spend hundreds of thousands or even millions on firewalls just because it is "fancy" hardware.

  19. Re:Penny on Should the US Change Metal Coins? (networkworld.com) · · Score: 1

    seriously are you retarded? your argument for not doing it is that it would be doing something other sane countries have already done? really I don't think the rest of the world gives a shit if the US wants to flush money down the shitter by making things that cost more than their value, the rest of the world however moves on.

  20. Re:Secrets =~ Stigmas on How To Talk About Mental Illness Online? · · Score: 1

    That superhero is a wanker, along with the Captain Grammar Nazi.

  21. Re:Secrets =~ Stigmas on How To Talk About Mental Illness Online? · · Score: 1

    firemen, soldiers with the ability to show amazing courage under fire, police, people with high risk/danger jobs. Many of them exhibit the exact same mental illness but it instead of being labelled with a mental illness that get called hero's.

  22. Re:Secrets =~ Stigmas on How To Talk About Mental Illness Online? · · Score: 1

    being a psychopath isn't necessarily bad. many hero's are also psychopath's too, The same cold calculating emotionless approach that makes them excellent politicians, CEO's, mass murders etc also make them excellent hero's. basically it all depends on what life opportunities throws at that person.

  23. Re:cost and benifit on Antivirus Software Could Make Your Company More Vulnerable (csoonline.com) · · Score: 1

    Seriously, if windows needs a 'security' kludge like UAC to stay secure, then it's not really secure at all. The whole point of OS security is to be able to run stuff that is 'untrusted' with a reasonable expectation that it won't totally compromise the system.

    You are completely and utterly ignorant. UAC is just process elevation or a separate account and is pretty much how all OS's handle this. The simple rule on security is if you allow someone elses code to run on your machine then it is no longer your machine. remote vulnerabilities are reasonably common, but there is ALWAYS a little shit ton of local escalation vulnerabilities available to just about every OS and system level apps, If you can't find one for your chosen OS then chances are you aren't looking in the right place.

  24. Re:Block all traffic to/from Russia and China. on Uncooperative Russian ISP Prevents Cisco From Shutting Down Cybercriminal Gang · · Score: 1

    stats from an AC, defended by an AC. Personally I will take the stats that actually have some evidence/proof behind them. We definitely see the most attacks coming out of Europe and the US for us (though we do see a lot from china, Russia and other eastern block countries too they pale in volume to what is coming from the cloud providers), the vast majority coming from cloud providers, for this reason we actually block most of the large cloud providers IP ranges like AWS, Azure, Rackspace etc.

  25. Re:Block all traffic to/from Russia and China. on Uncooperative Russian ISP Prevents Cisco From Shutting Down Cybercriminal Gang · · Score: 1

    yep, After all how could isolating yourself from one of the largest and fastest growing economies in the world with deep economic ties possibly affect you!