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  1. Re:girl with dragon tattoo did it on Misusing Ethernet To Kill Computer Infrastructure Dead · · Score: 1

    Take it up with the OP, as I was just pointing out the POE aspect.

  2. Re:girl with dragon tattoo did it on Misusing Ethernet To Kill Computer Infrastructure Dead · · Score: 1

    The OP mentioned an "Ethernet Taser" being plugged into the wall to take out the security guards. Hence, you need POE to power that device and I was pointing out that typical wall jack wouldn't have POE. Otherwise, just use a regular Taser to get the job done.

  3. Re:Surge suppressor on Misusing Ethernet To Kill Computer Infrastructure Dead · · Score: 3, Informative

    From my experience with surge protectors on UPSes, a 1Gb connection is reduced to a 10/100Mb connection. Not sure if that has changed in recent years.

  4. Re:Bigger Issue on Misusing Ethernet To Kill Computer Infrastructure Dead · · Score: 1

    I've worked at a few companies where the cables from walls are not physically plugged into the switches inside the network closet for inactive ports. At one company, this was a security policy. At other companies, they couldn't afford enough switches to plug in all the wall jacks.

  5. Re:girl with dragon tattoo did it on Misusing Ethernet To Kill Computer Infrastructure Dead · · Score: 1

    Power Over Ethernet (POE) switches are generally more expensive than regular network switches and, in my experience, aren't widely deployed for general use. A regular wall jack near the floor probably won't have POE. A ceiling jack will have POE to power wireless access points and security devices. The network jack for a phone might have POE from the switch or a power injector.

  6. My 1994 Pontiac Grand Prix and 1999 Ford Taurus lasted 125,000+ miles each. If the previous owners have taken better care of them, I might still have them running.

  7. When a company has too much cash... on Former GM and BMW Executive Warns Apple: Your Car Will Be a "Gigantic Money Pit" · · Score: 2

    Apple needs a money pit for its surplus of cash. Stock buybacks and dividends can only do so much for shareholder value. They might even discover a new automotive product category by pursuing this line of R&D, change the world (again) and make more money to sink into a money pit..

  8. Re:And that means... on George W Bush Made Retroactive NSA 'Fix' After Hospital Room Showdown · · Score: 1

    The problem with these presidential proposals is that they look forward ten years into the future. The real financial crisis is 20 years out when the Baby Boomers are retired, the tax base (workers) is substantially smaller, and Social Security/Medicare is 2/3 of the federal budget. Taxes will have to go up to pay for everything else. This is a well-known problem that the politicians have been punting since the Reagan Administration.

  9. Re:And that means... on George W Bush Made Retroactive NSA 'Fix' After Hospital Room Showdown · · Score: 1

    The WSJ article on Bernie Sanders claims that his policies will add $18T to the national debt isn't true.

    http://www.csmonitor.com/Business/Robert-Reich/2015/0921/Opinion-Four-reasons-why-The-Wall-Street-Journal-attack-on-Bernie-is-bogus

  10. Re:sweet ... on NASA's Resource Prospector Mission Could Land On the Moon In 2020 · · Score: 1

    Retro-tech from the 1960's and 1970's never go out of style.

  11. Re:And that means... on George W Bush Made Retroactive NSA 'Fix' After Hospital Room Showdown · · Score: 1

    If you pay close attention to the Republican presidential candidates, you may noticed that they have no new ideas for making America great again. President Obama took a page out of the Clinton Playbook and made foreign policy, tax cuts and healthcare reform his own. The Republicans are going out of their way to disown their own agenda to prove that they oppose the president's agenda.

  12. Re:And that means... on George W Bush Made Retroactive NSA 'Fix' After Hospital Room Showdown · · Score: 2

    If President Obama implemented a Progressive agenda, we would be out of the Middle East and the Guantanamo Bay prison closed, the Bush tax cuts would be repealed and the Clinton budget surpluses restored, and single-payer healthcare would be the law of the land. Bernie Sanders, if elected, will make that happen anyway.

  13. Re:And that means... on George W Bush Made Retroactive NSA 'Fix' After Hospital Room Showdown · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Really, anyone about to post condemnations of Bush should consider the fact that Your Hero as he same policies and have argued in court to keep them.

    Never mind that President Obama implemented the Republican agenda — Middle East foreign policy, tax policy and healthcare policy — with the Progressives looking the other way. He's probably the best moderate conservative president since Ronald Reagan.

  14. Re:Impossible to disarm? on This Is What a Real Bomb Looks Like · · Score: 1

    The only option was the cut open the case and the wires simultaneously.

    There's never a Jedi Knight with a light saber around when you need one.

  15. Re:Update Resume - Move On on Ask Slashdot: Herding Cats, Aging Systems? · · Score: 1

    Between one to three years. Most recruiters and hiring managers would like to see at least three years in each of the last three positions on a resume.

  16. Re:Do what they are asking! on Ask Slashdot: Herding Cats, Aging Systems? · · Score: 1

    I once got a user to give up his 10-year-old Windows 98 system, cracked open the case and found a grapefruit-sized dust ball inside. O_o

  17. Re:Stupid Humans and Trash Management on Robots' Next Big Job: Trash Pickup · · Score: 1

    My apartment complex has 320 units, 600+ tenants, 20 dumpsters and four homeless scavengers on bicycles. Unless they put video cameras on all the dumpsters, it's very difficult to determine who is doing what with their trash.

  18. Re:Update Resume - Move On on Ask Slashdot: Herding Cats, Aging Systems? · · Score: 1

    As an IT support contractor for three or four contracting agencies, I've worked from one day to one year on a given assignment. If a contract goes sour, I wouldn't hesitate to look for a better opportunity. Non-contractors are more concerned about putting in the minimum amount of time at a job to keep their resumes looking good.

  19. Re:Wanted: on Ask Slashdot: Herding Cats, Aging Systems? · · Score: 1

    I had an interview last summer with a company last year that advertised a PC tech position for $25 per hour. The hiring manager was out when I came in for the interview and his assistant told me that position only paid $15 per hour. So I told him I wasn't interested. Since my name was similar to someone else in the company, the recruiter accidentally emailed me the salary spreadsheet for that location. All the PC techs were paid $10 per hour. If I came back in for a interview, they may have tried to brow beat me into taking a lower salary. It was one of those low-paying shops that always wonder why their turnover rate is so high.

  20. Into or out of the frying pan... on Ask Slashdot: Herding Cats, Aging Systems? · · Score: 1

    Although there's big money in cleaning up someone else's mess, you got to recognize a hopeless situation when you see one. Fire everyone and bring in a professional IT team to take over the operations. Or run like hell and hope that the next job isn't as bad or worse as this one.

  21. Stupid Humans and Trash Management on Robots' Next Big Job: Trash Pickup · · Score: 1

    Since majority of the people in my apartment complex are STUPID when it comes to the recycling and garbage dumpster (i.e., posted signs routinely ignored), the leasing office hired a contracting firm to have several people sort, breakdown and distribute the contents of each dumpsters in the morning hours. Recyclables go into the recyclables dumpster, garbage into the garbage dumpster, and inappropriate items (i.e., one-gallon bottle of motor oil or piss) are dealt with in an appropriate manner. Looking forward to that extra surcharge to sewer and garbage bill.

  22. I read one article based on tree rings from around the state that California is settling in for a 1,000-year drought. Whether that's true or not, there's nothing normal about today's drought. If farming in the Central Valley got relocated to other parts of the country that has an abundance of water, we would have enough water for people and fishes.

  23. Re:Simple... on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Organize Your Virtual Desktops? · · Score: 1

    It's a cultural difference between Mac (this can be done) and Windows (can this be done).

  24. Re: Please learn to think for yourself on Attackers Install Highly Persistent Malware Implants On Cisco Routers · · Score: 1

    I can't recommend a specific router. However, I typically go with the business-class routers. Although more expensive than a home-class router, they have more features and last longer. I had too many home-class routers die on me. Never a good thing if you're working from home.

  25. Re:Simple... on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Organize Your Virtual Desktops? · · Score: 1, Informative

    When I was doing help desk back in the day, I would get a ticket to rotate a monitor to portrait mode for Windows. So I go over to the person's desk, rotate the monitor and made the changes in control panel. A few days later, I would get a ticket to rotate the monitor back to landscape mode because the person didn't like it. Most Mac users rotate the monitor on their own without ever filing a help desk ticket. Go figure.