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  1. Re:BYOD means I/T loses some control over it on Why Everyone Gets It Wrong About BYOD · · Score: 2

    I meant the "security" a NAC gives is defeated as soon as a device authenticates itself. Whether it's your company's laptop or a home device, as soon as the user authenticates the device it has free reign over the network and any malware on the computer gains access as well while you think the network is "secure". Typical malware is installed on devices that are still used by actual users.

  2. Re:BYOD means I/T loses some control over it on Why Everyone Gets It Wrong About BYOD · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Maybe you should improve your licensing options or choose better products with less licensing. Throwing out high quality people because a 3rd party company bullies you is not really great business practice.

  3. Re:BYOD means I/T loses some control over it on Why Everyone Gets It Wrong About BYOD · · Score: 1

    Both devices have plenty of support for HTTP proxies. Even then, Squid has a transparent proxy option. Or you could filter at the DNS level... options, options.

  4. Re:BYOD means I/T loses some control over it on Why Everyone Gets It Wrong About BYOD · · Score: 1

    So you have implemented NAC, you therefore have already sunk an insane amount of money and resources into getting this to work. And now you're protected until a home device with malware has authenticated itself...

  5. Re:Since they broke one and found stuff... on Judge Orders Child Porn Suspect To Decrypt His Hard Drives · · Score: 2

    Most likely it is a bullshit move by the prosecution to circumvent the judge's initial decision.

    Look your honor we have cracked the encryption on hard drive one (assemble some PDF's from his bank statements which they might have gotten through a search warrant they don't have to disclose and some random child pornography they have laying around from another case), now his rights don't apply anymore.

  6. Re:BYOD means I/T loses some control over it on Why Everyone Gets It Wrong About BYOD · · Score: 4, Insightful

    You shouldn't trust your own network to begin with. How do you make sure no-one plugs in whatever they want? BYOD is not just about cell phones or property. It's about people taking work laptops home and home phones to work.

    If you want to make sure everything is and remains standardized, you're going to need to implement NAC and have everything on your network be a dumb terminal.

    BYOD is not just about someone saving money. It's about people expecting to have their devices work and IT in organizations being too slow or not having enough funding to give everybody their device of choice.

  7. Re: Congratulations! on Tesla Motors Repays $465M Government Loan 9 Years Early · · Score: 1

    You pay according to the risk, not the actual value. Toyota, Hyundai... all low-end cars are notorious for their high insurance costs because the demographics of the car owners. They are much more likely to get stolen, broken into, get into an accident, much more likely to have a young person or someone irresponsible driving them. You don't drive an Infiniti if you're a poor, irresponsible kid in the inner city you drive an Infiniti if you're in your mid-to-late 30's, have a well-paying stable job, family, house in the suburbs etc.

  8. Re: Cross country? on Transporting a 15-Meter-Wide, 600-Ton Magnet Cross Country · · Score: 1

    I live near the Erie Canal. You can't get something that big through it. It barely fits a passenger your boat at some points. I know at least a couple of locations in a 50 mile stretch where it would get stuck in the area.

  9. Re:Citations? They need to be sued heavily on Florida DOT Cuts Yellow Light Delay Ignoring Federal Guidelines, Citations Soar · · Score: 3, Insightful

    People (proper) have made the case but were simply rejected. The People (the people the government works for) have a far bigger influence on this than the governed.

  10. Re:iTunes on iTunes: Still Slowing Down Windows PCs After All These Years · · Score: 1

    Only that the Windows HAL does not do so for non-HID like phones and that the HAL cannot (as said above) send those events to user space where iTunes (should) live. You can off course run the daemon as SYSTEM which would fix it but would leave iTunes as being a huge exploit.

    The only way I have figured to check for USB devices in user space is to read in the entire device table then use a filter mechanism to select for my vendor id and device id. If that fails, loop the same query again and this does indeed eat a lot of CPU cycles. Luckily I only have to do it when the computer boots.

  11. Re:Vacuum Cleaners on Interviews: Freeman Dyson Answers Your Questions · · Score: 1

    Learn to Google it! James Dyson is the 'inventor' of the cyclone vacuum cleaner. Nothing to do with Freeman Dyson.

  12. Re:Bacon ftw. on Engineering the $325,000 Burger · · Score: 1

    Or whatever bacteria/virus decides to develop itself in those vats of meat...

  13. Re: I hope on Engineering the $325,000 Burger · · Score: 1

    Meat is a relatively expensive source of proteins and other nutrients however eating (cooked) meat does provide a very rich source of those nutrients that require less energy to metabolize which has allowed us to evolve our brain structures to become more intelligent.

    We do eat comparatively more meat since the industrial revolution than the cultures before us to the point that we may be eating too much meat, that's true and the poor in some countries still don't have easy access to meat as we do here in the west. However to go entirely vegetarian/vegan as a species would probably not be evolutionary the best way of survival unless everyone has sufficient control over their entire living environment and enough alternative food sources.

    A mistake a lot of vegans/vegetarians make is to not replace their protein sources sufficiently (soy, beans ...) which makes them susceptible to having low energy and the associated problems with that (being tired, less mental acuity, less creative, lower resistance...).

  14. Re:idiots already have been arrested on ATMs Compromised, $45M Taken · · Score: 1

    Criminals are pretty dumb. The smart criminals would first launder the cash in small non-suspicious amount (can you break a hundred?), then spend it.

    Even then, there are lots of other things that can be tracked down - you don't have a job yet you afford a really nice car, you have little to no living expenses out of your bank account, you pay cash for stuff that most people have to loan for...

    Buying rolexes and fancy cars is just plain dumb. Spend the money in small amounts at inconspicuous places, by the time the money recirculates back to the bank it's been so far diluted it's almost impossible to track.

  15. Just pandering on Reps Introduce Bipartisan Bill To Legalize Mobile Device Unlocking · · Score: 1

    If consumers are not violating copyright or some other law, - emphasis mine

    There are already plenty of laws that make such stuff illegal (contract law, copyright law, patent law, DMCA, ...) , this would just be pandering to the voters and not actually establish anything.

  16. Re:Not Voltage's problem: buyer error. on Ask Slashdot: What Is the Best Email Encryption Gateway For a Small Business? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Voltage is a slimeball company though. They typically sell to really big institutions for many times the original quoted costs once you figure in all the 'appliances', upgrades, support contracts, implementation engineers and contractors and then their product usually doesn't deliver. They're the PWC, PeopleSoft or Gartner of e-mail.

  17. How about SSL? on Ask Slashdot: What Is the Best Email Encryption Gateway For a Small Business? · · Score: 1

    Most SMTP servers can communicate over SSL or TLS with each other these days and if you set it up correctly (eg. Postfix), it will do so and fallback on non-encrypted methods.

    For message encryption, you're better off giving each person a personal SSL certificate (setting up a PKI should've been done for other purposes already) and all of the clients I know off support SSL encryption.

  18. Re: What a relief. on Ask Slashdot: Why Won't Companies Upgrade Old Software? · · Score: 1

    During IE6, we DID have WebKit and Mozilla, Mozilla/Netscape being the largest portion of non-IE browsers, even at it's peak it had ~80% market share but by then there were already a lot of GOOD competitors.

    And I did real enterprise development in that time, there were some workarounds for IE6 but those can (and should) be loaded in conditionally because you don't know whether the next service pack for IE was going to fix it and while developing it, you shouldn't presume that those problems exist - you code against HTML & CSS, the first thing you do is launch the validator to make sure you don't have bugs, then you test against a couple of browsers and fix browser-specific stuff if necessary using conditional statements.

  19. Re: What a relief. on Ask Slashdot: Why Won't Companies Upgrade Old Software? · · Score: 2

    So what you're saying is that you have tons of bugs in your CSS and JS and can't be bothered to fix it? JS and CSS were standardized by the time IE5 came out, if it doesn't work on other browsers it is a bug and should be fixed.

  20. Re:A $15 dollar SD car gives me more. on Why Your New Car's Technology Is Four Years Old · · Score: 1

    A timing belt change will take approx. 1-2 hours with the right tools on a small engine, DOHC engines can take 4-6 hours. I have done it on older VW's in 30 mins. What a lot of shops do is tack on a water pump change as well and add 1 or 2 hours + parts.

    Depending on where you are and what type of car you have you can thus get it done for $150 or $1500. Dealerships around here charge $120 (GM) - 200 (Mercedes)/hour, shops generally charge between $80 and $120 or you can get some not-so-savory places that probably aren't insured or anything for $50 or $60/hour (although I wouldn't trust those with a timing belt).

  21. Re:Not to mention... on Why Your New Car's Technology Is Four Years Old · · Score: 1

    Really? I had a 1MB SSD in my 80286 (yes, it did cost a pretty penny). SSD's have been available for a very, very long time in the industry very specifically for the automotive and aircraft industry. Only recently (last 10 years) have SSD's come in the price range for workstations and last 4-5 years for general desktop computers but even 4-5 years ago SSD's were very affordable ~$2-3/GB (Intel with the X25 series)

  22. It's not just IT on Ex-Employee Busted For Tampering With ERP System · · Score: 1

    There are plenty of operations in the business world where people can fuck over the company they're working for. Sales people sometimes take customers from place to place, mechanics may do stuff that only "they can repair", HR folks and bookkeepers could make or document minor discrepancies and either use blackmail to keep a job or report everything to a state inspection agency.

    It's the same problem if you don't deactivate access cards or change keys - you can still come on the property without raising attention and throw a wrench somewhere. However most people still have the idea that computers are "magic" and either does everything automatically or doesn't have an impact on their business. They basically treat IT people as the guy that unclogs the toilet and cleans the offices, once they're not around or they intentionally do something wrong, then it gets noticed but otherwise they're "replaceable" and an expense that doesn't generate any ROI.

    It only gets to the news because many people (journalists, bloggers etc) treat their own computers as "magic" and thus everything that happens remotely related to a computer is the witches fault so burn the witch!

  23. Re:One area the UK got right on Variably Sunny: SCOTUS Allows Local FOIA Restrictions · · Score: -1, Troll

    Probably close to none. How many people died in your horrible right-fundamentalist capitalist health care system THIS HOUR filling out forms or being denied care for lack of insurance in the emergency room?

  24. That's great on UK Passes "Instagram Act" · · Score: 3, Interesting

    One can now post images of music, movies, software etc and have it be instant public-domain!

    No more copyright in UK which means ThePirateBay could legally operate there (if they jump through the hoops correctly)

  25. Re:So by that logic... on DMCA Safe Harbor May Not Apply To Old Copyrighted Works · · Score: 1

    Piracy (the hijacking of boats on the high seas) was never legal. You can't define a word which means "doing an illegal act" and have it be legal or legalized.

    Copyright infringement is not piracy (what in most countries still is a civil matter is not a criminal matter). Piracy in it's most liberal definition is the replication of items to look like the original but it's not the original which is also a civil matter (the states should not be in the business of protecting specific corporations) and not criminal (because society as a whole is not necessarily harmed by it)