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  1. Re:Misleading title on 198 Million Americans Hit By 'Largest Ever' Voter Records Leak (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Agreed, it sound to me their wasn't even a faucet that you had to turn in order to access data, so a "leak" is a misnomer. There was just an open pipe directly into the data itself. Now I would be more curious as to WHO set this environment up and neglected to follow ANY security procedures what so ever. This was inexcusable 20 years ago, I do not think that standard has changed.

  2. Re:cyber security jobs on How Can Businesses Close 'The Cybersecurity Gap'? (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    Any type of infrastructure management is NEVER a cost center. It can easily charged back to the user(s) of the infrastructure as a cost of doing business. So if a company always looks at IT management as a cost center, then they are doing their books wrong as they can easily charge back the cost to the users of the infrastructure.

  3. Yea, kinda like training your H1B replacements, huh.

  4. I thought Hillary did that for us with the Russian Uranium sale.

  5. Re:No kidding... on Google Searches Show That America Is Full of Racist and Selfish People (vox.com) · · Score: 1

    I doubt being seen as a stark raving lunatic will do the things for you that you expect. It will most likely damage your ideology's point of view more than anything. And then you will have lost. Guess what, the voters also did not like your view of the world either or at the least did not place the importance that you have on what you expected to happen. This happens when constituents and their representatives feel the government has been going in the wrong direction. And they have for the past 20 years. Heck even after Bush Jr. 75% of the people still felt we were headed the wrong direction.

  6. Re:The thing that gets me about electing Trump... on Google Searches Show That America Is Full of Racist and Selfish People (vox.com) · · Score: 1

    Did you EVER think of it as "it is what we DIDN'T elect" is the reason he won? I think that should explain quite a bit. Take a look at your description and now apply that to the other candidate. Tell me now the choice that was made would have had a different outcome. One was a reality show and the other was reality.

  7. Re:No kidding... on Google Searches Show That America Is Full of Racist and Selfish People (vox.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Soooo, ranting, raving, screaming, and name calling is going to solve everything. Calling everybody who disagrees with you an ignorant savage it going to compel them to see your way? Really? Oh please enlighten us o' wise one for we are just too stupid to see the light. SERIOUSLY?

    Get used to it, there are people who do not believe in the same ideals as you. How you deal with it defines the person you are. And right now, you seem like another progressive that has succumbed to the Trump Derangement Syndrome.

    Prove everyone wrong by providing rational discourse and not just using every buzzword that has been used to describe him for the last year.

  8. Re:Nice leftist echo chamber you got here on Google Searches Show That America Is Full of Racist and Selfish People (vox.com) · · Score: 2

    Mike who? I'm not even sure I want to follow the links or look him up after your description of him.

  9. Wow. For someone who lives in Texas and they do not know this AND in the energy corridor? Here BTW, I have lived in Texas all my life. And please leave God out of this, he did have the decency to create you [/sarcasm] (I am agnostic).

    The whole discussion was about publishing efficiency requirements for appliance sold to the public. Pretty sure that applies to power (electricity) consumption, not power sources (oil/gas/coal) which are commodities that could create electricity. Plus all this tankers are most likely offloading oil to the refineries to be shipped out through all means of transportation, so yes, they could be bound for Dallas after refining. But I am sure we also export some petroleum products now as well after they broke the OPEC stranglehold.

    Soooooo, what were you saying about shoelaces? You are still using those antiquated fasteners? Mine use velcro.

  10. Yes, we have our own power grid. We produce all our own power. We do not need Washington to tell us how to create and distribute it.

  11. He may need his closet of firearms if he did. You never now WHAT will be encountered there.

  12. Because Texas has its own power grid and does not sell energy on the open market which would require federal regulation. So yea, from this states perspective, what does the DoE do?

  13. It does not normally do so in Texas. We only open that connection if we need to transfer power to either Mexico or onto the eastern and western power grid.

  14. Re:Huh? on The US Can't Leave The Paris Climate Deal Until 2020 (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Oh no...... Independent thought...... RUN!!!!!!!

  15. You know, /. really aught to prohibit modding and posting AC in the same article. Really? Modded down for sticking up for a female? I hope you and your other butt-buddy AC have a fun time tonight while packing each other.

  16. Currently they are in the event that the device causes the harm and the flaw was proven to cause said harm. If it is "user" error, then it is not the responsibility of the maker, but the hospital. Most medical devices I was involved with creating utilized standard security practices and if setup properly they would be a reliable secure device, but only as secure as the network in which it is placed.

  17. Re:Of course, the lengthy and expensive cert proce on US Government Task Force Urges Cash Incentives For Ditching Insecure Medical Devices (securityledger.com) · · Score: 1

    As a developer in the medical device area, the biggest obstacle of creating the devices was the FDA. So the regulations that were attached were daunting. Not only was their an audit annually with respect to every device we created, we had to have detailed design, creation, maintenance and release of each object. This produced quite a bit of paperwork. At the time, the FDA would not accept electronic documents that could have (at the time) be put on a CD for every device. Every change or enhancements also had to be tracked in this manner as well. So less regulations could probably help, but we are talking medical devices.

    We also designed into said devices security as well, so as long as they had a competent admin person the devices could be secured. As a matter of fact, it was actually quite difficult to get the admins from different hospitals to setup secure networks in the event they needed to share patient information between hospitals. I ran into a couple that would only allow a temporary connection and only open it on request for a set time period. But I could see the complaint of not having a competent system administrator is their real problem.

  18. Wow, and some people just wake up in the morning and decide, "hey, I feel like pissing off half the planet today". Go figure.

  19. Maybe we should also mandate to the aliens that encryption is not allowed on an open transmission media like the Intelligence community wants.

  20. Though you seem to be suggesting that having an email server at all was the reason for the investigation. Or maybe using it for some classified documents. Or whatever that other stuff was that people were throwing at her. This is not the case, that was uncontested. No investigation necessary.

    Having an email server is not the crime. Using it to distribute classified information is, as it is not a government secured system. There is no audit of who that information was sent to that the State Department can provide. This is the reason I called it questionable conduct. From a technical and security perspective, the events that happened were flat out WRONG! Comey did not think it was criminal intent, therefore no prosecution was initiated (probably the start of his death spiral as he was head of the investigative branch not the prosecution).

    But there now is the Winner prosecution. She was charged with removing classified information from a secure government system. The question that should have been answered is: Who provided the classified information found on the Clinton email server and should they also have been charged appropriately? But we already know the answer to the last one. We do not know the answer to the first.

  21. Okay?????? First, I disagree. It had EVERYTHING to do with Clinton's conduct otherwise Lynch would not have had to suggest that "rephrasing" to Comey. Clinton's reckless implementation of a private email server to conduct government business is the cause, which is what the FBI was "investigating". You are going to have to explain how her conduct is "two steps removed" when that is the primary cause of the request to Comey.

  22. Okay, "probe" was the media term. But Lynch's action was the same. She was trying to "depoliticize" Clinton's questionable conduct to not make it seem as bad as it was.

  23. Re:Comey admits its all fake! on Former FBI Director Admitted He Was the Source Of At Least One Leak To the Press (theoutline.com) · · Score: 1

    Agreed. This election will be memorable for a long time to come.

  24. At least the only one the fits their narrative and generates HUGE amounts of feedback.

  25. Re:Comey admits its all fake! on Former FBI Director Admitted He Was the Source Of At Least One Leak To the Press (theoutline.com) · · Score: 1

    With all his announcements into the Clinton email server investigation, he meddled in the election as much if not more than the Russians did. But to give him some credit, he did feel bad about it.