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  1. Re:This is how on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Find Jobs That Offer Working From Home? · · Score: 1

    Amen Brother. Expecting to get a telecommuting job right out of school is pretty naive. When your an unknown quantity in an entry-level role they are going to want you close and under supervision. The best way to get the job you want is to spend some time doing shit jobs and getting experience.

  2. Re:trick them into it ... on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Find Jobs That Offer Working From Home? · · Score: 1

    Either your not as good as you believe you are or you are missing something when it comes to marketing and negotiations. If you want to change things you need to identify what your missing and work on it. Find a mentor who can help. There are many people with mediocre (or worse) skills that are making good money because they are good at the marketing/networking/negotiating. If you are as good as you think, and it's likely you are, then working on the soft skills will have great results.

  3. Re:At My Company on Ask Slashdot: Dealing With Passwords Transmitted As Cleartext? · · Score: 1

    Get your passwords out of the DB and into and decent LDAP directory. It's really not that complicated and it will scale a lot better. As you can tell from my user ID...it's what I do.

  4. Re:Concern not warranted on Ask Slashdot: Dealing With Passwords Transmitted As Cleartext? · · Score: 1

    Really secure systems use HSMs (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardware_security_module )

    This means you can't steal the key from a live system.

  5. Re:Don't encrypt! on Ask Slashdot: Dealing With Passwords Transmitted As Cleartext? · · Score: 2

    There are actually valid reasons for using two-way encryption in some scenarios. It's not ideal but it can be quite secure if managed properly. For example, most privileged user management systems and password escrow systems need to use reversible encryption. There are also reasons to do so in certain credential synchronization/SSO scenarios. Yes, just dumping encrypted passwords in a database is a bad idea. However, done right you can have two-way encryption and maintain security.

  6. Re:Drone It on Test Pilot: the F-35 Can't Dogfight · · Score: 2

    You are correct. There are other assets that will have negated the AA before the A-10 hits the area.

  7. Re:Drone It on Test Pilot: the F-35 Can't Dogfight · · Score: 1

    If it's so easy why don't you just run right over there and arrest them? Yea..your talking out your ass.

  8. Re: Horray for Taylor Swift. on Taylor Swift: Apple's Disdain For Royalties Is 'Shocking, Disappointing' · · Score: 1, Informative

    She doesn't have "record label handlers". She owns her own label.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  9. Re:What is Windows doing differently? on TRIM and Linux: Tread Cautiously, and Keep Backups Handy · · Score: 1

    These guys are running a very out of the ordinary usage profile and they have also managed to identify the root cause. It's possible it happens rarely with more normal usage and that none has bothered to find the root cause.

  10. Apple TRIM Whitelist? on TRIM and Linux: Tread Cautiously, and Keep Backups Handy · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I wonder if this issue has anything to do with why Apple only supports TRIM on specific drives they OEM?

  11. My System on Ask Slashdot: What Hardware Is In Your Primary Computer? · · Score: 1

    MacBook Pro, 2.7GHz quad core i7, 16GB ram, 750GB SSD, 2 external Thunderbolt monitors
    iMac, 3.4GHz quad core i7, 32GB ram, 1TB internal storage, 12TB Thunderbolt RAID
    Dell T420, ESXi 6, dual 6 core Xeons, 128GB ram, 6TB RAID
    Dell T110, ESXi 6, quad core Xeon, 32GB ram, 2TB RAID
    Custom FreeNAS server, quad core Xeon, 32GB ram, 16TB of ZFS goodness

    Anywhere from 30 to 70 VMs depending on the projects I'm currently working on. I've got a few old boxes set up as an OpenStack lab.

  12. Re:This figure must include high end consultants on The Best-Paying IT Security Jobs of 2015 · · Score: 1

    None of those companies are paying recent grads 200K. Even their more senior folks (non-partners) will not be making the big money. The guys with the experience and the credentials will be making 200K+ but they will be with small boutique consulting firms.

    Very Very few folks who are not consultants will be making that kind of money. Companies will bring in the expertise when they need it but won't pay an employee that well.

    I know this because I've been doing IAM/Security consulting for over 20 years. I know what I have to pay for talented resources.

  13. Re:I work in Seattle on A Visual Walk Through Amazon's Impact On One Seattle Neighborhood · · Score: 1

    You as an individual may directly consume less but the cost to support the infrastructure and logistics of major urban centers is very high. As an example, think of the costs involved in building and maintaining the sewer and storm drain network.

  14. Re:Yes, but.. on Mozilla Begins To Move Towards HTTPS-Only Web · · Score: 3, Interesting

    If you have the private key, packet sniffing works fine.

  15. Re:Should not used apple for some thing like this on Crashing iPad App Grounds Dozens of American Airline Flights · · Score: 1

    Your being a complete moron..
    These iPads are managed completely by AA. They do NOT connect to the app store. The OS, the apps, and the data come from AA servers. Any forced updates or DRM are managed by AA.

  16. Re:I don't get it on JavaScript Devs: Is It Still Worth Learning jQuery? · · Score: 1

    Yes...

  17. Re: What could have been on Woman Behind Pakistan's First Hackathon, Sabeen Mahmud, Shot Dead · · Score: 1

    First, he never said he hated anyone much less all of them. Second, how is it irrational to dislike, even hate, someone who continues to advocate the slaughter or subjugation of you and your society?

  18. Re:Progressive Fix 101 on Cheap Gas Fuels Switch From Electric Cars To SUVs · · Score: 1

    The statistics are for "overall: driver deaths per million registered vehicle years" so the relative popularity of the vehicles is accounted for in the numbers.

  19. Re:Why do people like these things? on Cheap Gas Fuels Switch From Electric Cars To SUVs · · Score: 1

    You can have an SUV that handles great if thats what you want. I'd bet my GL550 can beat your normal car around most any course.

  20. Re:I'm driving a rented Nissan Pathfinder while my on Cheap Gas Fuels Switch From Electric Cars To SUVs · · Score: 1

    "Fast"? I'll wager my full size SUV, a Mercedes GL550, is faster than most anything other than an all-out sports car. So I can do 0-60 in 6 seconds and I have outstanding four wheel drive if I need it.

  21. Re:Progressive Fix 101 on Cheap Gas Fuels Switch From Electric Cars To SUVs · · Score: 1

    So my Mercedes GL550 is not an SUV? It is every bit as large as the Tahoe/Suburban/Expedition and can tow 7500 pounds. It shares no platform components with any car. The high end has gone unibody. Even Cadillac is looking to move that way with their new models.

  22. Re:Progressive Fix 101 on Cheap Gas Fuels Switch From Electric Cars To SUVs · · Score: 1

    Bzzt! Wrong. Many of the vehicles that anyone looking at them would classify as full size SUVs use unibody construction, especially at the higher end. Mercedes, Lexus, Infinity, Audi, etc are all unibody. Even Cadillac is looking to move their full size SUV to unibody. All of these seat 7+ and tow 7000+ pounds.

    As for safety, there are only nine vehicles that have 0 driver fatalities in accidents from 2009 to 2012. Six of them are SUVs! None of them are hybrids or economy models.
    http://www.ibtimes.com/safest-...

  23. Re: MH370, for instance? on GAO Warns FAA of Hacking Threat To Airliners · · Score: 1

    The U2 shot down over the Soviet Union had "chipped" communications gear? Now your in fantasy land. The U2 at that time barely had a radio! What it did have contained 0 chips.

  24. Re: Not even if it's free. on Second Technical Preview of Windows Server 2016 Arriving This Spring · · Score: 1

    If you need LDAP to scale then look to eDirectory or even RHDS.

  25. Re:Good Luck on Amazon Requires Non-Compete Agreements.. For Warehouse Workers · · Score: 2

    They can call all they want but most companies do not provide references beyond , "yes, he worked here from a to b". Many do not provide any information at all as there is no upside for them doing so and plenty of possible downside.