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Comment Re:Foxit Reader? (Score 3, Informative) 238

dang...I was about to say the same...

but yea...best way to sanitize is by not using Adobe Acrobat (or Acrobat Reader).

on OSX and many Linux distros have their own builtin viewer ("Preview" in OSX, and "Display" at least on Ubuntu).

Also, you can probably use Google Apps to do the same as well.

Comment Re:Buying a blog...? (Score 1) 62

Because it does roughly $14K a month right now without much "pimping out to advertisers" (http://hackaday.com/2013/07/01/hackaday-looking-for-a-good-home/)

It is interesting that I mentioned the crowdfunding aspect a few weeks ago when the owner posted that he was looking to sell: http://hackaday.com/2013/07/01/hackaday-looking-for-a-good-home/#comment-1021672

*sigh*....it's before pay-day so I'll have to wait.

Comment Re:Review? What's that? (Score 1) 61

sadly, I agree.

The original post about it referred to a page regarding Java6 (which I understand if Oracle wants to EoL it to force most to go with Java7).

Also, from the looks, that original link in that post no longer refers to TZUpdater for Java6 being discontinued but rather says that it is for Java7:
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/tzupdater-download-513681.html
Oh English...better to say what it is for than to say what it is not for, especially after it gets slashdotted.

Comment perversion of justice (Score 4, Insightful) 297

I must say...it is a perversion of justice, puns not intended.

I may need to write to one of my local reps, Zoe Lofgren who's working to change the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act to make it "less vague" and have her add some other reforms.
Sure, "hacking" for vigilantism is wrong and two wrongs don't make it right, but neither does three: throwing the book at Deric Lostutter.

heck, that guy in texas who killed that escort got less

Comment strange....just $1 million? (Score 3, Informative) 78

So...from the article:

Before Interxion started the project, its energy bills were about $2.6 million a year to cool 1 megawatt of IT load. Today, its energy bill is $5.4 million to cool 5.5 megawatts of IT load, meaning the system has saved it about $1 million a year.

So "today" per 1MW of IT load, it would cost $5.4million / 5.5MW or $981818.18 ( 54/55 million $ per MW or 0.981818182 x million $ per MW)
$2.6 million - $0.98 million > $1 million

Now, if he wanted to cool 5.5MW of IT load, it would cost him $14.3 million with the old method vs $5.4 million with the seawater method.
Even if you account for the cost of the third-party...$14.3 million vs $5.4 million is a big difference.

Comment does no one ever read the article anymore? (Score 4, Interesting) 248

does no one ever read the article anymore?
It was on a test server.....using credentials given by the vendor, Skytech Communications.

...the software vulnerability scan that got him expelled from school was conducted on a test server only, and using credentials provided to him by the company that makes Omnivox: Skytech Communications.

The mere fact that Skytech supposedly gave him a job offer is enough to think that the department has their collective heads up....well..you get the point.

There's a reason why the legendary Weld Pond would be so vocal and would even say "These kind of people right out of college are the kinds of people we want to hire."

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