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Comment Not news (Score 1) 1

SCADA systems are old, and originally never intended to be secure as they were not internet aware.
Add to that the fact that scada controls are expensive and last nearly forever in many cases- you get a mixed bag of new and old on the same network.

Source: I used to have to deal with SCADA on gas processing plants all over the southwest up to 2008.

Comment Re:heck no (Score 1) 142

"Dry" -
That word you keep using. I do not think it means what you think it does. -Inigo Montoya
I lived in Orange County as well as Oceanside. Dry is not the term I would use. When the air is so humid you have to chew it, that is wet. My position is relative, I grew up in a desert and lived at high altitudes the rest of the time except for that foray into SoCal.

Comment Re:The bad thing about used equipment (Score 1) 79

I tend to packrat hardware. It pays off in the long run. When I want something, I build it. When the clutter starts to grow I will throw parts on EBAY and see what flies. Usually I can get about $10 per part for most, some I get nothing.
I just sold late 90's HP RAID controllers for the NetServer SCO servers, new in the original box. I got $900 each for them. Somebody has an old server running a critical legacy application, when they see working spare parts for it, they snatch them up. Apparently there were more than one for this piece as the bidding was furious on both auctions.

Submission + - "Piracy is stealing! Piracy is killing the ___ industry!" (bob-way.com)

hessian writes: I asked him how one went about trading software. He looked at me like total noob but he smiled anyway. “See those lists.” he said pointing to 8 foot tall listings of fan-folded paper hanging ceiling to floor behind most of the computers. “Just look down the list, find the disk number, go to the box and take the disk. Then copy it and put it back.”

Comment Re:Answer is totally obvious - content providers (Score 3, Informative) 490

On Amazon, it might come up when I search, but that doesn't mean it will be free, and if it isn't free, I probably won't watch it at all.

This is very annoying ting about Prime. I do not use the streaming function because it is frustrating in this way. The shipping savings are worth it, even with the cost raise just announced. If, that is, you do a lot of Amazon buying, which I do.

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