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Comment Re:Videos will be disabled (Score 1) 379

by jetkins on Wednesday December 31, 2008 @05:35PM (#26285241) Attached to: Time Warner Recommends Internet For Some Shows

Viacom has already shown repeatedly that they don''t give a flying fig about network neutrality anyway. Blocking access to their sites to TW/RR addresses would simply be another example of their cavalier "we're Viacom, and we'll do whatever the hell we like" attitude.

How Do You Deal With Sensitive Data? 226

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday July 28, 2008 @06:32PM from the just-turn-off-db-access-for-everyone dept.

imus writes "Just wondering how most IT shops secure sensitive data (customer records). Most centrally managed databases seem to be monitored and maintained very well and IT workers know when they are tampered with or when unauthorized access occurs. But what about employees who do legitimate selects from these databases and then load CSV files and other text files onto their laptops and PDAs? How are companies dealing with situations where the database is relatively secure, but end-use devices contain bits and pieces of sensitive business data, and sometimes whole segments? Does anyone use sensitive data discovery software such as Find_SSNs or Senf or other tools? Once found, how do you deal with it? Do you force encryption, delete it or prevent extracts?"

How To Deal With Internet Bullies? 724

Posted by timothy on Thursday July 24, 2008 @08:46PM from the warning-link-contains-classic-deep-trolling dept.

creyes123 writes "I run a free website with an online model airplane design calculator. The number of registered users has quickly climbed and I've gotten many compliments. Out of nowhere, a fellow shows up and proceeds to bad mouth the calculator in a posting in one of my forums. After I politely point out that he's mistaken and should have looked at the documentation before posting, he changes the subject and bad mouths a different 'flaw.' The cycle repeats a few more times, with no apparent end in sight. I want to encourage folks to share their opinions, but constructive criticism was clearly not his goal. I feel that the whole episode was just a massive time waster for me. What did I do to deserve this? Could I have handled this better?"

HD Radio Recording In the US? 303

Posted by timothy on Wednesday July 16, 2008 @04:18PM from the line-out-and-a-zoom-recorder dept.

unreceivedpacket writes "The public radio stations I listen to have been advertising their conversion to HD Radio format for some time. They advertise multiple channels, their second channel playing all classical, all the time. I am interested in purchasing a receiver so I can listen to this extra content, and was also hoping to find a receiver with a built-in recorder so I could time-shift programs that are not otherwise available as legal pod-casts. My initial queries have returned few models that support any kind of digital recording, and the existing ones seem out of production or sorely lacking features. Is this the state of Digital Radio in the US? Are there any legal recording devices for HD Radio? Any good solutions for recording and time-shifting, perhaps through Linux?"

Comment Re:Download DAY, Justin (Score 2, Insightful) 1080

by jetkins on Tuesday June 17, 2008 @12:25PM (#23824719) Attached to: Firefox Download Day To Start At 1 p.m. EST

Many folks are moaning because Mozilla made absolutely no mention of the start time until now. Enthusiastic supporters the world over have organized "download parties" on the evening of 6/16, ready to download FF3.0 en masse on the stroke of midnight in their local time zone. Silly, yes, because those organizers should have had enough nouse to realize that there was no way that it could be progressively made available around the world as there's no way to know what timezone any given requester is in, but there you go - that was the expectation.

Mozilla really dropped the ball on this. If they had detailed up front exactly when their "Day" was planned to start, then all this angst could have been avoided. Ideally they should have had a countdown timer on their site so that everyone was on the same page. Announcing the rules after the game has already kicked off was just plain stupid.

Submission + - Intel in the GHz game again: Skulltrail hits 5 GHz

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 31, 2007 @12:09PM

An anonymous reader writes: Intel's Skulltrail dual-socket enthusiast platform has been making the rounds on the web for half a year or so, but we haven't seen many details yet. TG Daily got a close look at an almost complete prototype, which surely sounds almost like a production ready version, judging from the article. Everything that TG Daily describes sounds like Skulltrail PCs will be very limited in availability and insanely expensive: A taste: Intel said it has developed "special" Xeon processors with desktop processor attributes just for Skulltrail. These chips are currently running at a stable 5 GHz. Time to start playing the lottery.

Submission + - Apple to allow virtual Mac OS X Server instances (tidbits.com)

Submitted by

Glenn Fleishman

on Wednesday October 31, 2007 @12:09PM

Glenn Fleishman writes: "Apple changed its license for Mac OS X Server 10.5 (Leopard Server) to allow virtualized instances. VMware and Parallels are poised to offer support. This probably presages a thoroughly overhauled Xserve product with greater capability for acting as a virtual machine server, too."

Submission + - Seagate 'misled on storage capacity'

Submitted by jetkins on Wednesday October 31, 2007 @11:04AM

jetkins writes: The Melbourne Age reports that Seagate has capitulated in the kilo/kibi wars and agreed to settle a class action suit which charged that their drives do not actually provide the advertised capacity.

"Seagate believes that its advertising and other business practices were, and are proper in all respects. However, because of the expense and burden of litigation, Seagate believes that resolving the matter through settlement is in the best interests of Seagate and its customers."

Under the terms of the settlement, Seagate will label its products with disclosures regarding the storage capacity of its hard drives, and will pay court costs of $US1.75 million ($A1.91 million).

Submission + - DynDNS drops NDR's from their MailHop service

Submitted by jetkins on Friday August 24, 2007 @02:58PM

jetkins writes: In an email to subscribers, DynDNS announced that they "will no longer deliver locally-generated NDRs from any MailHop systems." Mailhop is a multi-faceted service offering in- and outbound relay services, spam and virus filtering, and store-and-forward buffering.

DynDNS makes it clear that they are aware that this goes against RFC 2821 Section 3.7, but explains that in their opinion the increase in spam volume, and the use of NDR's as a spam vector in their own right, means that the value of NDR's is now far outweighed by their potential for harm.

Is DynDNS merely the first one to blink? Will this start a flood (mutiny) of ISP's following suit? Should they have made efforts to have the standard changed instead of just saying "fsck the police"?

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