Comment Re:Is the internet in Canada 100% satellite? (Score 1) 282
Too expensive to run/maintain cables to every city/town/village in the north. If you look at this map you can see the coverage you get for the cost of one satellite.
Comment Re:Call them whatever you want (Score 1) 92
Sounds like DHS has hired Dilbert's Pointy Haired Boss.
Comment Re:i don't see a problem (Score 1) 350
This happens all the time. A fast food company like Subway, McDonalds, KFC, etc. will loan farmers money to expand their operations to produce more food for them exclusively.
Submission + - GoDaddy for Sale (foxnews.com) 1
An anonymous reader writes: After the owner said he would never sell it looks like 2 Billion Dollars or 2.5 Billion dollars makes anyone want to get out of the business.
Submission + - Near-earth asteroid, Monday June 27 (skyandtelescope.com)
TigerNut writes: Asteroid 2011 MD was discovered on June 22 by LINEAR, and its flight path will take it within 8000 miles (12000 km) of Earth. Orbital predictions indicate that its flight path will be significantly altered by this close approach.
Submission + - FTC To Open Antitrust Investigation Against Google (itworld.com)
itwbennett writes: "According to a report in the Wall Street Journal, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is preparing to serve subpoenas to Google as a first step in a broad antitrust investigation focusing on whether Google search is unfairly driving traffic to its other sites. Representatives of Google and the FTC declined to comment on the report, although an FTC spokesperson did deny that the report came from them."
Submission + - Almost 50% of US smartphones Android (canalys.com) 1
Gumbercules!! writes: Android's phenomenal rise continues, with 49% of the US market and 35% of the World phone market (200% year on year growth — meaning they're now well ahead of iPhone and growing much faster, as well). How long before developers start to put more emphases on Android than iOS?
Submission + - New Find Boosts Prospects for Life on Enceladus (sciencemag.org)
sciencehabit writes: Spouting plumes of ice and water vapor certainly make Enceladus one of the solar system's liveliest places. But continuing studies of the composition of those plumes are now making Saturn's icy moon the most promising place to look for extraterrestrial life. New data from the Cassini spacecraft reveals strong evidence for liquid water beneath the deeply frigid surface—an ocean, a sea, or at least water-filled cracks.
Submission + - Fired IT worker replaces CEO's PPT with porn (sophos.com) 1
An anonymous reader writes: 52-year-old Walter Powell wanted revenge when he was fired from his position as an IT manager at Baltimore Substance Abuse System Inc.
So, he hacked into their systems — installing keyloggers to steal passwords.
And then, when his CEO was giving a presentation on a 64 inch TV to the board of directors... he replaced the slides with pornographic images of naked women.
Powell has now been given a 2 year suspended sentence, and 100 hours community service.
The moral? Don't piss off your IT staff
So, he hacked into their systems — installing keyloggers to steal passwords.
And then, when his CEO was giving a presentation on a 64 inch TV to the board of directors... he replaced the slides with pornographic images of naked women.
Powell has now been given a 2 year suspended sentence, and 100 hours community service.
The moral? Don't piss off your IT staff
Comment Re:God, I can sympathize (Score 2) 538
To me it sounds like you don't have authority in the company to push these changes. I'm an IT manager and when these kinds of requests come in they have to be approved by a CXO, VP, or some other senior executive, that is the decision maker for that area of the company. Otherwise how do I know that this new program or this new website is in line with the company's goals and direction? You should take your case higher up and get the right people to support your project/request. Also, sometimes the person requesting something is trying to solve a problem but they're requesting the wrong tool for the job or they're overlooking an existing tool. Here are a few examples:
I got a request a couple weeks ago from a VP to change our AV gateway servers from Trend Micro to Norton. And I said no. Reason #1 - IT decides what AV to use, that's why you pay them to make these kinds of decisions. Reason #2 - changing the AV software on all of our gateways would cost money for licenses and time deployment so we can't just change it willy nilly.
I got a request from a manager for Blackberrys for all of his staff. I said no because corporate policy doesn't allow that. The people who run the company decided that it's a waste of money to give each employee a Blackberry. It's not even my decision.
I got a request from a manager wanting Photoshop for all of her staff. I said no because our business has absolutely nothing to do with creating graphics or touching up pictures. I asked her what problem she's trying to solve and she said they need to resize pictures sometimes. All of our computers have Paint.NET installed so I just sent someone for their local helpdesk to round them up in a boardroom and give a quick demo of using Paint.NET to accomplish what they needed. Everybody wins.
I got a request a couple weeks ago from a VP to change our AV gateway servers from Trend Micro to Norton. And I said no. Reason #1 - IT decides what AV to use, that's why you pay them to make these kinds of decisions. Reason #2 - changing the AV software on all of our gateways would cost money for licenses and time deployment so we can't just change it willy nilly.
I got a request from a manager for Blackberrys for all of his staff. I said no because corporate policy doesn't allow that. The people who run the company decided that it's a waste of money to give each employee a Blackberry. It's not even my decision.
I got a request from a manager wanting Photoshop for all of her staff. I said no because our business has absolutely nothing to do with creating graphics or touching up pictures. I asked her what problem she's trying to solve and she said they need to resize pictures sometimes. All of our computers have Paint.NET installed so I just sent someone for their local helpdesk to round them up in a boardroom and give a quick demo of using Paint.NET to accomplish what they needed. Everybody wins.
Submission + - "Me On The Web": Google's Ploy To Fight Facebook (itworld.com)
jfruhlinger writes: "Google understands people's worries about privacy online, which is why they're offering a new service called "Me on the Web," which will help you manage what people find when they search for you on Google. Or that's the pitch, anyway; in fact, says blogger Dan Tynan, the service is mostly a rebranded collection of old services and FAQs that aren't terribly effective. The real agenda seems to be to get you to sign up for a Google Profile, which is the search giant's attempt to out-social Facebook."
Comment Re:Something fishy here... (Score 1) 140
Meet Daniil Kulchenko. He was an HTML programmer at age six. He was a freelance Linux systems administrator at 11. And at 15, he founded his first business: Phenona, a platform-as-a-service for building and hosting Perl applications.
There's a pic of him in there.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/06/14/activestate_buys_teen_programmer/
Submission + - Cdn IP Lobbyists Caught Faking Counterfeit Data (michaelgeist.ca)
An anonymous reader writes: The Canadian IP Council, the Canadian Chamber of Commerce's IP
lobby arm, has been caught
floating false claims about the scope of counterfeiting in
Canada. Recent claims include citing a figure based on numbers
the FBI rejects ($22.5 billion), a figure the Canadian police won't
support ($30 billion), and when pressed on
the issue, it now points to yet another source that upon review
indicates it fabricated its claims.
Submission + - Chinese Moon Probe Ventures into Deep Space (xinhuanet.com)
hackingbear writes: After completing its 6 month moon survey mission, China's second moon orbiter Chang'e-2 is found to be in excellent condition and has abundant fuel left, and so it is set off from its moon orbit into deep space, heading toward Lagrangian point L2 about 1.5 million kilometers away from the earth, or about 4 times farther out than the moon. The orbiter left its moon orbit at 5:10 p.m., according to the State Administration of Science,Technology and Industry for National Defence (SASTIND). The probe is expected to perform exploration at L2. It is the first Chinese space craft venture beyond the moon and establish the country's capability in deep space exploration.
Comment Re:Funny/interesting addresses (Score 1) 243
lol b00b:1e5
