.... with far too much time on their hands and far too little psychological stability to completely ruin a forum for thousands. I think many, if not most of us, have seen that happen - one bad apple and all that. Add in the social media awareness of P.R. firms (or special interest groups) who will hire paid commenters to astro-turf a particular point of view and you have a recipe for mass incommunication.

I welcome restrictions on who can comment and what someone can say such that we raise the signal to noise ratio and tone down the inanity, the crazy and the spam. I think we have left the era of unrestricted speech in much the same way that we once left the era of unrestricted radio communications. Just as we once started licensing in order to make use of the airwaves for everyone, we now have to monitor and moderate in such as way so as outlandish ideas ideas will not be restricted but outlandish people will be.

I came up with a very simple fix for this when I got my Galaxy S3. It drove me nuts that the connector on the cable was not reversible, but the molded end around it was completely symmetrical, there was no way to "feel" which way was up in the dark. So, I took a utility knife and shaved off about a millimeter of the molding from one side, which makes a small flat spot. Now, in the dark, I grab my cable, pull until I reach the end, then if my thumb is on the flat side, I plug it in, otherwise, flip it over first.

I quickly did this to all of my other cables, like my car charger, my wife's charger, etc. Very simple, dirt cheap, and effective.

Depends on how many connections you need, but hiding flat cable under the carpet can be a viable option.

http://www.vpi.us/cable-sf-cat6.html

Then again, the poster doesn't specify whether this office has carpet.

The above is the best, most easily implemented and workable solution of any of the responses that I have seen so far. I've done the above myself and it works extremely well. It generally takes only a few hours to port over and it all can be done online. I highly recommend that you implement this as the solution.

I have to agree with the above. Put your communications skills to work and go to the manager who told you this and politely ask for some concrete things you can do to improve as well as some past examples of where he believes you went wrong. Slashdot isn't going to (can't) help you with those things.

If in the hopefully unlikely chance your manager is not able to provide concrete examples of mistakes and ways to improve then you are being screwed over and that last "criticism" was actually a heads up for you that your next performance review and eventually your job is in jeopardy (been there and got the pink slip) . In such a case start networking around the company and see if you land a position with a different manager asap.

I agree.
The problem is NOT that someone is DDOSing you.
The problem is that you have "diagnosed" an occasionally slow internet connection as a DDOS attack without any expertise in the area to make such a determination.
This is akin to so many of my clients telling me that they have a virus because their computer is running slow (when it almost inevitably turns out to be something else).

At any rate what you need to know is that you will NEVER be able to properly diagnose the issue on a venue like /. The medium just does not lend itself to that.

What you need to do is hire a good consultant with networking experience to go over your system and correctly diagnose what the problem is. Yes it will cost you a couple hundred dollars to do that. Or you could live with the problem if it isn't worth that much money to you. Those are really your only sensible choices.

Interestingly, the manual radio says "FM Radio - Yes".
I don't recollect a Nexus device with a functioning FM Radio.

There is no wrong in your statement about $12.50 comes under "Up To $15,000,";
So there is no circunstance where you would give me up to $1,000,000 in correllation to proving you wrong on the above.
This is where I could prove you wrong.
But giving me up to $1.000.000 for proving you wrong would prove you right.

Finally, the only possible income of all this. is:
- You have to give me more than $1.000.000 for, proving you are wrong on advertising a reward to an impossible circunstance.
- And the reward has to be more than your "up-to" to save your wrongness or it would cancel itself.

I must also add - one should question why none of the literally tens of thousands of users during the four month Beta fell ill to the mysterious IOS7 induced "nausea". This "illness" only appeared shortly after the product was actually released.

The "IOS 7 is making me sick" campaign is a brilliant example of social advertising engineering by a competitor. I began seeing the "sick" posts in various Apple related forums about a week ago and noticed them immediately because of their unusual (imho) wording. Now it's gone to /. and the Guardian apparently. Bravo M$oft or Samsung (or whomever) ! Someone in marketing should get a raise for this.

In the meantime, no Guardian reporter (or anyone else it appears) appears to question why IOS 7 is apparently responsible for a rash of nausea yet we have no epidemic of people vomiting while playing video games.

It's probably true that "IT is not a revenue generator" per se.
On the other hand it's pretty damn hard to generate revenue these days without spreadsheets, accounting systems, printers, a LAN, email ....