Hey! Was that on-topic? What a way to kill a rant.

This law is looking to have all the carriers actually implement a lost/stolen no-fly list..

And with a simple typo your $500 phone is now just an MP3 player.

I'm with srobert on this one. I use to host images.slashdot.org back when Rob's T1 got full. I could find some pipe if there was a cause.

Remember, it's slashdot.ORG. We need to get back to the non-profit days.

and that from a high three digit number ;)

a new version of Gnu Tape ARchive.

How hackers broke into Target and installed malware on point-of-sale terminals...

Forged Telaid work order for an access point out or something. Go in with a tool bag and clipboard, ask for MOD and get keycode to data room (often the store number.)

Do whatever you want after that. They don't know or care what you're doing. Not their job. Need to get to a POS? Just unplug the Ethernet at the patch panel and then go "service" it. Act like you're on a bluetooth talking to NCR while you're at it.

Low quality laptops? What the hell are you talking about? We send people all over the world with HP laptops. The EliteBook series is a freaking trooper.

http://www.notebookcheck.net/R...

I don't know what low end you are buying but don't put all their laptops in one basket. We order these with 16GB RAM and 240GB SSDs. I've never had to have one returned for service that is under 3 years old. Like I said, these are traveling all over the world and used by on-site aerospace engineers.

As far as support, I've never experienced more that a three day turn around.

We buy PCs from HP because they are dead easy to work on. They come with a bit of crap but still a basic Windows 7 Pro build. Don't matter, they also come DVDs for both W7 and W8.1. We do enough machines that we have our own image anyway. The SFF (small form factor) case is the best I've ever had to use. I hardly ever touch a screwdriver anymore. I've also not yet had one die on us, out of a few hundred. The commercial HP stuff is actually quite nice and affordable.

But in the porn remake, Sexworld, everyone had a happy ending.

Or flip the bit that swaps out kernel ROM for RAM.

Boeing doesn't make engines. GE and Rolls do.

About two years ago I was a field tech and would get service calls to JPMS. Most of the time it was just to move fax machines around or to make a jack live. Sometimes it was to try to get a PC to boot. There is SO much legacy cruft in the boot image of a JPMS desktop that it can take three boots just to get the damn thing stable. Some of the boot code even flashes by "DOS TCP/IP 1.0" as it goes by. They have decades of cruft to dig through to get those things anywhere modern. I have pity for the admins trying to roll this out, I really do.

On the other hand that damn image is used by hotshot investment brokers to transact multi-million dollar trades everyday. That image is a lot of their "secret sauce" that they use to make a shit load of cash. It's a tool that has made them trillions. I can see why they don't want to fuck with it. They would gladly have me hang around for a day at a few hundred dollars an hour (not that I was seeing 20% of that) just to make sure the hotshot could do his job. The hotshot's downtime cost them thousands of dollars an hour. Imagine having to roll out an image to 1000 hotshot desktops and have it fail for even a day.

That's a lot of incentive to keep the boat from rocking, whatever the cost.

Remember that a lot of that legacy code is interfacing with mainframes that are running code before the advent of PCs.

An SP 2 for Windows 7 sure would be nice about now.

Yeah, but now you're hacking the clear snot globs, not the brown cig petooie chunks

Oh, and a warning. Be careful of those cheap USB chargers. My wife blew out the USB ports on her HP Elite 8440 laptop with one of those. Use a wall charger for them..

http://www.myvaporstore.com/Kanger_Protank_p/krpt-k.htm

I've gone through the drippy leaky cheap tanks and this is the one I'm sticking with. Get a 5 pack of elements and you're good to go for a long time. The tank holds about 2 days worth of heavy vaping for me.

Congrats on kicking the coffin nails. It's nice not to wake up hacking, eh?