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Comment Re:Your house is great! (Score 1) 123

From the article: Once Windows was installed to the iSCSI target, gPXE could then boot directly into it, without any need for a local disk at all. Yes, this means you can PXE-boot Windows 7 itself, not just the installer. Now I fully intend on doing this, just not to your extent. I read up on gPXE and where it can be installed to, the web site says: "We, the Etherboot Project, create network booting code that allows computers to load their operating system from a network. Our code can be stored in a number of places, including BIOS Flash, EPROMs, floppy, CD, HD, or other bootable media." Which option did you choose? I assume BIOS FLASH or CD, I guess I could find a use for those 64Megabyte flash drives I've got....

Comment Is this really a good thing? (Score 1) 90

A product such as this, even if only used as a proof of concept, is quite dangerous, and I'd like nothing more than to shoot it down with a Stinger, and destroy all the R&D material. I find it interesting that they label this as a black-hat project, with malicious intentions, which it clearly is. They could have had a better public reception if it was pitched as a military tool to enable battlefield communications by the drone claiming to be a cell-phone carrier tower, like a temp cell tower.

Comment Re:There is no other (Score 1) 722

Don't complain about lack of options. You've got to pick a few when you do multiple choice. Those are the breaks. Read the rules, have fun, don't complain. Really? On this one? Its not even political or something that matters. Complaining about something as insignificant as Server names? Can't we all get along?
Government

State of Alaska Prints Out Palin's E-Mails; Online Distribution 'Impractical' 516

ZipK writes "Three years after numerous citizens and news organizations requested the release of Sarah Palin's gubernatorial e-mails, the State of Alaska is finally making ready to make them available. In print. In Juneau. News organizations must fly or sail to Juneau and pick up the 24,000 page disclosure in person. The state claims it impractical to release the original electronic versions of the e-mails, so the Associated Press, Washington Post, New York Times, Mother Jones, ProPublica and MSNBC each plan to turn some or all of the printouts back into searchable, easily distributed electronic data. Thanks, Alaska." Where's WikiLeaks North?

Comment Re:OSX (Score 2) 455

I disagree, we all suffer from Malware, and malware targets the largest number of users it can expect to harm. As Apple gains a larger market share, apple's market share of malware threats will grow in parallel. Hiding in a small dark corner was a good idea, until you turned on the disco ball and threw a party.
Facebook

Submission + - Email Proves Businessman Owns Half of Facebook (wired.com)

Antisyzygy writes: A businessman who is suing Mark Zuckerberg for scamming him out of a controlling interest in Facebook allegedly has emails that prove Zuckerberg did indeed do so. Perhaps Zuckerberg ain't so smart.

Submission + - The Israel Lobby (youtube.com)

feynmanfan1 writes: "How much influence does Israel and the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) have on U.S. foreign policy? See the analysis given by Colin Powell's former chief of staff and William and Mary professor Colonel Wilkerson in the VPRO Back-light documentary "The Israel Lobby." The documentary covers the book "The Israel Lobby and U.S. foreign Policy" by Harvard professor Stephen Walt and University of Chicago professor John Mearsheimer. AIPAC, the pro-Israel lobby has consistently been ranked as one of the top two most influential lobbies by congress, is it just me or is it messed up that a lobby representing a foreign country is arguably the most powerful lobby in the United States?"

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