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Submission + - Will Microsoft Ever Fix The Network Problem?

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: "You never know what you've got till it's gone" and that certainly applies to XP!

If you link several PCs together using ethernet and mapped drives and for some reason you don't
know what I'm talking about, try this:-

Open about 10 folders across your network on a windows Vista-W8 PC, then put your PC
into standby or hibernate. Now wake it up again and you will be greeted by a lot error
message boxes that you have to individually click OK on.

The error message is "The local device name is already in use. This connection has not been restored."
I can understand a bug creeping into vista and it being promptly fixed but
this have been going on now for YEARS and microsoft seem incapable of (or unwilling to) fixing it.

You can install all the updates and apply all the suggested fixes, upgrade to a "new" version
and nothing makes the slightest difference.

This Totally Unacceptable!
This NEVER, EVER happens on XP!

Comment Re:Flip Argument (Score 1) 1128

by Bomarc (#48462577) Attached to: Officer Not Charged In Michael Brown Shooting

I'm just asking you to separate facts from your own conjecture.

You are right... you weren't there, you didn't see it. However a series of facts (not conjecture) were laid out. People that were believable were listened to people who's stories didn't fit the facts (or changed their story multiple times) were not. Example: He was not shot in the back.

Fact: he was shot in the top of the head.

You are right there.....

Conjecture: what MB was doing that caused him to lower his head.

Not really. There were multiple people that did witness the incident, and they (the reliable ones) stated he charged the officer.

I'll say again, if somebody shot me I'd crumple to the ground pretty quickly and my head could end up facing the attacker.

Contact me again when you have experience in this area.

Note that MB WAS shot (in the hand), and DID run away. Physical evidence also suggests that MB may have been shot a 2nd time at the police car (Once reaching inside, once outside still at the door). Point here: Just being shot is not necessarily a reason to crumple over.

Comment Re:Flip Argument (Score 1) 1128

by Bomarc (#48461289) Attached to: Officer Not Charged In Michael Brown Shooting

That (last) shot could only be fired while approaching the officer.

why would you believe this to be true? This looks like an unfounded assumption on your part. If I were shot in the belly, my first reaction would probably be to double over in pain, thus my head would be bowed before the officer.

1. He was not shot in the belly.
2. {ref .. head exposed}... as such the act of bending over ... you would be approaching the officer.... (as you bent over).

Comment Re:Flip Argument (Score 1) 1128

by Bomarc (#48459913) Attached to: Officer Not Charged In Michael Brown Shooting
Brick wall ... please read the reports:
The fatal shot was the one that struck him in the top of the head. That (last) shot could only be fired while approaching the officer. As that shot did incapacitated him, if the officer fired more shots they would have been at a "down" angle (and no shots were fired in this direction).

Submission + - How Intel and Micron May Finally Kill the Hard Disk Drive (itworld.com)

Submitted by itwbennett
itwbennett writes: For too long, it looked like SSD capacity would always lag well behind hard disk drives, which were pushing into the 6TB and 8TB territory while SSDs were primarily 256GB to 512GB. That seems to be ending. In September, Samsung announced a 3.2TB SSD drive. And during an investor webcast last week, Intel announced it will begin offering 3D NAND drives in the second half of next year as part of its joint flash venture with Micron. Meanwhile, hard drive technology has hit the wall in many ways. They can't really spin the drives faster than 7,200 RPM without increasing heat and the rate of failure. All hard drives have now is the capacity argument; speed is all gone. Oh, and price. We'll have to wait and see on that.

Comment Re:Flip Argument (Score 4, Insightful) 1128

by Bomarc (#48455385) Attached to: Officer Not Charged In Michael Brown Shooting

Running from a police officer is not an offense worthy of public execution without trial.

Only problem was: The fatal shot was fired when he was running / charging in the direction of the officer. (If you bothered to listen to the forensic evidence... oh wait: you are one of those "I've already made up my mind, con't confuse me with facts.)

Comment Migration away from Google? (Score 4, Interesting) 400

by Bomarc (#48422297) Attached to: Firefox Signs Five-Year Deal With Yahoo, Drops Google as Default Search Engine
Interesting that more companies are moving away form Google. A couple months ago, RealNetworks (ya, reliable I know) changed it's default 2nd party offer from Google / Chrome to Ask. (Fun for the day: use Ask search and search for Ask toolbar ... examine the results).

For me, it is getting harder to use Google search, especially if I want to search for more than two words. For simple searches ... Google works fine. However ... frequently Google will substitute terms (that don't belong), add obvious sales links (that don't apply), or have a referral to a second level search (which has always useless: best example is returning searches for an items from eBay -- if I wanted eBay I would search eBay). Google's image search(method) is much better than Bing's ... but is there a viable option "B" general text / info search?

Submission + - Website peeps into 73,000 unsecured security cameras via default passwords (networkworld.com) 1

Submitted by colinneagle
colinneagle writes: After coming across a Russian website that streams video from unsecured video cameras that employ default usernames and passwords (the site claims it's doing it to raise awareness of privacy risks), a blogger used the information available to try to contact the people who were unwittingly streamed on the site. It didn't go well. The owner of a pizza restaurant, for example, cursed her out over the phone and accused her of "hacking" the cameras herself. And whoever (finally) answered the phone at a military building whose cameras were streaming on the site told her to "call the Pentagon."

The most common location of the cameras was the U.S., but many others were accessed from South Korea, China, Mexico, the UK, Italy, and France, among others. Some are from businesses, and some are from personal residences. Particularly alarming was the number of camera feeds of sleeping babies, which people often set up to protect them, but, being unaware of the risks, don't change the username or password from the default options that came with the cameras.

It's not the first time this kind of issue has come to light. In September 2013, the FTC cracked down on TRENDnet after its unsecured cameras were found to be accessible online. But the Russian site accesses cameras from several manufacturers, raising some new questions — why are strong passwords not required for these cameras? And, once this becomes mandatory, what can be done about the millions of unsecured cameras that remain live in peoples' homes?

Submission + - Study suggests milk doesn't strengthen your bones - it ages you instead (gizmocrazed.com) 1

Submitted by Diggester
Diggester writes: You have heard ever since you were a child that the consumption of milk is close to essential for healthy bones and teeth. Two to three glasses a day are recommended by doctors, nutritionists, P.E. teachers and parents (especially your mom) and you’ve always been comfortable knowing that a glass of milk can’t hurt you. Well a study published in the British Medical Journal disagrees with this ancient tradition.

Submission + - CDC deletes ebola info from website

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: One day after posting information that said ebola could be spread by a sneeze, the Centers for Disease Control has deleted that information from its webpage.

It could be the deleted webpage was wrong, which raises the question: Why had they posted it in the first place? Or it could be that the deleted webpage was right, which raises the question: Why did they delete it?

Or it could be that they haven’t the slightest idea what they are doing, which raises the question: Why do so many Americans still want to put their trust, and their lives, at the mercy of these government hacks?

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