Comment Re:Remove the obvious structural weaknesses (Score 3, Funny) 384
You hurt small animals for fun as a kid? You must be some kind of psychopath.
There's two suns and no women. What the hell else am I supposed to do?!
Comment Re:Nope, just following normal procedures. (Score 1) 232
My "garbage 1980's technology flashlight" is from the 80's, how old is your flashlight?
Comment Nope, just following normal procedures. (Score 1) 232
"Several people I know in the mid-Atlantic region have been ordering generators and stocking up on flashlight batteries and easy-to-prepare foods."
Emergency supplies are always on site, including satellite phones (for some reason the idiots in charge think they'll work in a hurricane) and generators undergo monthly testing.
"Are you in the projected path of the storm?"
Yep!
"If so, have you taken any steps to prepare for it? (Are you doing off-site backup? Taking yourself off-site?)"
Automatic nightly incremental backups to a server that is automatically backed up to SAN, which has an off site mirror. Combine that with good vendor response times, and you're set.
Submission + - The depraved, insane games lurking in the underworld of Steam Greenlight (redbull.co.uk)
An anonymous reader writes: Steam Greenlight's been up and running for a few months, and there are now hundreds of pitches for games on the community site for fans to vote on. Some of them are impressive, high concept 3D games, and as this article points out, some of them are most definitely not. You can find everything from jousting dishwashers to civil war simulators where you play a fish trying to topple Gaddafi — and if enough people vote for them, Steam will actually put them up for sale.
Submission + - Irony Alert: Nigeria Increasingly Targeted by Cyber Criminals (cio.com)
Curseyoukhan writes: "Symantec says the land of countless bankers, princes and businessmen who all need your help accessing their funds, is becoming a huge target for cyber criminals. Apparently the Nigerians can't learn from their own actions: “The problem is that Nigeria does not really appreciate the magnitude of cybercrime and how it can derail an economy," says the Symantec's regional chief for Africa."
Comment Re:Uh-oh... (Score 1) 107
Daishkyu hinan shite kudasai!
Comment Re:Not that many. (Score 1) 247
i let mine lapse for a good 5 years i think and was able to recover it later
Comment can 3-digit UID peeps get a shirt? (Score 0) 247
Not too many of us still around I'll bet!
Comment easiest way... (Score 1) 298
Easiest way is to get into the hosting industry for somewhat low pay (~$40k in the Chicago area). You get experience and exposure to other technologies and you can always get certs in the meantime.
You may have to start off doing Level 1 Tech Support over the phone or DC stuff, rebooting and making cat5 cables to start, but this is a very common gateway to the IT industry.
Submission + - The Long Arm of the Tweet (itworld.com)
itwbennett writes: "According to a recent Lexis-Nexis survey of 1200 law enforcement personnel, 80% use social media to conduct investigations. And it's easy to see why: While it helps that you share 'enormously detailed information' online, it's your social network that really does the talking, says Lee Altschuler, a Federal defense attorney. 'Cops will figure out who the associates of the suspect are,' Altschuler explained. 'The police will then friend or connect to the associates, working to gain their trust, and then will eventually friend the target directly, or be able to glean information about the target through the associates.' Of course, this is pretty much the same action they've always taken in the offline world, it's just far more efficient on social media (plus, there's the aforementioned willingness to share information online)."
Submission + - ISPs Throttling BitTorrent Traffic, Study Finds (paritynews.com)
hypnosec writes: A new report by an open source internet measurement platform, Measurement Lab, sheds light onto throttling of and restriction on BitTorrent traffic by ISPs (Internet Service Provider) across the globe. The report by Measurement Lab reveals that hundreds of ISPs across the globe are involved into throttling of peer-to-peer traffic through and specifically BitTorrent traffic. The Glasnost application run by the platform helps in detecting whether ISPs shape traffic and tests can be carried out to check whether the throttling or blocking is carried out “on email, HTTP or SSH transfer, Flash video, and P2P apps including BitTorrent, eMule and Gnutella”. Going by country, United States has actually seen a drop in throttling compared to what it was back in 2010. Throttling in US is worst for Cox at 6 per cent and best for Comcast, Verizon, AT&T and others at around 3 per cent. United Kingdom is seeing a rise in traffic shaping and BT is the worst with 65 per cent. Virgin Media throttles around 22 per cent of the traffic while the least is O2 at 2 per cent. More figures can be found here.
Comment Re:Energy == $$ (Score 2) 405
So, I guess what we can take away from this is: "We have to get a Linux distro for washing machines"
Well, guess it's time to rip apart the ol' maytag!
Comment Re:Fear= More Funding (Score 3, Funny) 243
For good reason. I hear some of those haxors can whistle ICBM launch codes!!!!
Comment A trend? (Score 1) 192
Why does anything having to do with Michael Jackson always involve unwanted penetration?
Comment And? (Score 1) 285
Who the hell cares? Getting your flight crew to the cockpit as easily as possible is the best idea that the damn TSA has had so far, and I'm all for not pissing off the people that can make my flight god awful.
