Comment Re:Or... (Score 1) 102
Well it seems that they had the redundant systems in the same building. when designing redundant systems its best to avoid common mode failure when ever possible.
Comment SQL 2012 (Score 4, Informative) 284
You may want to look at what they are doing with avalibility groups. You can avoid the shared storage with avaliblity groups and could cut your hardware costs a bit. assuming you your software support SQL 2012.
Link
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff877884.aspx
Comment Disappointing (Score 2) 96
I was really hoping for a more in-depth description of what NOSQL has to offer over other DB options.
Comment of course (Score 1) 886
Working in IT in most organizations is soul sucking.
Comment Re:Open it up and extract token. (Score 2) 98
Yes
Comment What you have (Score 5, Insightful) 98
I have never understood why software tokens have been allowed to be considered a "factor" in multi factor authentication. Particulary when it is stored on the same laptop/computer that the user is utilizing to connect to the secure resource. Doesn't it make more sense to have each factor seperated by an air gap or alternate communiation channel? That way if the system where the users is typing a password is compromised only the password is compromissed with possibly the ping from the token which would be a one time key. Even if the one time key and the password are comprimised the attacker basicly has to use it at the same time.
Comment Re:To be fair.... (Score 1) 268
And as for people who run unlocked wireless routers and let anybody in the neighborhood utilize their bandwidth, I have zero sympathy.
Right, because we should expect 100% of the US population to understand network security and know how to properly secure a wifi router. Makes perfect sense!
Exactly, and i will take it one step further. What if they do thier best to secure their device but it only allows the use of protocols with know security issues. Think WEP when that was about all there was for a home user. Hell my parents got a new cable modem/router/access point from their ISP and the thing only supprted WEP. That was last year! I also think people should be able to share their wifi with whoever they want and not have to worry about being held responsible for what someone else does with it.
Comment Seems Optimistic... (Score 2) 268
that it will stem the tied of frivolus mass lawsuits. My guess is they will just pick a different tactic. I suspect that we will see some court decisions and or laws past that will make the person paying for the service assocated with the IP address responsible for all traffic that is sent or received.
Comment Re:oh great (Score 4, Informative) 52
Human influenza can pass between ferrets and humans.
http://www.petmd.com/ferret/conditions/respiratory/c_ft_human_influenza_virus
Submission + - Will Apple tarnish brand with stores in Target? (itworld.com)
bdking writes: Apple reportedly plans to create small Apple Stores in about 25 Target retail outlets sometime this year. Will this hurt Apple's brand or help it reach more customers (or both)?
Submission + - Researcher Devises Hard-to-detect Denial-of-servic (google.com) 1
An anonymous reader writes: Another low resource and low bandwidth DoS attack called "Slow Read" was realeased by Qualys researcher. Details are available at https://community.qualys.com/blogs/securitylabs/2012/01/05/slow-read .
Submission + - Kinect comes to Smart Phones? (i-programmer.info)
mikejuk writes: Researchers at MIT have come up with a fast, accurate, cheap way to measure a depth field. It promises portable depth detectors small enough to fit in a mobile phone so bringing all the sorts of amazing apps that the Kinect has inspired to the mobile world.
Using just a single light source and a single light detector (not a camera) they can reconstruct the depth field from f measurements made though a set of random masks. A lot of clever signal processing is involved but the result is an accurate depth field from really simple hardware — there's a video that explains it all.
It isn't at the commercial stage just yet but Intel have given $100,000 to help the research on its way.
Using just a single light source and a single light detector (not a camera) they can reconstruct the depth field from f measurements made though a set of random masks. A lot of clever signal processing is involved but the result is an accurate depth field from really simple hardware — there's a video that explains it all.
It isn't at the commercial stage just yet but Intel have given $100,000 to help the research on its way.
Submission + - Droneception: A drone within a drone within a dron (wired.com)
smitty777 writes: Given the US's recent drone issues, what is the new recipe for sending a drone over another country of interest? Simple, just take a balloon, and attach a Tempest drone to the bottom of it. Now, attach two more CICADA (sic) drones to that. The balloon climbs to over 55k feet, drops the first drone which can travel another 11 miles or so. It then deploys the CICADA drones. These unpowered gliders slip past the radars undetected and start sending back info. There are future plans to mount many (count hundreds) of the CICADA glider drones to the Tempest in the future. The article quotes the flight engineer describing the process as "straight forward".
Comment yes (Score 1) 275
I only work one day from home a week and I miss out on a lot. I find that I have to pester people far more often to get updates about projects or issues.
Comment Work (Score 1) 1880
I primarily OS X and Linux at home but I continue to use Windows at work so I keep test systems around at home to keep up on the latest Microsoft technology. Every IT shop I have worked at out of college has been all Microsoft.
