Comment Re:Meet the new boss (Score 1) 338
Well, during other months they don't do anything at all, and that's altogether more recognizable for me.
Comment Re:Meet the new boss (Score 5, Insightful) 338
Between this, Indefinite Detention, and SOPA, I am really struggling to recognize America this month.
Comment Re:Someone has never worked in corporate IT (Score 1) 284
Okay, but, again, you're addressing it from an internal standpoint. If people on the other side of your firewall can determine which workstations are doing what on your network, your firewall sucks.
Comment Re:Been there, seen that. (Score 2) 260
I found it interesting that you said this, as I was thinking it. And the reason I was thinking it, was because I had recently seen this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDZFcDGpL4U
Comment Re:Someone has never worked in corporate IT (Score 4, Insightful) 284
I am going to go out on a limb and say that your corporate environment does not give every workstation their own public IP address.
Comment Please no, Verizon. (Score 4, Insightful) 139
You know, it's bad enough that ISP's, Verizon definitely included, are using bandwidth caps now, which limits the attraction of a service like Netflix.
It's bad enough that Verizon charges you extra to use functions on your phone that don't have a damn thing to do with their network at all (Mobile Hotspot).
I don't think I want to know how they manage to ruin Netflix, if they were to snatch it up.
It's bad enough that Verizon charges you extra to use functions on your phone that don't have a damn thing to do with their network at all (Mobile Hotspot).
I don't think I want to know how they manage to ruin Netflix, if they were to snatch it up.
Submission + - How Should IT Respond to Anti-Overtime CPU Act? (infoworld.com)
snydeq writes: "The CPU Act being discussed in Congress to gut IT workers of overtime pay begs the question, How should IT respond? 'Because most IT workers are not members of a union (and don't seem to want unionize), it isn't clear who's fighting the bill. The AFL-CIO opposes it, but I don't know if the organization is putting real muscle into the effort,' InfoWorld's Bill Snyder writes. The AFL-CIO's Paul E. Almeida has sent a letter to Congress, saying, 'The same companies that send work offshore and bring lower-paid workers to the U.S. on H-1B visas now want to pay U.S. workers less in the U.S.,' adding that if this effort succeeds, every other industry may follow suit in gutting FLSA for every covered private-sector worker. 'Almeida is right. There's a well-organized movement afoot to blame workers in both the public and private sector for a recession caused in large part by the greedy and irresponsible actions of a small minority of corporations and individuals.'"
Submission + - Bill To Let Telemarketers Call Mobile Phones (nydailynews.com)
esocid writes: Current law bars telemarketing calls to cell phones unless the customer has given approval. The proposed change would allow prerecorded “informational” calls to be made to cell phones without consent, called the “Mobile Information Call Act” and would allow all sorts of nuisance calls to cell phones.
The sole Democratic sponsor stated
The sole Democratic sponsor stated
"Do we really want to stop FedEx or UPS using modern technology to deliver your holiday gifts on time? Of course not, but that is what we heard at the hearing is one consequence of this 20-year old law."
His statement is still at odds with the ability to give consent to receive such calls.
Comment Doctor Who Exposure (Score 1) 357
I don't know about anyone else, but I regularly encounter people who have never heard of Doctor Who. I'm not saying a bad Doctor Who film would be fine, but any Doctor Who film will help expose the show, especially to Americans.
And it deserves more exposure.
And it deserves more exposure.
Comment Re:Unlicensed band? (Score 1) 77
Because when it stops working in some communities thanks to the interference that this supposedly slides under, you'll stop selling it in others.
However, if you were to start off in a licensed spectrum right off the bat, you could sell the tech to just about every utility company in America.
I am, of course, assuming they intend to make more than one in the future, and have more than just one customer.
However, if you were to start off in a licensed spectrum right off the bat, you could sell the tech to just about every utility company in America.
I am, of course, assuming they intend to make more than one in the future, and have more than just one customer.
Comment Re:Unlicensed band? (Score 1) 77
Okay, but, again, why an unlicensed band? If this is for utility companies to use, and has a large over-reaching benefit to all sorts of communities (many of them owning or running the utilities), why wouldn't there be cause for a licensed band? I understand the intention, and the expectation that this will work anyways, but why not just make sure by using a licensed band instead?
Comment Unlicensed band? (Score 1) 77
I don't understand why you would use something with this kind of range in an unlicensed band.
You are basically setting yourself up to fail when you get interference all over your supposed coverage area.
You are basically setting yourself up to fail when you get interference all over your supposed coverage area.
Submission + - Notch Announces Minecraft 'Adventure Update' (tumblr.com)
jjp9999 writes: "Notch announced that Minecraft 1.7 will include the long awaited “Adventure Update.” In an E3 roundup on his blog, Notch wrote “The idea with this update is to flesh out the game a bit, making it reward exploration and combat more.” Although he added, “We’re keeping the details secret so people can get surprises,” Notch wrote back on July 7, 2010, that Adventure Mode would be one of the three game modes in Minecraft (the other two being Survival and Creative), and would include a health bar and an inventory, but would remove the player’s ability to place or destroy blocks. He said the value of this is that “people can design ‘challenge maps’ in creative or survival mode, then share them with people so that they can try to beat them in Adventure mode.” Interestingly, Notch also announced the release of the Minecraft source code to a small group of mod developers, in his latest blog post."
Submission + - Spanish police website hit by Anonymous (bbc.co.uk)
arisvega writes: The website of Spain's national police force has been briefly knocked offline by hacker collective Anonymous.
The attack on the site was carried out in retaliation for the arrest of three Spanish men the police claimed were 'core' members of the group.
The hackers managed to keep www.policia.es offline for about an hour from 2130 GMT on 12 June.
Spanish authorities would not confirm that Anonymous was behind the attack, saying only that the site was offline.
However, a statement was posted on a website linked to Anonymous, claimed responsibility for the hack, which it called #OpPolicia.
The attack on the site was carried out in retaliation for the arrest of three Spanish men the police claimed were 'core' members of the group.
The hackers managed to keep www.policia.es offline for about an hour from 2130 GMT on 12 June.
Spanish authorities would not confirm that Anonymous was behind the attack, saying only that the site was offline.
However, a statement was posted on a website linked to Anonymous, claimed responsibility for the hack, which it called #OpPolicia.
Submission + - Nintendo Announces New Console: Wii U (reuters.com)
_xeno_ writes: Nintendo has announced the official name for what had been known as "Project Cafe:" the Wii U. It is an HD console, it remains backwards compatibility with the Wii (it's unclear if this includes GameCube software), and the controller does, in fact, have a touch screen on it. Nintendo demoed moving a game off the TV and play it solely on the Wii U controller.
