Comment Sometimes you win some times you lose. (Score 3, Informative) 439
NSA has been good to US companies in the past, sometimes it fails.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECHELON#Examples_of_industrial_espionage
Comment Re:More than that... (Score 1) 73
What is the lag on edits? Sharepoint is not usable for conference call editing as it takes too long for the edits to propagate to all participants. Googledocs is great, often quicker than screen sharing. What other alternatives are there and are they quick?
Comment Windiz Update solved that problem. (Score 1) 413
I miss Windiz Update....
Comment Re:Canonical might suck... (Score 4, Insightful) 362
Upstars solves some problems with sysv, but includes a whole array of new ones. Systemd solves almost all problems with few new ones, except for all the parts that is not implemented yet. Systemd is a mess for novices to use and understand, the helper tools are not as good as they should be.
Comcast Threatens TorrentFreak For Posting Public Court Document 215
Despite being part of public court proceedings, Comcast sent a notice of infringement ordering Torrent Freak to stop hosting a letter linking a subscriber to Prenda Law. From the article: "Comcast has sent TorrentFreak a cease and desist letter, claiming copyright over contents of an article which revealed that Prenda Law was involved in operating a pirate honeypot. Failure to comply will result in a lawsuit in which the Internet provider will seek damages, a Comcast representative informs us. In addition, Comcast also alerted our hosting provider, who is now threatening to shut down our server."
Comment Re:oh man, what a mess (Score 1) 290
Gets worse when applied to video: http://vol5.music-bazaar.com/album-images/vol5/421/421975/2245301-big/Being-John-Malkovich-OST-cover.jpg
Comment Re:G'DAY MATE (Score 1) 231
Light spread, you are not kidding, graphene is thick compared to the thikness I apreciate.
Comment Re:Money well spent (Score 1) 347
... followed by the tedious process of downloading and waiting for update after update to install, then installing virus and security software, "productivity suites" and any other software that they need, each likely to have its own updates...
Who the hell would do that if they got more than a few machines, update the frekkin image, then clone. Follow up with some polish.
Comment Re:Not that old chestnut (Score 1) 564
[citation needed].
I have never seen any reasonably creative use except for musical toys on pads. Please post examples.
I have never seen any reasonably creative use except for musical toys on pads. Please post examples.
Comment Re:What? (Score 1) 228
So that they can ask you for late fee if you miss a payment, instead of just adding interest.
Comment Re:An obvious extrapolation... (Score 2) 82
That said, it's not like the ocean is dominated by coelecanth, so it doesn't mean they've reached optimality or anything. Just that they're good enough to continue reproducing and surviving.
I would say that their genes are stuck in a local maxima where they can't evolve. Any mutation dies off or are so different that they leave the area and become a new species.
Comment Re:Is this not your local net police? (Score 1) 238
I would fear what unforseen bugs the pen testing causes (database gioing down, queries cut short etc) bugs that are good to find but absolutely not in a production environment. Dangeorus in a hospital enviroment.
I would send their packets to a honeypot machine (possible with less security for the giggles) to get more information about the "attac".
In reality they are probably just running foundstone or some other security suite.
I would send their packets to a honeypot machine (possible with less security for the giggles) to get more information about the "attac".
In reality they are probably just running foundstone or some other security suite.
Comment Re:Play a good April Fools joke for once (Score 1) 66
If they are down, use this rot-13 program:
tr "a-zA-Z" "n-za-mN-ZA-M"
tr "a-zA-Z" "n-za-mN-ZA-M"
Comment Re:C-like C++ is the way to go (Score 2) 333
Read Stroustrup, code C++ the right way. (i.e C extended by the possibilities of c++, opposed to schoolbook object oriented language with a tendency to over complicate)
Comment Re:try a foreign language (Score 1) 561
Tried that, but I now know too much German to not sing along, maybe I need to change language.
