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Comment Re:elinks (Score 1) 237

Well, the rendering engine for these browsers is tty; a known ugly hack of a beast. While there are unlikely to be OS level exploits easily available, there are plenty of user-based exploits available in the vt code (redefining character sets, occasional graphical terminals, goodness knows how many keyboard insertion sequences...).

Comment Network switches (Score 1) 307

I've had two network switches that gave me problems. (I don't necessarily count a component "breaking" as a problem—just normal long term system operation.)

  • A $17k switch kind of stopped forwarding packets. In fact, it would drop the first 6 data bytes from each packet, but send the rest fine. Took a little while to figure out what was happening as it would helpfully recalculate the CRC for me.
  • A $40 switch developed a bad capacitor.* It dropped packets at 0% to 90% depending on its mood swings, but it looked like my network provider was just getting slower; which often happens anyway.

* I opened the box, and an electrolytic cap looked like it was pregnant, maybe about to have a baby ceramic. B-)

Comment Re:Fee waiver (Score 1) 50

Your point is taken, but that's not actually the case.

Fees are $0.10/page, search is $16 to $28/hour depending on the type. You are notified in advance if the fees will be over $25.[1]

Also, the request has to be "not primarily in the commercial interest of the requester" [1], which may or may not be the case here.

[1] http://www.dhs.gov/foia-fee-structure-and-waivers

Comment Re:IBM (Score 1) 99

Actually last year bonuses were forgone amid lower profits....

Now Watson has some data on what happens to a company when you cut the pay of its top-performing employees more than the lowest performing! *

* I'm talking about the regular employees who get ranked, not necessarily the exectives.

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