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Comment: Re:doesn't help people take games seriously either (Score 3, Interesting) 729

by Jaktar (#44016633) Attached to: Sexism Still a Problem At E3

'situational relevance' sounds like the 'kardashian adult' version of a child screaming "but we're not playing by those rules now!" The fact is that men are hardwired to be attracted to attractive women regardless of the situation. It's about time that feminists accept men for who they are as they demand for women.

This is off topic ,but...

What if they're gay?

Comment: Re:Off the mark, missed the target. (Score 1) 284

by Jaktar (#43947665) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: How Best To Disconnect Remote Network Access?

Some of this seems to be happening naturally, at least where I work. It's not uncommon for some cross training to go on as time permits.

I don't know how much a regular IT course delves into control systems and associated problems, but the control systems training that I've attended had standard blurbs of basic security practices.

Comment: Off the mark, missed the target. (Score 4, Insightful) 284

by Jaktar (#43943767) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: How Best To Disconnect Remote Network Access?

I think the OP is missing something.

I do process control. It's not manufacturing, but that part is irrelevant anyways. The issue at hand is that process control has shifted to control systems that are networked. There are options that don't use ethernet/ethernetIP, but they're increasingly going the way of the Dodo.

We're in a strange time when control systems are increasingly being networked, and the guys that used to do control/automation (and used to do it with relay/hydraulic/pneumatic) don't have the necessary training to integrate the systems correctly. Most IT people don't understand how control systems work and the implications of changing network configurations.

The way forward is to merge IT and process control. Unfortunately, that's easier said than done.

Comment: Hmm. (Score 1) 134

by Jaktar (#43892955) Attached to: Pi to Go: Hot Raspberry Pi DIY Mini Desktop PC Project

This would have been much cooler if they'd have VESA mounted the PI to the back of a slightly larger monitor and used their engineering skills to make a power supply and then hot glued that to the back of the monitor. Opposite the power brick they could have put some velcro and attached a multimedia keyboard/mouse combo controller.

Portable indeed.

Comment: Re:Air-Condition Compressors (Score 1) 250

by Jaktar (#43765475) Attached to: Electronics-Loving 'Crazy Ants' Invading Southern US

I had to replace the contactor in my air conditioner. The little bastards turned it into an ant crematorium. I noticed the problem when the air conditioner was humming very loudly when it was supposed to be off.

Lucky for me, I found a replacement that is completely enclosed, instead of the partially open design that the original was.

Comment: Re:Educate the users, Avoiding reuse is easy (Score 1) 211

by Jaktar (#43573321) Attached to: Mitigating Password Re-Use From the Other End

What you suggest is already available via add-in password hashers on the users end. Passwords are automatically generated and salted with the URL. You can "bump" a password to change the salt. The main problems I've come across are:

1) The algorithm differs by browser, even those that say they are compatible.

2) Some password entry points don't have a hasher function built in, requiring me to either write down the password or switch to the browser to get it.

All of my password hashing efforts are moot if the server end loses their password database, though I'll only have that one password compromised.

Even with these hurdles, it's worth using the hasher.

Comment: Re:There's always two sides to a coin (Score 5, Informative) 931

by Jaktar (#43563535) Attached to: Belief In God Correlates With Better Mental Health Treatment Outcomes

Well fuck me. I hate replying to myself bit I didn't expect it to be so easy to track down.

See here:
http://www.jpsych.com/pdfs/david.hillel.rosmarin.cv.pdf

Prepared: November, 2012
David H. Rosmarin, Ph.D.

GRANT REVIEW ACTIVITIES
2012 John Templeton Foundation

The Templeton Foundation Strikes again.

Comment: There's always two sides to a coin (Score 4, Insightful) 931

by Jaktar (#43563511) Attached to: Belief In God Correlates With Better Mental Health Treatment Outcomes

Another way to look at their results is that there needs to be an improvement in the psychological treatment of atheists because there may be some bias in the treatment that tends to push people to appeal to the spiritual. Maybe a bit like AA.

There is a distinct lack of research in the area of atheist vs theist rates of psychological problems. Of the available research, here is one such study that suggests that atheists are less likely to suffer from depression:
http://www.secularhumanism.org/library/fi/buggle_20_4.html

I haven't done the digging yet but the submitted article smells like the Templeton Foundation may have had an influence.

Medicine

Belief In God Correlates With Better Mental Health Treatment Outcomes 931

Posted by Soulskill
from the take-two-communion-wafers-and-call-me-in-the-morning dept.
Hatta writes "According to researchers from Harvard Medical School, belief in god is correlated with improved outcomes of treatment for depression. Quoting: 'In the study, published in the current issue of Journal of Affective Disorders, researchers comment that people with a moderate to high level of belief in a higher power do significantly better in short-term psychiatric treatment than those without. "Belief was associated with not only improved psychological well-being, but decreases in depression and intention to self-harm," says David H. Rosmarin, Ph.D., an instructor in the Department of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School.' This raises interesting questions. Does this support the concept of depressive realism? If the association is found to be causal, would it be ethical for a psychiatrist to prescribe religion?"

Comment: Re:Oy. (Score 1) 408

by Jaktar (#43439855) Attached to: Google Fiber: Why Traditional ISPs Are Officially On Notice

Is this handle perhaps Adam Orth in disguise?

Only 27% of the USA has access to >256kbps . http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_number_of_broadband_Internet_users

How do you propose we move 73% of the population?

There may be an easier way.....perhaps we could build out the infrastructure?

Comment: Re:One driver eh? (Score 2) 154

by Jaktar (#43433425) Attached to: Microsoft Telling Users To Uninstall Bad Patch

The original knowledge base article which is linked to the fix contains the kernel mode drivers. It makes sense in the context of the linked articles, so the fault with the confusion lies with threatpost.com for not providing all the relevant information.

This link is the knowledge base article in question:
https://support.microsoft.com/kb/2829996

The kernel mode drivers are: ntfs.sys and win32k.sys.

I guess that's what happens when you use a summary of a bugfix to write an article.

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