If you watch Top Gear for responsible journalism, you are doing it wrong. This same show recently did a comparative review of a Rolls-Royce, a Bentley, and a Mercedes Benz, but the Bentley was actually a Yugo, because Bentley didn't loan them the real car. It's an entertainment show. They had a point to make, that once you ran the batteries down on a Tesla roadster, you are stuck until it has time to recharge, which takes several hours. It's the biggest fundamental limitation of electric cars. It's what keeps me from wanting to purchase one, that's for sure. The fact that the car did not actually run out of juice during the limited time they were filming doesn't make it any less of a legit complaint. Filming for a series like Top Gear has a very tight schedule, especially filming on the track because you are limited to a narrow window when the sun is in the right spot to get the shots you want. So they faked it, the same way their races are fake (you don't think it's odd they somehow have cameramen in just the right places everytime? How every race comes down to a close finish?) It's television.

Tesla is full of shit, because instead of addressing the fact that what Top Gear said is true, they are trying to cover it up by claiming the means Top Gear used to say it are wrong. They took their car to a show that uses dramatics and hyperbole to make their points, and they are surprised that's what they got? I saw the episode when it came out and thought it was much more positive then I would have expected.

Enforcing arbitrary QoS based on traffic type is retarded. The correct thing to do would be to allow the customers to set what traffic they want to prioritize. Either way to insist that your youtube is more important then someone else's bittorrent makes no sense. You pay the same amount and expect the same service. Just because you feel your traffic is more important (and large commercial interests think http > all other traffic because it can serve ads). If you arbitrarily pick a protocol and restrict it, the next version of that protocol will be disguised as desirable traffic. Trying to apply QoS at the residential ISP service level is just trying to enforce the status quo on the net, which is morally wrong, economically wrong, and technically wrong. And all the time you spend on it would be better served improving your network and removing the need for QoS in the first place. I think the real future of ISP's needs to be complete revision of speed tiers. Just like cell phones have different rates for peak times of the day, give different speeds for peak and off-peak hours.

WestBoro Baptist Church is just a media whore stirring up trouble to provoke a reaction. Whoever claims to speak for anonymous is the same. "anonymous" is just a group of people, in the loosest sense of the term, with no leadership or agenda. You can not declare a warning from something you have no control over. As the wikileaks DDOS attacks have shown us, most of them barely even qualify as script kiddies, and are ridiculously easy to catch. There are some that know enough to do SQL injection attacks, or brute force passwords (or use the built in password reset) but super hackers they are not. The mainstream media is laughable in how clueless they are about it. They can't seem to understand that the internet makes it possible to have a group with common goals who is coordinated through group-think instead of a firm leadership. There is no monolithic entity, no membership, no initiation ritual or brotherhood. It's a loose group whose actions are dictated by a herd mentality.

Having done IT work in several law offices, I've found that the legal aids tend to also be young, pretty, and female. I don't know if a server in a rack (as opposed to with a rack) somewhere is going to be able to compete for the affection of your average lecherous lawyer.

People buy Cisco because A. they have a full stack of everything from end user switches to core switches to waps to routers to enterprise grade firewalls. That means everything from one vendor, which makes troubleshooting worlds easier. They also have an army of Cisco Certified Engineers. Almost everyone in the networking world has Cisco certs, they are the defacto standard. That means getting people who know the equipment is trivial. And although they have wavered in recent years, their equipment is rock solid. I have Cisco switches that have been in place for 5 years plus without a reboot or any issues. Although I am a big fan of HP switches, I can't say that. Having to pay for Smartnet for support is annoying, but it does mean I can call the TAC and have someone who actually knows what they are doing on the phone in 15 minutes. And most of their equipment has supported ipv6 for a very long time.

They do need a complete overhaul of their business practices though. The level of bureacracy is insane.Their website is one of the worst on the internet. And in a few years they will either have to lower their prices or their market share will plummet.

They are all convinced they are super smart industry leaders. As such, it is impossible that people might not think their game is not worth $50-$60 and not play it. So clearly if they haven't sold a copy for every man, woman, and child with access to a TV and electricity, the difference is clearly piracy.

"Most wireless routers have a mechanism called identifier broadcasting. Turn it off so your computer won't send a signal to any device in the vicinity announcing its presence."

I see this all the time and it's just retarded advice. If you turn SSID broadcast off, it still gets sent with every packet, it just doesn't respond to requests to announce it. It makes it slightly harder for someone who knows nothing to find it, but they arne't a threat anyways. Use an unique SSID, set your WPA2 key to something reasonably long and complicated, and don't worry about it. SSID, MAC filtering , turning it off, etc. are all bullshit. Any attacker sophisticated enough and determined enough (ie willing to dedicate massive resources) to break WPA2 is not even going to be slowed down. You trade a lot of inconvenience for the tiniest increase in security.

Security like this is worse then security through obscurity, it's security through reliance on incompetence. But to even get to those layers of security, you must first have demonstrated you are not incompetent. So they are worthless, and insisting on them just leads to more people saying fuck it and not having any encryption at all.

Which is exactly why you never, ever, ever, consent to a search from the police even if you have done nothing wrong. They can't plant fake evidence in your house if they don't have a reason to search it. They can't find things unrelated to the case they are investigating, but which may still be illegal, which you may not even know is illegal, if they don't search. No search can corroborate your innocence, because you can't prove a negative. The absence of evidence just means they haven't looked hard enough, or you were especially clever in removing it. For the same reason you should never talk to the police. An officer can't "mishear" what you said if you don't say anything. They can't confuse or trick you, or deprive you of sleep and food until they can convince you that you did something you did not, if you refuse to talk.

The modern police have nothing to do with justice, and everything to do with convictions. Their job is to arrest as many people as possible, so the state attorneys can convict as many people as possible, and the prison population can be as large as possible. The few good cops don't stay cops for long. How could anyone with a conscience send teenagers to jail for smoking weed (a conviction that will ruin their chances of a decent job or school)?

If someone steals your stuff, and you call the police, and in the rare case they catch the guy, you still don't get your stuff back. I know people who had to purchase their own property at police auction. If a policeman knocks on your door, ask them (through the door, do not open it, if you open it they can claim to have seen or smelled something inside) if they have a warrant. If they have any other reason, ask them to leave your property immediately.

Don't blame Windows Autorun for this, that's ridiculous. Autorun is easily disabled (every corporate environment with IT worth a damn has disabled it through GPO already) and if you already have technicians plugging untrusted USB thumbdrives into computers used to run industrial equipment, you've already lost the battle. Furthermore, Windows doesn't automatically load things from USB devices anymore, and it hasn't in a long time, I think at least since XP Sp1 or SP2. It scans the devices and brings up a menu asking you what to do, one of the options will be run whatever is labeled as auto-run. None of the systems that don't have this default behavior (fyi you can disable USB devices entirely as well, and most PC's have options to disable USB ports in the BIOS as well) are supported or receive security patches.

In this case, the attackers had lots of resources, enough to find and develop multiple 0-day vulnerabilities (as any security researcher will tell you, finding a vulnerability whether Windows or Linux, is simply a matter of looking hard enough), accurate and in-depth knowledge of the target's systems, equipment, and operating procedures, and could rely on poor security practices. In that environment it's hard to imagine them not succeeding.

It's pretty difficult to keep the fact you are heterosexual or homosexual out of the workplace entirely, especially in a situation like when you are in the military and around your coworkers for 99% of your day. Guys have pictures of their wives/girlfriends, they call home, they get care packages sent to them. I'm not saying they should have a gay rights parade in the middle of camp xray, but under the current policy, if a female soldier hits on a gay male soldier, and he says, sorry but Im gay, he can be discharged, and that;s ridiculous.