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Comment: New Poke (Score 0) 786

by alphatel (#43640657) Attached to: Microsoft's "New Coke" Moment?
The problem is the trend of being cool because you can complain has left .
Can't find the start button? Yes it's damn annoying I agree, but New Coke sucked all around. Windows 8 isn't all about a single button. A keyboard you aren't used to will ruin your life much more miserably, but do you call Dell and tell them the computer should go in the garbage? It's time people got used to this mess. Yes as a hardcore 24 hours a day user it is definitely a mess and why we can't get to the shutdown or log off screen with a click is frustrating. You are not going to sell businesses on this model the way it is right now. But it is not going to make anyone go out and change their life. Let the insane and moaners do whatever makes them feel better. I will donate a leper to your cause.

+ - EPA: No Single Cause for Colony Collapse Disorder->

Submitted by alphatel
alphatel writes "Citing a wide range of symptoms, a federal report released today has concluded that no single event, pesticide or virus can be held responsible for CCD in North American bee colonies. Meanwhile, Europe has moved towards banning neocotinids for two years.

EPA's Jim Jones stated, “There are non-trivial costs to society if we get this wrong. There are meaningful benefits from these pesticides to farmers and to consumers, as well as for affordable food.” May R. Berenbaum, head of the department of entomology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a participant in the study, said “There is no quick fix. Patching one hole in a boat that leaks everywhere is not going to keep it from sinking.”"
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+ - Resolved: the Internet Is No Place for Critical Infrastructure->

Submitted by CowboyRobot
CowboyRobot writes "Dan Geer was part of the group at MIT that produced Kerberos and is currently CISO at In-Q-Tel. He has a wide-ranging rant at ACM about the centrality and centralization of the Internet in modern society. "It is not possible to live your life without having a critical dependence on the Internet, even if you live at the end of a dirt road but still occasionally buy nails or gasoline. If you are dependent on those who are dependent on the Internet, then so are you. Dependence with respect to television is not transitive. Dependence with respect to the Internet is... The Internet is a network of networks, its main protocols designed for tolerance to random faults and for the absence of common-mode failure. It has been proven in practice. It was not designed, however, for resistance to targeted faults, which cannot be done at the same time as you are designing for resistance to random faults... The Index of Cyber Security is rising. Experts say risk is accumulating in much the same way that burnable timber accumulates on the eastern slope of the Rockies. This is a formal, metrics-based backstop to saying that "we" are not running fast enough to stay in the same place; therefore, preserving fallback is essential.""
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Comment: Re:Never (Score 1) 255

by alphatel (#43591251) Attached to: How often do friends/family call you for tech support?

Moving the family to OSX however did. That was 3 years ago and there has not been a single tech support issue since then

Funny that. Attempting to migrate about 50% of people to OSX is a disaster, especially if they are older. My family support calls ended when I gave the people what they wanted, and what they knew (with adequate backup and protection where needed). Isn't that what we do for clients at the end of the day?

Comment: Google Glass, proper noun (Score 1) 318

by alphatel (#43338433) Attached to: Google Glass and Surveillance Culture
Can't we just call it GGlass for short or something equally unimposing? Somehow the very repetitive nature of "Google Glass" this and "Google Glass" seems that quite disturbing. Gmail, Android, Chrome - people don't refer to these things with the longer moniker anymore. The product is already so ubiquitous it's time to shorten our references to it.

Since we're all here, we must not be all there. -- Bob "Mountain" Beck

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