Good thing we have ice cores, ocean sediments and the like.

Ever actually considers reading something by a climatologist?

Can't we blame them both?

Most of this stuff dates back to the Bush Jr. administration... But hey, go ahead and blame the black guy.

The same could be said or implied of the Steubenville hackers. Maybe there's a general grudge against schools, jocks, or a general belief that the state's investigators are inept.

Of course, the public statements now are for the preservation of evidence, and assistance of the victim and the courts.

"I have my home wired up like a datacenter. Everyone else should want a huge amount of network capacity and capability so that it makes my already extravagant costs slightly cheaper."

What's wrong with building out your home network like a datacenter? :) I'm perfectly happy with GigE. It handles the servers, iSCSI to the SAN, and an isolated branch for the desktops. It's the uplink speeds we have to work on.. I could upgrade to 10GigE, but when will the uplinks even get close? I'm putting my change order in for 100MB/s down next week. It'll be a long time before we see even 1GB/s uplink speeds for the home..

I really miss having my stuff hosted in a good Tier 1 DC, where I really did have GigE uplinks that could support the speeds. I could transfer stuff very nicely there, and then copy it to the laptop to bring home. Sneakernet has always been faster than residential speeds for large transfers.

Police should try and catch the thief and return the phone to it's owner. GPS won't work, unless the thief has switched it on. Cell tower information would probably be sufficient enough to get near the thief. If word gets out that teams of cops are actually on full-time phone retrieval duty, thieves are going to be a lot more cautious about stealing phones. The reason this happens so much is that the chance the thieves get caught is way too low.

Blocking the IMEI means the thieves will change the IMEI on the phone. Yes, they figure out how to do that and for most not-so-recent phones there is a black market where you can get that done. For the popular new phones, it usually will get done soon after the phone gets on the market. It's a software/firmware thing usually, so IMEI blocking is not sufficient. If there is no software solution, often the baseband chip gets replaced, or the phone gets exported to a country that doesn't use foreign IMEI blocking lists. I'm fairly certain that thieves will find a solution for the kill-switch too, given time.

As far as I'm aware, Neanderthals were in fact quite hungry a lot of the time and didn't eat meat every day. They were going by on daily fruits, nuts and vegetables and only had meat when the hunt was successful.

    I'm only surprised that I don't get frequent visits from O2STK.

    At least I'm sure they're entertained by my phone calls, emails, and risque pictures.

... and it seems to be accurate.

user@host:~$ ntpdate ntp0.bbc.co.uk && ntpdate uk.pool.ntp.org
  6 Jun 21:14:58 ntpdate[14686]: adjust time server 132.185.132.130 offset -0.072700 sec
  6 Jun 21:15:05 ntpdate[14687]: adjust time server 178.79.191.28 offset -0.074760 sec

It took a few seconds for each to respond, being I'm on the wrong side of the pond and all.

So they appear to participate in the centralized time system, that understands UTC, I don't see where their big problem is. 100 days to program a javascript clock to use their servers instead of the client machine?

I am surprised that they still do have a clock on there. Well, I never noticed when I went, but I wasn't really going to the BBC to check the time. Most people took clocks off of their web pages back in the late 90's, right along with dancing babies and blinking text.

You young whippersnapper get on the front page of SlashDot with questions on how to get job experience as a junior Windows admin. When I was your age I just installed the product and played a bit with it, asked some questions on usenet and then did an exam. Shortly after that, I discovered that once you had the certifications, there wasn't much of a career left to make with MicroSoft products so I switched to better paying operating systems and gigs. Look around you, plenty of jobs in IT don't even require knowledge of even a single MicroSoft product. You're just looking for jobs that require your skill set and find out that they also want MSSQL and MS-Exchange. They all want the world and are happy with a few countries, delighted with a whole continent. Just apply to the job and state that you've learned the rest of your CV's skills in relatively short time and have no doubt that you'll pick up exchange and sql quickly. That's what experience will teach you, not how to admin an Outlook frontend box....

echo "Starting time:" `date`
echo "fixing ntp.conf"
echo "server 0.uk.pool.ntp.org" >> /etc/ntp.conf
echo "server 1.uk.pool.ntp.org" >> /etc/ntp.conf
echo "server 2.uk.pool.ntp.org" >> /etc/ntp.conf
echo "server 3.uk.pool.ntp.org" >> /etc/ntp.conf
service ntpd restart
 
echo "forcing time update to now"
ntpdate -b uk.pool.ntp.org
echo "Ending time:" `date`

Servers taken care of. What's the BBC billing address? :)

I've worked for government in the Netherlands and I know how much a government desk top PC costs there. The Dutch government isn't as efficient as they can be with these, but 6000 UK pounds is still a lot more than the governmental institute I was working for was spending on their office IT infrastructure, per seat. If you would count in not just the Windows desktops but the Linux desktops they had there as well, you'd be looking at another 30% saving per seat, over the 2 platforms combined. The article may not be looking at "hidden costs" as much as they should, but even if you do, it's way too expensive.

    On your previous message, you got what the news failed to. The cars were all Honda, Acura being a division of Honda.

    Really, I wouldn't be surprised if it's what you're thinking. It may not be the trigger detection, but all kinds of other pesky things. It does seem to take close proximity to the passenger door handle. Otherwise, they'd just roll through parking lots to see which cars unlock.

    It would be really embarrassing for Honda if it turned out to be a simple ultrasonic emitter would trip up a sensor and unlock the door. :)

If the police arrives with a warrant, you don't have to open the door for them. It is not a crime to not open that door. However, they have the right to knock it down and you can't claim damages that you may occur because of it. You don't have to actively assist the police in serving the warrant. As long as you are not actively obstructing them (putting up extra barricades, destroying evidence after they announced their warrant), you're not doing anything illegal.

If you know there is evidence against you on the encrypted device, you would be incriminating yourself by turning it over to the police. The police can presume there is evidence on the drive, but presumption is not proof. Once you hand over that evidence, it would be admissible and thus self incriminating.

You can't force someone to hand over that key. Not now and not in the past. However, the police has the right to open the safe any way they find fit if there is a search warrant. If they open the safe and you get convicted based on evidence found in the safe, the damage to the safe is yours to pay for. If they find evidence inside the locked safe, it's found in a lawful way and is admissible as evidence.

If they opened the safe without a proper warrant, they would be liable for damages to the safe and anything found inside the safe would not be admissible as evidence in a court case. That is why there are warrants. They are not about forcing people to hand over keys.