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Comment Forget your style of working... (Score 2) 158

... this is to accomplish two things: justification of their real estate holdings and committing wage theft. That's it.

Empty offices and their equipment cannot be counted in expenses, and therefore worked into how they underpay taxes, unless they are being credibly used.

If you are physically there, they can strong-arm you into staying longer than the eight hours you've contracted with them to work. Please cast all of your salary-justifies-wage-theft commentary to the ocean.

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Comment NSA can be directed to release it. (Score 2) 68

You'll need to make it a Big Deal but the NSA can be directed to release them. The NSA can say "no" and then Biden can say, "LOL release the tapes dickwads."

They still work for the public. Call your reps and have them remind them. Unless of course you are in a Confederate state then best to simply shoot your reps.

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Comment For my "Built one time and run it to failure"... t (Score 1) 288

by Bright Apollo (#63419082) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: What Was Your Longest-Lived PC?

I built a HTPC machine when I bought my now-current home, around 2009. Just last year I retired the motherboard, CPU, gfx card, RAM, and two HDDs from it. Kept the case, it's an incredibly sleek looking Antec Black Fusion Remote Max which has a remote I never use, and a display that's somewhat functional and entirely flakey, but it looks like a high-end stereo chassis.

Had that thing running Win7 like a top for the longest time, but the motherboard/CPU was throwing way too many segfaults and after awhile, I had to pivot to UltraDurable's from Gigabyte.

Good run with that.

Comment Emmm, no. (Score 1) 280

by Bright Apollo (#61062590) Attached to: Did Linux Kill Commercial Unix?

Speaking as someone who worked on System V, SunOS, Solaris, HP/UX, and AIX systems with their preferred hardware... I can unequivocally say Linux is a commodity that works well enough, but cannot match vendor-optimized OS running on vendor hardware. I'd never choose any flavor of Linux over AIX if I was buying a Power-series machine (and what lovely machines they are)... and those incredible Sun machnes are just perfectly matched with SunOS and Solaris.

Yes, yes, massively parallel dumbly redundant containerized this running on data servers in containers, I get it. But as I'm not about to outsource my infrastructure to a vendor for whatever reasons, and need to keep it all in house, then for this market, a matched pair of OS and hardware will still perform better.

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Comment Re:Still not better than Norton Commander (Score 1) 173

Until last year I had the entire boxed CPS suite, version 6.0. I couldn't give it away, ended up curbing it. That suite pulled out many a rescue and paid for itself in less than three months.

I was an Apple //e kid, so I had CPS all over my disk library.

Comment Re:Still not better than Norton Commander (Score 1) 173

Of course, you're wrong.

Central Point Software's PC Tools had the best suite, including the best file manager. Norton, if I recall, subsumed CPS and rebranded their file manager, and *that* was, for the longest time, ne plus ultra in file management.

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Submission + - Oregon Becomes Second State To Pass a Net Neutrality Law (katu.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Oregon Gov. Kate Brown signed a bill Monday withholding state business from internet providers who throttle traffic, making the state the second to finalize a proposal aimed at thwarting moves by federal regulators to relax net neutrality requirements. The bill stops short of actually putting new requirements on internet service providers in the state, but blocks the state from doing business with providers that offer preferential treatment to some internet content or apps, starting in 2019. The move follows a December vote by the Federal Communications Commission repealing Obama-era rules that prohibited such preferential treatment, referred to generally as throttling, by providers like AT&T, Comcast, and Verizon. Brown's signature makes the state the second to enact such legislation, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures. It also stakes out the state's claim to a moderate approach, compared to others: Five weeks to the day before Brown, Washington State Gov. Jay Inslee signed a bill in his state to directly regulate providers there. The prohibition, which restricts with whom the state may contract for internet services, applies to cities and counties, but exempts areas with only a single provider.

Submission + - PUBG Ransomware Decrypts Your Files If You Play PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds (bleepingcomputer.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: In what could only be a joke, a new ransomware has been discovered called "PUBG Ransomware" that will decrypt your files if you play the game called PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds. When the PUBG Ransomware is launched it will encrypt a user's files and folders on the user's desktop and append the .PUBG extension to them. When it has finished encrypting the files, it will display a screen giving you two methods that you can use to decrypt the encrypted files. Users can unlock it either by playing PUBG, or by entering a secret unlock code of "s2acxx56a2sae5fjh5k2gb5s2e".

The ransomware checks to see if you played PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds by monitoring the running processes for one named "TslGame". Once a user plays the game and the process is detected, the ransomware will automatically decrypt the victim's files. This ransomware is not too advanced as it only looks for the process name and does not check for other information to confirm that the game is actually being played. That means you can simply run any executable called TslGame.exe and it will decrypt the files.

Comment Re:Doesn't sound like it was the accident (Score 2) 154

The union is soaking the MTA entirely here. I'm all for safety, but they've got do-nothing crew requirements for everything. Look at the massive over-allocations for the 2nd Avenue project to see just how horrible the union is.

And this is why the knee-jerk reaction to "Right to work" takes place, because unions get greedy. I'm a fan of unions, not a fan of greed.

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