Teux - Slashdot User

Comment Re:If you've nothing to hide... (Score 5, Insightful) 878

by Teux on Tuesday July 27, 2010 @09:35AM (#33043774) Attached to: Facing 16 Years In Prison For Videotaping Police

I've always found the "to protect and serve" on police cars to be intensely ironic considering that they do neither.

Modern police serve mainly to try to keep the peace and to clean up after crimes. They come into most situations and arrest whoever is causing the most ruckus or is most uncooperative. They act like frustrated, tired parents who just want some quiet when they come home from work. Right and wrong mean a lot less then just getting everyone out of their hair.

Then comes the counselor act, where the cops show up after a crime. They assure everyone the that criminal will be caught (rare unless they are caught in the act of another crime) and clean up the mess a bit after pretending to care for a bit.

I'm sure my contempt for the police shows in this post, but I really do believe that as a whole we need more control of the people we allow to walk among us with guns.

Comment Re:Are you not entertained?!? (Score 1) 773

by Teux on Wednesday August 13, 2008 @07:13PM (#24591791) Attached to: Let the Games Be Doped

We just need to bring bloodbowl to life. Nothing better than a treeman with a chainsaw to entertain the masses.

Feed DepthX Scours Ocean Floor (wired.com)

From feed by wiredfeed on Friday March 09, 2007 @04:12PM

An untethered, autonomous robot rummaging around a geothermal sinkhole may herald the future of deep ocean -- and deep space -- robotics. By Emmet Cole.

Virtualization Is Not All Roses 214

Posted by CmdrTaco on Friday March 09, 2007 @01:39PM from the watch-out-for-those-thorns dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Vendors and magazines are all over virtualization like a rash, like it is the Saviour for IT-kind. Not always, writes analyst Andi Mann in Computerworld." I've found that when it works, it's really cool, but it does add a layer of complexity that wasn't there before. Then again, having a disk image be a 'machine' is amazingly useful sometimes.

Submission + - SSL optimization over the WAN needs scrutiny

Submitted by

coondoggie

on Friday March 09, 2007 @01:29PM

coondoggie writes: "With more and more WAN optimization vendors extending their capabilities to include encrypted traffic, corporate IT executives have a decision to make: Should they trust the security these devices provide? Rather than passing through SSL sessions between clients and servers located in remote data centers, some WAN optimization gear can terminate the SSL sessions, shrink the traffic and re-encrypt it for the next leg of the trip. These chains of encrypted sessions introduce potential vulnerabilities that different vendors address in different ways. SSL traffic represents a growing percentage of total traffic on WAN links, according to Forrester Research. So SSL support in WAN optimization appliances will become more important to businesses that want to keep traffic secure while minimizing the size of their WAN links. http://www.networkworld.com/news/2007/030807-ssl-o ptimization.html"

Submission + - Wind, Solar & Biofuels to Power Remote Cell To

Submitted by

tcd004

on Friday March 09, 2007 @12:23PM

tcd004 writes: "How do you set up a cell network when there's no power grid? Namibia, India and Nigeria are building towers using localized power soucres to provide critical cell phone access to the most remote parts of their countries. Wind/solar hybrids, and biofuel power plants will power the radio towers, peripheral communications, and even the protective fencing around the installations."

Submission + - Selling Homeowners a Solar Dream

Submitted by

slugo

on Thursday February 22, 2007 @11:30PM

slugo writes: "Instead of making you spring for $25,000 or more in gear, Citizenr says it will loan you a complete rooftop solar power system, install it for free and sell you back the power it generates at a fixed rate below what your utility charges. The company hopes to make back its investment with those monthly payments, augmented by federal tax credits and rebates."

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