Comment 60th vote not automatic, but (Score 0) 1124
For a price you can buy his vote. He wants to be re-elected and will accept campaign donations. So his vote should be fairly cheap...
Comment Your data and you (Score 0) 197
Anyone foolish enough to trust an online data bank to save their data is nuts. It's your data, back it up. And with a review by someone named "Swami", you know it's gotta be good! Hence the term, "A fool and their money is soon parted", add data to that and you have Carbonite.
A Hacker's Audacious Plan To Rule the Underground 313
An anonymous reader writes "Wired has the inside story of Max Butler, a former white hat hacker who joined the underground following a jail stint for hacking the Pentagon. His most ambitious hack was a hostile takeover of the major underground carding boards where stolen credit card and identity data are bought and sold. The attack made his own site, CardersMarket, the largest crime forum in the world, with 6,000 users. But it also made the feds determined to catch him, since one of the sites he hacked, DarkMarket.ws, was secretly a sting operation run by the FBI."
Comment Stupid should hurt (Score 0) 711
Every day I see these self proclaimed IT professionals that shouldn't be working do stupid things and make ignorant decisions. This is one of them. It's amazing that someone would actually think that mirroring is an actual solution for backup. Rule one, you can never have enough backups. Rule two, stupid should hurt. This has gotta hurt! Mirroring and RAID fail, plain and simple. You should always have backups, plural! Anyone who hires staff be on the lookout for anyone from this company, unless you need someone to work the grill!
Comment Re:No, it is not reasonable. (Score 0) 1057
I have been working as a electronics technician / PC tech for 20 years. I walked into my last job and quit 3 weeks ago. A tech with 9 months experience in the field was handed a supervisor job. Why? Because he sucked up. He hangs out with management and couldn't do his job if his life depended on it. After he got the position he spent his day's watching training video's on how to do his job. The day I quit they got in 200 computers to deploy. Let's see his management and technical abilities now. I hate this field because it is filled with middle management suckups who should be filling the shake machine and serving french fry's.
