Comment Gary Johnson (Score 0) 412
Why is any one even care what he says?
Comment Re:Bad programming (Score 1) 113
if there are as many generalization and lack of precision in the posters code as there are in this posting it wold be below even Microsoft s level of coding. About equal to mine. David Smartsheep.
Comment Re:Really? (Score 1) 128
maybe on the second offense
Comment Oxford (Score 1) 128
Good for Oxford U. If students and faculty will not take security seriously they should be denied the service in the same way as you would take the car keys from a drunk driver or matches from a child. Would you uses a bank that did not take security seriously? or a car that was not safe? I don't see the difference.
Best David
Submission + - NASA Loses Contact with Space Station Over Software Update (cbslocal.com)
kodiaktau writes: Reports early Tuesday morning say that a software update to the Space Station caused a communication blackout with Houston control. Remediation of the update has allowed the astronauts limited communication every 90 minutes or so. It is expected that the issue will be resolved today.
Submission + - Sensors pick up North Korean radioactivity (nature.com)
gbrumfiel writes: "A global network of sensors has picked up faint traces of radioactive gas that probably seeped from last week's underground nuclear test by North Korea. The detection of xenon-133 in Japan and Russia provide further evidence of the nuclear nature of the test, but offer no hint as to the type of weapon used. Atmospheric modelling by the Central Institute for Meteorology and Geodynamics in Vienna shows that the gas likely seeped from North Korea's test site on 15 February, three days after the original test. That indicates that the test was well sealed deep underground."
Submission + - Large corporations displacing aging IT workers with H1B visa workers (npr.org)
genericmk writes: "NPR is running an interesting story about the unfortunate state of the aging programmers in the IT industry. The headline reads of aging IT workers opposing the H1B visa overhaul; the underlining reality is that large corporations claim shortage of IT talent and are bringing in large volumes of foreign staff. The staff is easier to control and demands less wage; indentured servitude is replacing higher cost labor."
Delete Data On Netbook If Stolen? 459
An anonymous reader writes "I have just moved overseas on a 2-year working holiday visa and so I picked up a netbook for the interim, an MSI Wind U100 Plus running WinXP. I love it to bits. But as I am traveling around I am somewhat worried about theft. Most of my important stuff is in Gmail and Google Docs; however, I don't always have Net access and find it useful to gear up the offline versions for both. Ideally I would like to securely delete all the offline data from the hard drive if it were stolen. Since it is backed up in the cloud, and the netbook is so cheap I don't really care about recovery, a solution that bricks it would be fine — and indeed would give me a warm glow knowing a prospective thief would have wasted their time. But it's not good if they can extract the HD and get at the data some other way. All thief-foiling suggestions are welcome, be they software, hardware, or other."
Comment Re:Impersonation (Score 1) 931
Yes, but the question ____is it reasonable to expect that people on face book will not play different rolls or make their life appear as they would like?
I would say it is not.___
Are people mean nasty and manipulative Yes. Does this mean that we should "protect" people by checking every id to be true. certainly not the right to free expression some time involves deception,for instance the Prince in Hamlet was a stand in For the duke of Cornwall I may have my dukes confused but not up. there is very little any one can do to prevent suicide apart from removing opportunity (do you happen to know how this girl killed herself stopping that is a lot more productive than sending people to prison that will not say a single life but will make the web a for commerce only. The same way we had to register our type-righters in Germany
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