Currently setting up a SUPER HIGH PERFORMANCE networking environment to better simulate our terrible connection to our office in Vancouver.

@scottalanmiller said:

@Dashrender said:

But RFID? yeah your passport is the only thing I can think of that most people have with one in it.

Yeah, I hate that one. It makes American children identifiable when abroad from a distance. You don't need to be able to read the RFID, only see it. It becomes a tracking device (over very short distance.) But the scariest thing is that if a family is all carrying their RFID passports as they are told to do, someone in a crowded marketplace or other public area can use them to identify foreign children and, more scarily, identify when they have become isolated or are out of line of site with their accompanying adults.

As someone who lives in a tourist centered city, I PROMISE you that we know you're tourists from a block away. Sometimes more.

Edit for obligatory joke: Why do they bother to call it tourist season? You're not allowed to shoot them.

@thanksajdotcom or rusty old cars

Never underestimate the power of stupidity and ignorance.

Comcast got hit by NAD's?

I'm ok with this.

To the average punter white font on a black screen = scary OS flavour of the month

@Joyfano If that's actually a thing (content blah blah) it should be scripted to pull randomly from a long list of really amusing words. Leave the tags < > so everyone knows it was an expletive.

Example: "Oh man, today was just complete <laffy-taffy> and I can't believe the user told me to <hiccup> off!"

@BBigford said in US Completes First Offshore Windfarm:

@MattSpeller said in US Completes First Offshore Windfarm:

@MattSpeller said in US Completes First Offshore Windfarm:

@travisdh1 said in US Completes First Offshore Windfarm:

@MattSpeller said in US Completes First Offshore Windfarm:

@travisdh1 said in US Completes First Offshore Windfarm:

@MattSpeller said in US Completes First Offshore Windfarm:

@travisdh1 said in US Completes First Offshore Windfarm:

@IRJ said in US Completes First Offshore Windfarm:

P.S. I used to have a neighbor that used solely green energy. They used wind and solar on their house. We lived on the west bank of the lagoon which is ideal for wind ( bad for boating), but good for energy.

If money were no object, I'd be using thermal. You can get it anywhere, but drilling a deep enough well is what makes it prohibitively expensive, and it's not so great on a large scale yet from what I know. Secondary to that would be a Thorium or PBR reactor, but the smallest of those are town sized units.

I too would like my own nuclear reactor... I solemnly swear that I will do very little evil with it....

Good luck producing any fissionable materials with either of those. Physics protecting us from @MattSpeller.

Pfffft I can do tons of fun stuff if you give me half a megawatt to play with

Death ray?

Enormous capacitor bank to feed my home brewed RailGun that would only ever be used for good I totally promise

Oh goodness, the mind boggles with the options....

I'd use the proceeds to start Canada's only firearms ammunition manufacturing company, smelting the lead bars myself from recycled car batteries.

Oh, also, recycling plastics (HUGELY energy intensive, could easily take all 500KW on it's own)

Canada has no ammunition factories? I'd be so bummed about not having any... Every town in Idaho I've lived in makes bullets. Not just reloads in someone's basements, but big businesses.

Like CCI (Spear, ATK). Anyone who's done some serious shooting in the USA knows what CCI is. Their headquarters was just down the street in Lewiston, ID.

We import it all from our ludicrously well armed Southern neighbours.

PS: please give Canada ITAR exemptions, because we have cool guns but no companies to make the ammo. With no limit on caliber it's 100% legal to own artillery, flak and anti-tank guns here. I need some 40mm bofors!

I enjoy camping and look for spots I know have zero phone coverage. Unplugging feels good.

Damn you're looking good today

Oh, I know right? Trimmed the beard - even got lastnight's BBQ sauce out special for my boss coming back today.

Whoa man, gettin all fancy and stuff

brutal pwnage

Dear Dell,

I honestly want to like your company. I've used your products for almost my entire professional career in IT. I really enjoy a lot of the features you have, notably how easy it is to get broken junk warranted. I think it's because of these factors that I want to see you get even better, so here we go.

Item 1: Your sales reps. Pay them a decent wage, not commission, and actually retain them for more than 6 months. I spend a lot of time and effort breaking the new one to my will, preferences and desires. It's a waste of my time I wish to see end.

Item 2: Your prices for custom hardware configs. That you offer them kicks ass - that is right off the top. However offering a stock config with a 320gb rusty 5400rpm piece of absolute garbage, then offering me an upgrade to a 128gb SSD for AN ADDITIONAL $150 IS BULLSHIT. Ahem. We all know that the 320gb hunk of junk costs EXACTLY the same as the 128GB SSD. Why you want to charge me 3 times what it costs to just buy one and piss me off in the process escapes me. I get that making a zillion all the same is cheaper, but 3 times (essentially 4 if you count the cost of the 320gb) is OUTRAGEOUS. Please stop this. I will require less blood pressure medication.

Item 3: Really zaney config options on your servers. Again, absolutely have to say that having that config page is brilliant - I really love it. Not keeping up with all your own configs is just lazy. To the point of ineptitude. Show some pride in what you make, especially where the people who buy it are most likely to interact with you.

Item 4: Reserved for later. Please feel free to add some of your own below.

@coliver "Oh no worries bro, we saw that you logged something so we logged a log of your log!"

hehehe

Vaporware... ok perhaps a poor choice. You know what I mean.

Hardcopy needs to cease being a thing.

Heheh everyone knows spooning is better anyway

@RojoLoco said in 3rd Party InfoSec Testing Center:

Call it the "First Unified Church of Software Testology" or something... pretty easy to form a church and not pay taxes, look how many there are already. And this one might actually be useful for something (besides not paying taxes).

Hail root

Administrative templates\control panel\display\password protect the screen saver and screen saver timeout.

That'll lock it but I don't know how to log one off totally. That'd be a bit of a risky move.

Not sure what I expected when I clicked on this. Not disappointed.

@travisdh1 said in US and Canada Diverge on Net Neutrality:

@MattSpeller said in US and Canada Diverge on Net Neutrality:

@travisdh1 said in US and Canada Diverge on Net Neutrality:

@MattSpeller said in US and Canada Diverge on Net Neutrality:

@travisdh1 said in US and Canada Diverge on Net Neutrality:

Must feel good to be Canadian right now. Aye, @MattSpeller?

Implying it didn't before?

Guess it sounds like it, doesn't it? Doh! Just even better than before!

To be honest any decisions like this effect more than just the USA / Canada.

On a related note I'm tempted to start up a simple VPN service for Americans, hosted in Canada.

I'd invest in that.