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Comment Re:get doors offline idiots! (Score 1) 53

by Chan Jav on Friday December 15, 2017 @04:07PM (#55747711) Attached to: Lock Out: the Austrian Hotel That Was Hacked Four Times

Most systems are interfaced to the hotel's property management system. This is generally by serial, but now systems are IP based. The newer card encoders are also IP based. The workstations that are running the encoders and the key database should be dedicated workstations, but these are usually networked for support and management. Some vendors are better than others, the ones that don't let use join these to our domain cause the most issues because we loose the ability have have these centrally managed.

Comment Re:No... their stats suck (Score 5, Informative) 357

by Chan Jav on Monday February 17, 2014 @03:21PM (#46269425) Attached to: US Plunges To 46th In World Press Freedom Index

Think for yourself, but have a look here.

Their statistics suck, even if their principles are sound.

Let us look at the last few years worth of rankings
2002 17th
2003 31st
2004 22nd
2005 44th
2006 53rd
2007 48th
2008 36th
2009 20th
2010 20th
2011-12 47th
2013 32nd
2014 46th

Seems like a yo-yo, maybe this index is more about creating headlines than true measure. Please do reference the On The Media story linked above.

Submission + - Cell Phone Industry's Six Biggest Failed Schemes

Submitted by adeelarshad82 on Sunday January 16, 2011 @04:34PM

adeelarshad82 writes: The tech world is for dreamers, schemers, and sometimes, scammers. Which is why it's no surprise that the cell phone industry isn't any different. In wake of the recent news about the Israeli mobile-phone firm Modu shutting its doors, mobile analyst Sascha Segan revisits six major failures in the cell phone industry, from using phones to create a peer-to-peer that would eliminate the need for wireless carriers to a company with a $225,000 phone.

Student Googles Himself, Finds He's Accused of Murder 184

Posted by samzenpus on Tuesday November 30, 2010 @03:36PM from the be-careful-what-you-search-for dept.

University of Florida student Zachary Garcia was more than a little surprised to find out he was wanted for murder after Googling his name. It turns out the police were looking for a different man but had mistakenly used Garcia's photo. From the article: "Investigators originally released a driver's license photo of Zachary Garcia — spelled with an 'A' — but it was Zachery Garcia — spelled with an 'E'— who was charged in connection with the crime."

Kids Who Watch Popeye Cartoons Eat More Vegetables 119

Posted by samzenpus on Monday August 09, 2010 @03:31PM from the I-yam-what-I-yam dept.

markmark57 writes "Popeye cartoons, tasting parties and junior cooking classes can help increase vegetable intake in kindergarten children, according to new research published in the journal Nutrition & Dietetics. Researchers at Mahidol University in Bangkok found the type and amount of vegetables children ate improved after they took part in a program using multimedia and role models to promote healthy food. Twenty six kindergarten children aged four to five participated in the eight-week study. The researchers recorded the kinds and amounts of fruit and vegetables eaten by the children before and after the program."

Radioactive Boar On the Rise In Germany 165

Posted by samzenpus on Monday August 02, 2010 @12:14PM from the stay-in-the-car-while-I-check-this-out dept.

Germans who go out in the woods today are sure of a big surprise, radioactive boars. A portion of the wild boar population in Germany was irradiated after the Chernobyl nuclear meltdown, and the boars are thriving. In the last two years government payments to compensate hunters for radioactive boar have quadrupled. From the article: "According to the Environment Ministry in Berlin, almost €425,000 ($555,000) was paid out to hunters in 2009 in compensation for wild boar meat that was too contaminated by radiation to be sold for consumption. That total is more than four times higher than compensation payments made in 2007." I think the Germans are overlooking just how much money there is to be made from regenerating bacon.

Marine Mammals Used To Fight Terrorism 131

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday May 19, 2010 @11:11AM from the jones-the-enhanced-dolphin dept.

pinkstuff writes "The Navy unveiled its terror-fighting marine mammals at a two-day homeland security and disaster preparedness exercise in California this week. From the article: 'A Navy seal — actually a sea lion — took less than a minute to find a fake mine under a pier near San Francisco's AT&T Park. A dolphin quickly located a terrorist lurking in the black water before another sea lion, using a device carried in its mouth, cuffed the pretend saboteur's ankle so authorities could reel him in.' Queue the 'frickin lasers' jokes."

Facebook Master Password Was "Chuck Norris" 319

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday January 21, 2010 @03:56PM from the ad-nauseum-roundhouse dept.

I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes "A Facebook employee has given a tell-all interview with some very interesting things about Facebook's internals. Especially interesting are all the things relating to Facebook privacy. Basically, you don't have any. Nearly everything you've ever done on the site is recorded into a database. While they fire employees for snooping, more than a few have done it. There's an internal system to let them log into anyone's profile, though they have to be able to defend their reason for doing so. And they used to have a master password that could log into any Facebook profile: 'Chuck Norris.' Bruce Schneier might be jealous of that one."

The Twelve Most Tarnished Brands In Tech 430

Posted by timothy on Thursday December 31, 2009 @04:33PM from the packard-bell-is-in-its-own-class dept.

harrymcc writes "Polaroid, Netscape, CompuServe, Westinghouse, Heathkit — these were once among the most respected names in the technology business. They're still around, but what's happened to them is just plain sad. I took a look at the tragic fates of a dozen mighty brands that have, in one way or another, fallen on hard times."

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