Look how far we've come from the Apollo guidance computer, which landed 3 men on the moon, and had a fraction of the power of almost all of today's cell...

Nadrek (9/7/2012)

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Eric M Russell (9/7/2012)

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If cracking encypted data is what one does for a living, then I could see a need for a high end graphics card. However, most employees,...

Nadrek (9/7/2012)

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Eric M Russell (9/7/2012)

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I don't know why someone would care to have a high end graphics card in their work PC... unless they are playing Modern Combat 2 or...

I don't know why someone would care to have a high end graphics card in their work PC... unless they are playing Modern Combat 2 or watching movies on NetFlix...

Nadrek (9/7/2012)

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Dream machine for work?

Well, without price limits it's a pretty silly question - that's going to be something like a Dell T620 tower, dual socket octo-core 2.9Ghz Xeon, 384GB...

I have no special preference when it comes to the hardware sitting on my desk; in my department we have a scores of database servers provisioned for Development and QA,...

Eric M Russell (9/5/2012)

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TravisDBA (9/5/2012)

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Hey...While we are at it lets give the lobby guards billy clubs so whenever the drunk pinches someone in wrong place they can just beat the...

TravisDBA (9/5/2012)

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Hey...While we are at it lets give the lobby guards billy clubs so whenever the drunk pinches someone in wrong place they can just beat the living crap out...

Perhaps what we need at IT events are a couple of bouncers to escort folks out the door when they get too roudy.

Steve Jones - SSC Editor (9/4/2012)

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Aaron N. Cutshall (9/4/2012)

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Eric M Russell (9/4/2012)

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A lot of guys at conventions tend to get drunk or for whatever reason feel free to let themselves...

Sexual harrassment and groping is a problem, but I'm not convinced it's characteristic to Defcon or the IT industry in general. Googling CONVENTION GROPING INCIDENT, there are tons of hits....

majorbloodnock (8/31/2012)

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Eric M Russell (8/31/2012)

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I offer advice only from my own personal experience; I just toss it into the mix and readers can balance whatever I write with the experiences...

majorbloodnock (8/31/2012)

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Eric M Russell (8/31/2012)

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majorbloodnock (8/31/2012)

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Eric M Russell (8/31/2012)

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In a corporate environemnt, there is rarely a legitimate need for employees to be downloading stuff from the network to a "personal...

majorbloodnock (8/31/2012)

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Eric M Russell (8/31/2012)

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In a corporate environemnt, there is rarely a legitimate need for employees to be downloading stuff from the...

In a corporate environemnt, there is rarely a legitimate need for employees to be downloading stuff from the network to a "personal...