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I have used the Dropbox client on Debian and Ubuntu. The website mentions Fedora. That's more than two. In addition, the install page states that the updater can also be compiled from source code.

Let's be clear on what all of the numbers actually are.

Q4 letter: 360-400k vehicle deliveries
Q4 call: 350-500k Model 3s produced
Tweet: around 500k vehicles produced

These are not the same thing. Deliveries are not production (there's also inventory, both in-transit and accumulated - both of which are to be much higher this year vs. last, due to the international launch of the Model 3 and Tesla's new policy to locally stock common configs for faster delivery), and Tesla makes more than just the Model 3 (e.g., ~80k S+X this year).

Yes, there is a lack of clarity between the Q4 letter and call (I wouldn't expect up to 100k M3 inventory, although it's possible) - but resolving that ambiguity is an issue entirely unrelated to the case. What matters is that Musk's tweet clearly falls within the range of publicly disclosed information. Because the earnings call is an official source of public information disclosure.

There seems to be a common mistaken view (even repeated by some journalists) that the SEC settlement requires anything Musk posts to be pre-read and pre-approved. This is not correct. The social media policy, imposed on Tesla by the settlement, requires Musk to seek approval for communications which contain material information - nothing more.

So the question is: is reiterating already public numbers from official channels (aka, the Q4 earnings call) "material information"? Yeah, good luck making that argument. That doesn't mean that the numbers from the call will be proven correct - but they were previously publicly disclosed information, and thus not material information. And regardless of whether one thinks that Musk should have every tweet pre-approved, that is not his obligation - he is only required to have tweets containing material information approved.

Now, let's put yourself in the shoes of a Tesla attorney. And let's say that Musk's statement in the earnings call was not guidance that you wanted repeated (e.g. overly optimistic or whatnot). What do you do? The company has an obligation to make sure that it's putting out are as accurate as possible. So if you only want the 400k figure repeated, then what's the solution? You jointly draft a followup "correction" tweet, of course. This does not in any way change the fact that what was stated previously was already public information.

Careful who you label as incel

>Microsoft was naughty

Ah, short memories. Japan was developing its own OS and systems ages ago to fully support their language, had everything ready for delivery to their schools and universities until microsoft pressured the US gov. They hit japan with sanctions until they stopped.

Just a bit 'naughty' hey.

Willis Eisenbach? He's not a "climate scientist" His BA is in Psychology. He's just some upper class twit who's bummed around the south pacific on the family money.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/uqnh...

He even puts "worked on my fathers Summer house" on the CV as experience! Basically he's a humped up building contractor with an overly high opinion of himself.

Willis Eisenbach? Where do you find these crackpots with a high opinion of themselves. He's not a scientist! His BA is in Psychology. He's just some upper class twit who's bummed around the south pacific on the family money.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/uqnh...

He even puts "worked on my fathers Summer house" on the CV as experience!

If it is, you use inofity

Do you mean inotify? And if so, does inotify work with all local file systems (not counting NFS)?

You may also be able to store the inode and checksum somewhere as a hint.

Provided the file system supports inodes, which usually means one that supports hard links to files. FAT doesn't, unless you count a file's first cluster as its "inode". So Dropbox drops extended attributes upon rename on a FAT volume. This is documented.

Spoken like someone who's never experienced weight problems.

Ah another one doubting me personally

There's a real pattern here with you. Do you think that people desire to be obese?

No

Do you think it's only you who's figured out the obvious?

No, lots of people understand basic physics.

Is it really as simple as a character flaw that makes everyone else not as good as you?

Yes. Taking responsibility of the only body they get in life.

No, you've never struggled with weight loss

Yeah about that.

Body processes aren't static: if you drop 300 calories from your diet your body will adjust (mainly noticed by having no energy and wanting to sleep a lot), and you won't actually lose weight. Is it *possible* to lose weight? Of course, but it's not easy , and the limiting factor is knowledge not "will power."

Might want to look up homeostasis before you make the claim the bodies processes aren't static. I don't ignore the evidence, I've lived it. Weightloss is not easy, but its simple. I didn't suffer a lack of energy nor did I wish to sleep a lot. Sorry, people that are overweight or obese are doing exactly what I was doing; eating more than they need per day and having the excess stored as fat.

An obsession over P/E ratios isn't healthy. P/E is a past-looking metric. It is not predictive. If I bought a machine that could conjure gold out of thin air, and had my staff put all their focus on setting it up and getting it running, my P/E ratio would look terrible from the time I bought it to the time it was up and running at design capacity. But then I'm conjuring gold out of thin air.

P/E ratios are a useful tool, but it's critical to understand their limitations. They're not in any way a substitute for modeling a company's future balance sheet. Which unfortunately is harder work, but you have to do it. If you want to have a go at it for Tesla, try this for starters. Choose your own numbers.

I don't use iCloud. I use Dropbox.

You trust the company that has Condoleezza Rice on its board over the company that has pushed back against the FBI on privacy so much that their conflict has its own wikipedia page? Really?

The game Claybook is entirely raytraced

No, it isn't. Here are their GDC 2018 slides: https://www.dropbox.com/s/s9tz...

They are using Unreal Engine 4 for shadow cascades, ambient occlusion, lighting, motion blur, and presumably the background scene. The SDFs are raytraced for first-hit surface intersections, soft shadows, and extra ambient occlusion. The visual giveaway is that there are no reflective surfaces.

You can run the numbers for yourself if you want. "Work Miles" are miles with passengers in the car. "Total Miles" are miles that I drove that day with the app turned on.

Here is the spreadsheet that I sent to my tax guy for 2017

https://www.dropbox.com/s/uhw8...

One thing worth noting is that I got all of my "Tax Set Aside" back. I had been setting aside 50% of what I earned for taxes because Lyft 1099s the drivers and does not take any taxes out.

YMMV - I'm at about a ~30% tax rate from my primary job (earning over $150K / year) so that likely played into how much of the Lyft earnings I got to keep.

Is here:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/f6p0...

in this paper i cover most of the wrongs industry has caused life on earth since the industrial revolution, and in the middle there is a long section on overfishing. just read about what really happens in the fishing industry when you digest news about some part of the ocean being "protected from fishing x years". if you've ever argued with fishing industry professionals when they are being told to cut it out, you know firsthand what a bunch of lying phoney bastards they are when it comes to the environment.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/fbs0...

Perhaps, but far from unique. How about adding a unique identifier, like their Social Security Number perhaps?

That's a great idea ... why has no one thought of that before. ;)

From the study cited in TFA: "Crosscheck’s data ... contain, when available, the last four digits of each registration’s Social Security number (SSN4)." So they used that to compare name/DOB pairings (the proposed criterion for removal) where SSN4 was available in the data. Thus:

Using data provided to Iowa in 2012, we identified 1,483 [name/DOB] pairings with complete SSN4 information in which both registration records were used to vote in 2012. In more than 99.5% of these pairings, the flagged registrations had different SSN4s, supporting our intuition that our model estimates an upper bound on the number of double votes cast in 2012.

That guy (sad clown that he is) was Steve Bannon - https://www.dropbox.com/s/99d8...

Transcript: https://mathyawp.wordpress.com/2017/01/08/mathematics-for-human-flourishing/

Audio Recording: https://www.dropbox.com/s/55i43l2irm57y9c/01%20Mathematics%20for%20Human%20Flourishing.mp3?dl=0

The latest analysis among actually publishing scientists [sagepub.com] (by James Powell [wikipedia.org]) finds "above 99.99%", or what he calls "virtual unanimity".

In other words, a crap study. There aren't that many climate researchers in the world to maintain a 10,000 to 1 ratio over the publishing skeptics by probably two orders of magnitude.

Powell counted 69406 to 4, and apparently the referees and editors at the Bulletin of Science, Technology & Society agreed. The full paper including the methodology is online, as are the data sets.

Thanks! That's the answer I was hoping for.

> Also you don't have to pell off all those Windows stickers that are present on the other laptops. Just wish they had changed the keyboard to get rid of the Windows meta key but a sticker fixed that.

I do that, too! Here's my current setup. Ne'er an OEM sticker to be found aside from the important ones on the bottom of the chassis, though I still need a sticker for the meta key and something to cover the Dell logo.

It's a decidedly middle-of-the-road Inspiron; I can only lust for an XPS at this point. Being designed for Windows, it has had its share of problems, though nothing I can't solve or work around. The most serious of which is an annoying screen flicker with the latest kernels (4.5 and newer) that I've yet to find a solution for. Until I figure that out I'm sticking with 4.4 kernels.

Reinstalling Gentoo tonight, and both the SAS and Ultra320 controllers are out as we try to flash them to a later version of their firmware, but here's some (horrible) shots of the hardware:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/9xvo...
https://www.dropbox.com/s/7xa4...
https://www.dropbox.com/s/56zl...
https://www.dropbox.com/s/ix93...

Reinstalling Gentoo tonight, and both the SAS and Ultra320 controllers are out as we try to flash them to a later version of their firmware, but here's some (horrible) shots of the hardware:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/9xvo...
https://www.dropbox.com/s/7xa4...
https://www.dropbox.com/s/56zl...
https://www.dropbox.com/s/ix93...

Reinstalling Gentoo tonight, and both the SAS and Ultra320 controllers are out as we try to flash them to a later version of their firmware, but here's some (horrible) shots of the hardware:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/9xvo...
https://www.dropbox.com/s/7xa4...
https://www.dropbox.com/s/56zl...
https://www.dropbox.com/s/ix93...

Reinstalling Gentoo tonight, and both the SAS and Ultra320 controllers are out as we try to flash them to a later version of their firmware, but here's some (horrible) shots of the hardware:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/9xvo...
https://www.dropbox.com/s/7xa4...
https://www.dropbox.com/s/56zl...
https://www.dropbox.com/s/ix93...

Look, I've never used LTO so I could be talking out my ass, but I must disagree with this:

"For the purposes of photos or video a 2:1 ration would be a safe assumption to use."

Compressed video uses some of of the most advanced domain-specific file compression routines available, without going to the fractal-based stuff that NASA uses. There is no way that LTO's compression (or any other general compression routine) is going to put a dent in a H.265 compressed video file.

JPEG may show a 15-20% improvement, since the new JPEG encoding that DropBox developed showed a 22% improvement so there is some wriggle room in JPEG.

However, from what I've read I am very confident that LTO compression does wonders for general office files: databases, spreadsheets, accounts, documents, server logs, and so on.

BTW, I found the posts about LTO to be very interesting and I think I may invest in a second hand tape drive and start using it. One way to get more mileage out of the unit will be to prepare backups for family and friends. Currently I maintain two file servers at remote locations (home and office) and allow friends and family to backup to them via DropBox. If I had an LTO drive I could simply take snapshots of the DropBox backup folder and send the tapes off site. The security of the backups are low-risk, since the data is already encrypted by the DropBox client before it even leaves the user's PC. I'm not really happy with DropBox but for now it fills a need. Maybe in the future I will switch to something more powerful like OwnCloud.

And here's the original message provided by The Shadow Brokers
The original URL hosting the file was taken down but it was mirrored here:
Shadow Broker Message

The text is below in case that mirror stops working too.

From:
bitmessage = BM-NBvAHfp5Y6wBykgbirVLndZtEFCYGht8
i2p-bote = [removed to satisfy slashdot form validator]

Equation Group Cyber Weapons Auction - Invitation

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https://app.box.com/s/amgkpu1d...
https://www.dropbox.com/s/g8kv...
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Free Files (Proof)
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eqgrp-free-file.tar.xz.gpg
sha256sum = [removed to satisfy slashdot form validator]
gpg --decrypt --output eqgrp-free-file.tar.xz eqgrp-free-file.tar.xz.gpg
Password = theequationgroup


Auction Files
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eqgrp_auction_file.tar.xz.asc
sha256sum = [removed to satisfy slashdot form validator]
Password = ????

Auction Instructions
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We auction best files to highest bidder. Auction files better than stuxnet. Auction files better than free files we already give you. The party which sends most bitcoins to address: before bidding stops is winner, we tell how to decrypt. Very important!!! When you send bitcoin you add additional output to transaction. You add OP_Return output. In Op_Return output you put your (bidder) contact info. We suggest use bitmessage or I2P-bote email address. No other information will be disclosed by us publicly. Do not believe unsigned messages. We will contact winner with decryption instructions. Winner can do with files as they please, we not release files to public.

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I don't care ;D "XNU as in X is not Unix" is just a name. Bottom line it is Unix.

My belief is that Unix is a series of standards, particularly those that Unix certification certifies against. Such as, the Unix certification OS X is certified contains POSIX standards that can do things like fork() without exec() just fine, something OS X can't (amusingly the Windows Subsystem for UNIX-based Applications can actually do this fine). Sure, OS X passed it's certification, but I really just think that the certification never fully tested functionality like forking, Posix threading proper, because anyone that has any reasonable experience with it will tell you the OS X implementation is broken. Those are just 'critical' things I think that shouldn't be broken on an 'Unix'.

I understand you meant SSD. But how should copying large files stop applications is beyond me.

Here is a video of a large file transaction while OS X does it's classic beach ball thing, this is another application that tries to read the drive at the same time on a HDD. The moment the file operation complete, the other application unblocks. Looks like a blocking I/O operation to me. I can replicate this behavior easily by using large chunks with dd copying large block sizes of /dev/zero and doing a 'time cat' on another file (just did the command just now):

Aron:~ ash$ cat soup.txt > /dev/null

real 1m1.467s

However on old Macs/Powerbooks the ATA interface is shitty, no idea if it lacks DMA or what the problem is, and there GUI gets a bit sluggish if you do back ground file operations.

This was the latest and beefiest MBP you could get in 2013, the last model that had a real optical drive, ethernet ports etc. OS X identifies it as a 'MacBook Pro (15-inch, Mid 2012)'. But you know what, I have reproduced the exact same behavior on a mid-2015 model when a friend of mine decided to upgrade his 256GB SSD to a 1TB HDD, so I highly doubt it's an issue restricted to 'old models'.

If you experience particular problems it might be a certain model? Or you have a bad HD - board connection?

I have been able to reproduce this on every Mac I've ever handled that had a HDD, going back as far back as Puma. That's a lot of hardware to be bad. Fresh, old installs, it doesn't matter. I had a very large thread on the Apple support forums for a time before it 'disappeared' (I would link it to you otherwise) that had far more detail than I really care to write up and test again. But, with 1TB SSD drives becoming more popular, I guess Apple's solution will be long term, "just use an SSD.", since the issue isn't really noticeable on one.

Astronomers no longer need to avoid...? Really? I'll just point my telescope there and see all the new galaxies now.

If you don't want three levels of dumbing-down, here is the actual study, PDF:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/lp22...

The Parkes HI Zone of Avoidance Survey

Abstract: A blind HI survey of the extragalactic sky behind the southern Milky Way has been conducted with the multibeam receiver on the 64-m Parkes radio telescope. The survey covers the Galactic longitude range 212 degrees to 36 degrees and Galactic latitudes |b| less than 5 degrees to an rms sensitivity of 6 mJy per beam per 27 kmsâ'1 channel, and yields 883 galaxies to a recessional velocity of 12,000 kmsâ'1. The survey covers the sky within the HI Parkes All-Sky Survey (HIPASS) area to greater sensitivity, finding lower HI-mass galaxies at all distances, and probing more completely the large-scale structures at and beyond the distance of the Great Attractor. Fifty-one percent of the HI detections have an optical/near-infrared (NIR) counterpart in the literature. A further 27% have new counterparts found in existing, or newly obtained, optical/NIR 1 images. The counterpart rate drops in regions of high foreground stellar crowding and extinction, and for low-HI mass objects. Only 8% of all counterparts have a previous optical redshift measurement. The HI sources are found independently of Galactic extinction, although the detection rate drops in regions of high Galactic continuum. The survey is incomplete below a flux integral of approximately 3.1 Jy kmsâ'1 and mean flux density of approximately 21 mJy, with 75% and 81% of galaxies being above these limits, respectively. Taking into account dependence on both flux and velocity width, and constructing a scaled dependence on the flux integral limit with velocity width (w0.74), completeness limits of 2.8 Jy kmsâ'1 and 17 mJy are determined, with 92% of sources above these limits. A notable new galaxy is HIZOA J1353â'58, a possible companion to the Circinus galaxy. Merging this catalog with the similarly-conducted northern extension (Donley et al. 2005), large-scale structures are delineated, including those within the Puppis and Great Attractor regions, and the Local Void. Several newly-identified structures are revealed here for the first time. Three new galaxy concentrations (NW1, NW2 and NW3) are key in confirming the diagonal crossing of the Great Attractor Wall between the Norma cluster and the CIZA J1324.7-5736 cluster. Further contributors to the general mass overdensity in that area are two new clusters (CW1 and CW2) in the nearer Centaurus Wall, one of which forms part of the striking 180â--¦ (100hâ'1Mpc) long filament that dominates the southern sky at velocities of â¼ 3000 kmsâ'1, and the suggestion of a further Wall at the Great Attractor distance at slightly higher longitudes.

Sweet! I'm glad you have ideas on how to improve the site. As it's in heavy production right now, I'm not going to massively incorporate changes. I don't have a dev version of the site, as it was never intended to get any bigger than "friends and family" Friend of a friend of a friend picked it up at ABC, and then it exploded in popularity from there. Thanks for your thoughts, regardless. We'll look into changes for next year. I'm currently limited by the 320K outbound channel we have locally, so it's hard to do much. Nice to see that the slashdot effect is still valid, though. https://www.dropbox.com/s/5fqn...

Proof: https://www.dropbox.com/s/w4lq...

https://www.dropbox.com/s/w4lq...

I haven't seen zxcvbn mentioned before, a similar look at password strength from 3 years ago.

https://blogs.dropbox.com/tech...

Demo is here: https://dl.dropboxusercontent....

Personally I like the output of http://www.kurtm.net/wpa-pskge... for passwords:

o|IRcWY;g_V]C}9'.@]@,]!YF.[Yj{K@QmuFCo%%!=~+ab,e2(pU97{V-)Qm*T

Windows Phone OS (whatever it's called this week) just had so many bad details, it was like walking around and constantly tripping on things.

One example: I wanted to run with a white background instead of black. When doing that, the white-on-transparent icons disappeared.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/15o7...

Things like that might have been fixed in 8.1, but 8.0 was the third major release of this UI (after 7.0 and 7.5) and they should have caught a lot of things like that by then.

There are a lot of places where an overuse of transparency and other effects causes more harm than good. In trying to make something that looks better than iOS, they went a little too far with the effects.

Here's another place where white text on top of random backgrounds -- which happen to contain white -- falls apart. (The one on the left looks OK on a big monitor but they were pretty bad on the phone. And you can see how if the photos had more white in the wrong place, it would be even worse.)
https://www.dropbox.com/s/cke1...

For what it's worth, I think iOS 7 was a big step back from iOS 6 in a lot of ways too -- too many thin lines; not enough contrast.

What you said was exactly my idea -- for $59, it was WAY better hardware and software (from a stability point of view, at least) than some generic Android-based media player, but every single task I tried to do had some obstacles. And it wasn't just a case of being used to iOS -- I use Mac OS and Windows every day at work -- it was that everything MS did differently, they did worse. I just returned it after a few weeks. If someone gave me one for free, I still wouldn't use it.

Windows Phone OS (whatever it's called this week) just had so many bad details, it was like walking around and constantly tripping on things.

One example: I wanted to run with a white background instead of black. When doing that, the white-on-transparent icons disappeared.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/15o7...

Things like that might have been fixed in 8.1, but 8.0 was the third major release of this UI (after 7.0 and 7.5) and they should have caught a lot of things like that by then.

There are a lot of places where an overuse of transparency and other effects causes more harm than good. In trying to make something that looks better than iOS, they went a little too far with the effects.

Here's another place where white text on top of random backgrounds -- which happen to contain white -- falls apart. (The one on the left looks OK on a big monitor but they were pretty bad on the phone. And you can see how if the photos had more white in the wrong place, it would be even worse.)
https://www.dropbox.com/s/cke1...

For what it's worth, I think iOS 7 was a big step back from iOS 6 in a lot of ways too -- too many thin lines; not enough contrast.

What you said was exactly my idea -- for $59, it was WAY better hardware and software (from a stability point of view, at least) than some generic Android-based media player, but every single task I tried to do had some obstacles. And it wasn't just a case of being used to iOS -- I use Mac OS and Windows every day at work -- it was that everything MS did differently, they did worse. I just returned it after a few weeks. If someone gave me one for free, I still wouldn't use it.

A Raspberry Pi powered, sound-sensitive disco suit: https://www.dropbox.com/sc/yd1... Code: https://github.com/chrisgagne/...

I quite like zxcvbn, which is a password strength estimation tool. It's much better thought-out than any other password complexity tests I've come across.
https://blogs.dropbox.com/tech/2012/04/zxcvbn-realistic-password-strength-estimation/

As far as I understand it, it basically tests whether a password could be generated using various common dictionaries, patterns, substitutions and transformations. Whichever technique would generate the password the quickest is taken as a lower bound for the time taken to crack the password. In other words, it assumes that an attacker is going to assume or know that the password has a particular pattern and then try cracking it according to that pattern. (If they don't pick that pattern, then it will probably take them longer to crack it, though that assumes zxcvbn did not miss some even easier pattern.)

It handles xkcd-style passwords well. Sometimes, it turns out that a long word you thought was obscure can actually be formed from two very common words, making the overall password easier to crack. Two easy words can be easier to crack than one difficult word, even if there are other words as well.

Since discovering it, I've often thought it would be quite good if people used something like zxcvbn to set password expiry dates: You pick a weak password, you get asked to change it more often. ("We estimate that your password would take 3 months for somebody to crack using the pattern [describe what pattern it matched], so we will set it to expire after 3 months, when you'll be asked to make a new one.") If you pick a stronger one, you get asked less frequently. And, of course, the expiry of something like "password" would be practically instant, so those kinds of passwords would effectively be banned. ("We estimate that your password would take less than a second for somebody to crack using the pattern [describe what pattern it matched]. Please try something that is longer and/or has less of a pattern.")

I suppose there would be a risk in using this technique though. It might push users to choose genuinely stronger passwords, or alternatively they might find some loophole; a pattern it doesn't recognise; and use that. For instance, a quotes from a published work. (I suspect that if Google were the one implementing this, they would be very well placed to recognise passwords that quote published works, so perhaps we don't have to worry too much about that one, but there are probably other examples of such 'loopholes'.)

automatically encrypt your data locally and upload it to multiple locations. These locations can be public locations as only your private key can decrypt the incremental (or full) backups.

Some backends:

• azure backend (Azure Blob Storage Service) Microsoft Azure SDK for Python - https://github.com/Azure/azure...
• boto backend (S3 Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Storage) boto version 2.0+ - http://github.com/boto/boto
• cfpyrax backend (Rackspace Cloud) and hubic backend (hubic.com) Rackspace CloudFiles Pyrax API - http://docs.rackspace.com/sdks...
• dpbx backend (Dropbox) Dropbox Python SDK - https://www.dropbox.com/develo...
• copy backend (Copy.com) python-urllib3 - https://github.com/shazow/urll...
• gdocs backend (Google Docs) Google Data APIs Python Client Library - http://code.google.com/p/gdata...
• gio backend (Gnome VFS API) PyGObject - http://live.gnome.org/PyGObjec...
• D-Bus (dbus)- http://www.freedesktop.org/wik...
• lftp backend (needed for ftp, ftps, fish [over ssh] - also supports sftp, webdav[s]) LFTP Client - http://lftp.yar.ru/
• mega backend (mega.co.nz) Python library for mega API - https://github.com/ckornacker/..., ubuntu ppa - ppa:ckornacker/backup
• OneDrive backend (Microsoft OneDrive) python-requests - http://python-requests.org/ python-requests-oauthlib - https://github.com/requests/re...
• ncftp backend (ftp, select via ncftp+ftp://)
• NcFTP - http://www.ncftp.com/
• Par2 Wrapper Backend par2cmdline - http://parchive.sourceforge.ne...
• rsync backend rsync client binary - http://rsync.samba.org/

It's not directly linked anywhere, so here his is wordpress blog page about it, including source (Unity3D project). There's native clients at his link also, or you can download the /Web.html page and /Web.unity3d file from the webplayer version then edit the html to make the screen size larger (I altered it to 2500x1400, looks cooler larger).

It's hitting the nostalgia pretty well for me, having not played any 3D mario games since 64. The little bombs look awesome. The whole thing makes me want to make a small game in Unity, which is pretty cool.

A penny a month per gigabyte... that's $10/month per terabyte... that is already what Dropbox charges for "fast" storage. So what gives? Why would I pay $10/month for a terabyte of slow storage when I can get the same amount of storage for the same price in a regular, fast format with Dropbox?

Here is an answer from someone on Quora.

Dropbox offers no Service Level Agreement. Actually they specifically provide no warrantees whatsoever about their service (http://www.dropbox.com/terms). This is a non-starter for many CIOs.

Beyond that, the fact that Dropbox doesn't "own" the underlying cloud storage architecture -- Amazon S3 -- could be an issue, although they advertise it as secure via in-transit and on-disk encryption (https://www.dropbox.com/help/27).

If it still is the case that Dropbox uses S3 itself, then that wouldn't make business sense for them to pay more for storage than they're charging their own customers (even if they've decided not to offer a Service Level Agreement).

So my guess is that this has to do with the way they count the storage for customers. Assuming that their customers do not encrypt their data before they place it on DropBox (which would make sense because DropBox customers are rarely CIOs themselves), then DropBox is most likely hashing the content and only storing a single copy of a file even if there are thousand virtual instances of that same file throughout their system.

Also note that in the special case where a company is footing the bill and DropBox can't count the same file multiple times within that same company, otherwise the customer company would complain, then DropBox actually advertises a rate of $15 per 5 terabytes per month per user (with no Service Level Agreement of any kind even for business users).

A penny a month per gigabyte... that's $10/month per terabyte... that is already what Dropbox charges for "fast" storage. So what gives? Why would I pay $10/month for a terabyte of slow storage when I can get the same amount of storage for the same price in a regular, fast format with Dropbox?

Here is an answer from someone on Quora.

Dropbox offers no Service Level Agreement. Actually they specifically provide no warrantees whatsoever about their service (http://www.dropbox.com/terms). This is a non-starter for many CIOs.

Beyond that, the fact that Dropbox doesn't "own" the underlying cloud storage architecture -- Amazon S3 -- could be an issue, although they advertise it as secure via in-transit and on-disk encryption (https://www.dropbox.com/help/27).

If it still is the case that Dropbox uses S3 itself, then that wouldn't make business sense for them to pay more for storage than they're charging their own customers (even if they've decided not to offer a Service Level Agreement).

So my guess is that this has to do with the way they count the storage for customers. Assuming that their customers do not encrypt their data before they place it on DropBox (which would make sense because DropBox customers are rarely CIOs themselves), then DropBox is most likely hashing the content and only storing a single copy of a file even if there are thousand virtual instances of that same file throughout their system.

Also note that in the special case where a company is footing the bill and DropBox can't count the same file multiple times within that same company, otherwise the customer company would complain, then DropBox actually advertises a rate of $15 per 5 terabytes per month per user (with no Service Level Agreement of any kind even for business users).

A penny a month per gigabyte... that's $10/month per terabyte... that is already what Dropbox charges for "fast" storage. So what gives? Why would I pay $10/month for a terabyte of slow storage when I can get the same amount of storage for the same price in a regular, fast format with Dropbox?

Here is an answer from someone on Quora.

Dropbox offers no Service Level Agreement. Actually they specifically provide no warrantees whatsoever about their service (http://www.dropbox.com/terms). This is a non-starter for many CIOs.

Beyond that, the fact that Dropbox doesn't "own" the underlying cloud storage architecture -- Amazon S3 -- could be an issue, although they advertise it as secure via in-transit and on-disk encryption (https://www.dropbox.com/help/27).

If it still is the case that Dropbox uses S3 itself, then that wouldn't make business sense for them to pay more for storage than they're charging their own customers (even if they've decided not to offer a Service Level Agreement).

So my guess is that this has to do with the way they count the storage for customers. Assuming that their customers do not encrypt their data before they place it on DropBox (which would make sense because DropBox customers are rarely CIOs themselves), then DropBox is most likely hashing the content and only storing a single copy of a file even if there are thousand virtual instances of that same file throughout their system.

Also note that in the special case where a company is footing the bill and DropBox can't count the same file multiple times within that same company, otherwise the customer company would complain, then DropBox actually advertises a rate of $15 per 5 terabytes per month per user (with no Service Level Agreement of any kind even for business users).

A penny a month per gigabyte... that's $10/month per terabyte... that is already what Dropbox charges for "fast" storage. So what gives? Why would I pay $10/month for a terabyte of slow storage when I can get the same amount of storage for the same price in a regular, fast format with Dropbox?

Here is an answer from someone on Quora.

Dropbox offers no Service Level Agreement. Actually they specifically provide no warrantees whatsoever about their service (http://www.dropbox.com/terms). This is a non-starter for many CIOs.

Beyond that, the fact that Dropbox doesn't "own" the underlying cloud storage architecture -- Amazon S3 -- could be an issue, although they advertise it as secure via in-transit and on-disk encryption (https://www.dropbox.com/help/27).

If it still is the case that Dropbox uses S3 itself, then that wouldn't make business sense for them to pay more for storage than they're charging their own customers (even if they've decided not to offer a Service Level Agreement).

So my guess is that this has to do with the way they count the storage for customers. Assuming that their customers do not encrypt their data before they place it on DropBox (which would make sense because DropBox customers are rarely CIOs themselves), then DropBox is most likely hashing the content and only storing a single copy of a file even if there are thousand virtual instances of that same file throughout their system.

Also note that in the special case where a company is footing the bill and DropBox can't count the same file multiple times within that same company, otherwise the customer company would complain, then DropBox actually advertises a rate of $15 per 5 terabytes per month per user (with no Service Level Agreement of any kind even for business users).

What if you had more than just 1 Tb? If you had more than 1tb, how is Dropbox going to help you at all? Oh right, now you must purchase DropBox for Business, and your price just went way up. https://www.dropbox.com/busine...

That's all you need to know.

Don't use Dropbox.

Eh, a 4.5" Newtonian is not that well-suited for planets if it is fast (e.g. around f/5) - it is not about price. That said, the OTA of a modern decent quality 4.5" Newtonian costs around $100-$200, so it is one of the cheapest you can get - most people pay several times that for their phone. Now, if you want to see Jupiter in some detail and stay within budget you can go for a 5" Mak at around $200-$300 (for the OTA, or $400 for the full package with a computerized goto mount and tripod) and for example when coupled with a $10 webcam it will give you an image of Saturn like this: https://www.dropbox.com/s/r2vh... (note that Jupiter is quite larger than Saturn so it is an easier target to get surface detail). So that's a very cheap telescope (still less than a smartphone) that would give you a good view of the event. If you want to spend more money but not too much, you can look into used scopes. E.g. I recently grabbed an 8" Celestron SCT for $400 which gives even greater planetary views.

Note: Not OP.

It's not their fault you have a small browser window and/or low resolution display.

What's small and/or low resolution about my browser/display?

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All of those hoops are removed if the app is signed by an Apple 'enterprise deployment' certificate. Someone anyone can get just by asking.

No, those are all the hoops you have to go through to accept the "enterprise deployment" certificate profile the first time, then accept the app launching the first time. Also, the phone needs to be unlocked to accept any of these dialogs.

But then Apple can just revoke the cert (which it did for WireLurker) and blacklist the malware on the Mac side (which it also did for WireLurker).

They specifically said they turned off Spotlight suggestions.

No, he said he turned off Spotlight suggestions in Spotlight. Not Spotlight suggestions in Safari. (Because you may not want Spotlight sending strings to Apple when searching for files on the computer, but you may not care if you are only searching the internets via safari).

Even if that were not so, changing search engine should never mean you have to find another configuration option to turn off the old search engine. That's just wrong.

It's in the same window!

So when a cloud vendor says "we store your photos securely and have your privacy as our #1 goal" or whatnot, that's equivalent to putting photos in an envelope and putting them in a post office? I don't think so. Try another analogy.

Your Google fu is weak, old man.