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  1. PGP can handle multiple recipients

  2. Re:Sooo, 4 years? on Tablet Shipments Decline For 16th Straight Quarter (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    I do that with my 14" laptop. Only problem is, the cat decides to sleep between me and the laptop, $diety knows why, and I can't read the bottom half of the screen.

    I know it's a variable and can mean anything, but please spell it $deity to stop the inner turmoil I feel whenever I read $diety (I'm not one for diets).

  3. Re:My phone. Iphone 5S for the curious. on Ask Slashdot: Best To-Do/Task List Software? · · Score: 1

    I second the old-school methods. I'm using sticky notes on a a4 notebook. The visual representation is very quick to grok what needs doing (particularly when the notes are ordered), the ease of creating a task and moving tasks between categories is unrivalled (IMO) and the satisfaction of peeling a completed one off and chucking it away is unparalleled :)

  4. Re:Emacs org mode on Ask Slashdot: Best To-Do/Task List Software? · · Score: 2

    ""If emacs is the kitchen sink, emacs is the rest of the house.""

    sounds a little recursive

  5. Re:Saying "no" is hard to do on Apple Planning New, 'Robust' Parental Controls To Help Protect Children, Teens (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    I would say upfront this isn't my children's experience but my own. I was frustrated with the amount of time I spent on social media and quit a few years ago and am current using a feature phone. For the most part I'm happy with my decision. I'm not a particularly gregarious or extrovert person, but even I noticed a significant drop in invitations to parties and social events sent out via Facebook and the like. If you're not on Facebook, people don't take the time to send you a special message via other channels unless it's a very special occasion or you're really close. You could argue that's better, but the feeling you're missing out on something is undeniable.

    Could it be that your children are missing out on things because of the lack of a smartphone and instant messaging like iMessage? Sure they can use a desktop, but WhatsApp and iMessage don't work there, the two most prevalent IM services, and their social group in their year most likely are conversing via that. Have they broached the subject with you?

    My children are between 2 and 5 and these are questions I'm grappling with at the moment. I'd love to know other's experiences, particularly yours, because I honestly don't know whether smartphones are a good idea or not.

  6. Re:Q# is kinda cool on 2017: The Year in Programming Languages (infoworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Gotta love it when language examples involve notations like |0

    Looks like your last character quantum teleported off somewhere. I suspect the notation is meant to be |0>

  7. Re: FB stalking on WhatsApp Ordered To Stop Sharing User Data With Facebook (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    The only data they have is which numbers you are interacting with and when.

    Not sure this is correct. End to end encryption is for individual chat windows. Group chatting can be read by the mothership.

  8. Wrong Baker!

  9. Re:Make it stop.... on Firefox Quantum Is 'Better, Faster, Smarter than Chrome', Says Wired (wired.com) · · Score: 2

    The ability to do anything you can think of, and actually making it happen are two separate things.

    Writing a browser from scratch baking in whatever plugin you want would stop you from being limited by Quantum's API.

  10. I'm afraid this is not going to happen.

    That's why I said "in theory" :)

    Reminds me of a joke I heard:

    Q: What's the difference between theory and practice?

    A: In theory they're the same, but in practice they're different.

  11. The idea that the ZSK chain of authentication should be frequently rolled over is simply not going to happen.

    I don't understand. It's the KSK that has a slow rollover which is what is being discussed in this article, and the ZSK with the faster rollover. I never said the KSK should never be changed, but at the same time, I didn't say it should be frequent.

  12. Key Signing Key. DNSSEC is built on public key cryptography. You sign your zone with a Zone Signing Key ZSK, then sign the ZSK with your KSK, the public key part of which is available in your parent zone. The theory goes that you can roll over your ZSK frequently (and you should) without involving your parent zone.

  13. Re:Because Windows is full of bugs? on Why Bats Crash Into Windows (nature.com) · · Score: 1

    I find that it's flying toasters more than bats that crash in Windows.

  14. I agree, but Digikam, once you get past the fairly unintuitive UI, can emulate most workflows found in Picasa. The facial recognition is not great but apart from that I'm a very happy user, with 50,000 pictures.

  15. The is crap written in EVERY language

    Including English, it seems!

  16. Facebook Changes Feed on Facebook Changes Feed To Promote Posts That Aren't Fake, Sensational, Or Spam (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    And you won't guess what happened next!

  17. In this scenario, why couldn't I create a company "cc1984_ corp"of one employee: me? This company's business objective would be to keep me clothed, fed and generally in good shape. For Any services I render to anyone payment would not be to me directly, but to my company.

    My salary would be minimum wage which I would donate to charity (because I'm so nice).

  18. Re: Open Sources is NOT TWO WORDS! on Dropbox Open Sources New Lossless Middle-Out Image Compression Algorithm (dropbox.com) · · Score: 1

    It is two words, but most people apply middle-out compression to make it one word.

  19. Re:Let me be the first to say on Pfizer Blocks The Use Of Its Drugs In Executions · · Score: 1

    There's a video of this on Horizon:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

  20. Re:Surprise! on Mozilla Seeks New Home For Email Client Thunderbird · · Score: 1

    What do you do when you leave the house? Do you have a world accessible resolver? VPN tunnel just to block adds? Sounds like a case of diminishing returns

  21. Re:Yes, but it's a Dyson on Dyson Airblades 'Spread Germs 1,300 Times More Than Paper Towels' (telegraph.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    a) Have the air aim downwards to push the water down off your hands

    b) Move your hands into position from the side, rather than above

    Sounds like you're describing the Dyson Airblade V

    http://www.dyson.co.uk/hand-dr...

  22. Re:AC is by its very nature inefficient on Google Challenge Results In Astoundingly Efficient Inverters · · Score: 1

    We should not be generating AC power in the first place. DC is much more efficient.

    Perhaps not now, but way back when, AC was required because transformers could only work on AC, and people wanted high voltage, low current to minimize power wasted in the pylons' cables.

  23. Re:Who participated? on Google Challenge Results In Astoundingly Efficient Inverters · · Score: 5, Funny

    I think he forgot the /sarc at the end of his post.

    You are assuming GP male. This kind of sexist assumption is exactly the type of thing that needs to be stamped out in the industry.

    Now if you need me, I'll be in my safe space. /sarc

  24. Re:Blame the testers, not the recipients of feedba on Microsoft Unhappy With Beta Testers, Demands Answers (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Did you stop using beta software after you threw in the towel? I don't think they could fault you for that. It's the people who continue to run beta software despite not feeding back that this article is centred around.

  25. If you need hundreds of thousands of dollars to upgrade 'several copies of windows 7' you have bigger problems than anything MS is doing to you.

    It's probably the cost of upgrading the other software to be certified on Windows 10 rather than the OS itself.