Yeah, I really wish police around the world were more about the whole "helping people" thing and less about "don't do anything that doesn't generate revenue for the local government". Glad to hear about stuff like this.
Your SpiderOak data is readable to you alone. Most online storage systems only encrypt your data during transmission, meaning anyone with physical access to the servers your data is stored on (such as the company's staff) could have access to it. Or, even if your data is encrypted during storage, your password (or set of encryption keys) is often stored along with your data, thus making its easily decoded by anyone with local access to those servers.
With SpiderOak, you create your password on your own computer -- not on a web form received by SpiderOak servers. Once created, a strong key derivation function is used to generate encryption keys using that password, and no trace of your original password is ever uploaded to SpiderOak with your stored data.
SpiderOak's encryption is comprehensive -- even with physical access to the storage servers, SpiderOak staff cannot know even the names of your files and folders. On the server side, all that SpiderOak staff can see, are sequentially numbered containers of encrypted data.
This means that you alone have responsibility for remembering your password or 'Password Hint' (which you can create to help you remember) allowing SpiderOak to create a true 'zero-knowledge environment' – keeping your data as safe and secure as it can possibly be.
"All of us against the foreigners" is practically the American motto these days... and I say this as an American. From "They took our jobs!" to "lol eurotrash" to "gotta kill all them ter'rists", we've got a really overinflated sense of nationalism. That is never a good thing. =|
How is this modded 5 insightful? This is the mentality of a code monkey buried in a corporate basement somewhere while the world whips past above him..
First, I take offense that you would call me a code monkey, or that I work in a basement. I don't even live in a basement! That puts me above the average Slashdotter both figuratively and literally.
Secondly, it's modded as such because I have apparently perfectly captured the feeling that many Slashdotters feel - NASA is getting screwed over in every possible respect.
I am well aware that agencies do a whole bunch of things not necessarily related to their mission or their name. For instance, the CIA has the Kryptos sculpture, which is a pretty cool bit of P.R but really doesn't have a whole lot to do with foreign intelligence. You have the Marines doing stuff like Toys For Tots which has pretty much nothing to do with "projecting power from the sea".
The problem is that Obama here is saying "Hey NASA, your top priorities don't have shit to do with anything related to your mission". It'd be like if he said the CIA's top priority was to make a reality show, or the Navy should really focus on planting trees. It's ridiculous and it serves to emphasize just how castrated our beloved geeky governmental department has become, and it makes me both sad and angry (but mostly angry).
What the fuck does any of this shit have anything to do with spaceships? That's a job for diplomats, not the goddamned National Aeronautics and Space Administration. It's in the goddamned name! They should be working on either space, planes, or fucking planes that go into fucking space!
Right now the only thing breaking the stratosphere is my goddamned blood pressure.
I'm all for vaccinations, truly. I think they're a good thing. I have them, and when I have children they will be vaccinated.
Now, they're obviously important - along with the whole "herd immunity" thing - but I'd have a very difficult time, morally, with resolving something like, say, mandatory vaccinations. I'm kind of a big believer in the whole "you decide what goes into your body" thing, and especially when it comes to children. I don't think children should be circumcised, for instance.
Ultimately my mind decides it's a good thing for me and the only thing a law would mandate would be me doing something I'm going to do anyway, but I still find it unsettling.
I was just looking at a job out in London, until i compared the cost of living to where I'm am here in the US, the price of a one bedroom flat in London was 3X what I would pay here for a 1200 sq ft 3 bedroom apartment.
Okay, now compare wherever it is you live to New York City (or the closest equivalent of "the country's biggest and most important city", and see how the numbers match up.
$1200 in NYC will get you halfway to owning a one room the size of a closet.
His rule was that he's the first in the office and the last one to go home.
The whole "come early, leave late" thing is actually one of the shittiest parts of working in Japanese culture:
Arriving early for work is common in Japan and shows commitment to colleagues and seniors. It is therefore not uncommon for Japanese workers to arrive 30 to 60 minutes early for work. Additionally, leaving work late expresses the same sort of commitment. Usually, the first person to leave will show his/her apology by saying “Osakinishitsurei shimasu” which translates to “excuse me for going first”. Generally, it is considered bad practice to leave before the boss does.
The practice is starting to wane, but do some Googling and find out how shitty it really is. Apparently, if you come to work on time and leave on time, you're "lazy" no matter how productive you are in the office.
Ya how the hell did this garbage make it onto slashdot, it's sexist and misleading.
Exactly! Usually/. summaries are just misleading! I don't want all of this misogyny getting in the way of my daily dosage of misrepresented facts, half-truths, and outright omissions!
Well, America isn't all that better! As a man, I think it's wrong that I got arrested just because I drunkenly stumbled into the women's bathroom and peed in the sink. If I peed in the sink in the men's bathroom there wouldn't have been a problem! SEXIST FACISTS!
If I were REALLY paranoid, I would get to some place where no one else can see what's going on, inside a Faraday cage, with the person I want to communicate with, in a sound-proofed booth
Ooh, sounds good! Then maybe if the feds come after you, you can detonate pre-installed C4 and blow up the factory that was your hideout because Will Smith made a phone call. Then Will Smith says "AW HELL NAW" and shoots a dude with a shotgun, and you drive away over some train tracks.
I didn't have a chance to read any of the really wordy, heady science yet. Could someone who has read it please just tell me how many Black Mesa jokes the MIT guys make? 4? 5?
You know what's a real bullshit move they've been doing lately? Classifying stuff as "experimental" and therefore not covered by insurance.
Okay, no big deal right? I mean, insurance is all about liability... but what about when they classify something as "experimental" just because it's more expensive? Do you really think laser cataracts surgery should be considered "experimental" when it's been used on tens of thousand of people successfully? No, but that would hurt their profit margins. Never mind the fact that the difference for recovery times is 1 week for laser and up to 6 months for traditional.
Stuff like this happens all the time. It's sickening.
Yes, I know what the experiment did. But how do you independently verify the intelligence? That's what I mean.
It's like, okay. You invent some new kind of laser that can detect temperatures. (Yes, I know these exist, I'm tired and this is the best example I can give). You point the laser at the water and it gives off a temperature. You also have three or four traditional thermometers of varying types in the water. Does the laser match what's on the thermometers? Then the laser is accurate (or rather, the science suggests that the position that the laser is accurate is more likely).
I went through the medical training in America's Army 3 when it launched and was horribly buggy.
It was really well-designed and informative. Hell, it might have even helped save a life.
But, the story wasn't about a guy who played the game and shot up a mall full of teenagers, so you never hear about shit like this in the mainstream media.
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Yeah, I really wish police around the world were more about the whole "helping people" thing and less about "don't do anything that doesn't generate revenue for the local government". Glad to hear about stuff like this.
Is there a cloud based company that will not take a peek at any of the information stored on it's servers?
Yes: SpiderOak. They are physically incapable of looking at your data:
Your SpiderOak data is readable to you alone. Most online storage systems only encrypt your data during transmission, meaning anyone with physical access to the servers your data is stored on (such as the company's staff) could have access to it. Or, even if your data is encrypted during storage, your password (or set of encryption keys) is often stored along with your data, thus making its easily decoded by anyone with local access to those servers.
With SpiderOak, you create your password on your own computer -- not on a web form received by SpiderOak servers. Once created, a strong key derivation function is used to generate encryption keys using that password, and no trace of your original password is ever uploaded to SpiderOak with your stored data.
SpiderOak's encryption is comprehensive -- even with physical access to the storage servers, SpiderOak staff cannot know even the names of your files and folders. On the server side, all that SpiderOak staff can see, are sequentially numbered containers of encrypted data.
This means that you alone have responsibility for remembering your password or 'Password Hint' (which you can create to help you remember) allowing SpiderOak to create a true 'zero-knowledge environment' – keeping your data as safe and secure as it can possibly be.
You know what's worrying? There's people on things like 4chan right now that will one day be inventing stuff like this.
"Sir, how does this laser rifle work again?"
"Okay, first, push the button that says 'CHARGIN'. Then, press the button that says 'FIRAN'".
*BWUUUUUUUUUUUHH*
"Kinda sounds like a dude projectile vomiting, Sarge."
In other news:
Zionists control the media!
Dog bites man.
Zionist dog!
Water is wet.
Zionist liquid!
Sky is blue.
Zionist atmospheric conditions!
Republicans are racist.
Zionist Christians!
Clouds primarily composed of water vapor.
Working in concert with the Zionest atmosphere!
Ratio of circumference of circle to radius = tau.
Heathen Zionest mathematics!
Nickelback is lame.
We agree.
"All of us against the foreigners" is practically the American motto these days... and I say this as an American. From "They took our jobs!" to "lol eurotrash" to "gotta kill all them ter'rists", we've got a really overinflated sense of nationalism. That is never a good thing. =|
How is this modded 5 insightful? This is the mentality of a code monkey buried in a corporate basement somewhere while the world whips past above him..
First, I take offense that you would call me a code monkey, or that I work in a basement. I don't even live in a basement! That puts me above the average Slashdotter both figuratively and literally.
Secondly, it's modded as such because I have apparently perfectly captured the feeling that many Slashdotters feel - NASA is getting screwed over in every possible respect.
I am well aware that agencies do a whole bunch of things not necessarily related to their mission or their name. For instance, the CIA has the Kryptos sculpture, which is a pretty cool bit of P.R but really doesn't have a whole lot to do with foreign intelligence. You have the Marines doing stuff like Toys For Tots which has pretty much nothing to do with "projecting power from the sea".
The problem is that Obama here is saying "Hey NASA, your top priorities don't have shit to do with anything related to your mission". It'd be like if he said the CIA's top priority was to make a reality show, or the Navy should really focus on planting trees. It's ridiculous and it serves to emphasize just how castrated our beloved geeky governmental department has become, and it makes me both sad and angry (but mostly angry).
Then they build some goddamned space planes with fucking satellites for wings.
Stop and use your head. Consider the result, if just once, they don't evacuate and something horrible happens.
Now you understand the problem.
Okay. Someone is talented enough to make a pipe bomb, but not something to destroy an entire building.
So, they make a whole bunch of them and bury them in the grass on the quad where everyone assembles in an evacuation.
Then, after everyone evacuates and follows the rules...
The "people of Wal-Mart" always look like they're in widescreen, even if your monitor is in portrait mode.
They are being sued by a relative of the deceased — big difference.
Well of course. If the deceased were suing them, he'd have a hard time proving the whole "death" part in court.
What the fuck does any of this shit have anything to do with spaceships? That's a job for diplomats, not the goddamned National Aeronautics and Space Administration. It's in the goddamned name! They should be working on either space, planes, or fucking planes that go into fucking space!
Right now the only thing breaking the stratosphere is my goddamned blood pressure.
Neither, it's been snatched up by a blacksmith.
I'm all for vaccinations, truly. I think they're a good thing. I have them, and when I have children they will be vaccinated.
Now, they're obviously important - along with the whole "herd immunity" thing - but I'd have a very difficult time, morally, with resolving something like, say, mandatory vaccinations. I'm kind of a big believer in the whole "you decide what goes into your body" thing, and especially when it comes to children. I don't think children should be circumcised, for instance.
Ultimately my mind decides it's a good thing for me and the only thing a law would mandate would be me doing something I'm going to do anyway, but I still find it unsettling.
I was just looking at a job out in London, until i compared the cost of living to where I'm am here in the US, the price of a one bedroom flat in London was 3X what I would pay here for a 1200 sq ft 3 bedroom apartment.
Okay, now compare wherever it is you live to New York City (or the closest equivalent of "the country's biggest and most important city", and see how the numbers match up.
$1200 in NYC will get you halfway to owning a one room the size of a closet.
His rule was that he's the first in the office and the last one to go home.
The whole "come early, leave late" thing is actually one of the shittiest parts of working in Japanese culture:
Arriving early for work is common in Japan and shows commitment to colleagues and seniors. It is therefore not uncommon for Japanese workers to arrive 30 to 60 minutes early for work. Additionally, leaving work late expresses the same sort of commitment. Usually, the first person to leave will show his/her apology by saying “Osakinishitsurei shimasu” which translates to “excuse me for going first”. Generally, it is considered bad practice to leave before the boss does.
Source: http://www.liveworkjapan.com/customs.shtml
The practice is starting to wane, but do some Googling and find out how shitty it really is. Apparently, if you come to work on time and leave on time, you're "lazy" no matter how productive you are in the office.
Ya how the hell did this garbage make it onto slashdot, it's sexist and misleading.
Exactly! Usually /. summaries are just misleading! I don't want all of this misogyny getting in the way of my daily dosage of misrepresented facts, half-truths, and outright omissions!
Well, America isn't all that better! As a man, I think it's wrong that I got arrested just because I drunkenly stumbled into the women's bathroom and peed in the sink. If I peed in the sink in the men's bathroom there wouldn't have been a problem! SEXIST FACISTS!
How would you even collect royalties on something like that? Every time a digital "coin" is produced, every transaction, or something else?
Yeah, I can't believe people fall for th
Oh look. It is a picture of two kittens who are playfully romping in the grass. This picture is really cute.
What? No, it's
So cute!
If I were REALLY paranoid, I would get to some place where no one else can see what's going on, inside a Faraday cage, with the person I want to communicate with, in a sound-proofed booth
Ooh, sounds good! Then maybe if the feds come after you, you can detonate pre-installed C4 and blow up the factory that was your hideout because Will Smith made a phone call. Then Will Smith says "AW HELL NAW" and shoots a dude with a shotgun, and you drive away over some train tracks.
I didn't have a chance to read any of the really wordy, heady science yet. Could someone who has read it please just tell me how many Black Mesa jokes the MIT guys make? 4? 5?
You know what's a real bullshit move they've been doing lately? Classifying stuff as "experimental" and therefore not covered by insurance.
Okay, no big deal right? I mean, insurance is all about liability... but what about when they classify something as "experimental" just because it's more expensive? Do you really think laser cataracts surgery should be considered "experimental" when it's been used on tens of thousand of people successfully? No, but that would hurt their profit margins. Never mind the fact that the difference for recovery times is 1 week for laser and up to 6 months for traditional.
Stuff like this happens all the time. It's sickening.
Yes, I know what the experiment did. But how do you independently verify the intelligence? That's what I mean.
It's like, okay. You invent some new kind of laser that can detect temperatures. (Yes, I know these exist, I'm tired and this is the best example I can give). You point the laser at the water and it gives off a temperature. You also have three or four traditional thermometers of varying types in the water. Does the laser match what's on the thermometers? Then the laser is accurate (or rather, the science suggests that the position that the laser is accurate is more likely).
So where's the "thermometer" here?
I went through the medical training in America's Army 3 when it launched and was horribly buggy.
It was really well-designed and informative. Hell, it might have even helped save a life.
But, the story wasn't about a guy who played the game and shot up a mall full of teenagers, so you never hear about shit like this in the mainstream media.
Disqualification: Openly admitting you believe in Muslim fairy tales instead of Christian ones.