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  1. Identity Verification / Encrypted Archive on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Securely Store Private Information For Posterity? · · Score: 1

    I have a USB thumb drive, with an encrypted file on it.
    There is a readme file also, in the readme is a list of 8 personal questions. Only my wife could answer all of them.
    The answers to those questions is the passphrase to the encrypted file.

  2. Single Point of Failure on Rob Malda Casts a Jaded Eye at Amazon's Silk · · Score: 1

    Man, I know what you mean I have the same problem with Firefox. When my internet connection goes down it won't load up facebook. I should submit a bug report. Totally unacceptable.

  3. Enough with the Unlocked front door analogy... on Google Street View Wi-Fi Data Includes Passwords, Email Content · · Score: 1

    Its a weak analogy and its never used correctly.

  4. Re:Papers Please! on US Immigration Bill May Bring a National Biometric ID Card · · Score: 1

    Remember when we use to say how bad the Soviet Union was because you needed papers to travel.

  5. Re:Mail Server on both ends on Using Outlook From Orbit · · Score: 1

    Its obvious, I want my gold to take up less room :)

  6. Re:Not simply webmail? on Using Outlook From Orbit · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    But NASA doesn't not have to break SMTP to enable filtering. This is some insane system thought up by some no talent microsoft consultant.

    There is no reason for the solution that is currently in place, the only explanation is that the person who came up with it did not understand email at all.

  7. Mail Server on both ends on Using Outlook From Orbit · · Score: 5, Interesting

    mail server on the ground, mail server on the shuttle.

    The mail queues up and you open up the connection between them certain times of day. Queue empties.
    GZIP the link and your gold.

  8. Re:The old-fashioned way? on How Do You Sync & Manage Your Home Directories? · · Score: 1

    I use multiple OS X, Linux, and FreeBSD machines daily. One cannot sync all home directory files, as all the config stuff differs between Gentoo, Debian, FreeBSD, Tiger, and Leopard. So it's mostly down to documents, graphics, and a few audio and video files. For the larger ones, I use a usb stick, the smaller ones I email to myself so they're always available via IMAP servers. But most of all I have a bootable, customized version of systemrescuecd installed on a 16GB usb stick, which at any given moment has all the currently important stuff I need. It works well enough for me.

    I use the same tcsh config on all my OS X, FreeBSD, Linux, Solairs, whatever servers.
    Now i do admit i have large if statements for OS dependant information. But no matter what OS i use it has the same feel.
    I also store a master copy of this .cshrc so that i can easily fetch the latest copy via a simple ALIAS.

  9. Give it a few years on Loophole found in Internet Domain Naming · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Even now, people hardly remember domain names. They use google to find it because its easier that way.

    Give it a few years an people will be asking you, whats your google search string?

    But anyways its .pro, Frankly this is the first time I have heard about it. I dont think anyone will shed a tear for them.

  10. Wow Compression on DRM for 1'3" of Silence · · Score: 5, Interesting

    man 1.1 MB for just silence you would think nothing would compress down to almost nothing.

    Realy take a look, whats hard to compress, variance.
    The song is the same the entire track. so realy that could be compress quite nicely. no need stereo is silence after all. no need for a bit rate, its silence.

    Frankly I am a bit disapointed in the compression.

  11. Almost like store placement on 100,000 Domains Sold for $164 Million · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I was told a story that McDonalds spends millions on strategic restraunt locations, where it would see the most traffic, and the condition of the neighborhood and all kinds of good statistics. what ever it takes to find the perfect store location.

    Then burger king builds across the street.

  12. Re:Slashdot on 100,000 Domains Sold for $164 Million · · Score: 1

    Do some math:

    A = how much traffic you get in a year
    B = How much a company is willing to pay per click
    C = Number of Banners you will have on the page

    ((A*1/4)*(B*C))*5 = How much you ask for.

    1/4 of the people that come to your site clicking a
    banner is a large percent though.
    5 Years for good messure

  13. Re:Astonished on 100,000 Domains Sold for $164 Million · · Score: 1

    What happens is you get Joe User, he spells the url wrong, he ends up on a site that pop-up like 30 other site. There you go automatic clicks.

  14. Competition is good on Microsoft Takes on TiVo · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Tivo has name, and proven track record.
    Microsoft has money and can buy name and track record.

    That aside, competition is most aways a good thing it drives up inovation. The more brands availible the better off we are as consumers.

    But look at other comcast products, G4, after the merger of G4 and techtv, they took one crapy network and one decent network(Techtv), and produced a crapy network.

    Now i can use my comcast DVR to make sure i dont ever have to see a retarded G4 show again :)

  15. Re:ALL DEMURRALS ASIDE on Techies Migrate in Search of Work · · Score: 1

    I think this is an alarmist view, The only people who dont have jobs, either:

    A. Have no skills and just a Degree.
    B. Havent looked around.
    C. Want way too much money for the skill set the currently have.

    Most of the jobs leaving this country are the janitor jobs of this industry anyways.

  16. Re:Web browsing in 2013 on 10 Years of the World Wide Web · · Score: 1

    GOD NO not the 3D Hologram image of the goatse.cx man again.

  17. DreamCast - Poor mans webserver on Linux On Your Dreamcast · · Score: 4, Funny

    Buy a few dreamcast install linux and apache and you have a cheap webserver farm.
    Mix that with an NFS mount and a DataBase Server and you could run slashdot off it.

    I wonder how well a dreamcast rack mounts?