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  1. VPN, again on India Faces Its First Major Net Neutrality Issue · · Score: 2

    Using Internet through a VPN should prevent operators to figure out which site/port you are using (and DNS as well if name resolution goes through the VPN as well).
    This until many people are on a VPN and operators will start to charge VPN usage...

  2. Does it work over water? on Army To Launch Spy Blimp Over Maryland · · Score: 1

    MH370 might be interested.

  3. Re:10000 feet on Army To Launch Spy Blimp Over Maryland · · Score: 1

    That would be 10000 meters.

  4. Re:1mhz 6502 on Backblaze's 6 TB Hard Drive Face-Off · · Score: 1

    Loved the 6502.

  5. Re:Fundamentally breaking the net? on Sony Leaks Reveal Hollywood Is Trying To Break DNS · · Score: 1

    Well, you can still connect to the site if you know its IP address. A bit harder to remember though - especially if it's IPv6.

  6. Long story short (ad-less) on Backblaze's 6 TB Hard Drive Face-Off · · Score: 4, Informative

    - Initial reliability (how many drives failed) – No failures.
    - Running reliability (3 months) – No failures
    - SMART Stats (3 months) – No error conditions recorded for the 5 stats that we utilize.
    - Hard Drive Cost – about the same.
    - Energy Use – The Seagate drives were 7200 rpm and used slightly more electricity than the Western Digital drives which were 5400 rpm. This small difference adds up when you place 45 drives in a Storage Pod and then stack 10 Storage Pods in a cabinet.
    - Loading speed – Edge to Western Digital, by a little over 1 TB per day on average.

  7. Accident report on Researchers Accidentally Discover How To Turn Off Skin Aging Gene · · Score: 1

    Researchers accidentally discover ... ... couldn't help noticing that mice had beautiful skin at the end of the experiment

    Who buys that? Did they really find something and hide the truth about how they did it, or are they just looking for some ways to get media attention?

  8. Re:Terroir on Apparent Islamic Terrorism Strikes Sydney · · Score: 1

    As everyone know, Lindt is an Australian company.

  9. Aperture on Ask Slashdot: Best Software For Image Organization? · · Score: 1

    Aperture (yes it's on an Apple Mac) is the best thing I ever tried to organize / rate / tag index / enhance etc... pictures.

  10. The study... on Utilities Face Billions In Losses From Distributed Renewables · · Score: 5, Insightful

    ...by Accenture

    Stopped there.

  11. Re:practical-based certs hold their value on Ask Slashdot: Are Any Certifications Worth Going For? · · Score: 1
    Hmm doing a dictionary search (Chrome extension), RHSA is

    The RSHA, or Reichssicherheitshauptamt was an organization subordinate to Heinrich Himmler in his dual capacities as Chef der Deutschen Polizei and Reichsführer-SS

    You must have "done some of the tasks" before.

  12. Sol on British 'Porn Filter' Blocks Access To Chaos Computer Club · · Score: 1

    VPN

  13. Re:Lawyers not doing their homework on Apple DRM Lawsuit Might Be Dismissed: Plaintiffs Didn't Own Affected iPods · · Score: 1

    That's informative, thanks.

  14. Re:link to 2010 CNRS press release on Comet Dust Found In Antarctica · · Score: 1

    Looks cool, indeed.

  15. Just the beginning on Comet Dust Found In Antarctica · · Score: 3, Interesting

    After most of that ice melts, thanks to global warming, other interesting discoveries are to be made.

  16. Re:Lawyers not doing their homework on Apple DRM Lawsuit Might Be Dismissed: Plaintiffs Didn't Own Affected iPods · · Score: 1

    So the question, and I fear the answer, will the plaintiffs get their money back from the lawyers?

  17. Re:Make peace with Kim Jung Eun on The Sony Pictures Hack Was Even Worse Than Everyone Thought · · Score: 2

    Hackers say they stole 100 terabytes of data in total

    Indeed. At, say, 100 Mbps (~ 10MB/s) on the Internet - that's fast - that would take 10 million seconds, or 116 days full time...

  18. Re:Red Dwarf question on How Astronomers Will Take the "Image of the Century": a Black Hole · · Score: 1

    The many stars near the black hole shape its silhouette - like the Invisible man is visible if covered in paint. Or maybe the Hawking bh evaporation will help.

  19. Re:Cost of certificates on The Cost of the "S" In HTTPS · · Score: 1

    they're WAY more difficult to use than they need to be.

    That's probably in order to justify the price, I mean for the non-free ones (to be recognized by most browsers)? A cert takes less than a $0.01 to be made, they're sold between $30 to $1000...

  20. Best of luck on Hayabusa 2 Asteroid Probe Postponed By Weather Until Early December · · Score: 3, Interesting
  21. Limitless? on Consortium Roadmap Shows 100TB Hard Drives Possible By 2025 · · Score: 2

    In a few more years, everybody will have enough data space in a laptop to store the whole humanity data (as long as it's not recursive). The Internet in a cache...

  22. Re:Awesome on Linux On a Motorola 68000 Solder-less Breadboard · · Score: 1

    This is indeed awesome. The 68000 assembly language being relatively easier to learn than the 8086 family for instance, and the resources involved being relatively small (13 yo Linux and 512k!), it seems the whole project should be easier to comprehend than nowadays complex CPUs/OSes. That would be really great if you could build a detailed "How-to", explaining everything from scratch, with photos.

  23. Re:hmmmm on CERN Releases LHC Data · · Score: 1

    I wonder what people will do with this data or what can be learned from it?

    Don't worry, countries that are not a member of CERN, and other dictatorships, will be interested.

  24. Re:From Experience on "Barbie: I Can Be a Computer Engineer" Pulled From Amazon · · Score: 1

    Actually it does, seemingly. During my scholarship that happened quite a few times, we and friends helping computer-desperate girl friends... but I wonder what happened to non-geeky boys... They likely had the same problems, but were probably too proud to call for help (and, maybe, needed less attention...)

  25. Re:Bing indeed on Firefox Signs Five-Year Deal With Yahoo, Drops Google as Default Search Engine · · Score: 2

    The real question is how much $$ is behind FF / Y! deal?