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  1. Re:Virus on How To Store Your Data For 1 Million Years · · Score: 1

    Maybe Virii are the way to go. Bacteria mutate, virii do rather seldom.

  2. Re:Ask these folks... on How To Store Your Data For 1 Million Years · · Score: 1

    And then?
    Our thinking is egocentric. The nuclear catastrophe will be a desaster? yes. For us. We might die out.
    What, we're destroying the nature together with us? Define nature! We may "destroy" much of that, what we define as nature, but this definition is egocentric as well. There is nothing, which defines, that humans and animals more worthy nature than the cold "dead" planets out there. It's even unclear if they are as "dead" as you think or if it may be some other form of life.
    Use your fantasy. Maybe the whole universe is just some strain of "DNA", each planet encoding some information? We will never know at which scale of some world you can imagine we're really living.

  3. There does not need to be data degration on How To Store Your Data For 1 Million Years · · Score: 1

    First: Our DNA contains a lot of "useless" information, which is not used or changed. Nobody knows what it does, maybe it just lost the sequence on the active part of the DNA, which activates it.

    Second: Don't think of the DNA as a pure data store. Think of it as an program. Then write a program, which reencodes itself into each new instance in a robust manner. Your child may have mutated the data, but its organism reads the data and reconstruct it from some redundancy and writes unmutated data into the DNA of your grandchildren. Again with redundancy and repair program.

  4. Not at all on How To Store Your Data For 1 Million Years · · Score: 1

    Who needs it.

  5. On the other hand, you do not need signed tags to sign git. YOU can check it out today and add a signed tag. Now you can check everyday, if the new commits are based on your signed version.

  6. gpg, not ssh ...

  7. Re:Forced Updates? on Features That Windows 10 Will Deprecate · · Score: 1

    The good old time, where you had the disks of every OS version still around. Now you do not even have disks, only recovery partitions. Which include the preinstalled crapware, of course.

  8. Re:Innacurate summary on Features That Windows 10 Will Deprecate · · Score: 1

    and the option to opt out of certain updates.

  9. Forced Updates on Features That Windows 10 Will Deprecate · · Score: 1

    The NSA feature. You will not be asked, if you want to install the update, which is tailored for you. They just install it as needed.

  10. Let google do what google does on Creationists Manipulating Search Results · · Score: 1

    Google ranks by popularity, not by truth. No need to fiddle with that. If you think the page at place 1 tells you the truth, you have other problems than the page at the top of the google results.

  11. Re:Poetry in Code on Google's Diversity Chief: Mamas Don't Let Their Baby Girls Grow Up To Be Coders · · Score: 1

    and use a php project as prime example m(

  12. Nobody steered me. The opposite is true, i had strict times for pc usage. I learned the whole programming stuff by myself, using not more than some turbo pascal book.
    I steered myself, because i knew what i liked.

    So, nobody should steer anyone. People just need to open opportunities. The rest will come by itself.

  13. Re:For anyone else wondering what the hell this is on Firefox's Optional Tracking Protection Reduces Load Time For News Sites By 44% · · Score: 1

    The irony: Look at the two urls belonging to the feature "SAFEBROWING_ID" ... oh yeah, there it goes again with the unique id (which is used for phishing protection as well).

  14. Re:Lets all chant together on Firefox's Optional Tracking Protection Reduces Load Time For News Sites By 44% · · Score: 1

    for useragent.override use a popular one, not a random one. you may be the only person with "???" as UA, but not the only one with " Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; rv:36.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/36.0"

  15. Re:Lets all chant together on Firefox's Optional Tracking Protection Reduces Load Time For News Sites By 44% · · Score: 1

    ghostery, but not adblock.

    adblock: adblock privacy gives you ghostery
    noscript: gives you a lot of ghostery

    adblock blocks ads, even from the same host. And noscript can allow scripts per domain, while adblock (privacy) blocks some depending on the path.

  16. Re:Lets all chant together on Firefox's Optional Tracking Protection Reduces Load Time For News Sites By 44% · · Score: 1

    plus Policeman

  17. Re:Seems to work for OSM and Wikipedia on Firefox's Optional Tracking Protection Reduces Load Time For News Sites By 44% · · Score: 1

    Be important, get donations, be ran by volunteers or die, be a commercial site (webshops) or die.
    Nobody needs the 100000th "i want to play with you, but first see my AAAAAAAAAAAAADS" page, if its not interesting anyway.

  18. Why is it news? on KDE Plasma 5 Becomes the Default Desktop of OpenSUSE Tumbleweed · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Plasma 5 is out for a long time now and the successor of KDE 4.x. So why shouldn't the distros adopt it?

  19. Useless Article on Mechanical 'Clicky' Keyboards Still Have Followers (Video) · · Score: 1

    Of course there are still people liking mechanical keyboards. so what?

  20. Contains some bullshit on RTFM? How To Write a Manual Worth Reading · · Score: 1

    as the needle in the haystack
    a) Other languages have the same idiom
    b) It's understandable, even if its no idiom of a particular language.

  21. Betteridge's law of headlines on Is Big Data Leaving Hadoop Behind? · · Score: 1

    Betteridge's law of headlines finally proven wrong?

  22. An Idiot on Does Using an AOL Email Address Suggest You're a Tech Dinosaur? · · Score: 1

    In ancient times, when AOL were popular, it was a sign for idiots. Now its one for idiots, who are even to stupid to get a gmail adress.

  23. Re:Slightly connected.... on The Best Way To Protect Real Passwords: Create Fake Ones · · Score: 1

    its key OR TFA.
    if you log in with a ssh-key, PAM is skipped and your TFW-scheme is not invoced.

  24. It takes offline brute-force to online brute-force on The Best Way To Protect Real Passwords: Create Fake Ones · · Score: 1

    now: crack the master password with five million guesses per second on your cluster
    then: search the ten services with weakest security (as many guesses as you want), start to brute-force the generated passwords for random master-passwords until ones works with 10 services, which allow one (confirmed correct/incorrect) login in two seconds. And may inform you of the cracking attempt.

  25. Re:Renewing the domain name? No on The Challenge of Web Hosting Once You're Dead · · Score: 1

    And if the admin-c is dead, the domain holder is no valid person, so everybody can take it down.