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  1. What exactly is the right to be forgotten? on Pedophile Asks To Be Deleted From Google Search After European Court Ruling · · Score: 1

    Is it there in reallife?
    A right to be forgotten means, means by negation, there is no law, which forces people to remember you.
    So, there IS NO such law, not online not in "real life".

    You will be forgotten, online and offline. As long as you're not interesting. If you are, you will not be forgotten. Do you really think, snowden will ever be forgotten offline? You do not need to go to a newspaper archive in 20 years to remember snowden, this name will remain for long in our society, if not even in history books.
    Was Barbara Streisand forgotten?

    Just forget it. If you want to be forgotten, keep quiet. People may or may not forget you, but if you insist on being forgotten, you will be remembered.

  2. 300 GB in 5 years? on Comcast Predicts Usage Cap Within 5 Years · · Score: 1

    1) Shouldn't we expect, there will be enough growth in bandwidth, that the cap could be 30.000 in 5 years?
    2) Do they expect, the content will be that small in 5 years, that 300 gb is enough? 4K streaming anyone?

  3. Why? on How Firefox Will Handle DRM In HTML · · Score: 1

    Firefox should stand for an open web. there are browsers like chrome, to support drm. The people firefox might lose, are not the people, who use firefox because they want an open web. Having the maximum of users isn't a neccessary goal for an opensource project, but only for a for-profit company. Firefox is no such company. Lets say google stops sponsoring firefox. Will it die? Of course not, it will continue to be improved by volunteers, maybe even with a better morale than now, not only regarding DRM.

  4. No, you cannot assign everything to one worker on Ask Slashdot: Does Your Job Need To Exist? · · Score: 1

    everyone needs a little slack off during work to boost the productivty while working. assigning all the hard tasks to one person won't work out.
    But telling everyone to cut an hour per day off and work the rest with max. power, won't work either. You need to be there to make sure you will pick up work again, when you feel like it. Its much more likely if you're browsing the internet than when you went home and come back at the next day.

  5. Re:Build your own Distro on Ask Slashdot: Practical Alternatives To Systemd? · · Score: 1

    its opensource, and i guess the tools are okay. You will need to update it for newer package versions.

  6. Re:Memories do decay on Mathematical Model Suggests That Human Consciousness Is Noncomputable · · Score: 1

    why shouldn't the computer have a decay? You can have read/write errors, you can compute a lossy encoding if you want to ... and i would just implement the brain so lowlevel, that the neurons are modeled. And how the decay in the signals between neurons works can be observed, and will be better observed in future.

  7. otherwise, retrieving memories repeatedly would c on Mathematical Model Suggests That Human Consciousness Is Noncomputable · · Score: 1

    > otherwise, retrieving memories repeatedly would cause them to gradually decay

    So, i guess this was never observed on real humans?

  8. Build your own Distro on Ask Slashdot: Practical Alternatives To Systemd? · · Score: 1
  9. Re:Too much integration on Ask Slashdot: Practical Alternatives To Systemd? · · Score: 1

    grub 1 was great, you could install it with a few basic commands from the grubshell (which was in the terminal just like during the boot). grub2 needs config generation and actual use of grub-install.
    (But it works okay, too)

  10. Re:I wrote OpenRC on Ask Slashdot: Practical Alternatives To Systemd? · · Score: 1

    oh, conf.d is a openrc thing? I always loved that part about gentoo.

  11. Re:Accept, don't fight, systemd on Ask Slashdot: Practical Alternatives To Systemd? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    the systemd init may be brilliant, if it would be isolated. But its mixed up with udev, syslog and even gnome to some extent. This cannot be an good idea, because stuff like init needs to KISS.

    http://wizardofbits.tumblr.com...

  12. build wrappers on Ask Slashdot: Practical Alternatives To Systemd? · · Score: 1

    stuff like journalctl is just PITA, but there will be convenient wrappers. The best solution at the moment: install rsyslog and it will log stuff from the systemd journal to normal logfiles.

  13. Re:perhaps consider a passphrase. on It's World Password Day: Change Your Passwords · · Score: 1

    nope. I use passphrases almost everywhere, there are only a few sites which are refusing it. (sadly including my bank, which demands a 5 char password)

  14. Re:Let's not celebrate passwords on It's World Password Day: Change Your Passwords · · Score: 1

    The main reason for password insecurity is brute force, not stolen devices.

  15. Re:OK, but not sure 123456 is any better than 1234 on It's World Password Day: Change Your Passwords · · Score: 1

    looks quite okay, doesn't it? Is it in any real world password set? Is it in a wordlist? How many password crackers provide brute-force preset options, which will find this one in a short time? I guess you would have be quite secure, if you actually used it.
    Now you can argue, slashdotters will tune their bruteforce tools to include a lot of consecutive letters with only little random parts before/after maybe in the middle, but if you have to many exception rules, you will miss passwords which can be brute forced easier.
    The best system is an easy one with many chars, which is your personal one. Nobody will try to optimize his cracker for hundereds of possible personal systems, but try to get the password123 ones. Okay, maybe except you're snowden, then they will use a team of 20 psychologists to analyse what your password setting pattern might be.

  16. Re:OK, but not sure 123456 is any better than 1234 on It's World Password Day: Change Your Passwords · · Score: 1

    my bank limits the password to 5 alphanum chars

  17. Re:Regional dialects on Some Users Find Swype Keyboard App Makes 4000+ Location Requests Per Day · · Score: 1

    yeah, because you totally want to use the local dialect, as soon as you are there.

  18. Re:This sounds more like incompetence... on Some Users Find Swype Keyboard App Makes 4000+ Location Requests Per Day · · Score: 1

    use the aosp one.

  19. I tried years ago the trial, saw the permission. When i saw that it was used all the time (LBE Privacy Guard. Use XPrivacy today), i uninstalled it.

    Try SwiftKey, the swipe is better than Swype, anyway.

  20. Re:A firearm that depends on a battery? on "Smart" Gun Seller Gets the Wrong Kind of Online Attention · · Score: 1

    Better a non working firearm, than a firearm in the wrong hands. Use less firearms.

  21. Re:Immersion on Why Should Game Stories Make Sense? · · Score: 1

    i once had a breakout game, which had some story about action in space in its description. What? I do not need a story for a breakout game.

  22. Re:Half Life anyone? on Why Should Game Stories Make Sense? · · Score: 1

    > A game doesn't need good graphics to be good, but good graphics make it better.
    nope. i still think many SNES games would be very different with modern graphics.

  23. Re:You could ask the same question about movies. on Why Should Game Stories Make Sense? · · Score: 1

    there are movies/series, which open a lot of questions without answering. Have a Look at the Anime Serial Experiments Lain. After the last episode, you still wonder what it really was about, and have a lot of questions from different episodes, which are up to you. And still you feel a familiar tone through the series up to the end.
    After watching it, i was like "i want a sequel" and "no sequal can ever match the series and answering the questions will kill the atmosphere" at the same time.

  24. Do you need a Story? on Why Should Game Stories Make Sense? · · Score: 1

    What about games about exploring the game itself? Like http://www.duangle.com/ for example (still early alpha, but look at the videos).

    Or games which are just something you enjoy, like osmos, pathological, even 2048 does not need a story to kill many hours of productivity.

  25. Re:Simple fix on Netflix Pondering Peer-to-Peer Technology For Streaming Video · · Score: 1

    so the netflix client shares fair and the video starts lagging. the user blames his isp.