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  1. Office 365 on Ask Slashdot: Secure DropBox Alternative For a Small Business? · · Score: 1

    Office 365 isn’t cheap but it has SkyDrive Pro included, which is protected by multiple U.S. data centers, and is only in the U.S.

  2. Re:11,000 Year Ago on Global Warming 5 Million Years Ago In Antarctic Drastically Raised Sea Levels · · Score: 1

    That would be too obvious. Last sentence below seems to have some importance:

    “The interglacials and glacials coincide with cyclic changes in the Earth's orbit. Three orbital variations contribute to interglacials. The first is a change in the Earth's orbit around the sun, or eccentricity. The second is a shift in the tilt of the Earth's axis, the obliquity. The third is precession, or wobbling motion of Earth's axis.[1] Warm summers in the northern hemisphere occur when that hemisphere is tilted toward the sun and the Earth is nearest the sun in its elliptical orbit. Cool summers occur when the Earth is farthest from the sun during that season. These effects are more pronounced when the eccentricity of the orbit is large. When the obliquity is large, seasonal changes are more extreme."

  3. no phone on Ask Slashdot: Do You Still Need a Phone At Your Desk? · · Score: 1

    Not for most people. Receptionists need phones are their desk only because it is tied to a place, but most office workers do not.
    I forward my desk phone and blackberry to my iPhone. I still don't get enough calls to even approach my plan limit, since most calls are during the day and cell to cell. I'd really be happy if they could take the physical phone away and just keep the extension forwarded.

  4. Re:increasing divorce or honesty? on The Internet Has Transformed Modern Divorce · · Score: 1

    Actually, what he was trying to say was "you won't believe what a low bar I've set for what I now find acceptable."

  5. Re:increasing divorce or honesty? on The Internet Has Transformed Modern Divorce · · Score: 1

    You've been watching too many movies.

  6. Re:increasing divorce or honesty? on The Internet Has Transformed Modern Divorce · · Score: 1

    Just being placed in that situation makes you commit that? What, are you Pavlov's dog? Think for yourself instead of blaming Facebook. You stray in a moment of weakness because you can't say no to being self-destructive. It's in your nature, just by looking at the things you're saying. The Thanksgiving Dinner post below is the most intelligent post for this article. Stop being so jealous, greedy, and possessive.

  7. On that scale on Supercomputers' Growing Resilience Problems · · Score: 2

    On that scale, distributed parallelism is key, where the system takes into account downed nodes and removes them from duty until it can return to service, or can easily add a replacement node to handle the stream. That's why Google and Facebook don't go down when a node fails.

  8. Bitcoin will never on WordPress To Accept Bitcoins · · Score: 4, Funny

    Bitcoin will never be mainstream until we can buy a hotdog from a street vendor with it.

  9. Re:No longer vocalizations on Man With World's Deepest Voice Can Hit Infrasonic Notes · · Score: 5, Insightful

    "this is not sound anymore"

    Tell that to the elephants.

  10. Re:USB and disk Speed on Ask Slashdot: Simple Way To Backup 24TB of Data Onto USB HDDs ? · · Score: 2

    If he's looking for reliability in a backup, then his choice of disks is going to be a factor. A drive with consumer grade chances of URE is going to die in a handful of writes and reads. USB grade drives (Caviar Green anyone?) aren't known for their reliability. Something like a Hitachi Ultrastar RE has a very very low chance of encountering a URE, so will be much more reliable.

  11. Re:Put stuff in sealed plastic cases? on Ask Slashdot: Storing Items In a Sealed Chest For 25 Years? · · Score: 1

    So no tuna fish sandwiches?

  12. Re:Romney - VOTE FOR YOUR FUTURE on Ask Slashdot: Storing Items In a Sealed Chest For 25 Years? · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    There are plenty of employee-owner businesses. Support them by either going to work for one to help their success or start your own.

    The owner has invested capital in committing to the business. The employee is just there til the next better paying job comes around the corner. The day to day tasks are not all there is to making a business succeed. The fact you think about dividing day to day effort to measure their worth shows that you don't see the long commitment to success.

    Granted, there are a lot of owners that don't take the business seriously and end up driving it into the ground, taking people's livelihoods down with it, that should be shot. But this socialist shpiel is just too broadly painted across every corporation.

  13. Re:hey ronald... on McDonald's Denies Prof's Claim Staff Attacked Him For Wearing Digital Glasses · · Score: 1

    Due to Taco Bell, here.
    Ruined a whole Christmas break.

  14. So... on Mysterious Sprite Photographed By ISS Astronaut · · Score: -1

    So now we're living in that episode of Star Trek Voyager?

  15. Re:Apple's weakness is in the office suite on Google's Quickoffice Purchase Takes Aim At Windows 8 · · Score: 1

    Are you still seeing two sides in this game? The enemy of my enemy of my enemy of my enemy is very much alive here. Google will bolster iOS momentarily just enough to bring Win8 down.

  16. Re:It is just more of Macs becoming iDevices on With Mountain Lion's iCloud Integration, Apple Strengthens the Garden Wall · · Score: 1

    Everyone just needs to get over it and use Dropbox with TrueCrypt or whatever their private cloud solution is and stop bitching. There's plenty of examples of people's encryption being broken by social engineering. Most people have to sticky note their passwords, so they don't stand a chance. Unless you just keep everything in your head and become interrogation proof, someone will always be able to get whatever info they need. And you're full of crap if you think anyone wants to hack into your pics of lolcats and your last company picnic.

  17. Re:Seems rather limited to Intel. on CPU DB: Looking At 40 Years of Processor Improvements · · Score: 2

    What part of "the public is encouraged to contribute" did you not get?

  18. Re:The people will be the ones who suffer on Iran Deleted From the World's Banking Computers · · Score: 1

    Someone's touchy about being born on the wrong side of the genetic lottery.

  19. Re:The people will be the ones who suffer on Iran Deleted From the World's Banking Computers · · Score: 1

    What do you take me for? We invaded them 35 minutes ago!

  20. Re:Crackhead wifi... on Marketing Agency Uses Homeless As Wi-Fi Hotspots · · Score: 1

    Which you would be doing, except you've found it more worthwhile to read Slashdot or play Angry Birds or whatever is it you're doing. So please go lecture another site. Should, could, would, but you don't "do".

  21. Re:What!? on Marketing Agency Uses Homeless As Wi-Fi Hotspots · · Score: 1

    Boo hoo hoo. We can't hear you from the other side of the slave pits. Please, grovel a little louder and fer Pete's sake, more tears. That access point ain't cheap!

  22. Re:What!? on Marketing Agency Uses Homeless As Wi-Fi Hotspots · · Score: 1

    You're not really of the grid if the local police have you on record as "Stinky Guy on the Steps.."

  23. Re:Only Pakistan? on Pakistan Looking For Homegrown URL Blocking System · · Score: 1

    They'll block Wikileaks the way Westetn nations block South American cocaine and Afghan opiates. Better to just keep on prosecuting?!

  24. Re:I do not use the same password for multiple sit on Ask Slashdot: Changing Passwords For the New Year? · · Score: 5, Informative

    XKCD on password security.
    http://xkcd.com/936/

  25. Re:Lastpass on Ask Slashdot: Changing Passwords For the New Year? · · Score: 2

    Last pass has a password audit feature that shows you where you're using the same password.