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  1. Re:WtF? on Wuala Encrypted Cloud-Storage Service Shuts Down · · Score: 4, Insightful

    afaik, they're swiss. not the parent company (lacie) or the parent's parent company (seagate) but wuala itself was incorporated in switzerland to give it some protection from NSA's claws. I think they simply priced themselves out of the market. I used to recommend them (their free tier was great) when ubuntuONE shut down but when they went for paid only accounts, the price was just too high compared to competition.

  2. Re:Any useful reviews? on Ubuntu Phones Now Available Worldwide (On Some Networks) · · Score: 1

    i thought it was only necessary for installing non-free commercial software. you still get apt install, should you choose to use it.

  3. Re:Silly bogans... on Many Australians Forced To Pay For "Unbreakable" Cryptolocker Ransomware · · Score: 3, Funny

    but shouldn't they be used to this? i mean EVERYTHING in that country evolved to kill them. what's a bit of ransomware compared to magpies attacking their eyes when they go shopping? ever touched gympie gympie? just look at children armed with dingo sticks on their way to school... WTF is ransomware compared to that? on a scale of 1 to 10, this sofrware must be -5.

  4. Re: Bent properller? on How To Shoot Down a Drone · · Score: 1

    Not when in ferry or loitering mode.

  5. Re:woo on Commodore PET Smartphone Comes Loaded With C64 and Amiga Emulators · · Score: 1

    i'm not a fan of this particular endeavour. the brand is going to suffer as a result. ANYTHING with mediatek inside will not get its OS upgraded to another major version of android. mediatek is fickle like my wife during her period. one month they behave like a completely closed source company, only releasing binary version of android for manufacturers, the next month they sponsor XDA Devcon 14 and release source code for Android One devices, a month after that they once again completely ignore GPL.

    in my experience, each chipset gets around 3 months of small updates, the few that got upgraded to lollipop were the ones released with kitkat when lollipop was already out and would otherwise have been unsellable. (and that's android 5.0 not 5.1)

    apart from elephone and android one devices, there has never been a cyanogenmod for a mediatek device because there's simply no source to use. i fart in mediatek's general direction and shed a tear for commodore.

  6. Re:No, because it sucks. on Ask Slashdot: If Public Transport Was Free, Would You Leave Your Car At Home? · · Score: 1

    free healthcare

  7. Re:yes. tried one. on Ask Slashdot: Have You Tried a Standing Desk? · · Score: 2

    i watched an interview with linus torvalds where he showed off his programming walking desk (treadmill/desk combo).

    i think that is the best solution and i'm planning to do the same for my new study (current one doesn't have enough room). he reckons a "zombie shuffling mode" aka walking at 1 mph is the top speed at which he can comfortably read, type and use mouse on his computer.

    http://www.zdnet.com/article/l...
    https://plus.google.com/+Linus...

  8. Re:Loser. on Hacking Team Hacked, Attackers Grab 400GB of Internal Data · · Score: 1

    please elaborate on why it's dangerous to store passwords protected by a strong password in firefox sync. mozilla have no access to decrypted passwords, nobody has. the code is open source and the server can be your own instead of mozilla's.

  9. i once tried to be trendy and do the following in network-manager instead of interfaces.conf:
    - 4 physical interfaces merged into an 802.3ad trunk
    - put a bridge on top of that trunk
    - create 3 vlan interfaces on that bridge
    - give each vlan interface several IPs (both ipv4 and ipv6)
    - make sure this works after a reboot and that you can shut down/start up individual vlan interfaces

    HAA HAAAA laughed the computer in the voice of Nelson Muntz

  10. Re:I kinda miss smit from AIX on Ask Slashdot: If You Could Assemble a "FrankenOS" What Parts Would You Use? · · Score: 1

    you've reminded me of my favourite MOTDs from fortunes package:

    "Whip me. Beat me. Make me maintain AIX."
    (By Stephan Zielinski)

    "Problem solving under linux has never been the circus that it is under AIX."
    (By Pete Ehlke in comp.unix.aix)

  11. Re:Accepting Responsibility on Google Apologises For Photos App's Racist Blunder · · Score: 2

    there's no issue. just a hissy fit thrown by a guy who has heard this expression addressed at him/his friends in a negative manner in the past (understandable). i mean, just look at the faces the girl in those pictures is making... isn't gorilla the first thing you think of?

    what's next? are we going to pretend a closeup of a bald patch doesn't look like a billiard ball? or that asians don't look like they're winking in photos? or that dwarves in funny hats don't remind us of garden gnomes? some people just want to get offended and there's nothing we can do about it. i'm surprised google responded to it.

  12. Re:is anyone using it? on Cisco To Acquire OpenDNS · · Score: 1

    i don't think there are. (i'm not talking about blacklisting spammers)

    regarding querying other dns servers to get content filtering on my dns server, that completely defies the purpose. whether my client PC uses opendns or my home dns server is the same thing (from their point of view). they are still queries from the same gateway IP address.

  13. Re:is anyone using it? on Cisco To Acquire OpenDNS · · Score: 2

    squid doesn't just summon a list of adult/malware/etc domain names out of thin air. opendns's advantage is in the gigantic crowdsourced database of domains and their classification. if that database were a separate opensource project that anybody could use and pull updates from, i'd happily use my own Unbound resolver.

  14. Re:is anyone using it? on Cisco To Acquire OpenDNS · · Score: 1

    but how do you do content filtering yourself? i do not want to worry about my children stumbling upon goatse when all they want to see are baby goats. believe it or not, opendns filters are pretty good. it would be nice if cisco made the crowdsourced domain name ranking database freely available but i doubt that'll happen.

    i have tried norton connectsafe in the past but compared to opendns, it was rather poor.

  15. Re:Just run your own on Cisco To Acquire OpenDNS · · Score: 3, Interesting

    please elaborate on the tracking. where did you get that from? that's an honest question; i use google's servers as last resort backup dns.

  16. Re:"I knew it. I'm surrounded by assholes!" on Interview: Ask Linus Torvalds a Question · · Score: 1

    i think this has already been answered too many times. he does consider himself an asshole. yet oddly enough, in every single interview i've ever watched, he comes across as a humble softly spoken person whom i'd easily trust with my life.

  17. minix on Interview: Ask Linus Torvalds a Question · · Score: 1

    Now that minix has seen some proper development and its latest versions have a useful amount of netbsd packages, where would you like to see it in a few years? Do you consider it an old friend or foe and what do you think its targets should be? And finally, if, in the long run, minix proves to be THE better option for everything, will you turn into an old grumpy fart or do you see yourself as somebody who could possibly even contribute code?

  18. Re:"Ok, Google, are you snitching to the NSA?" on Google Criticized For 'Opaque' Audio-Listening Binary In Debian Chromium · · Score: 1

    i, for one, like the idea of this feature. i just wish it would listen for a "f*ck you google" keyphrase and then immediately delete all google services related cookies from my browser. the "f*ck you google" subroutine should work completely locally but i'm ok with it increasing some kind of counter on google's servers. they should be able to see how many million people said "f*ck you google" this month.

  19. Re:Depends on your perspective and tastes on Jimmy Wales: London Is Better For Tech Than "Dreadful" Silicon Valley · · Score: 3

    it's a rhetorical device called hyperbole/amplification.

    regarding the official child snatching, only Norway is known for having a more trigger happy social services. (no hyperbole here)

  20. Re:Depends on your perspective and tastes on Jimmy Wales: London Is Better For Tech Than "Dreadful" Silicon Valley · · Score: 4, Informative

    don't forget CCTV. mustn't forget the omnipresent CCTV (roads, streets and buildings). also, you aren't allowed to withhold your passwords from police, there's even less police/secret services transparency than in the US of A; your kids will probably be taken away if you discipline them in public or if you go to a doctor with any kind of genital problem (UK children are not allowed to have genital problems).

    oh and the sweaty armpits on tube (mmmm yummy), yobs who'll knife you if you complain about their loud music at night (wo'd ya say to mee?) and among the highest rent and property prices in the world. however, it's a good place to live if you're a member of any oppressed minority (race, sexuality, religion) as with so many minorities present nobody gives a shit about that anymore.

    and if you happen to speak the most common language of london - polish, your life will be much cheaper (plumbers, carpenters, builders, car servicing, etc). the first thing you should do when you move to london is get a polish friend. i kid you not, they're 100x more useful than your local "citizen's advice bureau".

  21. obstacles on Interviews: Ask Kim Dotcom a Question · · Score: 1

    how many separate instances of businesses trying to please governments have you encountered so far in your mega.co.nz project? e.g. paypal/visa/mastercard refusing to process payments for the service.
    and have you come across any that went the opposite way? i.e. going out of their way to help you

  22. Re:Seems reasonable on Insurer Won't Pay Out For Security Breach Because of Lax Security · · Score: 2

    my previous employer (in the UK) wanted to be able to store credit card details of customers for automatic payment processing. unfortunately for us, a law came out that essentially meant that to get certified, we'd have to switch to MS Windows servers. that was the only platform for which there were guidelines and which could be audited. in the end we gave up and had a 3rd party process payments for us. the law pretty much caused the monopoly of sagepay in the UK.

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

    hmm... that will not get you very far. You don't seem to deal with LSO cookies at all, adblock is now as closed source as it gets (unlike adblock plus) and you are not addressing fingerprinting either (extensions like rubberglove, privoxy/proxomitron and disabling font enumeration in firefox).

    soon enough there will be a university degree in safe/private browsing.

  24. Re:LOLWOT? on Google Developing 'Brillo' OS For Internet of Things · · Score: 1

    this is what i came here to say. how dare you steal my 30 seconds of glory!!!

  25. Re:Almost? on Chrome For Android Is Now Almost Entirely Open Source · · Score: 1

    it's like saying "i was almost entirely faithful to you darling"