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  1. Cloud attack starts at about 0:54 https://www.youtube.com/watch?... (Monkey Magic)

  2. Re:People use spaces four times as often as tabs! on 400,000 GitHub Repositories, 1 Billion Files, 14TB of Code: Spaces or Tabs? (medium.com) · · Score: 1

    Don't you mean 8 times?

  3. welcome our new Kardashev Type II overlords

  4. Do Bluray discs keep long term? Back when the amount of data I had to back up was an order of magnitude smaller I used to back up to DVDs. Very time consuming, and I don't think they keep for more than a few years.

  5. +1 to this. You can also back up to a "friend" (where "friend" = someone else with CrashPlan who is prepared to let you store some encrypted files, possibly in exchange for you storing some of their files). If said "friend" lives close, sneakernet around a copy of your current CrashPlan backup, and just import it to jump-start the remote copy.

  6. TFA says they tested the autopilot landing algorithm (successfully).

  7. I see where you're going with this...

    And then install Virtual Box, and then Windows 10?

    That's sticking it to the man for sure! Take that Google, and your locked down "chrome" books!

  8. Re:Simple solution on Cities Struggling To Crack Down On Airbnb Renters (latimes.com) · · Score: 2

    $10,000? Assuming you get caught (see quote about limited resources to police zoning violations) that's still not a lot of a deterrent.

    There is a lot of money involved here. Consider that as a property investor you can get triple the return if you let your apartments through Airbnb.

    The other impact is that this drives up rents across the city for "normal" people.

  9. Go hard, or go home! on Linus Torvalds In Sweary Rant About Punctuation In Kernel Comments (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    We're talking formatting here.

  10. Re:What is the right backup solution? on New and Improved CryptXXX Ransomware Rakes In $45,000 In 3 Weeks (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    See parent. A copy is not a backup. A copy is good for when your primary storage fails and you want to get online quickly (or instantly with Raid), but no good when you discover that this file you need was encrypted 3 days ago, and all your copies have the same encrypted file.

  11. Re: International Copyright on Quickflix Wants Netflix To Drop Australian VPN Users · · Score: 1

    Nine Entertainment is a TV network. Make sense?

  12. Father's Day Story? on Restoring Salmon To Their Original Habitat -- With a Cannon · · Score: 1

    I thought this might be a special father's day project, but tfa didn't seem to feature a build log or anything. Disappointed.

  13. Re:What happens when the disaster is over? on Facebook Tests 'Safe' User Tag For Disasters · · Score: 1

    I have to say I've not missed getting 20 new photos of my brother's cats posted everyday

    You're right. It would be confusing for his page to let you know which cats were safe and which were not. I suspect in this situation it would be clearer to get a fb page for each cat.

  14. Re:Lies on YouTube Identifies Birdsong As Copyrighted Music · · Score: 1

    content owners

    You think? I'm torn between wondering if perhaps they have ... friends in high places, or whether it is worth checking for the BRIAA logo on the letterhead anywhere.

  15. Step 2: Implement poorly researched solution and fsck up the entire project

    There fixed that for you.

  16. Re:USB device ?!? on Commercial, USB-Powered DNA Sequencer Coming This Year · · Score: 1

    Yes, but any organism you sequence becomes LGPL.

  17. Re:Get one for just $100! * on Commercial, USB-Powered DNA Sequencer Coming This Year · · Score: 1

    <hidden>This result shared with: Friends of friends. Click here to change the privacy settings for this application.</hidden>

  18. Re:Simple... on Ask Slashdot: Dividing Digital Assets In Divorce? · · Score: 1

    Oh hell no. There's no way she gets all the 0.

    I'm not suggesting you be dishonest or anything, but, do you have any letter Os?

  19. Re:I always wanted to go to Australia on Full-Body Scans Rolled Out At All Australian International Airports · · Score: 1

    Baaa.

  20. Re:Sounds like they won't on Full-Body Scans Rolled Out At All Australian International Airports · · Score: 1

    Coming up this week on Border Security:

    Immigration Officer 1: ... so the passenger has presented at border control, and has refused the normal safety scan.

    Immigration Officer 2: Right, so effectively endangering the safety and security of the nation?

    Immigration Officer 1: Yes. That's right sir. What should we do with him.

    Immigration Officer 2: Normal procedure. Plastic cuffs, scan him, put him on the next plane out.

    Immigration Officer 1: Should we tase him first?

    Immigration Officer 2: If you like. It has been a quiet morning, hasn't it? Yeah go for it.

    Immigration Officer 1: Thankyou sir.

  21. Re:DSLR on Ask Slashdot: Mirrorless, Interchangeable Lens Camera Advice? · · Score: 1

    the best camera is the one that you have with you

    For this reason my backup (non-DSLR) camera is my phone. I have an in-between compact somewhere in a box in the garage, but to be honest, the convenience of having the phone with me at all times wins. If I know I want to take some care with a photo I bring my DSLR.

  22. Re:... injuring 12 people seriously and causing 39 on Software Bug Caused Qantas Airbus A330 To Nose-Dive · · Score: 1

    In fact the Qantas safety briefing tells you to keep your belt fastened at all times. It seems like good advice to me, although often when I fly I notice people on the flight that don't have their belt on.

  23. Torchwood on Electronic Contact Lens Displays Pixels On the Eye · · Score: 1

    I don't see why they are bothering with rabbits. Torchwood had model that worked with human eyes years ago!

    In addition to being able to display text to the wearer wirelessly, the contact lenses also double as a camera, so that they transmit what the wearer is seeing back to a laptop.

    Documented here.

  24. Re:Oh that's sure gonna work on Pakistan Bans 1600 Words and Phrases For Texting · · Score: 1

    Except for loser, where you have to add an o when texting.

  25. Re:Why Gibson? on Computing Pioneers Share Their First Tech Memories · · Score: 0

    I tried to work in a 'that's no floppy drive'/'that's no moon' reference, but it's just not happening for me today.