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  1. Better sync/backup on 4 Tips For Your New Laptop · · Score: 4, Interesting

    First, syncing to cloud is not backup. Second, being at the mercy of a provider doesn't strike me as a good idea in long-term.

    Better invest in a NAS. A 2-bay Synology would suffice. 2 4TB drives in Mirrored Raid work great. WD has the "red" line of drives specifically made and tested for NAS storage. They are not as fast but run cool, silent, no vibrations.

    Most NAS units run on linux so you can easily add syncing, versioning, "personal cloud", maybe use to play movies on smart TVs via DLNA and so on.

    Finally, from time to time do proper backups. For home use, proper backup means burning data on DVD/BD - on 2 separate discs.

  2. Useless on Scientists Predict Earthquake's Location and Strength · · Score: 4, Insightful

    This is beyond useless.

    I live in a country with significant seismic activity.
    We know for hundreds of years that every 30 to 50 years a big (7.6 - 7.8) earthquake will happen. We even know where the epicenter will be. We know how it will propagate.

    It's been 36 years since the last one so many people who live in problem areas are beginning to get nervous. But we don't know when it will happen. Could be tomorrow or ten years from now.

  3. Re:MS Security Essentials on Ask Slashdot: How Would You Secure Your Parents' PC? · · Score: 2

    For a while, MSSE was good, then it took a steep dive to the point it's not even tested by the labs anymore. Quite sad really.

    Personally I went back to Bitdefender.

  4. Re:DigitalOcean on Why Cloud Infrastructure Pricing Is Absurd · · Score: 1

    DigitalOcean is seriously oversold. If all you do is host a website you may not notice it though.

    For small stuff I recommend RamNode. For bigger things, RackSpace.

    I tried AWS and a bunch of others.

  5. Re:Oh noooos! on The Brains of Men and Women Are 'Wired Differently' · · Score: 1

    Anecdotically, I have two kids, a 9 year old boy and a 3 year old girl. Since the boy is older, I was expecting the girl to copy everything he does. She does, to a point - plays with his Legos and so on. But she also loves to play with anything remotely resembling a doll. She cooks for the doll, feeds it, argues with it. It's definitely not something learned or encouraged. Also, she wants to look pretty, has her own choice of clothing, again something her older brother simply doesn't care about. She's also not copying my wife, she's completely independent and different in these areas.

  6. Re:Telco oligopoly on Why Is Broadband More Expensive In the US Than Elsewhere? · · Score: 1

    Exactly. Don't know about other countries, but Romania has a population density of about 90 people / sq. km. If we take only the major cities, we won't exceed 500 people / sq. km. Total land area is 240,000 sq. km.

    We have 100 Mbps internet via fiber optics pretty much everywhere except remote areas. For remote areas, 3G is everywhere (over 99% coverage) and H+ and 4G is available in many rural areas.

    I pay $10/month for 100 Mbps (tested). Fiber end to end. No caps, no traffic shaping.

  7. Re:And we're reading about it here why? on US Forces Undertake Two African Raids, Capture Embassy Bombing Figure · · Score: 1

    The second raid failed, it's pretty clear by now. What do you want, confirmation from the US government that the SEAL forces had to withdraw? You'll never hear it. They'll redefine 'success' and say the mission was successful.

  8. Re:Rating system broken on For Overstated Claims, Gore, Tesla Upbraided By NWS, NHTSA Respectively · · Score: 1

    Not sure about UK, but elsewhere in Europe home appliances were also rated from G to A initially. Then they had to add A+ and even A++

  9. Re:Getting screwed on Obama's Privacy Reform Panel Will Report To ... the NSA · · Score: 2

    And this surprises you?

    Last time I was surprised was in 2003, after it became evident there were no WMDs in Iraq. I expected public outcry, heads to roll. Nothing happened.

  10. Re:Do Away With This Disease? on Malaria Vaccine Nearing Reality · · Score: 4, Informative

    Well, Bill Gates was showing a special container that doesn't require electricity and can keep medicine refrigerated for up to 50 days at high outside temperatures.
    The whole point of a malaria vaccine is to make it affordable for poor nations. The demand for a malaria vaccine in rich countries is pretty low.

  11. Re:German code comments on Apache OpenOffice 4.0 Released With Major New Features · · Score: 2

    Romanian here. Everyone worth their salt here writes code, comments and docs in English. I have my own pet project where I'm basically the only one who ever needs to see the code, yet everything is in English. Considering that the programming language has English keywords (if, while, class, etc) and the text strings are in English too, it's simpler for me to keep everything consistent rather than to make any mental switch.

  12. Re:Very differant experience on Visual Studio vs. Eclipse: a Programmer's Comparison · · Score: 2

    Agreed. I use Eclipse regularly (FDT and PDT) but whenever I get to work in Visual Studio, it's a much smoother experience.

  13. Re:Nice on Edward Snowden Nominated For Nobel Peace Prize · · Score: 2

    The major cause of war/unrest in the world isn't skin color, it's religion

    No. Religion has been used in the past in the same way "the war on terror" is used now. It's a way to rally people against a seemingly powerful, brutal and subhuman enemy.

  14. Re:The point? on Ubisoft Hacked, Account Data Compromised · · Score: 1

    According to an article on Ars Technica, salted hashes are no longer relevant - they are cracking the hashes anyway without using rainbow tables. Using SHA256 instead of MD5 has more benefits in this regard than salted vs. unsalted.

  15. Re:Discontinue Unsuccessful Products on Google's Crazy Lack of Focus: Is It Really Serious About Enterprise? · · Score: 1

    I stand corrected. Indeed it looks like the Persuasion was simply abandoned and none of their programs can read those files.

  16. Re:Discontinue Unsuccessful Products on Google's Crazy Lack of Focus: Is It Really Serious About Enterprise? · · Score: 1

    What discontinued Adobe product are you talking about? It's a serious question.
    They either transitioned the software (GoLive to Dreamweaver for example) or they still support it (Framemaker, Director).

    I can't think of any of their products that was abruptly discontinued without an upgrade path or support for quite a long time.

  17. The author has the RAW file. Case closed on World Press Photo Winner Accused of Photoshopping · · Score: 5, Informative

    The gritty look on the picture can be achieved with a local contrast filter. Combined with contrast and saturation manipulation, it's pretty easy to do. In Lightroom is just a matter of setting a few sliders - Darks, Highlights, Clarity, Vibrance and Saturation.

    Furthermore, the author says he has the RAW file and it was examined by the jury. Personally I know of no software that can currently reverse a jpeg into raw. It should be possible in theory to fake a raw file, but I sincerely doubt it's the case.

    Analyzing jpeg artifacts is snake oil. My photo workflow is this: shoot in RAW. Edit in Lightroom. Convert to ProPhoto 16bit/channel. Open in Photoshop, make any fine adjustments if needed. Output to jpeg. Only fools edit and re-save jpegs.

    This is simply one of the "fake moon landings" conspiracies, started by people who don't understand photography.

  18. Re:I approve. on North Korea's Twitter and Flickr Accounts Hacked By Anonymous · · Score: 1

    The biggest threat to SK right now is not nuclear, but the thousands of artillery units pointed to Seul, all in range. A surprise attack against this 10 million city would be both feasible and devastating.

  19. What I did for all about 50,000 emails on Ask Slashdot: Best Way To Archive and Access Ancient Emails? · · Score: 2

    I had to archive the emails since 1996. They were in multiple formats - Outlook Express dbx, Mailbox from Netscape Navigator and Thunderbird, Outlook.

    I converted all of them in .eml format. It's a simple, text format that can be read by the OS and easily parsed by any program and script. Much better than mbox or something else. Then I renamed all of them according to a rule - YYYYMMDDhhmm [From] [Subject]

    Now I can easily find any email. I can browse them using the file system, I can search them using the OS or via a script. Windows indexes them and extracts the metadata so any search is very quick.

  20. WordPress on Drupal's Creator Aims For World Domination · · Score: 4, Informative

    For better or worse, WordPress has more marketshare than all other CMS-es combined.
    See http://w3techs.com/technologies/details/cm-wordpress/all/all for an up-to-date look.

    Many people still think of WordPress as a blogging platform, but it's really so much more nowadays. Security is not worse than with other solutions, it's just that (like with Windows), popularity attracts attention (and attacks), and usually poorly-made plugins are the problem (the timthumb vulnerability was the most notorious one).

    I worked with many CMS solutions over the years - Allaire Spectra (anyone remember it?), DotNet Nuke, Typo3, CMS Made Simple, Joomla, Drupal, even hosted solutions like Squarespace and a bunch of others I can't even remember, but WordPress was the only one I could really develop for (functionality, themes, etc.)

  21. Re:Ditching strong partners -- smart move! on TSMC Preparing To Manufacturer A6X Chip As Apple Looks to Ditch Samsung · · Score: 5, Informative

    At first I thought this was a hyperbole or just some anecdote, but it seems to be a legitimate issue: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4034848

  22. What worries me on Give Us Your Personal Data Or Pay Full Fare · · Score: 2

    Reading the article, the companies are unhappy with the Transportation Department rule that requires them to include all taxes in their advertised rates because that rule "violate their free-speech rights".

    The "free speech" card is so abused nowadays that it will soon lose any meaning.

  23. Re:Islamic extremist values on Iran Suspends Programmer's Death Sentence · · Score: 5, Insightful

    You know what's funny? I notice the same attitude in US (I'm from Europe).

    The American public is OK with movies showing all and any kind of violence - from "simple" headshots to horrific torture and mutilation. But when the same movie is showing some skin, they have to mention how disgusted they are. I just don't get it.

  24. Re:Not confusing at all! on Oracle Proposes New Native JavaScript Engine for OpenJDK · · Score: 1

    This not new. Sun/Oracle JDK already has a js interpreter. It's the OpenJDK that doesn't. And some distros (like Ubuntu) only offer OpenJDK (unless add the repo yourself)

  25. Re:Why do they want this? on Oracle Proposes New Native JavaScript Engine for OpenJDK · · Score: 1

    One application would be plugins for various products (usually server-side). The core is Java but it allows for javascript modules/plugins to be added. Quite nice actually.