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  1. Re:the love of cloud on Dropbox Can't See Your Dat– Er, Never Mind · · Score: 1

    With my current setup a failed system will lose a day (max) of data and losing the house will lose a week of data. If I backed up on line both would be down to a day, or less if I ran rsync more frequently.

  2. Re:Are we getting fewer mod points? on Dropbox Can't See Your Dat– Er, Never Mind · · Score: 1

    In the last three months or so I have been getting at least five points per week. But I do think that the new software shows moderations differently so maybe you aren't as aware of moderation going on.

  3. Re:Hmmm... on Dropbox Can't See Your Dat– Er, Never Mind · · Score: 1

    Don't be surprised if, soon, they change their terms of service to prohibit you from uploading pre-encrypted files!

    I won't encrypt my files. I will just compress them using my own algorithm. Hilarity ensues.

  4. Re:the love of cloud on Dropbox Can't See Your Dat– Er, Never Mind · · Score: 1

    But if I put my data in the cloud I can encrypt it to the point where it is next to impossible for anybody else to read it. If dropbox encrypt the data on write and decrypt on read then it is of course trivial for them to decrypt it on demand.

  5. Dupe? on Facebook's Server Room, Penthouse Cooling Caught On Video · · Score: 1

    My browser marks the first link as visited.

  6. Re:This sounds familiar... on Google Crowd-Sources Maps · · Score: 1

    One word: RFID.

  7. Re:This sounds familiar... on Google Crowd-Sources Maps · · Score: 1

    Because OSM and OSM based products suck. I wish they didn't, and I'd love to use them, but they're pretty much useless for anything real-world - at least here in Germany.

    Your statement says more about Germany than OSM or Google.

  8. Re:This sounds familiar... on Google Crowd-Sources Maps · · Score: 1

    Actually it sounds more like they want advertising revenue from the book store and pizza parlour, even if those businesses didn't request advertising from google.

  9. Re:Oddly complicated on Erasing CDs By Using 150,000 Volts of Electricity · · Score: 1

    175 C, for the metric users.

    Whats the temperature for a fan forced oven? I always get that wrong.

  10. Re:wha? on Erasing CDs By Using 150,000 Volts of Electricity · · Score: 1

    A Fire

    A friend of mine lost his house in the 2009 brushfires here in Victoria. He had a fantastic and very valuable music collection. After the fire he went back with his partner and looked through the wreckage. They found nothing remotely resembling a CD.

  11. Re:Please... on Erasing CDs By Using 150,000 Volts of Electricity · · Score: 2

    Its in the metal, otherwise the metal would not be required.

  12. Re:For those with less sense and less money on Erasing CDs By Using 150,000 Volts of Electricity · · Score: 1

    Besides that nuking them releases a small bit of toxic gas

    Yes I wouldn't want that in the same place as my food.

  13. Re:Princeton has very short leases. on Bug Forces Android Devices Off Princeton Campus Network · · Score: 1

    NAT would be a problem because I want to use direct socket connections between peers. Of course if the cell phone network does this for me the wifi network can use NAT. I won't care so much. For address stability I am thinking in terms of using a mesh of clients which trust each other and are identified by signatures. When a node changes address it contacts at least one node in the mesh to inform it of the changed address and the change propagates to the other nodes.

  14. Re:Princeton has very short leases. on Bug Forces Android Devices Off Princeton Campus Network · · Score: 1

    So my smartphone can have a globally-routable IP address! You know, for the servers I'm going to run on it.

    Funny you should ask. I am currently working on a fully secure P2P communication tool for android. Should be quite handy in parts of the world where governments clamp down on centralised systems like twitter.

  15. Re:Oh Princeton... on Bug Forces Android Devices Off Princeton Campus Network · · Score: 1

    I'll tell you about my mother...bang!

  16. Re:WTF? on Bug Forces Android Devices Off Princeton Campus Network · · Score: 1

    Even their libc is developed inhouse

    I thought it was the netbsd libc.

    Nothing prevents BSD-licensed code to be closed. Ask Apple!

    Sure but that doesn't mean their libc is developed inhouse.

  17. Re:WTF? on Bug Forces Android Devices Off Princeton Campus Network · · Score: 1

    Even their libc is developed inhouse

    I thought it was the netbsd libc.

  18. Strange that it is the newer devices on Bug Forces Android Devices Off Princeton Campus Network · · Score: 1

    You usually have to try hard to get dhclient wrong. Just use the one from isc and you should be okay. I suppose most *nix distros do that. Maybe somebody did something clever in later android versions.

  19. Re:ObFuturama on Titan May Have an Ocean · · Score: 1

    Come to think of it, forget about the blackjack.

  20. Re:Interesting Stuff on Titan May Have an Ocean · · Score: 1

    Sometimes I wish I was born 500+ years from now

    Be thankful that you were not born 500 years ago. We got to see the moon landing at least.

  21. Re:Those SF guys were right! on Titan May Have an Ocean · · Score: 1

    Possibly inhabited by Heinlein's Puppet Masters...

    Lets hope they follow the plot by colonising Venus first.

  22. Re:Try reading a bit between the lines... on Jesse Jackson, Jr. Pins US Job Losses On iPad · · Score: 1

    Americans need to realize that the days of "I deserve to be rich because I was born in America!" are over.

    Not necessarily. The USA got where they are today by developing products. Once Bob's job becomes a portable commodity he needs to be working on the next big thing.

  23. Re:Avoid the Tsunamis on MoD's Error Leaks Secrets of UK Nuclear Submarine · · Score: 4, Funny

    Not if they are full of leaks.

  24. Re:It's not the user's fault on MoD's Error Leaks Secrets of UK Nuclear Submarine · · Score: 5, Funny

    The other day the administrator in my department was organising a project to electronically sign all documents. Thats how they describe it anyway. They are going to scan a bunch of written signatures and paste them in to the documents which are "signed". There will be a directory (sorry, "folder") full of signatures to choose from.

  25. Re:The fundies will have a field day on XXX Goes Live In the Root Servers · · Score: 1

    So you could take any site off line in those places by registering a .xxx domain name and point it to the same IP address.