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  1. Paper and a bank vault on Ask Slashdot: How To Keep Keyfiles Secure, But Still Accessible? · · Score: 1

    That is really your only option, unless you want to invest seriously in archival-grade tape. There used to be MOD, but nobody cared enough about their data to keep the technology alive and DVD-RAM was a poor substitute. Nothing else has good endurance.

    As to paper, print QR-codes, either with a good laser or pigmented ink. Then keep several redundant copies in a bank-vault. For convenience, you can, of course keep several different good-quality memory sticks in that vault as well, but do not depend on them and refresh them at least once a year.

  2. Re:Outage on Slashdot commenters on Sony Outage Disables DASH Devices, No ETA On a Fix · · Score: 3, Funny

    I would comment on that, but somehow I do not find the motivation for it.

  3. Re:Harassment tactic by FBI, DoJ, and Obama on DOJ Threatens To Seize iOS Source Code (idownloadblog.com) · · Score: 1

    Apple may just decide they can live with $200b in revenue....

  4. Re:Contempt of court on DOJ Threatens To Seize iOS Source Code (idownloadblog.com) · · Score: 1

    Highly unlikely. Do any real damage to Apple and they will just stop being a US company, with a lot of losses in jobs and taxes.

  5. Re:I saw this coming some time ago.. on DOJ Threatens To Seize iOS Source Code (idownloadblog.com) · · Score: 2

    It is not hard to predict. One thing is that Apple is wrong about this reading to a police-state. The US already is one, just in the earlier stages: The police gets most of the laws and equipment they want, without any real balancing with civil rights. When policemen rape or murder someone, they have an excellent chance to get away with it, while penalties for citizens are grossly inflated. And if you listen to Trump, you can already hear the first indicators of the fascism that invariably follows a police-state eventually.

  6. Re:After reading this, i started wondering... on DOJ Threatens To Seize iOS Source Code (idownloadblog.com) · · Score: 1

    You mistake the situation: A gun-control analog would be to fit every gun with a remote-controlled "off" switch (that can then be hacked), not a restriction on how can have guns.

  7. Still a meaningless stunt on Google's AlphaGo AI Beats Lee Se-dol Again, Wins Go Series 4-1 (theverge.com) · · Score: -1

    Others have said it before: This is about as meaningless as the observation that a pocket calculator (or a completely inanimate slide-rule or book of mathematical tables) is better at calculating than a human being. It does not indicate intelligence in the mechanism used in any way.

    Because here is the thing: If you make this a general competition, not just this extremely specialized one, it will turn out that Se-dol has quit a few other skills that AlphaGo has no chance to master, ever. It is also no surprise that an algorithm and machine optimized to do just one tiny, restricted and extremely well defined thing does better at it than a general-purpose Intelligence doing this thing.

  8. Re:Words mean more than actions to Anonymous... on Anonymous Declare 'Total War' On Donald Trump, Threaten To 'Dismantle His Campaign' (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    Obama at least keeps up the pretense of being a modern human being. Trump does not. While the former is pretty bad, the latter is worse as it encourages a lot of cowards to act in the same spirit.

  9. They do not stand a chance. Trump has perfected that approach.

  10. Re:Morons Just Don't Understand on Anonymous Declare 'Total War' On Donald Trump, Threaten To 'Dismantle His Campaign' (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Just from a rational point of view, shutting down political speech is never a good thing, no matter what that speech is. Because if they can do it to one candidate, it can be done to others.

    Indeed. A fascist approach does not become any better because some "good" guys use it or because the goal is "noble".

  11. Re:Somebody is fighting irrelevance... on Anonymous Declare 'Total War' On Donald Trump, Threaten To 'Dismantle His Campaign' (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    That I have not really checked whether they ever were different ;-)

  12. Somebody is fighting irrelevance... on Anonymous Declare 'Total War' On Donald Trump, Threaten To 'Dismantle His Campaign' (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I think Anonymous is largely irrelevant and powerless these days and its members know it.

  13. Re:Nope. No way. No chance. on Hacker GhostShell Doxes Himself So He Could Get a Job In the Industry · · Score: 1

    I do not think his record is any good. LulzSec only ever attacked easy targets. The only difference to the average script-kiddie is the public grandstanding and the publicly celebrated nihilism.

  14. Re:Speak for yourself on Why Do We Work So Hard? (1843magazine.com) · · Score: 1

    Let me check...nope, you are still kidding yourself, on that as well.

  15. Re:Speak for yourself on Why Do We Work So Hard? (1843magazine.com) · · Score: 1

    And I think you're unable to see things from another perspective. We can all play the "I Think Game."

    I've read enough of gwehir's posts to understand he is an angry individual, and likely possessed of more than a smattering of jealousy as well.

    Hehehehehe, that gave me a good laugh. I am, in fact, one of the privileged ones. I just have something you people lack, namely empathy for those less fortunate. Makes me a human being, and you psychos.

  16. Re:Nope. No way. No chance. on Hacker GhostShell Doxes Himself So He Could Get a Job In the Industry · · Score: 1

    These people could do a good job of securing systems and software, but they are budget-constrained and management-constrained. The hackers have a lot more freedom. Also, the defender is always at a disadvantage. On the other hand, most IT systems never get attacked seriously because nobody tries. The hacker-problem is overblown (due to some obvious political propaganda interests), only those with really bad security get hacked. Yes, that includes quite a few that should know better.

  17. Re:Nope. No way. No chance. on Hacker GhostShell Doxes Himself So He Could Get a Job In the Industry · · Score: 1

    Not for the serious part, i.e. the part that pays well.

  18. No chance on Hacker GhostShell Doxes Himself So He Could Get a Job In the Industry · · Score: 1

    Too young, not enough experience, no proven skills (hacking _something_ is easy, as long as it does not have to be a specific target), criminal record.

  19. Re:Quantity over Quality... on Why Do We Work So Hard? (1843magazine.com) · · Score: 1

    And now you are redefining the dictionary. You obviously have a rather severe problem with reality-perception. Fits the other pathologies you exhibit.

  20. Re:Speak for yourself on Why Do We Work So Hard? (1843magazine.com) · · Score: 1

    The narcissism practically drips from this. As I said, sad and wasted.

  21. Re:They were going to regardless... on Report: Science Can Now Link Climate Change To (Some) Extreme Weather (phys.org) · · Score: 0

    Always fascinating to see how utterly stupid some people (like you) are.

  22. Re:Speak for yourself on Why Do We Work So Hard? (1843magazine.com) · · Score: 1

    I think you are kidding yourself to explain away your sad, wasted life.

  23. Re:Boring: Not in violation of locality. on German Scientists Successfully Teleport Classical Information (upi.com) · · Score: 1

    That explains it. Thanks. Localized phenomena can seem to violate established laws of physics under certain circumstances and not break the whole thing.

  24. Re:Let me get this straight on German Scientists Successfully Teleport Classical Information (upi.com) · · Score: 1

    At the moment it means this does not work over large distances. At short enough distances causality begins to become fuzzy, so such a loop-hole might be credible. Alternatively, they measured something else than they think they measured and this is a faulty result. That would of course be exceptionally boring, so I hope the result is valid.

  25. This is not a legal problem on Study Finds 3 Laws Could Reduce Firearm Deaths By 90% (meta.com) · · Score: 1

    If it where you could just make it illegal to shoot people except in certain rare circumstances.