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  1. Re:Kinda sucks on Is E85 Dead Now? · · Score: 1

    You're comparing a pickup truck to a hatchback, AND choosing the lowest of one model while selecting the highest of another model. Do you really think that's a good comparison?

  2. Re:Tough sell on Dropbox Founder Wants To Build the Next Google · · Score: 1

    Your SpiderOak data is readable to you alone. Most online storage systems only encrypt your data during transmission, meaning anyone with physical access to the servers your data is stored on (such as the company's staff) could have access to it. Or, even if your data is encrypted during storage, your password (or set of encryption keys) is often stored along with your data, thus making its easily decoded by anyone with local access to those servers. With SpiderOak, you create your password on your own computer -- not on a web form received by SpiderOak servers. Once created, a strong key derivation function is used to generate encryption keys using that password, and no trace of your original password is ever uploaded to SpiderOak with your stored data. SpiderOak's encryption is comprehensive -- even with physical access to the storage servers, SpiderOak staff cannot know even the names of your files and folders. On the server side, all that SpiderOak staff can see, are sequentially numbered containers of encrypted data. This means that you alone have responsibility for remembering your password or 'Password Hint' (which you can create to help you remember) allowing SpiderOak to create a true 'zero-knowledge environment' – keeping your data as safe and secure as it can possibly be.

    It seems to me that they're generating the key on the client. The username is provided to give access to the files and folders on the server, but it's encrypted on the client end, which is uploading the files themselves, organized into numbered folders, and something like a text file that has the info "001" = "Photos", which is also encrypted before being sent.

    If I'm understanding this correctly, it means that if I mistype my password, I may start uploading files with a different key than is used by everyone else under the account, and royally screwing things up.

  3. Re:Yes. and its even worse. on Do Companies Punish Workers Who Take Vacations? · · Score: 1

    7-3 and 8-4 aren't bad, along with the 12-8 I typically work; they're still the same number of hours. It's the expansion of hours, not the shifting of hours, that makes the biggest difference.

  4. Re:Eric Schmidt, master of non-answers on Eric Schmidt Doesn't Think Android Is Fragmented · · Score: 2

    A few Android apps don't have quite the polish of the iOS versions, but I can say that most of the issues surrounding the slow loading of apps and choppy graphics can be fixed by installing a ROM that doesn't contain the bloatware that comes standard on most phones. It's disgusting how much crap comes on the phones, and basically renders them a piece of shit when they're damn good in a configuration closer to what Google intended than what the carrier wants to push onto the end user.

    A key exception to this is the Nexus line, which aren't allowed to have any bloatware AFAIK due to contractual reasons. Google intends them as developer phones, so they want them to be as vanilla of an Android experience as possible.

  5. Re:If ads finance production that's not a bad deal on The Coming Tech Battle Over 'Smart TVs' · · Score: 1

    In some cases, five times, because your commercial-laden channel has additional access charges (hello, HBO!)

    I take it you don't normally watch HBO, because it's commercial-free except for about 5 minutes between programs - never mid-program, and even the few they have between programs aren't that long.

  6. Re:How about going back to flat-rate data? on Comcast DNSSEC Goes Live · · Score: 1, Informative

    It's an exaggeration, but there were massive sales that meant you could fairly easily hit 250GB if you bought a few of the games that were discounted 50%+

  7. Re:Success on WURFL Founders Fire Off DMCA Takedown Against Fork · · Score: 1

    ...but we would accept it from id Software. Funny, that...

  8. Re:DeVry is a tech / trade school not a diploma mi on Do Online Educational Badges Threaten Conventional Education Models? · · Score: 4, Informative

    I've also had a far different experience with professors at DeVry. They're far more available than the local county college professors IME, and have largely been willing to help with problems outside of the set curriculum they're given to actually teach (for most of the full time faculty and the more passionate part timers). In fact, most of the professors are kinda bummed that they have to follow such a strict set of topics for class lectures due to the limited time and top-down curriculum structuring, but love being asked the kinds of questions that aren't quite directly related to what they're supposed to teach.

  9. Re:Political Correctness? on Microsoft Patents Bad Neighborhood Detection · · Score: 1

    It's normal not to want to live in Mexico because of the crime issues that plague large portions of the country, thanks to ineffectual government and poverty. It's racist not to want to live in Mexico because of the Mexicans, which the GP clearly stated was the case in his selection of housing.

  10. Re:Stand up, people! on SOPA Makes Strange Bedfellows · · Score: 1

    There's a reason that the blackout option is expected to be highly effective if it happens. Just wait until the flood of angry constituents makes their voice heard in Washington.

  11. Re:Weird money on SOPA Makes Strange Bedfellows · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Benefit of the doubt; he pulled the Senators list, and was curious about Obama. The first 3 on the senator list happen to be Democrats, and TBH, I'd be curious as to what Obama received as well.

  12. Re:I never get to see "100MPG+" on Another Stab At Sorting Hybrid Hype From Reality · · Score: 1

    For sure. Turn on Sport mode, and away you go. That's the reason I'm driving it and not a Prius. You can still get 40mpg+, given that you drive it like a hybrid, but has no problem accelerating if you're in the mood to move fast. Plus, it's slick, inside and out.

  13. Re:Listen to the users before bashing on Another Stab At Sorting Hybrid Hype From Reality · · Score: 1

    I heard that the brakes wear down slower due to the use of regenerative braking, and the engines tend to do better because many drive them easier than a typical car.

  14. Re:I never get to see "100MPG+" on Another Stab At Sorting Hybrid Hype From Reality · · Score: 1

    It did more for my driving style than the hybrid factor itself, IMO. Then again, I'm not in a Prius, but a CR-Z, which is on the lower end of the efficiency scale of hybrids.

  15. Re:the article seems a bit muddled on Another Stab At Sorting Hybrid Hype From Reality · · Score: 1

    The writer also doesn't realize that he can get 100MPG+ while going down the hill he drives up, negating his 10mpg going up the hill.

  16. Re:Does the data reflect tires slipping on ice? on What a Black Box Data Dump Looks Like · · Score: 1

    I have no idea how they're typically engineered, but saw there wasn't anyone else who mentioned that you can filter out the spike fairly easily with some common sense interpretation of the data.

  17. Re:Does the data reflect tires slipping on ice? on What a Black Box Data Dump Looks Like · · Score: 1

    Even if the other comments don't hold true, you can tell if you hit ice and had tires spinning equivalent to 108 mph while doing 50 mph in reality by seeing the spike in speed from hitting the ice patch, given a long enough recording interval.

  18. Re:When in Rome on Australian Deported From Bahrain Over Facebook Posts · · Score: 1

    There may not have needed to be a law in Germany post-war, it may have been a different variety of manipulation. Don't forget, significant numbers of American troops were stationed there during the cold war, and could have enforced such a prohibition without the need for an act of the German government. Wikipedia source that confirms that.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De-Nazification#American_zone

  19. Re:When in Rome on Australian Deported From Bahrain Over Facebook Posts · · Score: 4, Interesting

    No, they didn't do it out of a "lack of giving a fuck about any rights". Have you ever met a WW2 vet? They were ALL there for a noble cause that they understood, even if they were scared shitless of the prospect of being in the war. Not a single one of them "didn't give a fuck" about rights. These were real heroes; they were there to save the fucking world from the oppression that Hitler represented and actively implemented on the people he didn't exterminate, because the reality was that he was going to take over Europe and eventually get to American soil, after consolidating a European base with his incredibly effective war machine. That was the mindset of every fucking soldier over there, not this paranoid oppression of free speech bullshit. This was the absolute prime example of "They came for the Jews, and I did nothing. They came for the gays, and I did nothing. Then they came for me, and nobody was left to help.", and every person knew it. They were undoing the damage he had done to German society, not trampling over the rights of the German people, and for anyone to say otherwise is ignorant at best and disingenuous at worst.

  20. Re:When in Rome on Australian Deported From Bahrain Over Facebook Posts · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Free speech only counts back home, but only because there was a huge portion of the German populace that refused to believe it happened. Cult-like indoctrination of a country is a long process which Hitler successfully performed, and it takes drastic measures to undo said indoctrination.

  21. Re:Bullshit on Edison Would Have Loved New Light Bulb Law, Says His Great-Grandson · · Score: 2

    If you're relying on light bulbs to heat your house, you're doing it wrong.

  22. Re:Some scan apps can show URL and ask first on Malicious QR Code Use On the Rise · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The one on Android marketplace (also the particular one that many apps are linked into) does show the link by default, but that still doesn't necessarily help the person using the scanner, who may be completely clueless that they're about to head into a random foreign domain.

  23. Re:This is what's wrong with private healthcare. on How Doctors Die · · Score: 1

    I got them done after I had pain, not before, even though they had been impacted for 2-3 years. They weren't an oral surgeon, and couldn't have done it just to milk an insurance plan as a result.

  24. Re:Li? on Russia Building World's Largest Li-Ion Battery Plant · · Score: 1

    A rise in prices will make the market enticing to Bolivia, so I doubt there will be a shortage for very long.

  25. Re:From copying to innovation. on The Chinese Town Where Old Christmas Lights Go · · Score: 1

    No, this is coming from someone who realizes that a significant number of German autos aren't as reliable as you think they are.

    http://www.jdpower.com/news/pressrelease.aspx?ID=2011089