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  1. Re:Run your own servers and use encryption on Keeping Your Data Private From the NSA (And Everyone Else) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    This is how Lotus has worked for 20 years. Your log-in key is a file which is your public/private key and public keys of important servers (home server, various "main servers", adjacent domain servers). Then it's PGP all the way down. It's a simple menu option (often force-enabled by your admin) to have your client encrypt the message decryption key for each destination user.

    That's why their webmail requires that you upload the log-in key. And it expires according to your company password policy. The cert trust chain corresponds to the organization's servers, and cannot be spoofed without having the organization's keyfile (on admin server) or using the admin server itself (which is highly logged). This makes the encryption very tamper-proof (in 20 years I've never heard of it broken, and I'd know).

    But this is for organizations running Lotus internal and the organizations it peers with. AFAIK There's no direct + easy standard that does the same thing.

  2. Re:Excellent! You have solved the obesity problem! on The Lepsis Is a Terrarium For Growing Edible Insects At Home · · Score: 1

    Sure, which fact bothers you:
    - More dies eaten per American after 1990 than before.
    - No claims of health benefits in dies
    - Dies are mostly used with artificial fruit flavor
    - Died candies, sodas, etc have more calories than fruit &/or water they're simulating, especially when considering the absorption effects of fruit fiber.
    - Weight gain (thus, obesity) is based on excessive caloric intake.

  3. Re:Bullshit. on The Lepsis Is a Terrarium For Growing Edible Insects At Home · · Score: 0

    Since the '90s the US has eaten this synthetic & has also gained a massive obesity spike. Its synthetic nature benefits no one. We don't need fake color to confuse minds into thinking they're seeing fruit.

  4. Re:if u believe in "the free market"does it matter on What Keeps You On (or Off) Windows in 2013? · · Score: 1

    That's the fun thing about something that's not "sold": no market speech.

    At some point, you have to say..

    For funding? That's not really the model.
    Because it's not progressing? That's not it either.

    No one 'has to say' anything about open source. It will be the ever-rising "low water mark" of what free provides. Commercial competitors must either surpass it somewhere or use lock-in. So it's more important to keep watching it instead of writing it off, lest you're the last one in the know when it covers your needs.

  5. Not Survival Training on New All-Solid Sulfur Based Battery Outperforms Lithium Ion · · Score: 1

    I carry the JetBoil because it's the safest, lightest, most reliable food option. And I'm considering UV light water purifiers over hiking in a lot more water. Why do I camp?
    To enjoy the sights & sounds nature & avoid crowds. Why am I reducing even further? So I can bring my toddlers out there to enjoy the same thing.
    Feeling hungry, painful experiences aren't something I schedule for: it's not survival training.

  6. Re:Yes they can on Can Microsoft Survive If Windows Doesn't Dominate? · · Score: 1

    and what percentage of the world resembles your setup & interests? (16GB @ 5 years ago) & (1TB of games)

    Anyone who wants decent graphics does not use Intel, or a phone

    The Wii casual gamer market is huge, but phones are picking that audience up.

    I've played many 3D games with an Intel Sandy Bridge integrated video card and get decent results.

    How many dual booting phones are there about?

    Dual booting to what?
    - KVM on ARM gets > 95% the performance in VMs,
    - containers allow simultaneous userspaces,
    - There is an Android + Linux Desktop phone available,
    - There is a Windows + Android tablet available.

    Re:Article:
    Microsoft not making dual-boot a reality, or those games. ARMs work smarter (more GPU by default), not harder.

  7. Re:Losing share may save Microsoft on Can Microsoft Survive If Windows Doesn't Dominate? · · Score: 1

    ha! I was thinking that accelerated the downfall. Nobody cares if they play lockout games now that there are other players.

  8. Re:Yes they can on Can Microsoft Survive If Windows Doesn't Dominate? · · Score: 2

    No:
    - weaker processor: What's your CPU usage right now? http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=samsung_exynos5_dual&num=4
    - less powerful video card: My phone's GPU is more powerful than the most common desktop one (Intel integrated).
    - less control: I replaced my phone & tablet OS with a different userspace, kernel & all. Less savvy users get info on what an app will do before they install it.

    Maybe:
    - less Ram: My Phone has 2GB LPDDR3. Tablets have more. It resembles PCs 5 years ago.
    - less drive space: 64gb micro-SD cards & first-class wireless-N to a fileserver. This problem is minor.

  9. Re:Yes they can on Can Microsoft Survive If Windows Doesn't Dominate? · · Score: 1

    But you probably own a $500 phone that gets replaced every 2 years, and the GPU advances there are catching-up quickly. 3D tablet games are now common along with VPN, dropbox, decent browsers. Windows' enemy is phone subsidies leveling the playing field for OSes. It's true even for tablets as the phone tech drives the tablet tech.

  10. Re:Jarring to switch between maximized programs on New Asus Device Runs Both Windows and Android · · Score: 1

    Effectively true & unfortunate. It is a tech demo to show what's possible. It wasn't hard to make the apps do this, just non-standard.

  11. Re:Server & Tools too... on Can Microsoft Survive If Windows Doesn't Dominate? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Sure, for a natural market, but lock-in is lock-out at low adoption rates:
    - Office requires (works completely in) Windows, and hasn't been able to un-require it despite trying for years. Sure there's a Mac & Online mode, but they're behind.
    - Lync, SQL, Exchange, IIS, Windows Server: Only Windows businesses care
    - Visual Studio: (Mostly) only Windows businesses care.

    Tie all those to a minor OS (instead of a dominant OS), and they won't be billion dollar businesses.

  12. Re:Why aren't there more contributors to this proj on ReactOS 0.3.15 Released · · Score: 1

    I worked in a callcenter where a Win16 program vastly improved the team's ability to do the job (it was connected to the phone system we used). Wine (ReactOS on Linux) ran the program much better than Windows 7 in any mode, so many people installed Linux machines for the improved legacy Windows compatibility when they found "Wine for Windows" didn't exist.

  13. Re:Put them at restaurants on Tesla To Blanket US With Superchargers In Two Years · · Score: 1

    Ikea has! And it contains a restaurant & often is powered by solar. Your future's already here, just expanding.

  14. Re:Confidentiality agreements? on Casting a Harsh Light On Chinese Solar Panels · · Score: 1

    I've thought of this before, and think the answer is "an intensive eye to the first level of the chain". Why?
    - Everyone can find out their immediate supplier
    - 1 company of scrutiny is easy
    - Competition here is good
    - If a company knows its reason for better business, they're more likely to become minded similarly & expect the same of their suppliers.

  15. Re:English? on White House: Use Metric If You Want, We Don't Care · · Score: 1

    I never got the 10 digits thing. You can't show that number in a single base-10 digit. The digits argument advocates for a base-11 number system.

  16. Re:Agile doesn't mean that the project won't fail on World's Biggest 'Agile' Software Project Close To Failure · · Score: 1

    As a programmer for the steel industry, here's some perspective:
    - Architects give 'final' drawings to fabricators whose draftsmen typically do serious cleanup in terms of simplifying & component-izing the design. High coordination with architects occurs here.
    - Fabricators turn raw steel into Beams with names like G12 & F36 which connect using a type-B connection: They make it an IKEA project.
    - Installers (the least paid) follow directions. As they're risking their lives, weather & safety are their biggest concerns. Inspectors nearly outnumber workers & are glad for the simplifying the fabricators did.

    Yes, a steel worker should not (can not actually) change attachments. But a software dev resembles a fabricator's draftsman. Their knowledge goes a long way. When working with draftsmen, they would find staircases to nowhere, find different connections between every beam, and were even known to send drawing sets back (to a General Contractor who hired the architect) as being entirely unfit to build.

    They don't do stress calculations, but are a second phase of knowledgeable individual. In contrast, software developers (with testers) are doing the stress work & much more of the structural work. And what comes from agile architects is pitifully under-prepared for blind creating, comparatively, than what I heard the draftsmen get from architects.

  17. Mis-configured is an interesting thought. Typically things seem exceedingly complex if they're being looked-at incorrectly. The perception of incorrect currently is that our tools aren't sensitive enough for the direction we are going. But if in-fact better explanations exist the universe's properties, then building sensitive tools may actually be creating complexity in the sense that we are looking in the wrong place.

    For example, alternative theories of various fields (electric universe) are slightly or mostly disproven, but few-to-nobody is trying hard to write exceptions & make them work like we are doing with the current models.

    In software, if the 'wrong' abstraction is used to build-out a concept, the result can be far more complex than what's necessary for the task. Like a math 'proof' with too many steps that doesn't go the right direction & still is looking for partial credit.

  18. Re:Just so you know on Intel's Linux OpenGL Driver Faster Than Apple's OS X Driver · · Score: 1

    The performance problem that, once solved, changes the discussion about gaming & Linux entirely: so studios release on Linux first.

  19. Re:Need Clarity on Debian GNU/Hurd 2013 Released · · Score: 1

    Android uses Busybox.
    Qualcomm's has LLVM compile Linux & use its C runtime.
    There are many C runtimes for Linux nowadays.

    I'm unsure how much longer any GNU pieces will be on any system. Today none are a hard requirement for Linux.

  20. Re:Does anyone have any non-silly comments? on Debian GNU/Hurd 2013 Released · · Score: 1

    Greatest post I've read in years!

  21. Re:rather have money on Do Developers Need Free Perks To Thrive? · · Score: 1

    I can't stand sodas, but I've used it as a canary once to save my family from unemployment.

  22. Re:rather have money on Do Developers Need Free Perks To Thrive? · · Score: 1

    Almost? 20 years ago I went to Morenci, Az, USA where restaurants, grocery stores, & gas stations only took the company debit card. At the restaurant, the manager bought our meal & we paid him in cash since they couldn't figure it out any other way.

    And it's common.
    Typically, remote oil refineries barely interact with the outside economy. Your job determines your housing, food, medical! Reducing one won't allow you to trade up for another.

  23. Re:What? Again? on Rice Professor Predicts Humans Out of Work In 30 Years · · Score: 1

    I agree we've been working through the hierarchy of needs, but only once-over to provide those things. I think once they're fairly-well covered we will rewalk the hierarchy for a cycle of gaining ownership. We are seeing it already with solar panels, home 3d printers, etc.

  24. Re:Well, he's not afraid his company might fire hi on Larry Page: You Worry Too Much About Medical Privacy · · Score: 1

    With socialized health care, it's in the government's best interest to keep their population healthy. So dangerous things can be taxed. Also, government funds are more readily available to investigate causality (rather than insurance guessing or drug companies rushing out the next symptom-reducing pill).

    The effects are felt all the way to city planning: visit Canada & you'll see their cities are friendlier for walking.
    I doubt that's all legislated, but it changes the mindset of the people b/c someone in every planning will ask about the health impact, if at-least to keep up with the neighbors or to toe the line.

  25. Re:Feels good on Google Demands Microsoft Pull YouTube App For WP8 · · Score: 1

    A Google-led lawsuit would be far more powerful. Think about it, they could be held guilty for copyright infringement of movies. That could change their relationship with the MPAA.