Backupify.com is a great way to back up your Facebook account in the cloud (along with Twitter, Picasa, Google Calendar, Google Docs, etc.). You can use the promo code savegmail to get 20 GB of storage free for a whole year.
A good tool for helping to protect yourself from Keyloggers is KeyScrambler. It encrypts your keystrokes as you type. I've tested it against a few free and commercial keyloggers, and it does the trick. The keylogger's logs show only scrambled keystrokes.
The free version protects your keystrokes in IE and Mozilla Firefox.
Once, some critical.dll files had been deleted from the Windows XP Operating System on one of the shared computers in my house, rendering the system un-usable. Nobody had made any backups, and the XP Installation DVD was nowhere to be found.
I didn't want to leave my family with an un-usable machine, so I bit the bullet and installed Debian Linux with Firefox(which I believe was branded IceWeasel at the time), OpenOffice, and some other essentials. After hearing feedback from my parents, I switched to Ubuntu (with the same apps) for the sake of user-friendliness.
What about people who have Autism or other disorders that cause them to express emotion differently? Are you going to lock me up just because I don't seem like a regular Joe Sixpack?
This is why more small, independent cellular companies need to be created. They would be able to give the major providers competition, causing them to lower their insanely over-inflated prices.
On another tangent, why not just eliminate the fee for SMS? I know it's a huge cash cow, but any sane person would agree that paying 5-30 cents for a 1-3 KB message is ridiculous. Only cellular service providers could get away with shit like this. It's pure extortion, driven by greed. Plain and simple.
If ISPs charged 5 cents per kilobyte, watching a single YouTube video could exceed $409.00!
How will people play online games such as World of Warcraft, if everything is hosted online? Will there be a flash memory storage drive included with the computer?
Just use OpenDNS. You point your router to their DNS servers, and you can configure up to 50 shortcuts for your favorite websites.
For example, if I want to go to slashdot, I just type "sd" into my address bar, and I'm redirected to slashdot.org.
"gm" redirects me to Gmail.
"news" redirects me to Google News.
"maps" redirects me to Google Maps.
"docs" redirects me to Google Docs.
"help" redirects me to the Debian support forum.
Mark my words,the Internet will end up a bunch of "walled gardens" like in the days of AOL and Compuserve. The amount of bandwidth they give you for "non-affiliated" services will be so pathetic as to not matter. They will offer the few big boys like Google a free pass to keep them from fighting it while the rest can just starve. The days of a wild and free Internet are coming to a close IMHO. And the world will be a much worse place for it. After all I'm sure that each "garden" will have their own "free" news feed where only approved views will be heard and the corporate spin will always be considered gospel. Unfortunately, what you said paints a frighteningly accurate picture of what the future may hold. I've taken a screencap of your comment so that someday we can tell everyone that we knew that this beast was coming before it reared it's ugly head.
Please tell me the games for the PS3 will actually utilize it's power. I would like to see a Naruto game take full advantage of it's console's capabilities for once.
This is cool, but they should make you have a high-speed connection, and pass an IQ test to do this. My partners either had slow modems, or were just plain morons.
Slashdot Mirror
4-digit PINS are nearly useless. I use a 16-digit pin-code plus 256-bit AES encryption of all of my sensitive data.
Backupify.com is a great way to back up your Facebook account in the cloud (along with Twitter, Picasa, Google Calendar, Google Docs, etc.). You can use the promo code savegmail to get 20 GB of storage free for a whole year.
Good thing I live in America. You jelly, Canadians?
I'd love to see the reactions of people who are afraid of heights when they discover that their plane is totally transparent.
A good tool for helping to protect yourself from Keyloggers is KeyScrambler. It encrypts your keystrokes as you type. I've tested it against a few free and commercial keyloggers, and it does the trick. The keylogger's logs show only scrambled keystrokes.
The free version protects your keystrokes in IE and Mozilla Firefox.
Similar, only without the need to vomit afterwards.
Every time I see Matt Asay's name mentioned in article summaries here on /., I'm shocked for a moment, because I have an uncle with that name.
Once, some critical .dll files had been deleted from the Windows XP Operating System on one of the shared computers in my house, rendering the system un-usable. Nobody had made any backups, and the XP Installation DVD was nowhere to be found.
I didn't want to leave my family with an un-usable machine, so I bit the bullet and installed Debian Linux with Firefox(which I believe was branded IceWeasel at the time), OpenOffice, and some other essentials. After hearing feedback from my parents, I switched to Ubuntu (with the same apps) for the sake of user-friendliness.
What about people who have Autism or other disorders that cause them to express emotion differently? Are you going to lock me up just because I don't seem like a regular Joe Sixpack?
He should've at least used the stolen laptops to run BOINC projects, that insensitive clod!
This is why more small, independent cellular companies need to be created. They would be able to give the major providers competition, causing them to lower their insanely over-inflated prices.
On another tangent, why not just eliminate the fee for SMS? I know it's a huge cash cow, but any sane person would agree that paying 5-30 cents for a 1-3 KB message is ridiculous. Only cellular service providers could get away with shit like this. It's pure extortion, driven by greed. Plain and simple.
If ISPs charged 5 cents per kilobyte, watching a single YouTube video could exceed $409.00!
There's another reason for everyone to switch to Gmail.
Thankfully, I've been using OpenDNS for almost a year now.
How will people play online games such as World of Warcraft, if everything is hosted online? Will there be a flash memory storage drive included with the computer?
Just use OpenDNS. You point your router to their DNS servers, and you can configure up to 50 shortcuts for your favorite websites.
For example, if I want to go to slashdot, I just type "sd" into my address bar, and I'm redirected to slashdot.org.
"gm" redirects me to Gmail.
"news" redirects me to Google News.
"maps" redirects me to Google Maps.
"docs" redirects me to Google Docs.
"help" redirects me to the Debian support forum.
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Please tell me the games for the PS3 will actually utilize it's power. I would like to see a Naruto game take full advantage of it's console's capabilities for once.
In Soviet Russia, Wireless researches you!
Hopefully this will mean the 8 million Narutp videos will vanish from YT.
Microsoft?... Open Source?... Does not compute, does not compute!
Old guy: "Nancy honey, the damn rabbit-ears ain't workin' no more! I wanna watch channel 4!"
This is cool, but they should make you have a high-speed connection, and pass an IQ test to do this. My partners either had slow modems, or were just plain morons.
The Don't Copy that Floppy video can be found at http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=9045861006 530293045
It's quite amusing.
Yeah, it's kind of strange that half of their products are always in a beta stage.
Now imagine the possibilities... If Google acquired Ebay! : D