The lesson that everyone needs to draw from this is that it's great that Android is open and allows you to do pretty much whatever you want. However if you start flashing your own ROMs...
Heh. You should look into why people flash their own ROMs.
Exactly, that is the one feature people often forget when suggesting alternatives to Dropbox. And it's the one feature I use Dropbox for. Automatic, multidirectional syncing between the Dropbox servers and the two computers I run dropbox on.
Bingo. The word I'd use to describe Dropbox is 'proactive'. It goes and gets stuff, you don't have to boss it around. Then there's other niceties like inviting other people to share folders on that account. I send shit to my friend all the time. Dropbox picks it up and his machine downloads it automatically. He doesn't have to go log in to FTP, he just waits and *blammo* his machine has it.
It sucks that it's not secure, I have a million work-related uses for it.
Most people are too immature in basic high school to understand Economics -- at least to a useful level. And they are too concerned with tagging their photos in Facebook to care...
I'd be careful about casting stones, plenty of people posting on Slashdot don't even understand supply and demand.
I've skimmed the threads here for alternatives and for various reasons they're not ideal. So I wanted to ask about an alternative approach: What about encrypting each individual file? What about using WinRar or.ZIP and password protecting (and compressing!) the file individually? Preferably something where I could right-click on the file, enter a password, then there's a password-encyrpted file ready to be sent through DB.
Is there a secure solution this way? Is it both PC and Mac compatible?
Will DropBox be able to actually overwrite that 4mb chunk while you still have the image mounted as a drive? If you write something else into that folder while DB is updating couldn't it fail spectacularly?
I don't think I'd be alone in wondering if this wouldn't put a great big stake in the heart of the assertion that iOS is the most secure operating system in existence today.
Why? Can you access photos or the phone's contact list from HTML5?
...but compressing it with minimal lag while looking loseless and fitting under 15Mbs will need some processing power.
Not that much. a.) They already have it working. b.) The CPU has multiple cores and can probably handle that well already. c.) That's assuming they don't have hardware for it already. and d.) This sort of technology is already well understood.
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Yes, the platform that at one point (a year ago) let you root your phone by visiting a website is better.
FTFY.
Why not? We pound our keyboards over Android vs. iOS.
The lesson that everyone needs to draw from this is that it's great that Android is open and allows you to do pretty much whatever you want. However if you start flashing your own ROMs...
Heh. You should look into why people flash their own ROMs.
Exactly, that is the one feature people often forget when suggesting alternatives to Dropbox. And it's the one feature I use Dropbox for. Automatic, multidirectional syncing between the Dropbox servers and the two computers I run dropbox on.
Bingo. The word I'd use to describe Dropbox is 'proactive'. It goes and gets stuff, you don't have to boss it around.
Then there's other niceties like inviting other people to share folders on that account. I send shit to my friend all the time. Dropbox picks it up and his machine downloads it automatically. He doesn't have to go log in to FTP, he just waits and *blammo* his machine has it.
It sucks that it's not secure, I have a million work-related uses for it.
I've had something better for longer than it has existed so why should I use it?
So that you know what 'better' actually means.
Why are people pretending that dropbox is anything special instead of just a crappy workaround for email attachment size limits?
All those people have something in common: They used it.
Most people are too immature in basic high school to understand Economics -- at least to a useful level. And they are too concerned with tagging their photos in Facebook to care...
I'd be careful about casting stones, plenty of people posting on Slashdot don't even understand supply and demand.
Thanks man!
No no no, I'm saying his solution isn't a complete solution. Here's what his answer was like:
I need to get from St. Louis to Los Angeles!
Buy some Michelin tires.
Boy it'd be nice if the people offering solutions were actually aware of what all DropBox does.
I've skimmed the threads here for alternatives and for various reasons they're not ideal. So I wanted to ask about an alternative approach: What about encrypting each individual file? What about using WinRar or .ZIP and password protecting (and compressing!) the file individually? Preferably something where I could right-click on the file, enter a password, then there's a password-encyrpted file ready to be sent through DB.
Is there a secure solution this way? Is it both PC and Mac compatible?
Will DropBox be able to actually overwrite that 4mb chunk while you still have the image mounted as a drive? If you write something else into that folder while DB is updating couldn't it fail spectacularly?
This is the step I want the answer to.
Are you familiar with how Dropbox auto-syncs?
Well... on the flip side, couldn't you wear an IR thing to prevent people from photographing you?
Short of heavy-duty crypto ...
Short of it? That wasn't even covered in the original post. That was the point.
SFTP is far better than both and is open.
...and insufficient in terms of functionality. Oops.
Great, all that's left is to update your server periodically, secure your ftp, and find some sort of auto-syncing functionality.
Rent a system at rackspace or a similar place; run linux on it?
How do you keep the people that have physical access to your machine from messing with your files?
Right, but isn't the whole volume going to have to be synced every time you make a change?
Or are you talking about creating an image for each file?
Ah, a sheep troll. "Baaa! I post disgusting photos! Baaa!"
From Safari? Do you want ActiveX, too?
I use FB on my iPhone for two hours a day. Am I cool or not?
On Slashdot, no. So you have to decide, do you want to be cool on Slashdot, or do you want to have friends?
Less freedom to have rogue apps snatch your data?
I don't think I'd be alone in wondering if this wouldn't put a great big stake in the heart of the assertion that iOS is the most secure operating system in existence today.
Why? Can you access photos or the phone's contact list from HTML5?
...but compressing it with minimal lag while looking loseless and fitting under 15Mbs will need some processing power.
Not that much. a.) They already have it working. b.) The CPU has multiple cores and can probably handle that well already. c.) That's assuming they don't have hardware for it already. and d.) This sort of technology is already well understood.