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Comment Re:Flip Book! (Score 3, Insightful) 169

by Jhon on Tuesday March 10, 2015 @02:42PM (#49227025) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Video Storage For Time Capsule?

We'll have giant thumbs used for typing on itsy bitsy screens.

Comment Re:Flip Book! (Score 1) 169

by Jhon on Tuesday March 10, 2015 @02:09PM (#49226781) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Video Storage For Time Capsule?

You beat me to the punch. It sounds like a flip response but it really is the best option for 50-100 years. It'll survive almost anything. Even if the end result is brittle, you can still reconstruct the "book" one page at a time through whatever "photocopy" technology exists in the 2060's.

Comment Re:B is the new F? (Score 2) 315

by Jhon on Tuesday March 10, 2015 @12:30PM (#49225891) Attached to: Clinton's Private Email System Gets a Security "F" Rating

Check my other post in this thread. Sat morning it's "F". The parent of this thread sees a "B" sat evening. Looks like they fixed something.

Comment Re:B is the new F? (Score 5, Informative) 315

by Jhon on Tuesday March 10, 2015 @12:25PM (#49225835) Attached to: Clinton's Private Email System Gets a Security "F" Rating

Interesting. I've got two tabs open -- both to the same URL. I see the following:

SSL Report: mail.clintonemail.com (64.94.172.146)
Assessed on: Sat Mar 07 15:10:39 PST 2015 | Clear cache
RATING: "F"

SSL Report: mail.clintonemail.com (64.94.172.146)
Assessed on: Tue Mar 10 09:18:02 PDT 2015 | Clear cache
RATING "B"

The difference is Protocol support is zero on the F and notes SSL 2.0 support (automatic "F").

Looks like somebody fixed something between Saturday and today.

Comment Re:B is the new F? (Score 1) 315

by Jhon on Tuesday March 10, 2015 @12:13PM (#49225735) Attached to: Clinton's Private Email System Gets a Security "F" Rating

I just checked and it says "F" in a bright red box.

SSL Report: mail.clintonemail.com (64.94.172.146)

What IP address did YOU see? Maybe there's more than one server being polled?

Comment Re:Since when is a "B" grade an "F"? (Score 3, Informative) 315

by Jhon on Tuesday March 10, 2015 @12:13PM (#49225725) Attached to: Clinton's Private Email System Gets a Security "F" Rating

I just checked and it says "F" in a bright red box.

SSL Report: mail.clintonemail.com (64.94.172.146)

What IP address did YOU see? Maybe there's more than one server being polled?

Comment Who or what is Gigaom? (Score 5, Insightful) 101

by Nighttime on Tuesday March 10, 2015 @09:37AM (#49224273) Attached to: Gigaom Closes Shop

Until this story, I'd never heard of them. Would it have hurt to included a brief sentence or two in the summary as to why it's "a loss for the tech community"?

Submission + - Did Hillary Commit a Felony? (nationalreview.com) 1

Submitted by bhlowe on Wednesday March 04, 2015 @03:32PM

bhlowe writes: Hilliary used a private email server hosted at her house to conduct business as Secretary of State under a pseudonym. This appears to be in violation of US law that may exclude her from holding office. A mock twitter account has been set up using the pseudonym of the "administrator" of her server, Eric Hoteham. In 2000, Hillary Clinton says she gave up using email because of the number of investigations she's been under.

Submission + - Ask Slashdot - Private-cloud file hosting software for linux, like Google Drive?

Submitted by TarpaKungs on Wednesday March 04, 2015 @02:52PM

TarpaKungs writes: I'm Asking Slashdot because I *know* this is a growing problem, but I have failed to find a suitable soution. Here's hoping the collective intelligence of Slashdot will prevail :)

OK — you have lots of android devices and maybe a several Chromebooks: Google Drive is great — it works well, it has user selectable offline caching ("Keep on device") — and most importantly, it handles updates from multiple clients gracefully. The main problem with this is reliability (will the service stay there), security, privacy and cost.

"Cost" because I have several terabytes of data (mostly photos, but a lot of other important files and documents) on an existing linux infrastructure which is well maintained, raid-ed and backed up. A small fraction of this it would be nice to replicate to all my client devices. The rest would be nice just to have on demand, subject to a network connection.

"Privacy and security" because I have lots of data that I don't want to lose control of.

I have been searching for a long time and have yet to find any self hosted software that has the technical abilities of Google Drive or Dropbox. Adding to that, the ability to maintain a secondary sync'd full copy of specific shares on linux (eg on my laptop) would be cool — but not crucial. However a general access linux client is a must.

I'm not looking for the all singing all dancing features of Google Drive such as live spreadsheets in my browser or any of the ancillary features like email and calendars. Simply good honest robust file serving with client offline mode (aka local cached copy, user selectable file by file or folder by folder) and no issues with multiple clients updating files.

I've tried Tonido and Owncloud and neither play nice with POSIX user permissions — they seem to want to own the files and manage access at a server level. Owncloud free seems also to be limited to a single share and enterprise pricing on both products is very high (3 to 4 figures) with no hobbyist/home licensing tier.

Simpler scenarios like SFTP and SMB of course do play nice with the local user permissions, but are not so bright on the client side — ie no offline mode. I did look down the WebDAV route but again, I have failed to find any client apps that are smart about offline mode. I suspect Google and Dropbox add some additional stuff to their protocols to push notifications of changes to other connected clients and also to manage the concept of "who has the latest copy".

So I guess what I am looking for is either a whole server/client suite that works or at least an SFTP/SMB/WebDAV client that is a bit smarter. Here's hoping the collective intelligence of Slashdot will prevail :)

Comment Re:There might be hope for a decent adaptation (Score 3, Interesting) 331

by Jhon on Wednesday March 04, 2015 @02:40PM (#49182013) Attached to: 'The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress' Coming To the Big Screen

Starship Troopers was bad. Very bad. While Puppet Masters was bad, too -- it had at least Donald Sutherland. I could picture him as the "Old Man" easily and I could almost imagine a script that didn't suck.

Comment There might be hope for a decent adaptation (Score 4, Insightful) 331

by Jhon on Wednesday March 04, 2015 @02:14PM (#49181745) Attached to: 'The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress' Coming To the Big Screen

Predestination was a "decent' attempt at "All you Zombies" and was very watchable.

All the other attempts kind of sucked out loud with a bamboo umbrella.

Submission + - Open source mapping plays important role in humanitarian response (opensource.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 04, 2015 @01:55PM

An anonymous reader writes: Open source and crowdsourcing—uttering these words at a meeting of the United Nations before the year 2010 would have made you persona non grata. In fact, the fastest way to discredit yourself at any humanitarian meeting just five years ago was to suggest the use of open source software and crowdsourcing in disaster response. Then, a tragic earthquake occured in Haiti in 2010, and OpenStreetMap and Ushahidi were deployed in the aftermath.

Their use demonstrated the potential of free and open source crowdsourcing platforms in humanitarian contexts.

Then, Typhoon Ruby in the Philippines occured five years later. What technology was used?

Submission + - IoT devices not secured by design (zdnet.com)

Submitted by irl_4795 on Tuesday March 03, 2015 @12:54PM

irl_4795 writes: Internet of Things devices are not originally built to be robust against attacks, resulting in vulnerabilities that can lead to severe repercussions if left unchecked, such as data that's being collected and acted upon in Singapore's smart nation plan.

Submission + - Hillary Clinton Used Personal Email at State Dept., Possibly Breaking Rules (nytimes.com) 1

Submitted by HughPickens.com on Monday March 02, 2015 @10:48PM

HughPickens.com writes: The NYT reports that Hillary Rodham Clinton exclusively used a personal email account to conduct government business as secretary of state, State Department officials said, and may have violated federal requirements that officials’ correspondence be retained as part of the agency’s record. Clinton did not have a government email address during her four-year tenure at the State Department. Her aides took no actions to have her personal emails preserved on department servers at the time, as required by the Federal Records Act. “It is very difficult to conceive of a scenario — short of nuclear winter — where an agency would be justified in allowing its cabinet-level head officer to solely use a private email communications channel for the conduct of government business,” says Jason R. Baron. A spokesman for Clinton defended her use of the personal email account and said she has been complying with the “letter and spirit of the rules.”

Submission + - Google Quietly Backs Away From Encrypting New Lollilop Devices by Default

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 02, 2015 @08:06PM

An anonymous reader writes: Although Google announced in September 2014 that Android 5.0 Lollipop would require full-disk encryption by default in new cell phones, Ars Technica has found otherwise in recently-released 2nd-gen Moto E and Galaxy S6. It turns out, according to the latest version of the Android Compatibility Definition document (PDF), full-disk encryption is currently only "very strongly recommended" in anticipation of mandatory encryption requirements in the future. The moral of the story is don't be lazy; check that your full-disk encryption is actually enabled.

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