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Comment Re:It doesn't matter (Score 1) 470

The Snowden revelations have finally convinced me to ditch Windows. I've gone for Xubuntu. It's worked out if the box and almost zero config. The wife is, coincidentally, happier with our new system and for the very few things that are missing for me, Windows7 in a VM is a cinch. Yes I am just one data point and yes I am a geek but I didn't grow up on a command line and although I'm learning, its not because I have to to get the system working.

Comment FF running as portable from a networked drive. (Score 1) 381

I can only get Firefox to do this reliably. Both chrome and opera have their limits and I never found a portable IE that worked properly. Portable because I have no privileges to install software and "from a network drive" so that what ever desktop I'm on I have the same browser environment. Firefox has the bonus of letting me be logged in with the group admin profile and still run my own browser with my own profile.

Comment Re:There's plenty of scientific misconduct out the (Score 1) 141

The trick to misconduct is hard work and principles.

Just as I have high standards, integrity and rigor in my professional life I'm also very principled and practice diligence when those standards slip and I have to/want to cut corners.
If you're lazy and stupid in your work, chances are you'll be lazy and stupid in your misconduct too.

Comment Re:wow. (Score 1) 476

Humans naturally want to hit each other over the head for dominance and cooperate at the same time. there's plenty of evidence for these behaviours across the whole spectrum of the living world, all the way back to microbes. Google horizontal gene transfer and draw your own conclusions. I suspect that whether you emphasise cooperation or competition is down to your political leanings, personality type or social background.

Submission + - Ask Slashdot: Viable Alternative to Lavabit 1

rizole writes: As we learnt earlier today, Lavabit, an encrypted email provider, was shut down by it's owner. Pointing a finger that the US Government he writes:

I would _strongly_ recommend against anyone trusting their private data to a company with physical ties to the United States.

What alternative email provider would you recommend Edward Snowden now gets an account with?

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