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Submission + - Ask Slashdot: What is the best way to mentor online? 1

vanyel writes: Having grown up in a rural setting with few resources and recently chatting with a CS student overseas in a less than ideal setting made me think about mentoring options. I'd thought that perhaps mentoring.<stackexchangesite> might be a good option, but they seem to be rather against the idea and even I admit a Q&A format like they're setup for isn't the best. I think mentoring would be a valuable service though, so I ask What *should* online mentoring look like?

Comment Not yet (Score 1) 101

"too few ISPs bother with it" [RPKI] because "Cisco Systems is committed[4] to offering this functionality in Cisco IOS. Juniper Networks is working on an implementation[5] for Junos as well", i.e. it doesn't exist yet. DNSSEC exists, but is very challenging to implement and is fragile, though recent BIND implementations have improved that situation considerably. DANE will build on top of that, so there *is* hope for the future, but it is still the future.

Comment SplashID (Score 1) 445

I use SplashID on my phone (and it's probably the single biggest usage of my phone). Don't get the current version though - 7 is pretty much unusable. I had to fall back to 6, which is usable, though not quite as simple as 4 was (I think that's what I upgraded to 7 from, which was a terrible mistake). Like the submitter, I refuse to use the cloud offerings (which SpashID has as an option now). A cell phone is a risk, but I choose to believe that I could change the passwords before the database could be cracked, and that my risk from malware is low because I don't install every shiny new app that comes along. I do so mostly because there really isn't a practical alternative at the moment.

Comment Re:Only if you can't get addresses (Score 2) 574

Having implemented ipv6...bs. It does cost some time and effort, but it's not huge, particularly if you do it incrementally and dual stack. It's fear of change that's holding it back, not cost and effort, and as a result people are missing out on getting out from under that shackles that ipv4 puts around everything you do. But "the devil you know" rules in all too many cases.

Comment In my case... (Score 1) 361

I subscribe to Slashdot and the local town paper's online version. For a while, I subscribed to the Maui online paper as well, as I have a friend there and would consider living there, but they overcharge for the little they provide and it wasn't worth it. I also contribute to wikipedia. Google is probably the most valuable site I use (how did we ever survive before them?!?), but they don't need any contributions from me ;-)

In most cases, I like what the summary called "nag wall": it's good for consumers as people can read shared links on sites they don't go to very often or may not have even heard of without the hassle of jumping the payment barrier every time they click on a link, and it's good for the site because people who have never heard of them find out about them.

But if you find yourself visiting a site regularly, it's time to think about supporting them. Ads would be ok if they weren't distracting, but since so many seem to think it's ok to get in the way of what you actually came to the site for, ad blocking is the only viable way to read the web these days.

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