Comment Misleading headline (Score 1) 81
I was expecting this to be about slashdot.
Comment Re: What did you expect? (Score 3, Insightful) 197
PGP/GPG is much easier to use these days than it was in the 90's.
Plugins exist for many mail clients that do the heavy lifting in the background.
Friends and family are surely tired of my tinfoil hat, they just do not seem to care about their privacy. Many say the "I have nothing to hide" line.
Friends and family are surely tired of my tinfoil hat, they just do not seem to care about their privacy. Many say the "I have nothing to hide" line.
Comment All Antivirus Sucks. (Score 1) 467
All antivirus sucks, the only difference is how much you pay for it. You give me an PC with any combination of AV product(s) and 15 minutes and I'll give you an infected box, and it won't just be an Adware / Crapware infection. It will be a Screw you type of Cryptovirus or some serious credential stealing backdoor.
That being said, I use MSE / Windows 8 Defender simply because it's free and the least intrusive of the free AV's and it works great as a canary since every Virus attacks MSE / Defender first and you know you're infected when it keels over, giving you time to do something about it before your Files / Backup gets screwed.
Also, Get Adblock plus for your browser, Disable Non Obtrusive ad's in adblock plus so you don't see the Search Engine virus ads and don't download or install anything from anywhere afterwards.
Comment Re:sounds great... (Score 2) 139
Slower photons in fiber optics means a slower, more relaxed pace for my web browsing.
Comment And they found... (Score 0) 66
... the oldest goatse in history.
Comment Re:short (Score 1) 198
Excellent! It took me straight to The Black Hole game. Thanks!
Comment Re:OpenBSD (Score 2) 403
I should have added: If you are serious about your security, move your samba service inside to another box. Keep this machine as a device to move packets securely.
Comment OpenBSD (Score 3, Insightful) 403
OpenBSD. Feel free to look at the others, just don't get distracted by shiny bells & whistles and GUIs and the like.
OpenBSD does what you want and does it very well.
Comment Thanks but no thanks. (Score 1) 553
I'm sticking with OpenBSD. At least with that OS, features are well thought out and not jammed into every release because "it's teh l337!"
Comment Re:Eh, minor bug (Score 1) 49
This is about OSX mail, not iOS mail.
Comment Re:Mathematics (Score 1) 79
I have ten servers for which the 100 millisecond accuracy of OpenNTPD is perfectly fine.
That's nearly a tenth of a second!
Comment Well... (Score 0) 112
I guess the Perl-loving neckbeards at
Comment Theo de Raadt (Score 4, Funny) 299
Theo de Raadt for no other reason than he is Theo de Raadt.
Comment Re:May want a disclaimer here... (Score 5, Insightful) 304
This is all from memory, but as I recall, the actual problem is in the solder manufacturers are forced to use for ROHS compliance. It is less flexible than the old lead-tin solder of the olden days.
The Dominant Life Form In the Cosmos Is Probably Superintelligent Robots 391
Jason Koebler writes: If and when we finally encounter aliens, they probably won't look like little green men, or spiny insectoids. It's likely they won't be biological creatures at all, but rather, advanced robots that outstrip our intelligence in every conceivable way. Susan Schneider, a professor of philosophy at the University of Connecticut, joins a handful of astronomers, including Seth Shostak, director of NASA's Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, NASA Astrobiologist Paul Davies, and Library of Congress Chair in Astrobiology Stephen Dick in espousing the view that the dominant intelligence in the cosmos is probably artificial. In her paper "Alien Minds," written for a forthcoming NASA publication, Schneider describes why alien life forms are likely to be synthetic, and how such creatures might think.
