Comment Re:The answer is still keepass (Score 1) 339
I use GoogleApps with my domain. It's pretty nice to have an near infinite number of email addresses to play with.
Comment Re:Random Passwords (Score 1) 339
Another thing that annoys me is when I use a generated random password and it fails a website's password validation algorithm. Oh no, you used a particular special character thrice. So, I then have to modify the password to fit its standards and make it weaker. Very annoying. Also, sometimes password generators will utilize reserved characters which break the website software.
Comment Random Passwords (Score 1) 339
I create a randomized password for every website, stored as a plain text file -- one per website -- in an encrypted directory. When I login to the website, I copy/paste the password from the file. The encrypted directory is not mounted unless I am actively using it.
The problem I run into is that many websites only store an unknown few characters (maybe 8) and truncate the password without informing the user of the new password. This means that it will let you login the first time, but when you try to login later, you can't get in because the password isn't what they stored. This is very frustrating.
Comment Re:Slashdot... (Score 1) 851
And we used Autopatch if we needed to make a phone call. People thought we were silly to carry around our little hand-held transceivers all the time. Now, look around, everyone's doing it, they're just using prettier and smaller radios.
Comment Re:Shocked. (Score 1) 851
They often have cell phones and shared pay phones. They feel that it's OK to use a phone for business or emergencies. A lot of their policies differ by the opinion of their local bishop.
Google Deploys IPv6 For Internal Network 260
itwbennett writes "Google is four years into a project to roll out IPv6 to its entire internal employee network. At the Usenix Large Installation System Administration (LISA) conference in Boston last week, Google network engineer Irena Nikolova shared some lessons others can learn from Google's experience. For example: It requires a lot of work with vendors to get them to fix buggy and still-unfinished code. 'We should not expect something to work just because it is declared supported,' the paper accompanying the presentation concluded."
Is the Earth Special? 745
Hugh Pickens writes "Planetary scientists say there are aspects to our planet and its evolution that are remarkably strange. In the first place there is Earth's strong magnetic field. No one is exactly sure how it works, but it has something to do with the turbulent motion that occurs in the Earth's liquid outer core and without it, we would be bombarded by harmful radiation from the Sun. Next there's plate tectonics. We live on a planet that is constantly recycling its crust, limiting the amount of carbon dioxide escaping into the atmosphere — a natural way of controlling the greenhouse effect. Then there's Jupiter-sized outer planets protecting the Earth from frequent large impacts. But the strangest thing of all is our big Moon. 'As the Earth rotates, it wobbles on its axis like a child's spinning top,' says Professor Monica Grady. 'What the Moon does is dampen down that wobble and that helps to prevent extreme climate fluctuations' — which would be detrimental to life. The moon's tides have also made long swaths of earth's coastline into areas of that are regularly shifted between dry and wet, providing a proving ground for early sea life to test the land for its suitability as a habitat. The 'Rare Earth Hypothesis' is one solution to the Fermi Paradox (PDF) because, if Earth is uniquely special as an abode of life, ETI will necessarily be rare or even non-existent. And in the absence of verifiable alien contact, scientific opinion will forever remain split as to whether the Universe teems with life or we are alone in the inky blackness."
Greenpeace Breaks Into French Nuclear Plant 561
dotancohen writes "Greenpeace activists secretly entered a French nuclear site before dawn and draped a banner reading 'Hey' and 'Easy' on its reactor containment building, to expose the vulnerability of atomic sites in the country. Greenpeace said the break-in aimed to show that an ongoing review of safety measures, ordered by French authorities after a tsunami ravaged Japan's Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant earlier this year, was focused too narrowly on possible natural disasters, and not human factors."
Comment Re:TV ain't broken? (Score 1) 839
See UWTV (University of Washinton Television, http://www.uwtv.org/) They have a cable channel, but I usually watch their content on the Internet.
Comment Make It Unattractive (Score 1) 296
Paint it bright pink with daisies all over it?
Ask Slashdot: Good, Useful Free Software For Gifts? 377
First time accepted submitter Jeng writes "I'm planning on sending flash drives to friends and family as stocking stuffers. Rather than just send a blank drive, I'm looking for what good useful free software that I can load on it — from system utilities and encryption software to fun little games." We've asked similar questions before, but software keeps getting better, and so do the prices on flash drives. So what would you give as a gift this holiday season?
Comment Not News (Score 1) 161
We've had "bullet proof" clipboards on patrol for quite some time now. This is certainly nothing new.
Gadget Allows You to Keep Bees In Your Apartment
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greenrainbow writes "Philips just unveiled a new concept for an urban beehive that would allow anyone to become an amateur bee keeper – even those who live in apartments with no backyards. Best of all you pull a little string and all the fresh honey you want comes out. Hopefully no bees come with it!"
Comment Netflix? (Score 1) 267
I love watching Star Trek legally on Netflix.I hope Netflix will make arrangements to be allowed to distribute it as soon as it is released.
HD Transfer of Star Trek: TNG To Arrive This Year 267
psychonaut writes "Digital Bits have confirmed through sources at CBS Paramount that CBS are working on a high-definition transfer of Star Trek: The Next Generation. A four-episode Blu-Ray sampler disc is to be released later this year; the episodes featured will be the two-part pilot 'Encounter at Farpoint,' 'Sins of the Father,' and fan favourite 'The Inner Light.' On 2 September, LeVar Burton tweeted that he had stopped by CBS Paramount Television City to check the progress and was 'mindblown' by the conversion. TrekCore has an article with further details and an analysis of some of the technical hurdles involved in remastering these episodes."
