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Comment Lastpass (Score 2) 245

While it's not the best idea to keep all your eggs in one basket, Lastpass (a firefox, chrome, opera addon, plus a standalone app) is an OK way to store this kind of data.

It is all encrypted/decrypted locally .and then uploaded to the DREADED cloud! ...the lastpass folks never have access to your data.. so theres nothing to 'steal'..

While primarily a place to keep your passwords it does have a handy feature for what they call Secure Notes, with premade forms to filling out all of your personal private info, allowing pictures/scans to be added.

and... while that might be creepy for uploading to Facebook..... with lastpass they cannot decrypt the data, because they dont have your password and cant change it if you 'forgot' it..... because it was all encrypted before even being sent to them...including your password..

then you export a copy of the encrypted database, upload it all over the place in various email accounts, put it in safe deposit boxes on DVDs and flash drives..all stored with a copy of the standalone app that will show you the data, so even if the internet explodes too, youll be good to go!

Comment AOL Reader for RSS is why I still use AOL (Score 1) 54

For many people still using an RSS Reader on the web.. and whom loved Google Reader.. AOL Reader is the only reason to have an AOL email account. (with a simple greasemonkey script to hide the ad bar).. It is a well featured, well done product. And I will have to change my (strong, unique) password now, which is a slight bummer.

But this news brings up another issue. The main competitor in the RSS world now is Feedly, but with them deciding to forgo the risk/expense of an authentication system altogether and only allowing OAuth logins via Twitter/Facebook/Google/Microsoft ..with no login system of their own, many people are just uncomfortable giving the Feedly people access to their contacts list and other personal info that they get when using their service.. The info they get access to can be seen in screenshots here: http://imgur.com/a/jsXfT

Perhaps Feedly (and others) have a bright idea there, avoiding rolling their own auth and letting the inevitable data breach land on the hands of the likes of twitter and Microsoft instead of Feedly itself.. .. That certainly may have been a good idea for Adobe, who lost 1.2 million accounts.

Even 2% makes me a little worried about the product that is pretty great in AOL Reader.. and I am gonna probably fire up the locally run Tiny Tiny RSS reader this weekend to make sure I have a backup.

Comment Bittorrent for software updates (Score 1) 114

as mentioned on torrentfreak, some shops use bittorrent for updating servers, for example, twitter and facebook:

According to Tom Cook of Facebookâ(TM)s systems engineering group, the daily code updates for Facebook used to cause a lot of trouble until they discovered BitTorrent.

âoeBitTorrent is fantastic for this, itâ(TM)s really great,â Cook said. âoeItâ(TM)s âsuperduperâ(TM) fast and it allows us to alleviate a lot of scaling concerns weâ(TM)ve had in the pastâ

source: http://torrentfreak.com/facebo... ....while they MAY be looking for p2p stuff for spreading video around... it is also possible job applicants would just be doing stuff behind the scenes, like theyve been doing elsewhere.

Comment Re:Humans hide things from each other all the time (Score 2) 93

i think that a simple appraisal of most peoples opinions/fears/gripes of google+ shows that theyve never actually used it.

the circles thing was one of the big selling points going all the way back to 2011.. and probably covered here on /. ...now they allow you to create pseudonymous sub-accounts that cannot be tracked back to any real life identify ....and yet people are still crying from the rooftops 'OMG I CANT RISK PEOPLE KNOWING' ...well if you want yer head in the sand, ..theres that option too

Comment Re:Please... (Score 3, Informative) 93

Oh come on... The fact that you don't like it, does not mean it does not fill its niche. I remember people saying the same about Facebook and Twitter. Some people like it, get over it.

I think google+ is pretty darn good as far as social networks go. It gets a lot of hate, but judging by what people say, a lot of that is from what it was in 2011, and concerns of anonymity. (The 'nag' screens feel like a different issue)

As for anonymity I am fine with not being anonymous to Google itself. I send email using Google Apps for Business account using my real name, they have my billing info and I don't mind sharing stuff I like to friends, family, and the public using my name on my public Google+ account. I did the on a personal website long before Google+ existed.

As for (pseudo)anonymity on Google+ I can choose how I share. I can choose whether or not to be BasementHacker20129 for my online profile using the "Pages" feature, sure, Google still knows that the name BasementHacker20129 that I used to reply a trollish comment about the Tea Party on youtube was sent by my Real Name.. but nobody else would. This seems reasonable to me, maybe not to others...

I happen to enjoy seeing Wil Wheaton posting about the stuff he is doing that week on my Google+ feed. I enjoy seeing the stuff Linus Torvalds posts on Google+. Those guys are pretty geeky. It is good enough for me, and them. It has no ads.

Sure, it wants to know your real name.. But I found, after poo-pooing it in 2011, that when I came back for a 2nd look in 2014 that it was actually pretty damned good.

Comment Re:Please... (Score 4, Informative) 93

one can create what is called a "Page" in google+ parlance.. and that page can be pseudonymous,.. you can be named anything you want under that page and use it on youtube, etc..

of course youll have to create it from a 'real name' google+ account, but unless you divulge it in public theres no way to know who it is behind the 'Page' account. .....your gmail contacts dont get notified if you like the latest pop video on youtube when using a google+ account...

on commenting for the *First Time* using an account on youtube which is tied to google+ the default option below the comment box is to 'make public' the comment, which sends it to your google+ feed, if you turn that option off it is sticky and will remain off in the future and that comment only lives within youtube.

while there are annoyances related to google+ ..most of the complaints just dont apply these days, it has changed quite a lot since it came out a few years ago... and for most of the complaints, there is a (mostly) reasonable solution.

the "i want to be totally anonymous" solution some people seem to look for doesnt really apply to the product.. pseudoanonymity is about as best as youll get

Comment Re:Graphic design geniuses too (Score 1) 360

they are not even considering helping the original OpenSSL project (one that they have benefited greatly from in the past) and instead simply forked it in order to do only work that benefits themselves.

so youre suggesting that the maintainers of OpenSSL would have gladly allowed some new kids on the block come in and remove over 200,000 lines of stuff ? and that the new kids on the block are being lame for not trying to do so?

I think this move kind of strikes to the heart of the benefits of opensource projects. When someone decides they want to go in a different direction, they can. This direction is clearly (judging by the nearly 100,000 lines of code removed) different than the one the OpenSSL team is on..

The openbsd team supports over 20 platforms already. Deciding on on not supporting libressl on those 20 platforms before theyre even finished with the main bulk of the work seems pretty reasonable to me... and of course, it will be opensource.. you can go support other platforms if you want!

if you've got an axe to grind against Theo, and the openbsd team thats fine..... but at least you can be reasonable about this.. there is no evidence that the openbsd team has the same mentality as those in the openssl team had when it comes to making secure and correct code..

using funding to decide how/when theyll support other platforms doesnt relate in any way to the attitudes that caused the heartbleed bug... in fact, it might show that they wouldnt want to put a half-effort into something which they cannot use all of their resources on... which is a good thing.

Comment Re:Awesome! (Score 3, Insightful) 360

I look forward to new and interesting side-effects of the pell-mell rush to clean up the code of a poorly written, poorly maintained, and even more poorly documented software package!

more poorly documented than OpenSSL?

the OpenBSD team creates some of the best documentation out there.. it is one of their major accomplishments and clearly important to them.

if all they did were document it, openSSL would be better off for it.. they are forking it, improving the code and documenting it.

Of course, they arent gods, perhaps mistakes will be made.. but this team is known for producing high quality code and high quality documentation.. .. i think that you couldn't be any further from the mark with your flippant remark mr AC!

Comment Re:'Murica! (Score 0) 230

yet again i saw another image of an american flag over the ruins of a home being spread around in the media in the disaster zone...... reminding me of this:

Children there's an image in the media right now of a man in a tornado landscape that is devastated and he is taking the flag, the American flag, the stars and stripes, and he is going up to a point in the earth, I think it's the roots of an upturned tree, and he is planting it, like Iwo Jima, like the firemen after 9/11.. and now, I do hope that he finds the strength he needs from America, and his family, and the neighborhood that he lives in that has been suffering this violence..

But that image has now gone out across the media and a friend pointed out to me recently that its now been seized on by Fox News and it seems as if these people want the earth,.. where these tornadoes, and typhoons and tsunamis, and the fires, the droughts, the floods... think that these attacks on us are supposed to be coming from some kind of enemy.. and now we're gonna 'Defend America' against these attacks.. And it seems as if these same people, who have appropriated this man's sincere gesture, at the same moment that they're supporting these illegal habitual American wars, at the same moment, they are the climate science deniers. They're making our next enemy the Earth itself, the Earth itself..

How can that be? No! The Earth is expressing. The Earth is speaking. There is violence, but we must listen.. we are the Earth ourselves, we can't be our own enemies.. There's a place for patriotism.. of course. But now is the time to get on our knees.... EARTHALUJAH -Reverend Billy Talen

Comment Re:Thirty years in prison (Score 1) 914

that wiki page seems to say theres about 50 people on life sentences ?

thats a bit quaint by american terms! effectively, yes, there arent life sentences.

the USA has at least 2500 people serving life in prison without possibility of parole for crimes committed as children.

also over 3000 people serving life terms for non-violent offenses..

over 150,000 people total serving a life sentence in the USA..

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