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Comment: No surprise (Score 3, Informative) 188

by Blackbrain (#39068293) Attached to: JotForm.com Gets Shut Down SOPA-Style

Go Daddy has a history of pulling registrations without notification to domain owners. Remember seclists.org and familyalbum.com? Those domains were redirected because of third party complaints. The complaints were not even made by law enforcement. The GoDaddy TOS expressly allows them to suspend service at their discretion and they do it at the first sign of trouble.

I'm not defending GoDaddy in the least, but people doing business with them should be aware of their history and policies.

Comment: Re:Uplink (Score 1) 138

by Blackbrain (#36276242) Attached to: Duplicate RSA Keys Enable Lockheed Martin Network Intrusion
All these security breaches remind me that the world has changed in an irrevocable manner and that it's only a matter of time before anything and everything falls victim to these types of attacks. Nothing is really safe anymore.

Nothing ever was. The only difference now is that this one made the news.

Comment: Start with Hartnell or nothing (Score 1) 655

by Blackbrain (#35605296) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: How/Where To Start Watching Dr. Who?

If you are REALLY interested in Doctor Who you would start with "An Unearthly Child". Forget this namby pamby "Try the 2005 series and then the older ones" B.S.

The 1963 series is the best to start with. The Doctor is a complete unknown and quite sinister, Susan is weird as hell, Ian and Barbara are out of their depth and just trying to survive. There is no guarantee anyone is going to live to the end of each episode and the stories are still surprising after all these years. Don't miss out on the greatest era of Doctor Who just because it's "old".

Comment: Re:What's wrong with 'the cloud'? (Score 1) 222

by Blackbrain (#33979380) Attached to: Open Source-Friendly Smartphones For the Small Office?

So long as you have encrypted connections, what's wrong with using 'the cloud'? I don't think you'll find any modern phone that syncs email with a desktop email client anymore. Why the heck would that be desirable anyway?

The problem isn't the connection, but who has access to the data once it is on the remote server? That is a difficult enough question with a hosted, off-site server but with cloud computing it becomes unanswerable because the data is spread (or should be) to various geographical locations. How accountable is your cloud provider for you data security?

Comment: Yer boned... (Score 2, Insightful) 222

by Blackbrain (#33978586) Attached to: Open Source-Friendly Smartphones For the Small Office?

The short answer is "there ain't none". You may be able to hack together an in house solution with some N900 devices, but they will probably be discontinued next year. After that who knows. As for the rest, all require using proprietary sync tools (ala iTunes) or syncing to remote servers (Driod, PalmPre, Blackberry).

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