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Comment Let's save the world 7 seconds! (Score 0) 174

by Czubaka (#42976459) Attached to: CAPTCHA Using Ad-Based Verification
Yeah, let us all save the world's 7 seconds multiplied by 1 bilion users. That would give us 221 years. Imagine what we can do in 221 of productive life! Fantaramtastic! I love such calculations. But, hey, I spent 80 seconds typing this message. That's 80-7=73 seconds waste? Now I feel I waster 2313 years (assuming one bilion people typing this message).

Comment You don't have to leave Ukraina... (Score 1) 359

by Czubaka (#32590448) Attached to: In Ukraine, IT Freelancing Under Threat

You don't have to leave Ukraina. You're not working, your apache/roxen/lighttpd with php/ruby-on-something/mason does. So, let them go somewhere, like nearby Poland or even no-so-nearby Caribean. Your ssh still does wonders and you don't have to earn at Ukraina. You can still sit there and register your company somewhere else, who cares?
Biotech

NASA Reproduces a Building Block of Life In the Lab 264

Posted by kdawson from the but-not-as-we-know-it dept.
xp65 writes "NASA scientists studying the origin of life have reproduced uracil, a key component of our hereditary material, in the laboratory. They discovered that an ice sample containing pyrimidine exposed to ultraviolet radiation under space-like conditions produces this essential ingredient of life. 'We have demonstrated for the first time that we can make uracil, a component of RNA, non-biologically in a laboratory under conditions found in space,' said Michel Nuevo, research scientist at NASA's Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif. 'We are showing that these laboratory processes, which simulate occurrences in outer space, can make a fundamental building block used by living organisms on Earth.'"

Comment Why people keep unencrypted data? (Score 1) 497

by Czubaka (#29090455) Attached to: The Homemade Hard Disk Destroyer

I keep wondering why do people keep disks with unencrypted data. I have all my disks encrypted with AES and I'm not worried when my laptop or server needs to be serviced.

BTW, I had some disks with very confidential data. I decided to make a nice big bonefire. We had both hot sausages, cold beer and safe data :-)
Spam

Opting Out Increases Spam? 481

Posted by timothy from the damned-either-way dept.
J. L. Tympanum writes "I used to ignore spam but recently I have been using the opt-out feature. Now I get more spam than ever, especially of the Nigerian scam (and related) types. The latter has gone from almost none to several a day. Was I a fool for opting out? Is my email address being harvested when I opt out? Has anybody had similar experience?"
Programming

Git Adoption Soaring; Are There Good Migration Strategies? 346

Posted by Soulskill from the git-while-the-gittin's-good dept.
Got To Get Me A Git writes "Distributed version control systems (DVCS) seem to be the next big thing for open source software development. Many projects have already adopted a DVCS and many others are in the process of migrating. There are a lot of major advantages to using a DVCS, but the task of migrating from one system to another appears to be a formidable challenge. The Perl Foundation's recent switch to Git took over a year to execute. The GNOME project is planning its own migration strategy right now after discovering that a significant majority of the project's developers favor Git. Perhaps some of the projects that are working on transitions from other mainstream version control systems can pool their resources and collaborate to make some standardized tools and migration best practices documentation. Does such a thing already exist? Are any folks out there in the Slashsphere working on migrating their own project or company to a DVCS? I'd appreciate some feedback from other readers about what works and what doesn't."

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