Flarston Marston - Slashdot User

Comment Re:You are missing the point (Score 1) 370

by Flarston Marston on Sunday May 18, 2014 @01:52PM (#47032725) Attached to: Pedophile Asks To Be Deleted From Google Search After European Court Ruling

Well, no. But I am sure that Google has more resouces than, say, two dudes in a garage who indexes the same data as Google with the tech-thingie they've invented, and have to handle the same takedown load.

Nobody will ask 2 guys in a garage to take stuff down and the EU's regulators will turn a blind eye to infringements by local businesses. This is a sour grapes ruling.

Comment This is the wrong question (Score 1) 224

by Flarston Marston on Thursday April 24, 2014 @10:56PM (#46838199) Attached to: How much use would you get from a 1 gigabit internet connection?

Nobody in their right mind would have launched Youtube in 1999. Nobody provides a service that wouldn't work for 99.99999% of the connected population. Build the fat pipes and stuff will come to fill them.

Comment Filter the fakes (Score 1) 129

by Flarston Marston on Tuesday November 26, 2013 @10:50PM (#45534405) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: What Review Sites Do You Consult For IT Equipment?

I figure, perhaps naively, that I can filter the fakes on Amazon. I usually click on the one star bar and start with those.

Comment woo hoo (Score 1) 35

by Flarston Marston on Sunday November 03, 2013 @05:30PM (#45320027) Attached to: Mind Control In Virtual Reality, Circa 2013

That is amazingly unimpressive. The guy can control an on-off switch with his thoughts - woo hoo....

Comment Re:I'm here for the commentary (Score 1, Redundant) 157

by Flarston Marston on Monday July 29, 2013 @03:54AM (#44410411) Attached to: When it comes to Slashdot, I normally:

Sometimes, I get the feeling that folks don't even read the comments that they are replying to . . .

Comment Nice bit of social engineering (Score 1) 558

by Flarston Marston on Wednesday April 24, 2013 @09:00AM (#43535537) Attached to: Average latency to Slashdot.org?

Is this a way to create a ddos attack on slashdot - everyone sends a test ping at the same time?

Comment Needs stereo/3D (Score 1) 496

by Flarston Marston on Friday April 12, 2013 @06:41AM (#43430889) Attached to: Not Even Investors Know What Google Glass Is For

What if each eye could be fed a different image - now that would be cool! This would take augmented reality to a whole new level.

Comment Explaining the asymettry (Score 1) 178

by Flarston Marston on Tuesday November 27, 2012 @06:53AM (#42103795) Attached to: Compared to my siblings ...

So given that in a random sample, there should be equal numbers answering 1, 2 and 3, the fact that there is an asymettry between them means either: - The number of less formally educated people even seeing the survey is less. OR People are less likely to answer the survey if they have less formal education. OR Lots of people are lying

Comment Re:It's a damn stupid law (Score 1) 166

by Flarston Marston on Tuesday August 14, 2012 @12:44PM (#40985893) Attached to: Watchdog "Not Ready" To Probe Cookie Complaints

Totally agree. It is totally irritating - as if anyone would read 10 lines of extra boring bullshit for every web page they visit. Unbelievable.

Comment Lump of Labour Fallacy (Score 1) 264

by Flarston Marston on Tuesday March 06, 2012 @08:57AM (#39259869) Attached to: Cloud To Create 14 Million Jobs? Not So Much

Ever heard of the lump of labour fallacy - this is one of those. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lump_of_labour_fallacy

Comment Hardly news (Score 1) 93

by Flarston Marston on Wednesday November 16, 2011 @05:34AM (#38071474) Attached to: W3C Proposes Unified "Do Not Track" Privacy Standard

DNT has been around for ages

Comment QKD is one solution (Score 1) 262

by Flarston Marston on Friday November 11, 2011 @05:03AM (#38020974) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Post-Quantum Asymmetric Key Exchange?

If you're asking about key exchange specifically, then there's quantum key distribution, which is equivalent to a one-time-pad. It relies on an initial shared secret, but once the key has been exchanged, it can be proven whether it's been eavesdropped, so this is not as much of a problem as it sounds. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_cryptography#Quantum_key_distribution

Comment Pics (Score 1) 314

by Flarston Marston on Monday September 19, 2011 @03:55AM (#37438580) Attached to: I tend to keep random notes most often ...

If I'm forced to use paper, I just take a pic with my smartphone. Otherwise text files or wikis.

Comment Re:I'd be excited about this... (Score 1) 154

by Flarston Marston on Friday September 16, 2011 @09:34AM (#37419358) Attached to: The Google+ API Is Released

You're thinking about bolting from google apps because their google+ is taking a while longer than they promised? I assume there's a reason that signing up for a regular gmail account and using google plus in the meantime isn't acceptable?

Yeah - you'd have to start from square 1 again when the apps version comes out. Also this solution doesn't work on my smartphone - I'd have to have that account installed on my android phone too and have it grab all my email etc... too.

Comment I love the story at the beginning of his talk (Score 1) 189

by Flarston Marston on Friday September 09, 2011 @03:17PM (#37355480) Attached to: Moxie Marlinspike's Solution To the SSL CA Problem

He goes into a restaurant with 2 friends. One of the has gone back to the car 'cos he forgot something. They witness a person with their birthday having the wierdest restaurant birthday ritual ever (having cream plastered all over their face while they are closing their eyes waiting for a surprise). They tell the restaurant that it is the birthday of the friend who went back to the car.

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