Comment Proofpoint (Score 3) 155
It's a small company but have absolutely stellar encryption and archiving products and good service. http://www.proofpoint.com/products/privacy/email-encryption.php
Comment Re:Liable Party in an Accident? (Score 1) 166
As a pilot of small planes, the thought of the collision itself really sucks and seems inevitable. Even a small bird can take out an engine, windshield or even a wing on a wood and fabric plane. A couple cameras on a drone will never give a drone pilot the same visibility and situational awareness as a real pilot and many small planes don't have transponders
Comment Re:Maybe people are using broken phones (Score 1) 406
Exactly. Where are the numbers about the drop in claims in the months before the new release?
Egyptian Blogger Silenced by YouTube, Yahoo! 188
An anonymous reader writes "An Egyptian human rights activist has been muzzled after YouTube and Yahoo! shut down his accounts. Award-winning blogger Wael Abbas regularly writes and posts video about police brutality, torture and sexual harassment in Egypt. One of the videos — of an Egyptian bus driver being brutalized by an officer — was used as evidence to convict two members of the police force. That's a rare occurrence in a country where human-rights groups say torture is rampant. YouTube said the decision to remove Abbas' videos had nothing to do with the Egyptian government, but was rather an internal decision."
Google Releases MySQL Enhancements 208
An anonymous reader noted that "Google has released its internally developed enhancements to MySQL to the open source community this week. Changes include improvements in replication, high availability configuration, and performance." It'll be interesting to see if the changes they made are of interest to other places using MySQL.
Comment "If man were meant to fly" mentality. (Score 1) 378
How many times have you heard that if man were meant to fly, he would have been born with wings? Well he does and he isn't. But if the Wright brothers had taken heed, where would you be living now?
You really have to wonder about books or articles like this. It reminds me of that forward we've all received innumerable times that contains statements made by important people concerning the future that turned out to be utterly wrong. The patent office claiming that everything that could be invented had already been by 1900. Impossibility of flight. No two snowflakes the same. Computers will never catch on. You'll fall off if you try to sail around the world.
Sure, at the present, computers are limited by human capabilities and resources. But why should that prevent people in the future from attempting what seems impossible now?
I certainly would never allow someone to tell me something is impossible just because he can't wrap his brain around it the right way.
You really have to wonder about books or articles like this. It reminds me of that forward we've all received innumerable times that contains statements made by important people concerning the future that turned out to be utterly wrong. The patent office claiming that everything that could be invented had already been by 1900. Impossibility of flight. No two snowflakes the same. Computers will never catch on. You'll fall off if you try to sail around the world.
Sure, at the present, computers are limited by human capabilities and resources. But why should that prevent people in the future from attempting what seems impossible now?
I certainly would never allow someone to tell me something is impossible just because he can't wrap his brain around it the right way.
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