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Submission + - Ask Slashdot: Web-based Private File Storage? 2

Submitted by steve802 on Friday August 06, 2010 @10:26AM

steve802 writes: So, recently, someone died in our company, and word is getting around that the admins who were given access to his Outlook account have found personal things that are embarrassing at best (the rumor mill differs on what was found). No matter, it raises a question. I have personal stuff in Outlook folders that I would not want someone in IT to see if I suddenly dropped dead, emails to the wife, photos of the kids, that kind of thing. I also keep a journal at home that I save to a server; personal reflections that I never want anyone else to see, especially if I die. So I was thinking that some sort of web-based storage for files, individual emails, and perhaps even Outlook folders would be perfect. All my most private personal stuff in one place. I found CryptoHeaven, which seems to offer some of what I'm looking for — but it is pricey. I'm willing to pay, but something less than $400/year would be nice. Best would be a service with a dead-man's switch, so that if I don't access it in, say, three months, it auto-purges. Any thoughts?

Comment Re:IBTL (Score 1) 356

by gbll on Tuesday July 20, 2010 @05:02PM (#32970430) Attached to: Swedish Pirate Party Launches ISP

yeah, so what you're saying is that carnivore is really good idea? bc you use this kind of information to spy people on the fly. if someone is using this network for terrorism or child pornography they can start to log this person AFTER the suspicion, not BEFORE, like this 1984 Minority Report way the internet is heading.

Submission + - Windows vs Ubuntu: Dell's verdict (pcpro.co.uk) 1

Submitted by Barence on Monday July 19, 2010 @11:29AM

Barence writes: Remember how Dell put up a website declaring Ubuntu was safer than Windows only to change its mind? Well now the company has got right back into the Windows vs Ubuntu debate with a highly sophisticated website arguing the pros and cons of each OS. People should choose Windows, argues Dell, if: they are already use Windows, they don't already use Windows. People should choose Ubuntu if they're interested in open-source programming. Brilliant.

Submission + - Ballmer: Microsoft To Go "Hardcore" on Tablets (businessinsider.com) 1

Submitted by gbll on Monday July 12, 2010 @09:52AM

gbll writes: Steve Ballmer says Microsoft is "hardcore" about making Windows 7 slate computers like the iPad.

Ballmer delivered a keynote speech this morning in Washington DC at the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC). The focus of the speech was on Microsoft's cloud operations, but Ballmer did say Windows 7 phones and slates were coming this year.

Microsoft listed all the partners for Microsoft's slates and phones. Twitter user Javiergc highlighted that HP might be working with Microsoft on a slate, after all.

Ballmer also said he expects to sell 350 million Windows units this year.

Submission + - China Renews Google's Content Provider License (infoworld.com)

Submitted by

snydeq

on Friday July 09, 2010 @09:02AM

snydeq writes: "The Chinese government has renewed Google's Internet Content Provider license, enabling the company to continue to provide Web search and other local products to users in China. If Google had been unable to renew its license, it could have meant the end of the company's operations in China, leaving search engine rival Baidu to dominate the market. Last week Google began making efforts to win over Chinese officials. Rather than automatically redirect Google.cn visitors to Google's Hong Kong search engine, the company now sends visitors to a "landing page" where they can choose to click on a link leading to the Hong Kong site."

Submission + - ARM Cortex A9 Laptops to be Linux Powered (armdevices.net)

Submitted by Charbax on Monday July 05, 2010 @08:33PM

Charbax writes: In this video, Jerone Young, lead partner engineer at Canonical, explains some of the challenges that Canonical and other companies who are part of the new Linaro project have been working on for the past many months, in preparation for the now imminent release of a whole bunch of ARM Cortex A9 Powered laptops and desktops likely to be manufactured by giants of the industry such as HP, Dell, Lenovo, Toshiba, Quanta, Invetec, Pegatron, Compal, all of whome have been showing tens of early prototype designs of these ARM Powered laptops at trade shows around the world during the past year and a half. They work to standardize the boot process, write drivers to use graphics and video hardware acceleration, they optimize the web browser (Chrome and Mozilla), they implement faster DDR3 RAM and faster I/O bus speeds, they also optimize the software to use the new faster dual core ARM Cortex A9 processors. The goal is to have these upcoming ARM Powered laptops feel as usable to end consumers as Intel x86 based laptops/netbooks. With increased competition thanks to this alternative CPU architecture, prices of laptops and desktops could rapidly go down (sub-$149 laptops and sub-$99 desktops are likely), battery life could run much longer (up to 30-50 hours using a Pixel Qi LCD screen), sizes and weights can be much smaller. This could be the type of low-power, low-cost computer that the next 5 billion people in the world may use as their first computer.

Submission + - Symbian: The Biggest Mobile OS No One Talks About (oreilly.com)

Submitted by blackbearnh on Monday July 05, 2010 @12:07PM

blackbearnh writes: The iPhone vs Android wars are in full swing, but no one talks about the operating system that most of the world uses, Symbian. Part of that, perhaps, is that the Symbian developer infrastructure is so different from the Wild West approach that Apple and Google take. Over in O'Reilly Answers, Paul Beusterien, who is the Head of Developer Tools for the Symbian Foundation, is talking about why Symbian gets ignored as a platform despite the huge number of handsets it runs on. "Another dimension is the type of developer community. Symbian historically, it's type of developers were working for consulting houses or working at phone operator places or working specifically doing consulting jobs for enterprise customers who wanted mobile apps. So there's a set of consulting companies around the world that have specialized in creating apps for Symbian devices. It's a different kind of dynamic than where iPhone has really been successful at attracting just the hobbyist or the one or two-person company or the person who just wants to go onto the web and start developing."

Submission + - Java's backup plan if Oracle fumbles (infoworld.com)

Submitted by GMGruman on Friday July 02, 2010 @04:01PM

GMGruman writes: In an InfoWorld blog, Paul Krill suggests that those concerned that Java might get lost in Oracle's tangle of acquired technologies should relax a little: Java's future isn't wholly in Oracle's hands, so if Oracle screws up or lets Java languish, the popular language has other forces to move it forward nonetheless.

Swedish Pirate Party To Run Pirate Bay From Parliament 288

Posted by kdawson on Friday July 02, 2010 @01:24PM from the criminalizing-dirty-tricks dept.

rdnetto sends in this clip from TorrentFreak. To pursue these plans the Pirate Party needs to win 4% of the seats in Parliament in an election coming up in September. "After their former hosting provider received an injunction telling it to stop providing bandwidth to The Pirate Bay, the worlds most resilient BitTorrent site switched to a new ISP. That host, the Swedish Pirate Party, made a stand on principle. Now they aim to take things further by running the site from inside the Swedish Parliament. ... The party has announced today that they intend to use part of the Swedish Constitution to further these goals, specifically Parliamentary Immunity from prosecution or lawsuit for things done as part of their political mandate. They intend to push the non-commercial sharing part of their manifesto, by running The Pirate Bay from inside the Parliament, by Members of Parliament."

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