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Comment Re:Wouldn't work (Score 1) 313

by wei2912 (#46366605) Attached to: Should programming be a required curriculum in public schools?
Home ec is more of experimentation and learning while coding is more of logic.

Adding a bit of salt and sugar will affect cookies by a bit. That's not the case for coding.

Imagine hello world in C:

#include<stdio.h>

int main(void) {
    printf("Hello World\n");
    return 0;
}

Throw in an infinite for loop:

#include<stdio.h>

int main(void) {
    for (;;) printf("Hello World\n");
    return 0;
}

and stuff doesn't turn out too well...

Submission + - Feedly Forces its Users to Create Google+ Profiles

Submitted by somegeekynick
somegeekynick writes: Feedly users, a lot of whom migrated from the now-defunct Google Reader, are now finding out that they will not be able to login to the service without a Google+ Profile. In a blog post from Edwin Khodabakchian, which was posted almost at the same time the change rolled out, the reason for the change is stated as following Google's own move from using OAuth to Google+ for authentication. What has riled up a lot of users, as can be read in the comments, is that this change has come without warning and a lot of feeds are now being "held hostage" by Feedly, especially for users who are reluctant to create Google+ Profiles.

Submission + - Which encrypted cloud storage really work?

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Almost three years ago, I started looking for a cloud storage service. Encryption and the "zero-knowledge" concept were not concerns. Frankly, after two weeks testing services, it boiled down to one service I used for almost 2 years. It was perfect — in the technical sense — because it simply works as advertised and is one of the cheapest for 500GB.

One of the main problems I have found with them was the fact that sync did not work correctly for all. Only two of them were able to sync a large folder structure (hundreds of thousands files in thousands of folders) without mysteriously duplicating, deleting or "reappearing" files, instantaneously detecting changes and replicating them without issues. It even handled things like creating, renaming and deleting files quickly, without duplicating them.

But this year, I decided changing that service for another one, that would encrypt my files before leaving my machine. Some of these services call themselves "zero-knowledge" services, because (as they claim) clear text does not leave your host: they only receive encrypted data — keys or passwords are not sent.

I did all testing I could, with the free bit of their services, and then, chose one of them. After a while, when the load got higher (more files, more folders, more GB...), my horror story began. I started experiencing sync problems of all sorts. In fact, I have payed for and tested another service and both had the same issues with sync. Worse, one of them could not even handle restoring files correctly. I had to restore from my local backup more than once and I ended up loosing files for real.

In your experience, which service (or services) are really able to handle more than a hundred files, in sync within 5+ hosts, without messing up (deleting, renaming, duplicating) files and folders?

Submission + - Seeing atomic bonds before and after reactions (wired.com)

Submitted by Necroloth
Necroloth writes: For the first time, scientists have visually captured a molecule at single-atom resolution in the act of rearranging its bonds. Until now, scientists were only able to infer molecular structures. Using atomic force microscopy, the individual atomic bonds that connect the carbon molecule’s 26 carbon and 14 hydrogen atoms are clearly visible and look startlingly similar to the stick diagrams in chemistry textbooks.

Submission + - Search engines urged to block more online porn sites (bbc.co.uk)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Search engines such as Google should do more to restrict access to online pornography, a government adviser on child internet safety has said.

John Carr said increasing the number of sites automatically blocked by search engines would make it more difficult for paedophiles to get images of abuse.

It comes after Mark Bridger was found guilty of the abduction and murder of five-year-old April Jones in Powys.

Comment Derp (Score 1) 559

by wei2912 (#43848659) Attached to: Criminal Complaint Filed Against Facebook After Girl's Death
how Facebook allowed the publication of insults and bullying posts So Facebook should moderate everything that gets through? It's their fault that they allowed a video to remain there? Italian law forbids minors under 18 signing contracts But she *faked* her age! She entered a contract that she shouldn't have entered in the first place. So how on earth is Facebook responsible for this incident?

Submission + - Larry Page: You Worry Too Much About Medical Privacy (itworld.com) 1

Submitted by jfruh
jfruh writes: Yesterday, Larry Page revealed that he'd been suffering from a vocal cord ailment that impaired his ability to speak for more than a year. The positive feedback he got from opening up about it inspired him to tell attendees at Google I/O that we should all be less uptight about keeping our medical records private. As far as Page is concerned, pretty much the only legitimate reason for worry on this score is fear of being denied health insurance. "Maybe we should change the rules around insurance so that they have to insure people," he said, perhaps unaware that the Obamacare reforms kicking in next year do exactly that.

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