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datagramm | 12 years ago | on: Wuala: Secure Cloud Storage

>> don't even pretend that they encrypt your data.

would it make you happier if they kept their services the same, but just pretended to introduce encryption? ;-)

datagramm | 14 years ago | on: Chinese SSD offers mission impossible style self destruction

"The only use case I can think of is hackers / pirates / terrorists. I could see them running a computer which has the red button ready to go and taped to the outside of the case to destroy evidence as soon as police try to kick down your front door."

I'd imagine this was the manufacturer's intention. If you're going to the trouble of building a computer with an instant self-destruct feature, you'll probably put the button somewhere accessible.

datagramm | 14 years ago | on: The phone with a projector

Those Samsung web people have some serious Photoshop skills! For a second there I thought that was a real photograph of a hockey puck flying out of a phone screen.

datagramm | 14 years ago | on: Pwning a Spammer's Keylogger

"This keylogger program can be legitimately purchased and used, ostensibly for monitoring your kids’ or employees’ browsing habits, etc. As you can imagine, PK can also be used for badness."

Is this person suggesting that using a keylogger to spy on your employees/children without their knowledge is not 'badness'?!

datagramm | 14 years ago | on: "That's Why You Don't Have Any Friends."

On the home-schooling argument. I'm not saying you shouldn't home school your kids, but in my opinion avoiding bullies is not the best reason to do so. I can understand that people want to protect their kids, but I think it's much more effective to teach them to deal with it rather than just avoiding it.

I think it's incredibly short sighted to think that bullying just stops once school ends. People just learn to deal with it through years of practice. Learning to deal with crap like this is an incredibly valuable life skill and if you don't learn it at school you're going to have to learn it later in life. Sure, kids can be a lot more cruel than adults, but delaying the inevitable solves nothing.

I went to a state school in the north of England which could be described as 'rough' at best. Like many geeks I never really fitted in and was the subject of some fairly severe bullying at times. Like most people that were bullied (and anecdotal evidence would suggest that most people were bullied at one time or another) I got through it and never looked back. As soon as I gave up trying to fit in (and even started going out of my way not to fit in) people respected me a little more for it and life got easier.

Not that I want to tell people how they they should raise their kids here. I don't even have any kids of my own. But having been a child for a number of years I feel somewhat qualified to speak on the matter.

datagramm | 14 years ago | on: IKamasutra: Apple Hates Brunettes

A friend of mine that used to work at iTunes tells me that Apple always keep the front page of their stores completely 'family friendly'. Maybe this mentality is starting to filter down past the front page and result in a knee-jerk rejection of anything vaguely adult.

datagramm | 14 years ago | on: Free MIT Online Class teaches CS fundamentals using Python

I've been following this in my spare time for the last month. I've found it really useful. As a sysadmin who doesn't really do any proper programming day to day and ends up learning just enough to scrape by in a few languages, I've found it really beneficial to go back to basics and learn to think like a proper computer scientist.
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