By Unknown Lamer from
Slashdot's meow-meow-encryption department:
In a world increasingly dominated by the cloud, privacy is often
sacrificed for convenience. Imagine a world where you could use
cloud services without allowing the provider to read your
data. Author of
Cryptocat(a browser-based secure chat system) Nadim Kobeissi shared the
problems he faced developing Cryptocat, his solutions, and future
of client-side cryptography. Read on for more.
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By Soulskill from
Slashdot's how-well-can-they-tap-dance department:
An anonymous reader writes
"Dr. Robert Zubrin has some interesting ideas about what it costs to have an astronaut on the payroll. He says if you’re going to 'give up four billion dollars to avoid a one in seven chance of killing an astronaut, you’re basically saying an astronaut’s life is worth twenty-eight billion dollars.' He wrote about the same subject earlier this year for Reason magazine, saying, 'Keeping astronauts safe merits significant expenditure. But how much? There is a potentially unlimited set of testing procedures, precursor missions, technological improvements, and other protective measures that could be implemented before allowing human beings to once again try flying to other worlds. Were we to adopt all of them, we would wind up with a human spaceflight program of infinite cost and zero accomplishment. In recent years, the trend has moved in precisely that direction, with NASA’s manned spaceflight effort spending more and more to accomplish less and less. If we are to achieve anything going forward, we have to find some way to strike a balance between human life and mission accomplishment.'"Read Replies (0)
By Soulskill from
Slashdot's shoot-things-with-guns department:
An anonymous reader tips this news from IndieDB:
"Alien Arena: Reloaded Edition has been released. This is a major release of this game, with many new features, and a veritable truckload of new high quality content. Every aspect of the game has been improved upon and expanded, from the engine, to the game code, weaponry, and overall gameplay. Some of the new features for this release include: Many new rendering features; Twelve new/rebuilt levels; Two new player characters, the Overlord and Warrior; Brand new 'super' weapon, the Minderaser; Improved antilag code; "Simple" items rendering option; Improved and expanded movement; Improved Bot AI, particularly with CTF; New music, and music 'shifts' in game situations; and a variety of bug fixes and code cleansing. Alien Arena is free to download, free to play, and the code is open sourced, and that will never change."Read Replies (0)
By Soulskill from
Slashdot's morally-right-vs-legally-right department:
New submitter
UtucXul points out that Richard Stallman has penned
a lengthy response to NPR intern Emily White for her post on the organization's site about how she
failed to pay for a significant amount of recorded music, acquiring it instead through Kazaa, friends, and CDs owned by the radio station at which she was employed. (We
previously discussed musician David Lowery's response; quite different from RMS's, as you might expect.) Stallman wrote,
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