that webpage makes me seasick

>> 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? ;-)

>> 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? ;-)

No it wouldn't. What I wanted to say is that Wuala at least claims that they do client side encryption. I believe them, but someone else doesn't have to. So, data being safe with Wuala has probability between 0-100%, while data being safe with Dropbox has probability of 0.

I'm surprised nobody has mentioned that the Lion King is basically just an adaptation of Hamlet...

Were there "mysterious" injuries during production though?

The tests on disk performance are kind of redundant as ext3 is being compared to ext4. This will skew the results in favour of DigitalOcean somewhat.

I read a similar experiment where people were given the same food on either paper plates or fine china. As expected, people thought the food served on fancy plates was of higher quality. I forget where...

Warnings, yes please. Allowing my brakes to be controlled wirelessly by anyone clever enough to spoof the right data, no thank you!

"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.

Yeah, I still have the old buttons. I checked when signed in with my G+ account and also with a non-G+ account.

"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'?!

Recording your employees' use of company computers, given proper disclosure, is an employers prerogative. It's also legal (in some locales) for parents to do this to their children. I find it immoral, personally (the latter), but this is not the point of the story at all and the story was interesting and highly relevant, so I'm really disappointed to see this is the top comment.

Yes, although usually a keylogger is not necessary. A few places I have worked the IT dept/Management had a VNC server running on every desktop (it showed up in the process list, I wasn't working in IT at the time).

I pointed this out to a few people who would use IM programs to 'flirt' with each other all day.

There are legitimate uses for a keylogger. You can argue about children, but I can certainly imagine circumstances where I'd think about using one on my kids.

As for employees, if it's a work computer I pretty much say anything is fair game.