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I highly doubt that. The risk is too high. In my country there was a big scandal a few years ago when a couple of radio stations started playing Billboard Hot 100 songs. I guess th…

Use Shamir's Secret Sharing Scheme [0] to store your master password and distribute pieces of the key to several relatives and close friends. [0] http://point-at-infinity.org/ssss/…

Take a look at Keepass2Android, I like it a lot. > An "acceptable" alternative would be to implement an indirect clipboard in which a trusted keyboard application can replay the st…

I, too, don't like the way MongoDB works and is marketed, but I would not bet too strongly on them failing. Only 10 years or so ago MySQL did pretty much the same, but they managed…

Depending on your needs you might check git-annex, unison and others mentioned in other comments.

To answer that you will have to define "trustworthy". I'm personally leaning toward trusting the curves proposed by Dan Bernstein [1], since he clearly explains the reasons for cho…

> And what if it's not your PhD thesis in Libre Office but a busy database server which can easily get corrupted if you don't flush. No properly configured and working ACID complia…

You do it by breaking up the potentially destructive changes so you could rollback your deployment to the previous working version. Typically all destructive modification of the sc…

Since 2011 McDonald's changed their process http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/mcdonald-confirms-no-lo...

It would be nice if you quoted some reputable source or research when making such bold claims. Who are the people that can recover more than 1 rewrite easily from a modern hard dis…

The only sensible long-term solution for Linux seems to be to adopt FreeBSD's way of /dev/random operation - block once until enough entropy is gathered and then never block. This …

I wouldn't bet hard money that it doesn't exist, there is always Rule #34. http://xkcd.com/305/

In addition (or even instead of) to htop I strongly recommend atop [0]. This tool has been of an invaluable help to me during a lot of diagnostic sessions. It can collect detailed …

The poster says in the first sentence of his post that it is Stripe [0] (his payment processor), not him, that stores the CC info. [0] https://stripe.com/

The way I can think of is using IAM credentials to allow modification of a Route53 record using the AWS CLI from the newly spun server. You will need to write a short script that y…

This idea (a throwable ball with imaging and other sensors) and several prototypes have appeared on HN before, the first one around 2 years ago. This exact product has reached the …