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We use a boot password + Microsoft bitlocker on our work laptops. We use Syncdocs http://syncdocs.com to encrypt all our Google Drive stuff.

The system works OK, and should keep data safe if a laptop gets stolen. Probably won't help against state actors, though.

I agree, I've looked at a lot of them and the $35 I paid for ClipMate is a good productivity investment. The only thing about ClipMate is that its search feature doesn't work well anymore. http://clipmate.com/

Good summary. Those who pay the piper call the tune, and have made themselves above the law.

There is a big threat to the lower end of the aviation industry (crop dusters, news choppers etc) from drones. The threat is not physical but of them being replaced by drones. It is similar to the threat of Uber to the Taxi industry.

Expect much more fear-mongering about drones, and lobbying from the existing aviation industry. This is why much drone research takes place outside the ol' US of A.

Quite a few are firing: http://www.businessinsider.com.au/its-been-a-bad-month-for-t...

Unfortunately, doctors will keep on using it, as it contains a mathematical formula, which makes it seem all "sciencey".

There's a good video on YouTube, too

BBC Britains Greatest Pilot The Extraordinary Story of Captain Winkle Brown

https://youtu.be/LEe5ul37Q7g

Yes, those who gain and those who lose are not the same people. Just like bankers taking their bonuses from bail out money.

No "skin in the game".

aah - a trip down memory lane

I would get one of them. Much of what I do on a second screen is just reading manuals or patents.

Good summary, but it is happening. Cloud storage is a commodity, and now almost free.

The problem, not addressed in this article, is that it is not free. Microsoft hope to recoup the costs of giving storage away through Office purchases. Google perhaps through knowing more about Google Drive users and selling targeted ads.

The medium-sized companies like Dropbox and Box may be the ones squeezed out.

I admire his humbleness, and his admission of how lucky they were.

I used Google Drive extensively, but found the desktop client lacking reliability. I switched to Syncdocs [1] which syncs to Google Drive more robustly and is way faster. Google's storage pricing beats Dropbox, but their client software does not.

[1] http://syncdocs.com

IT is worth noting that the average age of those studied was 71.

Measuring the wrong indicators is the primary reason companies don't like remote work. They measure showing up, not results.

Dropbox is funded by Y-combinator, the folks who bring you this Hacker News forum. Perhaps there is a conflict of interest here?

A very good point, but it would still be good to see a comparison, even if it does take 2 years to run on a traditional HD.

Looks like a nice product, but $50 for a single user is quite steep, IMHO.

The selective sync is one way to manage the larger storage space, and do it effectively.

Yes and that SSDs had also been compared to normal spinning hard drives, too.

Support the EFF - they are helping develop a false tower detector: http://secupwn.github.io/Android-IMSI-Catcher-Detector/

Perhaps it is wrong to assume people would be doing something else which was productive.

This seems like a fantastic idea. We currently use Syncdocs [1] to encrypt our Google Drive folders. It is also end-to-end encryption, but it uses AES, not PGP, which means the key exchange is separate.

If the email is drafted online, do the drafts get deleted and wiped after encryption on the Gmail server?

[1] http://www.syncdocs.com/google-drive-encryption-faq/

I have the same problem, as I have a personal and a work Google account. Chrome can sometimes ask you if you want to switch accounts, but in the end, I use Firefox for personal stuff and Chrome for my work.

BrowserChooser http://browserchooser.codeplex.com/ is a nice tool (like Choosyosx) to help select what URL to open in which browser.

To sync to Google Drive, I use Syncdocs http://syncdocs.com which is an enhanced Google Drive sync app that enables syncing multiple accounts at the same time.

I think Google wants each user to only have one account, which makes it better for them tracking ads.

The change in interval of a few ms could also be because of mp3 binning. Extracting a file of Youtube means you have already been through at least three codecs.

A lot depends on how many files you are syncing, and how often these files change and need re-syncing.

The Google Drive sync client is lacking features for business. But third party Google Drive sync clients like Syncdocs http://syncdocs.com make it better than Dropbox.

How do you know this. Have they announced pooled storage?

If you're storing sensitive files on Google Drive, it is a good idea to encrypt them: http://www.syncdocs.com/how-to-set-up-google-drive-encryptio...

Yes, the socket thrashing by Intel is a bigger problem.

You'll probably have an interesting time updating an LGA2011 in 2015, never mind the RAM.