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I think people's nostalgia for Nokia products is largely misplaced.

Because they weren't the smartphone of today?

They are of course judged their competition of the time.
Relative Ericsson at the time when people started to move over I guess the two features Nokia may have had over Ericsson was the antenna not poking out of the shell and possibly better battery life. Did snake or easy of use / the use of just one button for navigation affect anything too?

T28s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
"The T28 was the lightest and slimmest mobile phone at the time, with a weight of only 83 grams.[1]
Unlike mobile phones of the time (1999-2001) it had a fixed, stubby external antenna. It was probably best known as the first phone that used lithium polymer batteries. At one point, it was the best selling mobile phone in America."
https://www.gsmarena.com/erics...
" Removable Li-Po 500 mAh battery
Stand-by 50 h
Talk time 3 h 30 min
            Ultra Slim, 600 mAh Li-Pol, 89 g
Stand-by 65 h
Talk time 4 h 30 min"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
"The Nokia 8210 was, at the time of its release in 1999, the smallest, lightest Nokia mobile phone on the market,[1] thus its selling point was based on its design and customization, with removable Xpress-on covers. Six differently coloured Xpress-on covers are available, as well as many third party ones."
"Weight 79 g (Lithium Battery)"
"Battery Standard, 650 mAh Li-Ion (BLB-2)"
https://www.gsmarena.com/nokia...
"Stand-by 50 - 150 h
Talk time 2 h - 3 h 20 min"

By the time places like India, other parts of Asia, the middle-east, Africa was flooded with Nokia phones though Sony-Ericsson phones was likely not common and Nokia was what existed and what they saw so there it's brand recognition simply because it was the very common cheap phone around. Now it's chinese brands instead.

I doubt people would care much about the phone being able to push out a part.. They will of course still see it's not a smart-phone. If anything that it's yellow and bent will likely draw more attention ..

Old lookers:
http://abouthandphone-infor.bl...

When I replaced my T28s I looked at the Ericsson T66 and the Siemens C55. Took the later because it supported a higher Java version number but I never installed any Java programs on it. I've so wished I had gotten the T66 instead:
https://www.gsmarena.com/erics...
"Weight 59 g (2.08 oz)"
"Stand-by 150 h
Talk time 2 h - 5 h"

Interesting how the T66 was discontinued in 2001 Q4 and the T28s was around 1999-2001. Make you wonder how long mine lasted ... But I guess it still worked then because it was bought on a 24 month contract so it was likely just out and I got a new one.

One person claim the Game Gear did 1-2 hours with 6 batteries, Atari Lynx wikipedia page says 3-4 hours for it.

The Atari Lynx wikipedia page says 4-6 hours for Atari Lynx. Lynx II even better.

Nintendo Game Boy claim here http://nerdlypleasures.blogspo... is 15 hours in the manual but others have estimated 35 hours!

Game Boy Advance SP on brightest 7-10 hours according to this: https://www.nintendo.com/consu...

https://googleprojectzero.blog...

As shown, AMD can still be vulnerable in some situations

https://googleprojectzero.blog...

So, AMD can be vulnerable in some situations.

P.S. I think the registry was a good idea. Having a little database to store options, and have some kind of daemon that owns it, avoids race conditions and is just good sense. However, using an opaque and fragile binary database format was insanity. They could have used a simple text-based format (like .ini files... or, heck, S-expressions!) and saved the world a lot of pain. Or, at least made their binary database less fragile and documented it completely so that third parties could write registry checker tools that could fix corrupted registries or whatever.

Ideally they should have used JSON for the registry, but I'm pretty sure the registry pre-dates Javascript, let alone JSON as an interchange format.

I am sure it would not be impossible to solve with a transparent INI file endpoint either, but the binary registry tree is a lot faster for finding a key. An INI-file that was indexed in memory upon each detected file rewrite would be another option, but more complex, and definitely slower and subject to cache invalidation concerns.

With the amount of keys present in the registry, a readable text dump would probably be very sizeable -- a registry on a vanilla Windows 10 Pro installation holds around 3 million key-value pairs, and a plain-text .reg dump of the contents fly in at over 700 MB. Having to rewrite/reparse this amount of data upon registry writes would be problematic.

I thought commonly used TrustZone firmwares do have revocation/rollback protection but the OEMs doesn't use it when upgrading the OS. E.g. they bundle a new Widevine version in the update but they don't actually revoke old vulnerable ones.

As explored in depth by Google's Project Zero here:

https://googleprojectzero.blog...

Or is this a real bypass that allows installing a revoked trustlet? The article was light on details.

/ greger47

Format drive and install one of the following operating systems:

• BeOS
• Syllable
• AROS
• Plan 9
• Minix
• FreeDOS
• DR-DOS
• OpenVMS x86 port is coming!
• Visopsys
• SqueakNOS
• Haiku
• Kolibri
• ReactOS
• Tizen
• SkyOS
• MorphOS
• MenuetOS
• CP/M 86
• Multics, also see Multicians
• Erlang as an Operating System

There have been a large number of more or less obscure operating systems and not all have been ported to x86. Unfortunately the architecture has become a de facto standard even though it's not the best architecture or the most efficient but instead a patchwork of solutions to retain backwards compatibility. We have lost many interesting architectures over the years that would have deserved a better fate to the Intel bandwagon.

And you get to funny situations like this where a console game sounds better than the CD due to shitty mastering of the CD: https://mastering-media.blogsp...

Don't be so sure, bcrypt was used at Ashley Madison but they still stored transformed and md5 hashed passwords in other places. Leading to this:

http://cynosureprime.blogspot....

It's said they have "939,500 residential phone lines" in the second article there, so boring as it is they'll deploy DSL over existing copper li

http://laredcubana.blogspot.se...

Scandinavia had trade going with Greece a long time before that.
Links between Mycenaeans and Scandinavia

When talking about this small amount of bodies one can not really make any claims about society as a whole. The people involved could very well have had access to whatever technology was available in southern Europe.

They can't, and the idea that Sweden should have to make a guarantee to a fugitive from justice is silly. Assange isn't a head of state, he is a fugitive from allegations of rape that should be answered in the criminal justice system like any other.

Can Assange be extradited from Sweden to the USA?

The Swedish government exclusively makes decisions in extradition cases to countries outside the EU. In short, the country that wants a person extradited needs to hand in a formal request to the Ministry of Justice.

Every extradition case is to be judged on its own individual merits. For that reason the Swedish government cannot provide a guarantee in advance that Julian Assange would not be subject to further extradition to the USA.

Once the British authorities enforce the UK Supreme Court's decision to extradite Julian Assange to Sweden, Sweden is bound by the so-called "Doctrine of Speciality" which means that Sweden cannot extradite him further to a third country, for example the USA, without permission from the UK. This means that Julian Assange would be in the same position in Sweden as he would be in the UK with regard to further extradition to a third country.

Three: “Sweden should guarantee that there be no extradition to USA”

It would not be legally possible for Swedish government to give any guarantee about a future extradition, and nor would it have any binding effect on the Swedish legal system in the event of a future extradition request.

By asking for this 'guarantee', Assange is asking the impossible, as he probably knows. Under international law, all extradition requests have to be dealt with on their merits and in accordance with the applicable law; and any final word on an extradition would (quite properly) be with an independent Swedish court, and not the government giving the purported 'guarantee'.

(See extradition and criminal lawyer Niall McCluskey for further detail on this.)

Also Sweden (like the United Kingdom) is bound by EU and ECHR law not to extradite in circumstances where there is any risk of the death penalty or torture. There would be no extradition to the United States in such circumstances.

(See Mark Klamberg’s blog for further information on this.)

You've fallen for a line of nonsense.

"Air pollution has nothing to do with CO2"

Same source and you know it, Fossil fuels cause air pollution, fossil fuels cause CO2.

"We dont have enough data on ocean PH. Historical data is regional and world wide data is very sparse."

Are you kidding, just reject science completely why not.

"direct observational evidence that ocean acidification is happening."

"ake pH measurements for example. Thanks to the analytical improvement in the 1990â(TM)s, we are able to measure seawater pH precisely to the 3rd - 4th decimal place"

Charismatic Microfauna: How do we measure ocean acidification?

Your question remains, so you ignored the fact that fossil fuels are killing millions and costing us trillions, you ignore 99.9% of scientists re global warming and ignore climate change, ocean acidification and sea level rises.

There's really not much point in talking to you is there, there's clearly no way you will accept reality, you just want to stick your head in the sand and pretend everything is ok.

It may be true that you may be able to get one for "peanuts", what do I know.

But earlier today I actually searched here in Sweden on powermac to find out if an older (603 or something such) had any value.

Turned out PowerMac G4, G5 and dual G5s are rather cheap too.

Now of course that's no Amiga and of course it likely won't run the toaster and so on but MorphOS may run on some of them and of course at least before they wasn't completely useless for video those either. At least the dual G5 likely work somewhat even today.

Also for anyone who need an Amiga kick check out Icaros desktop: http://vmwaros.blogspot.se/

It will run on your PC so same issue as with the PowerMacs there.. But then again your PC can do things the old Amigas couldn't too.

All three ways is one way of getting the Amiga experience today. Depending on what Amiga experience you want to have :)

Also PCs aren't all that bad / useless by themselves:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Over and out - https://www.youtube.com/watch?... :)

As far as I can tell, there has never been a sustained system that has been cryogenically chilled in such an extreme environment (eg high neutron flux, >1000C temps).

It's not that they can't create a plug, it's that they have no idea how to do it reliably 24/7/365 x 30years.

I was under the impression that the "plug" (called "freeze valves") concept worked really well in the MSRE, with sources even claiming this was the normal mode of shutdown over the weekends. Cut the power to the cooling fan and the reactor would drain the salt into the storage tanks quite undramatically. (See e.g.: http://nucleargreen.blogspot.s...).

Now of course in this design you didn't need cryogenic cooling, since salt freezes at a rather high temperature. So I'm wondering what the scoop is? Are proposed new designs operating in a region where simple "blow on a pipe" that worked so well at the MSRE not possible anymore?

Well, you know, they're trying: KDe HIG --> http://techbase.kde.org/Projec... KDe Viual Group --> http://wheeldesign.blogspot.se... Plasma next would be interesting...

Also for someone who want to run it today:
http://vmwaros.blogspot.se/

If using UAE is your thing, baby:
http://aiab.ultimateamiga.co.u...

There have been quite a bit of effort to do population-control in many countries but there are quite a few idiots working against it.

Christianity:
http://churchandstate.org.uk/2012/12/the-catholic-church-condoms-and-hiv-aids-in-africa/
Islam:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/islam/islamethics/contraception.shtml - Leaders talking against any.

Generic regarding contraception and religion:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_and_birth_control

Here you have a pope claiming that condoms are infected with aids:
http://www.irinnews.org/report/75412/mozambique-condom-mythology

Then you have all that crap in regards to abortion, in both Islam and Christianity....

On top of this you have this thing where people just have to have a male offspring and they will continue until they have.....

Some reasons for big families in Africa:
http://povertynewsblog.blogspot.se/2009/12/reason-for-desire-for-big-families-in.html
Summary "Historically families where big to be able to take care of the farm. When people moved to cities the urge to have many children still remained"

Another thing that can cause families in developing countries to have big families is that they don't have any care for the elderly there so they have many children so someone can take car of them when they get to old.

If religion could stop interfering with sex-education for people (both kids and adults anywhere in the world) and also stop spreading lies. (no. I'm not gonna start a flame-war here, i was just referring to the example with the pope that said that condoms can give you aids)

3 things are needed for population-control:
- Sex education. This should start before puberty.
- Provide affordable or free contraception. (condoms, pills etc)
- I know this is really bad, but if someone wants a male or female offspring allow them a free check and abortion if it's not a match. (It sounds cruel, but look at how many abandoned female children there are, how many that are actually killed after birth etc.)
http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/01/16/it%E2%80%99s-a-girl-the-three-deadliest-words-in-the-world/

Actually, bitcoin does not give you the anonymity that you think.. http://anonymity-in-bitcoin.blogspot.se/2011/07/bitcoin-is-not-anonymous.html

And since someone is going to want the bitcoins in a usable currency, since you cannot really buy much with it currently, it can be traced to a broker that made a payout to a person.

Democracies start to fail when people realize that they can vote for more money for themselves. As long as the entitlements keep rolling in, there will be more people ready to vote themselves some more free gubment cheese.

I used to think along these lines, but the self-confessed contrarian David Brin got me thinking, damn him! On the contrary, there are plenty of examples of voters accepting short term pain in order to deal with problems. While abuses exist in every system, the claim that there is an inexorable downwards slope would be more credible with some, y'know, proof.

Note: The people most likely to want to get away after being apprehended are both guilty AND repeat offenders. The second factor being a group that might have the foresight to wear such a thing.

Wrong. I want to get away after being apprehended illegally.

You know--if the police decide to kidnap and beat me....or just beat the shit out of me while other offices stand by and watch^H^H^H^Hfigure out their cover stories....Maybe they'll just handcuff you and take you back to their torture chair to let you die...or your baby.

Maybe you should do nothing. You'll get your day in court, right? I mean--this is the United States of America where we have due process and a fair trial. The government would never fuck with that perfect system.
Resist. Always resist.

Note: The people most likely to want to get away after being apprehended are both guilty AND repeat offenders. The second factor being a group that might have the foresight to wear such a thing.

Wrong. I want to get away after being apprehended illegally.

You know--if the police decide to kidnap and beat me....or just beat the shit out of me while other offices stand by and watch^H^H^H^Hfigure out their cover stories....Maybe they'll just handcuff you and take you back to their torture chair to let you die...or your baby.

Maybe you should do nothing. You'll get your day in court, right? I mean--this is the United States of America where we have due process and a fair trial. The government would never fuck with that perfect system.
Resist. Always resist.

Agreed, that is something that they're rightfully getting bugged about over and over. So far I think the only thing they've said is that auditing would be a solution: https://forum.wuala.com/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=1207#p4894

Fraunhofer's comments on cloud storage (includes Wuala):
http://wualablog.blogspot.se/2012/05/fraunhofer-study-on-cloud-storage.html

My trust comes from the things that are documented and that they're ... European. You'll find them (incl. the Cryptree paper) here: http://wualablog.blogspot.se/2011/05/wualas-encryption-revisited.html

(As to how much I trust them: That's where I back up my Bitcoin wallet)

Agreed, that is something that they're rightfully getting bugged about over and over. So far I think the only thing they've said is that auditing would be a solution: https://forum.wuala.com/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=1207#p4894

Fraunhofer's comments on cloud storage (includes Wuala):
http://wualablog.blogspot.se/2012/05/fraunhofer-study-on-cloud-storage.html

My trust comes from the things that are documented and that they're ... European. You'll find them (incl. the Cryptree paper) here: http://wualablog.blogspot.se/2011/05/wualas-encryption-revisited.html

(As to how much I trust them: That's where I back up my Bitcoin wallet)

Erlang, of course, is a language designed to be as reliable and fault-tolerant as possible. I didn't know they used it in routers, but apparently some people want to.

Well, it's been used in "routers" for some time. :-)

Exactly, this is obviously written by someone who doesn't know much about game developent, or how to break out of clichés.
If you want to read on how to evolve games from someone competent I recommend the Dev Blog from Frictional Games. (The dudes that made Pnenumbra and Amnesia.)
The have spent a lot of time thinking about how to avoid clichés, even if they aren't always succesful.