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This _is_ Sony, right?... Let's see... rootkits, Playstation network security problems... Nope, not surprised.

Its not Sony's fault. (Well, its no ONLY Sony's fault).

This is a long standing problem with Android and certain wifi chip sets and ICS. It first reared its head in the Nook first edition
a long time ago, then it disappeared for quite a while only to come back with a vengeance with ICS.

Simply google the words: connecting authenticating obtaining ip loop
  and you will see this is common to a LOT of Android handsets and tablets.

Google search click here.

The entire flagship HTC One line has similar problems. Samsung has the same problem, as does ZTE, Achros, Huawei and several others.
Some of these vendors (HTC) have promised fixes (and all have failed to deliver as best as I can tell).

If you fiddle with it long enough it will connect, eventually. Often rebooting your router will work, but you can't always do that.

Often connecting to your neighbor's "guest" network will work, and then subsequently reconnecting to your own network will also work fine.
(especially if said guest account is an open network with no encryption).

Its never a problem of a bad password. Its not something you can fix with a static IP.
The problem is in the actual authentication layer of the wifi connection, before it even gets around to asking for an IP Address.
Seems to affect 802.11G routers more than others. Its not specific to certain router brands.

I've alogcated my self into a stupor and dug thru some of the opensource code.
The only thing I can see is that it appears some token is supposed to be incremented by the handset with each authentication attempt, and it is not
being incremented, so the router disconnects the client. But so much of wpa_suplicant is running in binary blobs that the end user is at a
serious disadvantage trying to dig through this stuff.

I can induce this error at will on my HTC One X, and I can recover from it by simply connecting to an unprotected wifi "guest" account
near by, then wait 30 seconds, and re-connect to my wpa2 secured router. I also solved it by running a spare router with no security
and leaving the router unconnected to anything. I use this for connection, wait 30 seconds, then reconnect to my home router.

Its a major pain. But its not SONY's fault, I suspect its Google's fault or the wifi chipset manufacturer's fault.

google wave wasn't killed???... google says otherwise:

http://support.google.com/wave/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=1083134

Google Wave will be shut down in April 2012. This page details the implication of the turn down process for Google Wave.

This was found by Rafal Wojtczuk who is a co-author of Qubes OS that tries to bring strong security to the desktop. http://qubes-os.org/Home.html http://groups.google.com/group/qubes-devel/browse_thread/thread/248a59a1050fe9d4

Nobody's evil until they got really rich.

"Even if you can't or won't inspect the linux source, you at least gain some assurance from the fact that many independent people with differing goals are able to see the source. Again, this is something windows simply doesn't provide." - by Bert64 (520050) on Friday June 15, @05:03PM (#40339367) Homepage

FROM -> http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2918717&cid=40339367

Yes, you did... THUS, to that?

Well then, I will simply point to what I did for Sir Siri (the only person whose argument I turned against them regarding the NSA producing SeLinux, where he implied they offered to 'secure' Windows (obviously meaning to 'backdoor' their way into it)):

http://www.google.com/search?q=%22windows+sourcecode%22+and+%22government%22&btnG=Search&sclient=psy-ab&hl=en&site=&gbv=1

and

http://www.google.com/search?q=%22windows+source+code%22+and+%22educational%22&sclient=psy-ab&hl=en&site=&gbv=1&sa=X&spell=1

* BOTH links show governments AND educational institutions that have access to Windows' sourcecode, AND, they are 3rd parties that can examine it for flaws (or to learn from it)...

(As I said to Sir Siri? "Here endeth the lesson"...)

APK

P.S.=> As you can see from those links, more than a few governments (including the US Gov't.) have access to Windows source, as well as educational institutions, providing EXACTLY THAT WHICH YOU NOTED FOR LINUX - 3rd parties can & DO peruse Windows source to learn from it, and to shore it up via inspections... above & beyond those from Microsoft (& they get EXCELLENT TALENT, or doesn't Mr. Anders Heijelsberg + Dr. Mark Russinovich ring a bell there as to names I can drop?)... apk

"Even if you can't or won't inspect the linux source, you at least gain some assurance from the fact that many independent people with differing goals are able to see the source. Again, this is something windows simply doesn't provide." - by Bert64 (520050) on Friday June 15, @05:03PM (#40339367) Homepage

FROM -> http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2918717&cid=40339367

Yes, you did... THUS, to that?

Well then, I will simply point to what I did for Sir Siri (the only person whose argument I turned against them regarding the NSA producing SeLinux, where he implied they offered to 'secure' Windows (obviously meaning to 'backdoor' their way into it)):

http://www.google.com/search?q=%22windows+sourcecode%22+and+%22government%22&btnG=Search&sclient=psy-ab&hl=en&site=&gbv=1

and

http://www.google.com/search?q=%22windows+source+code%22+and+%22educational%22&sclient=psy-ab&hl=en&site=&gbv=1&sa=X&spell=1

* BOTH links show governments AND educational institutions that have access to Windows' sourcecode, AND, they are 3rd parties that can examine it for flaws (or to learn from it)...

(As I said to Sir Siri? "Here endeth the lesson"...)

APK

P.S.=> As you can see from those links, more than a few governments (including the US Gov't.) have access to Windows source, as well as educational institutions, providing EXACTLY THAT WHICH YOU NOTED FOR LINUX - 3rd parties can & DO peruse Windows source to learn from it, and to shore it up via inspections... above & beyond those from Microsoft (& they get EXCELLENT TALENT, or doesn't Mr. Anders Heijelsberg + Dr. Mark Russinovich ring a bell there as to names I can drop?)... apk

"You don't seem to have made an argument. You had a some random gibberish and a link about a secure version of linux, which has nothing to do with what I was saying." - by Sir_Sri (199544) on Saturday June 16, @01:09AM (#40342365)

1st: You implied the NSA has offered to "help 'secure' Windows" (which implies they only looked for ways to be able to "backdoor" their way into Windows).

2nd: I merely showed the NSA actually DID HAVE A HAND IN 'securing' Linux, via SeLinux (which YOU obviously weren't aware of)... so, how do you know they didn't put in "backdoors" they can bust into easily (just like you implied for Windows)?

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"What educational institutions, or governments have source code to windows?" - by Sir_Sri (199544) on Saturday June 16, @01:09AM (#40342365)

Take a look @ these links & get back to me after:

http://www.google.com/search?q=%22windows+sourcecode%22+and+%22government%22&btnG=Search&sclient=psy-ab&hl=en&site=&gbv=1

and

http://www.google.com/search?q=%22windows+source+code%22+and+%22educational%22&sclient=psy-ab&hl=en&site=&gbv=1&sa=X&spell=1

* As the saying goes? "Here endeth the lesson"...

APK

P.S.=> So much for you... apk

1st: You implied the NSA has offered to "help 'secure' Windows" (which implies they only looked for ways to be able to "backdoor" their way into Windows).

2nd: I merely showed the NSA actually DID HAVE A HAND IN 'securing' Linux, via SeLinux (which YOU obviously weren't aware of)... so, how do you know they didn't put in "backdoors" they can bust into easily (just like you implied for Windows)?

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"You don't seem to have made an argument. You had a some random gibberish and a link about a secure version of linux, which has nothing to do with what I was saying." - by Sir_Sri (199544) on Saturday June 16, @01:09AM (#40342365)

1st: You implied the NSA has offered to "help 'secure' Windows" (which implies they only looked for ways to be able to "backdoor" their way into Windows).

2nd: I merely showed the NSA actually DID HAVE A HAND IN 'securing' Linux, via SeLinux (which YOU obviously weren't aware of)... so, how do you know they didn't put in "backdoors" they can bust into easily (just like you implied for Windows)?

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"What educational institutions, or governments have source code to windows?" - by Sir_Sri (199544) on Saturday June 16, @01:09AM (#40342365)

Take a look @ these links & get back to me after:

http://www.google.com/search?q=%22windows+sourcecode%22+and+%22government%22&btnG=Search&sclient=psy-ab&hl=en&site=&gbv=1

and

http://www.google.com/search?q=%22windows+source+code%22+and+%22educational%22&sclient=psy-ab&hl=en&site=&gbv=1&sa=X&spell=1

* As the saying goes? "Here endeth the lesson"...

APK

P.S.=> So much for you... apk

1st: You implied the NSA has offered to "help 'secure' Windows" (which implies they only looked for ways to be able to "backdoor" their way into Windows).

2nd: I merely showed the NSA actually DID HAVE A HAND IN 'securing' Linux, via SeLinux (which YOU obviously weren't aware of)... so, how do you know they didn't put in "backdoors" they can bust into easily (just like you implied for Windows)?

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Build a FNPP. I understand that the acronym is inferior, but I assure you that the actual end product is far far superior:

FreeBSD
Nginx
Postgresql
PHP

You are then going to want to get the box configured properly with the following:
geli encrypted root partition
ZFS Filesystem
geli encrypted swap
Nginx in its own jail
Postgresql in a separate jail and only listening on localhost
the only network access to the main system (outside the jail) is through openssh
have ssh use three factor authentication: 1. Password. 2. Google Authenticator. 3. Crypto Stick.
Enable ipfilter, and read the FreeBSD handbook for how to set it up properly
make sure that Openssh restricts itself to AES/SHA
raise the kernel securelevel to 3
make sure that openssh has a 4096 bit key and is restricted to the only the authentication methods that you are using
set portsnap and freebsd-update to run nightly in cron
install ports-mgmt/portaudit
install OSSEC from ports/security/ossec*

Follow these instructions and you will have a battle-ready hardened server.

Here we have some successes at UC Davis breeding resistant lettuce..

Bolivian Cocoa farmers also managed. As a result, the DEA accidentally helped improve their yield with free roundup.

Here we have weeds developing the trait. Certainly they didn't even have the minimal help of conventional breeding. They most certainly weren't created by GM techniques. If it can happen by accident, it can be made to happen.

It would be akin to patenting the fucking brick.

THAT IS AN AWESOME IDEA!

*runs to patent brick*

Fuuuuuuuu: http://www.google.com/patents/US1959816

Who'd even want to steal it? "Time" is written for 11-year-olds - and probably not the ones at the head of their class.

Haven't bought an issue since 1995, when they ran this rubbish. If I can't trust them when they write on a subject with which I'm familiar (let's not go there...), how can I trust them to tell me the truth about anything else?

I switched to Google Talk. I use the browser plugin in chrome, which is fine for me since I use gmail for my mail client anyway (ever since kmail broke down...) There isn't official voice/video support for other linux clients, but some claim to support it (e.g. Empathy says lists "Voice and video call using SIP, XMPP and Google Talk." as a feature).

You say: "I find it a painful process to go back to an Android or iPhone for some obscure app not yet supported on WP."

The apps which already have Android and/or iOS support, which you also want WP support for, may be obscure in terms of the ones you as a person are particularly looking for. However, there are a whole host of non-obscure apps supported on Android and iOS, which are not supported for Windows Phone yet.

Angry Birds Space. Temple Run. A banking app for Chase Manhattan bank. Instagram. Any Zynga app - Words with Friends, Draw Something etc. Pandora.

Dropbox is an app whose whole point is to be cross-platform. That they don't think WP is worthy of a port yet is a sign.

There's a Nook app for iOS and Android but not yet for Windows Phone, although I'm sure the $300 million deal Microsoft made with Barnes and Noble six weeks ago will change that. At the moment, Lumia owners are still out of luck due to the deal. It just goes to show that popular apps are not written overnight.

Is there a database app that can handle Microsoft Access files on Windows Phone? AFAIK, there is not. There is one for iPhone and Android. I should know, I wrote the one for Android. If you want to search through a Microsoft Access database file on a mobile phone - with Microsoft Access being included in most of the Microsoft Office suites I've found at large companies and universities - you have to buy an Android or iPhone.

All of these are all popular apps on iPhone and Android which are not on Windows Phone. Then there apps which have been ported to Windows Phone, but which reviewers say are much worse than their iPhone and Android versions. Rdio is one example, according to Techcrunch and Gizmodo reviewers - they love the Android and iPhone version, but think the WP port is sub-par.

Just to be clear, TFA is the video attached to TFS, correct? There's no actual FA associated with this that I can go read? How about including a link to this, or perhaps this?

But I'll bite. A computer is a tool and kids need to start somewhere to learn how to use it. At this level, giving them a linux shell will drive them away while giving them a fun machine might tempt them to delve deeper while still teaching them the basics of using a computer.

I wouldn't advocate giving the kids a unix shell. I'd advocate giving them something like Blockly and teaching them logic. Teaching a basic understanding of logic is so much more important than training them in the popular application du jour.

While it would be nice for everyone to be a mechanic, a doctor, a plumber, a software engineer and a dentist, it's just not practical or realistic.

I agree entirely, which is why I stress education and not training. Not everyone needs to be a doctor, but everyone needs to know that organisms are made from cells. Not everyone needs to be a mechanic, but everyone needs to know that gasoline and oxygen react to create CO2 and energy.

It's important that people don't see the world as full of black boxes.

>

No Windows phone for ONE YEAR

This is a bit optimistic... Nokia still has NO WINDOWS PHONE to compete with. The current models have an OS that Microsoft is publicly stating is not quite there yet, and current phones will NOT be upgradeable to the "good", new version that is coming real soon now. So if you buy a Nokia phone, you are getting something with no future in 6 months, or a year, or ???

Wait, this is the company running ads claiming all smartphones up to this point have been beta tests?
oh wow.

I actually counted 101 for Google. See my spreadsheet (pages 34-36): https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B4zFFRghN27SZVIzSERuTlVBUHc

I found it fascinating to see how many companies make up a majority of the applications, so I went ahead and did the analysis. Only 13 companies make up 54% of the total requests for generic TLDs. Google is requesting 100 TLDs (5% of total requests). Here is the GoogleDoc with my analysis: https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B4zFFRghN27SZVIzSERuTlVBUHc

You mean like...

https://www.google.com/#hl=en&safe=off&output=search&sclient=psy-ab&q=song+id+by+humming&oq=song+id+by+humming&aq=f&aqi=g1&aql=&gs_l=hp.3..0.3974.8572.0.8699.27.16.4.7.7.0.124.1377.12j4.16.0...0.0.FAgYh_VWZgE&pbx=1&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_qf.,cf.osb&fp=ba3fb2d202bb3cc3&biw=1145&bih=654

The brits alread did this, years ago. Watch & Enjoy:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4423562351831425828

Since you're on Slashdot I assume you might be into Linux.

As of late, Linus Torvalds and my Boss just shared a prize together!
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5iQ1KdxYp6hhmkeOKwcripY54iC-A?docId=CNG.a1b878f71ac27feae178698ffd633dd4.291

I thought about making a Slashdot thread suggestion... but then I realized I don't care to come up with some savvy abstract and just sent you the link right here.... haha.

Anyway, rockon.

Google knows how to do ads well. If you're looking for free, try their plugin: https://www.google.com/chat/video

"They have a cheaper pair for about half the price (HX-33s?) that are almost as good."

I think you're referring to HA-FX33: https://www.google.com/search?q=HA-FX33&hl=en&sa=X&biw=1440&bih=746&tbm=shop

Don't be an ass.

Check your privilege. 50% of Americans live in poverty.

http://www.google.com/search?q=50%25%20americans%20below%20poverty%20line&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:unofficial&client=iceweasel-a&source=hp&channel=np

Pentalobe screwdrivers aren't really that proprietary.

vmo plas run 35-55, with a special promotional 30 plan for the new iphone. cricket has just a 55 plan which is equivalent in features to the vmo 55 plan.

But not everyone needs the $55 plan. Another member of my household has a home phone with unlimited "airtime" for local and 1-800 calls, and I can delay long calls until I get home, so I don't need as many cellular voice minutes as someone who has completely replaced the home phone with a cell phone because he or she lives alone. See this article and this NYT article. Let's just say "Apple doesn't target the low end".

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(Sorry, Google didn't cache the one-page version.)

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Here.

Uh, yes it does. My old MacBook had the battery die after two years. I had to replace it ($150 mail order from Apple) and the laptop still works fine otherwise, despite being nearly four years old by now. (Oh, and I upgraded the hard drive. Something else you can't do any more.)

Having a non-replaceable battery, especially given that it's Apple, is absolutely a deal-killer.

Troll doesn't mean "something I don't believe in"

It means "something the poster doesn't believe"

I believe every statement I made in this post. Anything that can be factual IS.

In any case, here's someone volunteering to recreate this trivial app on Android so that the fact that Apple is abusive to users and developers alike does not have to keep this kind of app from existing.

I am actually waiting for a call from the red guy complaining that it's getting mighty cold.

Yippee!... Time to call Theresa Manyan.

My estimates put the Die's per Wafer at:
300mm = 58615762400 DPW

Show your work! :)

(300/2)^2*pi/160=442 and that's assuming no room for cutting/packaging/waste.

Seriously? Is this the kind of deeply technical questions that the diversified and experienced /. community is supposed to answer? Is this becoming Yahoo Answers?

And to the poster (because the first paragraph was to the editors), just take some time to type something into google and head over to:

• ilounge
• engadget:
  http://www.engadget.com/2011/11/26/ask-engadget-best-over-the-ear-headphones/
  http://www.engadget.com/2010/11/04/ask-engadget-best-passive-noise-cancelling-headphones/
  http://www.engadget.com/2011/03/31/ask-engadget-best-usb-headset-for-skype-calls-and-podcasting/
  http://www.engadget.com/2011/06/11/ask-engadget-best-non-gaming-wireless-headphones/
  http://www.engadget.com/2011/02/24/ask-engadget-best-non-ugly-noise-cancelling-bluetooth-headset/
  http://www.engadget.com/2011/10/01/ask-engadget-best-earbuds-for-outdoor-fitness-use/
• any audio forum

At least you will get more detailed answers and consistent comparisons. And I won't have to do the google typing for you.

Seriously? Is this the kind of deeply technical questions that the diversified and experienced /. community is supposed to answer? Is this becoming Yahoo Answers?

And to the poster (because the first paragraph was to the editors), just take some time to type something into google and head over to:

• ilounge
• engadget:
  http://www.engadget.com/2011/11/26/ask-engadget-best-over-the-ear-headphones/
  http://www.engadget.com/2010/11/04/ask-engadget-best-passive-noise-cancelling-headphones/
  http://www.engadget.com/2011/03/31/ask-engadget-best-usb-headset-for-skype-calls-and-podcasting/
  http://www.engadget.com/2011/06/11/ask-engadget-best-non-gaming-wireless-headphones/
  http://www.engadget.com/2011/02/24/ask-engadget-best-non-ugly-noise-cancelling-bluetooth-headset/
  http://www.engadget.com/2011/10/01/ask-engadget-best-earbuds-for-outdoor-fitness-use/
• any audio forum

At least you will get more detailed answers and consistent comparisons. And I won't have to do the google typing for you.

from the those-are-some-small-cookies dept

A ~18" cookie is small to you? Did /. outsource to Brobdingnag ?

from the those-are-some-small-cookies dept

A ~18" cookie is small to you? Did /. outsource to Brobdingnag ?

Aren't the Web thread denizens who engage in demeaning remarks and personal attacks called Mobys?

I've been on the internet for fifteen years and never once heard the term "moby". Apparently, neither has wikipedia.

I agree with you that a genuine troll is someone who doesn't necessarily believe in the position they are taking

Then why are you arguing the opposite? Are you trolling? Yes, sometimes it's hard to tell. Me, when someone disagrees with an opinion of mine, no matter how vehemently, I assume they're sincere. If they're factually incorrect I'll try to correct them, preferably with a link.

Troll does not mean "someone who disagrees with me." Troll means exactly what wikipedia and the slashdot page says it means.

Ironically, the news coverage has pushed theoatmeal's page complaining up to the #2 google search result, try it:
Google search for funnyjunk
Just to add to the fun: funnyjunk

You can click around to see the languages:
http://www.go-hero.net/jam/12/languages/5
http://www.go-hero.net/jam/12/multilang

There's also ranking:
http://code.google.com/codejam/contest/scoreboard?c=1835486

You can check past contests yourself, including solutions.

IM+ and IM+ Pro

IM+ and IM+ Pro

When US gov't killed off 3000 phone companies to give AT&T the monopoly (because of 'national security reasons', but in reality because monopolies make better money donors to politicians), that's when the problem was born actually.

There is no reason why a business should not be able to discriminate and sell various types of products that do different things, like give preference to traffic that is more profitable.

There is no reason why in a competing market there wouldn't be various products that would also provide access to the Internet that does not discriminate between traffic, but sells access that is understood to be 'neutral' to the content.

But what am I saying.... of-course there is a reason and this reason is lack of competition that originates from government creating monopolies in everything, including delivery of electrical power, water, gas, sewer services, but also telecommunications, etc.

The actual solution cannot be legislative, all of that always ends up creating unintended consequences and causes the exact opposite effect of what is being legislated. The solution is a market solution, but this will not be allowed. So of-course this will be legislative and don't for a second think that you all will be winning from that type of a 'solution'.

https://play.google.com/store/search?q=im&c=apps

And nobody even bothers to think about the talent we lost to the fact he was a homosexual. Intelligence *is* genetic, after all; it is the duty of the smart to breed.

So get to work; one child is far from enough. You're not doing your duty!

And for those of use who believe in evolution and genetics influencing ability, robbing the world of future geniuses by refusing to breed.

Robbing the world of future children who might, or might not, have been geniuses. (Those who believe in evolution and genetics influencing ability are presumably familiar with, for example, the notion of recessive genes.... They're presumably also familiar with the notion that merely having a set of genes for some trait does not always magically ensure that the trait will manifest itself in the way you want; had, for example, Alan not been a particularly good father in this hypothetical world where he was a father, the kids might, or might not, have ended up as geniuses or, even if they did, they might not have ended up as productive geniuses.)

And, if he contributed more to the success of his brother John's children as a result of not having children of his own than he would have contributed to the success of his own children had he had any, perhaps it was a net win for the cause of geniuses. (Google is your friend.)

I've requested a Google doodle for Alan Turing's birthday for a couple years now. I'm just glad to hear they'll finally put one up.

To describe 10 million Iranians as "insane" smacks of anti-persian racism.

And when you make baseless accusations against i.r.id10t? What would that be? Probably makes you appear Forest Gump stupid or something like that.

Tell me, would you have accused i.r.id10t of some sort of anti-Russian racism if we were talking about Russia losing nukes?