The BIG problems with biometrics that rely on external facial features along with such things as facial bone structures is that they CAN be foxed rather easily by a good makeup artist as well as by plastic surgery.
Scars can be added - and removed - both by clever applications of makeup and/or plastic surgery. The set of a person's eyebrow ridge can similarly e altered (for the purpose of fooling scans) using either technology as well. So can the set of one's cheekbones, jawline or even the confirmation of the ears (another unique body feature, like the fingerprint).
Yeah, I was just fooling around. I don't actually use Slack but a LFS system that uses Slackware's package management. On my system it would actually be just:
so i can plug a mini-keyboard on it and not use that touchscreen stuff!! (yeah, i hate touchscreens...)
anyway, anyone knows if the touchscreen is just finger-style or can i use also a pencil-style pointer?...'cause i find fingers sooo imprecise with touchscreen....
Yes, you can plug in a mini-keyboard. The phone comes with a working stylus for now but it's still preferably used with fingers.
The price isn't in random hardware. It's in open hardware that's not so easy to find cheap surprisingly. If you just want 3G then you're seriously looking at the wrong device here.
If I remember correctly the processor was 400mhz but could be safely overclocked to up to 500mhz. That's what I remember at least, correct me if I'm wrong.
The iPhone 3G has A-GPS, or assisted GPS. It is a real, honest-to-God GPS receiver, but queries a database of known wifi hotspots and their locations in the event GPS lock can't be obtained.
A-GPS has nothing to do with wifi - it simply means that the GPS chip needs some external support in order to work (i.e. it isn't a stand-alone chip). How much external support is needed is dependent on the exact hardware - in many cases it just requires the host CPU to do a bit of work, in other cases it requires that processing is offloaded to a remote server on the cellular network.
No, that's false. AGPS is just as GPS but it has the ability to get positional info from other sources then the GPS as well, such as the internet. It's actually kind of an upgraded version of GPS.
OpenMoko is mostly meant for geeks. Don't buy it for your mother or your grandmother. If you don't care about software and hardware freedom, don't buy it. Exept for the screen, it's pretty much slower and weaker in hardware then the iPhone. I find it pretty unreasonable to suggest that the Freerunner is meant to compete with iPhone, it's not. It's meant for a whole different market. If you want nice and shiny, get an iPhone. If you want to get position-based-todos (or events) in your calendar based on your gps position, if you want to control your phone using only taps against the pocket and voice commands with a bluetooth headset, if you want to only accept calls from your clients at work-time and use an automatic message with recording their call at any other time, if you want to plug in your bicycle's speedometer into the audio jack, develop a driver for it and use it as a bicycle computer, if you want to have a good wireless networking diagnostic device at hand, if you want any of this, or something that you can think up and could reasonably be made to work using this hardware, only then buy it. If you want just another phone, don't disapoint yourself.
Call back when you find a well documented open-source EDGE capable gsm adaptor. These things aren't easy to find, actually, it doesn't exist yet. OpenMoko team has done quite a good job by compiling the best pieces of open-source hardwere there are at the moment. If the phone gets enough support then hardware makers can see, that having their products open-source can rise their value which would make open EDGE possible. One step at a time, okay?
Funny or not but that's pretty much what I did. I compiled firefox from source and disabled all the pre-installed certificates. All the certificates that I have now have been checked to be secure (via phone or physical delivery). You only have to do this once for each, I keep those trusted certificates around so I can easily install them on all my machines.
I might have a little paranoia problem but I really don't trust others to decide who I should trust.
Yeah, we have those standardized tests too, they get easier with every year and lo and behold, children seem to get smarter as well according to these. I wonder why.
If he gets locked up, someone might emerge who can actually argument and make the public belive that the cause might be worth fighting. Somebody who has only stayed in the shadows because Jack Thomson has made all video game opponents look like a big bag of crazy. Someone who is actually mentally stable and sees, that such lamenting has only made the public side up with the game makers.
Bothering the user all the time does not make the System more secure. Quite the opposite. Users don't even bother to think anymore but just click 'Allow' for everything. Also you must not have read the actual security reports. Vista is no more secure then XP.
Skype creates an even greater lock-in then Microsoft Office or most anything else that can be come up with. With office you might want to make documents that you want to use yourself later and sharing them with others is not always a necessity. Not so with Skype. Speaking with yourself is something that can easily be done without software. If you want to switch from Skype to something else, you have to make sure every contact in your list does the same. Skype's protocol is not open and has not been implemented by anyone else but Skype. Really, I started using Ekiga lately and tried to convince a couple of people to switch over as well. They said that was not going to happen as they would no longer be able to speak with the 40 people in their contact list. Sure, you could do gradual switching by using two programs for the same task until everybody switches but who wants to do that? I had to get back to using Skype as noone else was willing to do the switch. Don't underestimate the lock-in capabilities of anything that you can't use in a disconnected computer for ten years without problems.
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The BIG problems with biometrics that rely on external facial features along with such things as facial bone structures is that they CAN be foxed rather easily by a good makeup artist as well as by plastic surgery.
Scars can be added - and removed - both by clever applications of makeup and/or plastic surgery. The set of a person's eyebrow ridge can similarly e altered (for the purpose of fooling scans) using either technology as well. So can the set of one's cheekbones, jawline or even the confirmation of the ears (another unique body feature, like the fingerprint).
Or you know, you could wear a mask.
MPAA and RIAA lobby to make random data illegal.
As someone nicely said: "GPL takes away the freedom to take freedom away form others".
I'm sorry, but if you respect freedom, you shouldn't support iPhones with you wallet in the first place.
I do agree though.
So now we're going to have to tunnel encrypted traffic as a payload for non-encrypted traffic? That would work, no?
Yeah, I was just fooling around. I don't actually use Slack but a LFS system that uses Slackware's package management. On my system it would actually be just:
pkginstall ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/screen/screen-4.0.2.tar.gzSlackware distro: /usr/src/tar .. /tmp/screen_install /tmp/screen_install /usr/src/packages ..
cd
wget ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/screen/screen-4.0.2.tar.gz
cd
tar -xzf tar/screen-4.0.2.tar.gz
cd screen-4.0.2
CFLAGS=" -O2 -march=pentium-m -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"./configure --prefix=/usr
make
mkdir
make DESTDIR=/tmp/screen_install install
cd
mkdir install
vim install/slack-desc
makepkg screen-4.0.2-i686-1.tgz
installpkg screen-4.0.2-i686-1.tgz
cp screen-4.0.2-i686-1.tgz
cd
rm -r screen_install
What? Difficult? What are you talking about, that's the only good way.
Then this phone is most clearly not for you.
so i can plug a mini-keyboard on it and not use that touchscreen stuff!! (yeah, i hate touchscreens...)
anyway, anyone knows if the touchscreen is just finger-style or can i use also a pencil-style pointer? ...'cause i find fingers sooo imprecise with touchscreen....
Yes, you can plug in a mini-keyboard. The phone comes with a working stylus for now but it's still preferably used with fingers.Nah, the OP is just a little ahead of time. Freerunner will be in sale in the beginning of July. You can't buy it anywhere yet.
The price isn't in random hardware. It's in open hardware that's not so easy to find cheap surprisingly. If you just want 3G then you're seriously looking at the wrong device here.
They have a completely different market however. Freerunner's not another iPhone clone. It's an open phone and that's something in itself.
If I remember correctly the processor was 400mhz but could be safely overclocked to up to 500mhz. That's what I remember at least, correct me if I'm wrong.
The iPhone 3G has A-GPS, or assisted GPS. It is a real, honest-to-God GPS receiver, but queries a database of known wifi hotspots and their locations in the event GPS lock can't be obtained.
A-GPS has nothing to do with wifi - it simply means that the GPS chip needs some external support in order to work (i.e. it isn't a stand-alone chip). How much external support is needed is dependent on the exact hardware - in many cases it just requires the host CPU to do a bit of work, in other cases it requires that processing is offloaded to a remote server on the cellular network.
No, that's false. AGPS is just as GPS but it has the ability to get positional info from other sources then the GPS as well, such as the internet. It's actually kind of an upgraded version of GPS.But it's not meant to compete.
OpenMoko is mostly meant for geeks. Don't buy it for your mother or your grandmother. If you don't care about software and hardware freedom, don't buy it. Exept for the screen, it's pretty much slower and weaker in hardware then the iPhone. I find it pretty unreasonable to suggest that the Freerunner is meant to compete with iPhone, it's not. It's meant for a whole different market. If you want nice and shiny, get an iPhone. If you want to get position-based-todos (or events) in your calendar based on your gps position, if you want to control your phone using only taps against the pocket and voice commands with a bluetooth headset, if you want to only accept calls from your clients at work-time and use an automatic message with recording their call at any other time, if you want to plug in your bicycle's speedometer into the audio jack, develop a driver for it and use it as a bicycle computer, if you want to have a good wireless networking diagnostic device at hand, if you want any of this, or something that you can think up and could reasonably be made to work using this hardware, only then buy it. If you want just another phone, don't disapoint yourself.
Call back when you find a well documented open-source EDGE capable gsm adaptor. These things aren't easy to find, actually, it doesn't exist yet. OpenMoko team has done quite a good job by compiling the best pieces of open-source hardwere there are at the moment. If the phone gets enough support then hardware makers can see, that having their products open-source can rise their value which would make open EDGE possible. One step at a time, okay?
That's where the difference between open-source and proprietary comes in.
Funny or not but that's pretty much what I did. I compiled firefox from source and disabled all the pre-installed certificates. All the certificates that I have now have been checked to be secure (via phone or physical delivery). You only have to do this once for each, I keep those trusted certificates around so I can easily install them on all my machines.
I might have a little paranoia problem but I really don't trust others to decide who I should trust.
Yeah, we have those standardized tests too, they get easier with every year and lo and behold, children seem to get smarter as well according to these. I wonder why.
Easy, just make the game it protects so bad no one bothers to crack it.
If he gets locked up, someone might emerge who can actually argument and make the public belive that the cause might be worth fighting. Somebody who has only stayed in the shadows because Jack Thomson has made all video game opponents look like a big bag of crazy. Someone who is actually mentally stable and sees, that such lamenting has only made the public side up with the game makers.
Beware!
Bothering the user all the time does not make the System more secure. Quite the opposite. Users don't even bother to think anymore but just click 'Allow' for everything. Also you must not have read the actual security reports. Vista is no more secure then XP.
I can already picture it. You'd never have to look for your socks again.
False.
Skype creates an even greater lock-in then Microsoft Office or most anything else that can be come up with. With office you might want to make documents that you want to use yourself later and sharing them with others is not always a necessity. Not so with Skype. Speaking with yourself is something that can easily be done without software. If you want to switch from Skype to something else, you have to make sure every contact in your list does the same. Skype's protocol is not open and has not been implemented by anyone else but Skype. Really, I started using Ekiga lately and tried to convince a couple of people to switch over as well. They said that was not going to happen as they would no longer be able to speak with the 40 people in their contact list. Sure, you could do gradual switching by using two programs for the same task until everybody switches but who wants to do that? I had to get back to using Skype as noone else was willing to do the switch. Don't underestimate the lock-in capabilities of anything that you can't use in a disconnected computer for ten years without problems.