All of this has existed for some time. Unless you don't know have the knowledge to do this, or the ability to follow a guide, this is really just an overpriced MID from China.
Hak5 covered the USB dongle + sniffing, etc part of it. The rest is just compiling the tools which are free and possibly cranking out an Android gui for a few of them.
This really isn't the only reason to avoid Ubuntu, but it is the most compelling. Aside from dependency hell, Unity, and the ridiculous amount of patches that get applied to all the packages, that many times break applications (I'm a developer for http://getnightingale.com/ - Ubuntu's taglib is completely hosed from our perspective), and in general it is TOO friendly to the user, making them dumb and complacent in most cases.
I talked to Hak5's Darren recently and he's moving away from Ubuntu, and I did 4 years ago to Arch for my single user machines and Debian for my servers. I haven't looked back since. Most other distros are much more in line with the open standards and software that Linux is all about than Shuttlebuntu. Give some other distros a try, and you may find one that just blows your mind...like Archlinux, Debian, Mint, or whatever else.
I won't be satisfied until SURGE returns. http://fb.com/surgemovement has something like 14k members now, and a billboard outside the Coca-Cola HQ...here's hoping Coke listens and at least does a throwback.
This wouldn't happen near as much if every corp, govt, person, and entity otherwise had a hardened multi-layer, stateful packet inspection firewall, with obscurity on the internal network, good policies, and Linux/BSD client machines. I blame Cisco and their crappy software on their great hardware, Microsoft for their substandard OS and applications, and Apple for their elitist "you can't touch this" attitude towards security on their OS.
Were it me, I'd want one for a media center on the TV, running Android for the native Netflix support and XBMC, and then I would keep the other in my backpack or pocket or something for a go-anywhere backup machine. That said, it would have Debian or Archlinux arm installed, since Ubuntu is a steaming pile.
I really wish that bloggers and promoters would stop saying something "runs Ubuntu" without regard to other Linux distros. No device is exclusive to Ubuntu. If it runs a Linux kernel, it can run any Linux distro compiled for it's given architecture. This blind devotion to Canonical's sub-par distro is why we have so many retards clogging up Slashdot, various mailing lists, and forums with stupid questions beginning with "my Ubuntu is broken," or "Help me fix my Ubuntu." These people think Ubuntu is the end-all, be-all Linux without having tried anything else.
These ignorant people need mentors and education so that they can grow and evolve, trying other distros, and maybe even go back and improve Ubuntu to make it a bit less of an abortion than it is now. If you're a Linux vet, you've already gone through that circle, and need to pay it forward by helping educate the n00bs so that we don't get so many retarded questions - or over simplified crap - from Ubuntu and it's users.
Eh..."reputation management" and SEO have basically been all but outlawed by Google. Just point a bunch of phpld directory links at his site with irrelivant keywords and descriptions...or submit a DMCA takedown request to the search engines.
Yes, it's a nice concept, and you can do similar (without all the MMS, etc integration) with a chroot and VNC, though you'd need a PC to do it...
That said, I definitely don't want this if the OS is Ubuntu. Give me Debian, Archlinux, or the option to do it myself and install the integration applications separately.
I just can't support an over commercialized, inferior, bloated distro. Debian Stable is the epitome of long term support as a result of the slow release cycle. As a result, you get security updates indefinitely and can install newer software if you want it from backports or source, or install the packages DotDeb for lamp stacks.
As a side note, I have to mention that I have never had an Ubuntu install of any type - desktop or server - that didn't fall into dependency hell upon doing a dist-upgrade. Archlinux for desktops, Debian for servers.
If you don't know how to do this, please hire someone. And use Debian stable over ubuntu for servers. It's much more stable and much less full of Shuttleworth.
No specific model, but Intel and ATI both have excellent support under Linux. Go Intel if you aren't a gamer and don't need super heavy graphics support.
This is a freaking ad, and it's obvious now that someone at Apple is paying one of the editors (same goes for Microsoft), or they both have someone they employ who is an editor...can we please see stories that are actually news and not freaking ads, please?!?!???!?
I trust sleazy ad agencies more than I trust the US government. Too bad they don't obey the laws they force the citizens to themselves, especially those regarding privacy, since they need 5 petabytes to store every email and who knows what other web related data there in Utah.
Of course, you'll still have to follow the retarded rule about having a certain percentage be American parts if in America, but hey...AK parts kits are cheap and not that hard to build.
If I were to buy another laptop, I'd buy another ASUS Republic of Gamers. I have the 17" version from ~2 years ago, and it's ran linux out of the box extremely well since day 1 (barring control of the brightness of the keyboard backlighting).
It was also $1500, but it was an i7 2 years ago with 8gb ram that could be upped to 16...no complaints!
People will do what they want regardless of rules written on paper. While they may or may not be caught, and there may or may not be consequences, if someone is convicted to do something enough or desires it enough, a mere law isn't going to stop them. My morals won't really ever keep me from driving a car, even if I have to deal with a bunch of robot cars all around me...anyway, robot cars would make Nascar even more boring.
That's why Libertarians such as myself support such mass deregulation...and fewer taxes for that matter, since taxes anymore are used by the governments of the world to reward friends and punish enemies.
Seriously...this doesn't matter much. How does this not get collapsed while the story above it about Netflix's open source failover tools getting released on github get does? WTF?
Pirate Cinema has this very thing...to get around it they use radar equipped bug zapping hats (with lasers, designed to kill mosquitoes) and modify them to zap cameras instead.
Slashdot Mirror
It's an interesting project with NLP tossed in there.
http://tldrstuff.com/
I've tried it on my tablet and prefer to read the original articles, but meh.
All of this has existed for some time. Unless you don't know have the knowledge to do this, or the ability to follow a guide, this is really just an overpriced MID from China.
Hak5 covered the USB dongle + sniffing, etc part of it. The rest is just compiling the tools which are free and possibly cranking out an Android gui for a few of them.
Hopefully we don't run into him or Aquaman...they can get kinda nasty when people invade their turfs.
If OpenMobile would drop ACL to non-OEM people we'd be able to run Android apps within WebOS.
This really isn't the only reason to avoid Ubuntu, but it is the most compelling. Aside from dependency hell, Unity, and the ridiculous amount of patches that get applied to all the packages, that many times break applications (I'm a developer for http://getnightingale.com/ - Ubuntu's taglib is completely hosed from our perspective), and in general it is TOO friendly to the user, making them dumb and complacent in most cases.
I talked to Hak5's Darren recently and he's moving away from Ubuntu, and I did 4 years ago to Arch for my single user machines and Debian for my servers. I haven't looked back since. Most other distros are much more in line with the open standards and software that Linux is all about than Shuttlebuntu. Give some other distros a try, and you may find one that just blows your mind...like Archlinux, Debian, Mint, or whatever else.
I won't be satisfied until SURGE returns. http://fb.com/surgemovement has something like 14k members now, and a billboard outside the Coca-Cola HQ...here's hoping Coke listens and at least does a throwback.
This wouldn't happen near as much if every corp, govt, person, and entity otherwise had a hardened multi-layer, stateful packet inspection firewall, with obscurity on the internal network, good policies, and Linux/BSD client machines. I blame Cisco and their crappy software on their great hardware, Microsoft for their substandard OS and applications, and Apple for their elitist "you can't touch this" attitude towards security on their OS.
Were it me, I'd want one for a media center on the TV, running Android for the native Netflix support and XBMC, and then I would keep the other in my backpack or pocket or something for a go-anywhere backup machine. That said, it would have Debian or Archlinux arm installed, since Ubuntu is a steaming pile.
I really wish that bloggers and promoters would stop saying something "runs Ubuntu" without regard to other Linux distros. No device is exclusive to Ubuntu. If it runs a Linux kernel, it can run any Linux distro compiled for it's given architecture. This blind devotion to Canonical's sub-par distro is why we have so many retards clogging up Slashdot, various mailing lists, and forums with stupid questions beginning with "my Ubuntu is broken," or "Help me fix my Ubuntu." These people think Ubuntu is the end-all, be-all Linux without having tried anything else.
These ignorant people need mentors and education so that they can grow and evolve, trying other distros, and maybe even go back and improve Ubuntu to make it a bit less of an abortion than it is now. If you're a Linux vet, you've already gone through that circle, and need to pay it forward by helping educate the n00bs so that we don't get so many retarded questions - or over simplified crap - from Ubuntu and it's users.
Eh..."reputation management" and SEO have basically been all but outlawed by Google. Just point a bunch of phpld directory links at his site with irrelivant keywords and descriptions...or submit a DMCA takedown request to the search engines.
Copyright the name, contact ICANN and have the domains yanked.
Yes, it's a nice concept, and you can do similar (without all the MMS, etc integration) with a chroot and VNC, though you'd need a PC to do it...
That said, I definitely don't want this if the OS is Ubuntu. Give me Debian, Archlinux, or the option to do it myself and install the integration applications separately.
I just can't support an over commercialized, inferior, bloated distro. Debian Stable is the epitome of long term support as a result of the slow release cycle. As a result, you get security updates indefinitely and can install newer software if you want it from backports or source, or install the packages DotDeb for lamp stacks.
As a side note, I have to mention that I have never had an Ubuntu install of any type - desktop or server - that didn't fall into dependency hell upon doing a dist-upgrade. Archlinux for desktops, Debian for servers.
If you don't know how to do this, please hire someone. And use Debian stable over ubuntu for servers. It's much more stable and much less full of Shuttleworth.
No specific model, but Intel and ATI both have excellent support under Linux. Go Intel if you aren't a gamer and don't need super heavy graphics support.
This is a freaking ad, and it's obvious now that someone at Apple is paying one of the editors (same goes for Microsoft), or they both have someone they employ who is an editor...can we please see stories that are actually news and not freaking ads, please?!?!???!?
I trust sleazy ad agencies more than I trust the US government. Too bad they don't obey the laws they force the citizens to themselves, especially those regarding privacy, since they need 5 petabytes to store every email and who knows what other web related data there in Utah.
Of course, you'll still have to follow the retarded rule about having a certain percentage be American parts if in America, but hey...AK parts kits are cheap and not that hard to build.
http://www.northeastshooters.com/vbulletin/threads/179192-DIY-Shovel-AK-photo-tsunami-warning
If I were to buy another laptop, I'd buy another ASUS Republic of Gamers. I have the 17" version from ~2 years ago, and it's ran linux out of the box extremely well since day 1 (barring control of the brightness of the keyboard backlighting).
It was also $1500, but it was an i7 2 years ago with 8gb ram that could be upped to 16...no complaints!
In all due seriousness, I heartily support your efforts...but a little fun is always a good thing!
https://xkcd.com/225/
Well, in terms of speech anyway. I don't think this would fly in the US unless some other corporate behemoth was the victim of the libel.
People will do what they want regardless of rules written on paper. While they may or may not be caught, and there may or may not be consequences, if someone is convicted to do something enough or desires it enough, a mere law isn't going to stop them. My morals won't really ever keep me from driving a car, even if I have to deal with a bunch of robot cars all around me...anyway, robot cars would make Nascar even more boring.
That's why Libertarians such as myself support such mass deregulation...and fewer taxes for that matter, since taxes anymore are used by the governments of the world to reward friends and punish enemies.
If it'd be possible to get the cost of windows removed, it'd be a good buy for a laptop...I don't want a red cent going to Microsoft.
Seriously...this doesn't matter much. How does this not get collapsed while the story above it about Netflix's open source failover tools getting released on github get does? WTF?
Pirate Cinema has this very thing...to get around it they use radar equipped bug zapping hats (with lasers, designed to kill mosquitoes) and modify them to zap cameras instead.
There were 1.5TB WD Green drives for $65...I just didn't want a slow green drive...and I heard they aren't as good for RAID.
By the way, my DeskStar has 5 year warranty...