I really hope this kid was using strong encryption and covering his tracks enough to provide a credible legal defense,.
Using encryption gets you nowhere in the UK. If you are suspected of using it, they can't break it and when they ask you for the key you refuse, you get an automatic 2 year jail sentence.
I don't think that law would actually hold up in court against plausible deniability encrypted disk images. I think the judge would want proof that a hidden volume actually did exist.
Easily proven. Oh look, here's an area of data on the hard drive that we can't decrypt using our forensic tools.
Don't you think its bad when your desktop shell needs FOUR TIMES MORE RAM than Windows XP minimum requirements? Is that not truly a definition of bloatware? I thought one argument the Linux mob use is that Linux distributions aren't as bloated as Windows. Sorry but if the above is the case, thats clearly now bullshit.
Its not even true of Windows. I have clients with Windows XP installations that are over half a decade old. On my own PCs, the only time the OS installation disc gets used is when I've built a new PC although TBH, Vista and Windows 7 seem fairly happy to "just get on with it" when you move the install to a new machine.
How is fucking over tens of millions of people "justice"? If anything, it'll only get their backs up and give more support to companies like Sony going after those purporting to be speaking for the "common man".
It stopped being relevant ages ago when Gnome and KDE desktops needed more than the RAM available for OtherOS. I doubt you want to call running Linux on 256MB RAM with framebuffer graphics an enjoyable experience.
What productivity increase? When it comes to the most common use of computers, the office and normal home use (email, documents, web browsing, listening to music), performance ceased to be an issue over half a decade ago which is why Netbooks and Net tops got away with using a new CPU design slower than that of the old Pentium-M series. A faster CPU cannot make the internet come to your computer any faster or you type a document any quicker.
Otherwise, we'd all still be driving 1969 Mustangs and the Prius would have never been built.
It was proven some time ago that it is more environmentally friendly to keep old gas guzzlers on the road than it is to replace them with a new car simply due to the pollution and energy hits of the manufacturing process. Even so more with hybrids and electric cars using Li-On battery packs that need changing every 5 years. The increased fuel economy and lower emissions were not enough to offset the emissions and parts required to keep the older car running for the lifetime of the newer one.
And there are thousands of people that 'spent large amounts of money on a PS3 so that they can do one particular thing with it:' and that's use the OtherOS feature that Sony took away for no reason.
So you're telling me that these people spent £100's on a PS3 to run Linux with only 512MB of RAM and with the graphics in basic Framebuffer mode when they could have bought a desktop PC with twice the RAM and proper graphics access for half the price?
I'm skeptical of the accuracy of anything that happens on Top Gear's "tests"...
Halleh-fucking-lujah. A Septic Tank who finally gets the point about the British version of Top Gear. It is an entertainment show, not a factual one. It is not meant to be even remotely serious. All the comments by the Yanks about the British version just serve to illustrate both how stupid and lacking in a sense of humour they actually are.
BP don't sponsor the TV show you dumb shit. It is the BBC - the programmes are paid for by the TV licence fee and money made selling the programmes overseas.
I see no sign that Top Gear ever mentioned BP ("British Petroleum") in connection with its poisoning the Gulf of "Mexico" last year, but plenty of evidence of BP's ongoing sponsorship of that show.
Dumb fucking Yank. BP do NOT sponsor the TV show. NOBODY sponsors the TV show. It is fully funded by the British TV Licence payer and the money they make selling the programme around the world. BP sponsor a once a year 3 day long live event held at a car show at the Birmingham NEC.
I love Top Gear, but the fact that the cast brings their personal agendas to admonish alternative energy cars is a turn-off.
So watch the fucking dead boring Yank version of Top Gear where the presenters and programme makers are so shit scared of being sued every show is basically a commercial for the cars on display.
Personally I'll stick to our British version. If I want to watch a fucking advert, I'll change to the Audi Channel.
Geohot had no chance because he openly posted what he had done, took credit for it and distributed it to other people. In pretty much every country in the western world, he has committed an offence and now he has to face the consequences.
Geohot is about to be given a lesson in being a grown up and accountable for ones actions. Personally I'd lead a class suit on that arse on behalf of every honest PS3 owner in the world who has had to waste time downloading updates and had their enjoyment of a console and games they worked hard to pay for utterly ruined by the tool this tool has created.
Difference is that the Canadian Ham can put 1.5kW into a directional beam with 10dB gain. So whilst your paying customers are using omnidirectional antennas radiating 40kW equally poorly in all directions, the Canadian Ham is pointing the equivalent of 15kW directly where he wants to put it. So whilst the commercial transmitter may be slinging a signal out, there is no guarantee that it'll be able to be heard.
Well, Satellite communications can also operate without the grid. And the EMS communication systems will have generator backed up systems that will also keep running... as long as there's no physical damage and as long as they can keep fuel to the generators during a prolonged disaster but hams have the same constraints with power.
Not really. We can use anything that can supply 12V or be linked together to supply 12V. With handies or some of the QRP rigs you don't even need 12V.
And there's one guy in the UK who talks to the US regularly whilst riding his bicycle down the sea front at Blackpool, England. I don't know many government systems that can manage to do that at that low tech level.
Thats all just shit to make them feel useful. That is not at all required or needed. "I'm an experienced radio operator!" Wow, really? Nobody gives a shit, its not really a skill so much as something anybody in the world could do if they're old enough to talk.
Really? So you would have the ability to sit in the middle of a crowded room with loads of people all talking at the same time and manage to pick out the person you want to hear and accurately copy from and relay information to that person?
If it is such an easy thing to do, how come so many people fail the exams?
Hurricane Katrina, Haiti and the recent New Zealand earthquakes to name three that immediately come to mind. All amateur radio operators have kit that can be run off a car battery and they have the ability to knock up a transmitting station out of bits of wire in no time. While the Emergency Services are still trying to figure out how the fuck to talk to each other because their repeaters no longer function, a local ham would already be on air.
When the shit hits the fan on the ground, the ISS is up there away from it all. It can be used to relay signals from the US to wherever happens to be in line of sight or it can store and relay. And with NASA ground stations all being in areas of high populace and valuable targets you may find the only guys able to talk to the ISS are living in the middle of nowhere.
It won't affect any amateurs outside of the USA. However the commercial operators who end up on that band in the US may find a fair amount of non USA amateurs pointing Yagis in their direction and whacking 1500W at them with 10dB gain.
Despite DirectX supposedly bringing an end to driver hell, we still have the same situation that we had a decade ago. Every new release of a nVidia or AMD/ATI driver fixes some glitch or other they have with a game. I got sick to fucking death of games that crashed to desktop or something else and wasting hours of my life trying to figure out which of the many bits of hardware was the problem or if it was the game itself. And then when you got it going, you then found some little shite had a hack that crashed everyone on the server to desktop (Battlefield 2 anyone??). I just got sick of it all.
Dear Apple...
This is what you do when you release a new version. You don't just release one that looks pretty much the same as the previous 6 versions but with a different wallpaper.
Dear Ubuntu...
Please take note of the above.
That was definitely the case in our house. Long story short Ubuntu went from being used on our communal home built desktop to being replaced by a new Windows 7 PC within two weeks of the installation of a version with the buttons on the other side,
Say what? Why didn't you just simply either change the theme or go into the gnome desktop manager and switch them back? Its hardly like being able to switch them back to the right hand side is some trade secret - shit, people knew how to do that in the BETAs.
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I really hope this kid was using strong encryption and covering his tracks enough to provide a credible legal defense,.
Using encryption gets you nowhere in the UK. If you are suspected of using it, they can't break it and when they ask you for the key you refuse, you get an automatic 2 year jail sentence.
I don't think that law would actually hold up in court against plausible deniability encrypted disk images. I think the judge would want proof that a hidden volume actually did exist.
Easily proven. Oh look, here's an area of data on the hard drive that we can't decrypt using our forensic tools.
Don't you think its bad when your desktop shell needs FOUR TIMES MORE RAM than Windows XP minimum requirements? Is that not truly a definition of bloatware? I thought one argument the Linux mob use is that Linux distributions aren't as bloated as Windows. Sorry but if the above is the case, thats clearly now bullshit.
Portland is in Oregon isn't it?
Its not even true of Windows. I have clients with Windows XP installations that are over half a decade old. On my own PCs, the only time the OS installation disc gets used is when I've built a new PC although TBH, Vista and Windows 7 seem fairly happy to "just get on with it" when you move the install to a new machine.
How is fucking over tens of millions of people "justice"? If anything, it'll only get their backs up and give more support to companies like Sony going after those purporting to be speaking for the "common man".
It stopped being relevant ages ago when Gnome and KDE desktops needed more than the RAM available for OtherOS. I doubt you want to call running Linux on 256MB RAM with framebuffer graphics an enjoyable experience.
What productivity increase? When it comes to the most common use of computers, the office and normal home use (email, documents, web browsing, listening to music), performance ceased to be an issue over half a decade ago which is why Netbooks and Net tops got away with using a new CPU design slower than that of the old Pentium-M series. A faster CPU cannot make the internet come to your computer any faster or you type a document any quicker.
Otherwise, we'd all still be driving 1969 Mustangs and the Prius would have never been built.
It was proven some time ago that it is more environmentally friendly to keep old gas guzzlers on the road than it is to replace them with a new car simply due to the pollution and energy hits of the manufacturing process. Even so more with hybrids and electric cars using Li-On battery packs that need changing every 5 years. The increased fuel economy and lower emissions were not enough to offset the emissions and parts required to keep the older car running for the lifetime of the newer one.
Ever wonder why Apple didn't want to put Flash support on the iPhone? It would appear to have been a shrewd move.
And there are thousands of people that 'spent large amounts of money on a PS3 so that they can do one particular thing with it:' and that's use the OtherOS feature that Sony took away for no reason.
So you're telling me that these people spent £100's on a PS3 to run Linux with only 512MB of RAM and with the graphics in basic Framebuffer mode when they could have bought a desktop PC with twice the RAM and proper graphics access for half the price?
BWAHAHAHA.
I'm skeptical of the accuracy of anything that happens on Top Gear's "tests"...
Halleh-fucking-lujah. A Septic Tank who finally gets the point about the British version of Top Gear. It is an entertainment show, not a factual one. It is not meant to be even remotely serious. All the comments by the Yanks about the British version just serve to illustrate both how stupid and lacking in a sense of humour they actually are.
BP don't sponsor the TV show you dumb shit. It is the BBC - the programmes are paid for by the TV licence fee and money made selling the programmes overseas.
I see no sign that Top Gear ever mentioned BP ("British Petroleum") in connection with its poisoning the Gulf of "Mexico" last year, but plenty of evidence of BP's ongoing sponsorship of that show.
Dumb fucking Yank. BP do NOT sponsor the TV show. NOBODY sponsors the TV show. It is fully funded by the British TV Licence payer and the money they make selling the programme around the world. BP sponsor a once a year 3 day long live event held at a car show at the Birmingham NEC.
I love Top Gear, but the fact that the cast brings their personal agendas to admonish alternative energy cars is a turn-off.
So watch the fucking dead boring Yank version of Top Gear where the presenters and programme makers are so shit scared of being sued every show is basically a commercial for the cars on display.
Personally I'll stick to our British version. If I want to watch a fucking advert, I'll change to the Audi Channel.
Geohot is about to be given a lesson in being a grown up and accountable for ones actions. Personally I'd lead a class suit on that arse on behalf of every honest PS3 owner in the world who has had to waste time downloading updates and had their enjoyment of a console and games they worked hard to pay for utterly ruined by the tool this tool has created.
Difference is that the Canadian Ham can put 1.5kW into a directional beam with 10dB gain. So whilst your paying customers are using omnidirectional antennas radiating 40kW equally poorly in all directions, the Canadian Ham is pointing the equivalent of 15kW directly where he wants to put it. So whilst the commercial transmitter may be slinging a signal out, there is no guarantee that it'll be able to be heard.
Well, Satellite communications can also operate without the grid. And the EMS communication systems will have generator backed up systems that will also keep running... as long as there's no physical damage and as long as they can keep fuel to the generators during a prolonged disaster but hams have the same constraints with power.
Not really. We can use anything that can supply 12V or be linked together to supply 12V. With handies or some of the QRP rigs you don't even need 12V. And there's one guy in the UK who talks to the US regularly whilst riding his bicycle down the sea front at Blackpool, England. I don't know many government systems that can manage to do that at that low tech level.
Thats all just shit to make them feel useful. That is not at all required or needed. "I'm an experienced radio operator!" Wow, really? Nobody gives a shit, its not really a skill so much as something anybody in the world could do if they're old enough to talk.
Really? So you would have the ability to sit in the middle of a crowded room with loads of people all talking at the same time and manage to pick out the person you want to hear and accurately copy from and relay information to that person? If it is such an easy thing to do, how come so many people fail the exams?
Hurricane Katrina, Haiti and the recent New Zealand earthquakes to name three that immediately come to mind. All amateur radio operators have kit that can be run off a car battery and they have the ability to knock up a transmitting station out of bits of wire in no time. While the Emergency Services are still trying to figure out how the fuck to talk to each other because their repeaters no longer function, a local ham would already be on air.
When the shit hits the fan on the ground, the ISS is up there away from it all. It can be used to relay signals from the US to wherever happens to be in line of sight or it can store and relay. And with NASA ground stations all being in areas of high populace and valuable targets you may find the only guys able to talk to the ISS are living in the middle of nowhere.
It won't affect any amateurs outside of the USA. However the commercial operators who end up on that band in the US may find a fair amount of non USA amateurs pointing Yagis in their direction and whacking 1500W at them with 10dB gain.
Despite DirectX supposedly bringing an end to driver hell, we still have the same situation that we had a decade ago. Every new release of a nVidia or AMD/ATI driver fixes some glitch or other they have with a game. I got sick to fucking death of games that crashed to desktop or something else and wasting hours of my life trying to figure out which of the many bits of hardware was the problem or if it was the game itself. And then when you got it going, you then found some little shite had a hack that crashed everyone on the server to desktop (Battlefield 2 anyone??). I just got sick of it all.
Dear Apple...
This is what you do when you release a new version. You don't just release one that looks pretty much the same as the previous 6 versions but with a different wallpaper.
Dear Ubuntu... Please take note of the above.
That was definitely the case in our house. Long story short Ubuntu went from being used on our communal home built desktop to being replaced by a new Windows 7 PC within two weeks of the installation of a version with the buttons on the other side,
Say what? Why didn't you just simply either change the theme or go into the gnome desktop manager and switch them back? Its hardly like being able to switch them back to the right hand side is some trade secret - shit, people knew how to do that in the BETAs.