Now the 12GB of RAM in my gaming PC is going to seem like a waste:-(
On the upside, the 4GB of RAM my laptop is stuck with unless I want to sacrifice dual-channel mode (thanks for building half the RAM into the mobo, geniuses!) will be useful for longer:-)
If you say it is the Republicans fault you are just a drone. If you say it is the Democrats fault you are just a drone. If you say that President Obama is all to blame you are a troll. If you say that none of it is President Obama's fault you are a mindless fanboi. If you think that being a Democrate makes you better than a Republican you are a fool. If you think that being a Republican makes you better than Democrate you are fool. If you are a Libertarian well your just in fantasy land.
Whoa, that last line is the sort of twist-you-never-saw-coming that M. Night Shyamalan wishes he could pull off a second time.
Well yeah PostgreSQL is better for serious database work, but MySQL is mostly used for the tiny database backends to websites, and is already overpowered for that task. Anyone who was using MySQL for anything more complicated/demanding than a website backend should have switched to PostgreSQL anyways.
If they use IM instead, they just have to make sure nobody can see the thumb keyboard or do a TEMPEST-type attack on the phone (easy to shield against, if it's possible at all).
Ignoring the fact that the N900 is out of production and assuming the NSA would make their own software to allow for full-disk encryption etc, the N900 has no case intrusion detection and would be susceptible to a cold boot attack, which is a real possibility considering the resources that will be available to those who would like to break into this phone.
Why not just let the NSA create a certification standard and let commercial phones design for that standard?
Because that's little more than a gentleman's agreement. Oh Foxconn promises they won't let the Chinese government put any firmware backdoors in the NSAphone, pinky promise!
The bad guys (or should I say other guys?;) ) have Faraday bags for that. You need some kind of dead man's switch. Don't enter a password every 12 hours and it wipes itself and then maybe overvolts itself. Have a special "coercion password" that will self-re-image the phone and then unlock it, giving the bad guys a working but useless phone.
Well since feds were never big on fashion I don't think they'll care about the size or weight. The battery life's obviously a problem, and the other problem I see is that you apparently have to choose whether you want a cell modem or a wifi adapter installed, but that's not even a huge problem.
So is that 2 hours of active use or 2 hours of standby? Even my N900 will get 3-4 hours of active use if I really abuse it (say, playing a movie with a non-GPU-accelerated codec). I'd say an N900 has about the minimum battery life that's acceptable in a phone (10-14 hours with average use) so if it can match that it should be good enough.
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Yes! Finally! Hopefully all this social media crap will die off soon. And my later prediction was correct, Groupon was the first to go.
At least for Lucid so far.
Now the 12GB of RAM in my gaming PC is going to seem like a waste :-(
On the upside, the 4GB of RAM my laptop is stuck with unless I want to sacrifice dual-channel mode (thanks for building half the RAM into the mobo, geniuses!) will be useful for longer :-)
Average Joes didn't notice. A bunch of geeks and one politician noticed. We got lucky, that's all.
If they're anything like squad car cameras they'll "malfunction" at very convenient times.
If you say it is the Republicans fault you are just a drone.
If you say it is the Democrats fault you are just a drone.
If you say that President Obama is all to blame you are a troll.
If you say that none of it is President Obama's fault you are a mindless fanboi.
If you think that being a Democrate makes you better than a Republican you are a fool.
If you think that being a Republican makes you better than Democrate you are fool.
If you are a Libertarian well your just in fantasy land.
Whoa, that last line is the sort of twist-you-never-saw-coming that M. Night Shyamalan wishes he could pull off a second time.
Try this vid:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZ05rWx1pig
(haha it has "pig" in the URL)
No excoriate is a real word, it just means something close to the opposite of exonerate.
How does this work with Free Speech Cages?
Well yeah PostgreSQL is better for serious database work, but MySQL is mostly used for the tiny database backends to websites, and is already overpowered for that task. Anyone who was using MySQL for anything more complicated/demanding than a website backend should have switched to PostgreSQL anyways.
You'd have to have a design that makes local storage impossible, which would make for a very strange smartphone.
There's nothing wrong with that if you just need to access some plaintext. The only limitation to remote storage is bandwidth.
If they use IM instead, they just have to make sure nobody can see the thumb keyboard or do a TEMPEST-type attack on the phone (easy to shield against, if it's possible at all).
Ignoring the fact that the N900 is out of production and assuming the NSA would make their own software to allow for full-disk encryption etc, the N900 has no case intrusion detection and would be susceptible to a cold boot attack, which is a real possibility considering the resources that will be available to those who would like to break into this phone.
I think the use of a privacy screen-type coating on the phone would be a given...
Why not just let the NSA create a certification standard and let commercial phones design for that standard?
Because that's little more than a gentleman's agreement. Oh Foxconn promises they won't let the Chinese government put any firmware backdoors in the NSAphone, pinky promise!
Huh didn't know Truecrypt had that feature, interesting...
The bad guys (or should I say other guys? ;) ) have Faraday bags for that. You need some kind of dead man's switch. Don't enter a password every 12 hours and it wipes itself and then maybe overvolts itself. Have a special "coercion password" that will self-re-image the phone and then unlock it, giving the bad guys a working but useless phone.
LOL nice XD
Money I spent on Newegg purchases in the last 10 years or so: ~$3000
Money I spent on Apple stuff in my entire life: $0
To hunt the most dangerous n00bs...
Region-agnostic and works on all devices, no proprietary client software needed. Right now it's the best, no question.
Those are an issue regardless of whether you're on Facebook.
I hope you're right, and this isn't a new trend that other online services will follow...
You realize that many off-the-shelf phones you can buy right now support and commonly use full-"disk" encryption? WP7 forces it on microSD storage.
Well since feds were never big on fashion I don't think they'll care about the size or weight. The battery life's obviously a problem, and the other problem I see is that you apparently have to choose whether you want a cell modem or a wifi adapter installed, but that's not even a huge problem.
So is that 2 hours of active use or 2 hours of standby? Even my N900 will get 3-4 hours of active use if I really abuse it (say, playing a movie with a non-GPU-accelerated codec). I'd say an N900 has about the minimum battery life that's acceptable in a phone (10-14 hours with average use) so if it can match that it should be good enough.