That's what I thought too. If I had to travel to the US now (but I don't, so this is just theoretical), I would leave my notebook and all my data at home. I would by a cheap EEE or something similar there, go online and get my data securely from home. When I'm done, send the data back securely, wipe the thingy clean (maybe leave some tourist photos on it, not to raise suspicion), then cross the border back.
Simple and effective. All you need is your data online (like machine at home powered on) and the ability to reach it. Except the case when you'd need to transfer gigabytes of data, this would be the best solution.
I guess you meant "I searched for my homepage".
But it gave me and idea for an experiment: search for the word "homepage".
Google, the first 10: BBC, iGoogle (hehe), CNN, Wikipedia entry for "homepage", Opera, Microsoft, NASA, MPlayer (nice!:D), Ubuntu (thought so...) and Symantec.
Same query on Cuil: none of the above. Something NASA/ESA, Uni of Oxford, WWE (wtf?), PhpWiki, GnuPlot...
Why do you assume bigger is better? I'd rather have a 13" laptop than a 15" laptop.
My perfect laptop form factor would be a 12" non-widescreen with nVidia discrete graphics.
I definitely agree. However, TFA says that:
16:9 screens which come in slightly bigger sizes: 14 inch and 15.6 inch with different resolutions, obviously.
Pretty disappointing... Come on Apple, everybody wants subnotebooks nowadays, and you increase the screen size??? If these rumors are true, the only 13 inch Macbook will be the Air?
I still hope Apple will make a 12 (or, who knows, maybe 10:) inch notebook in the near future...
To my mind weak encryption like that is basically no encryption.
While you're right they could have made the segment to the tower decently protected, they did not do so and thus I still maintain any thought of privacy over such a line makes no sense.
GSM was designed in the 80s. Did we have back then the technology powerful enough to do strong crypto in the handsets and still not drain the battery in 5 minutes?
Hell no!
GSM wasn't even expenced to be around so long. Want a more secure radio interface? Use 3G or CDMA.
The funny thing is, your definition of privacy is really an attempt to stop a single party (the government) from listening in on your conversation, when they are in fact the least likely to ever pay attention to anything you ever do.
In fact, my "definition" of privacy was an attempt to stop everyone else except that single party (I would call it law enforcement) from listening on to my conversations. Because, whether we like it or not, they can do it, if they have a good enough reason (=warrant). Any operator is required to implement lawful interception to get a license. But you're right, they are the least interested in my bullshit, until I don't break the law.
So whatever, like I said, treat these channels as insecure, and you are less likely to have surprises.
Regarding the MMS bug: I wonder if someone could win a case against an operator for leaking out supposedly "private" MMS photos onto the web... Maybe they have some terms in the TOS they can get away with.
Easy to intercept doesn't mean not private (or public).
Private, in this sense, means that it's illegal to intercept my communication (except for lawful interception). I could sue anyone who intercepts my phone calls and uses the obtained information in any way and I become aware of it. This applies to phone, SMS/MMS, email, web activity, whatever. (IANAL, but I guess it could also apply to my WLAN at home)
Of course I am aware of the fact that these communication channels are insecure, so I use them accordingly. But if anyone has the means to intercept my communication, it does not mean they can legally do it.
Knowing that MMS are sent using an insecure, public network, you should not be thinking of these things as 'private'. Just like the stupid myspace users who think their 'friends only' profiles are private.
Easy to intercept doesn't mean not private (or public). Are your phone conversations encrypted? Sure they are on the air interface, but not in the operator's core network or on the links between different operators. But I guess you consider the contents of your phone conversations private.
My only illegal software is the DVD player hack that let's me watch the DVDs I legally purchased. It kills me that I have to break the law or buy a M$ product.
You can also buy an Apple product or a DVD player to legally play DVDs. Even the latter is more intelligent than a M$ product;)
I just checked their site quickly (I have a PPC Mac), this seems to be a VM-like thing (something like Vitualbox for PPC), so I guess performance is not that good.
The OP wanted something that implements the Mac OS X APIs on Linux, like WINE implements the Win32 APIs on Linux.
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Please select from the following obligatory answers:
A. Yes, this is Slashdot. B. You must be new here. C. I for one welcome our new lame joke overlords. D. All of the above.
E. CowboyNeal.
Oh, wait...
Simple and effective. All you need is your data online (like machine at home powered on) and the ability to reach it. Except the case when you'd need to transfer gigabytes of data, this would be the best solution.
rwxrwxrwx ???
Lame.
One word: youtube-dl.
But it gave me and idea for an experiment: search for the word "homepage".
Google, the first 10: BBC, iGoogle (hehe), CNN, Wikipedia entry for "homepage", Opera, Microsoft, NASA, MPlayer (nice!
Same query on Cuil: none of the above. Something NASA/ESA, Uni of Oxford, WWE (wtf?), PhpWiki, GnuPlot...
There's much room for improvement...
I for one, welcome our new... uh, never mind.
Why do you assume bigger is better? I'd rather have a 13" laptop than a 15" laptop.
My perfect laptop form factor would be a 12" non-widescreen with nVidia discrete graphics.
I definitely agree. However, TFA says that:
16:9 screens which come in slightly bigger sizes: 14 inch and 15.6 inch with different resolutions, obviously.
Pretty disappointing... Come on Apple, everybody wants subnotebooks nowadays, and you increase the screen size??? If these rumors are true, the only 13 inch Macbook will be the Air? :) inch notebook in the near future...
I still hope Apple will make a 12 (or, who knows, maybe 10
Parent link seems to be gone, here's the picture from somewhere else http://craphound.com/images/translateservererror.jpg
+5 Funny :))
Well, that explains everything! =))
You mean Engrish, right?
Private != secure most of the time. Sad but true.
To my mind weak encryption like that is basically no encryption.
While you're right they could have made the segment to the tower decently protected, they did not do so and thus I still maintain any thought of privacy over such a line makes no sense.
GSM was designed in the 80s. Did we have back then the technology powerful enough to do strong crypto in the handsets and still not drain the battery in 5 minutes?
Hell no!
GSM wasn't even expenced to be around so long. Want a more secure radio interface? Use 3G or CDMA.
The funny thing is, your definition of privacy is really an attempt to stop a single party (the government) from listening in on your conversation, when they are in fact the least likely to ever pay attention to anything you ever do.
In fact, my "definition" of privacy was an attempt to stop everyone else except that single party (I would call it law enforcement) from listening on to my conversations. Because, whether we like it or not, they can do it, if they have a good enough reason (=warrant). Any operator is required to implement lawful interception to get a license. But you're right, they are the least interested in my bullshit, until I don't break the law. So whatever, like I said, treat these channels as insecure, and you are less likely to have surprises.
Regarding the MMS bug: I wonder if someone could win a case against an operator for leaking out supposedly "private" MMS photos onto the web... Maybe they have some terms in the TOS they can get away with.
Easy to intercept doesn't mean not private (or public).
Private, in this sense, means that it's illegal to intercept my communication (except for lawful interception). I could sue anyone who intercepts my phone calls and uses the obtained information in any way and I become aware of it. This applies to phone, SMS/MMS, email, web activity, whatever. (IANAL, but I guess it could also apply to my WLAN at home) Of course I am aware of the fact that these communication channels are insecure, so I use them accordingly. But if anyone has the means to intercept my communication, it does not mean they can legally do it.
Knowing that MMS are sent using an insecure, public network, you should not be thinking of these things as 'private'. Just like the stupid myspace users who think their 'friends only' profiles are private.
Easy to intercept doesn't mean not private (or public). Are your phone conversations encrypted? Sure they are on the air interface, but not in the operator's core network or on the links between different operators. But I guess you consider the contents of your phone conversations private.
You must be talking about this guy, and that's a pretty nice piece of software. And btw, it has been (kinda) ported to OS X, and the result is here.
Under pressure from the NY attorney general, major telecoms have agreed to permanently stop offering MMS service.
So what, anybody actually used MMS?
My only illegal software is the DVD player hack that let's me watch the DVDs I legally purchased. It kills me that I have to break the law or buy a M$ product.
You can also buy an Apple product or a DVD player to legally play DVDs. Even the latter is more intelligent than a M$ product ;)
"Do you pirate software?"
"Only Windows XP."
"That doesn't count as software, anything else?"
Now prepare for Soviet Russia jokes in 3... 2... 1...
I just checked their site quickly (I have a PPC Mac), this seems to be a VM-like thing (something like Vitualbox for PPC), so I guess performance is not that good. The OP wanted something that implements the Mac OS X APIs on Linux, like WINE implements the Win32 APIs on Linux.
Where did you get thet? From a (unpatched!) DNS server maybe?
Damn, I forgot... what was slashdot again?
You mean like they did with Vista.
he's just going to wipe the hard drive and install Windows.
I have a PPC Mac, you insensitive clod!