I never knew the password it was on a post-it next to the tracpad. Did you fucking pigs actually loose the keys to my most personal data!
I'm filing a counter-suit for mishandling my evidence, and losing the information I needed to access all of my financial data, as well as my personal family vacation photos that can never be replaced!
My blueray player can simulate 3D from any 2D source (Panasonic DMP-BDT210) although I'm not exactly sure how it does it, or how good it looks. (no 3D tv) You might be able to talk someone into connecting one up at your favorite bigbox store for you if you acted interested in buying the blueray player, and wanted a demo of its conversion capabilities. This would at least give you a firsthand idea of how it will look to see if YOU think its worth it.
I had that happen a couple years ago with my ATM pin. I moved to a new address, and somehow that new address had used the same brain location as the pin I had been using for over 10 years. One 4 digit number replaced the other. I punched my address into the ATM 3 times and got my card locked out and stood there for a minute thinking WTF just happened, and finally realized I had forgotten my pin and was using my address. I figured I would remember in a few minutes, so I just had the bank unlock the card, but in the end I had to go to the bank to set a new one. I was really hoping they could remind me what the old one was as it is about the only thing I have really forgotten. I can still remember my school locker combinations from 20 to 30 years ago, license plates, phone numbers, every credit card number, dl#, security codes, everything I have read to remember, even nearly everything said in that meeting 10 years ago, (except the new peoples names) but that pin, much as I tried, never did come back to me!
It's funny because when I fix peoples computers I can get their password, and forget it as soon as I type it in, and everyone thinks I'm trying to BS them because they know I remember everything, but ask for their pw every time I use it. But if you give me your Netflix password and permission to use it, I'll never forget it. I am glad it works that way.
I was flying in a little turboprop airplane, and there was a 12 inch crack in the skin covering the wing, I showed it to the girl next to me and she instantly turned white and looked like she was going to puke or pass out!
I said don't worry the new piece starts right there by those rivets, and the most that'll tear off is that chunk right there.
She asked the stewardess about it and she says oh don't worry maam... it'll be fine. Without even looking at the crack or batting an eye.
For me, that was always kind of a "grain of salt" piece of reading. Like ya its possible for one of the smartest programmers in the field to come up with a theoretical situation that they, and a few others in this world could do to something like that.
Reminds me of trying to make a joke on/. there's always some fuckhead that tries to prove you're wrong in some edge case that rarely exists in the real world, kinda missing the whole point it was a joke, jumping to prove you wrong.
I also like do a lot of monitoring of the assembly during debugging, and have a fairly good idea what's going on there, and if I do that, I would hope that the folks making my beloved Linux kernel code and GNU compilers are doing the same, and are giving the community their best efforts to ensure a truly free safe and secure system. These are people dedicating their lives to computing freedom for exactly those backdoor reasons. If there's anyone you can trust it's them AFAIC. I have also looked over many KLOAssembly from the GNU compiler and I think there are enough people like me using this GNU stuff that it wouldn't be able to hide for long. There's more than one person knows what's going on with it at every level of detail, and the (hashed) same copies are used everywhere.
And there's too many bugs in the PC based system as a whole to make it worth the risk. It would be found, and that commit would easily identify you to the community.
BTW not calling you a fuckhead for posting that link. Was referring to the paper you linked, and not calling him a fuckhead either:). Was speaking of the AC random fuckhead from/. always...
My OLPC XO-1 is perfectly useable running Fedora on a 433 MHz AMD Geode with 256 MB DRAM. I can run FireFox, Abiword and just about any other program you need.
It takes it 1 minute and 20 seconds to complete the entire boot process (full Gnome 2 desktop and all background processes) and connect to WiFi. Launching FireFox, and loading Google takes 15 seconds. Faster than millions of botted up 1+ Ghz Win XP machines still in use.
Sounds like somebody needs to spend a few months on a VIC20.
I'd wait 5 minutes for a web page to load if it was that, or no internet. Think about it, if you could have a gen 1 kindle or nothing to access the web for the next 5 years, would you take the nothing?
The Internet is power, think of what it all enables! There are many people who desperately need it just for the medical, health and agricultural reasons, not for entertainment like we use it.
For about a week or two before the fire sale you could find them online in the $200 - $250 range for the 16GB version. I was eyeing up a 32 GB version for $289, wondering when and if it'd go down any more, then the fire sale hit, and that retailer raised their price back to $329!
My guess as to why it died so quickly is Leo Apotheker is an incompetent idiot and didn't know what he had or what to do next, and since Oracle didn't make a tablet, HP didn't need to either!
Thanks for the heads up on Ryan Hope's efforts. I'm eagerly awaiting something besides Android to regain a good portion of my day to day privacy back! I'm sick of wondering why every time I get a text message Google opens an SSL connection, and starts sending packets somewhere! Why does my network monitor show network activity constantly, even when the 3G icon shows its inactive? Why do I need to allow Google to gather WiFi location data constantly to be able to use the cell tower location to update the weather? Google will gladly cripple any program on my devices ability to locate itself if they don't get to sniff the airwaves any time they wish! If you want to use location services, but not allow data collection, it asks you if you want all your programs to work or not, and provides no way of setting a default location, or (gasp) using location services without contributing (no just let it do it this one time only option either) or even using a different location source! If you don't approve of the data collection, it turns location services back off, and refuses to provide anything to the programs trying to access it, even though the phone knows damn well where it is, especially if the GPS is on! I guess 3 meter position accuracy is not good enough to find out the local weather unless you also know every single WiFi SSID within range as well!
Android is paid for by Google's fiendish desire for everyone's personal data, and nothing else. It is most definitely not free (paid for with your freedom ironically enough) and even though it's "open source" good luck using it without their spyware included and operating!
Funny, I was Googling for WebOS and EVO seeing if anyone was going to try it, and Google found your comment.
Most of/. really dropped the ball letting WebOS and the TouchPad sit idle while they sat here and bitched about the lack of an open platform you didn't have to root or jailbreak to install the apps you want. If a small percentage of them would have put their money where their mouth is, and picked one up when they were $200 - $250, it would likely be an entirely different story for the TouchPad.
Glad WebOS is open source though! Hopefully soon my Googles are successful, and I'll be able to replace Android with WebOS on my EVO!
It was one of my more enjoyable reset and restores as well!
If you have any use for the touch pro(s) let me know. It'd be nice to see your battery live out its useful life, and a brand new 3 year old top of the line ultra portable computer get used at least once!
I have a touch pro in near new condition however without a battery and battery cover! What better way to recycle your battery than to have it provide juice to my batteryless one! I will gladly send it to you if you want to make a working unit out of them, and give it to someone as an MP3 / video player, WiFi webcruiser, organizer, widget to pass time with!
I am rid of 1 TP2!
We have a homeless guy around town that has been walking the streets as long as I can remember, and I gave him my old brand new TP2 with 2 extended batteries, 2 chargers, and a small solar panel. Now he can find open WiFi, and cruise the internet use Skype all the Google services, and whatever else he wants. I filled up an 8 GB microSD with the manual, music and movies, and a bunch of free books and a Wikipedia dump, precached maps of the city with phone #s, first aid info, and loaded it up with programs, and found the cases I had for it, and put it all in a zippered lined locking shaving travel bag I had laying around. It only took me a couple hours to get it ready, but what a wonderful use for something that would otherwise spend it's remaining days getting older, and older, shuffled from the kitchen junk drawer, to the basement junk drawer, to the junk box, and ultimately lost forever... To the great tangle of cords!
I saw him the other day after these posts, and it seemed like a great idea, and it was! I got it ready and went looking for him downtown. We went to the library and I spent a couple hours showing him what was all there, and how to use it, got him signed into his gmail account, and signed up for facebook, and Twitter. And he went and took his picture with everyone he knew in the library, and took a bunch of pictures of the pictures on the wall, and some of his favorite book pictures. He has his own computer (and camera / camcorder) now, and I'll bet it gets lots of use! Certainly more than my junk drawer was using it!
Even if he does trade it for smokes... Which I doubt he will!
Yeah, all the land that used to be forest or grassland cleaning the air and providing space for life to live, is now covered in black asphalt soaking up heat, covered in millions of pollutant spewing vehicles filled with air-conditioned lead-footed egomaniacs radiating thousands of BTUs a minute of centuries old carbon into a smothered landscape no longer able to contain plant life and therefore clean itself. Headed from Life_Of_Consumption pounding out 60 miles each way to work at PollutionCorp LLC, sucking up megawatts of coal produced electricity into (insert_industrial_process_here) further radiating millions more BTUs of heat and millions of tons of toxic chemicals into the air...
What could possibly go wrong?
Who can possibly ignore this and imagine the planet can continue to suck it up (much less thrive), and maintain the incredibly delicate balance of life, habitat, food, and clean water that made it possible to get here in the first place while we shit all over it in the most industrial way possible on the land, in the oceans and lakes and rivers, forests hah gone, and into the very air it breathes!
This needs serious Global attention NOW because (we shoulda been doing it all along) we have a long way to go to get Earth back to a state in which it can begin to slowly repair itself before it's too far gone to ever even be a nice place to live again!
For Fuck Sake... If you can't see this one coming, I hope you can't get out of its way when it gets here!
I can't believe there is not a failsafe that just blows it up when communications are jammed while on a mission over enemy territory!
Or perhaps we are just waiting for the right time to pull the pin! Build up some junker with no real technology aboard to steal, Land it over there, Wait till they haul it off to their secret base to take it apart, and blow up their best and brightest research scientists, and maybe a few hi level military folks there to see it disassembled with a single targeted Trojan attack!
Slashdot Mirror
Simulation:
Scorpion in the oven on CLEAN!
Kinda dry and ash-y is how we understand them to be.
They truly did have some outta_this_world shit! Those Scorpions!
Or.
A scorpion landed on your mama and she flung it there!
Or.
Woman = Venus = Scorpion baking in 2,000,000 year old disaster
(somebody stop me...)
Just bad detective work.
I never knew the password it was on a post-it next to the tracpad. Did you fucking pigs actually loose the keys to my most personal data!
I'm filing a counter-suit for mishandling my evidence, and losing the information I needed to access all of my financial data, as well as my personal family vacation photos that can never be replaced!
Cue the Lawyers!
PROFIT!!!
My blueray player can simulate 3D from any 2D source (Panasonic DMP-BDT210) although I'm not exactly sure how it does it, or how good it looks. (no 3D tv) You might be able to talk someone into connecting one up at your favorite bigbox store for you if you acted interested in buying the blueray player, and wanted a demo of its conversion capabilities. This would at least give you a firsthand idea of how it will look to see if YOU think its worth it.
I had that happen a couple years ago with my ATM pin. I moved to a new address, and somehow that new address had used the same brain location as the pin I had been using for over 10 years. One 4 digit number replaced the other. I punched my address into the ATM 3 times and got my card locked out and stood there for a minute thinking WTF just happened, and finally realized I had forgotten my pin and was using my address. I figured I would remember in a few minutes, so I just had the bank unlock the card, but in the end I had to go to the bank to set a new one. I was really hoping they could remind me what the old one was as it is about the only thing I have really forgotten. I can still remember my school locker combinations from 20 to 30 years ago, license plates, phone numbers, every credit card number, dl#, security codes, everything I have read to remember, even nearly everything said in that meeting 10 years ago, (except the new peoples names) but that pin, much as I tried, never did come back to me!
It's funny because when I fix peoples computers I can get their password, and forget it as soon as I type it in, and everyone thinks I'm trying to BS them because they know I remember everything, but ask for their pw every time I use it. But if you give me your Netflix password and permission to use it, I'll never forget it. I am glad it works that way.
Cheers
:)
Would that cause it to print any number out to 21 digits, or would it only spit out the digits used?
(Now updating my linkedin profile to include Oracle DBA)
Cheers!
I hate it when I'm overruled by the spellchecker. My only complaint about WebOS.
Cheers
Any reason you have to use 21 formatters for a 15 character long number?
Just curious!
Cheers:)
Is that Samsung Linux Project what Rastaman has been working on with the EFL and a simplified E17 desktop?
Drop 'til Ya Dance!
There's some unbelievable factory test videos of 747s landing in the wind floating around the net I'm too lazy to link to on my phone.
I was flying in a little turboprop airplane, and there was a 12 inch crack in the skin covering the wing, I showed it to the girl next to me and she instantly turned white and looked like she was going to puke or pass out!
I said don't worry the new piece starts right there by those rivets, and the most that'll tear off is that chunk right there.
She asked the stewardess about it and she says oh don't worry maam... it'll be fine. Without even looking at the crack or batting an eye.
If you are not the intended recipient of this email, someone posted the wrong public key!
Put a backdoor exploit in the GNU compiler, and RMS will come to your house and do the same to you:)
NeckBeard Style!
For me, that was always kind of a "grain of salt" piece of reading. Like ya its possible for one of the smartest programmers in the field to come up with a theoretical situation that they, and a few others in this world could do to something like that.
Reminds me of trying to make a joke on /. there's always some fuckhead that tries to prove you're wrong in some edge case that rarely exists in the real world, kinda missing the whole point it was a joke, jumping to prove you wrong.
I also like do a lot of monitoring of the assembly during debugging, and have a fairly good idea what's going on there, and if I do that, I would hope that the folks making my beloved Linux kernel code and GNU compilers are doing the same, and are giving the community their best efforts to ensure a truly free safe and secure system. These are people dedicating their lives to computing freedom for exactly those backdoor reasons. If there's anyone you can trust it's them AFAIC. I have also looked over many KLOAssembly from the GNU compiler and I think there are enough people like me using this GNU stuff that it wouldn't be able to hide for long. There's more than one person knows what's going on with it at every level of detail, and the (hashed) same copies are used everywhere.
And there's too many bugs in the PC based system as a whole to make it worth the risk. It would be found, and that commit would easily identify you to the community.
BTW not calling you a fuckhead for posting that link. Was referring to the paper you linked, and not calling him a fuckhead either:). Was speaking of the AC random fuckhead from /. always...
Cheers
My OLPC XO-1 is perfectly useable running Fedora on a 433 MHz AMD Geode with 256 MB DRAM. I can run FireFox, Abiword and just about any other program you need.
It takes it 1 minute and 20 seconds to complete the entire boot process (full Gnome 2 desktop and all background processes) and connect to WiFi. Launching FireFox, and loading Google takes 15 seconds. Faster than millions of botted up 1+ Ghz Win XP machines still in use.
Sounds like somebody needs to spend a few months on a VIC20.
I'd wait 5 minutes for a web page to load if it was that, or no internet. Think about it, if you could have a gen 1 kindle or nothing to access the web for the next 5 years, would you take the nothing?
The Internet is power, think of what it all enables! There are many people who desperately need it just for the medical, health and agricultural reasons, not for entertainment like we use it.
Cheers
How about don't pick a fight with your CUSTOMER!
Funny, that's how they demo'd my Cerwin Vegas at the store. Had them wired to a power strip, just waiting for you to flip the switch! BWWWWWWWWW
Cheers
For about a week or two before the fire sale you could find them online in the $200 - $250 range for the 16GB version. I was eyeing up a 32 GB version for $289, wondering when and if it'd go down any more, then the fire sale hit, and that retailer raised their price back to $329!
My guess as to why it died so quickly is Leo Apotheker is an incompetent idiot and didn't know what he had or what to do next, and since Oracle didn't make a tablet, HP didn't need to either!
Thanks for the heads up on Ryan Hope's efforts. I'm eagerly awaiting something besides Android to regain a good portion of my day to day privacy back! I'm sick of wondering why every time I get a text message Google opens an SSL connection, and starts sending packets somewhere! Why does my network monitor show network activity constantly, even when the 3G icon shows its inactive? Why do I need to allow Google to gather WiFi location data constantly to be able to use the cell tower location to update the weather? Google will gladly cripple any program on my devices ability to locate itself if they don't get to sniff the airwaves any time they wish! If you want to use location services, but not allow data collection, it asks you if you want all your programs to work or not, and provides no way of setting a default location, or (gasp) using location services without contributing (no just let it do it this one time only option either) or even using a different location source! If you don't approve of the data collection, it turns location services back off, and refuses to provide anything to the programs trying to access it, even though the phone knows damn well where it is, especially if the GPS is on! I guess 3 meter position accuracy is not good enough to find out the local weather unless you also know every single WiFi SSID within range as well!
Android is paid for by Google's fiendish desire for everyone's personal data, and nothing else. It is most definitely not free (paid for with your freedom ironically enough) and even though it's "open source" good luck using it without their spyware included and operating!
Cheers
Funny, I was Googling for WebOS and EVO seeing if anyone was going to try it, and Google found your comment.
Most of /. really dropped the ball letting WebOS and the TouchPad sit idle while they sat here and bitched about the lack of an open platform you didn't have to root or jailbreak to install the apps you want. If a small percentage of them would have put their money where their mouth is, and picked one up when they were $200 - $250, it would likely be an entirely different story for the TouchPad.
Glad WebOS is open source though! Hopefully soon my Googles are successful, and I'll be able to replace Android with WebOS on my EVO!
For now, I'm just stuck back at /.
Cheers
It was one of my more enjoyable reset and restores as well!
If you have any use for the touch pro(s) let me know. It'd be nice to see your battery live out its useful life, and a brand new 3 year old top of the line ultra portable computer get used at least once!
Cheers
I have a touch pro in near new condition however without a battery and battery cover! What better way to recycle your battery than to have it provide juice to my batteryless one! I will gladly send it to you if you want to make a working unit out of them, and give it to someone as an MP3 / video player, WiFi webcruiser, organizer, widget to pass time with!
I am rid of 1 TP2!
We have a homeless guy around town that has been walking the streets as long as I can remember, and I gave him my old brand new TP2 with 2 extended batteries, 2 chargers, and a small solar panel. Now he can find open WiFi, and cruise the internet use Skype all the Google services, and whatever else he wants. I filled up an 8 GB microSD with the manual, music and movies, and a bunch of free books and a Wikipedia dump, precached maps of the city with phone #s, first aid info, and loaded it up with programs, and found the cases I had for it, and put it all in a zippered lined locking shaving travel bag I had laying around. It only took me a couple hours to get it ready, but what a wonderful use for something that would otherwise spend it's remaining days getting older, and older, shuffled from the kitchen junk drawer, to the basement junk drawer, to the junk box, and ultimately lost forever... To the great tangle of cords!
I saw him the other day after these posts, and it seemed like a great idea, and it was! I got it ready and went looking for him downtown. We went to the library and I spent a couple hours showing him what was all there, and how to use it, got him signed into his gmail account, and signed up for facebook, and Twitter. And he went and took his picture with everyone he knew in the library, and took a bunch of pictures of the pictures on the wall, and some of his favorite book pictures.
He has his own computer (and camera / camcorder) now, and I'll bet it gets lots of use! Certainly more than my junk drawer was using it!
Even if he does trade it for smokes... Which I doubt he will!
Yeah, all the land that used to be forest or grassland cleaning the air and providing space for life to live, is now covered in black asphalt soaking up heat, covered in millions of pollutant spewing vehicles filled with air-conditioned lead-footed egomaniacs radiating thousands of BTUs a minute of centuries old carbon into a smothered landscape no longer able to contain plant life and therefore clean itself. Headed from Life_Of_Consumption pounding out 60 miles each way to work at PollutionCorp LLC, sucking up megawatts of coal produced electricity into (insert_industrial_process_here) further radiating millions more BTUs of heat and millions of tons of toxic chemicals into the air...
What could possibly go wrong?
Who can possibly ignore this and imagine the planet can continue to suck it up (much less thrive), and maintain the incredibly delicate balance of life, habitat, food, and clean water that made it possible to get here in the first place while we shit all over it in the most industrial way possible on the land, in the oceans and lakes and rivers, forests hah gone, and into the very air it breathes!
This needs serious Global attention NOW because (we shoulda been doing it all along) we have a long way to go to get Earth back to a state in which it can begin to slowly repair itself before it's too far gone to ever even be a nice place to live again!
For Fuck Sake... If you can't see this one coming, I hope you can't get out of its way when it gets here!
Cheers
I can't believe there is not a failsafe that just blows it up when communications are jammed while on a mission over enemy territory!
Or perhaps we are just waiting for the right time to pull the pin! Build up some junker with no real technology aboard to steal, Land it over there, Wait till they haul it off to their secret base to take it apart, and blow up their best and brightest research scientists, and maybe a few hi level military folks there to see it disassembled with a single targeted Trojan attack!
I thought the drones were white or light colored to blend in with the sky better?