Sorry, but that's rubbish. "Giga is a unit prefix in the metric (base 10) system denoting 10^9. Its symbol is G." Quoted from Wikipedia, GB = Gigabyte = 10^9 bytes.
The fact that the IT tech industry refused to go by this standard first used in 1947 is our (their) own fault. They should have invented a new unit prefix and stuck to it.
Other areas where they got it right: Gigabit networking, Gigahertz clock speeds. Why the fuck should they get a free pass for Gigabyte?!
I don't think I've seen anybody who isn't a head of state moving around in public with an armed guard, much less an actual army. They hire ex police to patrol their private driveway, and maybe the chauffeur carries a pistol. There is next to nothing to stop some crazed nutbag, or a concerted group, from offing one of them in broad daylight except the rule of law.
FWIW, I think that would be a tragedy. They should be tried in court for felony larceny, stripped of their assets and holdings, and imprisoned. I would be happy if this was tried in the ICC at The Hague, as what they did was an international crime.
My "bank" (Nationwide Building Society) mails you a device which uses a debit card linked to your account, your PIN, and a specific key schedule like RSA tokens to log in and sign transactions. To log in you are provided with an 8 digit code, to sign a transaction you must provide a one-time code for the transaction generated by Nationwide and the amount paid to the device, and it returns an 8 digit signing key.
I wish I could use this when I go out shopping. It's brilliant.
You're limited the keyspace to just 10^n. A typical desktop will take hours to break it, a concerted effort on dedicated hardware (parallel processing on CUDA or simlar hardware) will do it in minutes.
Adding just one lowercase letter will make the keyspace required to brute force 36^n. This means it will take 3.6 x as long per character to break.
Nobody brute forces passwords online. Once they have your credentials database, obtained through some exploit or social engineering trickery or whatever, they do it offline.
I posted yesterday about there being a ROM for the Nexus running Ubuntu, and there being numerous ROMs available on XDA-Developers for many different Android releases, all the way up to unofficial CM10 nightly builds compiled specifically for the Nexus.
Sticky-backed plastic is different from Sellotape, it's a wider plastic roll, typically about 50cm (20") wide.
Not a chance. Blue Peter creations were all about things you'd have in the home. Nobody, not one person has as a regular item in their home a roll of 0.5m wide sticky plastic sheeting. In fact, the only time I've seen that stuff is used as carpet protection for removals companies. Sticky backed plastic was sellotape, or maybe packing tape, but definitely not that stuff.
Already done. Ubuntu has been run on several mobile phones, including the Nexus, several HTC handsets, and some Galaxy models. Xda Developers has whole forums dedicated to Linux on phones and Boot2Gecko.
but in 200 years it might allow us to calculate the control points necessary to create an anti-matter damper for protonium neon flux casings in hyperdimensional warp transferrence beam generators.
You sound like a PHB who's just watched a Star Trek marathon.
Not gonna happen until the Linux gaming community support Radeon by buying cards from them, demonstrating that there is a profitable market in writing better open source drivers for their products.
I have a Kindle Touch and have bought a few books from Amazon. Once downloaded I copy them to my PC and strip the DRM out of it with some freeware apps, then convert them to ePub. That way, if Amazon ever decide that I'm no longer eligible to give them my money (as they have with others) I lose nothing, and can use them on any eReader in the future. I'm happy to root my phone, I can do it with the Kindle if need be.
To answer your question, thought, yes you mostly can. You can lend your purchased books to other Kindle users. Here are the details.
Leaving the same people in charge because they're apparently so fucking good at their job was the mistake that was made. Propping up the banks was fine; Leaving corrupt management in place to continue running them was criminally negligent, and I'd like to see metaphorical heads roll for that one.
Heh, no. You're stuck with Gingerbread only if you stick with CyanogenMod official release. If you want Honeycomb / ICS / JB switch to another AOSP ROM.
Here is the XDA-Developers forum for Android development on the Nexus One. I like CM9 on my Desire HD, so I stuck with the Unofficial CM9 on mine, though they have nightly CM10 for the Desire HD too, as well as other 4.x AOSP-based ROMs. There are plenty of 4.x ROMs for your phone on there, too. CyanogenMod is by no means the only one available.
Slashdot Mirror
I don't see proxies listed anywhere. I also don't see browser ID string spoofing either.
Head over to https://panopticlick.eff.org/ and see how unidentifiable you actually are.
Sorry, but that's rubbish. "Giga is a unit prefix in the metric (base 10) system denoting 10^9. Its symbol is G." Quoted from Wikipedia, GB = Gigabyte = 10^9 bytes.
The fact that the IT tech industry refused to go by this standard first used in 1947 is our (their) own fault. They should have invented a new unit prefix and stuck to it.
Other areas where they got it right: Gigabit networking, Gigahertz clock speeds. Why the fuck should they get a free pass for Gigabyte?!
Whoosh, mate.
I don't think I've seen anybody who isn't a head of state moving around in public with an armed guard, much less an actual army. They hire ex police to patrol their private driveway, and maybe the chauffeur carries a pistol. There is next to nothing to stop some crazed nutbag, or a concerted group, from offing one of them in broad daylight except the rule of law.
FWIW, I think that would be a tragedy. They should be tried in court for felony larceny, stripped of their assets and holdings, and imprisoned. I would be happy if this was tried in the ICC at The Hague, as what they did was an international crime.
All forums on XDA Developers
:)
The list comes to around 42 A4 pages of devices. There's a handy search box at the top if you don't want to look through the whole list
My "bank" (Nationwide Building Society) mails you a device which uses a debit card linked to your account, your PIN, and a specific key schedule like RSA tokens to log in and sign transactions. To log in you are provided with an 8 digit code, to sign a transaction you must provide a one-time code for the transaction generated by Nationwide and the amount paid to the device, and it returns an 8 digit signing key.
I wish I could use this when I go out shopping. It's brilliant.
You're limited the keyspace to just 10^n. A typical desktop will take hours to break it, a concerted effort on dedicated hardware (parallel processing on CUDA or simlar hardware) will do it in minutes.
Adding just one lowercase letter will make the keyspace required to brute force 36^n. This means it will take 3.6 x as long per character to break.
http://howsecureismypassword.net/ See for yourself.
I use KeePass to store the key to unlock my Excel spreadsheet with all of my passwords in. It's an extra layer of security!
(Important point I'm making here; Users are the weak point, not the technology.)
Nobody brute forces passwords online. Once they have your credentials database, obtained through some exploit or social engineering trickery or whatever, they do it offline.
Links to Windows 7 SP1 ISOs
Digital River are a Microsoft authorised distributor. The ISOs linked are clean.
I posted yesterday about there being a ROM for the Nexus running Ubuntu, and there being numerous ROMs available on XDA-Developers for many different Android releases, all the way up to unofficial CM10 nightly builds compiled specifically for the Nexus.
Have their been any improvements since the scathing November 2011 report [PDF] stating that mobile AV is next to useless?
Sticky-backed plastic is different from Sellotape, it's a wider plastic roll, typically about 50cm (20") wide.
Not a chance. Blue Peter creations were all about things you'd have in the home. Nobody, not one person has as a regular item in their home a roll of 0.5m wide sticky plastic sheeting. In fact, the only time I've seen that stuff is used as carpet protection for removals companies. Sticky backed plastic was sellotape, or maybe packing tape, but definitely not that stuff.
sellotape and sticky-backed plastic
They are the same thing; Sellotape is a brand, and couldn't be named on the BBC. The third item you're missing is toilet / kitchen rolls :)
As someone running an AOSP ROM, I disagree. Your carrier's ROM may be crippled and shit, and they may be cagey about the drivers, but Android is open.
Already done. Ubuntu has been run on several mobile phones, including the Nexus, several HTC handsets, and some Galaxy models. Xda Developers has whole forums dedicated to Linux on phones and Boot2Gecko.
but in 200 years it might allow us to calculate the control points necessary to create an anti-matter damper for protonium neon flux casings in hyperdimensional warp transferrence beam generators.
You sound like a PHB who's just watched a Star Trek marathon.
Not gonna happen until the Linux gaming community support Radeon by buying cards from them, demonstrating that there is a profitable market in writing better open source drivers for their products.
Free market economics. Vote with your wallet.
Hacker News is doing a great job of replacing /. as my nerd news source.
Sounds like blackmail to me. "We'll sell your information to anyone who wants it unless you pay us $5"
Racketeering
Ted Kasinsky was right.
"Plumbers" van with blacked out windows outside your home in 3... 2... 1...
Thankfully, we have these things called time zones which coincide with the rotation of the earth around the sun. Night *time* is fairly standard.
I have a Kindle Touch and have bought a few books from Amazon. Once downloaded I copy them to my PC and strip the DRM out of it with some freeware apps, then convert them to ePub. That way, if Amazon ever decide that I'm no longer eligible to give them my money (as they have with others) I lose nothing, and can use them on any eReader in the future. I'm happy to root my phone, I can do it with the Kindle if need be.
To answer your question, thought, yes you mostly can. You can lend your purchased books to other Kindle users. Here are the details.
Leaving the same people in charge because they're apparently so fucking good at their job was the mistake that was made. Propping up the banks was fine; Leaving corrupt management in place to continue running them was criminally negligent, and I'd like to see metaphorical heads roll for that one.
Heh, no. You're stuck with Gingerbread only if you stick with CyanogenMod official release. If you want Honeycomb / ICS / JB switch to another AOSP ROM.
Here is the XDA-Developers forum for Android development on the Nexus One. I like CM9 on my Desire HD, so I stuck with the Unofficial CM9 on mine, though they have nightly CM10 for the Desire HD too, as well as other 4.x AOSP-based ROMs. There are plenty of 4.x ROMs for your phone on there, too. CyanogenMod is by no means the only one available.