"Google has been nowhere near as firm as Apple about its stance on un-compromised encryption - Android is famously an open sourced platform that anyone can modify. "
The way that sentence has been structured, there is an implicit suggestion that an open-sourced platform implies weak encryption.
What would you rather have? Security through obscurity?
That is actually exactly what my app, Zip Phone (link) does.
All voice traffic is encrypted using a randomly generated 256-bit AES key, which is exchanged using 2048-bit RSA. Both phones display a hash of the public key, so the callers can exchange it vocally to confirm that there is no MITM.
The REALLY neat thing about my app, if you ask me, is the fact that it automatically makes VoIP calls to any of your contacts that also have the app installed, without you even needing to open up the app.
The key exchange happens directly between the two devices, with no server in between. The keys aren't even put on permanent storage on the phones. They're removed as soon as the phone call gets over.
I honestly believe the only way forward is to encrypt ALL of our communications from here on. HTTP, SMS, email, voice, everything! Give them so much encrypted data they don't know where to look and what to decrypt. Even with their awesome hardware and unknown capabilities, surely it's an easy task to drown them in exabytes of encrypted data.
As a developer, I've taken the first step (shameless plug coming up). Awaaz is a Android plugin that automatically takes over any outgoing calls, and assuming the other party also has it installed, it will establish a direct P2P connection over the Internet and encrypt all communications using 256-bit AES. The symmetric key is exchanged using 2048-bit RSA, and new public and private keys are generated every single time, thus theoretically making decryption impossible. I encourage everyone to use it!
if you want to think differently, i suggest you google smallpox, or visit pakistan or northern india where they still have polio cases.
Actually India has been polio free for the last two years, and has even applied to the WHO to recognize that fact and declare the country free from the disease.
Way back when I first got Internet, I always used to keep my WiFi open for universal access. My thinking was, I found it extremely convenient when I accidentally found an open WiFi while traveling, so why not do the same for others.
However, now the point is moot, since open WiFi is as good as illegal in my country (India) now. After a spate of related news articles, I had to lock down my wireless. It just isn't worth having cops over for something like this:-(
So obviously one of the biggest issues with an idea like this is the need to maintain a vacuum over hundreds of kilometers, where a single defect can render the entire setup useless.
SO, how about just blowing air into one end of the tunnel at a high speed, like let's say 200 km/h, and sucking it out from the other end at the same rate? Heck, this way the train doesn't even need to be powered anymore - it'll just get pushed by the high pressure behind it, and low pressure in front. No catastrophic failures in case there is a hole somewhere in the tunnel either - just a little loss of efficiency!
Hi,
Have you considered going the free ad-supported route? People these days are being extremely conservative with non-essential purchases, and an ad-supported platform might be your ticket to a big audience combined with revenues. There are currently two big networks out there - Hovr and Greystripe. The obvious advantage with putting your game on a network like this is that you pretty much instantaneously gain a HUGE audience, with little or no extra effort on your part.
Disclaimer - I am one of the founders and Chief Architect of Hovr Inc., one of the two networks mentioned.
How the heck is 128 GBs supposed to hold 80 DVDs?? Even assuming these are single layer DVDs (which I don't think any high quality movie is), 80 DVDs work out to over 320 GBs. If you're talking double-layer, then it is twice this figure.
I won't even start on the 32,000 MP3 figure. That is almost always based on somebody's arbitrary assumption on how big a song is supposed to be..
Like a poster on the earlier story commented, why not simply connect one of those flashy LED thingies to your phone? My mom has them, and every time she's on a call, or even on an incoming SMS, the LEDs go berserk!! They don't even need batteries and power themselves off the cellphone radiation. Pretty foolproof method, IMHO.
Salaries in India to go up by 11.4 percent, possibly the highest in the whole world.
As a small mobile software developer in India currently looking for fresh business and perhaps adding employees other than myself to the business, this news makes me have second thoughts!
Our president (I'm in India) is a genuine rocket scientist!!! Nothing makes me more proud to be an Indian than to look at Bush, and then to Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam.. Unfortunately, the President's position here is not as powerful as in the States, but then even our Prime Minister has a D. Phil in economics from Oxford.
I love Americans, and think they are some of the best people on the planet, but really, you should do something about your government.
This if offtopic, but nobody seems to have mentioned it yet.
Is there something drastically wrong with the/. moderation system? For the past couple of days, I have barely seen a dozen comments in a story rated 4 or above.
This isn't the holiday season or anything, so we can assume that trafficwise/. is running the same. The website doesn't seem to have any other problems either. So what is going on?? Not enough mod points being given out??
It is wayyyy too late in the day for this comment to get modded up, but as a proud Indian, I need to say this nevertheless.
India is not the social and technological backwaters that you might think it is (or is that wishful thinking considering the way we are 'poaching' on your high-tech jobs?). I am 23 years old and have lived in New Delhi all my life, and never have I ever spoken to an operator to make a call. You might say this is because I live in the capital, but the situation is more or less the same in the rural areas as well. The cities might be ahead of the rest in tech penetration, but not that far ahead.
Oh, and one final thing. India has more mobile connections than landlines. I think the numbers are around 55 million mobiles compared to less than 50 million landlines (with the rural areas showing huge growth as the metropolitans approach saturation). Last time I checked, NOWHERE in the world were there operators to handle a call on a mobile connection.
Yours was a well written comment, but unfortunately seems to suffer from the same "third-world" prejudice that seems to be so firmly entrenched in the western world. I would suggest that you actually make a trip here and check out the telephone technology that we now have, instead of emitting gas from your backside. Oh, and if you do, I would be glad to buy you a round of beer.
Here is another angle that/.ers might not have thought of.
What if, with a minor addition, Google decided to actually host every site on its servers?? It already does something like with Google cache, but that is limited to text only. All they need to do is cache all the other content as well, and they will overnight become the world's largest hosting company. Whenever a user opens a website, Google diverts the request to its nearest server through the Google Web Accelerator and satisfies it from there.
This would also mean the end of us/.ing a server, and I suppose would put quite a few hosting companies out of business. I can't decide if this would be a good thing though. On one hand, it would mean having the whole bloody Internet cached on a server close to you, but on the other would mean that hosting companies would be out of business. The only one hitting their servers would be Google itself, which would then take over and serve the whole public!
You know, Slashdot does have quite a sizeable Indian community, though you might not be aware of it. So you might think about asking the questions here itself!
I am an Indian and currently working for Tata Consultancy Services Ltd., India's largest software company that recently exceeded 1 billion dollars in revenue. Right now I am stationed in South America from where we cater to most of the Latin American countries. I'm pretty much the typical 'target' of most of the American outsourcing anger that gets vented here on/.. Anyway, now that I'm done introducing myself let me see if I can answer some of the highest moderated questions.
How do you feel about the American programmers that are angry they lost their jobs to outsourcing? Do you think they have a right to be angry?
The way most Indians see it, this is mostly American capitalism biting them back in the ass. We do the same thing you do, but we do it at cheaper rates. Sure, we understand that Americans wouldn't be too happy about losing their high-paying jobs, but that is something they will just have to deal with.
Cost of living etc. in India, with emphasis on real estate etc.
Most people who start out in the Indian IT industry do not earn that well. On an average, I would say it is pretty much the same as what one would get after graduating from one of the other engineering disciplines like EE, CE etc. However, with a few years of experience one can get quite a comfortable job. For example, a typical IT worker with 3-4 years of experience can land themselves a job that pays about Rs. 40,000 per month (~ $1000). This is a good income in a country like India where you can have servants in your house for about Rs. 2,000 per month. AFAIK, there has been no study which studies the impact of these new IT jobs on the real estate market, but obviously some effect must be there.
Is the picture there as rosy as painted by the media?
I hate to say this on Slashdot, but it is actually quite good. Students from reputable colleges and universities do not find it difficult to find jobs in the IT sector. However, I would not agree that the degree does not matter. Most companies (the good ones anyway) are quite choosy about the people they pick.
How much experience do most Indian programmers have?
I would say ~5 years on an average. Agreed, there are a LOT of new people coming into the industry, attracted by the 'gold rush', but there are quite a few old veterans here as well. For example, my company is over 35 years old, and it is not uncommon to find people who have been here for the past 7-8 years.
American workers have certain legal protections that drive up the cost of our wages. Do Indians have similar protections in the workplace? Are you allowed to organize into unions? How long is your work week? What are your working conditions like? What kind of benifits do you have? Vacation? Medical? Dental? Profit sharing? Stock options? I find myself wondering, if the playing field were truly level, would your labor still be so inexpensive?
No, the story you hear about 'sweatshops' are not true. Yes, we do have benefits. No, there no unions, yet. A typical week is 40 hours (8x5), but almost always is more than that, depending on the work load. Sometimes people do work for 15 hours straight, but on other days they also go home after putting in their normal 8 hours. We have vacations and medical benefits. TCS itself is not a public company, so there are no stock options here, but other public companies do give the option to their employees. Labour is inexpensive primarily because of two reasons - there are a LOT of people in India, and the cost of living is quite low.
How does it feel to have your skills and knowledge continuously disparaged by people with little or no experience of working with Indian programmers?
Winamp 5.0: * Support for classic Winamp 1.x/2.x/2.9x skins and Winamp 3 ("Modern") skins * Fancy new modern skin:
- Integrated video, AVS, and Milkdrop support
- Many built-in colorthemes * Same ol' classic skin for people who want the Winamp 2 feel * Vastly more powerful media library:
- Automatic background directory scanning options
- Customizable views and columns, graphical view editor
- Internet Radio (SHOUTcast) and TV listings
- Context-sensitive item info viewer * CD ripping support (AAC@2x in free version, MP3 at unlimited speeds in pro) * CD burning support (limited to 2x in free version) * Advanced title formatting logic for file types that support it * Huge AVS updates:
- New effects, bundled some popular 3rd party APEs
- A much better selection of default presets
- Experimental SMP support
- Full AVS preset subdirectory support
- Extensions and optimizations to the AVS evaluation library * Support for playback of AAC and VP6 in NSV files/streams * Global hotkey support * new Signal Processing Studio DSP plug-in * Options to disable plugin exception handling for developers * A ton of new plug-in API calls (SDK forthcoming) * fixed changing-systray options while minimized bug * new Winamp icon * added XP Manifest.xml to winamp.exe * made agent icon use configured winamp system tray icon * optimized winamp's load titles on demand logic, made faster * made winamp's internal submenu management more reliable * added skin font override preferences * added spacebar shows current playlist item in playlist editor * fixed manual playlist advance w/ repeat * made winamp's open directory recurse checkbox nicer looking * big prefs overhaul to make steve happy * huge thanks to Amir Szekely and the rest of the NSIS developers
for their help
Heck, it's probably too late to point this out since the thread is almost off the main page, but nevertheless -
Since the past many years, CPU's no longer need the HALT instruction to keep themselves cool. This is so because all new processors (since then) automatically do this bit by themselves in hardware. Hence, no software like 'Rain' is required.
Basically, new processors keep themselves as cool as possible by default, and there is close to nothing that can be achieved by additional software.
Indians will let themselves be worked 60-70 hours a week for the same salary that the cute white little administrative assistant is getting (hell, probably less) because, well, it beats the alternative which is sitting in a pile of your own filth in India hoping to get a job that pays enough so you can eat.
Dude, I don't have anything terribly insightful or interesting to say here, but what I'll definitely say is that reading such comments makes me feel ASHAMED to be part of a community like Slashdot.
Yes, I am an Indian. No, I don't sit in a pile of my own filth (though I'm only middle class) and No, I don't plan on coming to your country. Couldn't imagine living with people like you.
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"Google has been nowhere near as firm as Apple about its stance on un-compromised encryption - Android is famously an open sourced platform that anyone can modify. "
The way that sentence has been structured, there is an implicit suggestion that an open-sourced platform implies weak encryption.
What would you rather have? Security through obscurity?
That is actually exactly what my app, Zip Phone (link) does.
All voice traffic is encrypted using a randomly generated 256-bit AES key, which is exchanged using 2048-bit RSA. Both phones display a hash of the public key, so the callers can exchange it vocally to confirm that there is no MITM.
The REALLY neat thing about my app, if you ask me, is the fact that it automatically makes VoIP calls to any of your contacts that also have the app installed, without you even needing to open up the app.
The key exchange happens directly between the two devices, with no server in between. The keys aren't even put on permanent storage on the phones. They're removed as soon as the phone call gets over.
Who believes anything the NSA says anymore?
I honestly believe the only way forward is to encrypt ALL of our communications from here on. HTTP, SMS, email, voice, everything! Give them so much encrypted data they don't know where to look and what to decrypt. Even with their awesome hardware and unknown capabilities, surely it's an easy task to drown them in exabytes of encrypted data.
As a developer, I've taken the first step (shameless plug coming up). Awaaz is a Android plugin that automatically takes over any outgoing calls, and assuming the other party also has it installed, it will establish a direct P2P connection over the Internet and encrypt all communications using 256-bit AES. The symmetric key is exchanged using 2048-bit RSA, and new public and private keys are generated every single time, thus theoretically making decryption impossible. I encourage everyone to use it!
if you want to think differently, i suggest you google smallpox, or visit pakistan or northern india where they still have polio cases.
Actually India has been polio free for the last two years, and has even applied to the WHO to recognize that fact and declare the country free from the disease.
Link
Way back when I first got Internet, I always used to keep my WiFi open for universal access. My thinking was, I found it extremely convenient when I accidentally found an open WiFi while traveling, so why not do the same for others.
:-(
However, now the point is moot, since open WiFi is as good as illegal in my country (India) now. After a spate of related news articles, I had to lock down my wireless. It just isn't worth having cops over for something like this
So obviously one of the biggest issues with an idea like this is the need to maintain a vacuum over hundreds of kilometers, where a single defect can render the entire setup useless. SO, how about just blowing air into one end of the tunnel at a high speed, like let's say 200 km/h, and sucking it out from the other end at the same rate? Heck, this way the train doesn't even need to be powered anymore - it'll just get pushed by the high pressure behind it, and low pressure in front. No catastrophic failures in case there is a hole somewhere in the tunnel either - just a little loss of efficiency!
Hi, Have you considered going the free ad-supported route? People these days are being extremely conservative with non-essential purchases, and an ad-supported platform might be your ticket to a big audience combined with revenues. There are currently two big networks out there - Hovr and Greystripe. The obvious advantage with putting your game on a network like this is that you pretty much instantaneously gain a HUGE audience, with little or no extra effort on your part.
Disclaimer - I am one of the founders and Chief Architect of Hovr Inc., one of the two networks mentioned.
How the heck is 128 GBs supposed to hold 80 DVDs?? Even assuming these are single layer DVDs (which I don't think any high quality movie is), 80 DVDs work out to over 320 GBs. If you're talking double-layer, then it is twice this figure.
I won't even start on the 32,000 MP3 figure. That is almost always based on somebody's arbitrary assumption on how big a song is supposed to be..
Like a poster on the earlier story commented, why not simply connect one of those flashy LED thingies to your phone? My mom has them, and every time she's on a call, or even on an incoming SMS, the LEDs go berserk!! They don't even need batteries and power themselves off the cellphone radiation. Pretty foolproof method, IMHO.
2005 saw the coldest winter in 70 years in New Delhi, India.
Really, whats the point of this?
Salaries in India to go up by 11.4 percent, possibly the highest in the whole world.
As a small mobile software developer in India currently looking for fresh business and perhaps adding employees other than myself to the business, this news makes me have second thoughts!
Heh!
Our president (I'm in India) is a genuine rocket scientist!!! Nothing makes me more proud to be an Indian than to look at Bush, and then to Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam.. Unfortunately, the President's position here is not as powerful as in the States, but then even our Prime Minister has a D. Phil in economics from Oxford.
I love Americans, and think they are some of the best people on the planet, but really, you should do something about your government.
This if offtopic, but nobody seems to have mentioned it yet.
Is there something drastically wrong with the
This isn't the holiday season or anything, so we can assume that trafficwise
It is wayyyy too late in the day for this comment to get modded up, but as a proud Indian, I need to say this nevertheless.
India is not the social and technological backwaters that you might think it is (or is that wishful thinking considering the way we are 'poaching' on your high-tech jobs?). I am 23 years old and have lived in New Delhi all my life, and never have I ever spoken to an operator to make a call. You might say this is because I live in the capital, but the situation is more or less the same in the rural areas as well. The cities might be ahead of the rest in tech penetration, but not that far ahead.
Oh, and one final thing. India has more mobile connections than landlines. I think the numbers are around 55 million mobiles compared to less than 50 million landlines (with the rural areas showing huge growth as the metropolitans approach saturation). Last time I checked, NOWHERE in the world were there operators to handle a call on a mobile connection.
Yours was a well written comment, but unfortunately seems to suffer from the same "third-world" prejudice that seems to be so firmly entrenched in the western world. I would suggest that you actually make a trip here and check out the telephone technology that we now have, instead of emitting gas from your backside. Oh, and if you do, I would be glad to buy you a round of beer.
Here is another angle that /.ers might not have thought of.
/.ing a server, and I suppose would put quite a few hosting companies out of business. I can't decide if this would be a good thing though. On one hand, it would mean having the whole bloody Internet cached on a server close to you, but on the other would mean that hosting companies would be out of business. The only one hitting their servers would be Google itself, which would then take over and serve the whole public!
What if, with a minor addition, Google decided to actually host every site on its servers?? It already does something like with Google cache, but that is limited to text only. All they need to do is cache all the other content as well, and they will overnight become the world's largest hosting company. Whenever a user opens a website, Google diverts the request to its nearest server through the Google Web Accelerator and satisfies it from there.
This would also mean the end of us
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Dupes on your desktop
Intel's latest Xeon chip "Whitefield" will be designed 100 percent in India with its name coming from an industrial township on the edge of Bangalore.
You know, Slashdot does have quite a sizeable Indian community, though you might not be aware of it. So you might think about asking the questions here itself!
/.. Anyway, now that I'm done introducing myself let me see if I can answer some of the highest moderated questions.
I am an Indian and currently working for Tata Consultancy Services Ltd., India's largest software company that recently exceeded 1 billion dollars in revenue. Right now I am stationed in South America from where we cater to most of the Latin American countries. I'm pretty much the typical 'target' of most of the American outsourcing anger that gets vented here on
How do you feel about the American programmers that are angry they lost their jobs to outsourcing? Do you think they have a right to be angry?
The way most Indians see it, this is mostly American capitalism biting them back in the ass. We do the same thing you do, but we do it at cheaper rates. Sure, we understand that Americans wouldn't be too happy about losing their high-paying jobs, but that is something they will just have to deal with.
Cost of living etc. in India, with emphasis on real estate etc.
Most people who start out in the Indian IT industry do not earn that well. On an average, I would say it is pretty much the same as what one would get after graduating from one of the other engineering disciplines like EE, CE etc. However, with a few years of experience one can get quite a comfortable job. For example, a typical IT worker with 3-4 years of experience can land themselves a job that pays about Rs. 40,000 per month (~ $1000). This is a good income in a country like India where you can have servants in your house for about Rs. 2,000 per month. AFAIK, there has been no study which studies the impact of these new IT jobs on the real estate market, but obviously some effect must be there.
Is the picture there as rosy as painted by the media?
I hate to say this on Slashdot, but it is actually quite good. Students from reputable colleges and universities do not find it difficult to find jobs in the IT sector. However, I would not agree that the degree does not matter. Most companies (the good ones anyway) are quite choosy about the people they pick.
How much experience do most Indian programmers have?
I would say ~5 years on an average. Agreed, there are a LOT of new people coming into the industry, attracted by the 'gold rush', but there are quite a few old veterans here as well. For example, my company is over 35 years old, and it is not uncommon to find people who have been here for the past 7-8 years.
American workers have certain legal protections that drive up the cost of our wages. Do Indians have similar protections in the workplace? Are you allowed to organize into unions? How long is your work week? What are your working conditions like? What kind of benifits do you have? Vacation? Medical? Dental? Profit sharing? Stock options? I find myself wondering, if the playing field were truly level, would your labor still be so inexpensive?
No, the story you hear about 'sweatshops' are not true. Yes, we do have benefits. No, there no unions, yet. A typical week is 40 hours (8x5), but almost always is more than that, depending on the work load. Sometimes people do work for 15 hours straight, but on other days they also go home after putting in their normal 8 hours. We have vacations and medical benefits. TCS itself is not a public company, so there are no stock options here, but other public companies do give the option to their employees. Labour is inexpensive primarily because of two reasons - there are a LOT of people in India, and the cost of living is quite low.
How does it feel to have your skills and knowledge continuously disparaged by people with little or no experience of working with Indian programmers?
Personally, it bothers me
Winamp 5.0:
* Support for classic Winamp 1.x/2.x/2.9x skins and Winamp 3 ("Modern") skins
* Fancy new modern skin:
- Integrated video, AVS, and Milkdrop support
- Many built-in colorthemes
* Same ol' classic skin for people who want the Winamp 2 feel
* Vastly more powerful media library:
- Automatic background directory scanning options
- Customizable views and columns, graphical view editor
- Internet Radio (SHOUTcast) and TV listings
- Context-sensitive item info viewer
* CD ripping support (AAC@2x in free version, MP3 at unlimited speeds in pro)
* CD burning support (limited to 2x in free version)
* Advanced title formatting logic for file types that support it
* Huge AVS updates:
- New effects, bundled some popular 3rd party APEs
- A much better selection of default presets
- Experimental SMP support
- Full AVS preset subdirectory support
- Extensions and optimizations to the AVS evaluation library
* Support for playback of AAC and VP6 in NSV files/streams
* Global hotkey support
* new Signal Processing Studio DSP plug-in
* Options to disable plugin exception handling for developers
* A ton of new plug-in API calls (SDK forthcoming)
* fixed changing-systray options while minimized bug
* new Winamp icon
* added XP Manifest.xml to winamp.exe
* made agent icon use configured winamp system tray icon
* optimized winamp's load titles on demand logic, made faster
* made winamp's internal submenu management more reliable
* added skin font override preferences
* added spacebar shows current playlist item in playlist editor
* fixed manual playlist advance w/ repeat
* made winamp's open directory recurse checkbox nicer looking
* big prefs overhaul to make steve happy
* huge thanks to Amir Szekely and the rest of the NSIS developers
for their help
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Keep it up
Heck, it's probably too late to point this out since the thread is almost off the main page, but nevertheless -
Since the past many years, CPU's no longer need the HALT instruction to keep themselves cool. This is so because all new processors (since then) automatically do this bit by themselves in hardware. Hence, no software like 'Rain' is required.
Basically, new processors keep themselves as cool as possible by default, and there is close to nothing that can be achieved by additional software.
I think EA is doing a pretty good job by itself, what with a recommended system configuration like this?!
1.8 GHz CPU
256 MB RAM
32 MB AGP (GeForce2 etc.)
Sad, one of the things I enjoyed the most about older C&C games was their somewhat crude 2D look. But then, obviously I'm in the minority!
Indians will let themselves be worked 60-70 hours a week for the same salary that the cute white little administrative assistant is getting (hell, probably less) because, well, it beats the alternative which is sitting in a pile of your own filth in India hoping to get a job that pays enough so you can eat.
Dude, I don't have anything terribly insightful or interesting to say here, but what I'll definitely say is that reading such comments makes me feel ASHAMED to be part of a community like Slashdot.
Yes, I am an Indian. No, I don't sit in a pile of my own filth (though I'm only middle class) and No, I don't plan on coming to your country. Couldn't imagine living with people like you.
You guys are so behind times man! Katz's buddy Junis from Afghanistan was beta testing this a year back!