Well, I can't be SURE, but if the encryption is done as it is represented to be done, then the keys are only exchanged between the phone & the server & RIM doesn't know the keys. I can't be sure that my SSL connections aren't being MITM'd either, but if everything's working properly then they should be secure.
I'm the same way with XP, but the Windows 7 UI changes are actually pretty good. I like that when you open a program that's pinned to the taskbar it stays in the same place, and that I can see what it's doing if I hover over it. It's an actual improvement, whereas most of the XP stuff wasn't.
I have a BES Express server; you can control a lot of stuff on the phones, in addition to the remote wipe capabilities, and I'm sure the full BES has even more control. You can control what types of Bluetooth devices can connect, etc. It's not just secure email, there's a ton of centralized security features on these things. And when you're running your own server, the encryption is between your server and the phone; despite it going through RIM, they can't see the data. So, the big enterprise guys aren't really totally stupid, there are solid reasons why BBs are as common in enterprise situations as they are.
I do use open access points if they're available, and for a long time left mine open. Never had a problem with leeches, all my neighbors have their own connections. Since it's pretty hit and miss finding an open access point these days, though, I have bought a pay-as-you-go 3g modem for travel. It would be nice to have faster access more places, but you can't count on it.
. . . until you need to deal with lots of forms where no PDF is available but you want to ensure the form is entirely legible, or when you need to complete a form with carbon copies.
I bought a Brother typewriter last month just so we'd be able to type out 1099 forms - spending the $80 was better than any alternatives. I was actually a little surprised at how easily available they are.
It's enough of a pain in the ass that I ended up buying an Atom-based nettop machine to leave permanently attached, with a remote. Most people aren't going to do that. Plus, the firmware based netflix clients are very smooth and nice to use in my experience. I use the one in my blu-ray player all the time. It's just easier than the pc thing, and I like my pc thing.
How can the DVDs not work on Myth? I have never seen one fail in my linux boxes, my home is linux and solaris only.
Crappy DVD drive. I have one that I'm too lazy to replace, since I only use that machine once a month or so to watch movies from disc, and some of them do work...
My fave for small sites is nearlyfreespeech.net. They have always done right by me, and I like their stance on free speech. I found them through a/. comment years ago & have used them since. I doubt that they'd respond to a takedown notice in the same way as godaddy, not that anyone would care enough about any of the sites I deal with to bother...
Ditched my old Dish service over a year ago. I have a Revo settop machine running Windows 7, with 2 usb tuners attached for OTA TV. With a remote it's easy enough for the kids to use, and Windows 7 shares recorded stuff easily to the Windows 7 desktop in the other room. I have a Blu-Ray player which I mostly use for the streaming Netflix, since Silverlight can't offload to the GPU yet so Netflix is jerky on the Revo. Hulu & Boxee I find too annoying to use, there are too many trailers, incomplete seasons etc. The Media Browser plugin lets me easily watch all the movies I have stored, I can get UK shows from the BBC & Channel 4 using a VPN if I want, Netflix has plenty to watch & I have lots of stuff recorded (Nova, Nature, news) from the OTA antennas. I don't really end up having the time to watch a whole lot of stuff, but it's there if I want it & I'm just paying for the internet connection & Netflix (plus Pandora for listening). I won't be going back to cable or satellite, the few things we miss aren't worth it.
FTA "utilization of a significant amount of real aircraft parts and source code will allow us to train a wide variety of mission tasks previously not accomplished in simulators". As long as they get the physics right, it should be pretty realistic.
Zimbabwe is pretty close to that. The regime is eating, the rest of the people are too busy trying to stay alive to fight it. And this is a country that used to export food surpluses.
What compels a free man to give away source code? Surely it isn't freedom.
The free man chooses to use the code, and accepts the terms it's offered on. He was free to use it, and needs to allow others the same freedom. If he's not willing to do that, then he can use something else. I agree that it's not absolute freedom, but it's ensuring that the freedom you have enjoyed doesn't end with you.
I agree that the BSD license is more free in one sense, but I also think that the one restriction in the GPL leads to more freedom overall. But really it's just semantics, and you can argue it either way. And I'm sure there will be plenty of that here!
It's free as in freedom *for the end users*, not for the person using the code in a commercial product. An end user can freely take the code and do what they want with it, and never release any of their changes. If, however, someone wants to redistribute it (as in, say, a Boxee box) then they need to follow the rules of the GPL & allow the end user the same freedom that they had. It's pretty simple really.
I'm old like you, and I also prefer the Pandora model (I'm in the US, but tried Spotify via vpn to check it out). I guess that Spotify is for the youth who don't have huge music collections already - I ripped my 400+ CDs when I went digital, I was all over Audiogalaxy, I have a lot of music on local storage. I like Pandora because it helps me hear new stuff, and I don't have the time these days to be making compilations and playlists. For $36 a year, it's like Netflix for me - sure I could download all this stuff, but it's convenient and reasonably priced, and ad free, so I subscribe.
As others have pointed out, it works well in the enterprise. My understanding is that, as long as you're using your own Blackberry server, the data is encrypted. The ability for governments to read the data comes from using your phone company's Blackberry servers, in countries that won't allow BB to operate without a backdoor. My understanding may be wrong, but that's my impression.
Yeah, when I'm traveling I always use a VPN; too many things are broken otherwise, and there's always the risk of a mitm attack too. Best to stick with a trusted VPN.
Because of travel to the USA I've specifically bought a EEE that could be confiscated without too much out of pocket expense, but it's a real pain to operate some things on the tiny 10" screen instead of my purpose-bought Dell.
Does this seriously bother any other/.-ers? Having to double my personal hardware just to accommodate US travel is a pain in the ass.
I'd guess that most slashdotters recognize the fact that, despite the fact that it COULD happen, it's extremely unlikely that it will happen to you. So very very few people will buy a small pc that they don't like to use to guard against the possible confiscation of their preferred laptop.
Does it suck that they can do this? Yes. Am I going to take crazy paranoid precautions crossing the border (which I do at least once a year)? No.
Between Hulu and Netflix I really haven't missed cable other then the occasional sporting event.
For sporting events I pretty much only watch the Super Bowl, and that comes OTA. My wife misses a couple of shows, but they usually will show up on Netfix eventually. I'm really happy with my Netfix streaming Blu-Ray player & my Aspire Revo with USB TV tuners. If MS gets hardware acceleration working on Silverlight, I won't even need to use the Blu-Ray player much anymore. I must say though, Hulu has always been a disappointment to me. Lots of clips make it annoying to find an actual episode; I don't even bother anymore.
Also you have to subsist on a bean and lentil curry for a week or more straight.
Right, and that's a conscious choice, since eating similar foods regularly helps your internal flora work best. My main point is that it's not just the cost of veggies that stops most people from eating healthily, convenience & instant gratification are at least as important.
It's a Hobson's choice for poor people, at least in terms of diet (smoking is another matter entirely). Bad food is cheap, good food is expensive. Check the prices of fresh veggies verses potato chips sometime.
That's said a lot, but I think that a big part of the problem is also that the bag of chips is easier. My lunches are extremely cheap - I make a mild curry of onions, garlic & ginger plus lentils & whatever cheap cans of beans I have, poured over brown rice & frozen in plastic containers saved from takeout Chinese. A weeks' worth takes me an hour tops of futzing around in the kitchen & costs me $1 or less per serving. It's pretty much an ideal balanced meal. Even going over to Taco Hell I can't eat for less than $3, but it's always there whereas I have to remember to spend that hour cooking every week or two. I'd say that bad food is fairly cheap and easy to consume, and that good convenient food is more expensive and requires more thought. A bag of frozen veggies can be had very cheaply (and has most of the nutrients of fresh), but you have to do something with it; a bag of chips you just eat.
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Well, I can't be SURE, but if the encryption is done as it is represented to be done, then the keys are only exchanged between the phone & the server & RIM doesn't know the keys. I can't be sure that my SSL connections aren't being MITM'd either, but if everything's working properly then they should be secure.
I like Windows to look like 2000.
I'm the same way with XP, but the Windows 7 UI changes are actually pretty good. I like that when you open a program that's pinned to the taskbar it stays in the same place, and that I can see what it's doing if I hover over it. It's an actual improvement, whereas most of the XP stuff wasn't.
I have a BES Express server; you can control a lot of stuff on the phones, in addition to the remote wipe capabilities, and I'm sure the full BES has even more control. You can control what types of Bluetooth devices can connect, etc. It's not just secure email, there's a ton of centralized security features on these things. And when you're running your own server, the encryption is between your server and the phone; despite it going through RIM, they can't see the data. So, the big enterprise guys aren't really totally stupid, there are solid reasons why BBs are as common in enterprise situations as they are.
TFA is talking about the higher end Live devices, which have a 3G data connection built in. It's not your standard $100 GPS.
I do use open access points if they're available, and for a long time left mine open. Never had a problem with leeches, all my neighbors have their own connections. Since it's pretty hit and miss finding an open access point these days, though, I have bought a pay-as-you-go 3g modem for travel. It would be nice to have faster access more places, but you can't count on it.
. . . until you need to deal with lots of forms where no PDF is available but you want to ensure the form is entirely legible, or when you need to complete a form with carbon copies.
I bought a Brother typewriter last month just so we'd be able to type out 1099 forms - spending the $80 was better than any alternatives. I was actually a little surprised at how easily available they are.
It's enough of a pain in the ass that I ended up buying an Atom-based nettop machine to leave permanently attached, with a remote. Most people aren't going to do that. Plus, the firmware based netflix clients are very smooth and nice to use in my experience. I use the one in my blu-ray player all the time. It's just easier than the pc thing, and I like my pc thing.
How can the DVDs not work on Myth?
I have never seen one fail in my linux boxes, my home is linux and solaris only.
Crappy DVD drive. I have one that I'm too lazy to replace, since I only use that machine once a month or so to watch movies from disc, and some of them do work...
My fave for small sites is nearlyfreespeech.net. They have always done right by me, and I like their stance on free speech. I found them through a /. comment years ago & have used them since. I doubt that they'd respond to a takedown notice in the same way as godaddy, not that anyone would care enough about any of the sites I deal with to bother...
Ditched my old Dish service over a year ago. I have a Revo settop machine running Windows 7, with 2 usb tuners attached for OTA TV. With a remote it's easy enough for the kids to use, and Windows 7 shares recorded stuff easily to the Windows 7 desktop in the other room. I have a Blu-Ray player which I mostly use for the streaming Netflix, since Silverlight can't offload to the GPU yet so Netflix is jerky on the Revo. Hulu & Boxee I find too annoying to use, there are too many trailers, incomplete seasons etc. The Media Browser plugin lets me easily watch all the movies I have stored, I can get UK shows from the BBC & Channel 4 using a VPN if I want, Netflix has plenty to watch & I have lots of stuff recorded (Nova, Nature, news) from the OTA antennas. I don't really end up having the time to watch a whole lot of stuff, but it's there if I want it & I'm just paying for the internet connection & Netflix (plus Pandora for listening). I won't be going back to cable or satellite, the few things we miss aren't worth it.
FTA "utilization of a significant amount of real aircraft parts and source code will allow us to train a wide variety of mission tasks previously not accomplished in simulators". As long as they get the physics right, it should be pretty realistic.
Zimbabwe is pretty close to that. The regime is eating, the rest of the people are too busy trying to stay alive to fight it. And this is a country that used to export food surpluses.
What compels a free man to give away source code? Surely it isn't freedom.
The free man chooses to use the code, and accepts the terms it's offered on. He was free to use it, and needs to allow others the same freedom. If he's not willing to do that, then he can use something else. I agree that it's not absolute freedom, but it's ensuring that the freedom you have enjoyed doesn't end with you.
I agree that the BSD license is more free in one sense, but I also think that the one restriction in the GPL leads to more freedom overall. But really it's just semantics, and you can argue it either way. And I'm sure there will be plenty of that here!
Especially since you're asking for an external port for the thing.
It's free as in freedom *for the end users*, not for the person using the code in a commercial product. An end user can freely take the code and do what they want with it, and never release any of their changes. If, however, someone wants to redistribute it (as in, say, a Boxee box) then they need to follow the rules of the GPL & allow the end user the same freedom that they had. It's pretty simple really.
I'm old like you, and I also prefer the Pandora model (I'm in the US, but tried Spotify via vpn to check it out). I guess that Spotify is for the youth who don't have huge music collections already - I ripped my 400+ CDs when I went digital, I was all over Audiogalaxy, I have a lot of music on local storage. I like Pandora because it helps me hear new stuff, and I don't have the time these days to be making compilations and playlists. For $36 a year, it's like Netflix for me - sure I could download all this stuff, but it's convenient and reasonably priced, and ad free, so I subscribe.
As others have pointed out, it works well in the enterprise. My understanding is that, as long as you're using your own Blackberry server, the data is encrypted. The ability for governments to read the data comes from using your phone company's Blackberry servers, in countries that won't allow BB to operate without a backdoor. My understanding may be wrong, but that's my impression.
Yeah, when I'm traveling I always use a VPN; too many things are broken otherwise, and there's always the risk of a mitm attack too. Best to stick with a trusted VPN.
Because of travel to the USA I've specifically bought a EEE that could be confiscated without too much out of pocket expense, but it's a real pain to operate some things on the tiny 10" screen instead of my purpose-bought Dell.
Does this seriously bother any other /.-ers? Having to double my personal hardware just to accommodate US travel is a pain in the ass.
I'd guess that most slashdotters recognize the fact that, despite the fact that it COULD happen, it's extremely unlikely that it will happen to you. So very very few people will buy a small pc that they don't like to use to guard against the possible confiscation of their preferred laptop.
Does it suck that they can do this? Yes. Am I going to take crazy paranoid precautions crossing the border (which I do at least once a year)? No.
Between Hulu and Netflix I really haven't missed cable other then the occasional sporting event.
For sporting events I pretty much only watch the Super Bowl, and that comes OTA. My wife misses a couple of shows, but they usually will show up on Netfix eventually. I'm really happy with my Netfix streaming Blu-Ray player & my Aspire Revo with USB TV tuners. If MS gets hardware acceleration working on Silverlight, I won't even need to use the Blu-Ray player much anymore. I must say though, Hulu has always been a disappointment to me. Lots of clips make it annoying to find an actual episode; I don't even bother anymore.
Also you have to subsist on a bean and lentil curry for a week or more straight.
Right, and that's a conscious choice, since eating similar foods regularly helps your internal flora work best. My main point is that it's not just the cost of veggies that stops most people from eating healthily, convenience & instant gratification are at least as important.
It wasn't the submitter that hadn't read it, it was Timothy...
The ashtray, the paddle game, and the remote control, and that's all I need... And these matches.
It's a Hobson's choice for poor people, at least in terms of diet (smoking is another matter entirely). Bad food is cheap, good food is expensive. Check the prices of fresh veggies verses potato chips sometime.
That's said a lot, but I think that a big part of the problem is also that the bag of chips is easier. My lunches are extremely cheap - I make a mild curry of onions, garlic & ginger plus lentils & whatever cheap cans of beans I have, poured over brown rice & frozen in plastic containers saved from takeout Chinese. A weeks' worth takes me an hour tops of futzing around in the kitchen & costs me $1 or less per serving. It's pretty much an ideal balanced meal. Even going over to Taco Hell I can't eat for less than $3, but it's always there whereas I have to remember to spend that hour cooking every week or two. I'd say that bad food is fairly cheap and easy to consume, and that good convenient food is more expensive and requires more thought. A bag of frozen veggies can be had very cheaply (and has most of the nutrients of fresh), but you have to do something with it; a bag of chips you just eat.