"This app requires root access and will only run on devices with Qualcomm chipset."
That's not "for android". That's playing a Qualcomm trick with the baseband.
I also wonder if a better way might be (but I'm speculating here) to use the measured distance from the nearest cell tower (called Timing Advance), as in http://stackoverflow.com/a/137... - and couple it with a public database of known celltowers locations to spot recent "additions".
they are logging everything a user visiting microsoft.com has said, typed, chatted, thought or seen in the last n months and all the cookies too. of course.
well, a DMCA letter would be enough (even if it would prove wrong in court) do deter anyone from mirroring old images. And a subpoena under menace of terrorism charges will take down any website with other sources of satellite.
Say goodbye to the free world, unless you can afford it.
'scuse me, but what if it isn't the government spying on you but are private companies? Say, mobile providers could download software on some VIP's cellphone (I mean real VIPs, not stars..) and listen for what they say: money transactions, bank accounts, stock buying...
remember echelon? it was designed as a government spying device, it turned up to be something that private companies used to spy other companies in europe (boing vs. airbus).
there's a "television tax" in Italy that, although not so high as other taxes, must be paid for each "television" in a house. This taxes is used to finance the "public" television. The fun part is that 1) there's no "public" television any more 2) what's left of public tv plain sucks (full of commercial, and such) 3) you must pay it for each device you have that allows you to view "moving images". Which means every monitor, every PDA, every cell phone, and such.
no, it's not a pun. and yes, nobody pays it anyway.
This is wrong. Utterly wrong. This is playing their game, and the solution of such games is just not playing. Microsoft is doing this for a purpose. They don't outrun their competitors. They buy them. Since you can't "buy linux", they're going after each linux vendor with the excuse of patent protection, and suck them up one by one. No, really, this isn't a matter where one can laugh about it. Patent protection is mafia-style protection,wrong at the beginning. I really, really hope the linux vendors won't fall into this trap.
The cops will spend time looking after "regular" people having arguments, and ignore those pros who, silently, will take out the knives. Well they could solve that by assigning a police agent to every single webcam out there. Well this sounds *so* 1984..
This doesn't sound new at all. Buy your opponent, then either close them or suck them into your product. It's the Microsoft Strategy. Since you can't "buy GNU/Linux", they are buying those who sell it....neeeext
....so yes, a good crypto system will help, but nothing like having your "friends" in the (local) government, in the police, and at a much higher level...
this should be enough to store hashes of all possible 8-charachters password for 92 keys. More or less, I mean. Man, thank god that windows has 256-chars password length
(it's all fiction, I made the numbers up. but I'm pretty sure about the size of the hashes db..)
Last night I spent four hours trying to clean a friends' computer who had opened an e-mail carelessly. One hour was for bitching him and making him feel very sorry. The last three hours were spent trying to fix the problem, using free antivirus scanners, online free antivirus checks, free spyware removal, patches and fixes given away for free on the internet. See a pattern here? No commercial antivirus was able to detect the problem. I had to install (and then remove, anyway) software that was built and given away for free to fix it.
Windows XP was "genuine", but this won't help solve the problem. I'm still asking myself why pay for an operating system with such problems, but more than that why should we give money to a corporation that is bashing GNU/Linux and free software as a cancer and still depends on it to fix its own troubles.
Oh, yes, I suggested him a Mac. At least he will pay for something more usable. Otherwise, he'd have to pay me to install and set up a linux box. Unfortunately, there's no free lunch any more:)
It sure beats an omnipotent, omnisentient judge with a poorly communicated sense of morals and a tendency to attribute unpleasantness to other entities of his design.
maybe taken from a comedy, or a series of names of people in a certain order, or perhaps a quotation from a movie. of course this won't have to be repeated every few minutes, but could work as a "master password" to unlock all the other password a user need. in cases where only short passwords can be used, let the computer chose one, and save it into the password keyring.
There's no easy answer to such question. In fact, I think there's none. The best Linux choice for a professional admin is the one he knows better. A serious admin knows how to harden any linux distro (if security is a concern) and how to quickly deploy solutions if ease of use is the main choice for linux. If he is truly a professional, he knows how to learn quickly any distro's tool. If he relies too much on the tools the distro has I'd not call him a true Linux Admin.
In other news, many l33t hax0rs will start turning their satellite dishes around hoping to sniff the admin password of the space router. God bless the telnet. (and the password will be cisco/space)
if you call "instructions" that small piece of paper that goes with the object, well, no I don't read them. They are usually useless - spending more pictures and pages for the dummy window (l)user, and not telling any technical detail. It's more entertaining to search for the "technical manual" on the Net, if there's any. The only case when I -very quickly- read them it's when I'm looking for the default password of a piece of networked equipment. which usually it's not even written down.
cheers
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open source is like poker: would you trust a deck of card that you cannot see being shuffled, but you have to trust who said it was done?
...I'd suggest come to Italy as a turist first. Try to stay here for a while, choose a place to stay and try to meet as many people as possible. Having a job here is mostly a social skill - the more people you know, the more you'll get the chance to have a job. Resume aren't so important compared to the power of actually meeting people. Having a good resume helps but won't make a difference. And stay out of big companies for a while - they tend to be too similar to their counterparts in the US, and sometimes they fire a bunch of people "just because", if you know what I mean. Be ready to some weirdness, especially when talking about the government or the bureaucracy... remember that those things aren't supposed to work by anybody, so take it easy. Good luck!
I agree that a better "desktop" linux will give more users the possibility to try it and will get more developers in the future, and so on.
The problem is that Linux is not only "a free alternative to windows". Thanks to the open source philosphy we had better software for "free" (as in beer).
The problem is not the availability of software. There's plenty of commercial software or free software that plays dvds. The problem is that software has to be free as in beer. No free software means monopolization of the market, which means lesser quality on the long run. Think about what did the DeCSS case to the open source world.
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In fact, there's already something similar: http://wiki.opencellid.org/wik... and probably https://github.com/SecUpwN/And...
"This app requires root access and will only run on devices with Qualcomm chipset."
That's not "for android". That's playing a Qualcomm trick with the baseband.
I also wonder if a better way might be (but I'm speculating here) to use the measured distance from the nearest cell tower (called Timing Advance), as in http://stackoverflow.com/a/137... - and couple it with a public database of known celltowers locations to spot recent "additions".
hey, if someone somehow can proof me that my socks still exist in this universe, well, I'll buy anything.
they are logging everything a user visiting microsoft.com has said, typed, chatted, thought or seen in the last n months and all the cookies too.
of course.
well, a DMCA letter would be enough (even if it would prove wrong in court) do deter anyone from mirroring old images.
And a subpoena under menace of terrorism charges will take down any website with other sources of satellite.
Say goodbye to the free world, unless you can afford it.
'scuse me, but what if it isn't the government spying on you but are private companies? Say, mobile providers could download software on some VIP's cellphone (I mean real VIPs, not stars..) and listen for what they say: money transactions, bank accounts, stock buying...
remember echelon? it was designed as a government spying device, it turned up to be something that private companies used to spy other companies in europe (boing vs. airbus).
why does it always have to be the government?
there's a "television tax" in Italy that, although not so high as other taxes, must be paid for each "television" in a house.
This taxes is used to finance the "public" television.
The fun part is that
1) there's no "public" television any more
2) what's left of public tv plain sucks (full of commercial, and such)
3) you must pay it for each device you have that allows you to view "moving images". Which means every monitor, every PDA, every cell phone, and such.
no, it's not a pun.
and yes, nobody pays it anyway.
This is wrong. Utterly wrong. This is playing their game, and the solution of such games is just not playing.
Microsoft is doing this for a purpose. They don't outrun their competitors. They buy them.
Since you can't "buy linux", they're going after each linux vendor with the excuse of patent protection, and suck them up one by one.
No, really, this isn't a matter where one can laugh about it. Patent protection is mafia-style protection,wrong at the beginning.
I really, really hope the linux vendors won't fall into this trap.
The cops will spend time looking after "regular" people having arguments, and ignore those pros who, silently, will take out the knives.
Well they could solve that by assigning a police agent to every single webcam out there.
Well this sounds *so* 1984..
This doesn't sound new at all. ...neeeext
Buy your opponent, then either close them or suck them into your product.
It's the Microsoft Strategy.
Since you can't "buy GNU/Linux", they are buying those who sell it.
It's called "Trusted Computing".
Next question, please?
....so yes, a good crypto system will help, but nothing like having your "friends" in the (local) government, in the police, and at a much higher level...
this should be enough to store hashes of all possible 8-charachters password for 92 keys. More or less, I mean.
Man, thank god that windows has 256-chars password length
(it's all fiction, I made the numbers up. but I'm pretty sure about the size of the hashes db..)
Last night I spent four hours trying to clean a friends' computer who had opened an e-mail carelessly. One hour was for bitching him and making him feel very sorry.
:)
The last three hours were spent trying to fix the problem, using free antivirus scanners, online free antivirus checks, free spyware removal, patches and fixes given away for free on the internet.
See a pattern here? No commercial antivirus was able to detect the problem. I had to install (and then remove, anyway) software that was built and given away for free to fix it.
Windows XP was "genuine", but this won't help solve the problem. I'm still asking myself why pay for an operating system with such problems, but more than that why should we give money to a corporation that is bashing GNU/Linux and free software as a cancer and still depends on it to fix its own troubles.
Oh, yes, I suggested him a Mac. At least he will pay for something more usable. Otherwise, he'd have to pay me to install and set up a linux box. Unfortunately, there's no free lunch any more
maybe taken from a comedy, or a series of names of people in a certain order, or perhaps a quotation from a movie.
.2 eurocents
of course this won't have to be repeated every few minutes, but could work as a "master password" to unlock all the other password a user need.
in cases where only short passwords can be used, let the computer chose one, and save it into the password keyring.
just my
well, for the same price in Italy you'd get a 640!
(to say in a low voice: 640.. KB/sec... damn...)
will work for bandwidth. (c)
There's no easy answer to such question. In fact, I think there's none. The best Linux choice for a professional admin is the one he knows better. A serious admin knows how to harden any linux distro (if security is a concern) and how to quickly deploy solutions if ease of use is the main choice for linux. If he is truly a professional, he knows how to learn quickly any distro's tool.
If he relies too much on the tools the distro has I'd not call him a true Linux Admin.
In other news, many l33t hax0rs will start turning their satellite dishes around hoping to sniff the admin password of the space router. God bless the telnet.
(and the password will be cisco/space)
mplayer --dump-stream
the four words version is:
at
mplayer --dump-stream
my example is closed source. I cited open source for comparison :)
if you call "instructions" that small piece of paper that goes with the object, well, no I don't read them. They are usually useless - spending more pictures and pages for the dummy window (l)user, and not telling any technical detail. It's more entertaining to search for the "technical manual" on the Net, if there's any.
The only case when I -very quickly- read them it's when I'm looking for the default password of a piece of networked equipment. which usually it's not even written down.
cheers
---
open source is like poker: would you trust a deck of card that you cannot see being shuffled, but you have to trust who said it was done?
...I'd suggest come to Italy as a turist first. Try to stay here for a while, choose a place to stay and try to meet as many people as possible. Having a job here is mostly a social skill - the more people you know, the more you'll get the chance to have a job.
:)
Resume aren't so important compared to the power of actually meeting people. Having a good resume helps but won't make a difference.
And stay out of big companies for a while - they tend to be too similar to their counterparts in the US, and sometimes they fire a bunch of people "just because", if you know what I mean.
Be ready to some weirdness, especially when talking about the government or the bureaucracy... remember that those things aren't supposed to work by anybody, so take it easy.
Good luck!
ps: I'd suggest Tuscany
I agree that a better "desktop" linux will give more users the possibility to try it and will get more developers in the future, and so on.
The problem is that Linux is not only "a free alternative to windows". Thanks to the open source philosphy we had better software for "free" (as in beer).
The problem is not the availability of software. There's plenty of commercial software or free software that plays dvds. The problem is that software has to be free as in beer. No free software means monopolization of the market, which means lesser quality on the long run.
Think about what did the DeCSS case to the open source world.