fully-featured computers would be a bit more useful to system integrators...
I'm/still/ waiting for someone to build an nVidia ION as small as their (not for sale) pico-ITX reference platform that came out years ago: http://www.mini-itx.com/67219812
The fit PC2 is pretty neat, but they still need binary blob drivers for Intel's crappy PowerVR GPU, which severely limits Linux distribution... if they had that form factor with an ION chipset I'd be sticking those little buggers all over the place:-P
... are about to belong to South Korea's finest. If your location data was safe with Google before, it belongs to the government now!:D
So... any guess as to whom the police be looking for that makes it worth raiding a Google office to bring down? Do the South Koreans even have their own version of mafia / yakuza / etc.?
Yep, I've been very happy with Tomato, which shows both real-time and aggregate data bandwidth use.
If you want even more detail into what's taking up all your bandwidth (port / protocol / IP / etc.), you could put up a box running ntop (the web-based "ntop", not the console "ntop" similar to iftop that only gives instantaneous usage info).
You might also be able to forward traffic from your router to a sniffer on a real machine running these tools, if you search for "[router] SPAN port" or "port mirroring" or somesuch.
The US DoD requires it too. Fortunately, it is available from commercial suppliers (ClamAV is not compliant with something or other), so you just install it and maintain it and pass the bill on to the taxpayers.
I think it's just standard CYA, so you have someone external to blame if something slips through (which possibly explains why effective roll-your-own measures are deemed insufficient by the policymakers).
Word. A decade ago we went to a used office furniture store and picked up a big black filing cabinet for $15. One drawer just for me, one just for my wife, one for our joint assets and important documents, and one to supply empty folders and some extra storage.
When snail mail comes in, it goes into one of three bins... either a small "to do" bin, a medium-sized "to file" bin, or the large recycling bin. Maybe twice a year I'd go through the to-file bin and sort the various insurance or whatever forms into the large filing cabinet (a lot of that stuff also falls into the recycling bin then also once it's lost its expediency). Some things such as tax documents get filed into the "Current Year" tax folder right away.
Maybe once every few years we'll rifle through the filing cabinet and purge really old stuff when school has a free shredder day or something. But just maybe, we're still not too pressed for space even after a decade.
Should probably get a fireproof safe for all of our important documents, but meh. We have scans of all the critical stuff stored encrypted in the cloud somewhere.
I guess they just want to drive home the FACT that it's better than Firefox or IE. And maybe that it's almost as good as Opera, which just hit 11 late last year;-)
I dunno, Obama's actually been parading GE around as the model corporation, so the other corporations can learn to do things the same way. Maybe he has a lot invested in overseas stocks (I know I do:P )
But really, the majority of the US budget is split roughly in half between defense and entitlements, which pretty much follows the model of the ancient Roman empire, where they pretty much used their military force to make the rest of the known world work to support Roman citizens. Living on welfare here still seems to beat the heck out of working in a developing nation. But the cost of living is too high, so no point in investing domestically.
Yeah, I read the arstechnica article a few days ago, and the comments there were much better than the ones here. Among the sentiments I enjoyed:
The media coverage of these handfuls of SWAT raids are mostly to scare everyone into securing their access points, because then it makes it easier for the feds to convict you when someone breaks into your wireless access point and downloads CP or something else they don't like. If you have an open access point, they can't really "prove" it was you. But if you have some kind of encryption going, then as far as the court is concerned it just *had* to be you doing the nasty, since you're the only one with the secret keys and there's no wai anyone could possibly break into it, as trivial as we know it is to do.
The police don't apologize for anything that might happen during a raid. As far as they're concerned, they can do no wrong. But they will get reprimanded by the courts for issuing too many "dynamic entry" warrants prematurely.
For my part, I think that if enough of us continue running open APs, the police will eventually have to find better ways to cooperate with us in their investigations. I don't really want to live in a world with no open and shared wifi (even though I have a cell phone with tethering and pretty fast HSDPA service, so I don't even need open wifi most of the time)
To actually respond to the OP...
Set up a separate wifi router. Maybe look into something that can support OLSRd or something so you can get some kind of community mesh network going... this will particularly become important to have lots of people with OLSRd nodes if the government ever decides to use their internet kill switch for some silly reason.
Run that wifi through a spare wired computer with two NICs, so you can use wondershaper or something to limit the bandwidth going through it.
Some other good monitoring tools:
NTOP (the web-based thing, though the other console ntop is also nice), to log and display traffic type and endpoints
SNORT, to help alert if bad things are happening
iftop is a good console thingy for showing you what is taking up bandwidth right now.
Wireshark, for the times you feel evil and want to do some packet inspection / logging, though you probably don't want to run this all the time.
Good luck and have fun, don't let the man keep you down!:P
Some people I know simply take unemployment, and work a bunch of odd jobs to supplement that income. The unemployment income is pretty livable, and as long as they don't make over a certain threshold it's not actually even illegal.
Some people I know are also walking away from their mortgages, even though they make enough money to pay them. But they need to sell their homes for non-financial reasons, and there's simply no other way to do it that makes financial sense... their property lost half its value since the housing bubble burst, and they can afford to live with a crap credit rating until they can repair it over the next couple decades:-P
The system is crap to begin with... you don't really have to cut out the government to screw everyone over;-)
I know youtube doesn't allow adult content but what's to stop random people from streaming porn or something with one those apps that emulates webcams and streams a video. Are they relying on their report button? How fast will that work I wonder.
They'll probably handle it the same way that chatroulette (AKA "how many clicks to dick?") does.
Hmm, well, 3D pr0n and Quake just hit the browser a few years ago, so give it another 5 years for CAD. Maybe 10 for civil ^_^
But seriously, something as collaborative as CAD could benefit from at least web-based views of the model, accessible by people who don't have exactly the same version of CAD software you have. Which is particularly nice for construction projects that span over the course of a few years.
I've been waiting to upgrade my Althlon II X2 2.2Ghz into a Phenom II X4^H^H X6 also. This news probably isn't good for us since there will be a lot of people on the same boat who would want to buy the Phenom II X6 as the highest-end CPU for their current-gen MB.
Meh, everything that Google does could be spun into them being evil or incompetent. I think this is just another instance of the latter. Sure, there are lots of smart people there, but I suspect most of the time they're just victims of their own idealism.
Google wanted a GPL'd OS so there would be some kind of commodity thing out there. But, all of the manufacturers wanted to distinguish their version somehow, so they customized it as much as they could. They don't have to violate anything to be dicks. Forking is fine if there's a good reason for it, but mostly the reason was to lock people into their own version of the product (and forced obsolescence when they refuse to release updates for "old" products that still run on half-decent hardware). It's gotten so bad that the only way to have a good experience on an Android device is to root it and flash it back to something closer to Google's releases. That's just sad. It's fine for me (I wouldn't buy an Android device that wasn't supported by CyanogenMOD), but I would have trouble recommending one to a grandparent saying "hey, it's actually pretty nice if you root it!" I do want to see Google doing more to, um, encourage manufacturers to track the upstream releases more closely and not waste their time on pointless GUI customizations and wicked DRM ROM locking.
There are evil things that Google is doing wrong in this fight... for example, I don't like how they lock out my G-Tablet as an "incompatible" device with most of the apps on their app market (even though it's probably among the high end of Android devices available). But at least there are plenty of ways around that inconvenience.
Oh, I don't know... it was pretty easy to set up a hushmail account just now, just to see what it was like. It just uses your password as the passphrase, so it was pretty straightforward. Only 2MB for the free account, which expires after 3 weeks of inactivity, so it's of limited use, but I don't really see why the other big webmail providers couldn't follow suit.
I don't see a reason not to have a separate secret key per email account, so I'd never really have to give them whatever I considered my "main" keypair. And if you did want to use your own local secret key, I'm sure there's something they could do with java or maybe even javascript to let you encrypt locally.
They even have a question / answer challenge that they use to send email to accounts that don't support encryption (the recipient just gets a link back to the hushmail https site to view the message). I think after coping with something like that for a bit, your friends will start using the service as well.
Email signatures and encryption has been around for decades, and yet we're still here complaining about spam:-P But my real fear is that people will stop using email and all move to facebook or some godforsaken social network. (the tweens already only send texts, email is for "old people":P )
The manufacturers were really getting out of line. With every Android device I've purchased so far, the first thing I've had to do was replace them with a custom ROM that was closer to Google's core release. The manufacturer's junk (HTC Sense, Viewsonic TnT, etc.) was really getting in the way.
TFA points out that the non-fragmentation clause was always there, Google is just trying harder to enforce it nowadays.
Wasn't stuff like PGP / GPG supposed to solve all of email's problems by allowing people to use real email whitelists? Is there any effort to use public-private keyrings to sign email, so we can simply filter out all the spam that isn't signed by someone we don't know? If we actually used this stuff, they'd just have to revoke their private key (if it was among the data compromised) issue a new one (along with the apology) and be done... the email addresses wouldn't be of much further use to a spammer if people/procmail just ignored unsigned emails.
I'd hate to think that Facebook might become the de-facto replacement for email just because most of the webmail providers don't make it easier to set all that encryption stuff up.
Yeah, whatever. My wife and I are having plenty of fun with a G-Tablet and Flash.
OK, so I admit, I actually haven't ever touched iOS ever, so you could say my experience is quite limited. Butt, I've played with enough Apple products to feel the discomfit of roaming around their walled garden in a designer straightjacket. It was some work to get a custom firmware (TnT-Lite 4) onto the G-Tablet to fix Viewsonic's misguided attempt at customization. But once Android manufacturers figure it out, they'll have a solid product that supports insertion of external memory devices and USB sticks and keyboards and joynipples and other devices and pretty much all of those things I've heard Apple people complaining about. And Flash.
But other than Flash, I am disappoint in Steve Jobs' promise that there would be pr0n apps on Android. So far the best I could find after extensive searching (aside from all the lame jigsaw puzzles) is some kama sutra app featuring stick figures.
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fully-featured computers would be a bit more useful to system integrators...
I'm /still/ waiting for someone to build an nVidia ION as small as their (not for sale) pico-ITX reference platform that came out years ago:
http://www.mini-itx.com/67219812
The fit PC2 is pretty neat, but they still need binary blob drivers for Intel's crappy PowerVR GPU, which severely limits Linux distribution... if they had that form factor with an ION chipset I'd be sticking those little buggers all over the place :-P
So much for One Chance.
... are about to belong to South Korea's finest. If your location data was safe with Google before, it belongs to the government now! :D
So... any guess as to whom the police be looking for that makes it worth raiding a Google office to bring down? Do the South Koreans even have their own version of mafia / yakuza / etc.?
Yep, I've been very happy with Tomato, which shows both real-time and aggregate data bandwidth use.
If you want even more detail into what's taking up all your bandwidth (port / protocol / IP / etc.), you could put up a box running ntop (the web-based "ntop", not the console "ntop" similar to iftop that only gives instantaneous usage info).
You might also be able to forward traffic from your router to a sniffer on a real machine running these tools, if you search for "[router] SPAN port" or "port mirroring" or somesuch.
Counterpoint: yes
The US DoD requires it too. Fortunately, it is available from commercial suppliers (ClamAV is not compliant with something or other), so you just install it and maintain it and pass the bill on to the taxpayers.
I think it's just standard CYA, so you have someone external to blame if something slips through (which possibly explains why effective roll-your-own measures are deemed insufficient by the policymakers).
Word. A decade ago we went to a used office furniture store and picked up a big black filing cabinet for $15. One drawer just for me, one just for my wife, one for our joint assets and important documents, and one to supply empty folders and some extra storage.
When snail mail comes in, it goes into one of three bins... either a small "to do" bin, a medium-sized "to file" bin, or the large recycling bin. Maybe twice a year I'd go through the to-file bin and sort the various insurance or whatever forms into the large filing cabinet (a lot of that stuff also falls into the recycling bin then also once it's lost its expediency). Some things such as tax documents get filed into the "Current Year" tax folder right away.
Maybe once every few years we'll rifle through the filing cabinet and purge really old stuff when school has a free shredder day or something. But just maybe, we're still not too pressed for space even after a decade.
Should probably get a fireproof safe for all of our important documents, but meh. We have scans of all the critical stuff stored encrypted in the cloud somewhere.
We fucked our way into this mess, we'll fuck our way out of it!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEjRHFom1Kk
(apologies to TheOnion and Jonathan Coulton)
is of course Lynx.
Aside from that Opera should require at lot less resources.
links2 is nicer, with better table and mouse support. I daresay it's almost like using firefox in text mode.
I've also been pretty happy with Chrome / Chromium-browser on low resource systems.
But unless your work involves watching a lot of youtube, you'll still probably be happiest VNC'ing into a real machine :-P
Well, that's just one more, isn't it?
Why don't they just make 10 a little better?
I guess they just want to drive home the FACT that it's better than Firefox or IE. And maybe that it's almost as good as Opera, which just hit 11 late last year ;-)
I dunno, Obama's actually been parading GE around as the model corporation, so the other corporations can learn to do things the same way. Maybe he has a lot invested in overseas stocks (I know I do :P )
But really, the majority of the US budget is split roughly in half between defense and entitlements, which pretty much follows the model of the ancient Roman empire, where they pretty much used their military force to make the rest of the known world work to support Roman citizens. Living on welfare here still seems to beat the heck out of working in a developing nation. But the cost of living is too high, so no point in investing domestically.
this story
Yeah, I read the arstechnica article a few days ago, and the comments there were much better than the ones here. Among the sentiments I enjoyed:
To actually respond to the OP...
Good luck and have fun, don't let the man keep you down! :P
Some people I know simply take unemployment, and work a bunch of odd jobs to supplement that income. The unemployment income is pretty livable, and as long as they don't make over a certain threshold it's not actually even illegal.
Some people I know are also walking away from their mortgages, even though they make enough money to pay them. But they need to sell their homes for non-financial reasons, and there's simply no other way to do it that makes financial sense... their property lost half its value since the housing bubble burst, and they can afford to live with a crap credit rating until they can repair it over the next couple decades :-P
The system is crap to begin with... you don't really have to cut out the government to screw everyone over ;-)
are you sure it's not 33% ?
Quick! Someone give us the tiebreaker!
This isn't something I do much, but I'm going to 'this' this.
this.
That is all.
... to see which of my friends gets the Fleshlight ad placed on their profile pages!
I know youtube doesn't allow adult content but what's to stop random people from streaming porn or something with one those apps that emulates webcams and streams a video. Are they relying on their report button? How fast will that work I wonder.
They'll probably handle it the same way that chatroulette (AKA "how many clicks to dick?") does.
Brave new world!
Hmm, well, 3D pr0n and Quake just hit the browser a few years ago, so give it another 5 years for CAD. Maybe 10 for civil ^_^
But seriously, something as collaborative as CAD could benefit from at least web-based views of the model, accessible by people who don't have exactly the same version of CAD software you have. Which is particularly nice for construction projects that span over the course of a few years.
Probably once we finish moving all our work to the cloud, and the desktop just becomes a browser.
I've been waiting to upgrade my Althlon II X2 2.2Ghz into a Phenom II X4^H^H X6 also. This news probably isn't good for us since there will be a lot of people on the same boat who would want to buy the Phenom II X6 as the highest-end CPU for their current-gen MB.
Meh, everything that Google does could be spun into them being evil or incompetent. I think this is just another instance of the latter. Sure, there are lots of smart people there, but I suspect most of the time they're just victims of their own idealism.
Google wanted a GPL'd OS so there would be some kind of commodity thing out there. But, all of the manufacturers wanted to distinguish their version somehow, so they customized it as much as they could. They don't have to violate anything to be dicks. Forking is fine if there's a good reason for it, but mostly the reason was to lock people into their own version of the product (and forced obsolescence when they refuse to release updates for "old" products that still run on half-decent hardware). It's gotten so bad that the only way to have a good experience on an Android device is to root it and flash it back to something closer to Google's releases. That's just sad. It's fine for me (I wouldn't buy an Android device that wasn't supported by CyanogenMOD), but I would have trouble recommending one to a grandparent saying "hey, it's actually pretty nice if you root it!" I do want to see Google doing more to, um, encourage manufacturers to track the upstream releases more closely and not waste their time on pointless GUI customizations and wicked DRM ROM locking.
There are evil things that Google is doing wrong in this fight... for example, I don't like how they lock out my G-Tablet as an "incompatible" device with most of the apps on their app market (even though it's probably among the high end of Android devices available). But at least there are plenty of ways around that inconvenience.
Oh, I don't know... it was pretty easy to set up a hushmail account just now, just to see what it was like. It just uses your password as the passphrase, so it was pretty straightforward. Only 2MB for the free account, which expires after 3 weeks of inactivity, so it's of limited use, but I don't really see why the other big webmail providers couldn't follow suit.
I don't see a reason not to have a separate secret key per email account, so I'd never really have to give them whatever I considered my "main" keypair. And if you did want to use your own local secret key, I'm sure there's something they could do with java or maybe even javascript to let you encrypt locally.
They even have a question / answer challenge that they use to send email to accounts that don't support encryption (the recipient just gets a link back to the hushmail https site to view the message). I think after coping with something like that for a bit, your friends will start using the service as well.
Email signatures and encryption has been around for decades, and yet we're still here complaining about spam :-P But my real fear is that people will stop using email and all move to facebook or some godforsaken social network. (the tweens already only send texts, email is for "old people" :P )
The manufacturers were really getting out of line. With every Android device I've purchased so far, the first thing I've had to do was replace them with a custom ROM that was closer to Google's core release. The manufacturer's junk (HTC Sense, Viewsonic TnT, etc.) was really getting in the way.
TFA points out that the non-fragmentation clause was always there, Google is just trying harder to enforce it nowadays.
Wasn't stuff like PGP / GPG supposed to solve all of email's problems by allowing people to use real email whitelists? Is there any effort to use public-private keyrings to sign email, so we can simply filter out all the spam that isn't signed by someone we don't know? If we actually used this stuff, they'd just have to revoke their private key (if it was among the data compromised) issue a new one (along with the apology) and be done... the email addresses wouldn't be of much further use to a spammer if people/procmail just ignored unsigned emails.
I'd hate to think that Facebook might become the de-facto replacement for email just because most of the webmail providers don't make it easier to set all that encryption stuff up.
Yeah, whatever. My wife and I are having plenty of fun with a G-Tablet and Flash.
OK, so I admit, I actually haven't ever touched iOS ever, so you could say my experience is quite limited. Butt, I've played with enough Apple products to feel the discomfit of roaming around their walled garden in a designer straightjacket. It was some work to get a custom firmware (TnT-Lite 4) onto the G-Tablet to fix Viewsonic's misguided attempt at customization. But once Android manufacturers figure it out, they'll have a solid product that supports insertion of external memory devices and USB sticks and keyboards and joynipples and other devices and pretty much all of those things I've heard Apple people complaining about. And Flash.
But other than Flash, I am disappoint in Steve Jobs' promise that there would be pr0n apps on Android. So far the best I could find after extensive searching (aside from all the lame jigsaw puzzles) is some kama sutra app featuring stick figures.
What a foolish accomplishment. /This is not an accomplishment. Nope.