Kaplan's opinion said that the eavesdropping technique "functioned whether the phone was powered on or off." Some handsets can't be fully powered down without removing the battery; for instance, some Nokia models will wake up when turned off if an alarm is set.
A simple sleep function in an "off" phone to wake up and ping the tower to see if there's some command waiting is pretty low-power, especially if it only does it once an hour or even less frequently.
Supposedly this dude tested it, but only for half an hour. Would be fun to re-do this experiment on modern "smart" phones over a week-long period:
Heartily agreed. When interviewing candidates, we always ask what their last side project was - what do they do outside of work? If they work on cars, or gardening, or any hobby, that's fine as long as they show more than a passive interest. But the people who work and do nothing else will never be great programmers.
As a developer, you always want to get the HTML errors as soon as possible, therefore as a developer you always wish to write XHTML and then serve it as HTML.
This isn't another example of my tax dollars at work is it?
I hope not! Or my university tuition fees, or really any other spending, even other people's money.
Who cares if the server boots up in 30 seconds or 30 minutes? The OP now has up to 12 500GB drives to either copy off or access over the lan. There's hours of data access or data transfer here.
Typical ARM cores consume just a fraction of the power of an X86-based server. While Codethink hasn’t outright disclosed the actual power needs of the Slab, its 260-watt power supply offers something of a clue. Meanwhile, the forward-compatible SOMs (server object managers) will allow operators to replace the CPUs with newer models.
First, it's like the GP said, "it's ARM therefore it's low power" without giving any specifications. To market this, it seems like they would really need tested specs from a decent benchmark tool.
Finally, to praise the quality of the "article", I thought "SoM" meant System on Module. A "server object manager" sounds like something running inside a java virtual machine.
I don't understand how Geek.net thinks attaching poor quality blog posts (they're not really articles) to the Slashdot brand will help them... Slashdotters see through those BI/Cloud//DataCenter posts every time.
I run multiseat and it's exactly that. One seat may have some boot display, but all other seats are blank until X starts. If X fails to start, only seat0 has a VT. Once X starts, VT switching is usually disabled in the xorg parameters so no VTs may be used on any seats.
Thus, it would be rad if ctrl-mod-f12 would launch kmscon on each seat! Then if X is hosed, you have an option besides ssh-ing in.
I think all we really need to do is tell the GNOME developers "job well done, keep doing exactly what you're done already" and that will be enough to redirect the entire project's goals. They won't stand for that.
That may work, but if my 2 year old toddler is any indication, reverse psychology only goes so far. Eventually they will accept the praise as legitimate instead of always trying to refute you.
Say a small group of slashdotters sit down and dream up how we want gnome3 to be and listed those features somewhere private. Then, we try to come up with the opposite of those features, and submit them like crazy to the gnome design community.
Thus, all of the "features" and "changes" we asked for would not get implemented, leaving at least some of the stuff we wanted to be "dreamed up" by the gnome designers, thinking they know what's best for us like always.
The Raspberry Pi barely came out! Granted, you can now do stuff just like arduino. However, there are caveats:
Important Note: The RPi Wiki takes pains to remind you that these GPIO pins are unbuffered and unprotected, so if you short something out, you could fry your whole Pi, so be careful! There are a number of other breakout boards being developed that should make this safer.
Like an AC posted earlier, the barrier to entry is significantly lower for Arduino simply due to the easy step-by-step tutorials available. In a year or two, I'm sure there will be many great tutorials for the Raspberry Pi and friends.
And long-haul Amtrak stops at every little [railroad] town along the way. Which is a good thing if you live in any of those towns, or like to get outside.
What sucks are HTML5 *validators* - in-browser validation extensions/add-ons that can quickly view the source of the page and identify errors. XHTML 1.0 was awesome for this. The HTML Tidy extension for Firefox immediately finds trivial errors (I use the SGML parser) that are easily seen when validating server-generated pages.
I'm totally fine with a "living" HTML5 specification - as long as there is some programmatic way of validating the document.
Usually running sshd on port 443 works great for those situations. Or if you don't like having ssh listening to the outside world (even with key-only access), use openVPN and vpn from your [rooted] phone into the network (normal UDP port X or TCP 443).
Having a custom hosts file is all fine and good, but that does not mitigate Deep Packet Inspection:
FTA:
The company's proposed advertising system, called Webwise, is a behavioral targeting service (similar to NebuAd) that uses deep packet inspection to examine traffic... and the ISP BT Group has been criticised for running secret trials of the service.
Country code TLDs are a symptom, not a feature. They come about because local governments want to exert their own control over some aspect of the internet, but really the whole point of the internet is to transcend borders and unite people in a single global network, even if that is a threat to entrenched interests.
Excellent way of saying that ccTLDs are harmful to a philosophy of a global information-carrying network that should transcend national and cultural borders. Using ccTLDs geo-politically bias the domain name. And really, a "domain name" is just a name so you can find a number.
It would be nice if hostnames resolved "backwards" than they do today - just like the Java package naming scheme: org.apache.project.class
Just like local DNS resolvers "search" a certain namespace for non-fully-qualified hostnames by appending the domain name as a suffix, TLD then domain name would be applied as a prefix. Fully qualified hostnames would be prefixed with a "." instead of suffixed.
It's not fair at all - the highest payer wins! The current ICANN process for new gTLDs specifies that duplicate TLD applications first go to a "bargaining" process to see if the applicants can work out how to share the TLD. If that fails, the TLD goes to auction.
Slashdot Mirror
Isn't the root of news for nerds more exciting than your working directory?
Did Mitt Romney accept the IRS Tax Amnesty program in 2009? Did he disclose offshore accounts used as tax havens?
Was Romney part of these 14,700 Americans?
http://news.cnet.com/2100-1029-6140191.html
Kaplan's opinion said that the eavesdropping technique "functioned whether the phone was powered on or off." Some handsets can't be fully powered down without removing the battery; for instance, some Nokia models will wake up when turned off if an alarm is set.
A simple sleep function in an "off" phone to wake up and ping the tower to see if there's some command waiting is pretty low-power, especially if it only does it once an hour or even less frequently.
Supposedly this dude tested it, but only for half an hour. Would be fun to re-do this experiment on modern "smart" phones over a week-long period:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2770534/replies?c=37
Better take out the battery too! "Off" does not mean there is no power or infrequent connectivity.
Heartily agreed. When interviewing candidates, we always ask what their last side project was - what do they do outside of work? If they work on cars, or gardening, or any hobby, that's fine as long as they show more than a passive interest. But the people who work and do nothing else will never be great programmers.
As a developer, you always want to get the HTML errors as soon as possible, therefore as a developer you always wish to write XHTML and then serve it as HTML.
exactly this!
This isn't another example of my tax dollars at work is it?
I hope not! Or my university tuition fees, or really any other spending, even other people's money.
Who cares if the server boots up in 30 seconds or 30 minutes? The OP now has up to 12 500GB drives to either copy off or access over the lan. There's hours of data access or data transfer here.
https://plus.google.com/events/cs8qqqn96f2ktfvm66s3sb2cpes/103112149634414554669
That salmon was caught fresh that day. Also pics of the laser near the bottom.
Typical ARM cores consume just a fraction of the power of an X86-based server. While Codethink hasn’t outright disclosed the actual power needs of the Slab, its 260-watt power supply offers something of a clue. Meanwhile, the forward-compatible SOMs (server object managers) will allow operators to replace the CPUs with newer models.
First, it's like the GP said, "it's ARM therefore it's low power" without giving any specifications. To market this, it seems like they would really need tested specs from a decent benchmark tool.
Finally, to praise the quality of the "article", I thought "SoM" meant System on Module. A "server object manager" sounds like something running inside a java virtual machine.
I don't understand how Geek.net thinks attaching poor quality blog posts (they're not really articles) to the Slashdot brand will help them... Slashdotters see through those BI/Cloud//DataCenter posts every time.
I run multiseat and it's exactly that. One seat may have some boot display, but all other seats are blank until X starts. If X fails to start, only seat0 has a VT. Once X starts, VT switching is usually disabled in the xorg parameters so no VTs may be used on any seats.
Thus, it would be rad if ctrl-mod-f12 would launch kmscon on each seat! Then if X is hosed, you have an option besides ssh-ing in.
I think all we really need to do is tell the GNOME developers "job well done, keep doing exactly what you're done already" and that will be enough to redirect the entire project's goals. They won't stand for that.
That may work, but if my 2 year old toddler is any indication, reverse psychology only goes so far. Eventually they will accept the praise as legitimate instead of always trying to refute you.
Instead of possible recovery strategies we should have pounced on your idea 2 years ago!
Say a small group of slashdotters sit down and dream up how we want gnome3 to be and listed those features somewhere private. Then, we try to come up with the opposite of those features, and submit them like crazy to the gnome design community.
Thus, all of the "features" and "changes" we asked for would not get implemented, leaving at least some of the stuff we wanted to be "dreamed up" by the gnome designers, thinking they know what's best for us like always.
640,000 shaders should be enough for everyone!
Correct, as TwinView is proprietary nvidia, but Xinerama should work fine.
Important Note: The RPi Wiki takes pains to remind you that these GPIO pins are unbuffered and unprotected, so if you short something out, you could fry your whole Pi, so be careful! There are a number of other breakout boards being developed that should make this safer.
Like an AC posted earlier, the barrier to entry is significantly lower for Arduino simply due to the easy step-by-step tutorials available. In a year or two, I'm sure there will be many great tutorials for the Raspberry Pi and friends.
A thousand developers all going a thousand different directions.
And after a thousand compilations each day and after a thousand days, we will end up with the most beautiful Desktop Environment ever!
And long-haul Amtrak stops at every little [railroad] town along the way. Which is a good thing if you live in any of those towns, or like to get outside.
What about wifi only devices, like tablets? Google sends the 30% back to the Dev or they pocket it?
What sucks are HTML5 *validators* - in-browser validation extensions/add-ons that can quickly view the source of the page and identify errors. XHTML 1.0 was awesome for this. The HTML Tidy extension for Firefox immediately finds trivial errors (I use the SGML parser) that are easily seen when validating server-generated pages.
I'm totally fine with a "living" HTML5 specification - as long as there is some programmatic way of validating the document.
Usually running sshd on port 443 works great for those situations. Or if you don't like having ssh listening to the outside world (even with key-only access), use openVPN and vpn from your [rooted] phone into the network (normal UDP port X or TCP 443).
Sometimes you don't want the peaty finish of scotch.
Having a custom hosts file is all fine and good, but that does not mitigate Deep Packet Inspection:
FTA:
The company's proposed advertising system, called Webwise, is a behavioral targeting service (similar to NebuAd) that uses deep packet inspection to examine traffic... and the ISP BT Group has been criticised for running secret trials of the service.
Country code TLDs are a symptom, not a feature. They come about because local governments want to exert their own control over some aspect of the internet, but really the whole point of the internet is to transcend borders and unite people in a single global network, even if that is a threat to entrenched interests.
Excellent way of saying that ccTLDs are harmful to a philosophy of a global information-carrying network that should transcend national and cultural borders. Using ccTLDs geo-politically bias the domain name. And really, a "domain name" is just a name so you can find a number.
It would be nice if hostnames resolved "backwards" than they do today - just like the Java package naming scheme: org.apache.project.class
Just like local DNS resolvers "search" a certain namespace for non-fully-qualified hostnames by appending the domain name as a suffix, TLD then domain name would be applied as a prefix. Fully qualified hostnames would be prefixed with a "." instead of suffixed.
Moving from left to right, you move from general to specific. (In this alternate universe, /. uses 4 digit date years in the URL) Then this page would look like:
http://org.slashdot.ask/story/2012/06/19/1336210/how-would-you-redesign-the-tld-hierarchy
It's not fair at all - the highest payer wins! The current ICANN process for new gTLDs specifies that duplicate TLD applications first go to a "bargaining" process to see if the applicants can work out how to share the TLD. If that fails, the TLD goes to auction.