So where are the ads on Android phones specifically? Sure I seen them in de browser sometimes (like in another browser/platform without adblocker). Sure I see them in apps (like any other platform with apps), but nothing specific for android.
This problem is solved with encryption, man uswsusp.conf: encrypt
If the "encrypt" parameter is set to 'y', the s2disk and resume tools will use the Blowfish encryption algorithm to encrypt/decrypt the image. On resume and suspend you will have to supply a passphrase. By using a pregenerated RSA key, you can avoid having to type a passphrase on suspend. See the "RSA key file" option for more information.
Of course motorized. What helps is that the biggest part of the route is 70km/h or more and the interaction of traffic lights along the route isn't to horrible. During rush hour traffic can be horrible, by not working 9:00-17:00 but 10:00-18:00 my home-work related traveling time is almost half that of rush hour.
The electronic toll road was essentially the plan from de late 80's-early 90's. First by numberplate recognition on the highways, later by blackboxes in cars scanned by toll ports. The latest GPS/GSM boxes are to store the information localy and to only upload the totaleds bill. But the justice department already floated the idea that these boxes can be tapped (remote) for detailed information when needed. The same department was slapped when it was found out that ANPR data was being kept and mined for possibly criminal data unrelated to the original purpose. When caught the response was: well we have change this irritatng privacy law then to allow us to do that we want.
"Then tax the odometer as if it was a electric or water counter."
Doesn't work with international traveling, riding to my parents house I travel through Belgium since it is a shorter route (in km not time), should I be taxed in the Netherlands for these kilometers? Also when I travel though Belgium I fill up on fuel, so I pay taxes there (a selfish act since fuel is cheaper).
The fuel taxes/levies are a constant. This proposed system takes congestion on roads and times of use into consideration. Per the article the drive from Eindhoven airport to the city center(?) costs 5 EUR during rushour. That is a 15-30m drive for something like 10km. Off-peak I can do that trip in under 10m on my bike. In the current system the variable costs for this trip is approx the same for all vehicles alike (when using the same fuel type and mileage): approx. 0.5l of fuel.
The theory is that putting a higher price on driving during rushhour will result in less people on the road at the same time, people that can avoid the rush hour premium will do so. At the same time the fixed costs of owning a vehicle is reduced (yearly road taxes) and the taxes on buying a car should be abolished (BPM http://www.vdsautomotive.nl/en/zakelijk/bpm-calculator ). Overall this would be a more fair system for use based taxation, but the main fear people have is that levies on fuel, the road tax and BPM will remain making driving more expensive. Only a small minority will oppose this for privacy reasons.
What specific controller? The uPD720200 works fine with Debian/stable, but the uPD720201 and uPD720202 appear to not be released yet. The Etron seems to be work in progress, you'll have to install the drivers yourself.
As soon as the data leaves the providers own network, all guarantees are gone. The ISPs own uplink might be sufficient, but towards the endpoint there might be some congestion. It might just be that Comcast and Verizon have much better peering partners (with respect to the targets of the tests) than Cablevision. For example I live in a neighborhood where EVERYBODY (approx 4000 houses) has access to FttH (with only 1 plan: 100Mbps up and down), this provider (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edutel) has to have an uplink and downlink of 400Gbps to absolutely guarantee full throughput for everybody at the same time. That would be about 1/3 of the total data traveling trough the Netherlands at the largest exchange at peaktimes: http://www.ams-ix.net/statistics/ . Luckily for the ISP not everyone has an subscription with them since the only appear to have 2 20GE port at the exchange. Also not everybody is using their capacity to the max, the net result is that I can get the full 100Mbps up and down at nearly any moment when using a well seeded torrent. Accessing random individual sites is usually a lot slower.
How can anyone guarantee a minimum speed? An ISP may be able to have such guarantees in their own network (where most stuff isn't), if they have full control over EVERYTHING.
"I haven't ever heard anyone say their digital audio transmission is better than FM. "
Let me be the first one to tell you I've had better DAB reception than the same station in FM. I moved to a new building and the FM reception inside was terrible, DAB on the other hand was crystal clear. Can't tell if the audio quality of one or the other was better, the receiver and it's speakers quality was mediocre itself. Soon after the tuner got replaced by Internet streams. The only working FM tuner left is the one in my phone and that one has terrible reception, reception of the local stations in a mayor city (which might carry the emergency broadcasts) is terrible and without the proper headset as an antenna impossible.
The Thinkpad X201T sports an (previous generation) i7 at 2.13GHz (2.9 GHzin turbo mode), the fastest machine I own. The slowest thing about it is the Intel video.
It is simpeler to run TOR on both ends and use VPN between the client and the hidden service (OpenVPN in TCP mode should work). That way the traffic should never leave the tor network.
By using TOR directly your browser may be giving away clues to your identify. By using privoxy some identity stuff may get filtered but instead you may be leaking information by DNS (especially if you are on an untrusted network). Torifying UDP is IMHO a PITA.
When you are breaking and entering someones wlan, you are not accessing these parts of the router. You are only gaining access to the transmission part of the device (AccessPoint), it's like finding a way to sneakily plug a cable into someone else his network (without tresspassing on his property). The safety of the other parts is not compromised (your not using the same passphrase for the default user of the device and the wlan, are you) .
The law used to deter wireless hacking has the word computer in it. Using specific devices is always a big risk in laws with fast evolving technologies. A judge decided to formulate a definition of the word computer. I personally think it was a good call, though I don't want any unautorized access to my wlan myself.
If you want to argue this should be illegal, a better comparison would be to compare it with stealing electricity.
>The old joke was that Ubuntu is Swahili for "can't install Debian". I may even have heard it here.
I've been running Debian for years (slink). From stable on servers, testing on the development machines and unstable on my personal (desk|lap)tops. But I finally caved for Ubuntu for my personal desktop after I found that a Ubuntu live CD managed to work out of the box on my HP TX1100, the usual exceptions off course the fingerprint reader and ndiswrapper for wlan (thank you Broadcom for crappy drivers and HP for breaking the mini pciexpress slot so other cards wouldn't work in this machine).
For the first time I could use the touchscreen like intended, something I couldn't get to work with Debian/unstable (and when I finally figured how to get it to work the crappy machine died (and judging from the number of owners reporting the exact same breakdown symptoms HP managed to deliver a fine piece of crap)). So when a new laptop arrived (Thinkpad) I popped in a kubuntu dvd, wiped the Debian install and have been happily running a functional machine since, except for yet again the fingerprint reader everything just works. Ubuntu may be evil by someone his standards, I'm becoming to lazy to keep up to date with Debian/unstable.
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So where are the ads on Android phones specifically? Sure I seen them in de browser sometimes (like in another browser/platform without adblocker). Sure I see them in apps (like any other platform with apps), but nothing specific for android.
So who has bluetooth enabled all the time and at the same time has his device discoverable? Sounds like a serious battery drain.
This problem is solved with encryption, man uswsusp.conf:
encrypt
If the "encrypt" parameter is set to 'y', the s2disk and resume tools will use the Blowfish encryption algorithm to encrypt/decrypt the image. On resume and suspend you will have to supply a passphrase. By using a pregenerated RSA key, you can avoid having to type a passphrase on suspend. See the "RSA key file" option for more information.
Of course motorized. What helps is that the biggest part of the route is 70km/h or more and the interaction of traffic lights along the route isn't to horrible. During rush hour traffic can be horrible, by not working 9:00-17:00 but 10:00-18:00 my home-work related traveling time is almost half that of rush hour.
"Public transport is useless,...., overcrowded"
Does not compute.
The electronic toll road was essentially the plan from de late 80's-early 90's. First by numberplate recognition on the highways, later by blackboxes in cars scanned by toll ports. The latest GPS/GSM boxes are to store the information localy and to only upload the totaleds bill. But the justice department already floated the idea that these boxes can be tapped (remote) for detailed information when needed. The same department was slapped when it was found out that ANPR data was being kept and mined for possibly criminal data unrelated to the original purpose. When caught the response was: well we have change this irritatng privacy law then to allow us to do that we want.
"Then tax the odometer as if it was a electric or water counter."
Doesn't work with international traveling, riding to my parents house I travel through Belgium since it is a shorter route (in km not time), should I be taxed in the Netherlands for these kilometers? Also when I travel though Belgium I fill up on fuel, so I pay taxes there (a selfish act since fuel is cheaper).
The fuel taxes/levies are a constant. This proposed system takes congestion on roads and times of use into consideration. Per the article the drive from Eindhoven airport to the city center(?) costs 5 EUR during rushour. That is a 15-30m drive for something like 10km. Off-peak I can do that trip in under 10m on my bike. In the current system the variable costs for this trip is approx the same for all vehicles alike (when using the same fuel type and mileage): approx. 0.5l of fuel.
The theory is that putting a higher price on driving during rushhour will result in less people on the road at the same time, people that can avoid the rush hour premium will do so. At the same time the fixed costs of owning a vehicle is reduced (yearly road taxes) and the taxes on buying a car should be abolished (BPM http://www.vdsautomotive.nl/en/zakelijk/bpm-calculator ). Overall this would be a more fair system for use based taxation, but the main fear people have is that levies on fuel, the road tax and BPM will remain making driving more expensive. Only a small minority will oppose this for privacy reasons.
What specific controller? The uPD720200 works fine with Debian/stable, but the uPD720201 and uPD720202 appear to not be released yet. The Etron seems to be work in progress, you'll have to install the drivers yourself.
You forgot to tell us what laptop and desktop you are using.
As soon as the data leaves the providers own network, all guarantees are gone. The ISPs own uplink might be sufficient, but towards the endpoint there might be some congestion. It might just be that Comcast and Verizon have much better peering partners (with respect to the targets of the tests) than Cablevision. For example I live in a neighborhood where EVERYBODY (approx 4000 houses) has access to FttH (with only 1 plan: 100Mbps up and down), this provider (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edutel) has to have an uplink and downlink of 400Gbps to absolutely guarantee full throughput for everybody at the same time. That would be about 1/3 of the total data traveling trough the Netherlands at the largest exchange at peaktimes: http://www.ams-ix.net/statistics/ . Luckily for the ISP not everyone has an subscription with them since the only appear to have 2 20GE port at the exchange. Also not everybody is using their capacity to the max, the net result is that I can get the full 100Mbps up and down at nearly any moment when using a well seeded torrent. Accessing random individual sites is usually a lot slower.
How can anyone guarantee a minimum speed? An ISP may be able to have such guarantees in their own network (where most stuff isn't), if they have full control over EVERYTHING.
Are trying to tell us Soylent green isn't coming from fish in the oceans?
"I haven't ever heard anyone say their digital audio transmission is better than FM. "
Let me be the first one to tell you I've had better DAB reception than the same station in FM. I moved to a new building and the FM reception inside was terrible, DAB on the other hand was crystal clear. Can't tell if the audio quality of one or the other was better, the receiver and it's speakers quality was mediocre itself. Soon after the tuner got replaced by Internet streams. The only working FM tuner left is the one in my phone and that one has terrible reception, reception of the local stations in a mayor city (which might carry the emergency broadcasts) is terrible and without the proper headset as an antenna impossible.
Skype offers SIP trunking: http://www.skype.com/intl/en-us/business/skype-connect/
So you can go ahead and stick to SIP while interconnecting with your Skype buddies.
The Thinkpad X201T sports an (previous generation) i7 at 2.13GHz (2.9 GHzin turbo mode), the fastest machine I own. The slowest thing about it is the Intel video.
It is simpeler to run TOR on both ends and use VPN between the client and the hidden service (OpenVPN in TCP mode should work). That way the traffic should never leave the tor network.
By using TOR directly your browser may be giving away clues to your identify. By using privoxy some identity stuff may get filtered but instead you may be leaking information by DNS (especially if you are on an untrusted network). Torifying UDP is IMHO a PITA.
"The reason that it runs only Ubuntu 9.x is because that was the last distro created by Canonical to support the ARM processor (dumb dumb move). "
That is strange, I'm running 10.10 on an Toshinba AC-100 (Tegra2 plaftform: armv7l). It just offered me to upgrade to 11.04.
After rereading your comment, I think I misinterpreted your last line. Please ignore my previous post (and this one).
So there is not JIT in Android 2.2, released about a year ago?
http://www.google.com/events/io/2010/sessions/jit-compiler-androids-dalvik-vm.html
Or is there something horribly broken in it?
"Given that the cost is sending your password en clair it's just not worth it."
Only if you are using 10+ year old daemons and clients.
What makes twitter different from email in these "personal" communication examples? Other than the obvious 140chars limit.
When you are breaking and entering someones wlan, you are not accessing these parts of the router. You are only gaining access to the transmission part of the device (AccessPoint), it's like finding a way to sneakily plug a cable into someone else his network (without tresspassing on his property). The safety of the other parts is not compromised (your not using the same passphrase for the default user of the device and the wlan, are you) .
The law used to deter wireless hacking has the word computer in it. Using specific devices is always a big risk in laws with fast evolving technologies. A judge decided to formulate a definition of the word computer. I personally think it was a good call, though I don't want any unautorized access to my wlan myself.
If you want to argue this should be illegal, a better comparison would be to compare it with stealing electricity.
>The old joke was that Ubuntu is Swahili for "can't install Debian". I may even have heard it here.
I've been running Debian for years (slink). From stable on servers, testing on the development machines and unstable on my personal (desk|lap)tops. But I finally caved for Ubuntu for my personal desktop after I found that a Ubuntu live CD managed to work out of the box on my HP TX1100, the usual exceptions off course the fingerprint reader and ndiswrapper for wlan (thank you Broadcom for crappy drivers and HP for breaking the mini pciexpress slot so other cards wouldn't work in this machine).
For the first time I could use the touchscreen like intended, something I couldn't get to work with Debian/unstable (and when I finally figured how to get it to work the crappy machine died (and judging from the number of owners reporting the exact same breakdown symptoms HP managed to deliver a fine piece of crap)). So when a new laptop arrived (Thinkpad) I popped in a kubuntu dvd, wiped the Debian install and have been happily running a functional machine since, except for yet again the fingerprint reader everything just works. Ubuntu may be evil by someone his standards, I'm becoming to lazy to keep up to date with Debian/unstable.