I don't see how this is a "false start", given they haven't even announced targets yet. I'd view this as just the typical competence level with the UK applies across the board, finance, engineering, cooking, etc. You know, there is a reason the UK is about the only country to ever feel threatened enough about their educational standing that they rigged a world wide survey of universities, well China might do this internally.
citation : The Times of Higher Education observed that U.K. universities had more foreign students and faculty because people speak English all over the world, but the U.S. universities are god awful expensive, and well no foreigners would bother seeking an education in India or Australia. So they created a nice little "World University Ranking" that places almost half the value on the presence of foreign students and faculty while largely ignoring usual measures like student and faculty achievements. For example, France's Ecole Polytechnique was ranked around the level of the University of Manchester for Engineering, while actually even Oxford doesn't hold a candle to EP in engineering.
You don't sound like you have much grasp of the problem honestly. I doubt the plausible deniability will hold up all that well, plus search gets very difficult. Onion routing definitely could make obtaining evidence harder.
I'd favor instead restricting file transfers to people's social networks and instant messaging connections. I'm aware that some IMs like Yahoo have file sharing functionality, but you might get more traction with a multi-protocol plug-in for the various libpurple based IM clients like Adium and Pidgin.
An even better option would be merely using hashes based upon various online identities. You give the p2p application your login information for social networks, instant massagers, hotmail, gmail, etc. It'll then compute a rough extremely non-injective hash for your identities and your contacts identities. Your own identities hashes are sent through the p2p network along with temporary public keys. Any client recognizing some hash sends an encrypted response with a better more injective hash. If both clients agree they are friends, then direct connections are established, file lists are shared, etc. All clients cache the file lists from other clients, meaning users may peruse their friend's shares while their friends are offline, or even negotiate offline transfers via portable hard-disk. Nobody ever shares with strangers.
Tor works pretty well if your packets get routed through places that don't like the interested countries. In particular, Iranian dissidents can very likely take full advantage of Tor.
I've never owned either an iPhone or a CDMA phone, ala Verizon, Sprint and Americans who don't know other countries exist, but afaik all phones have usb ports. Did you mean USB host mode?
I've been told that some Nokia Internet Tablets have been hacked into supporting USB host mode, but I'm unsure the N900 achieves this.
In general, small devices don't provide power for their USB port, so any commercial phone offering USB host mode would require a special powered USB hub, perhaps built into the phone's charger. I'd imagine the only phone's that'll take USB host mode seriously will be future Nokia devices based upon MeeGo.
You can otoh currently use bluetooth keyboards, mice, and pens with many phones, including all high end Nokias.
All businesses loves Apple's ideologies when properly focused on their business interests! You see, there's this small issue that businesses aren't nearly so homogeneous feature wise as movie watchers, music listeners, etc.
If your data has so little value that you trust Amazon S3, fine great. In fact, commoditization of servers might actually reinvent mom & pop brick and mortar by letting them compete, great! If you're playing for high stakes however, well you best know what data best represents those stakes, and you best keep that data away from untrusted handlers.
IBM has actually made massive inroads into cloud computing, despite arriving late, since they are willing to guarantee banks real hardware isolation for their number crunching. I'm sure however those banks have some idea about what applications must run on in-house servers.
If IT lets users login from off-site, then users could always use their own machines, by simply putting their vpn and mail configure on unencrypted machine, assuming they don't mind violating policy. A more honest solution might be using a device they cannot easily encrypt, like a mobile phone. If they ban that device, they're under far more pressure to issue a similar device.
In any case, the easiest solution for IT would be changing all the VPN certificates, after issuing IronKeys that contained preconfigured software for VPN and Email checking under Windows, Mac OS X, and maybe Linux. All the temp files must stay on the IronKey of course. ITs life gets vastly simpler, never configure people's machines, just hand over an IronKey. People obviously won't check their work email nearly so much, but that's fine. People who need continues email should be issued Blackberries anyways.
No, I've never owned an iPhone, never even used a jail broken one. I was merely asking about emulators on other platforms since I know the N900 handles them quite well.
Fair enough, your comment is more informative than the other comment claiming all manor of innovative games in the App Store.:)
I doubt that anyone has any data on "innovative" games of course, but I've seen numerous quite clever flash games, Shift, Fantastic, Contraption, Enough Plumbers, etc. I've never seen an iPhone game that was quite as innovative, although the iPad's foray into larger form factors may net some competitors.
Jobs says "There are more games and entertainment titles available for iPhone, iPod and iPad than for any other platform in the world." To me, this rings quite hollow :
First, the vast majority of recent truly innovative small-form-factor or two-dimensional games are primarily flash games, possibly with ports to mobile platforms like the iPhone. Yes, the best such games are often rewritten for the iPhone, but..
Second, the vast majority of older two-dimensional games are outdated console games that now run under emulation under linux, mac os x, and windows. I'm unsure if how well the iPhone handles these games, especially old arcade games, given the lack of keyboard. I'm also unsure how well the emulators run under Symbian, Android, Windows Mobile, etc. either, maybe the iPhone has the best emulators from among the mass market phones.
I know however that my N900 offers almost all the Linux emulators, the ones I've tried play well thanks to the keyboard, even dosbox.
Third, there are still vastly more strong titles for recent consoles or desktops that'll never play well on an iPhone within Jobs lifetime.
Jobs does however state the all important caveat "entertainment titles" by which he presumably means all movies sold via iTunes too. Yes, other mobile platforms are not making movies available like Apple, true but kinda irrelevant.
Did not the European court rule the three-strikes thing was a violation of fundamental human rights? The UK might get away with it only because you can change ISP.
The MafiAA can (1) buy more legislation, (2) pay the police to harass them, (3) sue for contributory infringement, etc. UK is a very shitty place for modern human rights, they'll get stopped eventually.
That said, if they're clean enough, they'll gain many many customers while the labels react, they might not pay any damages, and they'll surely raise awareness for copyright reform.
Apple's value was always how they really thought about what average users require. Two awesome examples are Time Machine and System Preferences, especially Networking. Two horrible disasters are Address Book and iCal, although I confess they got me off text files.;)
We should consider how Apple's two biggest recent advancements translate over into the Linux world :
Leopard : Time Machine has several advantages over other backup solutions like rsync scripts : (1) simplicity by eliminating configuration options, (2) intuitive 3d effects, (3) speed via integration with metadata, (4) space efficiency via directory hard links, and (5) integration with applications. (1) and (2) are the biggies that get people using Time Machine. (3) would most likely be sacrificed on Linux, and (4) would require ZFS for the backup volume. (5) is actually the feature that makes Time Machine most useful day-to-day, but implementation appears daunting for Linux.
Snow Leopard : The low-level virtual machine sounds quite promising, but who knows if C blocks and C++ lambdas will actually translate into dramatically faster code. I'd hope that Linux adopts these features if they pan out.
If you like the idea of a Linux phone, then you'll like the N900. I'd never recommend them more broadly, neither does Nokia.
I've had two serious software glitches on my N900 : 1st, the RSS reader filled up/home after not liking feedburner feeds. 2nd, the screen locked unpleasantly when I charged the phone overnight before I reset the settings. I've had no hardware glitches on the N900.
By comparison, all three Apple laptops that I've ever purchased have had hard drive crashes within the first three months, two have experienced charging issues, and one experienced mother board failure. Apple has however been more helpful when resolving the hardware problems, mostly because AppleCare is world wide.
Symbian was designed before touch screen technology was popular outside asia. N97s are very likely the product of old Symbian heads competing both externally with Apple and Android as well as internally with Maemo/MeeGo.
I've no idea how long Nokia will take delivering a MeeGo device, but MeeGo will officially target Maemo's most obnoxious shortcoming, like rotation.
I got mine, a Nokia N900 that is, screw the droids. Real VoIP & IM integration rocks!
I also have a U.S. passport, even got some entry stamps. So fuck all the worthless CDMA carriers like Verizon too. I prefer that my phone has some coverage within 1000 miles.
p.s. Android should never have been developed. Google could have improved everyones lives by enhancing the Maemo project.
They've outlawed facebook. Great! Awesome! Wonderful! Where do I make campaign contributions?
If you let your users use an alias like any civil website, you're completely immune. Look, you have no business knowing your users real names, except for financial transactions, and that's definitely worth the encryption.
Facebook's real name policy is a massive threat to the delicate balance between connectivity and human dignity. I hope MA courts seize all facebook's assets and throw the executives in jail.
p.s. I'm aware you might have concerns about say the IRS processing tax returns, well actually the IRS isn't subject to MA laws, and trial would amuse us.
Why not write some scripts for rotating your access points MAC address and maybe SSID. You'll never mess stuff up by changing the MAC address periodically, but obviously all clients must know about SSID changes. You could run the same algorithm for choosing the SSID on all your wireless devices, create some client for finding the new SSID address, or change rarely enough that manual updates aren't annoying.
You'll only encourage them by censoring shit. A constructive response to islamic protects against depicting Mohammed would be depicting Mohammed eating pig feces.:)
In fact, your own files might be accessed frequently, but they're very likely their small enough for ram cache. All this changes if you commonly manipulate huge files of course.
Apple has their sights firmly focussed upon the consumer electronics world, which ultimately makes Mac OS X and the iPhone problematic for most businesses. Ever see a company using iCal? pure lolz! If your company could successfully run on Mac OS X, then they could equally well run on Linux, and you'll need to consider various finer details.
In any case, all the unixy central administration tools are far more powerful that similar windows tools, therefore many companies could benefit enormously from exploring desktop Linux and Mac OS X, but many users depend upon Microsoft only features.
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I don't see how this is a "false start", given they haven't even announced targets yet. I'd view this as just the typical competence level with the UK applies across the board, finance, engineering, cooking, etc. You know, there is a reason the UK is about the only country to ever feel threatened enough about their educational standing that they rigged a world wide survey of universities, well China might do this internally.
citation : The Times of Higher Education observed that U.K. universities had more foreign students and faculty because people speak English all over the world, but the U.S. universities are god awful expensive, and well no foreigners would bother seeking an education in India or Australia. So they created a nice little "World University Ranking" that places almost half the value on the presence of foreign students and faculty while largely ignoring usual measures like student and faculty achievements. For example, France's Ecole Polytechnique was ranked around the level of the University of Manchester for Engineering, while actually even Oxford doesn't hold a candle to EP in engineering.
You don't sound like you have much grasp of the problem honestly. I doubt the plausible deniability will hold up all that well, plus search gets very difficult. Onion routing definitely could make obtaining evidence harder.
I'd favor instead restricting file transfers to people's social networks and instant messaging connections. I'm aware that some IMs like Yahoo have file sharing functionality, but you might get more traction with a multi-protocol plug-in for the various libpurple based IM clients like Adium and Pidgin.
An even better option would be merely using hashes based upon various online identities. You give the p2p application your login information for social networks, instant massagers, hotmail, gmail, etc. It'll then compute a rough extremely non-injective hash for your identities and your contacts identities. Your own identities hashes are sent through the p2p network along with temporary public keys. Any client recognizing some hash sends an encrypted response with a better more injective hash. If both clients agree they are friends, then direct connections are established, file lists are shared, etc. All clients cache the file lists from other clients, meaning users may peruse their friend's shares while their friends are offline, or even negotiate offline transfers via portable hard-disk. Nobody ever shares with strangers.
Tor works pretty well if your packets get routed through places that don't like the interested countries. In particular, Iranian dissidents can very likely take full advantage of Tor.
I've never owned either an iPhone or a CDMA phone, ala Verizon, Sprint and Americans who don't know other countries exist, but afaik all phones have usb ports. Did you mean USB host mode?
I've been told that some Nokia Internet Tablets have been hacked into supporting USB host mode, but I'm unsure the N900 achieves this.
In general, small devices don't provide power for their USB port, so any commercial phone offering USB host mode would require a special powered USB hub, perhaps built into the phone's charger. I'd imagine the only phone's that'll take USB host mode seriously will be future Nokia devices based upon MeeGo.
You can otoh currently use bluetooth keyboards, mice, and pens with many phones, including all high end Nokias.
All businesses loves Apple's ideologies when properly focused on their business interests! You see, there's this small issue that businesses aren't nearly so homogeneous feature wise as movie watchers, music listeners, etc.
If your data has so little value that you trust Amazon S3, fine great. In fact, commoditization of servers might actually reinvent mom & pop brick and mortar by letting them compete, great! If you're playing for high stakes however, well you best know what data best represents those stakes, and you best keep that data away from untrusted handlers.
IBM has actually made massive inroads into cloud computing, despite arriving late, since they are willing to guarantee banks real hardware isolation for their number crunching. I'm sure however those banks have some idea about what applications must run on in-house servers.
If IT lets users login from off-site, then users could always use their own machines, by simply putting their vpn and mail configure on unencrypted machine, assuming they don't mind violating policy. A more honest solution might be using a device they cannot easily encrypt, like a mobile phone. If they ban that device, they're under far more pressure to issue a similar device.
In any case, the easiest solution for IT would be changing all the VPN certificates, after issuing IronKeys that contained preconfigured software for VPN and Email checking under Windows, Mac OS X, and maybe Linux. All the temp files must stay on the IronKey of course. ITs life gets vastly simpler, never configure people's machines, just hand over an IronKey. People obviously won't check their work email nearly so much, but that's fine. People who need continues email should be issued Blackberries anyways.
No, I've never owned an iPhone, never even used a jail broken one. I was merely asking about emulators on other platforms since I know the N900 handles them quite well.
Go India! Everyone should ban electronics made in China given China's general proclivity towards industrial espionage.
Can you name even one iPhone game that's actually "innovative"? I'm not that easy to please, but I quite liked Fantastic Contraption and Portal.
Fair enough, your comment is more informative than the other comment claiming all manor of innovative games in the App Store. :)
I doubt that anyone has any data on "innovative" games of course, but I've seen numerous quite clever flash games, Shift, Fantastic, Contraption, Enough Plumbers, etc. I've never seen an iPhone game that was quite as innovative, although the iPad's foray into larger form factors may net some competitors.
Jobs says "There are more games and entertainment titles available for iPhone, iPod and iPad than for any other platform in the world." To me, this rings quite hollow :
First, the vast majority of recent truly innovative small-form-factor or two-dimensional games are primarily flash games, possibly with ports to mobile platforms like the iPhone. Yes, the best such games are often rewritten for the iPhone, but ..
Second, the vast majority of older two-dimensional games are outdated console games that now run under emulation under linux, mac os x, and windows. I'm unsure if how well the iPhone handles these games, especially old arcade games, given the lack of keyboard. I'm also unsure how well the emulators run under Symbian, Android, Windows Mobile, etc. either, maybe the iPhone has the best emulators from among the mass market phones.
I know however that my N900 offers almost all the Linux emulators, the ones I've tried play well thanks to the keyboard, even dosbox.
Third, there are still vastly more strong titles for recent consoles or desktops that'll never play well on an iPhone within Jobs lifetime.
Jobs does however state the all important caveat "entertainment titles" by which he presumably means all movies sold via iTunes too. Yes, other mobile platforms are not making movies available like Apple, true but kinda irrelevant.
Did not the European court rule the three-strikes thing was a violation of fundamental human rights? The UK might get away with it only because you can change ISP.
The MafiAA can (1) buy more legislation, (2) pay the police to harass them, (3) sue for contributory infringement, etc. UK is a very shitty place for modern human rights, they'll get stopped eventually.
That said, if they're clean enough, they'll gain many many customers while the labels react, they might not pay any damages, and they'll surely raise awareness for copyright reform.
Apple's value was always how they really thought about what average users require. Two awesome examples are Time Machine and System Preferences, especially Networking. Two horrible disasters are Address Book and iCal, although I confess they got me off text files. ;)
We should consider how Apple's two biggest recent advancements translate over into the Linux world :
Leopard : Time Machine has several advantages over other backup solutions like rsync scripts : (1) simplicity by eliminating configuration options, (2) intuitive 3d effects, (3) speed via integration with metadata, (4) space efficiency via directory hard links, and (5) integration with applications. (1) and (2) are the biggies that get people using Time Machine. (3) would most likely be sacrificed on Linux, and (4) would require ZFS for the backup volume. (5) is actually the feature that makes Time Machine most useful day-to-day, but implementation appears daunting for Linux.
Snow Leopard : The low-level virtual machine sounds quite promising, but who knows if C blocks and C++ lambdas will actually translate into dramatically faster code. I'd hope that Linux adopts these features if they pan out.
If you like the idea of a Linux phone, then you'll like the N900. I'd never recommend them more broadly, neither does Nokia.
I've had two serious software glitches on my N900 : 1st, the RSS reader filled up /home after not liking feedburner feeds. 2nd, the screen locked unpleasantly when I charged the phone overnight before I reset the settings. I've had no hardware glitches on the N900.
By comparison, all three Apple laptops that I've ever purchased have had hard drive crashes within the first three months, two have experienced charging issues, and one experienced mother board failure. Apple has however been more helpful when resolving the hardware problems, mostly because AppleCare is world wide.
Symbian was designed before touch screen technology was popular outside asia. N97s are very likely the product of old Symbian heads competing both externally with Apple and Android as well as internally with Maemo/MeeGo.
I've no idea how long Nokia will take delivering a MeeGo device, but MeeGo will officially target Maemo's most obnoxious shortcoming, like rotation.
I got mine, a Nokia N900 that is, screw the droids. Real VoIP & IM integration rocks!
I also have a U.S. passport, even got some entry stamps. So fuck all the worthless CDMA carriers like Verizon too. I prefer that my phone has some coverage within 1000 miles.
p.s. Android should never have been developed. Google could have improved everyones lives by enhancing the Maemo project.
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You sir have made my day!
They've outlawed facebook. Great! Awesome! Wonderful! Where do I make campaign contributions?
If you let your users use an alias like any civil website, you're completely immune. Look, you have no business knowing your users real names, except for financial transactions, and that's definitely worth the encryption.
Facebook's real name policy is a massive threat to the delicate balance between connectivity and human dignity. I hope MA courts seize all facebook's assets and throw the executives in jail.
p.s. I'm aware you might have concerns about say the IRS processing tax returns, well actually the IRS isn't subject to MA laws, and trial would amuse us.
Yes, a completely reasonable law, that just outlawed facebook. :) sounds like progress to me!
Why not write some scripts for rotating your access points MAC address and maybe SSID. You'll never mess stuff up by changing the MAC address periodically, but obviously all clients must know about SSID changes. You could run the same algorithm for choosing the SSID on all your wireless devices, create some client for finding the new SSID address, or change rarely enough that manual updates aren't annoying.
Yes, they follow the old testament more than the new testament, true. But they're still christians, their actions reflect upon christianity, etc.
You'll only encourage them by censoring shit. A constructive response to islamic protects against depicting Mohammed would be depicting Mohammed eating pig feces. :)
Dan Savage declared it everybody draw mohammed day
In fact, your own files might be accessed frequently, but they're very likely their small enough for ram cache. All this changes if you commonly manipulate huge files of course.
Apple has their sights firmly focussed upon the consumer electronics world, which ultimately makes Mac OS X and the iPhone problematic for most businesses. Ever see a company using iCal? pure lolz! If your company could successfully run on Mac OS X, then they could equally well run on Linux, and you'll need to consider various finer details.
In any case, all the unixy central administration tools are far more powerful that similar windows tools, therefore many companies could benefit enormously from exploring desktop Linux and Mac OS X, but many users depend upon Microsoft only features.