Do ANY of these, with the exception of the Nexus One (which requires "unlocking the bootloader" anyway, and still voids your warranty) support installation of arbitrary Android ROMs without rooting?
So you want to install a new OS without root access? Why (and how)? Do you really understand what is means to install an "arbitrary Android ROM" and how you would do this (hint: you need to be root)? You also want the manufacturer to support your system when you install any "arbitrary Android ROM"?
Basic computer information: Root is how you install any OS change on any computer (except Windows; which is a problem, not a feature). You are probably used to using Windows XP where everybody is root all of the time with no protection from random people on the Internet installing their malmare on your machine. Most real computer OSs limit root access so that random unauthorized people can't install random stuff on your computer. When you use a real OS, you need to be root to change the OS.
The nice thing about Android is that you can buy hardware where it is possible to easily access root. (Just don't buy carrier locked-down / locked-in phones.)
I think you are just trolling but I will answer your question in case you are genuinely ignorant.
Android source code is freely available for people to modify and install on their Android handsets. Some carriers have modified the phone hardware and software to make this difficult (but not impossible) and others make it easy. If you want to do this with the least hassle, it's best to buy an unlocked and unsubsidized phone. This way the carriers do not have the opportunity to screw with the OS and hardware to make your life difficult.
Anyway, one popular distribution of Android is the Cyanogenmod (cyanogenmod.com). If you look at their wiki (http://wiki.cyanogenmod.com/index.php?title=Main_Page). you will see that their Android can be installed on this hardware: Dell Streak, HTC Aria, HTC Desire (CDMA, GSM), HTC Dream, HTC Evo 4G, HTC Hero (CDMA, GSM), HTC Incredible, HTC Legend, HTC Magic, HTC Slide, HTC Vision, Nexus One, Motorola Droid, Samsung Galaxy S. If you follow the link to "Unsupported devices" you will find more hardware where you can install Android.
In 1976, a bunch of us who were skiing at Squaw Valley made home-built "walkman" devices. We took a small automobile cassette player and a 12v battery pack and put it into a small chest pack. These first were homemade but soon after someone started selling these under the brand "Astraltune". They patented it in 1977.
I just Googled Astraltune and it appears that Sony paid them millions for the "idea" in 2004... stupid.
Hotspot login page probably records your MAC and IP as well as OS and browser so you could be traced. Could also collect lots of other information to uniquely identify you.
VirtualBox (virtualbox.org) is a solid FOSS virtual machine. Runs on Windows, Mac and Linux (among others) and can run Window, Linux and other OSs.
If you are running Windows, the best way to protect yourself would be to NOT run Windows. But if you are dependent on it (emotionally, financially, programmatically, etc.), the best solution would be to do all of your web browsing and email in a VirtualBox running Linux. For example, Ubuntu Linux is easy to install in a VirtualBox VM. It comes with FireFox and email tools (along with lots of other good stuff).
- Install VirtualBox on Windows
- Install Ubuntu (or another Linux) in a VirtualBox VM
- Run FireFox and email in your VM.
(This should take less than an hour to set up.)
With this configuration, you would then be running all of your Internet activities under Linux and you are very safe from malware. The VirtualBox VM would run in a window on your Windows desktop and you could then do whatever it is you need to do in Windows. If you keep Windows off the Internet it is relatively safe.
Most fuel use is for daily commute which for most people is well within the range of electric cars. Infrastructure is already in place (there is electric service everywhere... just need to install plugs).
I don't think it would be wise to waste the energy making gasoline which only has a 15-25% efficiency conversion in internal combustion engines (and also lots of other nasty pollutant outputs, nitrous oxides, carbon monoxide, etc.)
I switched to Linux (and my wife and daughters to Macs) a few years ago and I don't worry about malware any more. (Note to partisans: I know that both of these OSs can be "theoretically" compromised but the reality is that it just doesn't happen since you need to be a really stupid user and type in your password to give the malware access to do any real damage.)
I've set up VMs for Windows if I absolutely must run some Windows software but I've found I rarely use them.
- It did cost some time and money to switch but...
As usual, no mention is made in the summary or the linked news item of the platform that runs this trojan. Most geeks will know but shouldn't the public be informed?
BTW, it's hard to hold Microsoft (or any software publisher) responsible for damages caused by these flaws even when grossly negligent. I think that the people who make the decision to run Windows should be accountable for their poor decision. I think most people know that Windows is full of holes for malware. It's negligent to run Windows and expose yourself to these exploits.
It appears that he was a miner who received a redundancy payment and used it to start a business making wire cages that were filled with earth to stabilize canal banks. The military found these useful for building blast walls in Iraq and bought a bunch of them. I'm sure he did well as a military contractor but that was not his business.
It sounds like these people had "brilliant ideas" for improving nuclear FUSION but were rebuffed by the people at the lab and later by congressional staffers. They could have been brilliant or just a little disconnected from reality.
It appears that in a desperate attempt to fund their FUSION research, they tried to contact foreign governments with information on building a FISSION bomb (plans downloaded from the Internet) so the FBI obliged by providing a fake Venezuelan contact to trap them.
When you have the LEDs in series, the current is the same through all of them so a LED with a lower forward voltage drop will consume LESS power... no thermal runaway.
The resistance in the wires does little to limit the current. The LEDs themselves have a forward voltage drop of about 2 volts (depends on the color and blue/white LEDs are about 4 volts). The voltage drop increases with the current. This means that you can put a bunch of them in series without any current limiting resistor (or wire or battery internal resistance) and the current will be limited. As an example, you can run 6 LEDs in series from a 12v DC battery without any resistor. A typical LED will draw about 10ma with a 2v drop and this jumps to 50 ma with a 2.5 volt drop. You shouldn't run them at more than about 50ma since they will overheat and burn out (typically at about 80ma).
As you point out, a better design is to use a bridge rectifier so you use both phases and double the flicker rate to 100 or 120. However, this still clips the peak of the power cycle which the power companies don't like (no current draw until you reach the voltage threshold) so a full switching power supply would behave better. A capacitor alone wouldn't do much except to make the flicker peak last longer.
I have several strings of christmas lights that are LED. They don't have a current limiting resistor or a diode rectfier. They run straight off the AC. Work great.
The forward voltage drop of the LEDs in series limits the current. The LEDs are actually "diodes" (that's the D part) so they don't need a rectifier diode.
Gmail does not have folders but it does have tags. Tags can be used like folders but are more flexible since you can have more than one tag on a message. However, I have found that gmail's searching is so good that I don't even need to use the tags. Everything just goes into the "Archive" and the gmail search always finds what I want... quickly and easily.
I have never seen the US government trying to paint a bad picture of any truly democratic country, meaning a country with freedom of expression, multiple party political system, and regularly scheduled elections with different parties alternating in power.
Do a little research on the US CIA backed military overthrow of democratically elected Allende in Chile (1973). Not only did the US "paint a bad picture" but they instigated (CIA) the overthrow of the government and installed a military dictatorship. This was not the first of the last time this happened but it is a good representative example.
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So you want to install a new OS without root access? Why (and how)? Do you really understand what is means to install an "arbitrary Android ROM" and how you would do this (hint: you need to be root)? You also want the manufacturer to support your system when you install any "arbitrary Android ROM"?
Basic computer information: Root is how you install any OS change on any computer (except Windows; which is a problem, not a feature). You are probably used to using Windows XP where everybody is root all of the time with no protection from random people on the Internet installing their malmare on your machine. Most real computer OSs limit root access so that random unauthorized people can't install random stuff on your computer. When you use a real OS, you need to be root to change the OS.
The nice thing about Android is that you can buy hardware where it is possible to easily access root. (Just don't buy carrier locked-down / locked-in phones.)
Android source code is freely available for people to modify and install on their Android handsets. Some carriers have modified the phone hardware and software to make this difficult (but not impossible) and others make it easy. If you want to do this with the least hassle, it's best to buy an unlocked and unsubsidized phone. This way the carriers do not have the opportunity to screw with the OS and hardware to make your life difficult.
Anyway, one popular distribution of Android is the Cyanogenmod (cyanogenmod.com). If you look at their wiki (http://wiki.cyanogenmod.com/index.php?title=Main_Page). you will see that their Android can be installed on this hardware: Dell Streak, HTC Aria, HTC Desire (CDMA, GSM), HTC Dream, HTC Evo 4G, HTC Hero (CDMA, GSM), HTC Incredible, HTC Legend, HTC Magic, HTC Slide, HTC Vision, Nexus One, Motorola Droid, Samsung Galaxy S. If you follow the link to "Unsupported devices" you will find more hardware where you can install Android.
I just Googled Astraltune and it appears that Sony paid them millions for the "idea" in 2004... stupid.
Linux and Mac use repositories which manage updates for the system and all applications. Automatic. No space in the head required.
Hotspot login page probably records your MAC and IP as well as OS and browser so you could be traced. Could also collect lots of other information to uniquely identify you.
If you are running Windows, the best way to protect yourself would be to NOT run Windows. But if you are dependent on it (emotionally, financially, programmatically, etc.), the best solution would be to do all of your web browsing and email in a VirtualBox running Linux. For example, Ubuntu Linux is easy to install in a VirtualBox VM. It comes with FireFox and email tools (along with lots of other good stuff).
- Install VirtualBox on Windows
- Install Ubuntu (or another Linux) in a VirtualBox VM
- Run FireFox and email in your VM.
(This should take less than an hour to set up.)
With this configuration, you would then be running all of your Internet activities under Linux and you are very safe from malware. The VirtualBox VM would run in a window on your Windows desktop and you could then do whatever it is you need to do in Windows. If you keep Windows off the Internet it is relatively safe.
Step 2) Make electricity (wind, solar, nuclear)
Step 3) Profit!
Most fuel use is for daily commute which for most people is well within the range of electric cars. Infrastructure is already in place (there is electric service everywhere... just need to install plugs).
I don't think it would be wise to waste the energy making gasoline which only has a 15-25% efficiency conversion in internal combustion engines (and also lots of other nasty pollutant outputs, nitrous oxides, carbon monoxide, etc.)
I switched to Linux (and my wife and daughters to Macs) a few years ago and I don't worry about malware any more. (Note to partisans: I know that both of these OSs can be "theoretically" compromised but the reality is that it just doesn't happen since you need to be a really stupid user and type in your password to give the malware access to do any real damage.)
I've set up VMs for Windows if I absolutely must run some Windows software but I've found I rarely use them.
- It did cost some time and money to switch but...
- Freedom from malware... priceless.
My Skype VOIP would only charge $10.00 for 10,000 calls. These businesses must be really stupid.
Looks like the FBI fired first.
I don't see why people buy cases for the iPhone. It makes them bulky an they don't protect the screen. ?
BTW, it's hard to hold Microsoft (or any software publisher) responsible for damages caused by these flaws even when grossly negligent. I think that the people who make the decision to run Windows should be accountable for their poor decision. I think most people know that Windows is full of holes for malware. It's negligent to run Windows and expose yourself to these exploits.
I assume that this is a Windows only malware but as usual, no mention is made of platform.
It appears that he was a miner who received a redundancy payment and used it to start a business making wire cages that were filled with earth to stabilize canal banks. The military found these useful for building blast walls in Iraq and bought a bunch of them. I'm sure he did well as a military contractor but that was not his business.
Sad for the family.
I believe that they also have a version which uses two current clamps and is suitable for US power.
http://www.flukso.net/
Yes, serious business indeed. (Usually off-topic... but nothing seems to ever be off-topic... still, it cuts down on the noise.)
Glad that I have blocked sigs... (no, I don't want to see your sig or any other sig... they are distractions)
It appears that in a desperate attempt to fund their FUSION research, they tried to contact foreign governments with information on building a FISSION bomb (plans downloaded from the Internet) so the FBI obliged by providing a fake Venezuelan contact to trap them.
This is just sad.
When you have the LEDs in series, the current is the same through all of them so a LED with a lower forward voltage drop will consume LESS power... no thermal runaway.
As you point out, a better design is to use a bridge rectifier so you use both phases and double the flicker rate to 100 or 120. However, this still clips the peak of the power cycle which the power companies don't like (no current draw until you reach the voltage threshold) so a full switching power supply would behave better. A capacitor alone wouldn't do much except to make the flicker peak last longer.
The forward voltage drop of the LEDs in series limits the current. The LEDs are actually "diodes" (that's the D part) so they don't need a rectifier diode.
Gmail does not have folders but it does have tags. Tags can be used like folders but are more flexible since you can have more than one tag on a message. However, I have found that gmail's searching is so good that I don't even need to use the tags. Everything just goes into the "Archive" and the gmail search always finds what I want... quickly and easily.
Do a little research on the US CIA backed military overthrow of democratically elected Allende in Chile (1973). Not only did the US "paint a bad picture" but they instigated (CIA) the overthrow of the government and installed a military dictatorship. This was not the first of the last time this happened but it is a good representative example.