Android does have a good way to stop unwanted apps from sending out data. It's called iptables. There are some nice GUI frontends, like DroidWall if you don't like putting in terminal commands to a phone.
My town has a conservative city council. They're replacing all the streetlights from sodium-vapor to LED lamps. The LED lights project far less light into the sky, and use less power. They'll probably vote themselves a paycheck bonus equal to the money saved from this project....
Sometimes, corruption works.
Yesterday a friend asked my why I like command line so much. After all, GUIs make it easy to find commands you don't use often through the menus (unless it's a ribbon app) while you have to memorize command line commands. My answer: Yes, GUI is easier, for one file. I just renamed my music files to a name/directory structure of "artist/album/artist - album - disk - track - title". All 6000 of them. In under a minute. GUIs are better for single tasks. CLIs for batch jobs and automation.
So the dust isn't hundreds of meters deep, and there are no spear-toting maniacs, nor any diamond wells, but he at least guessed the underground bit...
And for those who say that air travel is a privilege, and that we aren't given the right to fly anywhere (ignoring that whole tenth amendment bit "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people." there's also a law that gives that right explicitly:
"49 U.S.C. 40103 : US Code - Section 40103: Sovereignty and use of airspace
(2) A citizen of the United States has a public right of transit through the navigable airspace."
Why do people think that the cause matters so much?
Is it happening?: Yes.
Is it harmful to us?: Almost certainly yes eventually. Probably even in the relative short term, some things like the recently severe arctic inversions have caused harm to farming. Harm to the food supply is certainly bad. So put this as a Yes.
What can we do about it? Here's where knowing the cause is useful, but not essential. If we caused it, then it's probably easier for us to stop it than if it's a purely natural cycle. Even if it is purely natural we might still be able to geoengineer a solution. The expense/difficulty of fixing it cause problems, but as long as those problems are lesser than ignoring the problem a rational actor will act to fix global warming.
That's Nexus series only, not for all Android phones, or even all with a certain version and up of the OS. Hopefully it will get adapted to other phones soon.
LUKS Manager for Android lets you create encrypted volumes, similar to TrueCrypt. TextSecure encrypts incoming text messages. There is not yet a way to do full disk encryption that I know of.
Back in high school a friend and I created a 4-bit CPU from discrete components. It was a big, semester-long project, but it worked and we made some very simple programs for it. So I've done half of it, once. I'll probably never do that again.
Relativity is derived from the application of the Lorentz transformations onto Maxwell's equations. It's defined in terms of light. Change C from light to neutrinos and the derivation no longer applies, since neutrinos don't follow Maxwell's equations.
They know the positions of the 2 ends of the neutrino baseline to 2cm accuracy via GPS. They used those 2 sets of coordinates to measure the straight-line distance. They repeated the measurements daily to account for the slow drift of the continental plates. See page 10 of the paper.
GPS is accurate to +-100ns. That wasn't enough, so they used atomic clocks and GPS AND a few other steps of sync (basically they set 2 atomic clocks to GPS time at CERN, then carted one to Italy and calibrated the atomic clock + GPS clocks there to it. This got them an accuracy of +-0.9ns.
Relativity is incompatible with the standard model (quantum mechanics). One or both must therefore be incorrect. The standard model does not predict this sort of behavior for neutrinos, and Relativity indicates that they should not travel faster than c. IFF this result is correct, then both are incorrect.
I have. They tend to go corrupt because the disk is failing though, so it's almost never not a windows specific error./etc getting trashed is effectively the *nix equivalent.
I use a pseudonym in real life. Several of my friends don't even know my "real" name, and probably never will. After all, my name is the identifier people associate with me.
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Android does have a good way to stop unwanted apps from sending out data. It's called iptables. There are some nice GUI frontends, like DroidWall if you don't like putting in terminal commands to a phone.
How about Brian (Krebs) and Bruce (Schneier)?
This is why I use diceware. 7776 words.
My town has a conservative city council. They're replacing all the streetlights from sodium-vapor to LED lamps. The LED lights project far less light into the sky, and use less power. They'll probably vote themselves a paycheck bonus equal to the money saved from this project.... Sometimes, corruption works.
You sound like someone who would do well with Xmonad. It's a very minimal tiling window manager. I personally use it instead of kwin with kde4.
Yesterday a friend asked my why I like command line so much. After all, GUIs make it easy to find commands you don't use often through the menus (unless it's a ribbon app) while you have to memorize command line commands. My answer: Yes, GUI is easier, for one file. I just renamed my music files to a name/directory structure of "artist/album/artist - album - disk - track - title". All 6000 of them. In under a minute. GUIs are better for single tasks. CLIs for batch jobs and automation.
100 years will probably see quantum computing become useful, and Linux won't work on a non-Von-Neumann architecture system.
So the dust isn't hundreds of meters deep, and there are no spear-toting maniacs, nor any diamond wells, but he at least guessed the underground bit...
Where else would you find someone who has a vernier caliper at his computer desk? Yep, this is Slashdot.
I can operate an Evo with one hand. I also have very small hands (16.25cm from base of palm to tip of the middle finger.)
And for those who say that air travel is a privilege, and that we aren't given the right to fly anywhere (ignoring that whole tenth amendment bit
"The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."
there's also a law that gives that right explicitly:
"49 U.S.C. 40103 : US Code - Section 40103: Sovereignty and use of airspace
(2) A citizen of the United States has a public right of transit through the navigable airspace."
Why do people think that the cause matters so much?
Is it happening?: Yes.
Is it harmful to us?: Almost certainly yes eventually. Probably even in the relative short term, some things like the recently severe arctic inversions have caused harm to farming. Harm to the food supply is certainly bad. So put this as a Yes.
What can we do about it? Here's where knowing the cause is useful, but not essential. If we caused it, then it's probably easier for us to stop it than if it's a purely natural cycle. Even if it is purely natural we might still be able to geoengineer a solution. The expense/difficulty of fixing it cause problems, but as long as those problems are lesser than ignoring the problem a rational actor will act to fix global warming.
Now, has anyone seen a rational actor? Anyone?
Except that in the vast majority of cases the manipulators and the speculators are the exact same people.
That's Nexus series only, not for all Android phones, or even all with a certain version and up of the OS. Hopefully it will get adapted to other phones soon.
LUKS Manager for Android lets you create encrypted volumes, similar to TrueCrypt. TextSecure encrypts incoming text messages. There is not yet a way to do full disk encryption that I know of.
Not just embedded. Look at Coreboot, where Linux is used as a BIOS.
Back in high school a friend and I created a 4-bit CPU from discrete components. It was a big, semester-long project, but it worked and we made some very simple programs for it. So I've done half of it, once. I'll probably never do that again.
I believe they were, they mention that as the maximal error of basic GPS systems, then describe their system, which uses a PolaRx2e reciever.
Relativity is derived from the application of the Lorentz transformations onto Maxwell's equations. It's defined in terms of light. Change C from light to neutrinos and the derivation no longer applies, since neutrinos don't follow Maxwell's equations.
They know the positions of the 2 ends of the neutrino baseline to 2cm accuracy via GPS. They used those 2 sets of coordinates to measure the straight-line distance. They repeated the measurements daily to account for the slow drift of the continental plates. See page 10 of the paper.
GPS is accurate to +-100ns. That wasn't enough, so they used atomic clocks and GPS AND a few other steps of sync (basically they set 2 atomic clocks to GPS time at CERN, then carted one to Italy and calibrated the atomic clock + GPS clocks there to it. This got them an accuracy of +-0.9ns.
Relativity is incompatible with the standard model (quantum mechanics). One or both must therefore be incorrect. The standard model does not predict this sort of behavior for neutrinos, and Relativity indicates that they should not travel faster than c. IFF this result is correct, then both are incorrect.
I have. They tend to go corrupt because the disk is failing though, so it's almost never not a windows specific error. /etc getting trashed is effectively the *nix equivalent.
I use a pseudonym in real life. Several of my friends don't even know my "real" name, and probably never will. After all, my name is the identifier people associate with me.