I can absolutely guarantee you that almost all Sony consumer products run some sort of embedded Linux - from their flat screen TV's to their digital cameras.
What is to stop the Iranian government setting up a plethora of TOR nodes and inspecting and tracing everything back to the source? I understand there are alot of different levels to a TOR connection (hence the 'O'nion) - but could the 'bad guys' setting up thousands of TOR nodes around the world help them trace back to the originator?
Who said anything about cracked or pirate games? This is about installing homebrew and open source software on a hardware platform which has been paid for by the consumer who bought it - and Nintendo are not selling Wii's at a loss like Sony's PS3.
If Toyota don't build an plug in hybrid, someone else will. Like it or not, electric cars are the future. The combustion engines are not going to go away any time soon, but as soon as EV's become mainstream (in the next 5 years I think), two car households will have one ICE and one EV.
One has to wonder what Toyota is thinking. The RAV4 EV which they discontinued and even tried to have destroyed was a perfectly fine vehicle, and many are still running today. I wish they would just re-introduce that vehicle, perhaps with modern batteries.
Icahn is only interested in his back pocket, not the interest of shareholders, or the employees of Yahoo. He is acting like a little child because he can't get his way.
This same thing happened in the late 80's (or maybe early 90's). Some hackers mailed a 5.25 inch floppy with some "free" software on it to thousands of people around the world. When you installed the software, it would hijack your PC and encrypt various files and you had to pay a ransom to get it back. There was a EULA and everything with the disk (which of course nobody read) which made it clear what would happen if you installed the disk.
Perhaps someone can remember what it was called.
Hey, freaky. I've bought memory from fastmemoryman a couple of times and had no problems. Yes, he does sell high-density memory, and if your motherboard chipset doesn't support it - it will not work. Worked for me though:)
Ah, but how do you differentiate between legal and illegal torrent traffic?
There are plenty of legitimate uses for torrent type P2P traffic - and if anything, this will only increase.
"Then again what is to sop Sony and the rest of the *IAA groups from sending letters to all the ISPs stating that these ranges of IPs have been downloading their content. Accuse first to get the downloading stopped then show proof later."
They can't stop legal P2P - there is nothing illegal about that. All that will happen on the illegal side is it will go encrypted - then the ISP will have no idea of what is being transferred which kind of absolves them.
1) Most people don't have the technical savvy or the desire to setup a remotely accessible server, let alone have the headache of backing it up and keeping it operating.
2) This is not a technical issue, but rather one of convenience. You can iron your own shirts too - and loads of people do, but loads of people pay someone else to do their ironing too. I'm not saying that Thin Clients will take over, but they will have a fair share of the market.
3) Yes there are risks with an online provider, but hey, there are risks with running your own setup too. Each individual or business will have to weigh those risks and the costs of running and maintaining each one and decide which to use.
To be honest for the majority of people, most of what they do on a PC _could_ be done via a browser interface. I'm not talking about power users or gamers - I mean most regular people. E-mail, web, standard office apps, and the odd specialist application.
Thin client computing is on its way back - like it or not.
Though nothing new, this is a great idea who's time has finally come - particularly for people with mobile devices connected to wifi hotspots - both of which Google has been investing in.
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I can absolutely guarantee you that almost all Sony consumer products run some sort of embedded Linux - from their flat screen TV's to their digital cameras.
What is to stop the Iranian government setting up a plethora of TOR nodes and inspecting and tracing everything back to the source? I understand there are alot of different levels to a TOR connection (hence the 'O'nion) - but could the 'bad guys' setting up thousands of TOR nodes around the world help them trace back to the originator?
I still use floppy disks you insensitive clod!
Actually - all SONY products with an embedded OS run Linux. Even the TV's, and most of the cameras. How do I know? Because I know! :-)
My father-in-law owned a gas/petrol station. He was always running out of gas!
Who said anything about cracked or pirate games? This is about installing homebrew and open source software on a hardware platform which has been paid for by the consumer who bought it - and Nintendo are not selling Wii's at a loss like Sony's PS3.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0489037/
That is fantastic - but where are the electric cars?
Check out this 47 minute video for a very easy to understand and clear explanation.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-9050474362583451279
Unless you've been through university on some Economics degree - you were probably unaware of this.
If Toyota don't build an plug in hybrid, someone else will. Like it or not, electric cars are the future. The combustion engines are not going to go away any time soon, but as soon as EV's become mainstream (in the next 5 years I think), two car households will have one ICE and one EV.
One has to wonder what Toyota is thinking. The RAV4 EV which they discontinued and even tried to have destroyed was a perfectly fine vehicle, and many are still running today. I wish they would just re-introduce that vehicle, perhaps with modern batteries.
I want to know what genius decided to have this conference in the USA.
Icahn is only interested in his back pocket, not the interest of shareholders, or the employees of Yahoo. He is acting like a little child because he can't get his way.
Mmmmmmmmm, Yellowcake.
Ok, I googled it:
The Aids information disk:
http://www.jahewi.nl/malware/ransomware/ransomware.html
This same thing happened in the late 80's (or maybe early 90's). Some hackers mailed a 5.25 inch floppy with some "free" software on it to thousands of people around the world. When you installed the software, it would hijack your PC and encrypt various files and you had to pay a ransom to get it back. There was a EULA and everything with the disk (which of course nobody read) which made it clear what would happen if you installed the disk. Perhaps someone can remember what it was called.
Hey, freaky. I've bought memory from fastmemoryman a couple of times and had no problems. Yes, he does sell high-density memory, and if your motherboard chipset doesn't support it - it will not work. Worked for me though :)
Shuttle, yes, Soyuz, no. I believe there is a height limit if you way to pay for your ride (though that may have changed recently).
Fuck me. An application uses 200MB and we're happy about it too.
I must be getting old.
Ah, but how do you differentiate between legal and illegal torrent traffic?
There are plenty of legitimate uses for torrent type P2P traffic - and if anything, this will only increase.
"Then again what is to sop Sony and the rest of the *IAA groups from sending letters to all the ISPs stating that these ranges of IPs have been downloading their content. Accuse first to get the downloading stopped then show proof later."
Isn't this what they are doing now?
They can't stop legal P2P - there is nothing illegal about that. All that will happen on the illegal side is it will go encrypted - then the ISP will have no idea of what is being transferred which kind of absolves them.
1) Most people don't have the technical savvy or the desire to setup a remotely accessible server, let alone have the headache of backing it up and keeping it operating.
2) This is not a technical issue, but rather one of convenience. You can iron your own shirts too - and loads of people do, but loads of people pay someone else to do their ironing too. I'm not saying that Thin Clients will take over, but they will have a fair share of the market.
3) Yes there are risks with an online provider, but hey, there are risks with running your own setup too. Each individual or business will have to weigh those risks and the costs of running and maintaining each one and decide which to use.
To be honest for the majority of people, most of what they do on a PC _could_ be done via a browser interface. I'm not talking about power users or gamers - I mean most regular people. E-mail, web, standard office apps, and the odd specialist application.
Thin client computing is on its way back - like it or not.
Though nothing new, this is a great idea who's time has finally come - particularly for people with mobile devices connected to wifi hotspots - both of which Google has been investing in.
Bah, think laterally dude!
Wow a Beowulf cluster!