Yeah, I must say I was really surprised by the early responses your post/this article got. I thought/.ers were better than that! The first minutes of its life on/. seemed to get posts (or at least moderator points) dominated by people who really didn't read or understand the article and what this doesn't mean about the NSA's intentions, our security, or as you say the non-illegalness of this non-issue. Fortunately as I look at the responses now the system seems to have corrected itself and the non-tinfoil hatters have retaken control... I suppose the obvious lesson I should get out of this is that those who mod or post early are less likely to have modded or posted accurately/reasonably. It takes more time to think than to emotionally react.
I've now seen a bunch of comments modded down as trolling despite their being reasonable comments by people who just happen not to wear tin foil hats. If this article freaks you out or upsets you and seems like an important rights issue, great! I'm glad you're interested in defending your rights and by extension all of our rights. Thank you! But, don't by modding suppress the opinion of many who feel this isn't some stunning/shocking/scary revelation. That many feel the issue isn't a major one is itself an important thing to know.
As for me, Carnivore and all the recent "unlawful" wire taps scare me, a permanent versus a session cookie, not so much.
Woah, that's not an accurate analogy. Because hammers are generally used for the purposes of construction rather than for illegal purposes. And that's an important point, at least practically speaking, and as the laws appear to often be applied. The right analogy would be about bongs/water pipes. Many states outlaw them outright because they are considered drug paraphernalia, because while they "can" be used for smoking tobacco, they rarely are. Other states allow their sale and the stores which sell them claim they are intended for tobacco use only, but of course, they know they will not be used that way. Anyway... not saying which is right. Just saying that is at least the right analogy, IMHO.
If your system works for you, as it apparently does, excellent!
I can't personally imagine spending the time each week to go to the bank and access the safety deposit box (but perhaps your bank is more efficient and pleasant than any I've known). I do store data that way myself, but not every week, more like once every 2 months. And in the mean time I shuttle automatically backed-up encrypted drives weekly between work and home, as well as burning encrypted DVDs of my most active/daily-use data. I just start the burn before bed once a week, sometimes more often. I also have a NAS which I back up to automatically more often, but it doesn't backup all data. It's not a completely painless solution, either, but most of it's automated or at least doesn't require any attention.
An interesting related article and discussion on interpreting Google's zeitgeist OS numbers. And what it might mean for % usage of OS (which for Mac ends up being the 3-6% people usually speak of, 3% from Google's direct number and another 3% from Google 'Other' OS).
Hmm, the summary of the article seems to include more facts than the article itself. The summary makes a big point of how TFA's 16% number if found from the virus infection percentage. TFA doesn't say that's where the 16% comes from at all. All the article body says is "In addition, the Software Publishers Association (SPA) estimates that 16 percent of computer users are on Macs." The headline says that 16% of users aren't infected because they use Macs, but it doesn't explain that or justify it. Besides, even if the summary was correct, then this would seem a very poor way to guess at install base. The browser's "user agent" header sent to a general interest site like Google would seem a far better way. Admittedly that would be skewed by Mac users using being "forced" to access Google from Windows in a work environment, but still. That seems like it would have to be more accurate than the approach hinted at in the summary. In searching for google stats on this I found on the Mac Daily News site a discussion which included this very topic when the issue of install base was previously discussed there.
True enough, if he'd do it which he won't. But, it sounds like the seller was not restricted from selling it according to the EULA, and should have had every expectation that a buyer could use it. It certainly sounds like the entire problem is Blizzard's for not conforming to their own EULA or not adequately defining it.
It's not all ignorance, lethargy, and a blind desire to follow the herd.
The major reason many don't is that there is a tremendous investment in any given platform. That investment is both in software (real dollars) and in knowledge of the given platform and its apps. It's fine to say use all open source apps on Linux, but come on, that's not realistic. There are many great open source alternatives to Windows apps, but there are many apps exclusive to Windows, further developed on Windows, etc. Not to mention, let's say someone wanted to convert from Windows to Mac. Many of the apps he owns he will need to repurchase for the Mac. I'm not aware of Adobe, for example, letting you convert your PC licenses to Mac ones; maybe they do, but I would suspect many software which supports Mac and PC wouldn't. So, even amongst the cross-platform pay apps you'd need to spend money for the conversion.
Yeah, I've got to admit, as much as I'd like to like Bakula (he seems like a nice enough guy) his acting (or his character) is completely wrong/terrible. He seems stiff, physically as well as emotionally.
In general I've really liked Enterprise. Despite what some people say, I liked the first couple of seasons and thought it went downhill only when they tried the whole Xindi terrorism/FUD angle to boost ratings. Ah well, the end of the show was hardly a surprise.
I tried to find studies on this, but googling didn't produce much that seemed helpful. I was trying to find out the SAR values for using a WiFi phone, presumably it's not regulated in that way, so no one produces much data on it. But does anyone know?
Also, on a related note, GPRS, let's say I use my converged phone to be always-on, connected to IM/etc. How much of a dose am I getting all the time compared to talking on a call? Is having GPRS on all the time equivalent to 100% of the radiation of a call? 50%? 25%? I would assume if you're not saturating the connection it's not 100%, but no idea how to estimate whether using the always on nature of converged phones is a huge danger or no big deal.
My Siemens SX 66 (HTC Blue Angel) does cell/SIP/Skype/etc. now via 802.11/bluetooth/etc. A number of other phones (other incarnations of the HTC Blue Angel as well as the HP 6315) can do all this stuff, too.
And, if you're looking for this sort of thing without the cell phone, there are existing products for that, including the KW2000 IP Connection WiFi Netphone.
This may be the most ignorant post in the world, but whenever I've read about these super planes the first thing that I think of is how horrific an eventual crash will be. 800 people gone just like that. Assuming no flaws, I'm sure the math of it probably means fewer people dead every year since more people per plane means fewer planes means fewer flights means fewer take-offs/landings and since those are the most dangerous portions of flight, fewer deaths. But, still, I suppose some brain cells in me just won't let go of the fear that this plane won't be as safe to fly (because of its added size/weight), will be more attractive as a terrorist target, etc.
I just bought the Siemens SX 66 (Cingular) a rebranding of the HTC Blue Angel phone. I've used VoIP for a while via Skype/etc. but somehow doing it through the computer always made it much less convenient, or at least feel that way.
Now with a phone that can run Skype, I've been blown away by the convenience, simplicity, and quality. It's just awesome. I only wish I knew more people in more distant lands who had VoIP software or phones, seems such a waste not to talk to more people!
(I know there are also VoIP phones which you can plug into a network or your computer, I'm looking into getting some for relatives/etc.)
Anyway, sorry, I know I'm not contributing much to the conversation, but, being geeky, I wanted to share my excitement about my new phone/PDA (sorry, it's not Linux-based, but in defense I probably would have bought another (already owned one) Zaurus had they not pulled out of the US market).
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I only know the tiniest bit about the way the whole torrent system works. So, this may be ignorant as hell, apologies if so, or if it's already been said (I didn't see it).
Why hasn't anyone created a freenet-like system for p2p-ing the torrent links? Making a system which could be queried without easily revealing who is querying, could be persistent by publishing/keeping alive highly requested link destinations (making more servers know where those are), etc. (And my reference to freenet isn't meant to suggest this should be like that, freenet isn't for searching, only that you'd have the same basic security goals. I always thought it could be neat if you could take something like freenet as a medium for shared access to a resource, like a read-only distributed database (which could be periodically updated), etc.)
Anyway, there probably is already something like this for bit torrent...
I don't mean to seem stupid here, but Tor seems stupendously dangerous in this sense.
It essentially means people can volunteer to relay (and potentially watch) other people's traffic. I don't pretend that my data is entirely protected when it goes from my computer to XYZ server, I realize my ISP, the feds, the various networks handling the data, and ultimately the destination server could be watching/recording, but there is some basis for trust there. Don't give me a hard time, you know what I mean, I'm not saying they aren't looking, aren't logging, only that at the very least, you're not likely to have John from Foo Networks logging into your Hotmail account because you didn't log in HTTPS.
But with Tor you could have evil people being motivated to run a node in the hopes that they'll catch "valuable" exit traffic (traffic with logins/passwords). Assuming there is no trust factor used to determine which nodes are exit nodes/etc. then isn't this an incredibly serious concern? It's all well and good to say "only login to sites via https" but if Tor becomes more mainstream (and even if it doesn't) carelessness and inexperience will mean a lot of people having valuable data compromised.
>...all normal Internet routers > in your route can read your > traffic; Tor is actually BETTER...
I would just argue that again, normal internet routers are controlled by people who are trusted in some sense. The network admins who could listen at every hop are trusted by their employers who are trusted by their shareholders and their customers, and their peers, etc. In this situation Tor is less secure because anyone could volunteer for access to some percentage of other people's unencrypted traffic.
It may get lost in all the other posts, but I'm the perfect case of a Windows user who wants very much to switch to Linux, but hasn't in large part because of the painful application switch.
Because critical OSS is available on both platforms I have begun to take steps towards Linux (or for that matter FreeBSD/OSX/whatever). I've tested porting my mail from Outlook to Thunderbird. I've started using Firefox. I'm now using OpenOffice, and have ported my active docs to it. Perhaps next I'll try GAIM or something for IM (use Trillian now). Etc. In a few weeks or a month, there may be no reason not to switch to Linux. (It should be noted that I am not inexperienced with Linux, I have administrated 5-10 Linux servers and even had a Linux desktop or two.)
So, my point is just that, the availability of these high quality OSS allows me to achieve my goal of getting off Windows in a gradual, organized manner (rather than just making the jump and hoping for the best). I certainly understand the argument against making key OSS available to Windows users, and that approach may even be the best for the long term conversion of souls. But... In my situation, it is helping me switch.
I'm with you on that. It does make more sense than my flippant remark suggested. Did you ever use DragonDictate for web browsing?
DragonDictate is stunningly effective, fast and almost flawless. The reason it's both of those things is because it only needs a small vocabulary, and thus discriminating between things is easy. Each hypertext link (the label/title of it) turns into an action, and since there are only 100 or links per page (obviously many more on some, but certainly fewer than many thousands on most) all it needs to do is see which of those you said. So you give it commands like "click to journal" and it clicks the "journal" labelled link. You can also command it otherways, to disambiguate things, and to deal with image maps, but that's the main way, and as I say it's nearly flawless, and very fast. So, truly a voice activated one should be very workable. Accuracy with 500 song titles should be (relatively) easy.
I just got my 1 GB from ebay, there are a number of them on there for ~$185 (+15 for fast shipping/insurance). I bought mine from user e_mp3 via "buy it now" after seeing the auctions run up to the buy it now price (he apparently has several), it shipped out the first business day after the order, and I got it on schedule the next day. I can't see anything wrong with it, every indication is that it was new as promised. As for the person asking about the 256 MB version, Best Buy has it for $129.
The more I think of it the more I think you're right. Apple is much smarter than this. They must intend to either include a screen or have some elegant and clever solution to this functionality problem (something like voice recognition where you say "Pink Floyd, the Wall" and it plays it; I doubt it will include this...). So, my money is on them having a screen there somewhere.
While not meaning to sound like a commercial, I'm really liking the one I recently got, a 1 GB MPIO FL300. It's tiny, just a bit bigger than a butter patty. It includes (depending on where you get it) a necklace strap, as well as an armband thing, both of which are great for the gym. $199 for the 1 GB model, $129 for the 256 GB model. Anyway, that's my plug...
I don't see how you're supposed to navigate through 1 GB of music/etc. with no screen. I've got a little 1 GB mp3 player MPIO's FL300, and I can't imagine moving through all all the various folders and songs to try to find the one I want without a screen. I suppose you'd need listen to the first few hundredths of seconds of songs as you scroll. Sounds thoroughly unpleasant to me. Am I missing something?
Last week I was thinking about exactly this question. I've been using VMware to do the same sort of thing form my laptop, but it has the disadvantage of being costly, non-portable (no easy or possibly legal installing to usb drives/etc.), and not pre-configured for the purpose of this VPM. But in my experience VMware is quicker, feeling almost like the emulated computer was the host computer.
At any rate, I installed and ran this VPM software, and it certainly seems to deliver, and has a very nice collection of pre-installed apps. Sadly the performance is about as poor as you might expect (that's running it off a HD, not a USB drive). Every operation takes a while to complete, click on Firefox, and wait 40 seconds for it to ask which profile you want to use (this is after first use). Type in a URL and wait at least 30 seconds for any signs that it's coming up. My laptop is only P4M 1.8Ghz, so no doubt performance would be much better on a more recent machine.
Still, pretty neat, though not entirely usable for me.
well, good point, but being a rather graphic solution, too likely to incite the people towards moral decay.
perhaps, though, they should create a list of state-approved electromechanical stimulation devices. somehow the notion of a state sanctioned "sexual energy dissipation device" would fit nicely with the whole "control" thing they're into.
My gf bought from ebags, and she accidentally accepted one of their "free" offers which meant she was subscribed to some $$$/month fee for some discount "club" or something. Took her 3 months to notice. She's a bright girl, and certainly didn't want the damn club membership. I'm not saying it's illegal or anything, it's just always tough to read all the fine print, and always be on your guard against those things.
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Yeah, I must say I was really surprised by the early responses your post/this article got. I thought /.ers were better than that! The first minutes of its life on /. seemed to get posts (or at least moderator points) dominated by people who really didn't read or understand the article and what this doesn't mean about the NSA's intentions, our security, or as you say the non-illegalness of this non-issue. Fortunately as I look at the responses now the system seems to have corrected itself and the non-tinfoil hatters have retaken control... I suppose the obvious lesson I should get out of this is that those who mod or post early are less likely to have modded or posted accurately/reasonably. It takes more time to think than to emotionally react.
Quincy
I've now seen a bunch of comments modded down as trolling despite their being reasonable comments by people who just happen not to wear tin foil hats. If this article freaks you out or upsets you and seems like an important rights issue, great! I'm glad you're interested in defending your rights and by extension all of our rights. Thank you! But, don't by modding suppress the opinion of many who feel this isn't some stunning/shocking/scary revelation. That many feel the issue isn't a major one is itself an important thing to know.
As for me, Carnivore and all the recent "unlawful" wire taps scare me, a permanent versus a session cookie, not so much.
Quincy
Woah, that's not an accurate analogy. Because hammers are generally used for the purposes of construction rather than for illegal purposes. And that's an important point, at least practically speaking, and as the laws appear to often be applied. The right analogy would be about bongs/water pipes. Many states outlaw them outright because they are considered drug paraphernalia, because while they "can" be used for smoking tobacco, they rarely are. Other states allow their sale and the stores which sell them claim they are intended for tobacco use only, but of course, they know they will not be used that way. Anyway... not saying which is right. Just saying that is at least the right analogy, IMHO.
Quincy
If your system works for you, as it apparently does, excellent!
I can't personally imagine spending the time each week to go to the bank and access the safety deposit box (but perhaps your bank is more efficient and pleasant than any I've known). I do store data that way myself, but not every week, more like once every 2 months. And in the mean time I shuttle automatically backed-up encrypted drives weekly between work and home, as well as burning encrypted DVDs of my most active/daily-use data. I just start the burn before bed once a week, sometimes more often. I also have a NAS which I back up to automatically more often, but it doesn't backup all data. It's not a completely painless solution, either, but most of it's automated or at least doesn't require any attention.
An interesting related article and discussion on interpreting Google's zeitgeist OS numbers. And what it might mean for % usage of OS (which for Mac ends up being the 3-6% people usually speak of, 3% from Google's direct number and another 3% from Google 'Other' OS).
Hmm, the summary of the article seems to include more facts than the article itself. The summary makes a big point of how TFA's 16% number if found from the virus infection percentage. TFA doesn't say that's where the 16% comes from at all. All the article body says is "In addition, the Software Publishers Association (SPA) estimates that 16 percent of computer users are on Macs." The headline says that 16% of users aren't infected because they use Macs, but it doesn't explain that or justify it. Besides, even if the summary was correct, then this would seem a very poor way to guess at install base. The browser's "user agent" header sent to a general interest site like Google would seem a far better way. Admittedly that would be skewed by Mac users using being "forced" to access Google from Windows in a work environment, but still. That seems like it would have to be more accurate than the approach hinted at in the summary. In searching for google stats on this I found on the Mac Daily News site a discussion which included this very topic when the issue of install base was previously discussed there.
True enough, if he'd do it which he won't. But, it sounds like the seller was not restricted from selling it according to the EULA, and should have had every expectation that a buyer could use it. It certainly sounds like the entire problem is Blizzard's for not conforming to their own EULA or not adequately defining it.
But, what do I know, IANAL.
It's not all ignorance, lethargy, and a blind desire to follow the herd.
The major reason many don't is that there is a tremendous investment in any given platform. That investment is both in software (real dollars) and in knowledge of the given platform and its apps. It's fine to say use all open source apps on Linux, but come on, that's not realistic. There are many great open source alternatives to Windows apps, but there are many apps exclusive to Windows, further developed on Windows, etc. Not to mention, let's say someone wanted to convert from Windows to Mac. Many of the apps he owns he will need to repurchase for the Mac. I'm not aware of Adobe, for example, letting you convert your PC licenses to Mac ones; maybe they do, but I would suspect many software which supports Mac and PC wouldn't. So, even amongst the cross-platform pay apps you'd need to spend money for the conversion.
Yeah, I've got to admit, as much as I'd like to like Bakula (he seems like a nice enough guy) his acting (or his character) is completely wrong/terrible. He seems stiff, physically as well as emotionally.
In general I've really liked Enterprise. Despite what some people say, I liked the first couple of seasons and thought it went downhill only when they tried the whole Xindi terrorism/FUD angle to boost ratings. Ah well, the end of the show was hardly a surprise.
And don't forget about the SIP software for Pocket PCs, including X-Pro for Pocket PC (you can still find their 'lite' version on freeware sites).
How much less cancer?
I tried to find studies on this, but googling didn't produce much that seemed helpful. I was trying to find out the SAR values for using a WiFi phone, presumably it's not regulated in that way, so no one produces much data on it. But does anyone know?
Also, on a related note, GPRS, let's say I use my converged phone to be always-on, connected to IM/etc. How much of a dose am I getting all the time compared to talking on a call? Is having GPRS on all the time equivalent to 100% of the radiation of a call? 50%? 25%? I would assume if you're not saturating the connection it's not 100%, but no idea how to estimate whether using the always on nature of converged phones is a huge danger or no big deal.
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My Siemens SX 66 (HTC Blue Angel) does cell/SIP/Skype/etc. now via 802.11/bluetooth/etc. A number of other phones (other incarnations of the HTC Blue Angel as well as the HP 6315) can do all this stuff, too.
And, if you're looking for this sort of thing without the cell phone, there are existing products for that, including the KW2000 IP Connection WiFi Netphone.
Q
This may be the most ignorant post in the world, but whenever I've read about these super planes the first thing that I think of is how horrific an eventual crash will be. 800 people gone just like that. Assuming no flaws, I'm sure the math of it probably means fewer people dead every year since more people per plane means fewer planes means fewer flights means fewer take-offs/landings and since those are the most dangerous portions of flight, fewer deaths. But, still, I suppose some brain cells in me just won't let go of the fear that this plane won't be as safe to fly (because of its added size/weight), will be more attractive as a terrorist target, etc.
I just bought the Siemens SX 66 (Cingular) a rebranding of the HTC Blue Angel phone. I've used VoIP for a while via Skype/etc. but somehow doing it through the computer always made it much less convenient, or at least feel that way.
Now with a phone that can run Skype, I've been blown away by the convenience, simplicity, and quality. It's just awesome. I only wish I knew more people in more distant lands who had VoIP software or phones, seems such a waste not to talk to more people!
(I know there are also VoIP phones which you can plug into a network or your computer, I'm looking into getting some for relatives/etc.)
Anyway, sorry, I know I'm not contributing much to the conversation, but, being geeky, I wanted to share my excitement about my new phone/PDA (sorry, it's not Linux-based, but in defense I probably would have bought another (already owned one) Zaurus had they not pulled out of the US market).
I only know the tiniest bit about the way the whole torrent system works. So, this may be ignorant as hell, apologies if so, or if it's already been said (I didn't see it).
Why hasn't anyone created a freenet-like system for p2p-ing the torrent links? Making a system which could be queried without easily revealing who is querying, could be persistent by publishing/keeping alive highly requested link destinations (making more servers know where those are), etc. (And my reference to freenet isn't meant to suggest this should be like that, freenet isn't for searching, only that you'd have the same basic security goals. I always thought it could be neat if you could take something like freenet as a medium for shared access to a resource, like a read-only distributed database (which could be periodically updated), etc.)
Anyway, there probably is already something like this for bit torrent...
> Do you have to the [entry/exit] nodes? [Yes]
...all normal Internet routers
I don't mean to seem stupid here, but Tor seems stupendously dangerous in this sense.
It essentially means people can volunteer to relay (and potentially watch) other people's traffic. I don't pretend that my data is entirely protected when it goes from my computer to XYZ server, I realize my ISP, the feds, the various networks handling the data, and ultimately the destination server could be watching/recording, but there is some basis for trust there. Don't give me a hard time, you know what I mean, I'm not saying they aren't looking, aren't logging, only that at the very least, you're not likely to have John from Foo Networks logging into your Hotmail account because you didn't log in HTTPS.
But with Tor you could have evil people being motivated to run a node in the hopes that they'll catch "valuable" exit traffic (traffic with logins/passwords). Assuming there is no trust factor used to determine which nodes are exit nodes/etc. then isn't this an incredibly serious concern? It's all well and good to say "only login to sites via https" but if Tor becomes more mainstream (and even if it doesn't) carelessness and inexperience will mean a lot of people having valuable data compromised.
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> in your route can read your
> traffic; Tor is actually BETTER...
I would just argue that again, normal internet routers are controlled by people who are trusted in some sense. The network admins who could listen at every hop are trusted by their employers who are trusted by their shareholders and their customers, and their peers, etc. In this situation Tor is less secure because anyone could volunteer for access to some percentage of other people's unencrypted traffic.
Am I totally misunderstanding something?
Q
It may get lost in all the other posts, but I'm the perfect case of a Windows user who wants very much to switch to Linux, but hasn't in large part because of the painful application switch.
Because critical OSS is available on both platforms I have begun to take steps towards Linux (or for that matter FreeBSD/OSX/whatever). I've tested porting my mail from Outlook to Thunderbird. I've started using Firefox. I'm now using OpenOffice, and have ported my active docs to it. Perhaps next I'll try GAIM or something for IM (use Trillian now). Etc. In a few weeks or a month, there may be no reason not to switch to Linux. (It should be noted that I am not inexperienced with Linux, I have administrated 5-10 Linux servers and even had a Linux desktop or two.)
So, my point is just that, the availability of these high quality OSS allows me to achieve my goal of getting off Windows in a gradual, organized manner (rather than just making the jump and hoping for the best). I certainly understand the argument against making key OSS available to Windows users, and that approach may even be the best for the long term conversion of souls. But... In my situation, it is helping me switch.
I'm with you on that. It does make more sense than my flippant remark suggested. Did you ever use DragonDictate for web browsing?
DragonDictate is stunningly effective, fast and almost flawless. The reason it's both of those things is because it only needs a small vocabulary, and thus discriminating between things is easy. Each hypertext link (the label/title of it) turns into an action, and since there are only 100 or links per page (obviously many more on some, but certainly fewer than many thousands on most) all it needs to do is see which of those you said. So you give it commands like "click to journal" and it clicks the "journal" labelled link. You can also command it otherways, to disambiguate things, and to deal with image maps, but that's the main way, and as I say it's nearly flawless, and very fast. So, truly a voice activated one should be very workable. Accuracy with 500 song titles should be (relatively) easy.
I just got my 1 GB from ebay, there are a number of them on there for ~$185 (+15 for fast shipping/insurance). I bought mine from user e_mp3 via "buy it now" after seeing the auctions run up to the buy it now price (he apparently has several), it shipped out the first business day after the order, and I got it on schedule the next day. I can't see anything wrong with it, every indication is that it was new as promised. As for the person asking about the 256 MB version, Best Buy has it for $129.
The more I think of it the more I think you're right. Apple is much smarter than this. They must intend to either include a screen or have some elegant and clever solution to this functionality problem (something like voice recognition where you say "Pink Floyd, the Wall" and it plays it; I doubt it will include this...). So, my money is on them having a screen there somewhere.
While not meaning to sound like a commercial, I'm really liking the one I recently got, a 1 GB MPIO FL300. It's tiny, just a bit bigger than a butter patty. It includes (depending on where you get it) a necklace strap, as well as an armband thing, both of which are great for the gym. $199 for the 1 GB model, $129 for the 256 GB model. Anyway, that's my plug...
I don't see how you're supposed to navigate through 1 GB of music/etc. with no screen. I've got a little 1 GB mp3 player MPIO's FL300, and I can't imagine moving through all all the various folders and songs to try to find the one I want without a screen. I suppose you'd need listen to the first few hundredths of seconds of songs as you scroll. Sounds thoroughly unpleasant to me. Am I missing something?
Last week I was thinking about exactly this question. I've been using VMware to do the same sort of thing form my laptop, but it has the disadvantage of being costly, non-portable (no easy or possibly legal installing to usb drives/etc.), and not pre-configured for the purpose of this VPM. But in my experience VMware is quicker, feeling almost like the emulated computer was the host computer.
At any rate, I installed and ran this VPM software, and it certainly seems to deliver, and has a very nice collection of pre-installed apps. Sadly the performance is about as poor as you might expect (that's running it off a HD, not a USB drive). Every operation takes a while to complete, click on Firefox, and wait 40 seconds for it to ask which profile you want to use (this is after first use). Type in a URL and wait at least 30 seconds for any signs that it's coming up. My laptop is only P4M 1.8Ghz, so no doubt performance would be much better on a more recent machine.
Still, pretty neat, though not entirely usable for me.
quincy
perhaps, though, they should create a list of state-approved electromechanical stimulation devices. somehow the notion of a state sanctioned "sexual energy dissipation device" would fit nicely with the whole "control" thing they're into.
quincy
My gf bought from ebags, and she accidentally accepted one of their "free" offers which meant she was subscribed to some $$$/month fee for some discount "club" or something. Took her 3 months to notice. She's a bright girl, and certainly didn't want the damn club membership. I'm not saying it's illegal or anything, it's just always tough to read all the fine print, and always be on your guard against those things.