Just from reading TFS, nothing that can't be achieved presently with a well-written bash (or python) script. Self-aware me bollox, phone probably can't recognise it's own plastic Chinese mass manufactured casing in a photograph
I always lol when I see the big hype drummed up when yesteryear's nerd-tech goes mainstream
how are you going to do this? Have one hard drive in one room with the padded data, and one in the other with the pad?
also if you spread your data out over 8 equally sized hard drives, have it all nicely compressed using PAQ or something. HDD 1 contains the LSB of every byte, HDD 2 contains the next bit of every byte, and so on. How many hard drives do the FBI need to find before they can recover a useful amount of data?
Hostels.. most will kick you out after two weeks to make room for fresh guests but other than that you are unlikely to have problems. Most have free wifi and there are plenty (unfortunately) of antisocial folk stuck in a corner Facebooking, some even have special areas. Writing code is grand but you have to make sure none of the girls see you at it, or you'll and up on the National "Do Not Fuck" List because you know girls don't like coders / nerds (joke). You won't be the only one stuck behind a screen but you'll be doing something more useful than any of the rest of them
Hackerspace is relatively new here in Yurop. I seen one in Cork that costs €40 a month to sign up to, a bit far away for me. Havn't checked it out really
You are more likely to be moved on in a Cafe, it's expensive anyway, usually, in the expensive countries at least. I don't know every place you intend to go:)
There are cheap places to rent particularly in depression-struck Ireland and I'm sure other countries too. You can get a room in a house for 50e a week or less sometimes. If you are willing to live in a dump you can get it cheaper yet, maybe get a discount to help do the place up (you'll be very lucky to find a place like that). More realistically you could try and work in a hostel in return for a free place to stay. Unless you want to go legit and get a proper visa.
Also don't go to Bhutan. That country has a paywall. As a slashdotter I doubt you'll approve of that sort of carry on
If I was living in sub-saharan Africa I'd use Yahoo just to spite them:) Fresh unconquered eyeballs + internet subscription money must be a real winner for Google, they cant wait to get in there
The common scam here in Ireland (and also UK) is that the likes of Google, Starbucks, Microsoft companies set up over here pay large "fees" to their parent company in the US in return for being allowed to be part of the parent company.
Its a loophole that the likes of Google in Europe are essentially being run as a franchise. You are allowed to write off your franchise 'fees' as being operating costs so you pay no tax on them. So Google Ireland Ltd. might pay several billion a year to Google US for their "google license". Its more complicated than that though, there are various intermediate companies involved on the Cayman Islands and what have you to further reduce the tax burden. All completely legal. We're being scammed
The common argument in favour over here is "but these companies are providing money to the economy, employing people, etc." but it isn't really fair. If I set up a company in Ireland I would have to pay lots of tax and have lots of regulation to comply with but these sh1tbags like GOOG get away with it because (a) They're big and can threaten to leave Ireland and (b) They can afford to pay their accountants to suss out the best tax avoidance scheme. So Google aren't really carrying their weight but even the govt is afraid to challenge them by changing the law.
The locals are too busy sitting on the tailgate of their shiny pickup truck (bought on credit) drinking tins of Fosters and acting the macho man to do anything about it.
Or else they are off chasing some blonde from Home & Away. Anyway censorship and freedom of speech are fairly low on the agenda
I am probably one of the greatest Linux fanboys around and I run Linux on my desktop and laptop and server. I have also owned several Android mobile phones
But.. Sorry lads I think Android is a crap operating system. If I ended up with one of these laptops I'd like to be able to change OS like I could with an ordinary (non ARM) Windows-tax-paid laptop
I dunno lads. I've been thinking he was a bit of a gobshite for years with his "nothing to hide" and "mere humans shouldn't be allowed to drive cars" nonsense but it's worser he's getting now
I wouldn't let some ould foreign company known as Netflix decide on what worldwide standards are going to be and what sort of crap is going to be running on everyone's computer from now on.
DRM is giving up control of your own device, so it may work against you to try and make Netflix in this case more money
Thats it. People in the "west" doing nothing of value or interest while thinking highly of themselves while all the real work and all the production has moved to China years ago.
That's it, boys! Sell all that you own to the Chinese so you might have another decade of living the high life while doing nothing to earn it.
All that Western civilisation collectively worked on in the past 200 or so years has been given away to the Chinese for peanuts so we can sit on our collective asses and do nothing for about 20-30 years. Do you think that China will be paying us royalties once they figure out how to make a Core i7 processor themselves? F**k no, experience should tell you better.
I have run a tor exit node on my home DSL line for years. Never had a door kicked in. Only trouble I had was being blocked from boards.ie and geocaching.com
Google buying them would solve nothing, only make room for the next round of upstart trolls who can batter google and the rest of us with the same archaic laws
Of course they should be possible to unlock. Maybe a tamper proof seal on them while they're in service but eventually they'll be on the scrapheap somewhere. The embedded system might be useful to someone and we shouldn't waste good chips for legal reasons
TP-Link is really the cheapest of the most low end Chinese own-brand Junk. Hopefully open-source hardware will become more common making this kind of backdoor harder to go unnoticed for so loon
KDE tried to copy Windows as much as they could - when I saw their annoying Windows-esque dialogue when you connect a USB mass storage device I was done with that. Then Gnome chased the "everything is going Web 3.0 and mobile" dream so this leaves me with only sensible window managers like XFCE and LXDE.
Any other ones I should try?
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They should put a Honda GX-100 onto that. Should have no bother pushing the operator and all the crap that's on that bike
Just from reading TFS, nothing that can't be achieved presently with a well-written bash (or python) script. Self-aware me bollox, phone probably can't recognise it's own plastic Chinese mass manufactured casing in a photograph
I always lol when I see the big hype drummed up when yesteryear's nerd-tech goes mainstream
how are you going to do this? Have one hard drive in one room with the padded data, and one in the other with the pad?
also if you spread your data out over 8 equally sized hard drives, have it all nicely compressed using PAQ or something. HDD 1 contains the LSB of every byte, HDD 2 contains the next bit of every byte, and so on. How many hard drives do the FBI need to find before they can recover a useful amount of data?
Hostels.. most will kick you out after two weeks to make room for fresh guests but other than that you are unlikely to have problems. Most have free wifi and there are plenty (unfortunately) of antisocial folk stuck in a corner Facebooking, some even have special areas. Writing code is grand but you have to make sure none of the girls see you at it, or you'll and up on the National "Do Not Fuck" List because you know girls don't like coders / nerds (joke). You won't be the only one stuck behind a screen but you'll be doing something more useful than any of the rest of them
Hackerspace is relatively new here in Yurop. I seen one in Cork that costs €40 a month to sign up to, a bit far away for me. Havn't checked it out really
You are more likely to be moved on in a Cafe, it's expensive anyway, usually, in the expensive countries at least. I don't know every place you intend to go:)
There are cheap places to rent particularly in depression-struck Ireland and I'm sure other countries too. You can get a room in a house for 50e a week or less sometimes. If you are willing to live in a dump you can get it cheaper yet, maybe get a discount to help do the place up (you'll be very lucky to find a place like that). More realistically you could try and work in a hostel in return for a free place to stay. Unless you want to go legit and get a proper visa.
Also don't go to Bhutan. That country has a paywall. As a slashdotter I doubt you'll approve of that sort of carry on
If I was living in sub-saharan Africa I'd use Yahoo just to spite them :) Fresh unconquered eyeballs + internet subscription money must be a real winner for Google, they cant wait to get in there
A few servers scattered around the house and in the attic is OK but once you start putting them in racks you're looking for trouble?
I have my hoverboard with jets at the side pre-ordered for 2015.
The common scam here in Ireland (and also UK) is that the likes of Google, Starbucks, Microsoft companies set up over here pay large "fees" to their parent company in the US in return for being allowed to be part of the parent company.
Its a loophole that the likes of Google in Europe are essentially being run as a franchise. You are allowed to write off your franchise 'fees' as being operating costs so you pay no tax on them. So Google Ireland Ltd. might pay several billion a year to Google US for their "google license". Its more complicated than that though, there are various intermediate companies involved on the Cayman Islands and what have you to further reduce the tax burden. All completely legal. We're being scammed
The common argument in favour over here is "but these companies are providing money to the economy, employing people, etc." but it isn't really fair. If I set up a company in Ireland I would have to pay lots of tax and have lots of regulation to comply with but these sh1tbags like GOOG get away with it because (a) They're big and can threaten to leave Ireland and (b) They can afford to pay their accountants to suss out the best tax avoidance scheme. So Google aren't really carrying their weight but even the govt is afraid to challenge them by changing the law.
Post was not meant to be serious. Ah well
The locals are too busy sitting on the tailgate of their shiny pickup truck (bought on credit) drinking tins of Fosters and acting the macho man to do anything about it.
Or else they are off chasing some blonde from Home & Away. Anyway censorship and freedom of speech are fairly low on the agenda
Might as well drive a car with an automatic gearbox. Tech like this makes the world a bit more boring
Agreed on manual transmission. Driving in the US of A is more boring than in other places
That's just pure boring. Isn't the whole point of such a car that you drive it yourself for your enjoyment?
I am probably one of the greatest Linux fanboys around and I run Linux on my desktop and laptop and server. I have also owned several Android mobile phones
.. Sorry lads I think Android is a crap operating system. If I ended up with one of these laptops I'd like to be able to change OS like I could with an ordinary (non ARM) Windows-tax-paid laptop
But
I dunno lads. I've been thinking he was a bit of a gobshite for years with his "nothing to hide" and "mere humans shouldn't be allowed to drive cars" nonsense but it's worser he's getting now
I wouldn't let some ould foreign company known as Netflix decide on what worldwide standards are going to be and what sort of crap is going to be running on everyone's computer from now on.
DRM is giving up control of your own device, so it may work against you to try and make Netflix in this case more money
Thats it. People in the "west" doing nothing of value or interest while thinking highly of themselves while all the real work and all the production has moved to China years ago.
That's it, boys! Sell all that you own to the Chinese so you might have another decade of living the high life while doing nothing to earn it.
All that Western civilisation collectively worked on in the past 200 or so years has been given away to the Chinese for peanuts so we can sit on our collective asses and do nothing for about 20-30 years. Do you think that China will be paying us royalties once they figure out how to make a Core i7 processor themselves? F**k no, experience should tell you better.
I have run a tor exit node on my home DSL line for years. Never had a door kicked in. Only trouble I had was being blocked from boards.ie and geocaching.com
Google buying them would solve nothing, only make room for the next round of upstart trolls who can batter google and the rest of us with the same archaic laws
Of course they should be possible to unlock. Maybe a tamper proof seal on them while they're in service but eventually they'll be on the scrapheap somewhere. The embedded system might be useful to someone and we shouldn't waste good chips for legal reasons
Who needs it? I just use Thunderbird which collects its emails from an IP starting with 192.168
TP-Link is really the cheapest of the most low end Chinese own-brand Junk. Hopefully open-source hardware will become more common making this kind of backdoor harder to go unnoticed for so loon
Then claim your plug-in hybrid tax discount!
KDE tried to copy Windows as much as they could - when I saw their annoying Windows-esque dialogue when you connect a USB mass storage device I was done with that. Then Gnome chased the "everything is going Web 3.0 and mobile" dream so this leaves me with only sensible window managers like XFCE and LXDE. Any other ones I should try?