Yep. Asus brought Linux into the mainstream with the Eee 70x series 'netbooks' (as much as I hate that term, 'tiny laptop' is better) and promptly stabbed it in the back.
only minor. i'm one of those people who leaves their network open on purpose, i suspect a lot of people who care about open source routers will do the same.
besides, anyone who relies solely on these types of encryption to secure their networks shouldn't be running a network at all.
you'd need a pretty good antenna to get a signal off my AP from the road but i'd be a hypocrite to not leave it open. besides giving away the last bit of plausible denyability we have to stop a few losers getting another hit off Facebook or some other stupid shite hardly seems worth it
the ability to post stuff on websites anonymously is a great thing for whistle blowers and the like without having to worry about being sent to the Gulag. Of course if sufficient encryption / time delays are not used between the poster and the website than privacy and untraceability are just an illusion
The government and the EU already have too much control over the population and will never stop making new rules and regulations, systems like this will only help them make the unenforceable enforceable until the government controls every minute detail of our lives
I can't be naive enough to think that there is an encryption scheme available to the public that these guys don't know how to crack
The only thing I'd dare to trust (and possibly not even completely) are One-time pads generated with the best RNG I can get my hands on. Either a mechanical dice-throwing machine or something based on nuclear decay. I wouldn't even trust the VIA Padlock RNG built into my server because I have no way of checking that the numbers are actually being generated the way VIA claim they are
Back in the good old days there was hype surrounding WiMax that anyone would be able to buy an access point and use it in unlicensed spectrum but so far all the WiMax equipment I've seen is horrendously expensive and looks more like GSM equipment
What we need is a longer range version of WiFi that ordinary people can deploy and set up a decentralised network and hopefully put these mobile phone companies who charge extortionate amounts for bandwidth out of business.
LTE is just boring, ordinary consumers will never be able to set up their own private LTE base. All LTE will allow me to do is use up my 250MB a month data allowance even faster and requires me to buy a new phone. The good news is that WiMax will be updated to support speeds up to 1Gbit but if they won't make a couple of cheap and cheerful access points that ordinary folk can install in their homes for a few 100 dollars and maybe with an external antenna then there is no point.
Future LTE will also support 1Gbit and all the telco lads will be using that, so unless WiMax is going to allow for small scale single-cell setups nobody will use it.
Can you have zillions of these running in parallel with some kick azz nanotech gearbox to make something more efficient than a 'normal' electric motor to power an electric vehicle or something?
if you have one of these under your car or something? i assume they all use ordinary mobile phone networks to phone home but where do they usually put it, can it be anywhere under the car?
Its far too easy for the Communist government to tap into those, a Thuraya or Iridium satellite phone should be a bit harder but if I went to China I'd still be using a one-time pad to send messages home.
The range is too short, it always has been too short for any of this sort of stuff. I wish there was a longer range version of Wifi that an ordinary person could actually buy a router for without having to spend thousands.
4G and LTE will always be controlled by large, evil telcos and you will always need a subscription. I doubt anyone will be allowed to set up their own private LTE access point as nice as that would be. It would be nice if there was a version of LTE that you could use in unlicensed spectrum with affordable equipment and without dealing with a mobile phone company and proprietary 'locked down' equipment like that femto cell Verizon has with a GPS to make sure you are not setting up an AP outside the country
Runs the Linux Kernel but really not much else. The rest is a branded browser-based pushing platform for Google Web Services and a mostly proprietary touch-screen UI.
Maemo seems more 'open' and customisable at this point. Would love to see maemo run on non-touchscreen devices and without any animated effects
It seems to be the worst country when it comes to vendor lock-in (firmware branding, sim locking), long contracts, high costs and craptastic prepaid packages. The one GSM network they have there (Rogers) is only GSM by technology, they use IMEI numbers to make sure people are using the right branded device for the data plan they're on. In any country where there is no CDMA that shit wouldn't fly, of course the Gubmint there don't feel like doing anything about it.
Believe it or not things are actually better in the States because in Canada absolutely nobody understands the concept of a SIM card or an unlocked phone. If I ever visit that country I'm taking an Iridium phone because I'd rather pay $1.45 a minute than support those goons.
Besides the sales assistants there have probably been brainwashed to outright refuse to sell any prepaid SIM cards they might have and do all they can to convince you to take out a 36-month contract even after clearly explaining to them you are only staying for two weeks
We need an Open Source mobile phone - not just a Nokia running Maemo or a Neo1973 but one that was built and designed from the ground up to be open source. Have the firmware for the baseband & the OS all readily available and modifiable and use only off the shelf commodity components, no questionable 'black box' transceiver IC's. I am no overzealous RMS fanboi but I know this is the only way to be sure
I am sick of seeing stories on here about how De Police may or may not be able to activate the Mic on your phone and spy on you but nobody really has any idea how - trojans were mentioned, as well as people claiming this is some obscure part of the GSM standard.
Of course as soon as you transmit something using radio waves the source can be tracked, you can mess around with timing advances to let on you are further away but if you got a van with an antenna after you it won't help you much
Just like when eBay purchased Skype they brought in a slew of new price increases and a per-call connection charge in an attempt to win back how ever many billion they paid for it?
I stopped using skype years ago because the quality was never great, not compared to my Cisco 7960G anyway. For a while I was even considering buying dedicated Skype hardware but now I'm very glad I didn't
Buy an unlocked phone and it will be on whatever network you want, I will never understand why people still buy phones through the network. Phone networks are no charities, you will definitely end up paying back the full value of the phone in the form of overpriced contracts and roaming charges. but people like to fool themselves into thinking they're getting a good deal
I was on the Isle of Man a few days ago and bought a sim card for my unlocked E63 and went on the interwebs for 1p a MB, if I was using my SIM from back home i'd be paying that per kb. My phone is also completely devoid of any firmware restrictions or carrier branding.
Unfortunately in the states the networks have done such a good job at passing off the idea that the phone, plan and network are so intrinsically related that most people there even on GSM networks don't know that a SIM card exists. and with the advent of the iPhone and the likes of Huawei making Vodafone-branded phones they are trying the same shit in Europe. The openness of GSM/3G is a great thing and I don't want to lose it
Now here's something both the spammers and the ISP's will love. I presume somewhere in their long-term plan is a means of getting rid of all those pesky renegades who run their own email server and don't opt into this scam
.im is for the Isle of Man, about 80,000 people live and I suspect.im would hold a lot of local sites related to the Isle of Man as well as instant messaging domains and vanity domains that are a nice little earner for the island.
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Because you know, email is the preferred method of communication among the elderly in Korea
Yep. Asus brought Linux into the mainstream with the Eee 70x series 'netbooks' (as much as I hate that term, 'tiny laptop' is better) and promptly stabbed it in the back.
Just when you thought releasing another "Eee" branded product would be like flogging the skeleton of a dead horse
only minor. i'm one of those people who leaves their network open on purpose, i suspect a lot of people who care about open source routers will do the same.
besides, anyone who relies solely on these types of encryption to secure their networks shouldn't be running a network at all.
you'd need a pretty good antenna to get a signal off my AP from the road but i'd be a hypocrite to not leave it open. besides giving away the last bit of plausible denyability we have to stop a few losers getting another hit off Facebook or some other stupid shite hardly seems worth it
email + encryption is supposed to be private
the ability to post stuff on websites anonymously is a great thing for whistle blowers and the like without having to worry about being sent to the Gulag. Of course if sufficient encryption / time delays are not used between the poster and the website than privacy and untraceability are just an illusion
The government and the EU already have too much control over the population and will never stop making new rules and regulations, systems like this will only help them make the unenforceable enforceable until the government controls every minute detail of our lives
I can't be naive enough to think that there is an encryption scheme available to the public that these guys don't know how to crack
The only thing I'd dare to trust (and possibly not even completely) are One-time pads generated with the best RNG I can get my hands on. Either a mechanical dice-throwing machine or something based on nuclear decay. I wouldn't even trust the VIA Padlock RNG built into my server because I have no way of checking that the numbers are actually being generated the way VIA claim they are
Back in the good old days there was hype surrounding WiMax that anyone would be able to buy an access point and use it in unlicensed spectrum but so far all the WiMax equipment I've seen is horrendously expensive and looks more like GSM equipment
What we need is a longer range version of WiFi that ordinary people can deploy and set up a decentralised network and hopefully put these mobile phone companies who charge extortionate amounts for bandwidth out of business.
LTE is just boring, ordinary consumers will never be able to set up their own private LTE base. All LTE will allow me to do is use up my 250MB a month data allowance even faster and requires me to buy a new phone. The good news is that WiMax will be updated to support speeds up to 1Gbit but if they won't make a couple of cheap and cheerful access points that ordinary folk can install in their homes for a few 100 dollars and maybe with an external antenna then there is no point.
Future LTE will also support 1Gbit and all the telco lads will be using that, so unless WiMax is going to allow for small scale single-cell setups nobody will use it.
Can you have zillions of these running in parallel with some kick azz nanotech gearbox to make something more efficient than a 'normal' electric motor to power an electric vehicle or something?
if you have one of these under your car or something? i assume they all use ordinary mobile phone networks to phone home but where do they usually put it, can it be anywhere under the car?
Its far too easy for the Communist government to tap into those, a Thuraya or Iridium satellite phone should be a bit harder but if I went to China I'd still be using a one-time pad to send messages home.
The range is too short, it always has been too short for any of this sort of stuff. I wish there was a longer range version of Wifi that an ordinary person could actually buy a router for without having to spend thousands.
4G and LTE will always be controlled by large, evil telcos and you will always need a subscription. I doubt anyone will be allowed to set up their own private LTE access point as nice as that would be. It would be nice if there was a version of LTE that you could use in unlicensed spectrum with affordable equipment and without dealing with a mobile phone company and proprietary 'locked down' equipment like that femto cell Verizon has with a GPS to make sure you are not setting up an AP outside the country
Runs the Linux Kernel but really not much else. The rest is a branded browser-based pushing platform for Google Web Services and a mostly proprietary touch-screen UI.
Maemo seems more 'open' and customisable at this point. Would love to see maemo run on non-touchscreen devices and without any animated effects
Thanks for the optimism, i thought texting was ruining society but you provide us with a good argument that it isn't
Facebook still pisses me off though, much prefer SMS
It seems to be the worst country when it comes to vendor lock-in (firmware branding, sim locking), long contracts, high costs and craptastic prepaid packages. The one GSM network they have there (Rogers) is only GSM by technology, they use IMEI numbers to make sure people are using the right branded device for the data plan they're on. In any country where there is no CDMA that shit wouldn't fly, of course the Gubmint there don't feel like doing anything about it.
Believe it or not things are actually better in the States because in Canada absolutely nobody understands the concept of a SIM card or an unlocked phone. If I ever visit that country I'm taking an Iridium phone because I'd rather pay $1.45 a minute than support those goons.
Besides the sales assistants there have probably been brainwashed to outright refuse to sell any prepaid SIM cards they might have and do all they can to convince you to take out a 36-month contract even after clearly explaining to them you are only staying for two weeks
We need an Open Source mobile phone - not just a Nokia running Maemo or a Neo1973 but one that was built and designed from the ground up to be open source. Have the firmware for the baseband & the OS all readily available and modifiable and use only off the shelf commodity components, no questionable 'black box' transceiver IC's. I am no overzealous RMS fanboi but I know this is the only way to be sure
I am sick of seeing stories on here about how De Police may or may not be able to activate the Mic on your phone and spy on you but nobody really has any idea how - trojans were mentioned, as well as people claiming this is some obscure part of the GSM standard.
Of course as soon as you transmit something using radio waves the source can be tracked, you can mess around with timing advances to let on you are further away but if you got a van with an antenna after you it won't help you much
don't worry i'm sure they made quite a bit of money off Skype while they had it, increased call charges and all.
Just like when eBay purchased Skype they brought in a slew of new price increases and a per-call connection charge in an attempt to win back how ever many billion they paid for it?
I stopped using skype years ago because the quality was never great, not compared to my Cisco 7960G anyway. For a while I was even considering buying dedicated Skype hardware but now I'm very glad I didn't
Does this plan involve taking all of Britain's CCTV cameras and pointing them towards the sky?
they don't but they should. in my country they do, my plan costs half that of the same plan that includes a phone and my contract is only 30 days
Buy an unlocked phone and it will be on whatever network you want, I will never understand why people still buy phones through the network. Phone networks are no charities, you will definitely end up paying back the full value of the phone in the form of overpriced contracts and roaming charges. but people like to fool themselves into thinking they're getting a good deal
I was on the Isle of Man a few days ago and bought a sim card for my unlocked E63 and went on the interwebs for 1p a MB, if I was using my SIM from back home i'd be paying that per kb. My phone is also completely devoid of any firmware restrictions or carrier branding.
Unfortunately in the states the networks have done such a good job at passing off the idea that the phone, plan and network are so intrinsically related that most people there even on GSM networks don't know that a SIM card exists. and with the advent of the iPhone and the likes of Huawei making Vodafone-branded phones they are trying the same shit in Europe. The openness of GSM/3G is a great thing and I don't want to lose it
Take them down for a few months to find out?
Now here's something both the spammers and the ISP's will love. I presume somewhere in their long-term plan is a means of getting rid of all those pesky renegades who run their own email server and don't opt into this scam
.im is for the Isle of Man, about 80,000 people live and I suspect .im would hold a lot of local sites related to the Isle of Man as well as instant messaging domains and vanity domains that are a nice little earner for the island.
Sputbook.
There is probably some cloud-based Web 2.0 service written in JavaScript that will make your labels and post them out to you for a nominal fee