You should try getting a mobile with wifi built in. Also very useful abroad to make VoIP calls from your mobile to avoid exorbitant roaming charges. Eventually you'll be able to get home femto cells so you can direct your normal cell calls via your asterisk box so don't throw away that hardware just yet.
By the way, I think you are wrong. It gets ruined at the end link, not in the middle. In the middle is just IP packets just being passed along trunk lines, there is no codec.
I run Kubuntu standard edition on my Atom CPU Samsung NC10 netbook and it runs fine. Then again I compare the speed to the pre-installed Windows, before I wiped it. I even do basic photo processing using Digikam on it. It may not be as quick as some other distributions but it is more than usable.
And all of us on here are free to never buy anything from Amazon again. It's a narrow mind that can't see there are now better alternatives to buy from than a company that censors publications which do not break any laws.
I used to buy an awful lot from Amazon, in fact it was the principal place I did all my shopping, but also stopped since their treatment of Wikileaks. For books I now buy here: http://www.abebooks.co.uk/. For electronics this is good: http://www.mymemory.co.uk/.
I also now find myself with more cash after I closed my Paypal for the same reason, I used to buy tons of junk from ebay.
Eh? The same David Cameron who's government just mandated that Open Source should be used where possible? That cancelled billions in useless IT contracts with corporations, such as the national ID and DNA databases? I am not sure which country the anonymous coward is from, but the UK doesn't have a Tory government. It is a coalition. Come to think of it I am not sure why George W. Bush is relevant, I'm pretty sure he lost the last election and the US has a President called Obama. Maybe the poster is a "Slider" from a parallel universe?
That doesn't even make sense. The women are accusing him of rape and so far there is zero evidence apart from their word. Of course he is innocent until proven guilty. The women have a well publicised catalogue of making charges, dropping charges, changing charges, spending the days after the alleged 'rape' with the accusers still Twittering about how happy they were to be with him, etc. To an outsider, it sounds like the women are pawns being used by a corrupt Swedish judicary (with police leaking the case to the press plus the Prime Minister trying incite hate against a victim that hasn't even gone to trial yet) on the behest of the US.
Hardly mindless hero worship when backed by a long trail of evidence, albeit some circumstantial, and incredible 'coincidences'.
HBGary is not in the business of preventing or withstanding attacks. They're the guys who will investigate events after the fact, compiling nice piles of evidence to hand over to the FBI/police/whomever.
Did you not read the leaked emails? All the slides about pre-emptive attacks, infiltration, planting of fraudulent documents, etc. Interesting use of the word 'nice' to try and paint HBGary as one of the 'good' guys instead of a company planning criminal acts.
The sign on the booth is a threat. Note that "vandalized" was ITworld's chosen word. The message is clear: "Anonymous is here, and has the same utter lack of respect in real life as online." Given that there were many threats ranging from harassing the booth staff to heckling the speakers, and even up to death, the sign potentially serves as a last warning: Let Anonymous ravage whatever they want, or die.
Ok now we know you are astro-turfing for a snake oil security company. Some kid drops a note on a stand with the standard Anon catch-phrase, known by all apart from yourself, and you try and hype up some massive imaginary drama. Pathetic.
It makes sense for HBGary to step out of the line of fire, just in case somebody's crazy enough to act on those death threats. Death is not their business.
Or maybe they've been busted, and have the decency to leave out of shame?
I expect that the sign is being checked for fingerprints, the conference attendee list is being subpoenaed, and security cameras are being reviewed.
Again the melo-drama. I am sure the whole attendee list is quaking.
I'd also expect that HBGary will use this incident to paint Anonymous as a group of people who constitute a real threat
Did you miss the Anon arrests that have already happened?
They stalk and harass a target organization for as long as they're interested, with expenses and lost income costs rising daily.
Do you even read Slashdot? Try doing a search for 'scientology'
This dedication is as much a problem to Anonymous as to their targets, and HBGary is now playing a great game: they're trolling the trolls. With every public move HBGary makes, Anonymous is drawn into acting. That's another 4chan post, another analysis, another page in HBGary's final report on Anonymous, and another customer impressed by the company's thorough attention to detail.
This is ignoring that a lot of Linux software is based on libraries, with a KDE/Gnome interface tacked on. Adding a Meego interface shouldn't be too bad. Especially as Ubuntu are doing the hard work in porting all the libraries onto ARM. OpenOffice is an extreme example, but it will be nice to see apps like Pidgin.
The best bit, for me, is that the file formats for your apps will be the same, meaning easy to sync all your data files between mobile and desktop.
Google's vaunted claims that they can detect link spam were shown to be false. Google didn't catch the spam, the New York Times did.
That statement isn't true. They may detect it but correcting it may need more care and attention. Plus there may be a waiting lists of thousands of cases to be examined. It is not the swiftness of the execution that BlackHat SEOs fear, it is the severity.
Google management has weeks of pain ahead.
I don't think they do. JC Penney's might though.
The European Union has specifically asked for that data, and Google can no longer deny that it exists.
On some frivolous case that will shrivel and die. As for trying to 'turf Blekko as a competitor, they rely on manually adjusting their results which kind of holes your own arguement.
Sadly that is the case, but in the wrong sense. It certainly isn't going onto Win7 phones. Best case, somebody will buy QT, maybe somebody will fork it, worst case it dies.
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1) Hence the idea to use QT as a common platform between Meego and Symbian, to buy more time without alienating Symbian developers (who wants to develop for a dead-end platform?) 2) It's mature, solid, and still one of the best platforms for low-end mobiles which is going to still be dominant in the largest growing markets 3) Odd, Samsung have added their nice twist to Android with their interface. Yet Microsoft ban Nokia from porting QT to their platform. Sounds like Nokia will now have less and not more control over their platform. 4) Depends what they decide to buy. It could be a mature OS. Still obviously not as good as (1)
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If that was an aim, they would have also screwed Linux by doing a similar deal with Novell. Oh wait...
Nokia informed the paper that after Elop started planning the co-operation with Microsoft, trading away the Microsoft stock and shorting Nokia stock instead would have been considered illegal due to insider information.
The patents on GIF ran out a long time ago, and JPEG isn't patented as far as I know. The HTML5 video is a move towards dropping Flash, and none of the browsers support MP3 internally afaik.
They dropped h.264 much as every single other browser has, except IE who is a h.264 patent holder. The web may be relatively open but putting a toll on all video would put the brakes on that side of things. This is where the interests of Google and the consumer align, so if we get a better deal and they make more money then everybody wins.
Something strange is going on, Microsoft is trying to force people to use software it owns or has patents on? Eg H.264. If you like it, there are probably jobs going at Nokia.
Only in the Alanis Morrisette version of irony. An organisation dedicated to publishing information, was required to retain confidentiality. Some disgruntled employee stole the information and may or not compromise the integrity of all the informants. He hasn't leaked the information, yet, which rather blows a hole in your pathetic argument.
What is with you, and some other weird people, that a man might want to have sex with women is somehow abnormal? I won't go into details about the birds and the bees, but without sexual intercourse none of us would be here. It's not like he was going through groupies like your average rap or rock singer.
As for 'delusions of grandeur', causing panic in the world's largest governments and banks, and felling dictators, is not a bad level of grandeur In fact, Wikileaks might have even made some of the national papers!
If you want weird, you should look up some of the billionaires running empires like Ross Perot or Rupert Murdoch. Or if like peter303 and are obsessed with sex, then Berlusconi.
Ok I went there just now. Went to the about page and found... 0 references to Assange. On the front page, it has his picture as part of a banner... but amazingly nothing about the court case on Assange.
Ignoring the sabotage and theft for a moment by 'Openleaks', do people think that Assange asked to be accused of crimes (in this case the random charge of rape, but it could be pretty much anything they invent)? It seems extremely dubious he forced himself into solitary for a week, then decided to spend hundreds of thousands he doesn't have on lawyers, deliberately to achieve martyr status.
Who would you trust? A CEO who is prepared to face execution for the principles he believes in? Or a theft, saboteur, sneak, somebody that rips off another person's web site, and who blurbs the internal details of his organisation in the press? (ignoring Assange's biography to pay off his legal bills, that I can understand)
He may not be perfect, but considering the alternatives he would be my first port of call if I was a whistle-blower.
When you have a site like OpenLeaks that is all about anonymously leaking information
From what I have read, OpenLeaks is about restricting leaking information to the public and making it accessible to an approved list of their choosing (ostensibly for now 'approved news outlets'). Wikileaks lets anybody read the information. Has this changed?
Hopefully you will still see this reply (just seen yours). The chances of somebody having Skype are still small in overall terms. As a general rule, family/friends will agree on whatever is convenient at the time. Here in France our group of friends shifted as one to a certain operator as they allowed free mobile calls between that operator. If a group wish to talk to each other they may choose Fring, Skype, Wengo, or whatever else, and everybody will just install that app. It's quick and simple, and there is nothing to stop a smartphone having several installed at the same time.
I have also worked as a telecoms engineer, and did my masters in the subject, but my comment was my perhaps poor attempt at sarcasm rather than an aspersion on your qualifications. It was your choice of "traditional voice call" I objected to. Though there may be different trade-offs at the transport layer (quality, error correction, etc) it is still slinging packets around. The thrust of your argument appears to be that you want your encryption layer embedded at a lower level, and mine is that is no longer needed (and in fact disadvantageous).
GSM may have wider coverage but it can still carry packet data. The quality of call may deteriorate but that is the price you pay for your secure line. The authentication only occurs in the more advanced countries in my, albeit limited, travels so far where my calls are cheaper anyway. I learned to appreciate free Wifi nearly everywhere in my travels in Eastern Europe, after making voice calls and running up several hundred dollars in a day using my regular operator.
Self-configuring wifi mesh, femto cells, etc are great long term projects. VoIP with decent encryption is a good stop-gap for now.
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You should try getting a mobile with wifi built in. Also very useful abroad to make VoIP calls from your mobile to avoid exorbitant roaming charges. Eventually you'll be able to get home femto cells so you can direct your normal cell calls via your asterisk box so don't throw away that hardware just yet.
By the way, I think you are wrong. It gets ruined at the end link, not in the middle. In the middle is just IP packets just being passed along trunk lines, there is no codec.
Phillip.
I run Kubuntu standard edition on my Atom CPU Samsung NC10 netbook and it runs fine. Then again I compare the speed to the pre-installed Windows, before I wiped it. I even do basic photo processing using Digikam on it. It may not be as quick as some other distributions but it is more than usable.
Phillip.
You mean like how the company persecuting file-sharing happens to be run by the friend of the President's wife?
Phillip.
And all of us on here are free to never buy anything from Amazon again. It's a narrow mind that can't see there are now better alternatives to buy from than a company that censors publications which do not break any laws.
Phillip.
I used to buy an awful lot from Amazon, in fact it was the principal place I did all my shopping, but also stopped since their treatment of Wikileaks. For books I now buy here: http://www.abebooks.co.uk/. For electronics this is good: http://www.mymemory.co.uk/.
I also now find myself with more cash after I closed my Paypal for the same reason, I used to buy tons of junk from ebay.
Phillip.
Eh? The same David Cameron who's government just mandated that Open Source should be used where possible? That cancelled billions in useless IT contracts with corporations, such as the national ID and DNA databases? I am not sure which country the anonymous coward is from, but the UK doesn't have a Tory government. It is a coalition. Come to think of it I am not sure why George W. Bush is relevant, I'm pretty sure he lost the last election and the US has a President called Obama. Maybe the poster is a "Slider" from a parallel universe?
Phillip.
That doesn't even make sense. The women are accusing him of rape and so far there is zero evidence apart from their word. Of course he is innocent until proven guilty. The women have a well publicised catalogue of making charges, dropping charges, changing charges, spending the days after the alleged 'rape' with the accusers still Twittering about how happy they were to be with him, etc. To an outsider, it sounds like the women are pawns being used by a corrupt Swedish judicary (with police leaking the case to the press plus the Prime Minister trying incite hate against a victim that hasn't even gone to trial yet) on the behest of the US.
Hardly mindless hero worship when backed by a long trail of evidence, albeit some circumstantial, and incredible 'coincidences'.
Phillip.
HBGary is not in the business of preventing or withstanding attacks. They're the guys who will investigate events after the fact, compiling nice piles of evidence to hand over to the FBI/police/whomever.
Did you not read the leaked emails? All the slides about pre-emptive attacks, infiltration, planting of fraudulent documents, etc. Interesting use of the word 'nice' to try and paint HBGary as one of the 'good' guys instead of a company planning criminal acts.
The sign on the booth is a threat. Note that "vandalized" was ITworld's chosen word. The message is clear: "Anonymous is here, and has the same utter lack of respect in real life as online." Given that there were many threats ranging from harassing the booth staff to heckling the speakers, and even up to death, the sign potentially serves as a last warning: Let Anonymous ravage whatever they want, or die.
Ok now we know you are astro-turfing for a snake oil security company. Some kid drops a note on a stand with the standard Anon catch-phrase, known by all apart from yourself, and you try and hype up some massive imaginary drama. Pathetic.
It makes sense for HBGary to step out of the line of fire, just in case somebody's crazy enough to act on those death threats. Death is not their business.
Or maybe they've been busted, and have the decency to leave out of shame?
I expect that the sign is being checked for fingerprints, the conference attendee list is being subpoenaed, and security cameras are being reviewed.
Again the melo-drama. I am sure the whole attendee list is quaking.
I'd also expect that HBGary will use this incident to paint Anonymous as a group of people who constitute a real threat
Did you miss the Anon arrests that have already happened?
They stalk and harass a target organization for as long as they're interested, with expenses and lost income costs rising daily.
Do you even read Slashdot? Try doing a search for 'scientology'
This dedication is as much a problem to Anonymous as to their targets, and HBGary is now playing a great game: they're trolling the trolls. With every public move HBGary makes, Anonymous is drawn into acting. That's another 4chan post, another analysis, another page in HBGary's final report on Anonymous, and another customer impressed by the company's thorough attention to detail.
No, HBGary are screwed.
Phillip.
This is ignoring that a lot of Linux software is based on libraries, with a KDE/Gnome interface tacked on. Adding a Meego interface shouldn't be too bad. Especially as Ubuntu are doing the hard work in porting all the libraries onto ARM. OpenOffice is an extreme example, but it will be nice to see apps like Pidgin.
The best bit, for me, is that the file formats for your apps will be the same, meaning easy to sync all your data files between mobile and desktop.
Phillip.
Google's vaunted claims that they can detect link spam were shown to be false. Google didn't catch the spam, the New York Times did.
That statement isn't true. They may detect it but correcting it may need more care and attention. Plus there may be a waiting lists of thousands of cases to be examined. It is not the swiftness of the execution that BlackHat SEOs fear, it is the severity.
Google management has weeks of pain ahead.
I don't think they do. JC Penney's might though.
The European Union has specifically asked for that data, and Google can no longer deny that it exists.
On some frivolous case that will shrivel and die. As for trying to 'turf Blekko as a competitor, they rely on manually adjusting their results which kind of holes your own arguement.
Phillip.
What's wrong with the Nokia E71? I have no problem with mine.
Phillip.
Qt is not going anywhere
Sadly that is the case, but in the wrong sense. It certainly isn't going onto Win7 phones. Best case, somebody will buy QT, maybe somebody will fork it, worst case it dies.
Phillip.
1) Hence the idea to use QT as a common platform between Meego and Symbian, to buy more time without alienating Symbian developers (who wants to develop for a dead-end platform?)
2) It's mature, solid, and still one of the best platforms for low-end mobiles which is going to still be dominant in the largest growing markets
3) Odd, Samsung have added their nice twist to Android with their interface. Yet Microsoft ban Nokia from porting QT to their platform. Sounds like Nokia will now have less and not more control over their platform.
4) Depends what they decide to buy. It could be a mature OS. Still obviously not as good as (1)
Phillip.
If that was an aim, they would have also screwed Linux by doing a similar deal with Novell. Oh wait...
Phillip.
Nokia informed the paper that after Elop started planning the co-operation with Microsoft, trading away the Microsoft stock and shorting Nokia stock instead would have been considered illegal due to insider information.
Fixed that for you.
Phillip.
The patents on GIF ran out a long time ago, and JPEG isn't patented as far as I know. The HTML5 video is a move towards dropping Flash, and none of the browsers support MP3 internally afaik.
They dropped h.264 much as every single other browser has, except IE who is a h.264 patent holder. The web may be relatively open but putting a toll on all video would put the brakes on that side of things. This is where the interests of Google and the consumer align, so if we get a better deal and they make more money then everybody wins.
Phillip.
Something strange is going on, Microsoft is trying to force people to use software it owns or has patents on? Eg H.264. If you like it, there are probably jobs going at Nokia.
Phillip.
Only in the Alanis Morrisette version of irony. An organisation dedicated to publishing information, was required to retain confidentiality. Some disgruntled employee stole the information and may or not compromise the integrity of all the informants. He hasn't leaked the information, yet, which rather blows a hole in your pathetic argument.
Phillip.
What is with you, and some other weird people, that a man might want to have sex with women is somehow abnormal? I won't go into details about the birds and the bees, but without sexual intercourse none of us would be here. It's not like he was going through groupies like your average rap or rock singer.
As for 'delusions of grandeur', causing panic in the world's largest governments and banks, and felling dictators, is not a bad level of grandeur In fact, Wikileaks might have even made some of the national papers!
If you want weird, you should look up some of the billionaires running empires like Ross Perot or Rupert Murdoch. Or if like peter303 and are obsessed with sex, then Berlusconi.
Phillip.
Duradin = Domscheit-Berg?
Phillip.
Ok I went there just now. Went to the about page and found... 0 references to Assange. On the front page, it has his picture as part of a banner... but amazingly nothing about the court case on Assange.
Er, are you sure you went to the right page?
Phillip.
Ignoring the sabotage and theft for a moment by 'Openleaks', do people think that Assange asked to be accused of crimes (in this case the random charge of rape, but it could be pretty much anything they invent)? It seems extremely dubious he forced himself into solitary for a week, then decided to spend hundreds of thousands he doesn't have on lawyers, deliberately to achieve martyr status.
Who would you trust? A CEO who is prepared to face execution for the principles he believes in? Or a theft, saboteur, sneak, somebody that rips off another person's web site, and who blurbs the internal details of his organisation in the press? (ignoring Assange's biography to pay off his legal bills, that I can understand)
He may not be perfect, but considering the alternatives he would be my first port of call if I was a whistle-blower.
Phillip.
When you have a site like OpenLeaks that is all about anonymously leaking information
From what I have read, OpenLeaks is about restricting leaking information to the public and making it accessible to an approved list of their choosing (ostensibly for now 'approved news outlets'). Wikileaks lets anybody read the information. Has this changed?
Phillip.
Hopefully you will still see this reply (just seen yours). The chances of somebody having Skype are still small in overall terms. As a general rule, family/friends will agree on whatever is convenient at the time. Here in France our group of friends shifted as one to a certain operator as they allowed free mobile calls between that operator. If a group wish to talk to each other they may choose Fring, Skype, Wengo, or whatever else, and everybody will just install that app. It's quick and simple, and there is nothing to stop a smartphone having several installed at the same time.
I have also worked as a telecoms engineer, and did my masters in the subject, but my comment was my perhaps poor attempt at sarcasm rather than an aspersion on your qualifications. It was your choice of "traditional voice call" I objected to. Though there may be different trade-offs at the transport layer (quality, error correction, etc) it is still slinging packets around. The thrust of your argument appears to be that you want your encryption layer embedded at a lower level, and mine is that is no longer needed (and in fact disadvantageous).
GSM may have wider coverage but it can still carry packet data. The quality of call may deteriorate but that is the price you pay for your secure line. The authentication only occurs in the more advanced countries in my, albeit limited, travels so far where my calls are cheaper anyway. I learned to appreciate free Wifi nearly everywhere in my travels in Eastern Europe, after making voice calls and running up several hundred dollars in a day using my regular operator.
Self-configuring wifi mesh, femto cells, etc are great long term projects. VoIP with decent encryption is a good stop-gap for now.
Phillip.
Mathematics has been around for quite a while now.
Phillip.