Dependent on the total size of the data you want to store local copies of...
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Buy a good flash drive and keep it on your key chain. Preferably an Ironkey ( www.ironkey.com ) or something similar that offers some serious hardware encryption along with other anti-theft features.
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Use something like XMarks for Firefox so you can access all of your bookmarks, and even stored passwords if desired, without storing any of it on the netbook. Now simply treat the netbook as a public access PC. If it gets lost or stolen there isn't anything on it to worry about in the first place.
Bonus for international travel is that you don't have anything on the PC for customs to nose around in, and no software making you look ""Suspicious"" just because you value privacy. Or better yet, you can just leave the netbook at home and use your flash drive on a PC at your destination.
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Potential deal breakers - 1. If you need to carry around more than 8 or 16GB you'll have trouble finding a really good secure drive. Sure more than one drive would work but at some point multiple drives become silly. 2. If your one of those people who can never find their keys or is constantly losing flash drives this is probably a really bad idea.
You can be sure it will be structured so that only X% of the transfer given to them is returned to the people giving it, that is the whole point. That way they get to sell all the leftover capacity.
The thing is, do you really want to set up a web site to use "Cloud Storage" when most of the computers in the cloud are run by 14 year old kids who in addition to hosting that image or stylesheet are also downloading a couple of new movies at the same time they are trying to seed back enough to keep a positive ratio on that private tracker while burning a few new CDs for a friend and getting in some PvP time in WoW?
Seriously, Cloud anything is a great idea but the only time you PAY for it is when it is a mission critical service... and how likely is it that a cloud of PUBLIC Tracker users that don't have the sense to go private, or the couple of bucks to not have to share are going to be able to provide a quality service?
Except which projects they will continue to support or not every time their budget is cut.
Russia already said a couple of months ago they would detach their module(s) and keep them in orbit, but if NASA decides to "De-Orbit" everything they have control over there isn't much anyone else can do about it.
And even if NASA just left it up there, who really wants to try and support old warn out tech designed by someone else?
It really isn't fair to mod someone down as redundant when you can clearly see the time stamp on their post is exactly one minute after the original post... which is more likely, they intentionally said almost the exact same thing changing only one of the five words, or that the took a few seconds longer to review and submit a post than the first person did?
If only there were a way to mod down the modders who waste mod points...
Patent Acquisition and Assertion by a (Non-Inventor) First Party Against a Second Party
Abstract
Methods for a first party to acquire and assert a patent property against a second party are disclosed. The methods include obtaining an equity interest in the patent property. The methods further include writing a claim within the scope of the patent property. The claim is written to cover a product of the second party where the product includes a secret aspect. The methods further include filing the claim with a patent office. The methods sometimes include offering a license of the patent property to the second party after the patent property issues as a patent with the claim. The methods sometimes include asserting infringement of the claim by the second party after the patent property issues as a patent with the claim. The methods sometimes include negotiating a cross-license with the second party based on the assertion of infringement of the claim, where under the cross-license the first party obtains a license to an intellectual property right from the second party. The methods sometime include attempting to obtain a monetary settlement from the second party based on the assertion of infringement of the claim.
They dogs are not sniffing out DVD-R discs, they are sniffing out Pirated DVD's... mass produced in nearly the same way as legit DVD's, with the intent of being sold to large numbers of end consumers, either as a cheaper alternative, or because the real thing is not available in that region yet, often because they are new theater releases.
So you can put away the tin foil, your "Pirated", and then burnt to DVD-R copy of The Hannah Montana Movie is safe from the dogs.
That or living much much closer to the equator in which case you may not have ever needed heat...
Then again being/. it is just as likely that all of the computers running 24/7 keep the house warm in the winter, but require excessive A/C the rest of the year. So that even though power is more expensive in the winter you use so much of it during the summer for A/C it creates the perception of power being cheaper in the winter.
Power being more expensive in the winter is only common sense if you pay your own power bill... Something he probably doesn't have to do living in his mother's basement...
So there is a potential privacy threat that is not currently being exploited. If it were to be exploited it would by at the ISP level, most of whom do not care one bit about copyright. They do however care about the huge amount of data transfer across their networks for BitTorrent.
So the solution to a "potential" threat the ISPs do not care about exploiting is to create a system that will increase data transfer amounts by X depending on the level you select. Which is something the ISPs WILL care about, and WILL do something about.
Maybe someone can develop a plug-in that will just paint a big bulls eye on my front door too... oh wait...
If that alone were not bad enough what about the harm this will do to BitTorrent directly? Random Idiot wants to download a single new release movie so they turn this POS on and start downloading another 10 "Cover Torrents"... great, now the extra load starts swamping trackers and real users can not connect to the tracker, at least not until the tracker forks over a bunch of cash for server upgrades. Then the swarms start to suffer because X percent of what everyone is seeding back is going to those "Cover Torrents" instead of to real users who may at least attempt to be good users and keep seeding a torrent back for some time.
Someone remind me what the point of this plug-in is again?
Patent Acquisition and Assertion by a (Non-Inventor) First Party Against a Second Party
Abstract
Methods for a first party to acquire and assert a patent property against a second party are disclosed. The methods include obtaining an equity interest in the patent property. The methods further include writing a claim within the scope of the patent property. The claim is written to cover a product of the second party where the product includes a secret aspect. The methods further include filing the claim with a patent office. The methods sometimes include offering a license of the patent property to the second party after the patent property issues as a patent with the claim. The methods sometimes include asserting infringement of the claim by the second party after the patent property issues as a patent with the claim. The methods sometimes include negotiating a cross-license with the second party based on the assertion of infringement of the claim, where under the cross-license the first party obtains a license to an intellectual property right from the second party. The methods sometime include attempting to obtain a monetary settlement from the second party based on the assertion of infringement of the claim.
From the article ""10-foot television viewing experience through a streamlined interface that enables you to discover, watch and share YouTube videos on any TV screen with just a few quick clicks of your remote control. With enlarged text and simplified navigation, it makes watching YouTube on your TV as easy and intuitive as possible.""
In short it will provide the PS3 and Wii the exact same non-browser based setup that most quality HTPC software has had for years. Except that with most HTPC software now you also have add-ons for most of the popular video sites, not just YouTube.
Yes, but the concern is that a game publisher will not use 2 different teams to write the same game at the same time. Instead we may end up getting PS3/360 games that have been dumbed down, or made to be more chield friendly in order to make the game available on all platforms at the same time.
I also own and use all three systems but I have a very clear expectations as to what each system is for. The Wii is used for family entertainment, or for playing with a larger group of adults as light entertainment. The PS3/360 are used for "Hardcore" gaming.
The original post was about games along the lines of GTA and other M rated games. If those games are made available on a Kid-Friendly console the fear is that the "Hardcore" gaming systems will end up with fluffy Kid-Friendly games.
Remember, many of those millions of Wii systems come with soccer moms who have nothing better to do than write emails to Nintendo to complain about content their kids are being forced into seeing. Just look back at the BEER-PONG game. In the last couple of days before it was made available for download on the Wii Nintendo was pressured into changing the name, and modifying the color of the beverage in game... so as to be more Kid-Friendly.
What brand player he uses is not news.
What music he has on his player would be moderately interesting, but still not really news.
Finding out how legal all of his music is WOULD be interesting...
So what are the chances we will now have Self Regenerating, Near Immortal, Fearless Rats???
Just strap on some inexpensive lasers, and have Bose equip them for all-terrain duty....
Build an army, or replace the family guard dog... Hrmmm...
Slashdot Mirror
Awwww come on.....
This is a VERY useful tool
Yes, My ancestors were from one of those areas the British campaigned in
Dependent on the total size of the data you want to store local copies of...
.
Buy a good flash drive and keep it on your key chain. Preferably an Ironkey ( www.ironkey.com ) or something similar that offers some serious hardware encryption along with other anti-theft features.
.
Use something like XMarks for Firefox so you can access all of your bookmarks, and even stored passwords if desired, without storing any of it on the netbook. Now simply treat the netbook as a public access PC. If it gets lost or stolen there isn't anything on it to worry about in the first place.
Bonus for international travel is that you don't have anything on the PC for customs to nose around in, and no software making you look ""Suspicious"" just because you value privacy. Or better yet, you can just leave the netbook at home and use your flash drive on a PC at your destination.
.
Potential deal breakers - 1. If you need to carry around more than 8 or 16GB you'll have trouble finding a really good secure drive. Sure more than one drive would work but at some point multiple drives become silly. 2. If your one of those people who can never find their keys or is constantly losing flash drives this is probably a really bad idea.
You can be sure it will be structured so that only X% of the transfer given to them is returned to the people giving it, that is the whole point. That way they get to sell all the leftover capacity.
The thing is, do you really want to set up a web site to use "Cloud Storage" when most of the computers in the cloud are run by 14 year old kids who in addition to hosting that image or stylesheet are also downloading a couple of new movies at the same time they are trying to seed back enough to keep a positive ratio on that private tracker while burning a few new CDs for a friend and getting in some PvP time in WoW?
Seriously, Cloud anything is a great idea but the only time you PAY for it is when it is a mission critical service... and how likely is it that a cloud of PUBLIC Tracker users that don't have the sense to go private, or the couple of bucks to not have to share are going to be able to provide a quality service?
Except which projects they will continue to support or not every time their budget is cut.
Russia already said a couple of months ago they would detach their module(s) and keep them in orbit, but if NASA decides to "De-Orbit" everything they have control over there isn't much anyone else can do about it.
And even if NASA just left it up there, who really wants to try and support old warn out tech designed by someone else?
How much was invested in this thing, I wonder?
If only there were a way we could find out...
Oh wait... I know...
Maybe check the single link to the very short article where it mentions twice an "estimated" 100 Billion (US$) combined from all involved countries.
Will find a way?
This is the way.
Step 1 - Announce over and over that your going to "De-Orbit".
Step 2 - Wait for public outcry.
Step 3 - Cash ISS Stimulus check before the government runs out of paper to print money on.
It really isn't fair to mod someone down as redundant when you can clearly see the time stamp on their post is exactly one minute after the original post... which is more likely, they intentionally said almost the exact same thing changing only one of the five words, or that the took a few seconds longer to review and submit a post than the first person did?
If only there were a way to mod down the modders who waste mod points...
http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=/netahtml/PTO/search-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PG01&s1=20080270152&OS=20080270152&RS=20080270152
Patent Acquisition and Assertion by a (Non-Inventor) First Party Against a Second Party
Abstract
Methods for a first party to acquire and assert a patent property against a second party are disclosed. The methods include obtaining an equity interest in the patent property. The methods further include writing a claim within the scope of the patent property. The claim is written to cover a product of the second party where the product includes a secret aspect. The methods further include filing the claim with a patent office. The methods sometimes include offering a license of the patent property to the second party after the patent property issues as a patent with the claim. The methods sometimes include asserting infringement of the claim by the second party after the patent property issues as a patent with the claim. The methods sometimes include negotiating a cross-license with the second party based on the assertion of infringement of the claim, where under the cross-license the first party obtains a license to an intellectual property right from the second party. The methods sometime include attempting to obtain a monetary settlement from the second party based on the assertion of infringement of the claim.
Since when does idiocy get modded interesting?
They dogs are not sniffing out DVD-R discs, they are sniffing out Pirated DVD's... mass produced in nearly the same way as legit DVD's, with the intent of being sold to large numbers of end consumers, either as a cheaper alternative, or because the real thing is not available in that region yet, often because they are new theater releases.
So you can put away the tin foil, your "Pirated", and then burnt to DVD-R copy of The Hannah Montana Movie is safe from the dogs.
That or living much much closer to the equator in which case you may not have ever needed heat...
Then again being /. it is just as likely that all of the computers running 24/7 keep the house warm in the winter, but require excessive A/C the rest of the year. So that even though power is more expensive in the winter you use so much of it during the summer for A/C it creates the perception of power being cheaper in the winter.
Power being more expensive in the winter is only common sense if you pay your own power bill...
Something he probably doesn't have to do living in his mother's basement...
Payload Race - When you and a co-worker return to work from lunch at the same time and have to race to the single bathroom.
So there is a potential privacy threat that is not currently being exploited. If it were to be exploited it would by at the ISP level, most of whom do not care one bit about copyright. They do however care about the huge amount of data transfer across their networks for BitTorrent.
So the solution to a "potential" threat the ISPs do not care about exploiting is to create a system that will increase data transfer amounts by X depending on the level you select. Which is something the ISPs WILL care about, and WILL do something about.
Maybe someone can develop a plug-in that will just paint a big bulls eye on my front door too... oh wait...
If that alone were not bad enough what about the harm this will do to BitTorrent directly? Random Idiot wants to download a single new release movie so they turn this POS on and start downloading another 10 "Cover Torrents"... great, now the extra load starts swamping trackers and real users can not connect to the tracker, at least not until the tracker forks over a bunch of cash for server upgrades. Then the swarms start to suffer because X percent of what everyone is seeding back is going to those "Cover Torrents" instead of to real users who may at least attempt to be good users and keep seeding a torrent back for some time.
Someone remind me what the point of this plug-in is again?
Global Warming due to industry and emissions is a hoax...
The truth is the planet keeps getting warmer the closer we get to Hell.
Already been done.
United States Patent Application - 20080270152 - October 30, 2008
http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=/netahtml/PTO/search-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PG01&s1=20080270152&OS=20080270152&RS=20080270152
Patent Acquisition and Assertion by a (Non-Inventor) First Party Against a Second Party
Abstract
Methods for a first party to acquire and assert a patent property against a second party are disclosed. The methods include obtaining an equity interest in the patent property. The methods further include writing a claim within the scope of the patent property. The claim is written to cover a product of the second party where the product includes a secret aspect. The methods further include filing the claim with a patent office. The methods sometimes include offering a license of the patent property to the second party after the patent property issues as a patent with the claim. The methods sometimes include asserting infringement of the claim by the second party after the patent property issues as a patent with the claim. The methods sometimes include negotiating a cross-license with the second party based on the assertion of infringement of the claim, where under the cross-license the first party obtains a license to an intellectual property right from the second party. The methods sometime include attempting to obtain a monetary settlement from the second party based on the assertion of infringement of the claim.
From the article
""10-foot television viewing experience through a streamlined interface that enables you to discover, watch and share YouTube videos on any TV screen with just a few quick clicks of your remote control. With enlarged text and simplified navigation, it makes watching YouTube on your TV as easy and intuitive as possible.""
In short it will provide the PS3 and Wii the exact same non-browser based setup that most quality HTPC software has had for years. Except that with most HTPC software now you also have add-ons for most of the popular video sites, not just YouTube.
If your generating enough income from "virtual worlds" that it needs to be taxed...
Well, taxes are probably the LEAST of your problems.
Yes, but the concern is that a game publisher will not use 2 different teams to write the same game at the same time.
Instead we may end up getting PS3/360 games that have been dumbed down, or made to be more chield friendly in order to make the game available on all platforms at the same time.
I also own and use all three systems but I have a very clear expectations as to what each system is for. The Wii is used for family entertainment, or for playing with a larger group of adults as light entertainment. The PS3/360 are used for "Hardcore" gaming.
The original post was about games along the lines of GTA and other M rated games. If those games are made available on a Kid-Friendly console the fear is that the "Hardcore" gaming systems will end up with fluffy Kid-Friendly games.
Remember, many of those millions of Wii systems come with soccer moms who have nothing better to do than write emails to Nintendo to complain about content their kids are being forced into seeing. Just look back at the BEER-PONG game. In the last couple of days before it was made available for download on the Wii Nintendo was pressured into changing the name, and modifying the color of the beverage in game... so as to be more Kid-Friendly.
What brand player he uses is not news. What music he has on his player would be moderately interesting, but still not really news. Finding out how legal all of his music is WOULD be interesting...
So what are the chances we will now have Self Regenerating, Near Immortal, Fearless Rats??? Just strap on some inexpensive lasers, and have Bose equip them for all-terrain duty.... Build an army, or replace the family guard dog... Hrmmm...