No, actually it can't be done with any phone. It doesn't work.

Elsewhere on the same site, the designer says:

I don't know why this is on Slashdot. The headline might as well read "Neat looking was to disable your iPhone's camera"

As to encryption, you just encrypt the file before you tar it. In fact, with gpg you get both encryption and integrity checking.

Gnupg is available in Mac Ports and comes with just about every linux distro.

True, but simply hashing the file at both ends solves that. Both linux and mac support shasum.

If you are only moving files from one system to another, and do not need to edit them on the portable drives, skip the filesystem and just use tar. Tar will happily write to and read from raw block devices... In fact, that is exactly what it was designed to do. A side benefit of this approach is that you won't lose any drive capacity to filesystem overhead.

So I see you're the "if it ain't broke fix it anyway" type.

Actually, Jesus was a tree killer, not a tree huger.

Matthew 21:18: Early in the morning, as Jesus was on his way back to the city, he was hungry. Seeing a fig tree by the road, he went up to it but found nothing on it except leaves. Then he said to it, "May you never bear fruit again!" Immediately the tree withered.

Just sayin

This is a common misconception. When you eliminate 1 wrong answer, the probability of the remaining unchosen answer being correct is 2/3, not 1/2.

Wikipedia offers a simple explanation: "...switching loses if and only if the player initially picks the car, which happens with probability 1/3, so switching must win with probability 2/3."

I have been running Android 1.6 on an old eeepc 701 for quite a while now, thanks to the good folks over at android-x86.org. Android is quite well suited to a low power, small screen machine like the 701.

Also, consider this: When running the android bowser, more and more sites default to a mobile version. I've found that the mobile versions of many sites are preferable to the full versions. I suspect this is at least partly to do with the mobile interface being streamlined.

Forget irony, clearly you are not very familiar with organized crime.

Yes, it is a tough job market out there. However, there are lots of companies hiring. Those companies are currently in a position to be very picky about openings. Regardless, top talent is having no trouble getting work.

The reality of the situation is that those who are currently employed have a much better shot at landing a new gig than those who have been out of work for months.

Some companies have even started noting in their ads that they are not interested in candidates that have been out of work for more than 3 months, etc. So while it is a rough job market right now, the OP stands a good chance of landing a new gig if he's worth his salt.

This is where you tell them, "gee, that LAMP sounds like fun... As a writer, while I seem to be ok at some of this ad hoc project management, I really don't know the first thing about setting up a linux whatever server. Do you think I could get some training?"

If they are simply demanding that you figure it out and get it done. Just do your best while updating your resume and finding a new job. A company that plays this game will never give you a raise. In their eyes, the mere fact that you could take on more work, while getting your original work done, means you were being overpaid to begin with.

It frightens me to think that there are people getting paid to take care of enterprise systems that would not already know everything in this article. Mostly, it reads like a thinly veiled ad for VMWare products.

Your very premise is faulty. The word "viewpoint" is just another word for opinion. Science isn't about opinions. It is about evidence, experiments, and a rigorous commitment to setting presumptions aside.

The areas where scientists tend to disagree are those where there is not yet sufficient evident to establish a widely accepted, verifiable conclusion. Evolution is not one of them.

The evidence for Evolution is vast and well defined. If you want to falsify Evolution, you need more than a dissenting viewpoint. You need to provide some clear, repeatable, and scientifically testable evidence.

We still call gravity a "Theory" as well. You are making the common mistake about the scientific use of the word.

According to the United States National Academy of Sciences: Some scientific explanations are so well established that no new evidence is likely to alter them. The explanation becomes a scientific theory. In everyday language a theory means a hunch or speculation. Not so in science. In science, the word theory refers to a comprehensive explanation of an important feature of nature supported by facts gathered over time.