My Dad works at a company, maintaining their servers. He has his own personal computer that is nothing to do with work, and he is provided with a PGP encrypted Windows XP Dell Latitude, that tunnels everything over a VPN to his work.It probably is monitored, but since it's being provided for free, don't complain. Use a different computer!

They've taken to ruining songs (like 'Give me everything' by Pitbull, Ne-yo, Afrojack and Nayer) by inserting lyrical product placement

I use 'homeplugs' - those devices where you plug in an RJ45/CAT5/Ethernet cable and it sends the data through your power lines. I assumed smart meters did the same thing. Does anyone know if (UK) power meters interfere?

While I'm taught in RS/RE, science and geography lessons that renewable energy will never run out, obviously it will. Wind power: caused by vacuums caused by sun. Waves: caused by moon movement caused by big bang. solar: caused by sun. Also note, the energy cannot be destroyed, so in theory solar makes the world slightly darker, and turbines slow the wind down slightly. However, it will last so long that it's near finite to the human mind I thought slashdotters knew this!

Unplug the cable? Unless it's a new one, but all the emtal in prisons means he probably won't find an open wifi net anyway

i thought on manufacturers did this, not google. this is why its great that you can root. I have a G1/dream. apparantly it can't run >1.6 I have 2.2

I hate it when websites filter by referrer and claim you are stealing their bandwidth. Really? It's just a hyperlink. If you're going to complain don't put it on the web! I use a Firefox add-on to spoof the referrer, to the wikipedia article on referrer spoofing, and sometimes sites claim I'm stealing their bandwidth, and recaptcha doesn't work, but luckily the extension has an exceptions list

at school, they proxy through EMBC, who block stuff. If they want to block something themselves, at one time they had an inhouse smoothwall (dansguardian/squid) server, but they now block it by using the remote administration tool, by looking at the window title. eg notdoppler.com, which is unblocked at school, is closed automatically when a window with 'notdoppler' in it opens. I used to have a HTML page in my documents with 2 frames, a 1 pixel blank one, and Google. Now since google blocks frames (it seems to be IE that complies with that request, and I can't use Firefox, as since they upgraded to Windows 7 you can't run EXE's of removable media) so I have to put in the URL in the source directly everytime. I hope no more sites doing this, or since as I said it seems to be IE that complies with that request to block framed Google, I find a way to override this 'safety'

and who ( well, more implied) claimed to have invented smartphones, tablets, videocalling etc. and was lawsuit trigger happy against any competitiors

Well I agree that apple did take credit and claimed to invent smartphones, tablets, video calling, app stores/repositories etc. which is what makes me dislike them the most and puts me off buying their products so I don't reinforce that, which is stupid, because im cutting off my nose to spite my face and using inferior technology. they _improved_ existing technology and made it available to the masses and RIP Steve Jobs

...for 4 years! I'm in UK school year 10 (14-15) and most of the secondary schools I know of use fingerprints for the canteen, along with a photo that pops up at the checkout, in case you, er, steal someones finger. its mainly to speed things up and you cant lose your finger easily however I seem to remember hearing that it is a checksum that is stored, so the fingerprint cannot be got out of the system

can't they just make it auto update by tiny amounts frequently! since ive switched to os x i miss linux package management and cant be bothered to update every 6 weeks!

so basically, harmless flash mobs are illegal now

Well anyone whow atched series 4 of Chuck know Agent X is Hartley Winterbottom/Alexei Volkoff. Code cracked :P

it seems the reason he doesn't like it, is he doesn't like android. many people do, so I assume if you like android devices, you'll like this