Comment Re:preferably linux mountable (Score 1) 165
Thank you. At least you are going in the direction of what he wants
I agree. This looks like a job for good old rsync! Or an rsync-like device.
Comment Re:spideroak (Score 1) 165
Yeah, I also wonder why he didn't search for things he didn't want, like using some single service for data storage, as opposed to a layer built over several providers
I wonder why he didn't search for "encrypted flash disk changing robot", "encrypted gnomes", "dropbox alternative for people who dont want something like dropbox" or "latex bondage"
Comment Re:hmm (Score 1) 159
Firmware is driver-dependant, and thus OS-dependant, architecture-dependant and version-dependant
It's worse than anything else - even hardware blobs can be run via emulators / virtual machines
Comment Re:NAT (Score 1) 327
each local port is linked to a list of remote hosts, differing by IP address and remote port
You fail to allocate a new connection only if you can't find a local port for which there is no entry for the specific remote IP and remote port
Comment Re:I am sick and tired... (Score 1) 421
Ah, units. "it does 20mph per gallon!". Watt is a measure of flow. He meant "pay for that 100 watt/hour times hours for your lamp". The 1/hour and hour eliminate each other - "that 100 watt for your lamp". He's paying that watt-hours - 100watthour every hour. I said hour so much it lost all meaning. What is it? some kind of boar?
Comment Re:I am sick and tired... (Score 1) 421
l2thermodynamics.
You already have as much free energy as you want, if the kind of energy you want is heat.
Comment Re:Make it yourself (Score 1) 314
The parent's point was that the virus attack occurred at the CPU factory. You can't protect against that by demanding anything from the API (CPU instruction set) - the thing implementing it is compromised
Comment Re:Odd, it works perfectly fine for me. (Score 1) 1110
PEBTAC
Comment Re:What driver revolution? (Score 1) 112
firmware != binary blob
Your BIOS is not open source. Your NIC's microcode is not open source. None of this stops you from running an open software stack.
The discussion here is about Radeon's open source drivers. Sure, the microcode is closed. So are the masks.
Submission + - Xbox Surface: Microsoft Gaming Tablet (geeksample.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Microsoft is developing its own tablet for gamers. The device will be called Xbox Surface.
Submission + - Could Israel's " Iron Dome " Make the Case for a Missile Defense Shield? (thesecuritydialogue.org)
scrivenlking writes: The last few days have been extraordinary in the Middle East to say the least. Israel was attacked by a barrage of missiles fired from Gaza. However, nearly all of those missiles were defeated by Israel's missile defense shield known as "Iron Dome". Missile defense systems are nothing new and we've seen them work in a variety of theaters of operation. Most recently, they were highly effective during the United States' invasion of Iraq where Patriot missile batteries went toe-to-toe with Scud missile launchers.
Submission + - Sony admits utter PSN failure (arstechnica.com) 1
radicalpi writes: Sony has finally come clean about the "external intrusion" that has caused the company to take down the PlayStation Network service, and the news is almost as bad as it can possibly get. The hackers have all your personal information, although Sony is still unsure about whether your credit card data is safe. Everything else on file when it comes to your account is in the hands of the hackers.
Submission + - Insecure Defaults Lead to Open Proxies in China (infosecinstitute.com)
InfoSecEdu writes: "A bug in Chinese video streaming software leads to mass open proxies on the web. We will look at how the flaw was found, what proxies are and how they are used on the internet today."
Comment Re:Good Riddance (Score 1) 968
Yes. In the Google keyboard, there's no button next to 'a'. Just a black, lifeless void
Comment The "Mona Lisa Effect" (Score 1) 342
Google and Amazon are possible because of a large crowd.
Facebook and Twitter and eBay don't work without a large existing crowd.
So you pick a site which already has a large crowd, thus creating a monopoly.
