Comment Why? (Score 0) 651
Why would you want an untraceable weapon? I cannot think of any ethical reason.
Comment That has been possible from the start of GSM (Score 3, Informative) 76
When I read about such techniques in a presentation from the 25C3 conference in 2008 it was not news to me even then.
http://events.ccc.de/congress/...
Comment if they float they are guilty (Score 4, Insightful) 216
The cyber laws in some countries seem to be inspired by fear of the unknown, reminds me of the Salem Witch Trials. The next test for guilt in "hackers" might be that they float
Comment a five minute deadline to write, test and deploy (Score 1) 310
A Solaris sys-admin on my team deleted '/bin/ldd' from the department server and found that he could not issue any more commands. Other processes on the server began to hang when they needed to load libraries.
He was in panic mode and planning to take down the server to boot from the installation CD in order to fix it. That would have resulted in a few hundred people unable to work for a while. I had the idea of writing a quick program on another workstation and copying that to an NFS share that was mounted by that server. The program would copy 'ldd' from another disk to '/bin/ldd' but the catch was that it could not load any system libraries, it had to be static linked with the correct version of each library it required. The bigger catch was that I had a deadline of under 5 minutes to get it working.
It worked
Comment concentrate on what she needs (Score 5, Insightful) 552
You probably know this already. For the moment you should concentrate on telling her that everyone is ok and she needs to rest. Talk to her, tell her not to try to respond and not to be frustrated. Don't ask questions as that will make her more frustrated. Keep her in the conversation without expecting her to answer.
Comment Ask a Beautifull Mind (Score 2) 800
The decision should be based on the common good and that is not always the worst for the occupants. Remember that the CPU in the other cars will also be evaluating the best strategy to take. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N...
Comment Hands on compiling in 1972 (Score 1) 230
I had only just last week found one of the first programs that I wrote in 1972. We were lucky that our engineering school had a reconditioned IBM1800 with only a small cadre of us who knew how to use it so we got plenty of hands-on machine time in the late evenings when the official jobs had finished. You can see a printout of it on
http://2eo.blogspot.ie/2014/04...
Comment Bespoke Handcrafted Libre (Score 4, Insightful) 409
"rather than relying on their charity or free software" - Sigh!
The FOSS movement should work to educate such people. Perhaps we should call it Bespoke Handcrafted Libre FOSS because some people equate "free" with "cheap and nasty"
Comment Thst's 14 year old news (Score 4, Informative) 122
It has been common knowledge for at least 14 years that governments could eavesdrop on A5/1 traffic http://cryptome.org/gsm-joke.htm
Many governments have warned industrialists not to discuss secrets when using a mobile phone near the country borders. Only the radio channels are encrypted in GSM, lawful interception happens on the wired network that interconnects the base stations so eavesdropping on A5/1 is mostly used when lawful interception is not an option, e.g. listening to the GSM traffic of other countries.
Comment also in Ireland (Score 1) 72
Eircom in Ireland do this too, there's one outside the car park that I use when shopping in the town center, very convenient.
Comment out of the frying pan and into the fire (Score 4, Informative) 126
Private sector data companies don't have a leak-proof record either http://krebsonsecurity.com/2013/09/data-broker-giants-hacked-by-id-theft-service/
Omate TrueSmart Watch Stands Alone — No Phone Required 167
jarold writes to point out an intriguing entry in the expanding smart-watch field: the Omate TrueSmart watch. Production of samples is about start on the watch after a successful Kickstarter campaign. Unlike some of the smart watches now out (or promised for soon), the TrueSmart is capable of making voice calls, sending texts, and using social media messaging without a separate smartphone or tablet. The specs are impressive, for something you wear on your wrist: Android 4.2.2 running on a dual core Cortex A7 and half a gig of RAM, 4GB of storage (expandable via micro-SD slot).
Comment blackholed (Score 1) 167
Well, that didn't take long.
Name: www.governmentattic.org
Address: 127.0.0.1
Name: www.governmentattic.org
Address: 127.0.0.1
Comment not quite there yet (Score 4, Insightful) 246
$ nslookup -type=AAAA google.com
Name: google.com
Address: 2a00:1450:4007:80a::1001
$ nslookup -type=AAAA slashdot.org
Name: slashdot.org
$
Name: google.com
Address: 2a00:1450:4007:80a::1001
$ nslookup -type=AAAA slashdot.org
Name: slashdot.org
$
Comment my son's friend is going to same camp (Score 1) 241
I'll ask him to say hello and give our good wishes. October Sky is one of our favourite films and let's hope Kiera does as well as Homer Hickam did despite his early escapades.
