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Comment Who says? Just TOR. (Score 1) 591

"According to Schmidt, true transparency and anonymity on the Internet will become a thing of the past because of the need to combat criminal and 'anti-social' behavior." Of course he would like this. Another way to make money at user expense.

This is posted using Tor. [http://www.torproject.org/] [http://www.torproject.org/easy-download.html.en].

The Tor windows installation is portable [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portable_application] and anti-forensic [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-computer_forensics].

Happy Computing

Submission + - Apple, iJail, iPolice, and the Gizmo Blogger's (huffingtonpost.com)

thisNameNotTaken writes: "Authorities seized computers, digital cameras, a cell phone and other items from a technology blog editor who posted pictures and details of a lost iPhone prototype." A Gizmido (http://gizmodo.com) blogger had a real bad day. "The warrant, issued by a Superior Court judge in San Mateo County, said the computers and other devices may have been used to commit a felony." Really, what would that be? Pissing Steve Job's off. "Steve Wagstaffe, spokesman for the San Mateo County District Attorney's office, confirmed the warrant's authenticity." Wow. Call the iPolice!

This is political and a waste of time. Because, this case that WILL not get prosecuted. It is all about showing the world that Apple cares about bad press. The drunk/drinking Apple employee (http://gizmodo.com/5520471/the-tale-of-apples-next-iphone?skyline=true&s=i) leaves the next generation iPhone on a bar stool and the blogger gets tossed by the police. Bad people should get arrested and jailed. A blogger.Over an iPhone. Lets us hope the Electronic Freedom Foundation (http://www.eff.org/) steps in on this.

What a sorry state of affairs. Speaking as a retired LEO — what a bunch of %^#@. Sadly, the judge and the law enforcement officer must really be bored.

Comment VM, Linux, and Qemu (Score 1) 261

Another way,

I run a University OS class lab computer and I run VMware (http://downloads.vmware.com/d/info/datacenter_downloads/vmware_server/2_0) server (free version) on a Centos (http://www.centos.org/) base. Each student has a single Minux (http://www.minix3.org/) image on the VMware server. The students can access their base Linux account and Minux image. They have detailed OS projects in both environments.

For student who want to do work without a network connection I created a simple QEMU (http://wiki.qemu.org/Main_Page) image for them to use. The QEMU is pre-set in a directory for them.

I would not have a real class use a USB drive for a programming driven OS or similar class. Too many issues. Our student mostly have tablet computers. For computer engineering students one would think that they know software. Sadly, they do not.

The base computer is a quad Intel with 8 GB ram. We used a dual core blade with 4 GB ram without trouble. Only issues is disk space. Each student needs about 40 - 50 MB per class.

Good Luck

Comment Re:Times change (Score 1) 308

Sounds like rsync on a cron job. Or a timed batch file backup with "changes only" option selected. I haven't set one up like that since the 486 days, but it certainly isn't new or Apple only. I had a setup like that configured to backup a law firm I used to do contract work for; every night the modem would call my system and download changes only to my backup device. This created an off site backup and only took about 5 min a night. We didn't have broadband everywhere back then, around 1990.

Comment Re:Copyright Holders Are Winning Control of Our Go (Score 1) 194

If you have a change in circumstances that cause financial trouble, going overdrawn without first negotiating with your bank is frankly the most stupid thing you can do.

No, what is stupid is a bank charging £35 to an account that has no money in it for the privilege of bouncing a direct debit payment, then charging again for the account being overdrawn.

Overdrafts are one of the worse sources of credit available; unauthorised ones even worse.

I agree, you find me a bank that sells its customers basic bank accounts rather than super platinum 'I hope you can afford this' accounts and it might support your argument better.

Why should a bank take on significant business risk funding an overdrawn customer that's not only spending beyond their means (for whatever reason; that the spending is on rent and food doesn't alter the fact that they can't afford it and are thus unlikely to pay it back any time soon) but are also too stupid to actually come and discuss it with them.

Because if they weren't self interested or bigger idiots than their customers then they would use their judgement to provide a service designed to avoid these sorts of problems. Banks like people going overdrawn, they've admitted in court that their business is reliant on people going overdrawn. This is an idiotic system that encourages banks to make things as hard for customers as possible and should be exposed as such, not encouraged under the guise of free enterprise with the slogan 'only dumb people go overdrawn anyway'. The method for this is is debatable, if you don't like regulation then you are trampling on your own ideals by encouraging an unsustainable business model rather than shouting loudly that banks need to do better.

You set up a business giving out money to homeless people. Tell them you want it back as soon as they can afford to repay it, but that until then there's not interest or fees associated with it. Tell me, how much much profit are you expecting there?

Oh, now we descend into 'you just try feeding a mouse an lion' territory. Tell me, why should I respond with anything more than disdain? Go lend money to the homeless yourself, you brought it up.

People do get into issues, they can end up with higher expenditure than income, and they do need short term financial support to deal with that. However, blaming the banking industry for being unwilling to give money away doesn't acknowledge the other side of the situation.

Who said anything about blaming them for being unwilling to give money away? I'm blaming them for running their businesses in a way that makes things needlessly difficult for their own customers. If they can't afford to do without extortionate default charges then they shouldn't have jumped on the superficially competitive bandwagon by building their business around subsidising 'free' with what amounts to needless gambling for many people.

Comment Pfft...whiners my @ss (Score 1) 457

Canada is just returning the courtesy show to her citizens by the US. There are Canadians forbidden from entering the US or doing business with the US because they do business with countries or companies in countries of which the US does not approve (such as Cuba). They don't have criminal records, they're just doing business with someone the US hates. This coming from a bunch of moronic hypocrites that sell weapons to a country (Iraq) or train terrorists (bin Laden) and then get a farking surprised look on their faces when it comes back to bite them in the ass. Give me a break.

Comment Re:and why not ? (Score 1) 477

Isn't it smart to take advantage of a country's wage disparity to get cheap goods until the point comes (no more cheap oil) where it's cost effective to manufacture back at home? It's not like we've forgotten how to manufacture here in the US, it's just not cost effective yet (you know we have millions of pounds per year of chicken wings shipped from China to the US because the farm labor is cheaper?). In the end, China's quality of life will rise, the costs to the US will rise, and equilibrium will be reached again (you'll see manufacturing move back to US soil).

Comment Re:Well if that's not a case for invasion (Score 1) 477

...which all started because the Chinese would only export their goods for gold and otherwise restricted trade with foreigners. So when looking for something to sell to the Chinese despite the Chinese government, British traders turned to opium. China didn't like that, and so on, and so on...and then invasion!

Comment Re:Getting off the train to crazytown (Score 1) 235

Actually, it is more due to Google bundling the browser by default with the download for most of its offerings. For example, dowload Google Earth and you will get by default your browser replaced by IE. Yes, you get a chance to opt out from it, but since a desire to run a non-web mapping application is completely orthogonal to the desire to replace your browser, I find the practice a horrible abuse, and it is a sign of what Google is becoming.

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