Comment Re:Isn't unwillingless to learn a big problem? (Score 1) 192
I find enabling Gnome fallback mode easier than changing distribution.
Comment Re:Google is in on it (Score 1) 176
I have LBE on Android 4.1.2 and it seems fine, if a bit hard to navigate. This is the more recent (modified Chinese) version though, not the Play Store one.
Comment Re:Wow (Score 1) 223
My Asus m/b does support higher res integrated graphics but only via its displayport for some reason, not DVI.
Comment Re:Confession time (Score 1) 304
Bingo. Coward the surname (as in Noel) is actually cow herd, fascinatingly enough.
Full Disk Encryption Hard For Law Enforcement To Crack 575
If you'd rather keep your data private, take heart: disk encryption is a lot harder to break than techno-thriller movies and TV shows make it out to be, to the chagrin of some branches of law enforcement.
MrSeb writes with word of a paper titled "The growing impact of full disk encryption on digital forensics" [abstract here to paywalled article] that illustrates just how difficult it is. According to the paper, co-authored by a member of US-CERT, "[T]here are three main problems with full disk encryption (FDE): First, evidence-gathering goons can turn off the computer (for transportation) without realizing it's encrypted, and thus can't get back at the data (unless the arrestee gives up his password, which he doesn't have to do); second, if the analysis team doesn't know that the disk is encrypted, it can waste hours trying to read something that's ultimately unreadable; and finally, in the case of hardware-level disk encryption, tampering with the device can trigger self-destruction of the data. The paper does go on to suggest some ways to ameliorate these issues, but ultimately the researchers aren't hopeful: 'Research is needed to develop new techniques and technology for breaking or bypassing full disk encryption.'"
Comment Re:I can see where he's coming from. (Score 1) 988
Touch screen phones were around several years before iPhone, e.g Ericsson P800.
Comment Re:Perfect response (Score 1) 1040
You mean compliment you idiot!
Comment Re:The lunatic is on the grass (Score 1) 96
...cloudbursts thunder...
Iran Plans To Put a Monkey Into Space 153
arisvega writes "Iran plans to send a live monkey into space in the summer, the country's top space official said after the launch of the Rassad-1 satellite, state television reported on its website on Thursday. 'The Kavoshgar-5 rocket will be launched during the month of Mordad (July 23 to August 23) with a 285-kilogramme capsule carrying a monkey to an altitude of 120 kilometres (74 miles),' said Hamid Fazeli, head of Iran's Space Organisation. No mentioning on retrieving the monkey, though."
Comment Re:fight! (Score 2, Funny) 270
I think you mean "pedants".
Comment Re:David Cameron actually believes his own rhetori (Score 1) 629
Before WWII? I think you've been reading the same history book as Dave Cameron (the one where the UK and USA are fighting together in 1940).
There's no question that the UK was a major power 60 years ago.
A better case could be made for ~1955, but even in 1966 Britain was able to argue that its global reach amounted to shouldering enough of an anti-communist burden to justify staying out of Vietnam.
The Falklands War is quite interesting here, not because it demonstrated some lingering imperial might, in fact the opposite - the UK depended heavily on the USA. Where it gets special is that this help was given (initially) without approval from the White House, solely by virtue of long-established intelligence and military links.
Comment Re:Repugnant (Score 1) 156
Hmm he has a web site now, great... should be in there somewhere then! (Look for Lord Young hunched over a desk pronouncing his EU vision).
Comment Re:Repugnant (Score 1) 156
"I have a dream... a dream that one day a man will be able to buy a television in London and plug it in in Paris"
Steve Bell ~1983
Comment Re:PC users liable for TV licence? (Score 1) 128
What, they should pay you?
Comment Re:Just Multiroom, or Multizone? (Score 1) 438
Well the stream comes from Squeezebox Server on the PC so it's just a hardware-software match rather than a hardware-hardware one like Sonos.
And they're doing pretty well so far, longevity-wise - my SlimDevices Squeezebox 3 has upgraded itself to the latest Logitech-branded firmware and works with a new Boombox, and the latest software & services of course.
