Comment Re:And? (Score 3, Funny) 242
Damn. Out of mod points.
-1 Troll - that'll have to do.
Although... if there was a "-1 Really, REALLY Boring" then I think I'd be tempted use that one first
Comment Re:name suggestion... (Score 1) 160
DebiAndroid?
That was also my thought (I'm the guy who organizes the g1-hackers mailing list, and has been pioneering Debian on this platform, and any changes required to init and the kernel needed to support it)
Comment AndroidFanatics fails to credit their sources (Score 3, Informative) 160
For the record, this is just a shell script that runs the commands listed here: http://www.saurik.com/id/10. AndroidFanatics generally doesn't reference it's sources. At least this time they (arguably) provided some value in packaging, but that usually isn't the case. The Android Market Browser it has, for example, is just a republished download of http://www.cyrket.com/. It used to be an iframe, but when I told them I wasn't okay with that they decided to just wget the contents. They don't even have the intelligence/decency to reformat it at all, making the entire thing quite flagrant. Frown pants.
Comment Re:marketing (Score 1) 72
That's funny... I submitted it, and I thought it was an interesting thing to read/see, even if it was a bit PR-ish.
That's the way these things work. What you see as just a press release could be what I see as an interesting art show.
All generalizations are a bad thing.
Submission + - Holiday Art in Google Documents...
CyberKnet writes: "Some enterprising folks over at Google have collaborated via Google Documents to create holiday art using cells in a spreadsheet as the pixels. A time delay video was taken and is available over at YouTube and the result is pretty spectacular. More info on how they did this is available behind the scenes. They're inviting people to share their own masterpieces or post a video response over on YouTube."
Comment Re:No. (Score 1) 794
Does it bother Left Hand that you are now seeing Right Hand? I mean, they are in constant contact...
Kind of curious how Left Hand was a screamer, but at the same time I really don't want to know
Comment Re:DDS (Score 2, Insightful) 152
If you think that you misunderstood him then the appropriate thing to do is to apologize, not to attempt to further insult him. And then you should probably think longer about whether you understand what people are saying before you post online about something.
It's great that you take initiative to learn a lot of languages, I applaud you for that. However, the effort you have expended in this endeavor does not entitle you to behave as badly as you have.
You should really consider apologizing.
Comment Re:dvdisaster (Score 1) 303
You should contact Taco... he's been suffering from this for years, which in turn has been making us "suffer" duplicates for years!
Submission + - Effective Optical Disc Repair? 1
CyberKnet writes: "Like a lot of slashdotters, I have an extensive music collection on original CD media. While most of it is in impeccable condition, I have a few discs that have suffered extensive scratching through listening to the disc either via a portable disc player, or in a car CD stacker. I've long since learned the error of my old ways and don't listen to discs in those devices any more, but those discs are irreplaceable in many cases. I would very much like to be able to repair them or have them repaired to original condition, or at least well enough that I can pull the tracks off once and archive the track data. I have heard really uncomplimentary things about devices like the Skip Doctor; ranging from it not helping to it making things worse. I've heard great things about JFJ devices that are seen on the counters of most Hollywood and BlockBuster video stores, but even their consumer devices start at $250. I would appreciate any other suggestions for devices that people have had personal experience with that won't break the bank..."
Submission + - Stick to LaTeX 2
javierzinho writes: For many years I have been using LaTeX to compose scientific documents, but sincerely I'm getting tired of its complexity: it is necessary to install new packages for new features, compatibility issues are everywhere, you need to know commands for everything, table composition is a torture, image insertion an odyssey if you don't have the "right" format, and you need to be a LaTeX's jedi master to create a new document class. I'm looking for a document processor (NOT a word processor) as a viable replacement for LaTeX having all its advantages (consistency between text and math text, automated cross references, direct pdf creation, etc.) but not stuck with the compiler concept and weird 1980's font technology that uses LaTeX, I mean an application with visual interface and so on. I've tried Scientific Word and Lyx but both are front-ends for LaTeX, and Publicon only produces pdf files by ... exporting to LaTeX an subsequently using pdflatex. Add-ons for MS-Word are a joke, and webEq is intended for web publishing, not for pdf production. It seems no company has the guts to produce a decent scientific-structured document processor, am I wrong?, does anybody knows about a viable replacement for LaTeX in the form of a modern application?
Submission + - iPhone 3G Jailbreak Released, Open Source Coming
PainMeds writes: iPhone Atlas is reporting that the first jailbreak for the iPhone 3G has been released, and includes the popular Cydia community installer for distributing free games and applications. Since Apple's SDK was released, web sites have criticized Apple for the restrictions placed on both what developers could write and what APIs they were allowed to use. Others have noted the SDK's incompatibility with the GPL. The Cydia installer has provided a distribution channel for both open source software and software that would otherwise be impossible to build using the restricted SDK. A few applications are already out, including MobileTerminal and NES.app, a Nintendo game console emulator. In just over a week, open development is finally here for the iPhone 3G!
Comment Re:Enabling provision v. Always will do (Score 3, Interesting) 234
It will be possible to look at every email v.s We will look at every email is different.
I don't think it's draconian to have such a law as long as there are reasonable restrictions on whose transmission even if intercepted is looked into and when they can do that.
I don't think it's draconian to have such a law as long as there are reasonable restrictions on whose transmission even if intercepted is looked into and when they can do that.
It's already possible for the police to obtain a wiretap on anyone's subscriber line if they have a wiretap order from a competent court of law. They don't need any dedicated "wiretapping lines" for that; they can simply order the telco to establish the wiretap and send them the transmissions.
The current proposal, due to be voted on June 17, is not about creating dedicated lines to be used once in a while for transferring individual messages from senders singled out by a wiretap order.
The proposal is about creating dedicated lines to monitor all traffic passing any one of a number of access points 24/7, scanning the contents and metadata of every message for certain patterns (some sources claim there are to be around 250,000 search patterns in simultaneous use, all of them secret of course).
The FRA has claimed there will be no breach of privacy unless a message matches a pattern. This is a confusion of words at best, and a blatant lie at worst. It's like opening every letter handled by the post office, scanning it for an uncommon term like "hexamethyl fluoride", and then claiming only the privacy of messages containing the term "hexamethyl fluoride" has been breached, not the privacy of every other message.
Excuse me, but when anyone accesses my e-mail christmas greeting sent to a friend abroad to verify that I don't use the term "hexamethyl fluoride", my privacy has been breached regardless of whether I have used that term or not. And it doesn't matter a single bit to me that my message is scanned by a computer rather than a human, when I haven't the faintest idea of what that computer is looking for. Saying I'm unlikely to send a matching message doesn't resolve my complaint. I'm unlikely to be killed during a bank robbery too; that doesn't mean I will approve of making it legal for bank robbers to fire a gun at me.
When mass wiretapping is legalized and the physical infrastructure is implemented, there is nothing to stop this from being abused way beyond the original intentions, and the original intentions are unclear enough as it is. A committee of humans will oversee the world's fifth largest computer cluster scanning billions of messages every day for items matching a quarter of a million patterns, to make sure noone's privacy is being invaded without sufficient cause?
It's like watching a golf course from the club house during a thunderstorm to make sure the grass doesn't get wet.
And it's not like this 24/7 mass wiretapping programme is some unverified conspiracy theory. The technique to be used is described in the proposal itself, in the Proposed act on signals monitoring for military intelligence purposes ("Förslag till lag om signalspaning i försvarsunderrättelseverksamhet", pages 9-11), Article 3.
The good thing about this is that more people will become aware of the surveillance, whether it's legal or not, and hopefully begin defending their own privacy with the help of encryption and other means. It's a pity that it has become necessary, though.
Submission + - The Ubiquitous Swedish Wiretapping Bill (rickfalkvinge.se) 1
steelneck writes: There is really a lot of debate in Sweden right now. Rick Falkvinge did expose a very senior intelligence official this Saturday, who stated — on tape — that the Ubiquitous Wiretapping Bill legalized the agency's existing mission, caused the Swedish blogosphere to detonate like a barrel of overheated thermite. Print media, though, hasn't said anything apart from brief mentions in a few editorials. We never seen a discrepancy like it.
Unfortunately, there's very few posts in English on the matter. So Rick has provided a comprehensive summary with all the key points of the bill in english, together with a timeline.
Will this affect you living in another country? Of course, IP-traffic allways takes "the scenic route" so they will be monitoring and filtering your traffic too. The bill also contains clauses about FRA sharing intel with other foreign agencys, giving them just about free hands to "trade". Do you think this will stop in sweden, not be "exported" so to speak? I guess this will trigger a lot of "want to have" in other coutries too, making a whole new marketplace for secret agencys around the world.
With enough cooperating contries this opens up for a whole new kind of end2end attacks (yes, we are starting to view our governments as "attackers"). Imagine Mossad spying on a journalist who sends something from his phone or computer. This enables the cooperation to recognize the message on the other end, the only thing needed is a tiny timeshift in each filter making the Mossad-fingerprint of the message reach the filters in the cooperation before the message. Mossad takes the fingerprint on the message -> Brittish MI6 reports both in and out again -> The Swedish FRA both in and out -> The Finns only in... Now add the EU dataretention directive forcing ISPs to keep logs of everything and whatnot (yes even physical GPS-positions of mobile phones). Viola, in 0.3 seconds Mossad knows the reciever of the message even if it went through a series of VPN-networks and onion routers.
How tempting do you think this is for agencys caring less about the human right to privatley recieve and impart information? Imagine the price of developing and sending up a spy-satellite, that gives an idea of the power behind this temptation. So, will this affect you and spread to you coutry too? Of course, if not citizens put their feet down hard!
Unfortunately, there's very few posts in English on the matter. So Rick has provided a comprehensive summary with all the key points of the bill in english, together with a timeline.
Will this affect you living in another country? Of course, IP-traffic allways takes "the scenic route" so they will be monitoring and filtering your traffic too. The bill also contains clauses about FRA sharing intel with other foreign agencys, giving them just about free hands to "trade". Do you think this will stop in sweden, not be "exported" so to speak? I guess this will trigger a lot of "want to have" in other coutries too, making a whole new marketplace for secret agencys around the world.
With enough cooperating contries this opens up for a whole new kind of end2end attacks (yes, we are starting to view our governments as "attackers"). Imagine Mossad spying on a journalist who sends something from his phone or computer. This enables the cooperation to recognize the message on the other end, the only thing needed is a tiny timeshift in each filter making the Mossad-fingerprint of the message reach the filters in the cooperation before the message. Mossad takes the fingerprint on the message -> Brittish MI6 reports both in and out again -> The Swedish FRA both in and out -> The Finns only in... Now add the EU dataretention directive forcing ISPs to keep logs of everything and whatnot (yes even physical GPS-positions of mobile phones). Viola, in 0.3 seconds Mossad knows the reciever of the message even if it went through a series of VPN-networks and onion routers.
How tempting do you think this is for agencys caring less about the human right to privatley recieve and impart information? Imagine the price of developing and sending up a spy-satellite, that gives an idea of the power behind this temptation. So, will this affect you and spread to you coutry too? Of course, if not citizens put their feet down hard!
Submission + - Swedish NSA to wiretap all phones, internet (rickfalkvinge.se)
steelneck writes: This is from from the leader of the Swedish Pirate party Rick Falkvinge, who has been running a pull-down-their-pants series on how the national security agencies have been violating the Swedish Constitution for several years. He even had the former minister of defense to visit and comment on his swedish blog about what he is now writing about in english.
The fuss is about a bill in the Swedish Parliament that will mandate the national security agency (FRA, Försvarets Radioanstalt, translates roughly to Radio Agency of the Defensive Forces) to wiretap all phone calls and all Internet communications that happen to cross one of about 20 key points in the national infrastructure, typically placed along the Swedish borders.
All communications will be screened in real time according to automatic criteria. All of it. The communications that match will be automatically saved for manual inspection. These criteria are known only to the FRA and to an equally secret political oversight board, and will be changing constantly depending on what the FRA wants to find.
What this does is to change the default from "you have a right to privacy" to "all your private communications is always wiretapped". The only difference between this and when the East German security agency Stasi opened all letters and selected some of them for closer inspection, depending on a number of criteria, is that the capacity and scale of this system is immensely larger.
The way it looks now, this bill will pass in a vote on June 17. The parties have put so much prestige into passing this bill they can't back down without crashing hard.
Read it all on Ricks blog.
Ohh BTW.
The FRA recently bought one of the 5 most powerful computers in the world from HP. Gee.. wonder why?
The fuss is about a bill in the Swedish Parliament that will mandate the national security agency (FRA, Försvarets Radioanstalt, translates roughly to Radio Agency of the Defensive Forces) to wiretap all phone calls and all Internet communications that happen to cross one of about 20 key points in the national infrastructure, typically placed along the Swedish borders.
All communications will be screened in real time according to automatic criteria. All of it. The communications that match will be automatically saved for manual inspection. These criteria are known only to the FRA and to an equally secret political oversight board, and will be changing constantly depending on what the FRA wants to find.
What this does is to change the default from "you have a right to privacy" to "all your private communications is always wiretapped". The only difference between this and when the East German security agency Stasi opened all letters and selected some of them for closer inspection, depending on a number of criteria, is that the capacity and scale of this system is immensely larger.
The way it looks now, this bill will pass in a vote on June 17. The parties have put so much prestige into passing this bill they can't back down without crashing hard.
Read it all on Ricks blog.
Ohh BTW.
The FRA recently bought one of the 5 most powerful computers in the world from HP. Gee.. wonder why?
Comment Re:There already is a Java port to the iPhone (Score 1) 275
I got that working ;P. It's JamVM with a custom connector from Java to Objective-C that works like PyObjC, allowing access to all of the frameworks on the device. It's actually been around for _months_ now, but I have been quite busy and have been unable to really market it well enough. If anyone wants more information, please e-mail me: saurik@saurik.com. My website is http://www.saurik.com/, and I've had a bunch of time in the last couple days to actually write articles for my site, and JocStrap/iPhone/Java is next ;P.
