As a brit living in America I've found that there are some extremely good beers here nowadays, especially around Portland, OR. I just drank a very good IPA from Terminal Gravity - live beer. The yanks have come a loooong way from Bud (which is now EU owned FWIW).
The root cause of this weakness is that whereas the 2G network can authenticate the handset (both the SIM and the ME), the handset cannot authenticate the network. It's assumed the 2G network is trustworthy, which in this case, it isn't. There's a stack load of problems with 2G (GSM) security including unilateral authentication, which leads to network impersonation; weak encryption (short keys and broken algorithms); lack of end-to-end or virtually end-to-end encryption; weak confidentiality; no data integrity algorithms; lack of visibility to the user that encryption is on, etc. A lot of these are fixed in 3G. See http://www.3gpp.org/ftp/tsg_sa/WG3_Security/_Specs/33120-300.pdf and http://www.arib.or.jp/IMT-2000/ARIB-spec/ARIB/21133-310.PDF. In this second PDF, section A.4 Hijacking of services describes this attack.
For H1B's, and I think other visa's the visa is in your passport. This means that you must carry your passport at all times. For green card holders you need to carry it the credit card-like card. Green cards are extremely valuable and I never carried mine except when I had to travel abroad.
This is NOT an Android limit. It is a limit of the flash memory that the manufacturer decides to put in their phones. Moto decided to put just 512MB on their device, probably because that was the biggest size they could stack. Adding more would require a separate chip, like a Samsung MoviNAND (basically an SD card in IC package) that would take up more PCB room. But if they had laid down moviNAND they could have got 2G, 4G, 8G or maybe even more. There will be plenty of multi gigabyte Android devices out there in 2010.
So, Congress didn't make a law prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of the press, but capitalism killed it anyway. Hmm.
Mod this guy up, the parent doesn't know what he's talking about. Most smartphones use dual cores or bridge architectures where the applications processor and the modem processor are separate and communicate over a serial link, be it USB, shock-horror a UART or shared memory. And even more shock horror, yes they might even use AT commands to do talk to each other - even today!
It's coming out in August! But you need to be in Japan.
Solar and ruggedness go well together. If you're outdoors hiking and in low signal areas, your battery will burn down quicker, and as there aren't any 100V sockets on El Capitan last time I looked, being able to recharge that battery just with the sun makes a whole load of sense. I predict it'll be in the US late 2010.
Actually, it is real - Sharp made them years ago - no glasses required, so if Acer indeed comes out with a 3D laptop then it'll be the world's second manufacturer to do so. Sharp even got to a second generation of them. Here's a link: http://www.physorg.com/news3296.html. It was so successful you can't buy them anymore. The problem was lack of content and you needed to hold you head in the hot-zone of 3D-ness. Even if Acer manages to release a decent 3D screen, and we start watching the latest 3D movies on it, I think they'll have a tough time overcoming the puppet theater effect on such a small screen. It's not such a problem in a huge cinema, but would be in this case.
With the advent of Android on Linux, OpenMoko can safely retire. There will be a flood of Android hardware out soon in addition to the G1 and at least some of it will be hackable or open enough for developers to delve into the stack if they want. For example, you'll be able to improve the hardware drivers, add functionality left out by the original makers because they feared patent infringement, and take advantage of hardware acceleration that didn't make it into the shipping product. Perhaps the only sacrosanct portion kept off limits will be the radio stack itself, which if hacked could invalidate the CE mark, FCC, GCF, PTCRB, etc.
I don't work for them, but my former employer (a major IC maker) used them all the time. $200 gets it published and printed in a journal.
Actually no. The objects are rotated and at different perspectives, so it's not the same silhouette at all. Also, they throw in a tricky one every so often, like they show you a helicopter but there is only a plane to chose from, i.e. it's a flying object. It might catch some dumb people, but most humans will have a go at a logically similar picture.
Also, to those posters who say CAPTCHA's can be overcome by porn site watching humans, well yeah, but a CAPTCHA is by definition a test to tell humans and computers apart (look up the acronym), so if the only way to defeat it is to use humans, then it's still a successful CAPTCHA, even if it is not a successful gatekeeper to a site.
And it should be the law: If you use the word `paradigm' without knowing what the dictionary says it means, you go to jail. No exceptions. -- David Jones
