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Comment Re:Why do the payments on the phone not stop? (Score 2) 234

Do you think the carriers will willingly, and out of the goodness of their hearts, lower the bill and give money back to you?? How can you expect them to say no to that free revenue?

Over here a given phone gets cheaper the bigger the plan is. And generally every year you can can update your phone for a reduced price, but if you don't change, or you supplies your own phone, the cost of a given plan remains the same. No company in the world would let such easy money go out the door.

Comment Re:lol (Score 1) 269

I remember seeing a show about the construction of the new building for the Mexican Senate. They build several sub surface levels by drilling deep columns of support, pouring a giant slab with a few holes and excavating the dirt of a level underneath and repeating the process. When they got to the fourth or fifth level down, they realized that the flow of water and silt under the building against the columns had tilted the columns enough that the vector of weight of the upper levels fell outside the base of the column, and they had to wrap the columns with additional concrete and reinforcemente making them way wider on all the levels.
If the volume of flow, just 4 to 5 levels down, against just the width of a column, is capable of displacing it so much, imagine the force against something the size and depth of this. And it will vary greatly with depth, until you get to rock, if there is some reachable down there.

Comment Re:Failed attempt. (Score 1) 262

According to this photo, it can work in single screen mode
http://www.gscreenlaptop.com/assets/images/gScreen-SpaceBook-dual-screen-laptop-002(5).jpg

or in screen and half mode
http://www.gscreenlaptop.com/assets/images/gScreen-SpaceBook-dual-screen-laptop-002(7).jpg

and I think that Samsung or someone made a portable screen like you ask for, even connectable by usb

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Submission + - VM-based rootkits proved easily detectable (stanford.edu)

paleshadows writes: A year and a half has passed since SubVirt, the first VMM (virtual machine monitor) based rootkit, was introduced. The idea spawned two lively slashdot discussions: the first, which followed the initial report about SubVirt, and the second, which was conducted after Joanna Rutkowska has recycled the idea (apparently without giving credit to the initial authors). Conversely, in this year's HotOS workshop, researchers from Stanford, CMU, VMware, and XenSource have published a paper titled " Compatibility Is Not Transparency: VMM Detection Myths and Realities" which shows that VMM-based rootkits are actually easily detectable. The introduction of the paper explains that

"While commodity VMMs conform to the PC architecture, virtual implementations of this architecture differ substantially from physical implementations. These differences are not incidental: performance demands and practical engineering limitations necessitate divergences (sometimes radical ones) from native hardware, both in semantics and performance. Consequently, we believe the potential for preventing VMM detection under close scrutiny is illusory — and fundamentally in conflict with the technical limitations of virtualized platforms."

The paper concludes by saying that

"Perhaps the most concise argument against the utility of VMBRs (VM-based rootkits) is: "Why bother?" VMBRs change the malware defender's problem from a very difficult one (discovering whether the trusted computing base of a system has been compromised), to the much easier problem of detecting a VMM."

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