Comment Re:Forget eBay, Craigslist - Freecycle :-) (Score 1) 367
I gave my old clunker away on Freecycle. I was so happy to get rid of it, I actually *drove* it over to their house!
Comment Re:secure! (Score 1) 720
The only way to make any computer *truly secure* is to encase it in wax and send it into orbit. And even then...
Comment An OS is an application. (Score 1) 394
That's completely baffling, considering that an OS is an application.
Brazilian Pirates Hijack US Military Satellites 359
blantonl writes "Brazilians all over the country are using modified amateur radio equipment to communicate with each other using US Military communications satellites — effectively creating their own CB radio network on the backs of the US Military. Recent efforts to crack down have resulted in arrests of some of the users, however the behavior still continues today."
Comment PAY for this? (Score 1) 1
I can cobble this service together in 15 minutes on Sunday morning wearing nothing but a pair of slippers and my tighty-whities. Cost to host = $0/month since its riding on my other hosting services.
Submission + - World's smallest hardware firewall?
An anonymous reader writes: An Israeli startup has squeezed a complete hardware firewall into a USB key. The "Yoggie Pico" from Yoggie Systems runs Linux 2.6 along with 13 security applications on a 520MHz PXA270, a powerful Intel processor typically used in high-end smartphones. The Pico works in conjunction with Windows XP or Vista drivers that hijack traffic at network layers 2-3, below the TCP/IP stack, and route it to USB, where the Yoggie analyzes and filters traffic at close-to-100Mbps wireline speeds. The device will hit big-box retailers in the U.S. this month.
