No, itâ(TM)s more like this: Passwords shouldnâ(TM)t be kept in memory or on disk in the clear. They should be protected by a PGP private key that is held offline in an HSM, such as a yubikey. This HSM should also require human confirmation (a finger tap) that is out of band from the rest of the machine (mouse, keyboard, gui) so that any malware cannot just automate decrypting your passwords (you would notice if you had to keep tapping your yubikey over and over). So setup your yubikey with a PGP keypair. Next, get password-store (itâ(TM)s called pass at the command line). This is really just a neat little utility that helps you treat small files you keep your passwords+login info in as pgp files that can be decrypted on the fly but all contained and managed as a git repo. By using a git repo to manage your entire password database you get all the benefits of git. Because itâ(TM)s a CLI program, I highly recommend qtPass as itâ(TM)s a nice GUI wrapper around all of it so you donâ(TM)t need to ever touch terminal. You could just install qtpass deb package and it would automatically install pass for you. BrowserPass is a browser plug-in for Firefox and chrome that integrates this with websites (including filling out non-password forms such as usernames) so you get the same behavior as something like lastpass. Lastly, itâ(TM)s nice to have this be portable and synced with all your devices. So thatâ(TM)s why I recommend creating a private repo on your GitHub account and syncing your pass db to there. Thereâ(TM)s android and iOS apps that can pull-down / sync to this same remote repo keeping your password database synced across all devices. Even if the repo isnâ(TM)t private, just keep in mind that the passwords are all encrypted. And the only thing that can decrypt them is your yubikey(s). Any malware on your machine would require you to manually tap a yubikey over and over as it cycled through your set of passwords. I know it sounds like a lot to setup, but itâ(TM)s totally worth it. Once you get the hang of it itâ(TM)s pretty easy to work with and itâ(TM)s the best security in password management you can get. Plus itâ(TM)s not managed or controlled by a centralized data silo of a company, so thereâ(TM)s no lock-in or company to go out of business and stop supporting.

Pass (Password-store) + QtPass + BrowserPass + PGP keys on Yubikey + GitHub private repo. Setup yubikeys easily with: https://github.com/Logicwax/gp...

> Social media should not be "owned by a single company or group of companies," â¦says the guy who then gives to money to signal, a non-federated centralized messaging data silo. He should have given that money to matrix.

LOC? What does the code on github have to do with the binary on your phone? Whatâ(TM)s that? You deterministically compiled that source-code into that binary on your phone and therefor have a way to prove that binary blob has any relationship to the source code project titled âoesignalâ? And signals servers allow you to keep running this binary when talking their servers? Carry on then.

mod parent up. I've been saying this for so long. With a jailbroken iPhone, you _can_ do more than what you could do with an android phone.

Funny you say that. They are doing a re-release of the movie in 3D for a 2011 release.

Both parent and GP are confusing the terminology. LTE *is* UMTS.

Think of this way: There is GSM, the standard for wireless telephony all around the world. Then there was a bolt-on standard called GPRS, which basically was an add-on to GSM to allow it to support data packet delivery for web, MMS, voicemail alerts, email, etc etc. It was pretty slowwwww. The GPRS add-on, then was improved and they called it EDGE. EDGE was simply GPRS, but with enhancements to error correction and other minor tweaks. This was quite a speed boost. So you have GSM as your phone standard, and GPRS/EDGE as your data packet delivery standard sitting on top of GSM.

Now, the underlying standard that these data add-on enhancements are part of, GSM, needed a face-lift as well. So GSM was upgraded, and renamed to UMTS. UMTS is backwards compatible with GSM, and technically this is also due to them being so closely related. Just think of UMTS as GSM 2.0.

With UMTS, or a "new GSM version", came it's own set of add-on technologies for data packet delivery: HSDPA/HSUPA. Just like how GPRS/EDGE was an add-on to GSM, HSDPA/HSUPA are an add-on to UMTS. These add-ons, also use CDMA-based modulation schemes, and this is where the confusion comes into play. Verizon is a CDMA2000-based network. When people say AT&T/T-Mobile are not CDMA, they really mean it's not from the CDMA2000 (and beyond) family of standards. The GSM/UMTS family never used CDMA modulation before until HSDPA/HSUPA came along, so that's why there's confusion. Just to clarify: GSM/UMTS are not CDMA-based phone standards, but in some areas their nice slick fast data packet delivery add-on enhancements like HSDPA/HSUPA do in fact now make use of CDMA modulation. That's just the data add-on though, all basic telephony control data, phone audio, and SMS is all done the regular non-CDMA UMTS way.

Soon, HSDPA/HSUPA won't be enough. And now a new enhancement to UMTS is coming: LTE. LTE doesn't use CDMA modulation, but regardless of how it works or what modulation it does use, it is STILL a data packet add-on to the UMTS standard. It is NOT a replacement to UMTS. Verizon is the one finally switching to UMTS, and this most likely means Verizon phones will finally use SIM cards now (since UMTS requires it, being that it's really just a newer version of GSM). Think of it this way, Verizon finally realized the dead-end to their standards, and since the GSM/UMTS guys got a new toy to add to their system (LTE), they're jumping ship and joining the rest of the freaking world in GSM/UMTS land.

Not exactly true. You can increase the lens size OR the sensor size. This same thing was explained when DSLRs first came out touting 35mm sensors. If you increase the sensor size, then your lens quality matters less. The same relationship works in the opposite direction: You can keep the sensor the same size, but increase the lens quality.

It's already available if you jailbreak.

I thought Google (and many many other domains) were already doing this?



When I DNS for www.google.com, I assumed (excluding caching):

I first requested the DNS address of the COM. authoritative server, then that gave me the IP address of google's dns servers.

Then Google's DNS servers read my IP address, and based on where I was located, send me a localized IP for the www sub-domain. If you are running a domain, don't you get to hand out IP addresses direct to those who are requesting?

what am I missing here?

yes, lots of apps spy on the users.

Jailbreak and install "Firewall IP" .


It's a complete graphical firewall package for the iPhone that asks you whenever an app makes a connection, and you can generate rulesets on-the-fly. Really handy.

Yes there are lots of FX houses using Linux heavily for post-production work. Maybe not "only on Linux" but it's definitely used heavily. Look at digitaldomain, they even release some of their own products for rotoscope and compositing. And they're Linux-only tools.

meh. When I was young I obsessed over the Titanic. built scale models of it. Watched multiple specials. Built LEGO versions. Bought books on it. I was really into the history.


When James Cameron made it, he went to insane detail to make it historically accurate. He tracked down many of the companies that furnished the original Titanic and contracted them to furnish the set. Hell, even the company that made the original plates on the dinner tables were tracked down. To any historian, Cameron did a superb job in making a film about the Titanic.

and the icing on the cake: he went down to those cold depths and actually filmed the real Titanic to use in the film.

The love story was just a cheap carrier. I think I remember Cameron saying in an interview once that he essentially convinced a movie studio to pay for him to go down and see the boat he obsessed over since he was a child. Although I don't see why everyone hates on the story so much (I didn't think it was awesome, but it was an adequate carrier to immerse you into the event and time-frame), I don't get why everyone was so shocked he made that film and how everyone separates that from the rest of his work.

Most of his films are about human interface with technology, and what happens when we rely on it too much. And he always uses a love story as the carrier. The Titanic was aligned with everything else he did.

Sorry you didn't appreciate it, but to historians and titanic-geeks, that film was great! I could have cared less for the love story, but it DID help me place my mind into that setting more. Cameron's just a director who falls in love with geeky things, and that's why I love his films.

yup. In fact tracking info is needed to tweak tower hand-off handling algorithms and such and all sorts of other QoS data.

The inventor commented on how he would like to do that with the iPhone, but then said it would be hard to get the cooperation from Apple.

I suggest he look into the jailbreaking dev community. There are already a few dozen custom keyboards you can put on your iPhone that will fully replace the keyboard and is universal for all apps. I believe there is a jailbreak app specifically for this that uses plugin-based keyboard themes. I can't remember the name off the top of my head, but it's there.