motters

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by motters 16y ago
I only recently got an opportunity to try using a netbook, and I like this form factor more than I would have expected. The size makes it more ergonomic than a full sized laptop, yet the keyboard is still usable. I've never tried using a t
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by motters 16y ago
I've recently started using a tablet/pen, and for most purposes it's a good mouse replacement, and it's also better for sketching. Using buttons on the pen is a bit fiddly, but tapping the pen is an equivalent in most situations. For play
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by motters 16y ago
DuckDuckGo FTW.
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by motters 16y ago
The good news from the propogandists point of view is that it seems you only need to pay people very small amounts of money (50 cents) to encourage them to engage in propaganda. With the budgets available to governments this should permit
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by motters 16y ago
That benefit is also a risk though if your data in the cloud isn't encrypted. Also if most company data is stored in a highly centralised way in cloud server farms then this becomes a very conspicuous target for "cyber warfare".
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by motters 16y ago
Essentially the value proposition of the cloud is "we can store that for you wholesale". If you're just a typical internet user then it's probably not worth storing data in the cloud, since hard drives/USB/Flash storage is a cheaper option,
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by motters 16y ago
It's a good illustration of how fast technology moves.
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by motters 16y ago
The movement from camera film to digital cameras was a largely unnoticed revolution which took place within the last decade.
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by motters 16y ago
As far as I remember the A and B drives were used for floppy disks. In the olden days home computers didn't have hard drives, and typically either had a single or dual floppy drive. With a dual drive you could do fancy things like make ba
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by motters 16y ago
This is MySpace's dot com moment. To me it seems highly unlikely, short of pulling a rabbit out of a hat, that MySpace will survive for very much longer. The niche which they occupied has been successfully colonised by Facebook, and there
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by motters 16y ago
Well for companies that are even slightly web-savvy the logs are very useful because they contain information about who your customers are, when they use your site, how often, what they're searching for, etc, etc - which can have a real com
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by motters 16y ago
Indeed, but I imagine that from the service providers perspective there is currently probably a far greater incentive to keep the logs due to their commercial value.
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by motters 16y ago
Perhaps, but even if your critical business data is encrypted in the cloud the servers will still be keeping access logs which can be handed over for traffic analysis. As far as I'm aware this is what's being asked for in the recent Twitte
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by motters 16y ago
I had thought that in trying to get out of the cloud I was behaving in an oddball and perhaps even Luddite manner, bucking the apparently rising trendiness of cloud based services. But it's interesting to see that other people are having s
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by motters 16y ago
Communications with friends and family is the ideal application for video chat.
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by motters 16y ago
On the internet you are your own public relations agent, so I can imagine why people wouldn't want to use video chat because I can think of reasons similar to those described why I wouldn't want to video chat frequently. Video gives out ma
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by motters 16y ago
The thing about schemes like this is that they remain optional until such time as the majority of the population have them, after which it becomes easy to convert the system to a mandatory one since minority groups can easily be sidelined.
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by motters 16y ago
There are identifying documents, such as passports, drivers licenses and credit cards. These are sufficient for any situation where you might need to verify an identity.
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by motters 16y ago
They said something similar to this about the proposed UK national ID system, then shortly afterwards unveiled plans for an incredibly centralised system with a slow transition leading from voluntary to mandatory. Fortunately these plans w
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by motters 16y ago
If it waddles like a national ID system and quacks like a national ID system, then it's probably a national ID system. Here in the UK we are fortunate to have recently dumped plans for a national ID system. Americans should do the same.
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by motters 16y ago
Sometimes with FUD articles like this when you check the background of the author they're either working for, or closely allied with, a rival company (like Microsoft), but as far as I can tell this is merely a case of cluelessness rather th
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by motters 16y ago
I never did anything using SOAP, and thought that this technology died many years ago.
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by motters 16y ago
It sounds as if he had already built up a reputation within a certain community, and is now just capitalising on that. Without that reputational factor, he probably wouldn't have been able to raise much funds.
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Cloudy Predictions(hackerpublicradio.org)
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by motters 16y ago
Probably the simplest way of obtaining 3D data suitable for turning into an object model would be using a Kinect. For large objects, like buildings, you would need either expensive laser scanners or something which solves the multi-view ste
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by motters 16y ago
If the phone had two cameras spaced some distance apart then you could use stereo vision algorithms to get a similar result. Maybe it would be possible to put an infrared laser on a phone, similar to the Kinect, but I expect that power con
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by motters 16y ago
This is a shape from shading approach, which will only work if you're in the dark, with the phone as the only illumination source. If white dots are shown in different places on the screen, and assuming the phone and subject don't move dur
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by motters 16y ago
Governance in the 21st century, whether it be at the level of governments or corporations or other large scale institutions, is about managing flows of information. Wikileaks merely provides an example of cases where such management failed
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by motters 16y ago
From the point of view of the establishment what happens to hackers is of little importance. Hackers or other tech-savvy users will always find ways over, under or around whatever walls exist. This happens today in countries like China.
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by motters 16y ago
Behind the scenes I bet it will be the same censorship technology as used in countries like China. The only difference is the way that the censorship is marketed, in the form of service plans.

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