tehmaco
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Comment · 8 years ago
You can also tap the power button five times in a row, which brings up the emergency screen (Power Off, Medical ID, SOS call), but also disables face recognition until a pin unlock has happened.
Comment · 8 years ago
If you're not aware of it, you might want to look into Qubes[0], it's an OS that uses virtualisation tech to compartmentalise applications from each other (and the host OS). So you can use your browser of choice for all uses, just in different VMs configured to retain/discard data as you want.
Comment · 9 years ago
It's in the scene in the hotel lift - Hackman gets Smith to remove various things, and stuffs the trackers in a foil crisp (aka chip) packet, and the techs lose tracking on them.
Comment · 9 years ago
There's a short film on YouTube that explores that idea:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vt4Dfa4fOEY
It's a very strange experience hearing it!
Comment · 9 years ago
Cosmic rays causing the errors has got me thinking about if the error rates vary with the time.
Do you get more/less errors when it's day time (due to the Sun)? Does the season affect it (axial tilt means you're more/less "in view" of the galactic core)?
Comment · 9 years ago
I've been using Steam on Linux Mint for a few years, and generally everything Just Works(tm).
Comment · 9 years ago
It looks like there'll be further models after the Three:
"I'm super excited about being able to produce a car that most people can afford," Musk said. "And there will be future cars that are even more affordable down the road."
"With something like the Model 3, it's designed such that roughly half the people can afford the car," he continued. "With fourth generation and smaller cars and what not, we'll ultimately be in the position where almost everyone will be able to afford the car."
From here: http://www.computerworld.com/article/3062365/car-tech/elon-m...
Comment · 10 years ago
It would probably come under the "Equipment Interference" section, which legalises hacking of devices.
Comment · 10 years ago
I've got a couple of cheap VPS's with OpenVPN installed and the bandwidth/latency is best described as "intermittent", as there'll be a lost of hosts sharing it on the low end ones.
NordVPN is one I keep seeing talked about, so I'll be looking into them this weekend :)
Comment · 10 years ago
Much as I'd like to think that signing this would make a difference, it won't :(
Theresa May has been pushing for this legislation (or variants thereof) for years now. The existing powers which this bill replaces expire at the end of the year, and so the line "We cannot allow {terrorists|child pornographers|money launderers} a safe space to hide online" will be trotted out, and anyone arguing against it will be labelled soft on terror, and unpatriotic...
Comment · 10 years ago
That'd work fine for HTTP(S) data, I suspect the data capture would have to be done at the IP level by default, with per-protocol filters on top to capture additional data. Which is going to add complexity to the data capture equipment, plus an ongoing maintenance cost to keep on top of new/updated protocols.
I can't see the current government accepting the possibility that the Internet Bad Guys(tm) could just use a different protocol and avoid all logging.
Comment · 10 years ago
There doesn't seem to be a technical definition of an 'Internet Connection Record', but from the factsheet[1], they:
"are records of the internet services that have been accessed by a device. They would include, for example, a record of the fact that a smartphone had accessed a particular social media website at a particular time."
and:
"ICRs do not provide a full internet browsing history. The ICRs do not reveal every web page that a person visited or any action carried out on that web page."
How this will work in practice is anyones guess at the moment - every time I think of something short of logging every packet header sent/received in the UK (which leads to a staggering amount of data needing to be logged), I think of things that would slip though (and therefore wouldn't fulfil the first statement)...
[1] https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachm...
Comment · 10 years ago
If they're charging more than cost for the electricity, they can just re-invest the extra money, and it ceases to be profit.