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Say what? A password protected RAR is the best choice? I must admit I stopped reading shortly after that paragraph.

I can confirm that HTC Desire running Android 2.2 has SIM toolkit.

Well I'm afraid you are wrong. To implement SIM toolkit you need to be able to communicate directly with the SIM card. Naturally due to security restrictions you don't have access to that in any mobile userland.

That would have to be antitrust and wargames

I basically live my life inside org-mode and I love reading well written stuff about how others use org-mode since I always find new ways of doing things, and new stuff that can be done in org-mode.

The slogan of the good old board game othello comes to mind; A minute to learn. A lifetime to master.

So far the most advanced thing I do is my org-mode-blog: I create a blog entry directly in emacs, or from conkeror including the URL of the page I'm on. I write it in org-mode. It gets git-ed to my server that has a submit hook that publishes it directly to my blog through jekyll.

So thanks for the submission. I skimmed through it, but I will read it again on the bus home this evening.

I have wanted a space cadet keyboard for close to 10 years now. Not only because it's really cool but because I live my life inside Emacs and this is the ultimate Emacs keyboard. Should clear up my Emacs finger pains in no time, not to speak of modifier key heaven.

I've said it many a time before, but I always find it amusing that the net originally was created to survive nuclear war yet one person with a shovel or a ditch digger can wreak havoc to large parts of the net.

I really can't make up my mind about this one.

On one hand it's very obvious to me that things like this need to cause a reaction, on the other hand it seems insane to handcuff a _child_ and put him in a cell for something like this.

Seems to me like this would be more of a job for a medical professional or child services. But I'm still very unsure what the correct action to take would be.

First of all: Sorry for the late reply. I somehow didn't notice your post before now.

I was actually replying to jbrennan who said "If it's possible for an application to bring down the system that sounds like the system was poorly designed." and burrows who said "And... you've essentially discredited windows, linux, and os x.". I didn't notice what ootachi said until you pointed it out. I consider "bring down the system" to main exactly that, kernel halt or panic.

The links you provided where about processes crashing and/or processes with memory leaks, which I could in no way consider to be "bringing down the system" (unless it's a very poor system where such things actually do bring down the whole system), and it would be completely insane of me to claim that processes cannot crash on nix.

My point was simply that kernel panics or anything that "brings down the system" very rarely occur, and normally occur due to hardware errors on nix systems, and as far as I know on newer Windows systems as well (again, never used OSX so I have nothing to go on there).

Simply put: When jbrennan said "bring down the system" that, to me at least, means anything that the _only_ recovery from is a reboot of the system, no more, no less, and that is what I was responding to.

I don't use GNOME because I find it way to heavy and bloated (I run X and the stumpwm manually). It would however be very interesting to know how early adapters find GNOME 3 compared to previous GNOME versions in terms of bloat and speed.

I also understand that GNOME 3 can be used very keyboard driven. AAAnybodywo swears to the keyboard like me have any opinions?

All of the technical discussions about this aside this really makes no sense. To me it sounds a lot like claiming that you cannot own letters hence you cannot own an essay you wrote.

Really? Not once have I had an application take down GNU/Linux. Sure an application takes down X once in a blue moon, but never the whole Os. And I've been using it for about 15 years now. The few full scale crashes I've experienced were due to hardware errors.

Only once have I experienced a full crash on android. The phone simply rebooted. No idea why.

I have never used OSX or windows after XP, so I can't say anything about them.

Hmm. Seems to be meta procrastination.

I tested evernote for a bit but I never really liked it, but I really couldn't tell you why. I finally ended up using both catch (previously 3banana) and springpad. There's a lot of overlapping features between the two, but I ended up using both because I find catch better for general note taking and springpad better for lists and similar.

Fantastic. There are others out there :D

I've actually been planning to get a TypeMatrix one of these days, but I'm planning on remapping the enter-key in the center to ctrl.

Personally I use the stump window manager because it's lisp and I can control it from Emacs using slime. I could however almost do without. All I use stumpwm for is a placeholder for a terminal with multiple nested screens and conkeror. So switching between those two windows is all I normally use stumpwm for.

No problem with many authors, simply expire when the last author dies.

Corporations I sort of already said something about. However I must admit I like how things work in the Norwegian equivalent of copyright: You can transfer "copyright" to corporations, but if, and only if there is an employee relationship (either you are employed or working as an independent contractor). This for example means that as a student you retain full "copyright" to all of your work (master thesis etc.), but as a professor it can be transfered to the university.

In addition you always retain your "ideal rights" no matter what, even if the rest of the "copyright" is transfered to your employee. I don't think american copyright has an equivalent to this. Basically it means that no matter what you have 1) the right to be identified as the creator and 2) the right to deny derivative works to be associated to you.

This means that if somebody makes a movie based on your book you can say "Hey, this movie completely misses the point, I don't want to be associated to it in any shape or form" and the creator of the movie cannot use your name at all.

This does however mean that there is no such thing as public domain in Norway, since there is no way of giving up your "ideal rights". Even if you put something out there under terms that in the US would be public domain, you cannot give up your right to be identified as the creator or your right to not be associated with derivative works.

I completely agree. For years now I've been working on using the mouse less and less and the keyboard more and more up to the point now that I hardly ever use the mouse (a couple of months ago I sat down and used a public terminal for 25 minutes before I discovered that somebody had stolen the mouse).

Up to now I've been using conkeror for my browsing need (and w3 in the terminal when following links in email from wanderlust in emacs) since emacs is my OS of choice. However I'm now in the process of converting to chrome. I found out that with the help of some extensions and a little bit of scripting I will be able to have a chrome almost as keyboard driven as conkeror and finally be able to use some extensions I have sorely missed in conkeror (biowalled2browser, readability, etc) and that most google products work fine without having to write modes for them (nice since many of googles products are rather keyboard driven by nature)

Why do I do this? For one I hate wasting time, and I hate wasting screen real estate. My computer should be a tool that helps me get tings done as fast as possible, not something beautiful to look at. The more use of GUI and/or mouse the slower one works. If you can to everything from the keyboard, and _know how_ to do it from the keyboard, you can work much faster than when jumping back and forth between the keyboard and mouse or other pointing device.

But I take it one step further. Being all about efficiency I don't want to have to move my hands much either. I therefor strive for using and/or creating setups where ones hands never have to leave the asdf-jkl; position of the keyboard. Thus I don't use enter (C-m or C-j), I don't use arrow keys, and avoid at all cost using any keys that are not reachable without moving my hands from the home location on the keyboard.

To sum up: Basically I'm a keyboard and efficiency geek ;)

I think this illustrates how screwed up copyright has become.

I dream of a world where copyright lasts for 14 years or the copyright holder dies, which ever comes last. Thus an individual can retain copyright for life. If he or she dies before 14 years have passed the heirs will benefit for however much of the 14 years are left. Corporations would never hold a copyright for longer than 14 years.

I'm convinced that this would be a fair system for everyone and would return copyright to its original intention; to promote creativity and writing rather than being a corporate cash machine that screwes everybody other than the large corporations.

I'm amazed at the amount of "this is crap because I already knew it" comments in the articles comment section. Sure one sees this a lot on the web but it seems to me that it's becoming more and more common.

As a hobbyist in the field I find articles like these very interesting. However I find it hard to find larger collections, or even better books on such subjects. So much of what I come across is bloated with crap. Very seldom can I find collection focusing only on the why and how. Any tips?

Small yes, new not so much (the oldest domain is from 1998).

But I think you are bypassing the point here somewhat. The point isn't that it only relies on previous searches, or on previous searches at all. The point is that it is not, and will probably never be a complete database, at least not the way things work as of now.

Just for fun I tried a couple of other tools that boast the same feature (http://spyonweb.com and http://www.yougetsignal.com/tools/web-sites-on-web-server/) and they both found most of all of these sites without any problem.

The major difference here is your site has a nice clean interface with a very easily parseable source, something these two other sites definitely don't have.

Now, if you could manage the same results as these other sites maintaining the clean interface you have now, it would definitely be my future choice. But as long as there are other sites out there that provide more reliable results...

Be aware that this site doesn't do what it claims: "See which web sites are sharing the same IP Address." The truth would be: "See which web sites that have previously been searched for on our site that shares the same IP"

Basically it will only show sub-domains within the domain you search for, unless previous searches for other domains happen to match the IP.

I tested this just to confirm: I searched for one of my domains (apr. 20 domains on the same IP) and only sub-domains showed up. I searched for another of my domains and the sub-domains+my previous search showed up.

Mainly because it's open, but also because it seems to be more stable than twitter and because I find the twitter web UI horrible (not that the identi.ca web UI is nice, but it's still better).

Generally I almost only use free software, and prefer open-platforms whenever possible. I actually can't remember the last time I used non-free software.

This has existed for quite some time now and is called identi.ca

I've used identi.ca almost as long as twitter, and my preferred client Twidroyd on the Android supports both of them (thanks to the fact that identi.ca has an option to use an API made to emulate the twitter-API).

I highly prefer identi.ca to twitter, and the only thing keeping me on the twitter-network at all is the fact that most of the people I follow only are on twitter, and for some strange reason it's very hard to convince people to change, even though, in my opinion, identi.ca is superior.

I really hope they soon manage to get a twitter-pull up and running (they have been talking about that for a long time now). If they managed that I would convert fully to identi.ca.

Edit: Got to update my browser more often... Sorry bingaman

Not talking about making it difficult to process credit cards, but rather standardizing it as much as possible. I will again use the ATM as an example. If all ATMs looked exactly the same anybody should be able to detect fake ATMs and ATMs sabbotaged with external skimming equipment.

Security wise an inexpensive portable standardised terminal would make much more sense. In the end it would cost a bit more, but this would not necessarilly translate to increased cost for the POS. Less skimming equals less cost to the service providers _and_ the POS.

This means that we too will be entering the digital dark ages. Bad news for anyone concerned with privacy, but probably good news for anyone creating privacy preserving software, encryption software and similar.

With much of Europe in the same situation, this is probably a good time for people to think about startups in the field of privacy.

Verifone has a point, but it comes through very badly in what they wrote. It's all about the issue of trust and habit.

Skimming equipment, both software and hardware, has been freely available for ages now. And it's quite simple. Anybody who knows how to use ebay and write a small application can create quite sophisticated skimming equipment themselves.

The problem is not the availability of the equipment or the know-how. The problem is what "average Joe" is used to. If "average Joe" would balk when presented an off the shelf mobile phone to swipe their card through, well, then skimming using a mobile phone would be hard. But if the banks and payment processors have trained "average Joe" to know that a mobile phone is a completely legit way of reading credit cards, well then this type of skimming is easy.

If no ATMs existed, well, then it would be really hard to skim cards using an ATM-like device, because people would balk.

It's all about keeping the different legit ways of accepting credit card payment to a minimum. The fewer legit ways, the fewer possibilities of skimming.

On the other hand, there is no doubt in my mind that mobile payment will be the future. Replacing the standard plastic will a chip in your mobile phone will become commonplace soon, and we will also probably see applications where you can transfer money to others simply by having both mobile phones interact.

So the question is if the big fuss really helps anyone, or if it's only delaying the inevitable.

I use a minimal Debian install with X and the stumpwm windowmanager. No desktop environment or login manager. Stumpwm basically acts as a placeholder for a terminal with multiple nested screen sessions and a web browser (conkeror). I basically live my life inside Emacs (the non-gui version of course), but must come crawling out once and a while to browse the net, or communicate via irssi (where I have everything: msn, facebook, jabber, irc, etc. through bitlbee). Used to have that inside Emacs too (using erc) but remotely accessing erc from a touch phone was not feasable, so I switched to irssi.

Why I live my life like this? Well, efficiency. I can do just about anything I like with a couple of keystrokes, I don't have to spend time being distracted by fancy graphics and animations, and every single pixel on my screen is used well. No wasting screen real estate on decoration.