Alternatives to Android ...

OK, if you have the SailfishOSSDK-Alpha-Qt5-linux-64-offline.run file … create a folder on your desktop called SailfishSDK and put that file in it.

Open a terminal and run:

cd ~/Desktop/SailfishSDK

then

chmod +x SailfishOSSDK-Alpha-Qt5-linux-64-offline.run

then

./SailfishOSSDK-Alpha-Qt5-linux-64-offline.run

It says “Cannot execute binary file” after the last command.

Maybe it’s corrupt … try downloading it again.

Maybe this is the answer…

Tor (originally short for The Onion Router) is free software for enabling online anonymity. Tor directs Internet traffic through a free, worldwide volunteer network consisting of more than three thousand relays to conceal a user’s location or usage from anyone conducting network surveillance or traffic analysis. Using Tor makes it more difficult to trace Internet activity, including “visits to Web sites, online posts, instant messages and other communication forms”, back to the user and is intended to protect users’ personal privacy, freedom, and ability to conduct confidential business by keeping their internet activities from being monitored.
“Onion Routing” refers to the layers of the encryption used. The original data, including its destination, are encrypted and re-encrypted multiple times, and sent through a virtual circuit comprising successive, randomly selected Tor relays. Each relay decrypts a “layer” of encryption to reveal only the next relay in the circuit in order to pass the remaining encrypted data on to it. The final relay decrypts the last layer of encryption and sends the original data, without revealing or even knowing its sender, to the destination. This method reduces the chance of the original data being understood in transit and, more notably, conceals the routing of it.

Don’t know what happened there

Sorry

Mmm, TOR sounds great, but there are problems …

Because it’s public, it will be abused … I’m thinking more for legal activity, but done ‘privately’, rather than in full-view if the NSA et al.

Plus a lot of servers actively try to block TOR proxies.

Dear Mr NSA, as we’ve now (probably) set off all of your alarms by repeatedly using acronyms for various US bases security services, please could you take a look at the following link and maybe forward it on to someone who can do something. Y’know, as it’s a REAL problem that’s likely to screw the entire planet if something isn’t done fairly urgently … maybe a bit more interesting than what I had for breakfast?! (it was eggs again)

Oh, wait … the mainstream media aren’t reporting this … which means it’s probably the subject of a DA-Notice.
In which case, as you or your buddies probably issued it, please can you tell us WHY ?!

It’s amazing what you can find on the Internet if you look, maybe someone in the US government could comment on this one;

[smg id=1583 type=“full” caption=“Fukishima seawater radiation plume”]

I’m just off to buy a geiger counter …

… [this particular plot isn’t real, but I’d love to see what the real one looks like!]

And here begins the next phase of evolution … who knows, maybe world food shortages will be a thing of the past … 7 headed 50 foot sardines will feed a lot of glow in the dark people you know … or possibly a new spin on “fish fingers” :o

WE’RE GONNA NEED BIGGER BOATS :o

Not to mention those Japanese whalers may be in for quite a shock :slight_smile:

Mmm, I think there’s a more immediate “issue” … :slight_smile:

Three melted cores ARE going to hit the Japanese water table (as per the article).
This is likely to contaminate the entire freshwater supply for Japan.

So the question is; what do you do with 127M people who have no access to usable water of any kind ?!

  • and this won’t be phased it, one day they will report that their water is radioactive, call it a zero day attack as it were …

Oh, then there’s the matter of the spent fuel rod cache on the third floor of the building that’s likely to collapse … this in a region prone to both Tsunami’s and earth quakes … if that collapses they estimate the resulting blast due to rods reaching critical mass will be equivalent to a dirty bomb, but around 100x the size of Hiroshima … which is likely to pollute most of the Eastern US …

Mmm… maybe that’s why the D-Notice … Don’t panic! it won’t affect us if they don’t tell us about it !!

… strange … can’t get a geiger counter, everyone’s out of stock … (!)

I see Fukashima is now listed on the Wikipedia page of “China Syndrome” !!

During the Fukushima I nuclear accidents, three of the power plant's six reactors reportedly suffered meltdowns. Most of the fuel in the reactor No. 1 Nuclear Power Plant melted.[27] TEPCO believes No.2 and No.3 reactors were similarly affected.[2] On May 24, 2011, TEPCO reported that all three reactors melted down.[28]

Yeah I get all that, just making light of something that’s outside my control, in a kind of -

“Mavis, those Germans are dropping bombs again, put the kettle on”

kinda way … doesn’t mean I’m dismissing the info … just acknowledging there’s nowt I can do, and if we’re all doomed we may as well have a bit of a joke whilst we can, then put the kettle on.

All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing. (Edmund Burke)

<fx: goes to put the kettle on> …

<fx: email siren beeps to indicate new email>

Oh look … more spam …

Subject: 10% of selected survival tools …

How apt … :wink:

It’s not that I’m choosing to do nothing, but what can I realistically do … petition the government to do something ?, yeah cause that’s a proven course of action :wink:

Or possibly, fly to Japan, and quickly evolve to be radiation (and heat) proof … gather the fuel rods, then hop on my space elevator to “safely” dispose of them in some poor aliens back garden.

The kettle isn’t the EASY option … currently it’s the ONLY option I can think of.

And who said I was a “good man” to begin with … what’s his address, he needs putting straight :slight_smile:

The meek shall inherit the earth … Oh god no, we don’t want it :o

[EDIT]

I can feel another “all we need is £2 a month” TV advert coming on… yeah right !!!

White, two sugars please…

[EDIT 2]

You can’t say -

How apt .. ;-)

on a Linux forum … someone will say RTFM, or explain how … not to mention confusing the heck out of beginners using Google :slight_smile:

It looks Japanese am I right? Looks allright it does.

Ohhh, you had be going for a second .. I read the first line and thought; "bloody hell, Mark's a Yank!" ... ;-)

Well I never knew that- thought you were British- not noticed any American English. :stuck_out_tongue:

Well if we are doomed so are the corpies/governments and, as the American Indians say, they cannot eat money, which will be of little use to them when even their $$$$$ cannot buy any pure food cos there isn’t any!
And wherever they go after death they cannot take their $$$$$ ( which is all they care about) with them.
Mavis- mine is a strong black coffee.

Beginning to look like Mavis at least has job security :slight_smile:

My understanding is that Sailfish is the Linux mobile OS that Nokia was developing (or purchased) before they decided to wreck the company. got into bed with M$ and started work on Windows phones. When they dropped it, the developers working on it quit and formed their own company.

The fact it’s not Android, but can run Android apps could make it a real killer phone … :slight_smile: