Re: Marconi was one of the BIGGEST FRAUDS in history !
Amazingly it's true that he was supposed to be on the Titanic, or maybe it was his family, I forget the details. But his radio installations reduced the death toll at sea.
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Marconi: The West of England's very own Italian wireless pioneer
Monday 23rd February 2015 13:50 GMT 
Re: *ahem*
Tesla was truly one of the inventors. Marconi was the most successful Radio Entrepenure perhaps till David Sarnoff (RCA). Marconi was one of the original RCA founders with GE, but kicked out by US government.
RCA bought Victor Talking Machine Co. Which in UK was HMV and in Japan JVC. When in 1928 UK Columbia Graphophone was taken over by HMV, the holding company was EMI.
The US part of Columbia became CBS.
Hence when Marconi wanted to divest the loss making domestic Radio and concentrate on Marine & Industrial, RCA (Sarnoff) encouraged him to licence Marconiphone name to EMI. Hence HMV and Marconiphone models in 1930s pretty much identical. Also why EMI and RCA collaborated on the Electronic TV. especially the camera, which defeated Farnsworth (his was inherently rubbish) and Baird, who at least came up with electronic film scanning, but otherwise didn't invent TV as his Mechincal TV was a Victorian era invention.
Bairds film to TV system was used in Satellites before suitable CCD cameras. The film was developed and then slowly scanned and transmitted.
Monday 23rd February 2015 13:42 GMT 
technology dominated the early 20th century, it was wireless
And also today for anything not tied to a cable or fibre.
Even Satellite is Wireless.
He was half Irish (Jameson Whiskey family) and one of his wives was Irish too.
He didn't invent Wireless, but he realised the need for Aerial and Earth. The Whip aerial used on all mobile devices and many WiFi used to be called the Marconi Monopole and was his invention.
He never wanted a Nobel, as he regarded himself as an entrepreneur and not a scientist. Far more honest than Edison and maybe the only Entrepreneur that Edison liked. Edison himself said it was because he hadn't gotten round to Radio.
'Utterly unusable' MS Word dumped by SciFi author Charles Stross
Tuesday 24th February 2015 09:50 GMT
Re: Content and Style
I use Notepad++ to do the creative part of writing and each part is a separate file.
At some stage you have to use Word format for Publishers and Agents.
I proof read on a Kindle via HTML import to Mobi Creator and make notes on the Kindle.
Office 2003 is last decent version.
Select desired compatibility mode in Libre Office and save as .doc. There are now incompatible .docx versions. Tell the Word users to save as .doc not .docx and compatibility for Office 2003 or similar. Or even Office 97!
Microsoft to store deleted Exchange Online mails FOREVER
Didn't the Left once want the WORKERS to get all the dosh?
For pity's sake, you fool! DON'T UPGRADE it will make it worse
Saturday 21st February 2015 10:37 GMT
Re: To Bach
Wordstar on CP/M could at least print them!
Character
Non-destructive backspace
Accent by typing ` ' ^ ~ etc or even over print a | or =
The problem is a USA centric view.
Earlier Androids (< 4.1 etc?) only can use a USA physical BT or USB keyboard correctly,
I do use the "Character Map" utility, but it doesn't work with every application.
The Spanish keyboard and some others I think single quote requires the single quote key to be pressed twice.
Why doesn't Alt GR with USA and UK keyboard give accented letters on EVERY key instead of only € á é ú í ó ?
Why is the USA keyboard lacking a character (key actually) if you pretend it's some other language and tippex the key caps?
Be your own Big Brother: Covert home spy gadgetry
Saturday 21st February 2015 10:14 GMT 
Many other devices.
Movement detectors apparently part of alarm system. The one behind the till has a camera to keep an eye on the worker.
Clocks.
Bug on the P.O. cabinet can remote voice, fax and and analogue modems.
Root kit on laptop / tablet using mic & camera.
(anyone notice that with current Skype you can't turn off camera or mic?)
Smoke Alarms
Extension socket strips.
Plug in 2 and 3 way mains adaptors.
Modified Phones
Patched HDD firmware.
Local fake mobile base station relaying to real one doing Man in Middle attack on Voice, SMS, MMS, and all data. (routinely used in USA).
Laser bounced remotely of the window.
The GSM, Bluetooth, WiFi and other regular wireless bugs are easily found. There are ultra wide spread spectrum bugs that can't be detected as they just create a very small rise in local background noise over a very wide spectrum.
Linux clockpocalypse in 2038 is looming and there's no 'serious plan'
Apple design don Jony Ive: Build-your-own phone is BOLLOCKS
Friday 20th February 2015 21:45 GMT
Also
Ives abdicated when he decided to use White because Dieter Rams did. Half his stuff copies the 1950s -1960 Braun stuff anyway.
He's the opposite extreme in Choice. The company with one of the smallest ranges of choice ever, on new model releases usually.
I don't know why any one listens to this over rated product cosmetics stylist. There is no evidence he's an original designer, or has any flexibility. He's had one theme practically for years.
Evil CSS injection bug warning: Don't let hackers cross paths with your website
Friday 20th February 2015 12:40 GMT 
There are related vulnerabilities
I've seen emails alleging to be from linkedin with links that have linkedin's real domain at start of URL that are meant to load something else.
Very many plugins for Drupal and Wordpress are STILL being written with cross site scripting, rights elevation or sql flaws.
There is obviously something wrong with the way Web applications are being developed and deployed.
Wi-Fi beam-steering tech could KILL OFF fixed home networks
How many Watches will Apple flog? 20, er, 18.5, no, five, wait, 50 million!
Friday 20th February 2015 09:45 GMT
Re: iWon't
Battery run time of a day.
Battery life on AVERAGE of 2 years. Some may make to 3, some won't make it to 1.
The 2 years may be wishful thinking.
Will they try and sell extended Warranty for after the 1st year even though the SOGA says that it should last 2 years minimum (some things are expected to last 5 or 6).
Horrors of murky TrueCrypt to be probed once more
(Re)touching on a quarter-century of Adobe Photoshop
Thursday 19th February 2015 22:18 GMT
Pity it was always too/so expensive
And now you can't buy it at all,
Also you can't buy a sensible version of Windows to run it on any more.
Paint Shop Pro 7 seems to be best alternative (later versions are horrible, but PS7 I think doesn't work on current windows.) Even seems to work with some Photoshop plugins,
Does PSP7 or the last buyable Photoshop (some copies still in distribution?) work on WINE.
Gimp isn't there yet as an alternative unless you are a masochist, even then, I suspect it's not close to PSP7 (never mind Photoshop)
On Wn3.11 I used Photostyler as the image rotate tool was really good.
If the current version of Photoshop cost $50 and had Linux, OSX, Android and Windows (XP to 10) versions that would be interesting.
Hello Barbie: Hang on, this Wi-Fi doll records your child's voice?
Thursday 19th February 2015 11:34 GMT
"I always do what Teddy says" by Harry Harrison
Apart from the fact this is a total privacy fail, there are more serious concerns with realistic interactive speech created remotely:
Every child in the world received their own teddy bear to take care of them. And to teach them.
"Let me go... let me go!" the teddy bear said with a hopeless shrill.
"...This is only a machine." with a quick slash, he opened the fabric over the seam seal and touched it: the plastic-fur back gaped open like a mouth.
...There was a click and the toy went limp.
One Teddy bear was hacked. There was something it never taught the child.
Raspberry Pi, meet face: You're probably NOT Blighty's biggest PC maker!
Wednesday 18th February 2015 14:10 GMT
Re: windows
It's not even the sort of Windows as Surface RT did have or a Phone with Win10 will have. It's IOT Windows. Totally pointless.
It will not run any x86-64 desktop applications. It will not even have the phone GUI, though will have some sort of video support.
QNX makes more sense. Linux is far better supported.
Even Risc-OS makes more sense on Pi than IOT Windows.
Qualcomm, ARM: We thought we had such HOT MODELS...
Tuesday 17th February 2015 17:28 GMT
ARM & Qualcomm
Not just phones, but routers, washing machines, TVs, tablets with no Mobile, set-boxes, players etc.
ARM CPUs start at about 50c to compete with 8bit controllers.
Qualcomm have increasingly concentrated on IP and almost patent trolling. Unlike ARM they sell chips as a method of collecting the royalties.
Unlike ARM they concentrated for many years on buying up companies and killing the product to strengthen IP on their own chips.
e,g. Flarion
Qualcomm and ARM are not at all similar or facing same pressures as Qualcomm is more niche..
ATTENTION SETI scientists! It's TOO LATE: ALIENS will ATTACK in 2049
Meerkats helped Ofcom unlock White Space spectrum-hopping
BEHOLD the magnificent lunar backside in our MOON VIDEO
Watch it: It's watching you as you watch it (Your Samsung TV is)
$10,000 Ethernet cable promises BONKERS MP3 audio experience
Monday 9th February 2015 11:13 GMT
Re: Cable quality
Gold on a non-gold socket = degradation.
Copper and Silver conduct better.
Regular daily use: Brass to brass is best.
Use once or very rarely: Tin to tin is best as it forms a gas tight connection under pressure.
Gold should only be used in specialist applications. Never on domestic audio / video/ data / rf
Ex-squeeze me? Baking soda? Boffins claim it safely sucks CO2 out of the air
Swap your keyless key for keyless key-less key. You'll need: a Tesla S and Apple Watch
ALIENS are surely AMONG US: Average star has TWO potentially Earth-like worlds
German 700MHz auction signals start of Euro spectrum flogoffs
Wednesday 4th February 2015 13:37 GMT
Re: Spectrum auctions...
Useless conditions and poorly enforced. They do not want to hurt the revenue.
Also "competition" is to raise auction prices. In a Mobile band using ONE wholesale operator nearly doubles spectrum efficiency. With smaller urban cells the efficiency can be x3. Imagine 4 operators, at a particular mast (sector really), one operator could be "full" (only needs 4 people wanting video or 10 wanting web pages vs 50 phone calls). Two could be at 50% and one near empty.
If you have giant cells, then it's more likely all operators see the same traffic. But x4 range of cell means 1/16th capacity, or less than 1/16th speed with same number of users as the scheduling etc to share the same channel isn't 100% effective. Actually 3G wastes 50% of capacity if there are too many users, but with one user it's about equal speed to 4G in same size channel.
Wednesday 4th February 2015 13:30 GMT
800MHz sell off may have been a mistake, 700MHz is Greed.
What is the Digital Dividend?
1) Money for Tresuries via Regulator's auctions
2) Savings in numbers of Rural masts for Mobile Operators.
3) NOTHING extra for consumer.
Large cells are very poor speed/capacity. 800MHz band is larger cells than 900, and nearly x3 diameter / range of 1800MHz. That means 1/9th of capacity per unit area.
At 700MHz, it's a cheap way to provide voice to a village, but about 1/16th of capacity per unit area compared to 1800MHz. Longer range (i.e. cell interference = lower speed) happens MUCH more commonly at 700MHz. Note that Mobile operators make huge profits from voice, enormous profit from SMS and nearly nothing (or in case of Three, none) from Data.
Unless FIXED wireless with roof aerials are used, NOT a single person will have broadband, no matter if 4G or something newer is deployed.
It's purely revenue raising and a cost saving for the Mobile operator.
Mobile operators should be forced to have a higher density and more masts 900MHz to 2100MHz and properly re-use spectrum AND provide better performance.
The various sell offs below 900MHz in Europe and 800MHz in USA purely raise money for Treasury (a one off) and cripple DTT newer services and newer technology, playing into hands of Pay TV Cable and Satellite.
It's a fact that Comreg and Ofcom in Europe want to abolish Terrestrial TV entirely and have people only pay for TV via Internet (not scaleable for 20M simultaneous HD viewers), Satellite and Cable.
Windows is TAKING the TABLET market... what's left of it, anyway
Wednesday 4th February 2015 10:02 GMT 
Growth and MS Tablet
When you have nearly nothing even 10,000% growth can still be nearly nothing.
The MS tabs are really ultrabooks. Didn't they cut the price? Do they actually make any money on these?
I guess the sales are almost entirely corporate?
It's still not a big enough share to be significant.
Dish, the FCC, and a sly trick to leave American taxpayers $3bn short
Wednesday 4th February 2015 09:55 GMT
600MHz band
"The 600MHz band which provides a particularly useful combination of traveling long distances and decent-enough building penetration which makes it ideal for mobile networks."
True, but such huge cells are very poor speed/capacity. Mobile operators should be forced to have a higher density and more masts 900MHz to 2100MHz and properly re-use spectrum AND provide better performance.
The various sell offs below 900MHz in Europe and 800MHz in USA purely raise money for Treasury (a one off) and cripple DTT newer services and newer technology, playing into hands of Pay TV Cable and Satellite.
It doesn't benefit the consumer. Just saves money for the Mobile operator.
It's also a well known ploy to obtain licences and not use them at all, to deprive competitors. Yes, they are eventually forced to hand them back or use, but it achieves the goal. I have seen this successfully done all over Europe.
It's a fact that Comreg and Ofcom in Europe want to abolish Terrestrial TV entirely and have people only pay for TV via Internet (not scaleable for 20M simultaneous HD viewers), Satellite and Cable.
Samsung snub sends Qualcomm into a spin over Snapdragon 810
Tuesday 3rd February 2015 16:08 GMT
If it was anyone OTHER than Samsung.
The 1st iPhone was Samsung SC6400 family.
Samsung may have many good reasons to use their own chippery. If Intel made ARM phone chips and phone would they buy a Qualcomm cpu?
Though Samsung do use other people's CPUs when it suits them. They are thus not like Intel.
So really Qualcomm seem to be over-reacting. Unless Samsung is going to sell to all the other phone makers in competition to Qualcomm next iteration.
Why Windows 10 on Raspberry Pi 2? Upton: 'I drank the Kool-Aid'
Tuesday 3rd February 2015 11:57 GMT 
Microsoft has a really good clue?
“Microsoft has a really good clue about cloud integration. There’s a great story about Azure, and about data integration between IoT devices and Azure,” enthuses Upton. “I think they’ve got a pretty compelling security story as well."
He's been drugged. I never heard anything so daft. I'd not touch Azure with a barge pole.
I suppose C# on Visual studio is OK, but there are three ways of building GUIs now on Visual Studio and none are quite finished.
VB6 was good if you didn't program in Basic, and understood which junk to avoid. A nice RAD.
Turbocharged quad-core Raspberry Pi 2 unleashed, global geekgasm likely
Monday 2nd February 2015 14:57 GMT
Re: Video playback
Windows XP is only available for the X86 and X64 (IBM PC) architecture
And the Itanium. Though that was killed long ago.
Windows NT once supported PPC, MIPS, Alpha 32, Alpha 64 as well as x86. Not sure what XP embedded supported. Win CE supported ARM and x86 and maybe something else originally and was based on Win NT rather than DOS + Win3.x/Win9x, but wasn't the same thing as NT at all.
There are Baby ITX boards that support XP / Windows / Media Linux etc, even fanless ones, much better for Media.
#VultureTRENDING: YESS! It's Pantsr, the Sharing Economy super app that delivers on the BOTTOM line
Crackdown on eBay sellers 'failing to display' VAT numbers
Monday 2nd February 2015 14:18 GMT
Re: It is a reality on Ebay and Amazon
So Irish Customs now automatically seize any Asian parcel (post or courier ) marked GIFT and demand a copy of the invoice before they release it.
Pity Revenue are not so forceful on Big Multinationals that mysteriously make no profit.
If the buyer is spending more than €20 INCLUDING SHIPPING,. they pay customs duty and THEN full Irish VAT on sale price, shipping cost and duty! A €6 handling fee is added!
Microsoft eyes slice of Raspberry Pi with free Windows 10 sprinkled on top
Monday 2nd February 2015 14:13 GMT
Re: Good work MS
This is the funniest thing in IT I have heard or seen since I first encountered Windows Millennium Edition!
Anyone wasting time on this is either a Corporate Windows developer or deluded.
There is a choice of RiscOS, various Linux.
Any of VXWorks, PalmOS, BEOS or QNX would be nicer.
QNX was unfortunately bought by RIM to become Blackberry 10
What other OS would be nice choice on Pi?
Google vows: Earth will vanish in 2015
Monday 2nd February 2015 14:05 GMT
Re: word change...
Arianespace has over 50% of launches
61% of orbiting Satellites are Arianespace launches.
Work on the European Space Port was started in 1960s.
The USA Man on Moon Program had no strategy beyond a man on the Moon. It was a blind alley.
The Shuttle program was more to suit USA Military than advancement of Civilian Space Exploration, it couldn't reach Geosynchronous orbit never mind leave orbit. Ideal for recovery of Low Earth Orbit Spy Satellites.
See how many Shuttle missions were classified.
NASA gets the lion share of publicity compared to CNES, ESA, Arianespace, Russians, Chinese, Japanese, Indian and Israeli space Programs. Israel managed to orbit a satellite (I think 1988 or 1989) from East to West Launch instead of normal West to East Launch. They didn't want to worry the Neighbours!
The Australians are building two spaceports, one based on Woomera, the defunct UK facility (Only the British achieved success to abandon the program entirely!). Anyone know why the Australians doing it?
Google, Amazon 'n' pals fork out for AdBlock Plus 'unblock' – report
Monday 2nd February 2015 13:47 GMT
Re: Sigh
Noscript also helps protect your privacy (block privacy slurping domains) and helps against Malware. A side effect is blocking a lot of adverts.
I block ebay.com in Noscript to avoid horrible large scrolling eBay adverts on some sites. If I need ebay.com then "temporary enable" in Noscript is enough, though I usually use ebay.co.uk and have it whitelisted.
Google Now now SLURPS data from third party apps so YOU don't have to
'Boutique' ISPs: Snub the Big 4 AND get great service
Saturday 31st January 2015 13:32 GMT 
Columbia Internet for Canuks?
Not real. But the author was originally a Web guy for a real Canadian ISP, not Rodgers.
The bigger ISPs have a disconnect between Customers and Management.
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