Posts by JaitcH

"indecent images of children" is getting as common as "is that with chips"

Wow, the guy commits vehicular homicide and they worry about bloody images.

Better to start figuring out how to stop al this mobile madness - drivers should be doing one thing - driving.

Perhaps someone should devise an electronic device that will test the drivers alertness and attention to the task in hand. We already have breathalysers controlling ignition systems, now we need systems that will hold vehicle speed to a given maximum which can only be reset by stopping and waiting 5 minutes. How about two hands on the wheel with only certain allowances for gear change time?

Forget the images, worry about minimising victims.

Fairsearch is as dishonest as they claim Google to be

Tripadvisor is a subsidiary of Expedia; Travelocity sells tickets to retail and is OWNED by Sabre Holdings who is a GDS to travel agents and, in other words, is selling against it's TA clients through Travelocity. Kayak Software Corp. of Concord, Mass. is an aggregator selling to the retail public.

Unless you are involved in the travel business what this bunch of 'crooks' do is get special pricing from the airlines which boosts profits if they sell of those few empty seats that are often found on every flight. They do this even if it is cheaper, quicker or more convenient with fewer changes by alternative routings which they know about.

This so-called Fairsearch is a con job; they are simply trying to stop Google exposing their rackets by which they fleece the travelling public.

Sabre Holdings, aka Sabre Reservation System, doesn't easily reveal it owns Travelocity (try a Traceback and you will see they are hosted by Sabre). Sabre uses it's travel agent data to flex Travelocity pricing so retail customers think they are the cheapest.

We need disclosure in the travel business as the airlines are royally screwing the travel business, aided and abetted by these members of Fairsearch. And try getting 'service' from Expedia, Travelocity or Kayak after you push/click the Buy button.

Transparency in any business squeezes the bottom line; here you are dealing with some of the most experienced dubious dealers in the travel business (Kayak is more honest than the others).

Don't believe me: Check out a mutli-stop travel itinerary such as YYZ (Toronto) to BKK (Bangkok) to SGN (SaiGon). Or pick your own favourite grouping. Then call your friendly, IN PERSON, travel agent and ask for a budget price for an equivalent flight (only use economy). If I'm wrong, I'll buy you a beer - in SaiGon!

(Disclosure: A friend was sued by Sabre and Galileo reservation systems for revealing 'trade information' both ended in losses for the res systems - how can you fight the truth?)

Dummies, moving money across borders is a breeze

Most people know there is a USD$10,000 cash limit across borders, courtesy of yet another US 'diplomatic' effort. These guys are dumb - there are literally hundreds of ways to move money but I guess they were too cheap.

I travel, I use well over USD$10,000 per segment of my itinerary but I don't get hassled. Mind you, I am white and not from Nigeria - two factors that most likely caused these guys t be 'subjects of interest'.

They should have asked their country drug dealers to help them, for a commission, as most major drug importation involves international payment settlements!

Photo 11 ensures conformity with Job's concept of family friendly

As in all things 'i' an undocumented feature is present that ensures all content conforms with Job's vision of acceptable taste.

Excessive skin, ugly faces and questionable subjects are at risk of rejection by the index software.

If you want to see how Photo 11 should work, check out Picassa, fast and free.

"... the US will diplomatically lobby foreign governments to adopt the standards ..."

The US rarely uses diplomacy, unless this is what you call financial or industrial blackmail. Even the UK is susceptible to it.

The French, however, are not as Charles de Gaulle, despite his many faults, taught the Frogs to tell the US to take a hike. Cost them nothing; kept their self-respect and really pissed off the USA who grudgingly gave them cookie points.

Meanwhile Britain has allowed the US National Security Agency to set up it's very own spy base in Yorkshire whilst the US Air Force treats the UK like a land-locked aircraft carrier and even used British airports for 'black' rendition flights.

"Bluetooth leaps about the 2.4GHz band like a gnat on speed ..."

Pity the alleged Russian spies didn't use BT, they might be still enjoying the good life if they had.

Maybe this new WiFi standard offers an alternative for like minded 'tourists'. And another excuse for the FBI to demand more money.

It's gratifying that the UK actually leads the world in this market sector

Given that the USA and TaiWan are often technology leaders, it's good news that ARM is leading a market sector.

They would be well served to keep an eye on China as their technology is advancing rapidly.

Quality Apps, not quantity is key

There is a need for quality Apps, rather than the childish claim that someone has more Apps than another. What's the point is a so-called app can only wobble graphical breasts or emit electronically emulated flatulence sounds.

A few thousand solid Apps is well worth more to RIM users that 200,000 or so dumb ones.

Another American outfit claiming copyright to the dictionary

The only commonality between Facebook and Faceporn is the word 'face' which is so common it must have been used for every human ever born and well before Zucker whatnot was born.

As for the colours they are suddenly people can't use the same colour? Maybe I sould think about that next time I sample a web page colou palette that I find pleasing.

The logo's are likely the only thing that the court could get upset about.

The dictionary should remain public domain, if someone wants a unique word, let them work on it, just like Exxon or Lenovo did.

Only international companies can do this easily (and some people)

Another trick is for a mother company to bill a subsidiary for services supplied so the subsidiary never makes a taxable profit. Unfortunately, for these financial rip artists, governments are catching on and gaining more taxes in the process.

The US Congress is bought off by Wall Street and companies so this will not change for a long time.

The only thing 'deprecated' os the Mac OS

Slowly the California cult leader is drawing his flock in to drink his AppleAid.

Jim Jones all over again, or may be the more technological Ron Hubbard of Scientology. All three rated as nuts, but what does that say of his followers?

But is it secure or are there back doors?

There should be a sunshine law that requires all documents relating to military actions be released no later than 5 years after their creation unless the military can satisfy a normal court of their risk to ongoing military action.

The financial backers of these operations, aka taxpayers, are entitled to judge whether the use of their money was for good or evil.

These documents show that the Pentagon, and their various mouthpieces scattered across the US government, only had it's shortcomings and failures to hide - which should never be kept secret.

Everyone who decried the release of these documents should be ashamed of themselves.

But is it secure or are there back doors?

Given that NASA is government, and MS sleeps with U.S. security (giving them aids to crack Windows) the question that comes to mind is: "How secure and orivate are these schemes?"

Their own battery technology ,,,

What's with the three sizes/shapes of batteries?

Guess Jobs really wants to keep suckers feeding his money machine.

When will the kick the big ass (out)?

This reminds me of a large Telco that decided to enhance shareholder earnings by trimming staff. The company hired an expert HR termination type and after months of detailed evaluation he prepared a list of names that was submitted to the Board of Directors.

The CEO, whose office was dark with but a single spotlight illuminating his countenance (older readers might recognise the CEO), remarked the list was incomplete.

The HR expert had the temerity to inquire as to the missing name. "Yours", replied the CEO. The board approved the amended list.

When is the MS board going to jettison Ballmer?

Win XP, 64 bit, now reliable why change?

We always wait at least until SP 1 before changing to a new OS but why bother if XP64 is doing it's thing reliably?

So for the time being we shall live happily in the past whilst others figure out the nigglies with a new OS. Chances are we will switch to Linux for most of our machines in line with our countries government who is steadfastly only installing Linux for government offices and school systems.

One of the US school problems are tenured reprobate teachers

There are many teachers who have achieved tenure, largely by unions obtaining school board concessions with respect to employment agreements, so they are stuck with old fashioned, out of touch teachers whose skills have atrophied over the years and are just hanging in there for the pension.

Everyone has a teacher in their past who went out of their way to help students and who lives on in the students mind. Mine was named HASLETT, who taught in a secondary school in Harrow-on-the-Hill. Possibly still really alive, but fondly remembered by many, no doubt.

How can iPhans afford all these goodies in a single year?

First there was Lemon 4, then out came a tablet followed by various audio blings to hand around their necks and now a skinny laptop?

Either iPhans are bankers with large bonuses, or have a corporate sugar daddy, but most people in the US don't have this amount of discretionary income.

It might be better for them to await vapourware Lion to actually materialise to see if it functions before laying the plastic down.

More like cellco's trying to get into the action

Essentially these things are similar to Bluetooth, except they involve money. so all of a sudden cellco's get interested in what is a very low range transmission system.

If they get in, watch the costs rise!

How about the military bases with replica villages or all the 140+ Gulags in GuangXi?

Bet you the Chinese will hide those funny little villages replicated by the military.

Also, those 140 gulag/government factories are filled with political prisoners that make Guantanamo look like a holiday camp, all in the really beautiful province of GuangXi in south-western China.

The problem IS Facebook

Facebook has handed over client data to advertisers so please explain how encryption will stop this abuse by Facebook?

Dumb, biased Beak gets his excesses trimmed

The trial Beak was excessively harsh by any measurement and he was properly brought to heel by more experienced, temperate brethren who can recognise a miscarriage of justice that exceeds even the usual Hug-A-Plod attitude that comes from British benches.

Can't be using Garmin or MapQuest

Using a late model Garmin GPS unit in conjunction with Mapquest I, allegedly, DROVE 1,800 kilometres around 10-15 kilometres out to sea.

Obviously these rustler hunters must be using more reliable hardware and software that cost me USD$700.

These features set smartphones apart

The ability for smartphones to continuously sniff WiFi and GPS info is what makes smartphones more intrusive.

Every single use of WiFi and GPS data should be subject to user control. That's why I like like even my late model 'dumb' phone - I had the GPS crippled. Cell triangulation is so unreliable which is why the FCC mandated GPS modules.

And you get to backhaul the data to Google, Apple and all the Apps advertisers.

If someone is too dumb tock the door, don''t be surprised if you are robbed

When travelling I live off unlocked WiFi systems, never had to buy signal for years. Users should learn how to secure WiFi systems if they want a modicum of security.

If you are really wound up about Google, just send your secure stuff at night as Google only takes daylight shots!

Jobs couldn't copy Chinese tablets or even copy Japanese rice cooker connectors, either

Funny how millions of these connectors have been successfully manufactured for use on water boiling units, rice cookers, etc. - all with minimal problems.

Yet Apple has had nothing but problems including frayed cords, burned contacts, shorted contacts, etc. Once again Jobs tried to make something unique with a single source supplier, aka monopoly, but failed.

"The lady doth protest too much, methinks." (Shakespeare's Hamlet)

What ever the significance of the releases, Wikileaks has scored.

Never, EVER, forget the callous way in which US pilots murdered Reuters reporters as if they were hunting.

Bad enough friendly fire, cold bloodied murder takes the biscuit.

Jobs:" ... our own battery chemistry ..."

This must be the reason why Apple had to swap out hundreds of thousands of batteries in Japan, and the cause of batteries exploding in Europe.

They also have unique requirements ... must not be left out in sunlight!

The REAL reason for using custom parts is to ensure a continuing flow of revenue from spare parts and repairs.

Jobs: " I don't see them catching up to us in the foreseable future ..."

Maybe this is a case of myopic vision.

Jonathan Swift said "There’s none so blind as they that won’t see."

Sounds like fear raisining against budget cuts

Government entities step up self-aggrandising activities when it appears that budgets are being slashed.

Send more money, so we can do it again!

Some lead ... iTablets didn't sell as wll as forecast

Looks like Apple is eating it's forecasts with sales showing a flattening, guess that people are realising some features are missing from Apple products including the ability to read free library e-books.

Me thinks the lawyers got more than the victim

Lawyers in the U.S. often taken on court cases on a "No win, no pay" basis and the lawyers cut in a successful case is often greater than the victims.

Would you rather have normal vision or a miserly $325,000 for your pain and suffering?

Caution: Dumb politicians talking

If this idiot thinks that the likes of Twitter or Facebook are going to scroll through the inanities of thousands of comments to satisfy a UK law, or any other web sites that are not domiciled in the UK. he is dreaming.

The US presents the biggest challenge because of it's Constitution and the small matter of freedom of speech.

Already court orders suppressing evidence in preliminary hearings are ignored by overseas journalists, and likely he will be to.

If a court is too cheap to sequester a jury in a hotel, he will have to take the risks. Besides, now that people are so connected, the challenge he faces are even more daunting!

For Jobs, black seems such an appropriate colour

The colour back seems to be an eminent colour choice for most anything associated with Jobs. White proclaims innocence and purity, hardly qualities that spring to mind when thoughts of fruit-land and their domineering leader are in mind.

Of course, this might be the reason why it has taken such an inordinate time to achieve a white Lemon, which will undoubtedly become discoloured through exposure to the environment and usage.

It will be interesting to see if Apple has used the time between the release of the Lemon 4 and it's virginal edition to actually improve it's functional failures that are months and months old.