Posts by JaitcH 3904 publicly visible posts • joined 12 Oct 2009
Beta 4 seems to be missing quite a few things such as Options, History, View - all the little essentials we've grown used to.
Luckily I have Opera, Chrome and a special minimalist browser in my computer. I'm fed up with 4 - at least Beta 3 let us have all the essential controls.
iPhans are brainwashed, they believe anything and everything that comes out of Job's or Apples publicity machine.
The proof is in the fact that Lemon 4 had demonstrated defects yet iPhans kept on buying these things, complete with rubber bands to permit them to work.
The biggest risk with almost any smart-phone is data leakage.
First they say that this guy, global procurement wallah, used Apple supplied equipment and facilities to communicate with his alleged benefactors.
Now we hear he kept money is SHOE BOXES and still more amazingly IN HIS HOUSE!
Even street level drug dealers have better methods of concealing money.
He could have bought 'instruments' such as money orders or bank drafts to 'hold' the funds; paid them to trusted friends; used a financial adviser, etc. As long as the amounts were under USD$9,500 amounts, bought from different financial institutions and NEVER transmitted funds by SWIFT he would have been safer.
Id this guy is typical of Apple in the 'smarts' department, no wonder they produced Lemon 4.
Once again Register has revealed many useful facts. Thank you! No doubt many inventive minds will be researching the subject and even trying them out.
Now I have to find a source for "tiny inverted hemispheres" - maybe 3M does them black paint.
Or would painting over the existing "tiny inverted hemispheres" with white paint be sufficient to confuse the cameras?
The infra-red LED sources are easy, rows of these surrounding the number plate should impress the hell out of the cameras.
I have seen drawings where a number of characterizations have been incorporated in a single drawing and only people with certain visual capabilities can discern or separate the figures.
A sort of Rorschach test, with lines instead of inkblots.
Could these contravene legislation since a person has to interpret the drawings?
as I have regularly downloaded things for years and have never received one of these letters.
Could it be these legal leaches only pick on the weakest members of society, or the ones who won't give them a run for their money?
Of course, it could be the legislation in Canada - it's not too record company friendly.
When businesses face the challenge of remaining with their snouts in the U.S. Federal government they reach for their elected congressional representatives.
The best way to attract a politicians is MONEY and given this is a mid-term election period, and Democrats are facing challenges so what better combination exists?
Send the cheques in, guys, and all will be well!
If they fitted RFID devices to its legs, the real long distance ones, the Garbage Plod, and others, could detect where the monster bird had flown to.
Does clipping wing feathers work for monster birds, just like people do with domestic chickens to stop them flying away?
We had a similar scheme in a new development area I lived in. The RFID's were in modules held in a cavity with sticky pitch-like stuff, akin to road tar.
They can be easily removed with some gentle heating with a gas blowtorch then placed in a short length of plastic pipe and 'planted' in a place nearest the garbage pick-up point.
The Garbage/waste Plod will never be heard from.
Toronto, Canada insists that glass be separated and being good Canadians, Torontonians do exactly that, the only trouble is the city can't recycle the bottles so they are piled up in several small mountains of glass that can be seen from the access road to the airport. Really, really nuts.
The minute I heard of this I thought 'set up'.
For those with good memories, you will recall in 2003, the U.S. ex-Marine and U.N. weapons inspector Scott Ritter, who by then was one of the most persuasive opponents of the attack on Iraq, repeatedly and forcefully protesting that there was no evidence of Weapons of Mass Destruction, was the subject of a media smear campaign, accusing him of having engaged in criminal sex acts with teenagers.
The accusations faded to black when proof was sought.
One media rabble rouser wrote: "But it seems to me this Scott Ritter kiddie-sex bust might explain Ritter's sudden and inexplicable 180 on Iraq. Maybe they set him up in a sting? That sort of thing was standard op for the KGB. Just a thought."
Of course, Bush lies prevailed, and Ritters truth was proven. The CIA didn't even fake WMD - how dumb could they get?
Even the Pentagon has admitted Assange is smart and smart people make sure they don't damage their mission, unlike the U.S. government spooks.
Clients of ours have SMS bulk terminals and when they close for the day they close the terminals down.
Messages sent after close down are bounced, with a message indicating failure, for which no charge is made.
This is similar to a call that doesn't complete - no talk, no charge.
You have to wonder what Apples priorities are.
Here they are in the middle of a technological challenge where Lemon 4 can't maintain telephone calls yet Apple has plenty of resources to deploy on a minuscule proportion of OWNERS who decide they actually want to use THEIR PROPERTY for what THEY want to do.
Seemingly Apple can't even read tea leaves or sales reports. Their line of PC's were crippled by their 'closed' environment whilst across the street the 'open' PC was being mass produced and had uncounted number of after market companies whose efforts expanded the PC deployment into areas and applications never envisaged by IBM.
Now Apple has a new toy. Jobs, in his strange world, thinks he is 'loaning' the device to you, even though he claims to 'sell' it to you.
Again he is trying to confine these devices. This time his competitors are even more advanced and an upstart Android is now giving Jobs a run for his money. Once again, Jobs competitors - at least one - has an OS that is appearing in all manner of devices that it is fast becoming ubiquitous, dare I say it, as ubiquitous as Windows.
Yet Jobs still seeks ways to lock his followers so they can do no more than HE wants them to. This must be one of the few consumer products that does this. Imagine cars all fitted with governors to limit their speed?
But let him go ahead for he knows that someone, in some garret, in some corner of the world is working just as diligently to thwart his plans. There is a company in Ha Noi, hardly a centre of technological excellence, in a walk up workshop, is extracting the 'baseband' chips, modifying the contents and restoring the REALLY unbroken Lemon to new heights of functionality.
Meanwhile, others wonder what mental process has evolved where people deliberately go out and knowingly buy a defective product.
And poor old Jobs, he still has not achieved the manufacturer of a white Lemon! How humiliating can that be?
Apple has a tendency to rush a product to market in it's simplest form and then annually upgrade it to a point where it should have been on it's initial release.
Other manufacturers develop a product to include as many features as possible so, when released, their products have a utility of more than one year.
People should remember Fujitsu have been in the business for years and Apple copied their device name, iPad. How much of a 'leader' does that male Apple?
The more technology the is placed between the Plod and the field and his Plod base the more susceptible they are to communications failure.
Good old two-way radio is simple - squeeze the mic button and you are off. Trunked radio systems require the 'command' channel to be received so that the slave transmitter/receivers know which channel to use.
Data transmission only adds to the vulnerability. Think Lemon 4.
Deliberate jamming becomes more simple and even partial transmissions fail to make it through coherently. But that's OK, for police 'clients', as very simple devices can achieve success as in the case of the cell phone jammers.
Of course the cost of these dream systems are horrendous and run against Cameron budget goals.
It is strange for a company to hack what must be, by any criteria, a dud.
Without doubt, Android will rule. The toss up for second place will be between Apple and RIM so that leaves fourth place for HP.
These products will be price sensitive which again places HP at a disadvantage as most of it;s products tend towards the high end. As others point out, Apps also will determine the most suitable unit for he intended purpose - quality and not quantity.
Given the wasted human lives that have resulted from the American Wars in VietNam, Iraq and Afghanistan and the mediocre support they get from their military employers post deployment this type of behaviour is somewhat common in the U.S.A.
It causes one to wonder how the World War II military personnel survived up to 5 or 6 years, without home leave, whereas today's relatively pampered soldiers with regular rotations seem to be ill-equipped to handle the fighting.
Employment contracts can be used to define various aspects of employment including copyright and patent ownership/recognition.
Sales people can be a sticky one. Often a sales position remuneration recognises customer names brought with the incoming sales person. Whose property was it before being introduced, whose property y is it whilst the sales person is employed and. most importantly, who retains it/uses it on separation?
I have designed printed circuits and they are like giving birth and I always retain copies, simply because I designed them. I also built a very simple main-frame printer tester, on my own time and at my own expense. There were two copies: one was mine and the I built for an after market repair facility owned by a friend. When I left, the employer tried to acquire it only there were no schematics and the integrated circuit identities were destroyed by the epoxy I moulded the tester in.
I also worked for a credit card transaction terminal manufacturer and they tried to get a non-disclosure agreement signed after I had resigned.
All these situations could have been easily defined in an employment agreements which are, a little, like prenuptial agreements.
My employer runs around 20 or so web sites, some of which have chat rooms. For legal reasons chat rooms are best hosted in the U.S. as they have very liberal laws governing web sites.
Our logs have a life time of fourteen days at which time, unless archived for specific technical reasons, they fade to black.
One of our servers is in a country where log retention is required so the traffic is routed through a jurisdiction where logging is not required.
This bullet proofs us for all requests, however presented. If the U.S. pulled a Patriot Act our response would be a single line - the proxy to which it is connected. Most users employ fake names and temporary verification e-mail addresses which makes most of this logging pointless.
Just make sure your hosts don't run logs for your web sites!
I think I am right in saying Korea (Seoul specifically) leads the world in landline InterNet.
The alleged 'world technology leader' is pathetically slow, as well as having poor rural coverage. The US has huge tracts of space that have no InterNet, cell or landline service.
Though Canada can't claim any speed records, it certainly has better rural coverage - even to the Inuit townships dotted along the northern (Arctic) coast.
Some developing countries achieve amazing rural coverage and speed. China is stringing the whole country with fibre optics with few microwave backbone links.
The country I'm most familiar with, VietNam, has an installed backbone fibre capacity measured in several tens of terabytes (the precise data is regarded as a state secret). The fibre network dedicated to ATM's, alone, has a capacity of 2.5 gigabytes.
The technique they use for delivering InterNet is simple. Instead of using DSLAM's in Central Offices (Exchanges), the InterNet fibre-optic cable is taken to pole-mounted DSLAM racks which means the ADSL signal is applied within a few tens of metres of the subscriber premises. This means that even more remote villages have very acceptable speeds that make British target speeds pathetic. Rural speeds of 12 megabytes are not unusual.
Even in larger populations, around 500,000 this technique enables consistently high speeds to be achieved. Perversely, however, in the largest cities of Ha Noi and Ho Chi Minh/SaiGon the ADSL feeds come from Central offices and are often slower than those encountered in rural areas.
So excuse us when we laugh at BT pronouncements of future 'high speed' InterNet services - they are in our dark ages!
My understanding, until Apple distorted the meaning, was that App was short form for application, some software that performed a useful task.
Apple in claiming it has more Apps than anyone is really and Job's slight of hand. How can any software emulating human flatulence or simulating women's breast movements even be considered an App?
Mah-jong and some other games might just qualify as they do bestow some benefits on users.
Recently China has instructed it's police to stop the practice of marching convicted prostitutes through their communities streets.
Yet the English Plod seek to emulate them on web sites.
The Chinese, along with other countries, continue to publish full details and photographs of AIDS/HIV carriers on their police station notice boards.
Could this be perceived as a anything less than outright war, if the rumours are true?
The US governments reaction to this will be interesting to observe, although if Verizon was including the Gpad as a freebie in a airtime deal they might just get away with it.
O2 acted in a very laggardly fashion when these calls were processed and settled.
Equally, the fraudsters were also slow in dumping the Iphones unless the market has disappeared following Lemon 4 revelations.
Or could it be O2 depended on the credit card issuers to pay up regardless, these careless issuers simply collecting from all the CC users by increasing user fees? In any event you have to wonder what exactly CC 'authorisation' means and just how reliable it is. I know travel agents can have 'authorised' credit card payments reversed as long as four months after a transaction was approved.
When the big, bad USA starts threatening people it should not be surprised if people take defensive actions.
The US is really getting extremist even to the point of preparing to murder it's citizens without the benefit of a trial.
The poetic point of this is that the Pentagons DARPA designed the InterNet to withstand attacks and here it is facing it's own program that it financed.
It's one thing for, say Bernie Ebbers, to use Worldcom as a fraud but when you do it it in your own name as well as the company bearing your own name it's worse.
Nothing with Dell on it will be purchased by my company, neither will we recommend them to our customers.
I doubt if Dell, the man, would recognise a moral is was slapped in the face with one.
With Cameron trying to out do Thatcher it might come down to catapults OR aircraft.
Last time it was destroyers running around with their main armament missing until they scraped the Euro's together.
This time there is an alternative. Install the catapults and whilst they save up for aircraft they could use the catapults to launch bloody great rocks at the enemy. Rocks are cheaper, too.
there could not be a dumber schmuck around.
The problem is is Apple discovered the 'evidence' the chances are they could be accused of tampering.
And if Google has 'the goods' on this guy in it's e-mail system it sure gives rise to interesting legal conundrums given the ill-will between Apple and Google!
My cell can be programmed to display cell information and it soon becomes very clear that optimum signal paths do not lie either with the nearest cell head end nor follow any logical path due to signal refraction / deflection / multipath.
When I reside in downtown Toronto there is a cell site a couple of blocks away from my building yet the site my cell phone favours is about 2 kilometres away! Not too useful for location purposes.
In my country of residence I use a Yagi from my place in the country to reach the nearest viable cell site, and no triangulation is possible.
You should bar in mind that many others, apart from Plod, have interests in peoples movements and tracking services are available.
I travel frequently, across international borders, and laptop and cell phones are frequently 'borrowed' by border control for a copy session. Whenever transiting either the Atlantic or Pacific or Europe I make a point of carrying my cells turned off and SIM-free which makes technical copying pointless. I use TrueCrypt on all my drives (mounted or loose), just remember to rename the files to lose the suffix .tc as even Plods can figure out the significance of this. .ISO is a good alternative.
The GPS feature was mandated by the U.S. FCC who thought it would be a handy thing for law enforcement. It can be/is interrogated remotely without cell phone user knowledge or permission.
The advent of smartphones means that none of us really know what data is being accessed by whom and for what the data is to be used or distributed to. This means ANY data you enter along with ANY DATA acquired by the cell unit in question.
Until an App appears that allow me to determine who gets what I am more than happy to use my GPS crippled cell (the 'fix' only takes about 10 minutes), along with my tether adapter for my PDA. Cell ID numbers are sufficient for me (living in a country where this data is public).
Where I am is my business and mine alone, not some nosey Plod who thinks he is entitled to know everything. Remember, also, to practice good cell hygiene by clearing all your registers of missed calls, numbers called, etc. Using more than one SIM also fries Plod minds, as does turning off your cell for 10-15 minutes to clear those nasty crumbs left in memory.
As owners of several Acer products my company finds Acer unreliable, devious in interpreting it's warranties and failure to honour driver commitments.
Given that RF technology is a whole new ball game to Acer I think people would be better off sticking with the HTC's and Samsungs of this world.
Even Apple, after 3 successful versions, couldn't get it right on the 4th go around.
Think very hard before plonking your money down on the counter.
The shipper mixed up delivery of stage props that were to be used in Mission Impossible (This tape will self-destruct ...) remakes which means, inter alia, Apple has no responsibility for these incidents.
OR
The users were at fault as they played the music too loud / kept them in a warm place where the ambient temperature specified in our warranty
OR
These units, on inspection, were subject to smoke filled environments amd are not covered by warranty
OR
...
The majority of thinking Canadians wonder why we are there at all.
The Canadian military doesn't have sufficient resources, equipment or even infrastructure to defend our country (we have three coasts to protect) and the last place we need to be is in Afghanistan, especially since the Americans are still killing their Allies, whilst denying it.
It is another VietNam where America sticks it's nose in where it's not wanted. Just like Iraq.
The US wants one thing only: O-I-L. Only trouble is they haven't figured out there is none in Afghanistan, so maybe they are fighting the drug business.
Canada has plenty of oil, we have a totally different view of cannabis and we aren't bankrupt (unlike the USA).
figuring out all the permutations that go into pricing cell phone tariffs.
Who knows, once the initial rush from AT&T occurs, service might improve, from a carrier perspective.
Of course, there is still the little matter of the unresolved Lemon 4 Death of Grip option, which Apple hopes has gone away ... until the court actions hit the courtrooms.
Did you notice that Apple is replacing products that self-ignite in Japan - free of charge? That is the sign of a strong government who will likely tell Jobs into which orifice he can stuff his defective handsets.
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