Posts by Owen Carter

Really?

Well color me amazed.. you are almost right..This is not implemented to be a location tracker..

Instead this is f***ing Google Streetcar data slurping territory again.. Except in this case they are getting -you- to carry the data slurper. Without your knowledge and without paying you to gather the data they will be using and selling.

This appears to be one of two recording systems in the iPhone;

- The first builds a table of cellphone towers / GPS co-ordinates.

- The second builds a table of Wifi Mac Addresses / GPS co-ordinates.

- I wonder if there are more?

And given that goal it would be probable that the data is only recorded once and is ignored if the same location is revisited and the details have not changed.

They are just building geolocation data, just like Google, skyhook, etc.. their motives do not look very sinister to me, but the practical considerations especially when combined with authorities who take every opportunity they can to copy this data (story from yesterday + border seizures and searches) it gets very scary indeed..

But.. that stuff about it being connected to 'something else', eg sinister black box.. come on man. Ever heard of a USB charger or a USB datacable? and what about all the other people who are reproducing the results.. do they all have a sinister black box too?

bad assumption

If you think I'm pirating anything you are mistaken. I'm consuming my way through the vast amount of totally free (in both the speech and beer sense) stuff out there. You can too: http://vodo.net/ etc..

I also listen to the (free!) movie reviews and sometimes go to a cinema and watch a movie, which I am happy to pay for and see in company, on a vast screen with a huge sound system.

- A far superior experience to sitting at home watching some half-arsed rip of a movie on a small screen with the volume turned down since I actually like being friendly with my neighbours.

I'm happy to be a freetard, but draw the line at being a freeloader.

Waves != Tides

"wave power is as constant and as reliable as the moon-earth relationship"

Err.. No mate, that would be Tides.

Waves are driven by, fanfare, The Wind.. ie the same unreliable motive force as discussed in the article.

Bzzzt...

Iceberg:

Formed on land from precipitation as part of a Glacier; collects nutrients while travelling over land for a period of many years; melts in sea and releases nutrients producing small algal bloom and some CO2 capture.

Sea Ice:

Formed on the Sea at both poles from a mix of seawater and precipitation; most melts every year, does not collect nutrients from the land, and does not produce this really minor CO2 absorption effect.

But yeah.. both are made from H2O, hurrah! Glad I had a genius like you around to point that out.

It knows because you told it....

> How would the software know you were unfit to drive?

The fact you are trying to avoid police checks is probably a hint...

err...

Ok 'daily basis'' is an exaggeration, but the problem is not small farmers (who are disproportionately impacted by paperwork) but the big agribusiness 'farmers', who treat cattle as pure stock. To be moved and shuffled as they please, often according to an economic imperative at odds with the instincts of real stockmen (the paperwork is handled by a professional team who do it all day long). And the whole mess is encouraged by a haulage industry looking for business.

Foot'N'Mouth highlighted the problems, but I refuse to believe that the big agribusinesses have changed their spots that much. Regulation is only for the little people dontchaknow.

DLT is not just a DJ.

@Paul;

As a physical format DLT tape tech has been around for at least 15 years; and I doubt if it will go away any time soon. I believe the underlying storage format/compression is pretty unchanged too and that tapes from the 90's would be quite recoverable.

Now; whether the data that is recovered has any value or has any remaining applications that can interpret it is a rather more relevant matter these days.

No No man.

Sorry Daniel; you must have misinterpreted me or maybe you flew into such a rage at my spelling that you failed to see the truth in what I wrote.

Let me explain; when he bought(*) this, he handed over some money and in return he was given a box with a PS3 in it; The money then belongs to the Retailer (and eventually a large chunk of it belonged to Sony).

And in return the PS3 belongs to him; all he is now doing is exercising his right to modify his property as he wishes; and his right to talk about that as he wishes. It's pretty easy to comprehend if you can just get your mind around concepts like 'property' and 'buy'.

(* Actually where I live the word is 'kopen' but don't worry your pretty little head about it.)

No such thing...

Google don't really have a 'paid' email service; they have a free service up to 1Gb, and then you pay for additional storage. The gmail service itself remains the same; but the size of your mailbox is restricted when in freetard mode. (This additional paid for storage can be shared between all your Google online user services; gmail, picassa, etc. in any combination.. However some more commercial stuff, like Google Apps, has a separate pay model.)

Once they start charging for storage I would hope that backup is one of the services provided for the fees.

Good question.

"Am I right in saying that there are 'other' search engines for the more technical type of searches, depending on your industry?"

I hoped so.. but no matter how much I Google for them I never seem to find them.

Bzzzzt.

"Sweden does not have a (documented) record of torture or human rights abuse"

#1 from the worlds finest search engine.

http://www.amnestyusa.org/all-countries/sweden/page.do?id=1011247

Nice try.. but next time please try harder.. Please also note how frequently the word 'rendition' appears there and in all the other results you could have found.

2.2 works well enough that I am prepared to wait while they polish the release.

The real fun is to come via the community release; this is where having an open(ish) OS on an open(ish) platform really counts.

http://android.modaco.com/content/advent-vega-vega-modaco-com/331467/09-feb-r8-modaco-custom-rom-for-the-advent-vega-with-online-kitchen/

(the POV MobII is a Advent Vega clone).

Eh?

"You could choose not to use google, but then you don't appear on the worlds no.1 search engine."

Sorry man, you appear to be confused.. what the hell does that mean.. How do you define 'using' Google? Because If I 'use' google I am searching with it.. not trying to appear in its results.

(And of course if I wish to use a competitor I type 'bing.com' which is fewer keypresses, and the effective default on Windows. It' s not like I have to 'buy' Google everytime I buy a new computer, quite the reverse.)

This does not, of course, have anything to do with whether my own sites appear in Googles indexing.. That is something I control myself by 1) helping them to index me with an accurate sitemap, 2) having relevant spam-free content that shows up in searches.

So Mate.. when you say you 'use' Google, you are really mean that you use them as a cheapo advertising service and not as a search service, don't you? And you fail in that too I, suspect..