Isn't Ritalin just Speed? You could get that from your friendly neighborhood drug dealer if you really want to. Not sure it's healthy though just to cram for exams.
ADSL degrades too fast over distance. A technology that's got to reach people out in the sticks so far that even ISDN won't reach, has to have a lot more resilience.
If the kid has any sense he'll ask for a jury trial.
1. A jury trial can establish case law, and stop this happening again. 2. When the scientologists inevitably lose horribly, they'll have to pay all the costs (loser pays is a cool system to have in cases like this).
I was thinking about that the other day.. what if the radio telescopes are picking up alien noise all the time but it's compressed/encrypted? There's no way of telling that from background noise.
If you think about a lot of the noise that earth sends out it's increasingly encrypted, so the window of unencrypted easily detectable data is maybe 50 years... a blink in galactic time.
More to the point the more people vote the more they care.
If 15% of the population vote (that was the turnout at the last local elections here) that means they can basically ignore 85% of the population - they know the types of people that vote, so it's very easy to say 'young people never vote so I can ignore them' etc.
If 50% of the population vote they have to take a *lot* more attention to not pissing people off.
That's why voting is important even if you're in a safe seat and your actual choice isn't likely to make a difference.
Don't forget that in the UK, you must hand over encryption keys on demand or face jail time. This has been the law for some time over there.
Not if it wouldn't be reasonable for you to have them... eg. ssh sessions, ipsec.
Every now and then the government proposes to capture all emails. They haven't yet said how exactly they propose to do that (what about all those hotmail accounts for example? I can't see microsoft giving up those records as they're not covered by british law). Phone records are already kept by most countries anyway.
I don't know anyone that liked the show but didn't like the film
I love the show.. think the film sucked. Every 2 minutes (literally - by halfway through I was timing it on my watch) someone burst into song just to cover the complete lack of plot. But then I utterly loathe musicals generally.
I think 1. is assumed - the cell phone companies wouldn't give that information, except to law enforcement. 2. and 3.? That's the valuable stuff - why do you thing they spend so much pushing store cards? They'll be the exact reason they're even trying this.. If they get your IMSI you're hosed unless you always use payT phones and throw them away after visting the store. Luckily IMSI is only transmitted when the phone first connects to the tower (of course a small 'no signal' area you pass through on entering the store can ensure this happens).
That kind of stuff would be easy to verify in the security cameras - plus any data gathering system will reject out of band data like that (there will always be a few people who don't act like the rest.. their data isn't meaningful in general).
Going into service elevators/hiding in dressing rooms/repeatedly visiting the same place and not buying is going to attract the attention of security too. Being caught with a bag with 50 mobile phones in it is gonna take some explaining - you may be innocent.. you may be a pickpocket. They'll assume the latter until you prove otherwise.
They already do that with cameras and also observers (basically shoppers whose job is to watch the flow of people around certain areas). There's no need to use mobile technology for it.
Since this tracking system listens to your phone's transmissions, it should actually have an easier time in areas where tower transmissions are weak and phone transmissions are strong...which is an easy thing to simulate with a sufficient amount of radio reflective material in the walls of the store.
I believe the IMSI gets transmitted in the clear, but rarely (most of the time the TMSI is sent, and that changes randomly).
It's not that anonymous if you can get an IMSI - that's unique to your account and never changes... TMSI is random enough to be pretty useless for any medium term tracking.
You can probably discern enough though to distinguish an individual signal. Triangulation and a bit of smarts will get you the rest.
Not that it's useful - so you know there's someone with an N95 who'se on Vodafone coming in your direction - what do you do? (unless it's an apple store and you want to upsell an iphone).
The iphone does not do that except in one case, that isn't used much.
In fact I'd argue that the iphone is the classic example of why touch screen keyboards suck. The keys are too small, you always hit the wrong letters and spend 90% of the time deleting and retyping what should be easy.. and there's no feedback.
If you have a mobile you send SMS, because you already have all the information you need - their phone number.
Email is still a losing proposition here:
1. Only business plans actually give you one with your mobile phone, and that costs extra anyway. You won't be able to use your ISPs one because if it's configured correctly they won't allow connections to their SMTP server from outside their network. 2. You nearly always have to configure it manually, which means knowing what an SMTP and IMAP server actually are (POP on a phone is a loser for a start - they don't have the storage for it). 3. This assumes that the recipient (a) has an email address, and (b) you know what it actually is. 4. Email goes over your data plan - which costs extra. SMS is normally free these days.
And 50c in an internet cafe? Where? All the ones I've seen make you buy time in hourly chunks for about $10 or so.
Not having a land line is a rarity... cell phones are still way more expensive to run, and for skype you need internet, which pretty much mandates having a phone as (a) dsl runs over a phone line, so (duh) you need a phone line to run it over, and (b) cable companies don't like selling packages without phones (it can be done but is hassle).
There's also absolutely nothing that says a phone survey couldn't have sampled a number of cell phones - in fact I'd expect them to as otherwise you limit the samples to people who are at home when the company calls (which skews the results).
He's probably right over the long term... in the short term we have what we have. email is on the downslope because spam killed it (a combination of sms and facebook seems to be more popular at the moment) but it's all fashion until something sticks long term, and that's not predictable until it happens.
You stil see them a lot in shopping centres etc. They're not useless.. they just have very specific usages.
At the moment touch is in fashion again. After a little while it'll find its niche and be used where it's most useful. then the fave technology of the week will be something else.
They don't need to any more.. it's self sustaining. People are paying for lists of 'verified' email addresses, they're paying for spammers to send the messages... the spammers have already made their money - off stupid management of so-called 'legitimate' business. There are enough stupid people around to sustain that industry for many, many years.
Nobody needs to reply.. there's no comeback for the companies paying the spammers so they keep doing it on the offchance someone might buy their crap. That's where the law needs tightening up - paying for spam services should have punitive fines (a million dollars or so... basically any company that tries it gets wiped out, if not by the fine, by their shareholders when they find out).
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Is that what you buy cheap french cars with?
If your power goes out it queues on the backup MX for anything up to a couple of weeks before bouncing. Mail is pretty resilient.
If it was that important they'd SMS or phone you anyway..
Isn't Ritalin just Speed? You could get that from your friendly neighborhood drug dealer if you really want to. Not sure it's healthy though just to cram for exams.
ADSL degrades too fast over distance. A technology that's got to reach people out in the sticks so far that even ISDN won't reach, has to have a lot more resilience.
AV is like putting more and more buckets in the attic to catch leaks, rather than fixing the holes.
If your roof isn't leaking all those buckets are wasted money.
If they're norton buckets they're also (a) glued to the floor so you can't use them anyway, and (b) full of holes themselves.
If the kid has any sense he'll ask for a jury trial.
1. A jury trial can establish case law, and stop this happening again.
2. When the scientologists inevitably lose horribly, they'll have to pay all the costs (loser pays is a cool system to have in cases like this).
I was thinking about that the other day.. what if the radio telescopes are picking up alien noise all the time but it's compressed/encrypted? There's no way of telling that from background noise.
If you think about a lot of the noise that earth sends out it's increasingly encrypted, so the window of unencrypted easily detectable data is maybe 50 years... a blink in galactic time.
More to the point the more people vote the more they care.
If 15% of the population vote (that was the turnout at the last local elections here) that means they can basically ignore 85% of the population - they know the types of people that vote, so it's very easy to say 'young people never vote so I can ignore them' etc.
If 50% of the population vote they have to take a *lot* more attention to not pissing people off.
That's why voting is important even if you're in a safe seat and your actual choice isn't likely to make a difference.
Don't forget that in the UK, you must hand over encryption keys on demand or face jail time. This has been the law for some time over there.
Not if it wouldn't be reasonable for you to have them... eg. ssh sessions, ipsec.
Every now and then the government proposes to capture all emails. They haven't yet said how exactly they propose to do that (what about all those hotmail accounts for example? I can't see microsoft giving up those records as they're not covered by british law). Phone records are already kept by most countries anyway.
I don't know anyone that liked the show but didn't like the film
I love the show.. think the film sucked. Every 2 minutes (literally - by halfway through I was timing it on my watch) someone burst into song just to cover the complete lack of plot. But then I utterly loathe musicals generally.
It would drain the battery also as it'd ramp up the power trying to contact a tower.
I think 1. is assumed - the cell phone companies wouldn't give that information, except to law enforcement. 2. and 3.? That's the valuable stuff - why do you thing they spend so much pushing store cards? They'll be the exact reason they're even trying this.. If they get your IMSI you're hosed unless you always use payT phones and throw them away after visting the store. Luckily IMSI is only transmitted when the phone first connects to the tower (of course a small 'no signal' area you pass through on entering the store can ensure this happens).
That kind of stuff would be easy to verify in the security cameras - plus any data gathering system will reject out of band data like that (there will always be a few people who don't act like the rest.. their data isn't meaningful in general).
Going into service elevators/hiding in dressing rooms/repeatedly visiting the same place and not buying is going to attract the attention of security too. Being caught with a bag with 50 mobile phones in it is gonna take some explaining - you may be innocent.. you may be a pickpocket. They'll assume the latter until you prove otherwise.
They already do that with cameras and also observers (basically shoppers whose job is to watch the flow of people around certain areas). There's no need to use mobile technology for it.
Since this tracking system listens to your phone's transmissions, it should actually have an easier time in areas where tower transmissions are weak and phone transmissions are strong. ..which is an easy thing to simulate with a sufficient amount of radio reflective material in the walls of the store.
I believe the IMSI gets transmitted in the clear, but rarely (most of the time the TMSI is sent, and that changes randomly).
It's not that anonymous if you can get an IMSI - that's unique to your account and never changes... TMSI is random enough to be pretty useless for any medium term tracking.
You can probably discern enough though to distinguish an individual signal. Triangulation and a bit of smarts will get you the rest.
Not that it's useful - so you know there's someone with an N95 who'se on Vodafone coming in your direction - what do you do? (unless it's an apple store and you want to upsell an iphone).
The iphone does not do that except in one case, that isn't used much.
In fact I'd argue that the iphone is the classic example of why touch screen keyboards suck. The keys are too small, you always hit the wrong letters and spend 90% of the time deleting and retyping what should be easy.. and there's no feedback.
If you have a mobile you send SMS, because you already have all the information you need - their phone number.
Email is still a losing proposition here:
1. Only business plans actually give you one with your mobile phone, and that costs extra anyway. You won't be able to use your ISPs one because if it's configured correctly they won't allow connections to their SMTP server from outside their network.
2. You nearly always have to configure it manually, which means knowing what an SMTP and IMAP server actually are (POP on a phone is a loser for a start - they don't have the storage for it).
3. This assumes that the recipient (a) has an email address, and (b) you know what it actually is.
4. Email goes over your data plan - which costs extra. SMS is normally free these days.
And 50c in an internet cafe? Where? All the ones I've seen make you buy time in hourly chunks for about $10 or so.
Not having a land line is a rarity... cell phones are still way more expensive to run, and for skype you need internet, which pretty much mandates having a phone as (a) dsl runs over a phone line, so (duh) you need a phone line to run it over, and (b) cable companies don't like selling packages without phones (it can be done but is hassle).
There's also absolutely nothing that says a phone survey couldn't have sampled a number of cell phones - in fact I'd expect them to as otherwise you limit the samples to people who are at home when the company calls (which skews the results).
He's probably right over the long term... in the short term we have what we have. email is on the downslope because spam killed it (a combination of sms and facebook seems to be more popular at the moment) but it's all fashion until something sticks long term, and that's not predictable until it happens.
You stil see them a lot in shopping centres etc. They're not useless.. they just have very specific usages.
At the moment touch is in fashion again. After a little while it'll find its niche and be used where it's most useful. then the fave technology of the week will be something else.
Except its proponents continually claim it is. So is it? Or not?
When wikipedia itself works that out maybe it'll actually start to sort itself out.
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They don't need to any more.. it's self sustaining. People are paying for lists of 'verified' email addresses, they're paying for spammers to send the messages... the spammers have already made their money - off stupid management of so-called 'legitimate' business. There are enough stupid people around to sustain that industry for many, many years.
Nobody needs to reply.. there's no comeback for the companies paying the spammers so they keep doing it on the offchance someone might buy their crap. That's where the law needs tightening up - paying for spam services should have punitive fines (a million dollars or so... basically any company that tries it gets wiped out, if not by the fine, by their shareholders when they find out).