Heh, that's the thing, I actually haven't jailbroken the phone - though I would have to if I did want a custom sms tone. I'm just bemused by such a bizarre limitation.:)
And it doesn't always exhibit the "goes flat in three hours while heating your pocket" problem; it seems to be random (or at least I haven't yet figured out what triggers it). When it's behaving, it usually lasts about the same time between recharges as yours. I've tried a factory reset and restore from backup, no luck.
I've been reading that some iphones have a specific battery fault; I do plan on contacting Apple about whether mine is one of those.
As I was not lying, perhaps try assuming something else?
Other possibilities include, but are not necessarily limited to: botched customisation of the OS/UI for local market, laden with bloatware by local distributor, settings messed up by previous potential customers (they were demo models after all), or combination thereof. As I said, I was in a hurry; I didn't have time to properly review each of the dozen or so models I looked at.
Thankyou for your original polite reply, at least.
Which brand/model? I had to buy a new phone in a hurry at the start of the year when my old one literally fell to pieces; I looked at the android, iphone and wp7 models available and the UI on the wp7 phones I tried was slow and clunky. I ended up picking up an iphone 3gs due to the slick UI and the fact it was cheaper than an iphone4 without losing anything i really needed (like exchange and google sync). Didn't have access to the Tab.
Of course, two months later and so far I've run into the "goes flat in three hours while heating your pocket" problem, the "stuttering scroll and ignore single taps" problem, and the "have to jailbreak the phone even just to have a custom sms tone" problem. Sigh, wish my old phone had lasted just another few months...
One cigarette according to DeadCatX2 = at least 1000nSv = at least 1 uSv = at least 0.001 mSv. One cigarette according to "you lie" AC = 13/547/x mSV where x is the number of cigarettes in a pack (googling indicates 20 is typical) = 0.0011 mSv.
Hmm, looks like DeadCatX2 was telling the truth...:)
Unless I've missed something (entirely possible), "being reachable anywhere" and "being able to call from anywhere" via cellphone should not require second-by-second tracking with GPS-level accuracy. At most the phone should only have to re-handshake when it notices a different tower is providing a significantly better signal than the one it's currently listening to. "Hey, tower 47, anyone wants me, I'm now in your zone, going quiet now." "Hey, cellphone 5786, confirming I'm your new tower."
Ironically, the first and only EBR-II was built in 1964. It ran until 1994, successfully completing a 30 year mission to explore passively safe reactor design (amongst other tasks).
Then congress canned its successor.
Engineers: "we can build a passively safe reactor for X and get Y." Politicians: "can we have one for >Y?" Engineers: "well, yes, but it won't be safe, there's a risk of meltdown and radiation poisoning." Politicians: "not my problem, I don't live there, we'll build those."
What about something like the EBR-II design? Does it have a catastrophic failure mode? (or some other economy/engineering reason we never built them commercially?)
Interesting reading. Do you have a similar link for coal accidents? Do you know the respective casualty rates per watt-hour for the coal, fission, solar, wind, hydro, etc logistics chains?
I spent a half-hour or so googling, and the best I could come up with in that short time was http://nextbigfuture.com/2008/03/deaths-per-twh-for-all-energy-sources.html - if that's accurate, global deaths per watt-hour for coal was four thousand times higher than for nuclear. Makes me think fission and coal are like planes and cars - lots more people die in cars each year, but a plane crash is bigger news.
So if you had to pick either coal or fission to supply humanity's power needs, which would you pick? (personally I'd try for solar-thermal, but if you *had* to pick fission or coal...?)
Either way, if a friend gives you a tv that turns out to be stolen, and the police show up to reclaim it, the police aren't allowed to take your house as well.
This means that having it appear in the local 10-page newspaper with the caption "Dangerous Criminal Arrested" when it was a traffic stop is perfectly OK. Of course, you might get the newpaper to print a retraction on page 8, but why would anyone look at that?
Is a red light violation a criminal offence in the US that results in an automatic and immediate criminal conviction? Because otherwise you're still innocent until proven guilty in court, and I'd think the newspaper would be facing a libel suit for declaring someone a criminal if they didn't have a conviction.
It's not the increased bandwidth so much - though that helps too - as it is the decreased latency. An SSD doesn't have to wait for a platter to spin up or around at subsonic speeds before it can read the next chunk of data, and your IOPS don't nosedive from multiple tasks competing for priority over where the drive head has to move next.
Your mobile's ID needs to be registered with the cellular network to use it to make calls (how else can they know who to bill). As soon as it broadcasts that ID, so long as there's at least two stations in range it doesn't matter which one your mobile "talks" to, all of them can still "hear" and triangulation solves the rest (to whatever accuracy the local environment allows; a signal that's bounced off a few skyscrapers on its way to the towers may be problematic, but there's nothing stopping the government from placing extra "listen-only" stations to compensate).
How so? If I have the slightest problem with my phone line I call Telstra, and within days they have a tech onsite repairing or replacing whatever length of cable required, and if it's outside my property at no cost to me. How are they neglecting it in anyway?
Must be nice to live in a capital city. The pit near my neighbour's house was left in disrepair for several years - they started joking that they'd have to hold birthday parties for it.
Telstra deliberately neglected the infrastructure as much as they could. And why not? That's standard operating procedure for any corporation lacking a strong moral or visionary centre, because without that the tendency is to a destructive feedback loop for short-term profit. The only counters are usually fresh executive blood or some form of external threat - and Telstra has acquired both, the latter especially in spades. Interesting times.
I did put quotes around the word "infinite"; perhaps I should have used the word "indefinite"? However, if we're going to be picky, electronic replication is not really essentially infinite, nor is its lending parallel without limit. Hard drives do wear out. Bit errors still occur, however rarely. Parallelism (aka bandwidth) is dependent on the physical infrastructure. So it's really a question of efficiencies, for which electronic is mostly far superior (assuming the technological infrastructure is maintained), but electronic is still "like" physical. And there are - at least for now - some perspectives in which paper remains superior. For example, I've seen used books in good condition that are over a century old. Do we have any e-Readers that will last as long?
Physical libraries already lend to an "infinite" number of people, where "infinite" is a number limited only by the book's popularity, durability and the length of time the book is held by each reader, and - at least in my country, don't know about yours - also already pay the author based on a combination of the number of times the book is borrowed and the amount of funding allocated to library lending in the government budget. This money comes out of our taxes, which I don't begrudge as I consider it part of buying civilization.
So an electronic public library strikes me as a great idea. The books don't wear out, you can store an immense amount of text for very little outlay these days, any given book can be borrowed by more than one person concurrently, and the authors can still get paid. The only people who "lose" are the middlemen. And while I respect many who work in the publishing/distributing industry, it is ultimately as subject to automation as any other.
If you're truly concerned, find a good lawyer. Ask friends/family for a recommendation. A first consultation might be free or at least a flat fee. I'm not a lawyer, this is just my lay opinion as to what you should be asking a lawyer:
* "I'm seeking legal advice regarding a former client of mine, XYZ. Can you help?" Just in case your chosen lawyer also happens to have XYZ as a client.
* "Here's my situation." Pretty much what you just posted. Have copies of that documentation ready in case the lawyer wants to see it.
* "I have made / Should I make certain I have removed any physical means of access on my end, and how can I prove that?" E.g. auditing those maintenance scripts you mentioned, so that the only record of the password is in your head. Possibly you could have a statement drawn up to recognise your due diligence?
* "Should we send a letter to the company asking for any remaining access to be terminated on their end?" Perhaps something along the lines of a "our client is concerned that you have not terminated your business relationship despite cessation of employment blah blah, putting our client at risk blah blah, please do so at the earliest opportunity blah blah. Attached is evidence of your continued use of our client's time (copy of backup notices) blah blah."
The lawyer may have other ideas, you may have other questions, etc etc.
* "How much will it cost to have this done?" He may not be able to give you an exact figure, of course, but should be able to ballpark it.
That way, should they ever be stupid enough to try to make you the fall guy, you have a legal paper trail to smack them with. Heck, if they keep sending those backup notices, maybe there's even a way to bill them for it.
P.S. Regarding other posters' suggestions:
* cc'ing yourself on an account you can't modify the timestamp on is only as good as that account's server's logs - e.g. if you used yahoo you'd need a lawyer to subpoena yahoo to (maybe) get verification. Which might only get you the headers, which isn't proof of the contents. Better to just cc your lawyer - that is, if your lawyer thinks you talking to your old client is even a good idea, which may not be the case.
* sending a "sealed" envelope to yourself with a postmark that is "proof" of the date? all it proves is that you sent the envelope, not what's in it, since there was no third-party verification of the contents.
What setup did they have that their pictures (and any other non-executable data) couldn't be copied off (via live CD if need be) before wiping the disk?
Hmm. The fire department *relies* on the hydrants far more than Joe Random. If they didn't still note the fault and follow it up themselves, they might be "technically right" but I would think also "doing it wrong". It would be more reliable to thank the caller and either take the details themselves or forward their call to the correct office within the water department.
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Heh, that's the thing, I actually haven't jailbroken the phone - though I would have to if I did want a custom sms tone. I'm just bemused by such a bizarre limitation. :)
And it doesn't always exhibit the "goes flat in three hours while heating your pocket" problem; it seems to be random (or at least I haven't yet figured out what triggers it). When it's behaving, it usually lasts about the same time between recharges as yours. I've tried a factory reset and restore from backup, no luck.
I've been reading that some iphones have a specific battery fault; I do plan on contacting Apple about whether mine is one of those.
As I was not lying, perhaps try assuming something else?
Other possibilities include, but are not necessarily limited to: botched customisation of the OS/UI for local market, laden with bloatware by local distributor, settings messed up by previous potential customers (they were demo models after all), or combination thereof. As I said, I was in a hurry; I didn't have time to properly review each of the dozen or so models I looked at.
Thankyou for your original polite reply, at least.
Which brand/model? I had to buy a new phone in a hurry at the start of the year when my old one literally fell to pieces; I looked at the android, iphone and wp7 models available and the UI on the wp7 phones I tried was slow and clunky. I ended up picking up an iphone 3gs due to the slick UI and the fact it was cheaper than an iphone4 without losing anything i really needed (like exchange and google sync). Didn't have access to the Tab.
Of course, two months later and so far I've run into the "goes flat in three hours while heating your pocket" problem, the "stuttering scroll and ignore single taps" problem, and the "have to jailbreak the phone even just to have a custom sms tone" problem. Sigh, wish my old phone had lasted just another few months...
Let's do some math, shall we?
:)
One cigarette according to DeadCatX2 = at least 1000nSv = at least 1 uSv = at least 0.001 mSv.
One cigarette according to "you lie" AC = 13/547/x mSV where x is the number of cigarettes in a pack (googling indicates 20 is typical) = 0.0011 mSv.
Hmm, looks like DeadCatX2 was telling the truth...
Heh, maybe he's from one of the "fifty-first" states. :)
Unless I've missed something (entirely possible), "being reachable anywhere" and "being able to call from anywhere" via cellphone should not require second-by-second tracking with GPS-level accuracy. At most the phone should only have to re-handshake when it notices a different tower is providing a significantly better signal than the one it's currently listening to. "Hey, tower 47, anyone wants me, I'm now in your zone, going quiet now." "Hey, cellphone 5786, confirming I'm your new tower."
Oops, slashdot's "plain old text" ate "can we have one for <>Y?"
Ironically, the first and only EBR-II was built in 1964. It ran until 1994, successfully completing a 30 year mission to explore passively safe reactor design (amongst other tasks).
Then congress canned its successor.
Engineers: "we can build a passively safe reactor for X and get Y."
Politicians: "can we have one for >Y?"
Engineers: "well, yes, but it won't be safe, there's a risk of meltdown and radiation poisoning."
Politicians: "not my problem, I don't live there, we'll build those."
What about something like the EBR-II design? Does it have a catastrophic failure mode? (or some other economy/engineering reason we never built them commercially?)
Interesting reading. Do you have a similar link for coal accidents? Do you know the respective casualty rates per watt-hour for the coal, fission, solar, wind, hydro, etc logistics chains?
I spent a half-hour or so googling, and the best I could come up with in that short time was http://nextbigfuture.com/2008/03/deaths-per-twh-for-all-energy-sources.html - if that's accurate, global deaths per watt-hour for coal was four thousand times higher than for nuclear. Makes me think fission and coal are like planes and cars - lots more people die in cars each year, but a plane crash is bigger news.
So if you had to pick either coal or fission to supply humanity's power needs, which would you pick? (personally I'd try for solar-thermal, but if you *had* to pick fission or coal...?)
Yeah, nuking the alien ship over Houston worked so well in that movie... not.
Either way, if a friend gives you a tv that turns out to be stolen, and the police show up to reclaim it, the police aren't allowed to take your house as well.
Is a red light violation a criminal offence in the US that results in an automatic and immediate criminal conviction? Because otherwise you're still innocent until proven guilty in court, and I'd think the newspaper would be facing a libel suit for declaring someone a criminal if they didn't have a conviction.
It's not the increased bandwidth so much - though that helps too - as it is the decreased latency. An SSD doesn't have to wait for a platter to spin up or around at subsonic speeds before it can read the next chunk of data, and your IOPS don't nosedive from multiple tasks competing for priority over where the drive head has to move next.
Your mobile's ID needs to be registered with the cellular network to use it to make calls (how else can they know who to bill). As soon as it broadcasts that ID, so long as there's at least two stations in range it doesn't matter which one your mobile "talks" to, all of them can still "hear" and triangulation solves the rest (to whatever accuracy the local environment allows; a signal that's bounced off a few skyscrapers on its way to the towers may be problematic, but there's nothing stopping the government from placing extra "listen-only" stations to compensate).
$584 for 256GB
That's $584 for 250GB, in lots of 1000.
How so? If I have the slightest problem with my phone line I call Telstra, and within days they have a tech onsite repairing or replacing whatever length of cable required, and if it's outside my property at no cost to me. How are they neglecting it in anyway?
Must be nice to live in a capital city. The pit near my neighbour's house was left in disrepair for several years - they started joking that they'd have to hold birthday parties for it.
Telstra deliberately neglected the infrastructure as much as they could. And why not? That's standard operating procedure for any corporation lacking a strong moral or visionary centre, because without that the tendency is to a destructive feedback loop for short-term profit. The only counters are usually fresh executive blood or some form of external threat - and Telstra has acquired both, the latter especially in spades. Interesting times.
I did put quotes around the word "infinite"; perhaps I should have used the word "indefinite"? However, if we're going to be picky, electronic replication is not really essentially infinite, nor is its lending parallel without limit. Hard drives do wear out. Bit errors still occur, however rarely. Parallelism (aka bandwidth) is dependent on the physical infrastructure. So it's really a question of efficiencies, for which electronic is mostly far superior (assuming the technological infrastructure is maintained), but electronic is still "like" physical. And there are - at least for now - some perspectives in which paper remains superior. For example, I've seen used books in good condition that are over a century old. Do we have any e-Readers that will last as long?
Physical libraries already lend to an "infinite" number of people, where "infinite" is a number limited only by the book's popularity, durability and the length of time the book is held by each reader, and - at least in my country, don't know about yours - also already pay the author based on a combination of the number of times the book is borrowed and the amount of funding allocated to library lending in the government budget. This money comes out of our taxes, which I don't begrudge as I consider it part of buying civilization.
So an electronic public library strikes me as a great idea. The books don't wear out, you can store an immense amount of text for very little outlay these days, any given book can be borrowed by more than one person concurrently, and the authors can still get paid. The only people who "lose" are the middlemen. And while I respect many who work in the publishing/distributing industry, it is ultimately as subject to automation as any other.
Pffh. Telstra is the Vizzini to the PMG's Fezzik.
Re your sig - actually about 7000 of you now. :)
If you're truly concerned, find a good lawyer. Ask friends/family for a recommendation. A first consultation might be free or at least a flat fee. I'm not a lawyer, this is just my lay opinion as to what you should be asking a lawyer:
* "I'm seeking legal advice regarding a former client of mine, XYZ. Can you help?" Just in case your chosen lawyer also happens to have XYZ as a client.
* "Here's my situation." Pretty much what you just posted. Have copies of that documentation ready in case the lawyer wants to see it.
* "I have made / Should I make certain I have removed any physical means of access on my end, and how can I prove that?" E.g. auditing those maintenance scripts you mentioned, so that the only record of the password is in your head. Possibly you could have a statement drawn up to recognise your due diligence?
* "Should we send a letter to the company asking for any remaining access to be terminated on their end?" Perhaps something along the lines of a "our client is concerned that you have not terminated your business relationship despite cessation of employment blah blah, putting our client at risk blah blah, please do so at the earliest opportunity blah blah. Attached is evidence of your continued use of our client's time (copy of backup notices) blah blah."
The lawyer may have other ideas, you may have other questions, etc etc.
* "How much will it cost to have this done?" He may not be able to give you an exact figure, of course, but should be able to ballpark it.
That way, should they ever be stupid enough to try to make you the fall guy, you have a legal paper trail to smack them with. Heck, if they keep sending those backup notices, maybe there's even a way to bill them for it.
P.S. Regarding other posters' suggestions:
* cc'ing yourself on an account you can't modify the timestamp on is only as good as that account's server's logs - e.g. if you used yahoo you'd need a lawyer to subpoena yahoo to (maybe) get verification. Which might only get you the headers, which isn't proof of the contents. Better to just cc your lawyer - that is, if your lawyer thinks you talking to your old client is even a good idea, which may not be the case.
* sending a "sealed" envelope to yourself with a postmark that is "proof" of the date? all it proves is that you sent the envelope, not what's in it, since there was no third-party verification of the contents.
What setup did they have that their pictures (and any other non-executable data) couldn't be copied off (via live CD if need be) before wiping the disk?
Hmm. The fire department *relies* on the hydrants far more than Joe Random. If they didn't still note the fault and follow it up themselves, they might be "technically right" but I would think also "doing it wrong". It would be more reliable to thank the caller and either take the details themselves or forward their call to the correct office within the water department.
Anti-republican kool-aid. Anti-democrat kool-aid. Same formula, same factory, same vat. Only the label's different.