The person who asked for the ranson claimed that he'd bought it in good faith. I'm just a little sceptical. You'd think that an enigma collector might have noticed the massive news coverage that the theft got in the UK. Or even seen on slashdot. Pull the other one mate.
Apparently, my ISP recently moved from using squid to netcache, and my god it is useless. I am reduced to adding spurious query strings to force a refresh.
I would spell 'see-pound' C£ . Aaargh! Have you ever seen a confused brit using a US voicemail system? 'Press the pound key" WTF!! Why would I have a currency symbol on my phone? In the UK its normally 'hash', but BT has started saying 'square'. I guess they'd have echelon recording all the talk of drugs in the voicemail system otherwise.
The number of active phones passed 30 million in June(?). And yes, there are less than 60 million people in the UK. I found it amusing reading national geographic a coupla months ago, where they were going on about how 1/3 of the population of London had a mobile. I know they have a long lead time on the mag, but that figure must be about 18 months old. I think you could safely double that percentage. The growth in mobile usage in the UK has been largely in pay-as-you-go phones with no credit check or bills. This means that kids can buy them, and they do, a lot.
The economist had a n article last week that is worth a read. Its about the mess with the 3g licences in the US, where the frequencies allocated will clash with dozens of local TV stations. You haven't a hope, from the looks of things!
From the looks of things, this goes directly from cprm.net (marconi portugal) to embratel. The key node I think is embratel1.cprm.net. It would make sense for portugal to have a direct link. You probably went via the US because of slow routing across europe.
I do think that geographically-based domain names would be complimentary to the free-for-alls that are most other TLDs. They would be good for different purposes. Personally, I have a.st (sao tome and principe) domain, which is my 4-letter surname, which I couldn't get in any other domain space, and I use that just for email, and loads of.co.uk,.com etc... for work, but for other pursoses, especially very obviously local projects, a mycompany.bristol.gb domain would be great, especially if it was free. It seems a logical system, and creates a lot more name-space. Thinking about it, perhaps one based on postcodes would be better - in the example above - mycompany.bs.gb. On second thoughts, i suspect that coventry would suddenly become popular - I'll stick with the full name idea. That sort of object-oriented system is far less cumbersome than the abominations like.uk.com or *ugh* things like this.
Not if you've got a newer phone. Lots of new phones come with predictive text input which lets you press each key just once, and it predicts what word you're typing based on a built in dictionary. Much quicker.
Text-messaging is great: the US is really missing out. I find it indispensible for several reasons. Firstly its great if you're in a noisy bar or club, where its impossible to hear a phone. Secondly its cheap: i pay £.06p ($.09) per message, as opposed to £.30p/min to call another network mobile. Lastly, and most importantly, texting is great for flirting. Little mesages that you'd never dream of saying by voice, are somehow easier to say by text!
Don't forget the US navy single-handedly winning the atlantic war for us all.
Isn't it funny that usually whenever there's an article on/. about daft patents, we get flooded with anti-USPTO, anti-Amazon, anti-whoever filed the patent posts, but this time, as it happens to be a patent from a british company, a most of the posts seem to be an attack on the UK in general. How sad. Next we'll get posts comparing BT to british 'soccer' hooligans, somehow.
Slashdot Mirror
The person who asked for the ranson claimed that he'd bought it in good faith. I'm just a little sceptical. You'd think that an enigma collector might have noticed the massive news coverage that the theft got in the UK. Or even seen on slashdot. Pull the other one mate.
Look at June 2000: someone's done it.
Apple Display Connector
Apparently, my ISP recently moved from using squid to netcache, and my god it is useless. I am reduced to adding spurious query strings to force a refresh.
And there were a couple of rumours that Steve Jobs was running for president. .= "pinch of salt"
I would spell 'see-pound' C£ . Aaargh! Have you ever seen a confused brit using a US voicemail system? 'Press the pound key" WTF!! Why would I have a currency symbol on my phone? In the UK its normally 'hash', but BT has started saying 'square'. I guess they'd have echelon recording all the talk of drugs in the voicemail system otherwise.
The number of active phones passed 30 million in June(?). And yes, there are less than 60 million people in the UK. I found it amusing reading national geographic a coupla months ago, where they were going on about how 1/3 of the population of London had a mobile. I know they have a long lead time on the mag, but that figure must be about 18 months old. I think you could safely double that percentage. The growth in mobile usage in the UK has been largely in pay-as-you-go phones with no credit check or bills. This means that kids can buy them, and they do, a lot.
The economist had a n article last week that is worth a read. Its about the mess with the 3g licences in the US, where the frequencies allocated will clash with dozens of local TV stations. You haven't a hope, from the looks of things!
As I'm in Portugal at the moment, which has a lot of traffic with Brazil, a traceroute from here would be interesting:
5 3/3 0.125 0.128 0.134 195.245.135.115
6 3/3 0.196 0.218 0.246 195.8.0.173 alnilam-a00010.cprm.net
7 3/3 0.172 0.185 0.210 195.8.0.106 mintaka-f500.cprm.net
8 3/3 0.571 0.763 1.145 195.8.10.238 embratel1.cprm.net
9 3/3 0.555 0.846 1.412 200.230.162.33 ebt-f1-0-0-dist01.spo.embratel.net.br
10 3/3 0.551 0.651 0.828 200.230.0.22 ebt-p2-3-core03.spo.embratel.net.br
11 3/3 0.560 0.592 0.638 200.230.0.137 ebt-p5-0-dist05.spo.embratel.net.br
12 3/3 0.571 0.578 0.594 200.246.244.229 ebt-a12-0-0-1-dist01.spomb.embratel.net.br
13 3/3 0.608 0.635 0.671 200.182.13.226
14 3/3 0.579 0.593 0.607 200.246.122.2 apolo.node1.com.br
From the looks of things, this goes directly from cprm.net (marconi portugal) to embratel. The key node I think is embratel1.cprm.net. It would make sense for portugal to have a direct link. You probably went via the US because of slow routing across europe.
I do think that geographically-based domain names would be complimentary to the free-for-alls that are most other TLDs. They would be good for different purposes. Personally, I have a .st (sao tome and principe) domain, which is my 4-letter surname, which I couldn't get in any other domain space, and I use that just for email, and loads of .co.uk, .com etc... for work, but for other pursoses, especially very obviously local projects, a mycompany.bristol.gb domain would be great, especially if it was free. It seems a logical system, and creates a lot more name-space. Thinking about it, perhaps one based on postcodes would be better - in the example above - mycompany.bs.gb. On second thoughts, i suspect that coventry would suddenly become popular - I'll stick with the full name idea. That sort of object-oriented system is far less cumbersome than the abominations like .uk.com or *ugh* things like this.
Not if you've got a newer phone.
Lots of new phones come with predictive text input which lets you press each key just once, and it predicts what word you're typing based on a built in dictionary. Much quicker.
Text-messaging is great: the US is really missing out. I find it indispensible for several reasons. Firstly its great if you're in a noisy bar or club, where its impossible to hear a phone. Secondly its cheap: i pay £.06p ($.09) per message, as opposed to £.30p/min to call another network mobile.
Lastly, and most importantly, texting is great for flirting. Little mesages that you'd never dream of saying by voice, are somehow easier to say by text!
Well, you never know...
If you want to check, ask someone from Britain or France. I guarantee you they'll say "Silly american!". :)
;-)
...says this someone from Britain
Dumb yank
Don't forget the US navy single-handedly winning the atlantic war for us all.
/. about daft patents, we get flooded with anti-USPTO, anti-Amazon, anti-whoever filed the patent posts, but this time, as it happens to be a patent from a british company, a most of the posts seem to be an attack on the UK in general. How sad. Next we'll get posts comparing BT to british 'soccer' hooligans, somehow.
Isn't it funny that usually whenever there's an article on