The only problem about 802.11 is its security. I mean all I would need is my laptop, some software and a wireless card and I could read every e-mail or web page visited.
A while back a few friends and I had setup a hotline server that was on one of my friend's cablevision cable connection. Even from my earthlink DSL, download speeds would go from 50k/s in the late afternoon, to 25k/s in the early evening. And at 10:00 pm EST every night the speed skyrocked from 25k/s to approx 125k/s. Even now i don't bother to download anything from and IP of 24.***.***.*** untill later at night.
Now I can see your reason for why you'd like to disable the GPS function. But for arugement's sake, lets say your car is stolen and your phone with the GPS system is in the car. If the GPS is enabled at all times you could theoreticly goto your service provider or the police and they could pin-point the location of your stolen vechical. Same goes if just the phone is stolen. If the GPS is disabled, you wouldn't be able to use these features. I know the possibility of you getting you car stolen AND your phone was left in the car is extreamly low. But I wouldn't mind GPS being on all the time if it gets my car back;-)
I was also at the MacWorld Expo in NYC at the Jacob Javits Center, and personally being a PC guy who got dragged to the convetion by a few Mac friends (under promise of lots of free stuff) I ended up hanging out at the Terra Soft Tent/Booth. Needless to say I was extreamly impressed. Not only was the distrubution great, but they had a G4 450mhz machine with a RAM, hard drive, intergrated 10/100 mbit network card running YDL 2.0 in about the space of a standard CD-ROM Drive. This machine is accually designed to fit in a 5.25" bay. Curent Prices range from $1600 & up. It was perfect for all the little web hosting and NFS stuff I wanted to do but I didn't have the room devote the space to an entire machine. I've got one sititng under my desk, right next to my HUB and DSL Router. These guys are more then just another distro of Linux.
Now the offical explination for the loss of the USAF F-117 is that on its finial approach to the target, when the bomb bay doors opened, a NEWLY installed SAM site downed the jet. Now if you know anything about stealth technology, it acheives its seathliness by re-directing the energy sent out by the radar station. When these bomb bay doors opened, it provided a surface for the Serbian radar to reflect back to the radar station. Once the serbians saw this, they launched everything they had at it and one missle (which could have been infraed seeking) locked onto the Stealth jet and took it out. Now this could have been pure luck, but the evidence presented dictates otherwise. So the fact that a third world country just got lucky in downing one of our Stealth aircraft doesn't mean that it posses the power to detect one of these aircrafts at any given time.
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If I remember, the power switch on the mac started to fail because the case got too hot... anyways food for thought.
The only problem about 802.11 is its security. I mean all I would need is my laptop, some software and a wireless card and I could read every e-mail or web page visited.
A while back a few friends and I had setup a hotline server that was on one of my friend's cablevision cable connection. Even from my earthlink DSL, download speeds would go from 50k/s in the late afternoon, to 25k/s in the early evening. And at 10:00 pm EST every night the speed skyrocked from 25k/s to approx 125k/s. Even now i don't bother to download anything from and IP of 24.***.***.*** untill later at night.
Now I can see your reason for why you'd like to disable the GPS function. But for arugement's sake, lets say your car is stolen and your phone with the GPS system is in the car. If the GPS is enabled at all times you could theoreticly goto your service provider or the police and they could pin-point the location of your stolen vechical. Same goes if just the phone is stolen. If the GPS is disabled, you wouldn't be able to use these features. I know the possibility of you getting you car stolen AND your phone was left in the car is extreamly low. But I wouldn't mind GPS being on all the time if it gets my car back ;-)
If Microsoft makes their products like they write their code... we're all in a lot of trouble ;-)
I was also at the MacWorld Expo in NYC at the Jacob Javits Center, and personally being a PC guy who got dragged to the convetion by a few Mac friends (under promise of lots of free stuff) I ended up hanging out at the Terra Soft Tent/Booth. Needless to say I was extreamly impressed. Not only was the distrubution great, but they had a G4 450mhz machine with a RAM, hard drive, intergrated 10/100 mbit network card running YDL 2.0 in about the space of a standard CD-ROM Drive. This machine is accually designed to fit in a 5.25" bay. Curent Prices range from $1600 & up. It was perfect for all the little web hosting and NFS stuff I wanted to do but I didn't have the room devote the space to an entire machine. I've got one sititng under my desk, right next to my HUB and DSL Router. These guys are more then just another distro of Linux.
Now the offical explination for the loss of the USAF F-117 is that on its finial approach to the target, when the bomb bay doors opened, a NEWLY installed SAM site downed the jet. Now if you know anything about stealth technology, it acheives its seathliness by re-directing the energy sent out by the radar station. When these bomb bay doors opened, it provided a surface for the Serbian radar to reflect back to the radar station. Once the serbians saw this, they launched everything they had at it and one missle (which could have been infraed seeking) locked onto the Stealth jet and took it out. Now this could have been pure luck, but the evidence presented dictates otherwise. So the fact that a third world country just got lucky in downing one of our Stealth aircraft doesn't mean that it posses the power to detect one of these aircrafts at any given time.