I kind of agree with your point but just to go into it in detail...
Some Android devices are trivial to root (forget about SIM unlocking, I'm talking about rooting the OS so you can install anything on it including third party community ROMs). The Nexus One for example just needs a single command to unlock the bootloader, after which it informs you that if you go ahead it'll void your warranty, then it's open. The HTC Desire (which is almost the same phone) has been made deliberately harder to root. You don't get R/W access to/system whilst the phone is booted either.
I've rooted by Desire and I'm running Neophyte 1.3 Android 2.2 (Froyo) ROM on it and it's amazing. Getting 39Mflops out of it on Linpack, compared to under 8 on stock 2.1 ROM.
Basic process was...(for Windows, for other OS you can skip the USB driver step)
Install HTC Sync to get the USB drivers
Install the Android SDK
Using the SDK get the device ID, paste into an online web form to email me a disk image, use a hex editor to copy and paste the contents of that disk image to the first blocks of a spare micro SD card to make a "goldcard"
Boot into recovery with goldcard, use a Modaco script to push a hacked bootloader to phone, reboot
When done, copy Clockwork Recovery flash to the normal SD card, copy downloaded Froyo ROM and radio updates to SD card
Reboot into Clockwork Recovery, apply downloaded ROM and radio and reboot.
Not all that tricky for an enthusiastic geek, but it's not something you'd walk your mum through over the phone, either.
Ahh, man, that PSU issue is a blast from the past! I remember this being a rite-of-passage wehn I satarted working 2nd line support for the first time. *Everyone* got caught by that, at least once.
I'd agree with your points, but follow it up with a small shop can manage with corporate desktops. Just get the onsite service, and back up a lot.
Every firm gets screwed by its component suppliers at some point (bulging caps, dodgy hard disk etc). I remember some Compaq Deskpros that were one of our 3 standard desktop models - we had thousands of them. At one piont we had failures of every single one we bought in a 6 month period due to faulty hard disks. Turned out to be a Seagate manufacturing problem, but Compaq still sent an engineer to site ONE AT A TIME to get them swapped out.
There's three scenarios here, in order of unpleasantness: 1) Dell didn't know about the problem until the calls started coming in, 2) Dell knew it had shipped a dodgy batch but figured they'd fix them one at a time to save face/costs, and 3) they knew that they were continuing to ship a product with a defect.
Ah, the CPx and CPi series. Awesome machines - I used to be certified on those. Modular bays, easy to take apart and service, and built like tanks - they rivalled the Thinkpads for sheer over-engineering. We had thousands out in the firld and they worked like champs. When one did die it was simplicity itself to cannibalise a couple of broken ones to make one working one, and a small pile of spares. It's not so easy to do now...
...Good point. I think it would be naive to think that there aren't a similar number of US interests working in the USSR under cover. I'd imagine most security services have people placed in other countries, whether acting as casual informants or full-on espionage.
Most networks have an option for users to access their voicemail from another line - it's handy if you lose your phone. This is usually either a dedicated v/m number where you dial, type in your mobile number, then your 4 digit PIN (most networks have a default of 0000 and many people never change it) or you ring your own number and press # when thru to voicemail, then type in the default PIN.
Disreputable newspaper reporters have long known about this...
Let me get this straight. If you want an account with a phone company you either sign a contract and go pay-monthly, or you buy a SIM card and prepay for your service. (NB in the UK even the latter usually requires signing some sort of agreement - partly to prevent the use of anonymous SIMs) You are positing that a company that is selling internet access to the general public will be running their infrastructure using pay-as-you-go SIM cards, and thus would be pre-paying for this connectivity? Presumably topping up their SIM cards from their debit cards? No, no, no.
They will have a contract with a phone company, and this will be a business account, with specially-negotiated bulk discounts on data. They will pay for bandwidth used after the event, rather than having their cashflow ruined by having to prepay for it.
The problem with this is that there are areas that are very expensive to service with RF. In the UK the classic example has always been small remote villages in the hills and valleys of Wales. Line of sight doesn't work very well, so you will almost certainly end up with some sort of repeater service as in TFA. The switch-off of analogue TV in the UK was delayed for years whilst someone worked out a method for providing TV signals to these areas.
Don't remember signing a contract for bread/beer/books either. Common sense has little to do with this - I would be amazed if the phone companies didn't raise legal objections if you were to start a business using standard phone contract SIMs on their network to resell connectivity to other people.
Also, on a cost-per-gig basis you'd almost certainly have to negotiate for a reasonable price for a data plan that wasn't subject to a far-too-low "fair use" policy.
Presumably it's an industrialised unit, with proper antennae that allow it to pick up a 3G signal in poor reception areas. OK, nothing too exciting there.
1) What agreement do they have with the phone companies? Presumably they need a special licence to resell their bandwidth?
2) Cost - what's the charging model for this?
3)...Profit!
This doesn't happen with GSM I don't believe, with one significant exception. Phone networks have a priority list (emergency service personnel, presumably military and politicians etc) that *do* take priority when a cell is overloaded. To the best of my knowledge this has never happened to prioritise "own-brand" handsets over unlocked handsets - it wouldn't make sense to do so anyway. If a SIM is able to register to the network and make calls, then the phone company is getting paid either way.
I've got an Owl meter that measures electrical consumption. It's crude in that it has an inductive loop you clip around the supply in your electricity meter cupboard, and a little LCD panel wireless device that shows instantaneous consumption in watts, pence-per-hour, CO2 per hour etc.
It was cheap, and doesn't offer any way of exporting data, but it *has* paid for itself. You get to know what the "idle" wattage of your house is, and you notice when it's not. You'll find yourself glancing at it and going "Huh? What have I left on?". It becomes second nature to turn a few more lights off when you're not using them - I realised that my kitchen ceiling lights drew a ton of power, hadn't even considered them an energy hog before.
I thought the whole point of SAR measurement was it encouraged manufacturers to make handsets that directed RF energy away from the body by the use of shaped antennae? This is s good thing, unless you're planning on using your skull as a waveguide.*
* stupid car tricks: your remote alarm fob works from a longer distance if you hold it next to your head when you press it. Try it, it genuinely works. I get odd looks when I do it without thinking...!
belkin did this with one of their routers. it redirected web traffic to an advert for belkin stuff periodically. unsurprisingly there was a bit of an outcry at the time.
why? it'll pick up a local IP from dhcp just like any other network device in your home. presumably the printer will then connect out on port 80 to pick up it's ads - so not needing any changes to router firewall - or it'll have a unique email address based on its serial number and a pop mail client built in to display them.
Yes, this occurred to me. Probably not legal for non-military purposes though as a) you've got to source them, and b) pilot a plane whilst using non-prescription drugs. I'm sure the local aviation authority would have something to say about the legality of the latter.
you fucking tool.
1) Le Mans is driven in shifts. Yes, I've been there, thanks
2) So flying a plane is easier than driving is it? Just because something's possible, doesn't mean that it's a good idea.
Slashdot Mirror
Are you sure about that?
http://www.geek.com/articles/mobile/iphone-being-used-to-develop-military-apps-20091222/
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/dec/17/iphone-apple
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-10724344
http://www.trendhunter.com/trends/bullet-flight-100-the-next-iphone-killer-application
http://singularityhub.com/2009/08/18/commanding-military-drones-now-iphone-has-an-app-for-that/
I kind of agree with your point but just to go into it in detail... /system whilst the phone is booted either.
Some Android devices are trivial to root (forget about SIM unlocking, I'm talking about rooting the OS so you can install anything on it including third party community ROMs). The Nexus One for example just needs a single command to unlock the bootloader, after which it informs you that if you go ahead it'll void your warranty, then it's open. The HTC Desire (which is almost the same phone) has been made deliberately harder to root. You don't get R/W access to
I've rooted by Desire and I'm running Neophyte 1.3 Android 2.2 (Froyo) ROM on it and it's amazing. Getting 39Mflops out of it on Linpack, compared to under 8 on stock 2.1 ROM.
Basic process was...(for Windows, for other OS you can skip the USB driver step)
Install HTC Sync to get the USB drivers
Install the Android SDK
Using the SDK get the device ID, paste into an online web form to email me a disk image, use a hex editor to copy and paste the contents of that disk image to the first blocks of a spare micro SD card to make a "goldcard"
Boot into recovery with goldcard, use a Modaco script to push a hacked bootloader to phone, reboot
When done, copy Clockwork Recovery flash to the normal SD card, copy downloaded Froyo ROM and radio updates to SD card
Reboot into Clockwork Recovery, apply downloaded ROM and radio and reboot.
Not all that tricky for an enthusiastic geek, but it's not something you'd walk your mum through over the phone, either.
Results are totally worth it though!
it's where that missing flash plugin icon is on the webpage
Well played, sir.
...must be left-handed
there is no way a dell tech is going to carry a soldering iron. They'll have lots of individual boxes of motherboards to swap out.
Ahh, man, that PSU issue is a blast from the past! I remember this being a rite-of-passage wehn I satarted working 2nd line support for the first time. *Everyone* got caught by that, at least once.
I'd agree with your points, but follow it up with a small shop can manage with corporate desktops. Just get the onsite service, and back up a lot.
Every firm gets screwed by its component suppliers at some point (bulging caps, dodgy hard disk etc). I remember some Compaq Deskpros that were one of our 3 standard desktop models - we had thousands of them. At one piont we had failures of every single one we bought in a 6 month period due to faulty hard disks. Turned out to be a Seagate manufacturing problem, but Compaq still sent an engineer to site ONE AT A TIME to get them swapped out.
There's three scenarios here, in order of unpleasantness: 1) Dell didn't know about the problem until the calls started coming in, 2) Dell knew it had shipped a dodgy batch but figured they'd fix them one at a time to save face/costs, and 3) they knew that they were continuing to ship a product with a defect.
Ah, the CPx and CPi series. Awesome machines - I used to be certified on those. Modular bays, easy to take apart and service, and built like tanks - they rivalled the Thinkpads for sheer over-engineering. We had thousands out in the firld and they worked like champs. When one did die it was simplicity itself to cannibalise a couple of broken ones to make one working one, and a small pile of spares. It's not so easy to do now...
...Good point. I think it would be naive to think that there aren't a similar number of US interests working in the USSR under cover. I'd imagine most security services have people placed in other countries, whether acting as casual informants or full-on espionage.
Most networks have an option for users to access their voicemail from another line - it's handy if you lose your phone. This is usually either a dedicated v/m number where you dial, type in your mobile number, then your 4 digit PIN (most networks have a default of 0000 and many people never change it) or you ring your own number and press # when thru to voicemail, then type in the default PIN.
Disreputable newspaper reporters have long known about this...
Disinformation, or black propaganda.
Let me get this straight. If you want an account with a phone company you either sign a contract and go pay-monthly, or you buy a SIM card and prepay for your service. (NB in the UK even the latter usually requires signing some sort of agreement - partly to prevent the use of anonymous SIMs)
You are positing that a company that is selling internet access to the general public will be running their infrastructure using pay-as-you-go SIM cards, and thus would be pre-paying for this connectivity?
Presumably topping up their SIM cards from their debit cards? No, no, no.
They will have a contract with a phone company, and this will be a business account, with specially-negotiated bulk discounts on data. They will pay for bandwidth used after the event, rather than having their cashflow ruined by having to prepay for it.
The problem with this is that there are areas that are very expensive to service with RF. In the UK the classic example has always been small remote villages in the hills and valleys of Wales. Line of sight doesn't work very well, so you will almost certainly end up with some sort of repeater service as in TFA. The switch-off of analogue TV in the UK was delayed for years whilst someone worked out a method for providing TV signals to these areas.
Don't remember signing a contract for bread/beer/books either. Common sense has little to do with this - I would be amazed if the phone companies didn't raise legal objections if you were to start a business using standard phone contract SIMs on their network to resell connectivity to other people.
Also, on a cost-per-gig basis you'd almost certainly have to negotiate for a reasonable price for a data plan that wasn't subject to a far-too-low "fair use" policy.
Presumably it's an industrialised unit, with proper antennae that allow it to pick up a 3G signal in poor reception areas. OK, nothing too exciting there. ...Profit!
1) What agreement do they have with the phone companies? Presumably they need a special licence to resell their bandwidth?
2) Cost - what's the charging model for this?
3)
This doesn't happen with GSM I don't believe, with one significant exception. Phone networks have a priority list (emergency service personnel, presumably military and politicians etc) that *do* take priority when a cell is overloaded. To the best of my knowledge this has never happened to prioritise "own-brand" handsets over unlocked handsets - it wouldn't make sense to do so anyway. If a SIM is able to register to the network and make calls, then the phone company is getting paid either way.
have you thought about working in banking?
I've got an Owl meter that measures electrical consumption. It's crude in that it has an inductive loop you clip around the supply in your electricity meter cupboard, and a little LCD panel wireless device that shows instantaneous consumption in watts, pence-per-hour, CO2 per hour etc.
It was cheap, and doesn't offer any way of exporting data, but it *has* paid for itself. You get to know what the "idle" wattage of your house is, and you notice when it's not. You'll find yourself glancing at it and going "Huh? What have I left on?". It becomes second nature to turn a few more lights off when you're not using them - I realised that my kitchen ceiling lights drew a ton of power, hadn't even considered them an energy hog before.
I thought the whole point of SAR measurement was it encouraged manufacturers to make handsets that directed RF energy away from the body by the use of shaped antennae? This is s good thing, unless you're planning on using your skull as a waveguide.*
* stupid car tricks: your remote alarm fob works from a longer distance if you hold it next to your head when you press it. Try it, it genuinely works. I get odd looks when I do it without thinking...!
..."would get pregnant to get the paid leave, and then have an abortion after 20 weeks, thus having a paid holiday."
Eh? Parental leave comes at the end of pregnancy, not in the first 20 weeks. How would that work?
belkin did this with one of their routers. it redirected web traffic to an advert for belkin stuff periodically. unsurprisingly there was a bit of an outcry at the time.
why? it'll pick up a local IP from dhcp just like any other network device in your home. presumably the printer will then connect out on port 80 to pick up it's ads - so not needing any changes to router firewall - or it'll have a unique email address based on its serial number and a pop mail client built in to display them.
Yes, this occurred to me. Probably not legal for non-military purposes though as a) you've got to source them, and b) pilot a plane whilst using non-prescription drugs. I'm sure the local aviation authority would have something to say about the legality of the latter.
you fucking tool.
1) Le Mans is driven in shifts. Yes, I've been there, thanks
2) So flying a plane is easier than driving is it? Just because something's possible, doesn't mean that it's a good idea.