this is kind of the point, isn't it? It imposes an incentive on ISPs to vet their customers and not harbour spammers. If they do, they'll end up with a block of IPs that no-one wants. SORBS et al give them notice, if it's ignored then eventually they get blacklisted. Other ISPs can choose to use those blacklists if they want, or not, depending on whether they think the net effect is beneficial. There is no cabal
Exactly. It's not going to be that different from the plethora of handsets that HTC are already knocking out. It'll probably become the new dev phone, too, so bigger volume of orders to come.
Do something about it: write to your MP: http://www.writetothem.com/ will allow you to enter your postcode, finds your MP, sets up a blank fax template to them and will allow you to fax the finished letter to them for free.
C'mon, this boils down to a simple equation: stuff costs money, and has to be paid for.
The developer wants a reward for his effort: so he either charges you for the app, or subsidises it with advertising revenue.
The network spends money to provide you with a data connection. If everyone who used it expected to max out their connection, it would not have enough capacity. Capacity planning is done to make sure that they have capacity to meet expected demand - historically, phone users made much less use of mobile data. Now this is no longer true, they will have to increase their network capacity - this has to be paid for either by putting up prices for everyone, or by charging per meg and charging individuals by usage.
The fact that they call it "unlimited data*" will probably change, but in the end it's simple economics.
Combine this with the algos for automatically working out social affiliations and groups by looking at who talks to whom else at what times and you can get some quite scary scenarios. Criminal/person of interest phoned you a couple of times, or hasn't ever phoned you but your phone happens to often be in the same building? You could be a suspect. Combined with your phone having visited a potential terror target whilst you were siteseeing at the Whitehouse or similar, and you could find yourself working your way up a list of suspects pretty rapidly without doing anything yourself.
There was a quote from Cardinal Richlieu that said "Give me six sentences written by the most innocent of men and I will find something in them to hang him".
Now it's not just what you write, it's who you directly or indirectly associate with, and where you go. It potentially criminalises anyone and everyone, which isn't good from a civil liberties point of view.
Unfortunately I think the genie's out of the bottle on this one
Agreed. There's all sorts of regulatory pressure that can apply to different industries: SoX compliance for US companies and any publically-traded foreign countries that do business with the US, there's financial regulation like Visa/Mastercard's EMV accreditation and PCI/DSS for those in the financial sector, there's the FDA for those that work in Pharma, and there's others such as the Data Protection Act in the UK - all or none may apply to your specific business, but in principle they are outlining a bare minimum level of competence, with the stick of financial penalties for non compliance that an accountant understands and fears. From my background in Pharma IT, it allowed a tech to be able to just stop or challenge major projects in a heartbeat: the beancounters *have* to consider regulatory "licence-to-operate" issues like this. Crappy documentation from a vendor? Being forced down the route of using an insecure system with no audit trail? Under the terms of FDA compliance you're gonna be responsible as an individual for what you sign off, so you don't sign it unless you're damn sure it's done right.
The problem arises in that most regulations are descriptive, not prescriptive - they don't tell you *exactly* what to do: they set out a standard and tell you that you need to meet it. This can and often does lead to playing safe, and it being interpreted in a way-over-the-top way that means you have a million forms to fill out in triplicate before you can change anything.
It's designed to give a basic level of accountability and best practice - not to make millions for Accenture. Doesn't always turn out that way, I know, but if the alternative is big companies being able to run their credit card databases like a drunken pirate ship then I'd rather they had some regulatory responsibilities with teeth than none.
No. Never. I think He Who Must Not Be Named got in because he has leverage on the incumbent govenrment, something that's saved him after being sacked severeal times. He's a very powerful guy...
In the EU, you can. Lots of high-street cellphone shops carry all the networks. They also sell sim-free, unlocked (and therefore unsubsidised, full price) handsets, and SIM-only contracts/pay as you go, as well as the usual bundles. Or you can get a sim-free phone from eBay or http://www.expansys.com/ and stick any SIM in it...
Your lack of compassion in your post is so disturbing I'm hoping you're trolling. Sure, there are stupid people in the world - there are also a lot of vulnerable people. Mental illness is common, people don't always react rationally, and for you to coldly dismiss them as worthless and assume that we should dismiss their suffering and unhappiness with a suggestion that they kill themselves really makes me uncomfortable.
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Well, if we take HTC for example, they obviously make a lot of WinMo and Android handsets - which share a lot of hardware. Given Android's reasonably open, it's possible to take advantage of this. As to how well it'll work and how well all the hardware features will be supported - I'd bet my hat that the guys at XDA developer forums are actively working on this. The HD2 on Android would be an amazing device. Go look, take part, and see for yourself, it's a very friendly community.
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I don't get your argument. People have been flashing complete custom ROMs on WinMo devices for a decade - see xda-developers. You flashing cyanogen on your G1 is *exactly* the same as me flashing a homebrew ROM on an HTC device using an HTC flash tool. Both are unsupported, both are cool, and both worth doing. You can even flash Android ONTO some WinMo devices like the Kaiser, with various levels of success.
Laser weapons designed to blind or similarly incapacitate are specifically banned by teh Geneva Convention. This might not stop the US ("enemy combatants", etc) but there you go.
Yep, it's really common in the UK. The sleazier operators will phone up and say they're from "your phone company", give the impression that they're your current supplier offering you a free upgrade. If you're Joe Sixpack it can be pretty easy to get scammed this way
sous vide rocks. probably not enough to warrant 300 pages discussing it, but it's great. you cook at sub-boiling temperatures, with food sealed in an evacuated plastic bag and placed under hot water for long periods. kills all bacteria, so the result doesn't need refridgerating and has a very long shelf life (I've started seeing sous-vide-cooked lamb in my local supermarket: might give the impression it's junk food as it's on the shelf next to the beans rather than in the chilled section but the taste is amazing), and the meat just melts off the bone. seriously good food. once sous vide waterbath cookers are more widespread, they'll get cheaper and you can try it at home.
I'm assuming you've not eaten at the Fat Duck? It's not won the "world's best restaurant" title for nothing. Whilst you can take this too far and create some truly out-there dishes (HB's famous "Sound of the Sea" for example, the idea of taking a scientific approach to cooking, rather than the Mrs Beaton hand-me-down-old-wives-tales, isn't a bad one. You can use great, natural ingredients but cook them in accurate, innovative methods. Much like military/aeronautic technology trickles down to the consumer eventually, so might this: e.g. sous vide cooking in the home, etc.
Agreed. A lot of FUD gets spouted about network stability, but what we should bear in mind is that the comms part of your phone - e.g. the GSM radio - isn't hackable by the OS. It's effectively addressed a little like a hardware modem - being passed specific AT commands. A rogue app isn't going to be able to bring down a cell tower - unless it's by something low tech like just making an awful lot of calls. I'd expect the network to be able to notice a specific handset that does anything that might interfere with their network and knock it off the network, but I don't expect a network to have anything whatsoever to do with the software that I run on my phone.
My theory: you know how Google paid a metric shit-ton of money in order to index MySpace? They did this because it gave them a momentary business advantage in the search business, and MySpace got something out of it: MySpace became worth more as a result. So News International (who own MySpace as well as Fox etc) got their operating costs paid for that year.
My bet is they want the same to happen again: persuade a big league search firm to pay for a competitive advantage in indexing NI content, and use that to offset their budget next year.
In the UK you're banned from entering your doctor's surgery with flu-like symptoms. You get redirected to the NHS's Pandemic self-diagnosis expert system, which asks you about 10 questions (of which the important one is "do you have more than 2 of the following symptoms: fever, headache, nausea" etc). At the end it spits out a unique reference number for your flu-buddy to go and pickup your prescription of Tamiflu from a chemists. That's it. I did it last week for my partner - she's fine now.
The thing is, this will lead to overprescribing, and also is probably likely to encourage people to self certify themselves ill when they aren't - so they can have a week off work (no sicknote required for Swine Flu, as you can't get in to see your doctor) and get their supply of Tamiflu in before stocks run out...
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this is kind of the point, isn't it? It imposes an incentive on ISPs to vet their customers and not harbour spammers. If they do, they'll end up with a block of IPs that no-one wants. SORBS et al give them notice, if it's ignored then eventually they get blacklisted. Other ISPs can choose to use those blacklists if they want, or not, depending on whether they think the net effect is beneficial.
There is no cabal
beat me to it, goddammit! thanks!
Exactly. It's not going to be that different from the plethora of handsets that HTC are already knocking out. It'll probably become the new dev phone, too, so bigger volume of orders to come.
Do something about it: write to your MP: http://www.writetothem.com/ will allow you to enter your postcode, finds your MP, sets up a blank fax template to them and will allow you to fax the finished letter to them for free.
C'mon, this boils down to a simple equation: stuff costs money, and has to be paid for.
The developer wants a reward for his effort: so he either charges you for the app, or subsidises it with advertising revenue.
The network spends money to provide you with a data connection. If everyone who used it expected to max out their connection, it would not have enough capacity. Capacity planning is done to make sure that they have capacity to meet expected demand - historically, phone users made much less use of mobile data. Now this is no longer true, they will have to increase their network capacity - this has to be paid for either by putting up prices for everyone, or by charging per meg and charging individuals by usage.
The fact that they call it "unlimited data*" will probably change, but in the end it's simple economics.
On the Mac, I use either SyncTunes or iTuneMyWalkman. Allows sync from iTunes to any bulk storage device.
Amen
Combine this with the algos for automatically working out social affiliations and groups by looking at who talks to whom else at what times and you can get some quite scary scenarios.
Criminal/person of interest phoned you a couple of times, or hasn't ever phoned you but your phone happens to often be in the same building? You could be a suspect.
Combined with your phone having visited a potential terror target whilst you were siteseeing at the Whitehouse or similar, and you could find yourself working your way up a list of suspects pretty rapidly without doing anything yourself.
There was a quote from Cardinal Richlieu that said "Give me six sentences written by the most innocent of men and I will find something in them to hang him".
Now it's not just what you write, it's who you directly or indirectly associate with, and where you go. It potentially criminalises anyone and everyone, which isn't good from a civil liberties point of view.
Unfortunately I think the genie's out of the bottle on this one
"4. You sir, can take your tinfoil hat and leave and we'll not shed a tear... Go form your own country or find one that you like better. "
What, and beccome a victim of our foreign policy?
With apologies to Bill Hicks
Agreed. There's all sorts of regulatory pressure that can apply to different industries: SoX compliance for US companies and any publically-traded foreign countries that do business with the US, there's financial regulation like Visa/Mastercard's EMV accreditation and PCI/DSS for those in the financial sector, there's the FDA for those that work in Pharma, and there's others such as the Data Protection Act in the UK - all or none may apply to your specific business, but in principle they are outlining a bare minimum level of competence, with the stick of financial penalties for non compliance that an accountant understands and fears.
From my background in Pharma IT, it allowed a tech to be able to just stop or challenge major projects in a heartbeat: the beancounters *have* to consider regulatory "licence-to-operate" issues like this. Crappy documentation from a vendor? Being forced down the route of using an insecure system with no audit trail? Under the terms of FDA compliance you're gonna be responsible as an individual for what you sign off, so you don't sign it unless you're damn sure it's done right.
The problem arises in that most regulations are descriptive, not prescriptive - they don't tell you *exactly* what to do: they set out a standard and tell you that you need to meet it. This can and often does lead to playing safe, and it being interpreted in a way-over-the-top way that means you have a million forms to fill out in triplicate before you can change anything.
It's designed to give a basic level of accountability and best practice - not to make millions for Accenture. Doesn't always turn out that way, I know, but if the alternative is big companies being able to run their credit card databases like a drunken pirate ship then I'd rather they had some regulatory responsibilities with teeth than none.
insightful comment, thanks.
What, you mean Slashdot? Didn't you hear, the lower your UID, the worse it gets...
No. Never. I think He Who Must Not Be Named got in because he has leverage on the incumbent govenrment, something that's saved him after being sacked severeal times. He's a very powerful guy...
In the EU, you can. Lots of high-street cellphone shops carry all the networks. They also sell sim-free, unlocked (and therefore unsubsidised, full price) handsets, and SIM-only contracts/pay as you go, as well as the usual bundles. Or you can get a sim-free phone from eBay or http://www.expansys.com/ and stick any SIM in it...
Your lack of compassion in your post is so disturbing I'm hoping you're trolling. Sure, there are stupid people in the world - there are also a lot of vulnerable people. Mental illness is common, people don't always react rationally, and for you to coldly dismiss them as worthless and assume that we should dismiss their suffering and unhappiness with a suggestion that they kill themselves really makes me uncomfortable.
Well, if we take HTC for example, they obviously make a lot of WinMo and Android handsets - which share a lot of hardware. Given Android's reasonably open, it's possible to take advantage of this. As to how well it'll work and how well all the hardware features will be supported - I'd bet my hat that the guys at XDA developer forums are actively working on this. The HD2 on Android would be an amazing device. Go look, take part, and see for yourself, it's a very friendly community.
I don't get your argument. People have been flashing complete custom ROMs on WinMo devices for a decade - see xda-developers. You flashing cyanogen on your G1 is *exactly* the same as me flashing a homebrew ROM on an HTC device using an HTC flash tool. Both are unsupported, both are cool, and both worth doing. You can even flash Android ONTO some WinMo devices like the Kaiser, with various levels of success.
Laser weapons designed to blind or similarly incapacitate are specifically banned by teh Geneva Convention. This might not stop the US ("enemy combatants", etc) but there you go.
Yep, it's really common in the UK. The sleazier operators will phone up and say they're from "your phone company", give the impression that they're your current supplier offering you a free upgrade. If you're Joe Sixpack it can be pretty easy to get scammed this way
sous vide rocks. probably not enough to warrant 300 pages discussing it, but it's great. you cook at sub-boiling temperatures, with food sealed in an evacuated plastic bag and placed under hot water for long periods. kills all bacteria, so the result doesn't need refridgerating and has a very long shelf life (I've started seeing sous-vide-cooked lamb in my local supermarket: might give the impression it's junk food as it's on the shelf next to the beans rather than in the chilled section but the taste is amazing), and the meat just melts off the bone. seriously good food. once sous vide waterbath cookers are more widespread, they'll get cheaper and you can try it at home.
I'm assuming you've not eaten at the Fat Duck? It's not won the "world's best restaurant" title for nothing. Whilst you can take this too far and create some truly out-there dishes (HB's famous "Sound of the Sea" for example, the idea of taking a scientific approach to cooking, rather than the Mrs Beaton hand-me-down-old-wives-tales, isn't a bad one. You can use great, natural ingredients but cook them in accurate, innovative methods. Much like military/aeronautic technology trickles down to the consumer eventually, so might this: e.g. sous vide cooking in the home, etc.
Agreed. A lot of FUD gets spouted about network stability, but what we should bear in mind is that the comms part of your phone - e.g. the GSM radio - isn't hackable by the OS. It's effectively addressed a little like a hardware modem - being passed specific AT commands. A rogue app isn't going to be able to bring down a cell tower - unless it's by something low tech like just making an awful lot of calls. I'd expect the network to be able to notice a specific handset that does anything that might interfere with their network and knock it off the network, but I don't expect a network to have anything whatsoever to do with the software that I run on my phone.
My theory: you know how Google paid a metric shit-ton of money in order to index MySpace? They did this because it gave them a momentary business advantage in the search business, and MySpace got something out of it: MySpace became worth more as a result. So News International (who own MySpace as well as Fox etc) got their operating costs paid for that year.
My bet is they want the same to happen again: persuade a big league search firm to pay for a competitive advantage in indexing NI content, and use that to offset their budget next year.
and many have an IR-strobe detector, so that emergency vehicles can use an IR strobe to trigger all-red signals.
In the UK you're banned from entering your doctor's surgery with flu-like symptoms. You get redirected to the NHS's Pandemic self-diagnosis expert system, which asks you about 10 questions (of which the important one is "do you have more than 2 of the following symptoms: fever, headache, nausea" etc). At the end it spits out a unique reference number for your flu-buddy to go and pickup your prescription of Tamiflu from a chemists. That's it. I did it last week for my partner - she's fine now.
The thing is, this will lead to overprescribing, and also is probably likely to encourage people to self certify themselves ill when they aren't - so they can have a week off work (no sicknote required for Swine Flu, as you can't get in to see your doctor) and get their supply of Tamiflu in before stocks run out...