Shortly before the iPhone's release, Dean Hall, a seven year software engineer for Motorola, explained in an email the limited usability of an unlocked phone:
"When a phone is unlocked it loses its privileges on a provider's data network. An unlocked phone can make GSM calls and send basic SMS. No MMS, no Internet, no iTS. Apple would either have to reverse engineer a method to gain access to the data network (unlikely as most data networks require SSL-level security to access) or it would have to offer something different."
Where the hell did the authur of the article find this source?? I have an unlocked phone (SonyEricsson W800i) that I bought from one provider there in the Netherlands (Orange) and use with another provider (KPN). I have had ZERO lose of "privileges". I still have full "baby" internet on it, MMS, and I still check my IMAP e-mail on it and everything thing else it could do on Orange just as well on KPN. I ahve even used a pay as you go SIM card for testing, and everything still worked!. In fact, once of the stupid "Orange World" download ringtones for a Euro each app included on it even works!
And it runs Opera Mini just fine as well, thank-you.
Every provider here in the Netherlands has a support page that tells you how to set your GPRS and other data settings incase you didn't get your phone from them. What kind of retarded world are the providers they mention in TFA from?!
* No MS exchange (do they want the corporate user?)
Actually, if you take at look at Steve Jobs keynote speech, he does mention that the iPhone supports MS Exchange. Try looking at the keynote at about 1h 03m into it, and he mentions it being supported there.
Why is it so difficult to put some simple indentations in the bills? Can't decide a standard, why not use something that all (or most) blind people already use, like...oh, I don't know, BRAILLE maybe?
Canadian bank notes are all the same size, but differ in colour. In the upper right hand corner of each note has its value in braille that a blind person can just simply feel so they know what note it is.
Even the ATM's and debit machine all have brail on the number pad. It can't possibly be so difficult of a change for a currency (pardon the pun) to include brail. It can still look the same, but a tiny section is what might feel different.
Of course, sometimes it makes you wonder, since even the drive through ATMs have braille buttons....
I once was travelling from Heathrow to Montreal, and was "ramdomly" searched at the terminal security at Heathrow, and also right before I boarded the flight. Finding myself frisked and told to empty my pockets twice to get on just one flight, I decided to ask the security guy that searched me the second time right before I boarded the flight as to why he selected me, and he gave a pretty believable answer:
1) I was wearing baggy clothing 2) I did not have any carry on bagage exept for a book (most poeple have a bag of some sort at least) 3) I was a male in my 20s 4) I constantly checked my cell phone (Which I did, to check the time since the flight was running late)
In effect, I travelled differently than the majority.
He was pretty friendly, and didn't hessitate to answer my question.
Why not ask instead of assume some stupid conspiericy? Then if you don't believe what they say, you can argue what the answer, not automatically assume the worse.
Please read my entire post before modding me Troll....
I recently installed Linux on my computer.
The final trigger for installing it was the stupid Aurora adware mentioned in TFA. As an IT guy by profession, I found it insanely difficult to get rid of that one. I am very diligent with my computer (firewall, adware scanning and virus scanning, Firefox etc..) when it comes to anything I download, and I am almost usually completely ad/spy/vrius-ware free. But in the end, some do slip through my defenses.
About a year ago I did run Linux and then went back to Windows because I just wanted to have a computer that runs common software and apps that you run into instead of the ones to have to look for, and also having software install itself painlessly more often than not, which is usally the case for me on Linux since I am just mediocore with it.
But why do I not want Linux to be used more and become a new standard? Because right now I like my Linux system. The fact that it is COMPLETELY adware free (other than www) is why I love it so much. If Linux became more standardized, the Adware/Spyware creating bastards would then consider it a new target market and we would have to go through all of the growing pain bullshit with viruses and adware as Windows is discovering right now. Because the user base of Linux is so small, the creating adware for it is not worth the effort.
P.S. to people who don't know much about the scandal - The CBC news web site at that link will also have related stories if you want to read the history of the whole mess.
My bank card has a smart card on it, which not only can I use for "instant" money purchases at vending machines and such, but also as a security feature for my online banking.
You get a little device the size of a small calculator that you put the card in, punch in your pin code, and then enter an 8 didget number from the online banking web page (that you get after you sign in with your bank card number). The little gadjet then returns a response code that you use to log in to your online banking.
So for someone to use your online banking, they not only require your pin, but they also have to phyically have your bank card.
This is going to bring "Laser Tag" to a totally new level. No more having to wear those stupid vests!
Of course, you can always wear a green shirt, but that would just take away all the fun. (FYI - A green shirt is green because it reflects green light, which is the colour of the laser)
A web development company has a different view of the future showdown between Microsoft and Google. They "predict" it moving beyond the realm of search engines and into the realm of a total mainstream media takeover.
They call it Epic Granted, it is a bit over dramatic, but it does make you think. Make sure you give yourself five minutes to view the whole thing.
I think it would be entirely possible that someday there might be a port for mobile phone use. I think it is reasonable. My phone has only 42mb of memory for programs, music and pictures and such, and runs "Mobile Java" programs. And since there are java browsers for mobiles already, it would be cool if an open source browser like Firefox was there too. But, I think most of FireFox is written in C++, not java.
I was hoping to get one of these companies into court over the validity of their EULA, get one of their guys on the stand, and have him/her sworn in on the stand with a laptop while clicking on "I Agree"
Maybe it is true that some people over clock their CPU's more for the challenge than to save any money.
Check out the price of the cooler and compare it to the price differences between CPU's (of a comparable class. i.e. - Don't compare an intel to an AMD, nor a P4 to a Celeron) and their clock speed differences (what you would be gaining from using the cooler). You will probably notice that the cost of the cooler is more than your savings on purchasing an inferior CPU and going through the trouble of over clocking it.
... the same folks who are responsible for us Canadians paying a levy on every CD-R, cassette, MP3 player, and (if they have their way) every friggen hard drive we buy! Glad to see they lost this battle.
Dude. In France this is already the case! Read this one of many stories on how Apple owes the French Government for their iPod sales - since iPods have hard drives in them...
The "tax"?
"...capacity of 10, 20 and 40Gb, Apple should pay a levy of 10, 15 and 20euro respectively"
I finally know the name of the man I've wanted to kill for the past 7 years.
A number of years ago (when ICQ was still considered new) and the "Good Times Virus" was making it's rounds, I ran into someone who felt the same as you. I couldn't find the original post he made on the ICQ web site, but here is a copy I found. It is funny as hell.
Consider one thing before you use an anonymous wireless access for DoS attacks and hacking. Some routers can keep a record of your MAC address when you use it.
Did you know, that most manufacterers bind the MAC address of their wireless cards to the serial number of the card? And guess what. When you buy a wireless card, I bet you that your sales invoice will have both that serial number and your name on it.
Let me make a POSITIVE post about cell phone companies in this thread. I am sure I will get flamed for going against the grain, but it should be worth it.
I got my first cell phone in 2000 from a campany in Canada called Microcell (aka "Fido" - www.fido.ca) and have had NO problems with these guys. Well, granted I have had a total of three dropped calls, but those were in "dead zones" where there was no signal. They don't lock you in with a contract. You get your bills and pay them just like your nomal phone line. They draw you in with the offer of cheap phones and give you your "cheap price" in the form of a credit on your third months bill or something. I would much rather prefer that then a two year contract! Never spoke to customer support, but I have to the billing department calling about my bill being three months unpaid, and they were polite as hell, and when said I couldn't pay at the moment, they asked when, I said not at least for a month. They say, "Okay!" and I don't hear from them again. Happy campers.
One last comment about security. (For ejaws5 really)
I went overseas a while ago and got international roaming turned on so I could use my phone where ever I went. My phone then was a SonyEricsson T200. When I was in Hong Kong I got a call from a friend and my phone made a funny chirping noise at the start of the conversation, and when I looked at the screen it had an icon that was a triangle with an exclimation mark in the middle. Later I looked up what the hell that icon was and it was a notification that my call was NOT encrypted. Turns out that with digital phones they default to some simple encryption at least, and my phone was giving me an FYI that someone might be able to listen in. I was in Hong Kong (owned and opperpated by China of course!) afterall.
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FTFA:
Shortly before the iPhone's release, Dean Hall, a seven year software engineer for Motorola, explained in an email the limited usability of an unlocked phone:
"When a phone is unlocked it loses its privileges on a provider's data network. An unlocked phone can make GSM calls and send basic SMS. No MMS, no Internet, no iTS. Apple would either have to reverse engineer a method to gain access to the data network (unlikely as most data networks require SSL-level security to access) or it would have to offer something different."
Where the hell did the authur of the article find this source?? I have an unlocked phone (SonyEricsson W800i) that I bought from one provider there in the Netherlands (Orange) and use with another provider (KPN). I have had ZERO lose of "privileges". I still have full "baby" internet on it, MMS, and I still check my IMAP e-mail on it and everything thing else it could do on Orange just as well on KPN. I ahve even used a pay as you go SIM card for testing, and everything still worked!. In fact, once of the stupid "Orange World" download ringtones for a Euro each app included on it even works!
And it runs Opera Mini just fine as well, thank-you.
Every provider here in the Netherlands has a support page that tells you how to set your GPRS and other data settings incase you didn't get your phone from them. What kind of retarded world are the providers they mention in TFA from?!
* No MS exchange (do they want the corporate user?)
Actually, if you take at look at Steve Jobs keynote speech, he does mention that the iPhone supports MS Exchange. Try looking at the keynote at about 1h 03m into it, and he mentions it being supported there.
Why is it so difficult to put some simple indentations in the bills? Can't decide a standard, why not use something that all (or most) blind people already use, like...oh, I don't know, BRAILLE maybe?
Canadian bank notes are all the same size, but differ in colour. In the upper right hand corner of each note has its value in braille that a blind person can just simply feel so they know what note it is.
Even the ATM's and debit machine all have brail on the number pad. It can't possibly be so difficult of a change for a currency (pardon the pun) to include brail. It can still look the same, but a tiny section is what might feel different.
Of course, sometimes it makes you wonder, since even the drive through ATMs have braille buttons....
Find me a phone that can wash my dishes, and I'll get a 10 year contract.
Oh wait, it already exists!
Sumsing Turbo 3000 Xi Multitask!
I once was travelling from Heathrow to Montreal, and was "ramdomly" searched at the terminal security at Heathrow, and also right before I boarded the flight. Finding myself frisked and told to empty my pockets twice to get on just one flight, I decided to ask the security guy that searched me the second time right before I boarded the flight as to why he selected me, and he gave a pretty believable answer:
1) I was wearing baggy clothing
2) I did not have any carry on bagage exept for a book (most poeple have a bag of some sort at least)
3) I was a male in my 20s
4) I constantly checked my cell phone (Which I did, to check the time since the flight was running late)
In effect, I travelled differently than the majority.
He was pretty friendly, and didn't hessitate to answer my question.
Why not ask instead of assume some stupid conspiericy? Then if you don't believe what they say, you can argue what the answer, not automatically assume the worse.
Forty percent of people know that.
Yes, but seventy-three percent of statistics are made up!
Did you know that the world 'gullible' isn't indexed by Google?
Did you know that "Failure" is?
Go ahead, type in "Failure" into Google search and hit the I'm feeling lucky button.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=failure&btnG= Google+Search
Please read my entire post before modding me Troll....
I recently installed Linux on my computer.
The final trigger for installing it was the stupid Aurora adware mentioned in TFA. As an IT guy by profession, I found it insanely difficult to get rid of that one. I am very diligent with my computer (firewall, adware scanning and virus scanning, Firefox etc..) when it comes to anything I download, and I am almost usually completely ad/spy/vrius-ware free. But in the end, some do slip through my defenses.
About a year ago I did run Linux and then went back to Windows because I just wanted to have a computer that runs common software and apps that you run into instead of the ones to have to look for, and also having software install itself painlessly more often than not, which is usally the case for me on Linux since I am just mediocore with it.
But why do I not want Linux to be used more and become a new standard? Because right now I like my Linux system. The fact that it is COMPLETELY adware free (other than www) is why I love it so much. If Linux became more standardized, the Adware/Spyware creating bastards would then consider it a new target market and we would have to go through all of the growing pain bullshit with viruses and adware as Windows is discovering right now. Because the user base of Linux is so small, the creating adware for it is not worth the effort.
I like it that way.
That thing is PERFECT! A big nasty fan like that will solave all my overclocking needs.
.torrent for it?
Where can I get the
Sad but true. In fact the cost of the inquiry ($80mil) has almost reached the amount of the scandal itself. ($100mil)
0 /gomery-budget050220.html
http://www.cbc.ca/story/canada/national/2005/02/2
P.S. to people who don't know much about the scandal - The CBC news web site at that link will also have related stories if you want to read the history of the whole mess.
Here in Holland online banking is almost that.
My bank card has a smart card on it, which not only can I use for "instant" money purchases at vending machines and such, but also as a security feature for my online banking.
You get a little device the size of a small calculator that you put the card in, punch in your pin code, and then enter an 8 didget number from the online banking web page (that you get after you sign in with your bank card number). The little gadjet then returns a response code that you use to log in to your online banking.
So for someone to use your online banking, they not only require your pin, but they also have to phyically have your bank card.
I'm running Windows XP. Bill Gates says I'm safe from viruses.
I don't believe anything Bill Gates says. But I know I am safe, because I have an AMD CPU and their ad's tell me I am!
This is going to bring "Laser Tag" to a totally new level. No more having to wear those stupid vests! Of course, you can always wear a green shirt, but that would just take away all the fun. (FYI - A green shirt is green because it reflects green light, which is the colour of the laser)
A web development company has a different view of the future showdown between Microsoft and Google. They "predict" it moving beyond the realm of search engines and into the realm of a total mainstream media takeover.
They call it Epic Granted, it is a bit over dramatic, but it does make you think. Make sure you give yourself five minutes to view the whole thing.
I think it would be entirely possible that someday there might be a port for mobile phone use. I think it is reasonable. My phone has only 42mb of memory for programs, music and pictures and such, and runs "Mobile Java" programs. And since there are java browsers for mobiles already, it would be cool if an open source browser like Firefox was there too. But, I think most of FireFox is written in C++, not java.
I was hoping to get one of these companies into court over the validity of their EULA, get one of their guys on the stand, and have him/her sworn in on the stand with a laptop while clicking on "I Agree"
Maybe it is true that some people over clock their CPU's more for the challenge than to save any money.
Check out the price of the cooler and compare it to the price differences between CPU's (of a comparable class. i.e. - Don't compare an intel to an AMD, nor a P4 to a Celeron) and their clock speed differences (what you would be gaining from using the cooler). You will probably notice that the cost of the cooler is more than your savings on purchasing an inferior CPU and going through the trouble of over clocking it.
Is it really worth it?
Oh boy, this one again!
I disagree.
Cracking == Breaking or "cracking" any type of computer security, weather it be software or a server.
Hacking == Programing.
Q: What is the difference between a used car salesman and a computer salesman?
A: The used car salesman knows he is lying.
Dude. In France this is already the case! Read this one of many stories on how Apple owes the French Government for their iPod sales - since iPods have hard drives in them...
The "tax"?
"...capacity of 10, 20 and 40Gb, Apple should pay a levy of 10, 15 and 20euro respectively"
5euro = $6USD = $8CAD
A number of years ago (when ICQ was still considered new) and the "Good Times Virus" was making it's rounds, I ran into someone who felt the same as you. I couldn't find the original post he made on the ICQ web site, but here is a copy I found. It is funny as hell.
http://www.computerbits.com/archive/1999/0300/vir*** In the not to distant future.... ***
Old ISP - Yes, Mr. Dumbass Customer, you can keep the IP address we gave you.
** Mr. Customer at new ISP 2 weeks later **
Dumbass - Hey! Can I use an IP address that already I own?
New ISP - Sure! We can do that for you, what is the address block?
Dumbass - Well...not an address block or whatever you call it, just one IP address. 192.168.0.12...
Consider one thing before you use an anonymous wireless access for DoS attacks and hacking. Some routers can keep a record of your MAC address when you use it.
Did you know, that most manufacterers bind the MAC address of their wireless cards to the serial number of the card? And guess what. When you buy a wireless card, I bet you that your sales invoice will have both that serial number and your name on it.
Not as anonymous as some people might think.
Let me make a POSITIVE post about cell phone companies in this thread. I am sure I will get flamed for going against the grain, but it should be worth it.
I got my first cell phone in 2000 from a campany in Canada called Microcell (aka "Fido" - www.fido.ca) and have had NO problems with these guys. Well, granted I have had a total of three dropped calls, but those were in "dead zones" where there was no signal. They don't lock you in with a contract. You get your bills and pay them just like your nomal phone line. They draw you in with the offer of cheap phones and give you your "cheap price" in the form of a credit on your third months bill or something. I would much rather prefer that then a two year contract! Never spoke to customer support, but I have to the billing department calling about my bill being three months unpaid, and they were polite as hell, and when said I couldn't pay at the moment, they asked when, I said not at least for a month. They say, "Okay!" and I don't hear from them again. Happy campers.
One last comment about security. (For ejaws5 really)
I went overseas a while ago and got international roaming turned on so I could use my phone where ever I went. My phone then was a SonyEricsson T200. When I was in Hong Kong I got a call from a friend and my phone made a funny chirping noise at the start of the conversation, and when I looked at the screen it had an icon that was a triangle with an exclimation mark in the middle. Later I looked up what the hell that icon was and it was a notification that my call was NOT encrypted. Turns out that with digital phones they default to some simple encryption at least, and my phone was giving me an FYI that someone might be able to listen in. I was in Hong Kong (owned and opperpated by China of course!) afterall.
Sorry for the long post,
M