See the drivers not being prepared to stop at a traffic light.
Sorry, these complaints are ignored because they are pretty much proof of the drivers inability to control their vehicle.
Defensive driving is about anticipating changes in traffic, this means anticipating the light change and adjusting your speed or vehicle control accordingly. Any semi-comptent judge will tear you a new one after using that excuse.
Even if we assume that MOST speed limits are not being set for revenue-generating purposes, they are clearly in many cases set at arbitrarily low numbers,
Wrong
They have a great deal of research behind them (PDF warning)
In Australia speeding has overtaken drugs and alcohol (combined) to become the number 1 cause of road fatalities. It's a similar situation in the US where speeding accounts for 1/3 of traffic accidents.
You need to go have a long hard look at what you've said, it's so wrong it's not funny. You have provided no links and only posted hearsay with no factual value what so ever. Just because you want to believe it does not make it true.
Sunshine, you need to hand in your license as all this woefully inaccurate post has done is show you have no idea what you're on about or how to be safe in a car (especially if you think speeding is not dangerous behaviour).
Also when it comes to iphones, most people have a short 4 digit passcode using numbers only, off the top of my head that's about 5000 ish permutations. Modern cracking software will have that done in an hour.
The iPhone like Windows Mobile introduces an increasing delay between incorrect attemps so guessing even a four digit passcode is unlikely. Local wipe after 10 attempts seals the deal. I did recently hear about a claim that somone got around the delays but it's too late to look for a link...
So ridiculously easy to get around it's not funny.
First off, if you have physical access to the device (which was assumed by the GP, the phone was stolen) then you simply make a copy of it and crack the copy in an emulator, actually you crack the copy of the copy so if it gets wiped you just start a new copy and continue cracking. So at worse, this increases the crack time to a few hours as disk IO becomes a problem.
Never crack the original copy is computer forensics 101.
Steve Jobs:...stop using better ideas in Android...
There, fixed that for you.
Apple has not conclusively proven that that Android incorporates any of their unique ideas... Apple has had a hard enough time conclusively proving their ideas are even unique. This is why the Galaxy Tab was not banned in Australia. Apple could not prove infringement (same case in the UK too).
Jobs wanted to destroy Android because it was better than his idea, not because it was his idea (which were mostly other peoples ideas in the first place). Just remember that Android modders have the most up to date features. Regular android users get the same features in 6-12 months, Iphone users get them in 2-3 years. Copy and paste, wired and wireless tether and pull down notifications are just a few examples of this.
What part of "infinite time to brute force the password" did I not make clear?
It's a moot point to talk about infinite time. You might as talk about an attacker using magic spells because neither exist. If someone want's dedicate thousands of centuries trying to break into my laptop I say let them at it. They are going to run out of time, which is certainly not infinite.
In the statistically impossible event that they did decrypt my drive what they now have is.... an encrypted drive. In total they need to decrypt it three times to get at the data.
Actually, time is infinite.
You are finite, I am finite, the entire planet is finite. Time is infinite.
But I don't ever buy into something that is "uncrackable". We've had claims about "uncrackable" encryption before and every time technology improves or some flaw is found that allows the encryption to be cracked in short order. So to claim any encryption is "uncrackable" is foolish because it assumes that cracking technology and methods will not improve in the future.
Also when it comes to iphones, most people have a short 4 digit passcode using numbers only, off the top of my head that's about 5000 ish permutations. Modern cracking software will have that done in an hour.
People arguing that "encryption is safe" need to learn security is a process, not a technology. Being secure is more about limiting exposure and knowing what to do when compromised. If my work laptop gets stolen, I'd immediately notify the IT dept (which just happens to be me) and change my passwords. The same is true for any mobile device.
Once I have your device, I simply disconnect it from the network. Plug it into a machine I control, copy the data wholesale (bit by bit) and take my time on reading it. Both Android and Iphone have a bootloader that allows this. As all the Jailbreaking groups have shown us, it's trivial to break Apple's security.
Phones are emphatically not safe, any data you store on there is much easier for an attacker to get to simply because an attacker can get a phone easier than your laptop.
Your only defence against this is to _NOT_ store sensitive data on any mobile device (phone or laptop). So using banking applications that store data on the device itself are inherently insecure. The secure way to do banking (or any high security transaction) on a mobile device is to use a web site, then you only have to worry about your banks servers being stolen (or your end point being compromised, but for the purposes of this argument I'll assume you know how to keep that secure).
I don't understand why people even do banking on a device that is so easily lost. And before people start screaming at me, please know that this is coming from someone who had his bank account broken into from using only legitimate ATMs from actual banks(didn't even know there was such a thing as a card skimmer).
This is why I don't use "apps" for banking on my mobile.
I do use my mobile for banking but I use the banks website and never, ever store my username or password in the device itself (this is true for all devices I bank on). This way they never have a complete picture of my account number, let alone my password. They may know I bank with NAB from my bookmarks and browser history but that's it.
With a decent mobile site, which my bank has a dedicated banking application is completely superfluous and as you pointed out, a huge risk if the device is lost. If you use the site rather than the app, you're in effect not using the device for banking, you're using the device to access a server that does your banking.
Isn't there any love for police here being able to do their job more effectively?
No there isn't and there is a very simple reason for this.
People who regularly break traffic laws will have to stop complaining about the police and start taking responsibility for breaking the traffic laws. This is unconscionable to the speeder, tailgater, weaver and lane hog. Their inability to drive within the rules is so clearly not their fault, it must be "revenue raising" or some such and they should for no reason drive within the speed limit, at a safe distance nor exercise proper lane discipline. Worse yet, it would mean they would have to admit their ability to drive is somewhat less than perfect, again this is so wrong it cannot even be considered.
Will realise they've just cheered away a product that works for one that doesn't.
Flash was shite, it was a slow, buggy, CPU chewing pile of scrotum. I'll be the first to admit that but flash did everything it said on the tin and a bit more. HTML5 at current cant even do what it says on its own tin, let alone half of what was on Flash's tin.
We've traded away a slow, reliable and butt ugly mechanic for a person who cant even tell the difference between a valve and a vagina and people are happy about this.
For crying out loud, we cant even decide on a video codec yet. Google and Apple are pushing their own codec's (for all intents and purposes, Apple just about owns H.264) and I read a few days ago Microsoft is also considering it's own. So we have umpteen versions of HTML5 and risk the net falling back into the dark ages of the Netscape/IE wars again.
Serious question not a troll, what is the difference between the 2 definitions? I honestly don't know.
Smart phones are more like general purpose computers, feature phones are just standard phones with a few non-standard features like web and email access.
But Nokia shouldn't have to worry, Apple has been passing off a feature phone as a smart phone for years now.
if you are still housing critical data gear in buildings that can burn, you are in the wrong business.
Dont ask me, ask management who decided the ideal place for a server room was a wooden shack mounted to the second story of the side of their warehouse.
You're not getting better signal strength by rebooting, you're rejoining a tower by rebooting. Your signal strength is dropping off over time because your provider has over-subscribed your area in terms of users vs tower capacity. Getting an iPhone won't change this.
Reminded me of old times playing with early ROMs on my Dream (G1) and Milestone (Droid). Back then custom ROMs weren't as stable as they are now, it was all very seat of your pants. The important thing was I had an onion tied to my phone, which was the style at the time. We had a lot of Network drop-outs with buggy ROMs, just lost contact with the tower so the simple fix was to put it in Airplane Mode and take it out again. If that didn't work I had to go to "Settings - Networks - Mobile Networks" and re-register with my carrier. I didn't ever have to reboot to fix a network drop out (although I had one or two ROMs that would do that themselves).
But those were the heady days of 2010, Community ROMs are a hell of a lot more stable these days and I haven't had a network drop out since I replaced my Milestone with a Desire Z and I still use Community ROMs (Andromadus Audacity, beta 4 ATM).
As a counter-point to your purely ancedotal evidence, count me as one of many Android users who are waiting for their carrier to natively support the iPhone on their 3G+/4G network.
Get used to that Android phone, you'll be waiting a long time if you expect carriers to install a new network to support a single handset.
Yup. spool to tape. get a SDLT600 tape cabinet and call it done. if you get a 52 tape robot cabinet you will have space to not only hold a complete backup but a second full backup in incrementals that will all run automatically. Plus it has the highest reliability.
And anyone whining about the cost. If your 24Tb of data is not worth that much then why are you bothering to back it up?
And having 2 full backups + incrementals in your tape drive when the office burns down is going to be a great help.
Backups are useless unless you cycle them. At the very least the monthly's must go off site.
GIS produces a shitload of data that needs to be preserved. 30 GIS analysts can produce 8 TB in no time, Thank Buddha that LTO4 came out when it did. I was backing up 18 TB in a full backup with a weekly change of 4-6 TB (depending on work volume) back in 2008. I could have a single 24 tape loader do full backups, I insisted on 2 but they never found the money...
Yep, I handled up to 6 TB of unique data generated per week and they still called me a storage nazi.
Collectivism? Why is everything that the right doesn't like is assumed to come from the mind of Karl Marx? If your neighborhood watch goes around noting the license plates of guys who cruise for hookers, is that collectivism?
Social morality has always had an element of peer pressure and groupthink. That's as true for right wing value systems and left wing ones.
Just like how you think some guy looking for a hooker is evil.
Morality is relative and those who claim to be moral rarely are.
Um, Tim Cook isn't that keen on patent lawsuits and most of the ones currently making headlines started under Steve Jobs and his total thermonuclear war on Android.
I'd very much like to beleive that but...
If Mr Cook really feels this way, why hasn't he bought Samsung to the table. Same with Motorola, why are they still pursing product bans? He's had months to stop this yet he hasn't.
What Cook is saying and what Cook is doing are two different things entirely.
I am a Netflix subscriber in UK, yet I get less than half of the content that a US subscriber gets, even though I pay the same. Even when I want to watch the content that is available to me, it is not always easy. For example, I commute to work and that is the best time for me to maybe catch up on a TV series or a film. Yet, there is no easy way for me to access the content that I am already paying for as part my subscription. Streaming doesn't work particularly well on the intermittent 3G connection I get while commuting, so ability to play offline is an absolute must. Yet I find that there is no way for me to do so short of buying the same DVDs that I are already included in my subscription.
On the other hand, I could just pirate the content and it would work everywhere I need to play it without a hitch. So tell me again, how are you doing it right?
This, as an Australian I cannot get Game of Thrones legally, I have no choice but to download it if I want to see it.
They cant use the "lost profits" argument when they dont offer a way for them to shut up and take my money.
Netflix? Whatflix. They don't even offer any services here.
If you're building a phone for executives ONLY, then make it a $1000 phone.
Bwahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha,
Oh dreaming heavens, you've never worked with executives have you. They don't buy $1000 phones. They buy "Free on a contract" phones then have a way to weasel out of the contract. Same with the Porche or Beamer. It's financed in a way that the entire price is used as a tax dodge (for fucks sake, as a regular Joe I did the same thing buying a used Integra, paid via a zero interest business loan and used that against my taxes).
A lot of executive time is spent avoiding costs in an executives life.
Nope, the decision was made solely in IT by the desktop/device/network arch staff.
Actually the decision was made by management. Simply parroted by IT because they're afraid for their jobs.
A few months back I quit a company that went hard into IOS beleiving it was "the future". All the management bought it, I was given the choice to leave or adopt IOS (which included carrying an Iphone). I chose to leave and went on an extended holiday to SE Asia. Whilst in Chang Mai, I learned the company had failed badly. Upon returning to Australia I found out they had be adsorbed by NEC and sacked half the staff.
UN control of the Internet would kill the Internet as we know it. Long distance fees,
Really, because the UN has done more than the US to eliminate that via supporting free trade agreements. Some of which the US has opposed. "Long Distance Fees" are the imagination of an extremely xenophobic person. They haven't existed in years.
requirements that you respect censorship laws in other countries,
As an Australian, this is already a requirement with the US's DCMA, not to mention things like ACTA or whatever it's called this week which are continually foisted on non US nations.
unique identification requirements,.
You mean like not being able to buy a.com domain unless it a certain country allows you to?
different regulatory classes for "service providers" and "consumers" are all on the table for the UN.
You mean there aren't already two sets of rules for plebs and businesses (hello net neutrality, we have it in Oz).
Sorry, but everything you have said has already come to pass. If control of the internet was turned over to the UN five years ago nothing at all would have happened as things like the DCMA would be stuck in a committee between the US, China and Saudi Arabia because they wont ever agree on what they want blocked, the US wants copyrighted material blocked, the Chinese want seditious material blocked and the Saudi's want porn blocked. they'd never agree to each others demands in a million years. But instead we have results removed from searches thanks to the US's DCMA.
The user doesn't have to put up with surly condescending attitude on a chat call.
Wrong,
I can condescend as well, if not better over chat. Not only that, a reminder of the Users idiocy is in their attention for much longer.
The user doesn't have to put up with poor language skills or a heavy accent, or a shitty phone connection.
Obviously you've never seen the level of English and Grammar skill in this day and age.
LOL ur fix computr man need fix rite nao no can do thing KTHXBY,
Every time a user sends me text speak, I threaten to remove one finger.
The user doesn't have to give out a telephone number, and be monitored and recorded for quality control purposes.
This phone call is being recorded for quality assurance purposes. Oh by the way to use live chat we'll need you to enter you name, post code, current address, previous address, telephone number, mothers maiden name, affiliation status with the South Swindon crochet club and number of donuts you've eaten since Tuesday the 3rd. Then we can start.
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By making your balls smaller it will make other things in that area appear larger.
Erm, small potatoes make the meat look bigger?
See the drivers not being prepared to stop at a traffic light.
Sorry, these complaints are ignored because they are pretty much proof of the drivers inability to control their vehicle.
Defensive driving is about anticipating changes in traffic, this means anticipating the light change and adjusting your speed or vehicle control accordingly. Any semi-comptent judge will tear you a new one after using that excuse.
Wrong
They have a great deal of research behind them (PDF warning)
http://www.google.com.au/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=10&ved=0CGUQFjAJ&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.who.int%2Fviolence_injury_prevention%2Fpublications%2Froad_traffic%2Fworld_report%2Fspeed_en.pdf&ei=5cswUIyPN-SwiQfW4oH4Ag&usg=AFQjCNH2KK6RUWvl9iFwm61v6sm5DtVw2Q&cad=rja If you think they are arbitrary then you have no idea what you are talking about http://www.cga.ct.gov/2003/olrdata/tra/rpt/2003-R-0673.htm
Wrong again.
Speeding is inherently dangerous behaviour.
http://www.rta.nsw.gov.au/roadsafety/speedandspeedcameras/index.html
In Australia speeding has overtaken drugs and alcohol (combined) to become the number 1 cause of road fatalities. It's a similar situation in the US where speeding accounts for 1/3 of traffic accidents.
You need to go have a long hard look at what you've said, it's so wrong it's not funny. You have provided no links and only posted hearsay with no factual value what so ever. Just because you want to believe it does not make it true. Sunshine, you need to hand in your license as all this woefully inaccurate post has done is show you have no idea what you're on about or how to be safe in a car (especially if you think speeding is not dangerous behaviour).
Also when it comes to iphones, most people have a short 4 digit passcode using numbers only, off the top of my head that's about 5000 ish permutations. Modern cracking software will have that done in an hour.
The iPhone like Windows Mobile introduces an increasing delay between incorrect attemps so guessing even a four digit passcode is unlikely. Local wipe after 10 attempts seals the deal. I did recently hear about a claim that somone got around the delays but it's too late to look for a link...
So ridiculously easy to get around it's not funny.
First off, if you have physical access to the device (which was assumed by the GP, the phone was stolen) then you simply make a copy of it and crack the copy in an emulator, actually you crack the copy of the copy so if it gets wiped you just start a new copy and continue cracking. So at worse, this increases the crack time to a few hours as disk IO becomes a problem.
Never crack the original copy is computer forensics 101.
Steve Jobs: ...stop using better ideas in Android...
There, fixed that for you.
Apple has not conclusively proven that that Android incorporates any of their unique ideas... Apple has had a hard enough time conclusively proving their ideas are even unique. This is why the Galaxy Tab was not banned in Australia. Apple could not prove infringement (same case in the UK too).
Jobs wanted to destroy Android because it was better than his idea, not because it was his idea (which were mostly other peoples ideas in the first place). Just remember that Android modders have the most up to date features. Regular android users get the same features in 6-12 months, Iphone users get them in 2-3 years. Copy and paste, wired and wireless tether and pull down notifications are just a few examples of this.
What part of "infinite time to brute force the password" did I not make clear?
It's a moot point to talk about infinite time. You might as talk about an attacker using magic spells because neither exist. If someone want's dedicate thousands of centuries trying to break into my laptop I say let them at it. They are going to run out of time, which is certainly not infinite.
In the statistically impossible event that they did decrypt my drive what they now have is.... an encrypted drive. In total they need to decrypt it three times to get at the data.
Actually, time is infinite.
You are finite, I am finite, the entire planet is finite. Time is infinite.
But I don't ever buy into something that is "uncrackable". We've had claims about "uncrackable" encryption before and every time technology improves or some flaw is found that allows the encryption to be cracked in short order. So to claim any encryption is "uncrackable" is foolish because it assumes that cracking technology and methods will not improve in the future.
Also when it comes to iphones, most people have a short 4 digit passcode using numbers only, off the top of my head that's about 5000 ish permutations. Modern cracking software will have that done in an hour.
People arguing that "encryption is safe" need to learn security is a process, not a technology. Being secure is more about limiting exposure and knowing what to do when compromised. If my work laptop gets stolen, I'd immediately notify the IT dept (which just happens to be me) and change my passwords. The same is true for any mobile device.
Because it's also more easily wiped.
Wrong.
So very wrong.
Once I have your device, I simply disconnect it from the network. Plug it into a machine I control, copy the data wholesale (bit by bit) and take my time on reading it. Both Android and Iphone have a bootloader that allows this. As all the Jailbreaking groups have shown us, it's trivial to break Apple's security.
Phones are emphatically not safe, any data you store on there is much easier for an attacker to get to simply because an attacker can get a phone easier than your laptop.
Your only defence against this is to _NOT_ store sensitive data on any mobile device (phone or laptop). So using banking applications that store data on the device itself are inherently insecure. The secure way to do banking (or any high security transaction) on a mobile device is to use a web site, then you only have to worry about your banks servers being stolen (or your end point being compromised, but for the purposes of this argument I'll assume you know how to keep that secure).
I don't understand why people even do banking on a device that is so easily lost. And before people start screaming at me, please know that this is coming from someone who had his bank account broken into from using only legitimate ATMs from actual banks(didn't even know there was such a thing as a card skimmer).
This is why I don't use "apps" for banking on my mobile.
I do use my mobile for banking but I use the banks website and never, ever store my username or password in the device itself (this is true for all devices I bank on). This way they never have a complete picture of my account number, let alone my password. They may know I bank with NAB from my bookmarks and browser history but that's it.
With a decent mobile site, which my bank has a dedicated banking application is completely superfluous and as you pointed out, a huge risk if the device is lost. If you use the site rather than the app, you're in effect not using the device for banking, you're using the device to access a server that does your banking.
Isn't there any love for police here being able to do their job more effectively?
No there isn't and there is a very simple reason for this.
People who regularly break traffic laws will have to stop complaining about the police and start taking responsibility for breaking the traffic laws. This is unconscionable to the speeder, tailgater, weaver and lane hog. Their inability to drive within the rules is so clearly not their fault, it must be "revenue raising" or some such and they should for no reason drive within the speed limit, at a safe distance nor exercise proper lane discipline. Worse yet, it would mean they would have to admit their ability to drive is somewhat less than perfect, again this is so wrong it cannot even be considered.
Will realise they've just cheered away a product that works for one that doesn't.
Flash was shite, it was a slow, buggy, CPU chewing pile of scrotum. I'll be the first to admit that but flash did everything it said on the tin and a bit more. HTML5 at current cant even do what it says on its own tin, let alone half of what was on Flash's tin.
We've traded away a slow, reliable and butt ugly mechanic for a person who cant even tell the difference between a valve and a vagina and people are happy about this.
For crying out loud, we cant even decide on a video codec yet. Google and Apple are pushing their own codec's (for all intents and purposes, Apple just about owns H.264) and I read a few days ago Microsoft is also considering it's own. So we have umpteen versions of HTML5 and risk the net falling back into the dark ages of the Netscape/IE wars again.
Serious question not a troll, what is the difference between the 2 definitions? I honestly don't know.
Smart phones are more like general purpose computers, feature phones are just standard phones with a few non-standard features like web and email access.
But Nokia shouldn't have to worry, Apple has been passing off a feature phone as a smart phone for years now.
Dont ask me, ask management who decided the ideal place for a server room was a wooden shack mounted to the second story of the side of their warehouse.
I cringe every time I see this.
You're not getting better signal strength by rebooting, you're rejoining a tower by rebooting. Your signal strength is dropping off over time because your provider has over-subscribed your area in terms of users vs tower capacity. Getting an iPhone won't change this.
Reminded me of old times playing with early ROMs on my Dream (G1) and Milestone (Droid). Back then custom ROMs weren't as stable as they are now, it was all very seat of your pants. The important thing was I had an onion tied to my phone, which was the style at the time. We had a lot of Network drop-outs with buggy ROMs, just lost contact with the tower so the simple fix was to put it in Airplane Mode and take it out again. If that didn't work I had to go to "Settings - Networks - Mobile Networks" and re-register with my carrier. I didn't ever have to reboot to fix a network drop out (although I had one or two ROMs that would do that themselves).
But those were the heady days of 2010, Community ROMs are a hell of a lot more stable these days and I haven't had a network drop out since I replaced my Milestone with a Desire Z and I still use Community ROMs (Andromadus Audacity, beta 4 ATM).
As a counter-point to your purely ancedotal evidence, count me as one of many Android users who are waiting for their carrier to natively support the iPhone on their 3G+/4G network.
Get used to that Android phone, you'll be waiting a long time if you expect carriers to install a new network to support a single handset.
Yup. spool to tape. get a SDLT600 tape cabinet and call it done. if you get a 52 tape robot cabinet you will have space to not only hold a complete backup but a second full backup in incrementals that will all run automatically. Plus it has the highest reliability.
And anyone whining about the cost. If your 24Tb of data is not worth that much then why are you bothering to back it up?
And having 2 full backups + incrementals in your tape drive when the office burns down is going to be a great help.
Backups are useless unless you cycle them. At the very least the monthly's must go off site.
GIS produces a shitload of data that needs to be preserved. 30 GIS analysts can produce 8 TB in no time, Thank Buddha that LTO4 came out when it did. I was backing up 18 TB in a full backup with a weekly change of 4-6 TB (depending on work volume) back in 2008. I could have a single 24 tape loader do full backups, I insisted on 2 but they never found the money...
Yep, I handled up to 6 TB of unique data generated per week and they still called me a storage nazi.
Collectivism? Why is everything that the right doesn't like is assumed to come from the mind of Karl Marx? If your neighborhood watch goes around noting the license plates of guys who cruise for hookers, is that collectivism?
Social morality has always had an element of peer pressure and groupthink. That's as true for right wing value systems and left wing ones.
Just like how you think some guy looking for a hooker is evil.
Morality is relative and those who claim to be moral rarely are.
Um, Tim Cook isn't that keen on patent lawsuits and most of the ones currently making headlines started under Steve Jobs and his total thermonuclear war on Android.
I'd very much like to beleive that but...
If Mr Cook really feels this way, why hasn't he bought Samsung to the table. Same with Motorola, why are they still pursing product bans? He's had months to stop this yet he hasn't.
What Cook is saying and what Cook is doing are two different things entirely.
What does an "Internet pirate" do? Capture IP packets and hold the bits for ransom?
I was downloading some porn and this dude fired a canon through my window then swung in brandishing a cutlass and too all my porn.
I am a Netflix subscriber in UK, yet I get less than half of the content that a US subscriber gets, even though I pay the same. Even when I want to watch the content that is available to me, it is not always easy. For example, I commute to work and that is the best time for me to maybe catch up on a TV series or a film. Yet, there is no easy way for me to access the content that I am already paying for as part my subscription. Streaming doesn't work particularly well on the intermittent 3G connection I get while commuting, so ability to play offline is an absolute must. Yet I find that there is no way for me to do so short of buying the same DVDs that I are already included in my subscription.
On the other hand, I could just pirate the content and it would work everywhere I need to play it without a hitch. So tell me again, how are you doing it right?
This, as an Australian I cannot get Game of Thrones legally, I have no choice but to download it if I want to see it.
They cant use the "lost profits" argument when they dont offer a way for them to shut up and take my money.
Netflix? Whatflix. They don't even offer any services here.
If you're building a phone for executives ONLY, then make it a $1000 phone.
Bwahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha,
Oh dreaming heavens, you've never worked with executives have you. They don't buy $1000 phones. They buy "Free on a contract" phones then have a way to weasel out of the contract. Same with the Porche or Beamer. It's financed in a way that the entire price is used as a tax dodge (for fucks sake, as a regular Joe I did the same thing buying a used Integra, paid via a zero interest business loan and used that against my taxes).
A lot of executive time is spent avoiding costs in an executives life.
Nope, the decision was made solely in IT by the desktop/device/network arch staff.
Actually the decision was made by management. Simply parroted by IT because they're afraid for their jobs.
A few months back I quit a company that went hard into IOS beleiving it was "the future". All the management bought it, I was given the choice to leave or adopt IOS (which included carrying an Iphone). I chose to leave and went on an extended holiday to SE Asia. Whilst in Chang Mai, I learned the company had failed badly. Upon returning to Australia I found out they had be adsorbed by NEC and sacked half the staff.
UN control of the Internet would kill the Internet as we know it. Long distance fees,
Really, because the UN has done more than the US to eliminate that via supporting free trade agreements. Some of which the US has opposed. "Long Distance Fees" are the imagination of an extremely xenophobic person. They haven't existed in years.
requirements that you respect censorship laws in other countries,
As an Australian, this is already a requirement with the US's DCMA, not to mention things like ACTA or whatever it's called this week which are continually foisted on non US nations.
unique identification requirements,.
You mean like not being able to buy a .com domain unless it a certain country allows you to?
different regulatory classes for "service providers" and "consumers" are all on the table for the UN.
You mean there aren't already two sets of rules for plebs and businesses (hello net neutrality, we have it in Oz).
Sorry, but everything you have said has already come to pass. If control of the internet was turned over to the UN five years ago nothing at all would have happened as things like the DCMA would be stuck in a committee between the US, China and Saudi Arabia because they wont ever agree on what they want blocked, the US wants copyrighted material blocked, the Chinese want seditious material blocked and the Saudi's want porn blocked. they'd never agree to each others demands in a million years. But instead we have results removed from searches thanks to the US's DCMA.
The user doesn't have to put up with surly condescending attitude on a chat call.
Wrong,
I can condescend as well, if not better over chat. Not only that, a reminder of the Users idiocy is in their attention for much longer.
The user doesn't have to put up with poor language skills or a heavy accent, or a shitty phone connection.
Obviously you've never seen the level of English and Grammar skill in this day and age.
LOL ur fix computr man need fix rite nao no can do thing KTHXBY,
Every time a user sends me text speak, I threaten to remove one finger.
The user doesn't have to give out a telephone number, and be monitored and recorded for quality control purposes.
This phone call is being recorded for quality assurance purposes. Oh by the way to use live chat we'll need you to enter you name, post code, current address, previous address, telephone number, mothers maiden name, affiliation status with the South Swindon crochet club and number of donuts you've eaten since Tuesday the 3rd. Then we can start.
Excellent... Going to have to give that a go when I get home. Thanks
Nah, nah, nah, nah, nah...
No AC/DC here.
How did they know it was Thunderstruck ? .
Hell, I didn't even know the song was released inf Farsi
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it's a pretty distinctive riff.