I was referring to the genocide of those who choose to up-rise being committed by those being up-risen against. Should have been more clear I suppose.
Do you mean Gaddafi, rather then NATO forces.
Well you have a point here, but isn't it better if we give the rebels a fighting chance? They aren't going to back down and Gaddafi will keep bombing civilian towns until he's satisfied.
Lets be really clear about what the UN are doing here.
Yes lets,
The UN has authorised the destruction of military assets belonging to the Gaddafi regime. They are intervening in a civil war to bring it to an end, with the victor being the side the UN has chosen (I.E. not the tyrant). FFS this is what the UN security council is there to do.
I'm sorry but you cant have it both ways, with one half of your mouth your lambaste the UN for not taking action, when they do you complain that they are taking too much action. The UN is doing, precisely what the UN is meant to be doing at this point in time.
They are stepping in to help overthrow Gadhafi. Regardless of whether you like him or not; regardless of whether you are happy with his rule in Libya, he holds that position of power, and you cannot apply your own constitution to overthrow his.
Except that is not happening here. The UN is intervening in a severely lopsided civil war.
Just what do you think that Gaddafi is doing to those rebels at the moment, I'll give you a clue, he's not inviting them round for tea and crumpets like the UN usually does.
You see, the rebels have actually asked for help, they are glad to receive it or as Amin Nuri, a Libyan said "We want them just to fight him with the planes... and then we will do the rest". Source.
For the record, I'm normally against war but this action could help end one rather then starting another.
But if any country did it unilaterally, they would be hated for eternity, a la the US in Iraq.
No the US is hated for invading Iraq because it was unnecessary. Iraq was no threat to the west and all the US wrought was death and instability for Iraqi, you accomplished nothing of importance and destroyed the meagre livelihoods of hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians. Shock horror, just like we predicted back in 2003.
Afghanistan on the other hand, the US unilaterally went in, helped in an existing civil war, ousted the theocratic, tyranical despots, which is good but then the US dropped the ball to go gallivanting around Iraq. The ME would look radically different and the US would not be in much trouble at all if it hadn't of launched that stupid invasion.
Don't be surprised if planes are soon (or now) attacking Libyan military targets to weaken Gaddafi.
As I read it, all military assets are now valid targets for NATO war planes and naval and land artillery. What has been expressly forbidden is putting boots on the ground.
Standard UN rules apply, no deliberate targeting of civilian infrastructure. I have no illusions that a number of civilians will be killed or hurt as despotic leaders have this nasty habit of placing civilians in harms way to prevent the bombing of military assets.
Why is the whole Islamic world up in arms against their own governments now?
Malaysia, Indonesia?
Didn't hear much about them, and that's half the Islamic world there. Indo's had a few coups in the past but I hear cricket's now.
Perhaps by "Islamic" you mean "Arabic" governments and by "all" you mean "some". Quite a few Arab govt's are still safe. Most notably Palestine, Syria and Jordan.
Now I've fixed up that errata, the problem is food. As always dictators are happily accepted so long as everyone has enough to eat. The problem they are having now is that food prices are rising and the governments who have been subsidising the price of staples are running out of money. That's the driver behind this, people are paying more for bread.
Now Arabic governments have always been a bit despotic, but that is status quo for the Arabs. Price of food and living standards are the drivers for most of the people, a few are using this opportunity to push political agenda's be they democratic, despotic or otherwise.
Functionality matters foremost with any device, not just a phone.
To quote Yoda, "do or do not". If your device falls into the 'do not" category it's going to be less useful thus less desirable then the competitors.
This is what I don't get about Iphone fanboy's, they spend so much time talking up things that most people ignore, UI animations, scroll speed et al. What the user really cares about is "does it do what I want it to" and if you get a cross here, the best UI in the universe will not help you.
It's not like this is untested. Windows is a bloated, buggy, slow piece of crap but everyone still uses it, why? Simple answer is because Windows does. It doesn't do anything well but it does everything that everyone wants of it.
Point in short, people put up with minor deficiencies so long as they can get what they want done.
Still, what do you expect them to do to get accurate results? Use the actual browsers and sit there with a stopwatch?
Thank you for responding and standing by your work. Nice to see someone is willing to stand by their work and up to criticism.
Further more thank you for pointing out that simple fact. In all my speed testing of network speeds at the application level it has either been done with either a custom application designed to take these measurements or a custom site designed to take these measurements. If you want "real world" results I.E. using web pages or services existing in the wild you cant use a custom page.
Is anyone really stupid enough to believe that the rule making process would be non political and unbiased?
Are you stupid enough to believe that a utopia would need to be apolitical and unbiased?
A perfect society will not be achieved by this species, the closest to utopia we can hope for is a world of abundant resources and limitless cheap labour (or lack of need for labour) so we can spend more time on things we can consider more important like science, philosophy, art and for some, even politics (gasp) which will not matter much to the community as a whole as everyone has everything they need. Pretty much, post singularity, almost every political fight comes down to allocation of resources, if you dont need those resources there is not much left to fight over.
What you have described is dystopia, whilst more believable then utopia, it is not a description of utopia.
You see, unlike the US our judges are meant to be able to think for themselves and decide what is and isn't harassment.
This law is targeting prank callers (which is what the youth in question did, albeit in a different way). Our judges simply dont do whatever the previous judge before them did (precedent based). They are expected to be able to understand a case and make judgements based on that situation instead.
Secondly, it takes a lot more to offend an Aussie. We dont run screaming from the room when some middle aged washed up pop star accidentally shows a naked breast.
There, do you think they'll try to extradite me?
Also, unlike the US we realise and understand that our laws stop at our borders.
Ya know our Republicans won't be able to stand for being outdone by the Aussies in developing methods to control the flow of information over the Internet...
Langley, Virginia,
October 23, 2013.
Office of the newly formed American Cyberwarfare Unit.
Spymaster: Well gentlemen, to help in the formation of this new unit, we've asked some of our allies to share their knowledge.
/ points to heavy set man in shadows. Spymaster: Special Agent Bruce of Orstralya.
/ man in wearing a blue singlet, acrubra hat and blue jeans walks into the light, in his right hand he's holding a can of beer. Agent Bruce: G'day Yanks, yer government has asked me here to talk about ya new cyberwarfare unit.
/ takes big swig of his beer. Agent Bruce: Right, where was I. Oh yeah the cyber warfare unit, back in Oz we just called it the unit, we'd have a piss up every friday, barbie at the end of the month and a few beers in between. It's important to remember, our main enemies in Horstrailya were the Kiwi's, the Pom's and the Koala Drop bears. Traditionally the vicious drop bears used to drop on people but since we put phone lines near the trees they've become ever more dangerous.
/ Skulls the rest of his beer. Agent Bruce: Well the Koala Drop Bears learned how to order from Dell, they began to set up wireless networks, moving their operations away from the powerlines.
/ Opens the esky, cracks another tinny. Agent Bruce: Well that's not as bad as the sharks, these things were 19 metres long and can follow you on shore for 200 KM's. I once saw me mate Gary running along the highway, I said "Gary, why ya runnin so fast" and he said "that bloody Shark" and I said "She'll be right, mate" and we both took off down the pub. Speaking of which, it's beer o'clock time already. Tomorrow we'll cover the hoop snakes but today, where's the nearest watering hole?
"the unit would protect sensitive Australian Government and business information from espionage by the nation's foes."
Those darn Kiwis.
We had to do something, our usually top notch Cricket team has been an abysmal failure of late... Lets not even mention the rugby team (3 blokes trying to push two blokes up one blokes arse).
So if I open up my laptop and start using it, it starts seeking wifi signals. Is this enough to interfere with the plane?
The navigation systems, yes.
I don't know about you, but I like flying in a straight line to my destination.
'cause I don't ever hear flight attendants telling people to disable their wifi (or bluetooth, etc.). Just to "turn off" cell phones. Which itself is weird, 'cause I can leave mine on and put it in airplane mode, right?
You must be deaf then. From Thai, Singapore air, Cathay Pacific, QANTAS, Air Asia and Malaysian Airlines (they all seem to follow the same script)
Please turn off all mobile telephones, portable radios, radio controlled toys, portable computers and any other radio transmitter.
After that they tell you which devices may be used in flight.
And instead of the navigational equipment being built to tolerate wifi interference, we can soon look forward to turning in our terrorist cell phones at the security check, right before "the anonymous machine" checks your prostate. Because we live in a free country!
Or you could follow the existing instructions to turn off all mobile phones and radio transmitters before take off.
Oh wait, I'm the only person in the world who can follow that instruction. I'm glad that planes are made to be so ridiculously fail-safe, given the intelligence level of most of their passengers.
# A used Macmini server I picked-up for $200
# VMware Fusion [vmware.com] running on the Macmini server
# The Incredible PBX [incrediblepbx.com] from Nerd Vittles
# A free ISP connection courtesy of my very cute and extremely generous next door neighbor Christina
So... you're a wifi thief with an overly elaborate set-up. You should also spend less time perving on your neighbour
Anyway, my equipment is a Linksys ADSL modem with a built in ATA adapter, it cost me $129 Australian 2 years ago and I haven't had to do anything to it since. I pay for my own DSL since I'm an honest person who pays their own way.
I have considered getting a $50 2.4 GHz Voip Handset, eliminating the need for ATA but I just don't use the phone that much.
There's a reason wires are king and that is bandwidth. Wireless bandwidth will never match wired. There are all sorts of problems, signal to noise, more narrow bands, but all that aside there is the problem of contention. Everyone in a given area, using a given bandwidth has to share it. That is just how things work. With a wired connection, each person can have their own dedicated connection. There are wired systems that share, like cable modems and PON, but the level to which they share is highly controllable.
I agree 100%...
But the conversation is about mobile VoIP and we don't need perfect mobile broadband for VoIP. We need it to be good enough 95% of the time, that should make it as reliable as traditional voice services. However in Oz, the current state of mobile broadband is laughable, with most people getting less then 1 Mb\s on their phones at 500+ ms pings. This is mainly due to congestion, at 12 AM on a Tuesday, it's pretty fast but at 11 AM on a Friday it's terrible.
But I do agree on wired vs wireless. Wire's or I should say glass will remain king until the laws of physics change or a new type of solid connection is developed. It really is a shame that some luddites in my own nation think that wireless is an acceptable alternative to fibre.
I'm a Mac user and fortunately not a mindless one (honest, promise!). That Apple has been extremely lucky in not being overrun in exploited machines has more to do with the normal target area for exploiters being windows due to marketshare
True, but the days of being scared of devastating w32 worms are over. The most destructive ones are years old and mostly run on older OS's (XP). Even Win7 has enough built in security measures to make something like conficker quite hard.
Add to this that malware is no longer primarily trying to infect machines to become part of a botnet, the focus is on data mining which is normally done via less destructive malware. The idea is that a data mining program remains hidden, so it can collect data unhindered. Even Joe Luddite knows that when he gets a virus or his machine is too slow it's time to do something so modern malware needs to remain hidden.
but Macs have a big enough marketshare these days to make it worthwhile for crackers.
Not really, global market share is still around 5%, compared to 90% of desktops using Windows and a good number of Windows servers (50% being the guestimate I pulled out of my arse). It's still not profitable to write a serious worm but data miners are taking a little notice.
If you look at the article both exploits took roughly 6 man weeks to find and setup. Safari's took 2 weeks for 3 researchers and IE8s took 6 weeks for 1. They are both as bad as each other really.
I concur with this statement, Safari is just as bad as IE.
I never said you did. You claimed the feature was rip-off, and yet, that's an issue with your carrier, not an issue with Apple.
Not everyone has to pay to use it, it seems to only be American carriers who screw people so much.
Apple has made plenty of other boneheaded decisions with recent updates, but this isn't something they control.
Actually it is.
Unlike Android, this is something the carriers have requested and Apple has expressly granted. It is controlled at the carrier level, not the handset level. Carriers still control the Iphone, the only thing they've really lost is the ability to brand the handset, which is pointless (a picture on the front of the phone). Worse yet, the control is built in by the manufacturer rather then added on by the carrier as an afterthought so even if I buy an unlocked Iphone from the Apple store in Australia, I still cant use tethering on AT&T in the states despite owning my phone outright.
So the order of control goes like this:
Iphone.
Carrier > Manufacturer > End User
Android
Manufacturer > Carrier > End User
Same crap, different order. Except if I buy outright from the manufacturer.
Iphone
Carrier > Manufacturer > End User
Android
Manufacturer > End User
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Do you mean Gaddafi, rather then NATO forces.
Well you have a point here, but isn't it better if we give the rebels a fighting chance? They aren't going to back down and Gaddafi will keep bombing civilian towns until he's satisfied.
Yes lets,
The UN has authorised the destruction of military assets belonging to the Gaddafi regime. They are intervening in a civil war to bring it to an end, with the victor being the side the UN has chosen (I.E. not the tyrant). FFS this is what the UN security council is there to do.
I'm sorry but you cant have it both ways, with one half of your mouth your lambaste the UN for not taking action, when they do you complain that they are taking too much action. The UN is doing, precisely what the UN is meant to be doing at this point in time.
Except that is not happening here. The UN is intervening in a severely lopsided civil war.
Just what do you think that Gaddafi is doing to those rebels at the moment, I'll give you a clue, he's not inviting them round for tea and crumpets like the UN usually does.
You see, the rebels have actually asked for help, they are glad to receive it or as Amin Nuri, a Libyan said "We want them just to fight him with the planes... and then we will do the rest". Source.
For the record, I'm normally against war but this action could help end one rather then starting another.
No the US is hated for invading Iraq because it was unnecessary. Iraq was no threat to the west and all the US wrought was death and instability for Iraqi, you accomplished nothing of importance and destroyed the meagre livelihoods of hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians. Shock horror, just like we predicted back in 2003.
Afghanistan on the other hand, the US unilaterally went in, helped in an existing civil war, ousted the theocratic, tyranical despots, which is good but then the US dropped the ball to go gallivanting around Iraq. The ME would look radically different and the US would not be in much trouble at all if it hadn't of launched that stupid invasion.
As I read it, all military assets are now valid targets for NATO war planes and naval and land artillery. What has been expressly forbidden is putting boots on the ground.
Standard UN rules apply, no deliberate targeting of civilian infrastructure. I have no illusions that a number of civilians will be killed or hurt as despotic leaders have this nasty habit of placing civilians in harms way to prevent the bombing of military assets.
Malaysia, Indonesia?
Didn't hear much about them, and that's half the Islamic world there. Indo's had a few coups in the past but I hear cricket's now.
Perhaps by "Islamic" you mean "Arabic" governments and by "all" you mean "some". Quite a few Arab govt's are still safe. Most notably Palestine, Syria and Jordan.
Now I've fixed up that errata, the problem is food. As always dictators are happily accepted so long as everyone has enough to eat. The problem they are having now is that food prices are rising and the governments who have been subsidising the price of staples are running out of money. That's the driver behind this, people are paying more for bread.
Now Arabic governments have always been a bit despotic, but that is status quo for the Arabs. Price of food and living standards are the drivers for most of the people, a few are using this opportunity to push political agenda's be they democratic, despotic or otherwise.
Bloodshed and Genocide?
Extracting the Urine a bit aren't you.
Do you honestly think that NATO forces are going to systematically wipe out a minority people?
I'm against pointless military action as much as the next person with half a brain but seriously, genocide?
Only as far as functionality goes.
Functionality matters foremost with any device, not just a phone.
To quote Yoda, "do or do not". If your device falls into the 'do not" category it's going to be less useful thus less desirable then the competitors.
This is what I don't get about Iphone fanboy's, they spend so much time talking up things that most people ignore, UI animations, scroll speed et al. What the user really cares about is "does it do what I want it to" and if you get a cross here, the best UI in the universe will not help you.
It's not like this is untested. Windows is a bloated, buggy, slow piece of crap but everyone still uses it, why? Simple answer is because Windows does. It doesn't do anything well but it does everything that everyone wants of it.
Point in short, people put up with minor deficiencies so long as they can get what they want done.
Thank you for responding and standing by your work. Nice to see someone is willing to stand by their work and up to criticism.
Further more thank you for pointing out that simple fact. In all my speed testing of network speeds at the application level it has either been done with either a custom application designed to take these measurements or a custom site designed to take these measurements. If you want "real world" results I.E. using web pages or services existing in the wild you cant use a custom page.
You can already play with a real guitar with no need for a stupid game. Maybe even go out and find some people to form an actual band with.
Yes but Ubisoft cant monetise that.
Anyway, the mandatory DRM controller will look like this.
Are you stupid enough to believe that a utopia would need to be apolitical and unbiased?
A perfect society will not be achieved by this species, the closest to utopia we can hope for is a world of abundant resources and limitless cheap labour (or lack of need for labour) so we can spend more time on things we can consider more important like science, philosophy, art and for some, even politics (gasp) which will not matter much to the community as a whole as everyone has everything they need. Pretty much, post singularity, almost every political fight comes down to allocation of resources, if you dont need those resources there is not much left to fight over.
What you have described is dystopia, whilst more believable then utopia, it is not a description of utopia.
"or offend"... wow.
You see, unlike the US our judges are meant to be able to think for themselves and decide what is and isn't harassment.
This law is targeting prank callers (which is what the youth in question did, albeit in a different way). Our judges simply dont do whatever the previous judge before them did (precedent based). They are expected to be able to understand a case and make judgements based on that situation instead.
Secondly, it takes a lot more to offend an Aussie. We dont run screaming from the room when some middle aged washed up pop star accidentally shows a naked breast.
There, do you think they'll try to extradite me?
Also, unlike the US we realise and understand that our laws stop at our borders.
Citation?
In order to reach that 60% at least one of these phones has to have not received any updates:
Samsung Galaxy S.
HTC Desire.
Motorola Droid.
Wait, they've all received a 1 version upgrade and the first two are looking at getting the next version.
So bollocks to that troll, try harder next time.
Ya know our Republicans won't be able to stand for being outdone by the Aussies in developing methods to control the flow of information over the Internet...
Langley, Virginia,
October 23, 2013.
Office of the newly formed American Cyberwarfare Unit.
Spymaster: Well gentlemen, to help in the formation of this new unit, we've asked some of our allies to share their knowledge. / points to heavy set man in shadows.
Spymaster: Special Agent Bruce of Orstralya.
/ man in wearing a blue singlet, acrubra hat and blue jeans walks into the light, in his right hand he's holding a can of beer.
Agent Bruce: G'day Yanks, yer government has asked me here to talk about ya new cyberwarfare unit.
/ takes big swig of his beer.
Agent Bruce: Right, where was I. Oh yeah the cyber warfare unit, back in Oz we just called it the unit, we'd have a piss up every friday, barbie at the end of the month and a few beers in between. It's important to remember, our main enemies in Horstrailya were the Kiwi's, the Pom's and the Koala Drop bears. Traditionally the vicious drop bears used to drop on people but since we put phone lines near the trees they've become ever more dangerous.
/ Skulls the rest of his beer.
Agent Bruce: Well the Koala Drop Bears learned how to order from Dell, they began to set up wireless networks, moving their operations away from the powerlines.
/ Opens the esky, cracks another tinny.
Agent Bruce: Well that's not as bad as the sharks, these things were 19 metres long and can follow you on shore for 200 KM's. I once saw me mate Gary running along the highway, I said "Gary, why ya runnin so fast" and he said "that bloody Shark" and I said "She'll be right, mate" and we both took off down the pub. Speaking of which, it's beer o'clock time already. Tomorrow we'll cover the hoop snakes but today, where's the nearest watering hole?
"the unit would protect sensitive Australian Government and business information from espionage by the nation's foes." Those darn Kiwis.
We had to do something, our usually top notch Cricket team has been an abysmal failure of late... Lets not even mention the rugby team (3 blokes trying to push two blokes up one blokes arse).
So if I open up my laptop and start using it, it starts seeking wifi signals. Is this enough to interfere with the plane?
The navigation systems, yes.
I don't know about you, but I like flying in a straight line to my destination.
'cause I don't ever hear flight attendants telling people to disable their wifi (or bluetooth, etc.). Just to "turn off" cell phones. Which itself is weird, 'cause I can leave mine on and put it in airplane mode, right?
You must be deaf then. From Thai, Singapore air, Cathay Pacific, QANTAS, Air Asia and Malaysian Airlines (they all seem to follow the same script)
Please turn off all mobile telephones, portable radios, radio controlled toys, portable computers and any other radio transmitter.
After that they tell you which devices may be used in flight.
And instead of the navigational equipment being built to tolerate wifi interference, we can soon look forward to turning in our terrorist cell phones at the security check, right before "the anonymous machine" checks your prostate. Because we live in a free country!
Or you could follow the existing instructions to turn off all mobile phones and radio transmitters before take off.
Oh wait, I'm the only person in the world who can follow that instruction. I'm glad that planes are made to be so ridiculously fail-safe, given the intelligence level of most of their passengers.
Some of these planes and designs are well over 30 years old..
Because Boeing and Airbus never update the avionics.
So... you're a wifi thief with an overly elaborate set-up. You should also spend less time perving on your neighbour
Anyway, my equipment is a Linksys ADSL modem with a built in ATA adapter, it cost me $129 Australian 2 years ago and I haven't had to do anything to it since. I pay for my own DSL since I'm an honest person who pays their own way.
I have considered getting a $50 2.4 GHz Voip Handset, eliminating the need for ATA but I just don't use the phone that much.
There's a reason wires are king and that is bandwidth. Wireless bandwidth will never match wired. There are all sorts of problems, signal to noise, more narrow bands, but all that aside there is the problem of contention. Everyone in a given area, using a given bandwidth has to share it. That is just how things work. With a wired connection, each person can have their own dedicated connection. There are wired systems that share, like cable modems and PON, but the level to which they share is highly controllable.
I agree 100%...
But the conversation is about mobile VoIP and we don't need perfect mobile broadband for VoIP. We need it to be good enough 95% of the time, that should make it as reliable as traditional voice services. However in Oz, the current state of mobile broadband is laughable, with most people getting less then 1 Mb\s on their phones at 500+ ms pings. This is mainly due to congestion, at 12 AM on a Tuesday, it's pretty fast but at 11 AM on a Friday it's terrible.
But I do agree on wired vs wireless. Wire's or I should say glass will remain king until the laws of physics change or a new type of solid connection is developed. It really is a shame that some luddites in my own nation think that wireless is an acceptable alternative to fibre.
Sorry, I don't see this solution out there, and ISPs will do their darnedest to prevent it from happening.
Whilst they'll loathe to see the lucrative voice rip off market go, all mobile telco's in Australia already offer data only plans on a SIM.
The problem is that none of them have invested in new infrastructure and are now grossly congested so trying to use VoIP would be hazardous at best.
I'm a Mac user and fortunately not a mindless one (honest, promise!). That Apple has been extremely lucky in not being overrun in exploited machines has more to do with the normal target area for exploiters being windows due to marketshare
True, but the days of being scared of devastating w32 worms are over. The most destructive ones are years old and mostly run on older OS's (XP). Even Win7 has enough built in security measures to make something like conficker quite hard.
Add to this that malware is no longer primarily trying to infect machines to become part of a botnet, the focus is on data mining which is normally done via less destructive malware. The idea is that a data mining program remains hidden, so it can collect data unhindered. Even Joe Luddite knows that when he gets a virus or his machine is too slow it's time to do something so modern malware needs to remain hidden.
Not really, global market share is still around 5%, compared to 90% of desktops using Windows and a good number of Windows servers (50% being the guestimate I pulled out of my arse). It's still not profitable to write a serious worm but data miners are taking a little notice.
I concur with this statement, Safari is just as bad as IE.
Surely you jest? They sell more than anyone else.
Unfortunately this is true.
John and Jane Clueless will go down to Harvey Norman/Wallmart/Tesco's and purchase a HP laptop that was sold to them by an equally clueless salesman.
But to my even greater annoyance,
John Q CIO will standardise on HP laptops because he golfs with the regional director of HP sales.
I never said you did. You claimed the feature was rip-off, and yet, that's an issue with your carrier, not an issue with Apple. Not everyone has to pay to use it, it seems to only be American carriers who screw people so much.
Apple has made plenty of other boneheaded decisions with recent updates, but this isn't something they control.
Actually it is.
Unlike Android, this is something the carriers have requested and Apple has expressly granted. It is controlled at the carrier level, not the handset level. Carriers still control the Iphone, the only thing they've really lost is the ability to brand the handset, which is pointless (a picture on the front of the phone). Worse yet, the control is built in by the manufacturer rather then added on by the carrier as an afterthought so even if I buy an unlocked Iphone from the Apple store in Australia, I still cant use tethering on AT&T in the states despite owning my phone outright.
So the order of control goes like this:
Iphone.
Carrier > Manufacturer > End User
Android
Manufacturer > Carrier > End User
Same crap, different order. Except if I buy outright from the manufacturer.
Iphone
Carrier > Manufacturer > End User
Android
Manufacturer > End User
When a carrier does something like that on Android, I buy direct from the phone manufacturer and skip all that value added nonsense.
Oh, wait.