Posts by Sordid Details 113 publicly visible posts • joined 28 Jan 2008
So surely the key (as with all such systems) is to ensure that such service critical platforms are not exposed to the world at large. However I'm still not clear how the researchers are able to derive the name of the cellphone user. You'd need to get to the billing/CMS system before you get that level of detail.
Aaargh, my head hurts!!. I just don't know which device to hold out for. Big iPad? Small iPad. What about my iPhone? And if there's an upgrade for that in the summer too...
Oh wait, I know what to do...I'm going to buy them all. Thankfully my MobileMe account will keep them all in sync.
Thank you Steve. I love you. Please, have the rest of my disposable income as a token of my adoration.
You don't steer a motorcycle by leaning off it. A motorcycle is steered by rider pressure on the handlebars (known as countering steering) causes the bike to lean due to the precessional forces at work on the front wheel.
After the Segway it was only a matter of time before some genius decided that even standing up was too much effort. Good name though. Taurus, bull...apt.
Regional networks wouldn't have been so bad if joining one hadn't screwed up your privacy settings. If you locked everything down to friends and then joined a network, everything reverted to Friends & Networks meaning a million (or more) people could see every little detail of your life without telling you. This is something my ex-girlfriend failed to appreciate while I continued to stalk her unseen.
Being a scaredy-cat and not wanting to muck up my lovely new iPhone 3GS I've not tried this myself, but I'm wondering if Time Machine would help here? If you can roll back any file or folder to a snapshot at a previous point in time, if an App Store upgrade fails then could you restore your iTunes library to the state it was in before the update? Or would the newer version on the iPhone overwrite the older restored version at the next sync? Because as we know, Apple always recommends that iPhone customers keep current with software updates for the best user experience...
A parent who has to call the cops to deal with a child's tantrum...a cop who can't restrain a ten year-old girl without electrocuting her...everyone in this story should have FAIL tattooed across their foreheads.
On the other hand, the cop has only administered what the parent(s) should have done a long time ago...a bloody good hiding. I bet good ol' mom only has to lift the phone off the hook and the kid is washed and in pyjamas before the receiver has reached her ear...
It's encouraging (and unusual) to hear such reasoned and intelligent debate in the comments. Whatever the mechanism behind this behaviour, it's nice to see a member of the animal kingdom behaving with apparent dignity towards a fallen kind.
Mankind, being by far a superior creature, has evolved to piss on the dead and dying as they lie on pavements and in shop doorways.
I drive kids around from time to time, for school, church, and my son's Cub Scout group (yes, I've been CRB checked for all three) so I guess I'd be required to register with this. I'm not going to do it on principle. Too bad for the kids, but I do think the people who are directly affected by this draconian backdoor Stalinism need to stand up to this spineless government and say 'Enough'.
My worry is that if I say 'no' then people will think I have something to hide. That will get recorded as 'soft information' and I'll probably end up on the database anyway - negatively not positively.
I'd laugh, but it's gone beyond being a joke now.
"Projects like this demonstrate just how rapidly GSM could be deployed into a disaster area to provide coverage"
Like we've already been doing for years you mean? Temporary BTS sites are nothing new, self contained on a trailer with a wind-up mast...Orange use them every year at Glastonbury. Setting up the BTS is easy - it's getting back-haul to the rest of the network that's the tricky part.
@fluffy: I got lots of 'unknown errors' when I did my upgrade. It kept failing when trying to connect to iTunes so I assumed it was down to server load. But then I ejected the phone, closed and re-opened iTunes and then reconnected the phone...and it re-activated first time, so try that.
@Matt 40: There's no pictures icon in the camera app because it now displays a thumbnail of the last photo you took. Take a random snap and you'll see.
MMS still doesn't seem to work properly. I still have a random snap waiting to be sent. Rummaging through the settings I see that O2 have changed the APN name for all the iPhone services. It used to be 'mobile.o2.co.uk' but now there are multiple APNs (for data, MMS and visual voicemail) and they are all set to 'idata.o2.co.uk'. Now I wonder why O2 would want to separate/differentiate iPhone traffic in this way...
All in all...I'm not impressed. The extra features just don't really do it for me although I'm cried for want of cut-and-paste in the past so I'm sure that will come in useful. But Safari is now slower and clunkier, even typing text into an input box is laggier than it used to be.
There's no revert option that I can find. And we call it progress.
With the grenades strapped to his torso he looks to me like a very convincing suicide bomber. Which works well because the head and arms detach and the torso can be separated from the abdomen for added authenticity. I understand that the severed but otherwise intact head is the easiest way to identify a suicide bomber (after the event).
Glib comments aside, I am of course horribly outraged, etc....
I've been trying to make a payment against my credit card account for ages! Their web site (a portal front-end to GE Money) fails every time. They tell me they're aware of the problem and are looking to fix it, but it's been broken for weeks. In the meantime I keep missing my payment dates and they're not charging me for that.
"Any web site" just says their DNS servers are working properly. How does the ASA managed to find "unlimited" in there and have the temerity to rule on it? Meanwhile the broadband ISPs are able to advertise unlimited services which quite clearly aren't.
Is it just me, or is there something really not right here?
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