Posts by Mark.L.P

Plusnet customers SWAMPED by spam but BT-owned ISP dismisses data breach claims

Don't forget robots..

I think it's easy to forget that spam can hit non-public email addresses, sometimes even those that have never been used, too. The robots simply generate a list of hundreds of thousands or millions of potential addresses for any given domain and when targeted they get bulk sent. Only a few small per cent will find a correct recipient but that can still hit thousands of customers.

Ice Cream Sandwich

Of course we need third party customisations

The last comment about third party overlay's etc. is perhaps a bit presumptuous :) . I for one am not keen on the all-black style of ICS4 and like many other people will prefer to choose my own overlays, themes, styles or whatever we're calling them these days. Customisation is what makes Android so much more fun than iOS or WinMo7.5, which restricts you to working within their own layouts.

Many of us want the freedom to style our phones to be more like "us" and Android makes that easy. So we'll always want the ability to change how it looks.

Mark

Editor - ISPreview.co.uk

Deep-space travel bad for astronauts' tickers, say boffins

But..

"In fact the only people who have ever travelled beyond the Earth's protective magnetic fields are the 24 US astronauts who landed on or orbited the Moon during the Apollo missions of the 1960s and 70s."

Actually the Earth's magnetic field is so big that its influence even stretches out to include the Moon, albeit with a reduced and seemingly somewhat variable level of protection. The big problem comes when you go to another planet and completely leave the protective barrier, though several potential man-made shields are being developed that could solve this.

Sky blames network problems for site blocking

Easily solved

The IWF example looks most likely and you can easily find ways around problems like this:

http://www.ispreview.co.uk/story/2010/03/22/how-to-resolve-rapidshare-style-download-website-blocks-by-isps.html

TalkTalk kills Tiscali

Can they do better?

Well I hope TalkTalk can "fix" Tiscali's dire customer service or it'll be a lost cause. I still remember the old days reading all the new complaints on ispreview.co.uk each week, was always a fun time unless you were the customer of course lol.

Breathe Networks asks for euthanasia

Spin ftw

Steve kaye made a release to ispreview

http://www.ispreview.co.uk/story/2009/07/23/uk-isp-breathe-networks-group-acquired-in-a-management-buy-out.html

Satellite to offer 10Mbit broadband to entire UK

Usage Restrictions

According to ispreview.co.uk the £30 package is also limited to just over 1GB of monthly usage before restrictions kick in.

Apple files 3D-interface patent

snudge

Ah sweet, a new generation of UI to confuse the pants off everybody :) .

Personally I don't want to smudge an expensive monitor with my fingers to use it.

Ofcom plays precog on tomorrow's wireless world

ADSL goes up to 50Mbps?

Is that right, I thought ADSL2+ was the fastest and could only reach 24Mbps?

http://www.ispreview.co.uk/jargon/index.php?p=default&cat=1#a27

The Wiki also agrees, not that Wiki's are always right:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ADSL

I think the news may mean VDSL2+ or something like that, which can achieve something near to 50Mbps (45/48Mbps).