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I blame the NSA, of couNO CARRIER***
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Android doesn't have native CalDAV support. That is, the calendar will plug into Google calendar, and into an Exchange server (though I've never needed to try this myself) without further ado, but not CalDAV, unless you install a separate plugin (of which there are several available on the Play store).
And woe betide you if you try to use a simple WebDAV store to save your iCal file on.
And it (being the 16GB model) is very nice. Prior to that I had a San Francisco, but its battery wore out, and replacement ones were horrendously poor, and I ran out of space for apps, and it struggled to run them (and I wanted TEH SHINY).
SWMBO has an S3 mini which she's now looking to upgrade (18 months old and suddenly battery life has fallen off a cliff) - the added uSD slot may well convince her to get the "G with LTE".
So, the material itself provides (according to their indiegogo page, and converted into proper numbers) 70 to 80 dB, which is actually quite reasonable for a woven fabric.
But once you fashion it into a pair of pants, and leave great big holes for the leg and trunk, you'll be lucky to get any level of SE worth bothering about.
Also, measuring the SE in a meaningful way would require a body phantom (full of toxic goo which mimics the body's electromagnetic properties accurately enough), so actually it would be a rather expensive measurement.
So all in all it's a good job that the threats these pants are supposed to mitigate are not actually backed up by credible, peer-reviewed science, since the pants won't actually provide the (implied but strictly speaking not promised) protection.
Wherever Google is getting their info about small businesses and local shops, it tends to be woefully mangled when the business name is based on a person's name. So the registered company name might be "Joe Bloggs Motors Ltd", and Google will list it as "Bloggs Joe Motors". Which is just ugly.
Section 3 covers intent to impair.
But seeing if Heartbleed is fixed or not (AFAIAA) does not (a) impair the operation of the computer; (b) prevent or hinder access; or (c) impair program operation or data reliability.
It just gets back random data; so I don't see how S3 applies here. *.
Section 1 (unauthorised access to computer), probably (but IANAL).
* For other types of penetration testing, eg SQL injection, I could see how it could apply.**
** Would changing your name as per little Bobby Tables be an offence under the CMA, I wonder.
I'm happy to report that my XP netbook (an Asus eeePC) is now running Ubuntu 12.04 as well as it did WinXP. WiFi, webcam, Bluetooth, touchpad, even the 3G dongle Just (F***ing) Worked. Most gratifying.
And for balance, the XP desktop (which does gaming duty) is midway through a transition to Win7 (hurray for eBay, and the Digital River official downloadable Windows ISOs).
Which version of the Smart Meter roll-out is that going to be?
Because I'm fairly sure that the ones being delivered by 2017 or thereabouts aren't required to do anything like that.
And I'm stone-cold certain that no incumbent supplier is going to be offering devices which minimise customer revenue without such requirements.
Ben Goldacre is now rather less optimistic. If you look at his tweets yesterday (@BenGoldacre), you'll see - it's the most vexed I've ever seen him.
And given his (guarded) optimism in that piece last Friday, it seems that care.data is sunk.
No, we couldn't.
Faraday Cages are a static/low frequency concept; as you get higher in frequency, the doors/windows/riveted seams let through more and more energy.
EM screened/anechoic chambers (which do block mobile phone/wifi/etc signals) are really hard to make, and really quite expensive (5 to 6-figure sums) because of it. They're also easy to compromise, either deliberately or accidentally*.
* Yesterday, I had breakthrough into my chamber at 1.8 GHz; it transpired that one of the (sodding expensive) coax cables had degraded.
One wonders why the hackers are waiting until April. Why don't they just do their hacking now?
Well, if you were a nefarious type, with an unpatched drive-by exploit ready and waiting, do you
And how much would such an exploit be worth?
...Their Data Protection Officer wasn't having anything to do with me (FFS, What is their purpose!)
This is Yes, Minister 101 - get the tricky bit dealt with in the title.
The purpose of any Data Protection Officer is (obviously) to minimise the blame which can be attached to the company in any Data Protection issue.
Another point is that here in the UK we use Band III (200 to 230 MHz ish) for DAB transmissions, while over on the continent they also use Band L (1450 to 1480 MHz, Wikipedia assures me).
Very few UK DAB receivers are able to tune into Band L transmissions.
I too have just upgraded from a SF to a Moto G (16GB version), and I'd like to echo the "it's bloody great".
IMO the camera is better than adequate - yes it lacks any real controls (image size, white balance, ISO), but it's quick and the auto-HDR feature provides very nice pictures (I was out at the weekend and got some surprisingly good landscape + skyscape shots).
The GPS gets a fix indoors, which my old SF couldn't do.
And it's built solidly too, which you couldn't say about the SF (I ended up using a case to stop the back coming loose).
As for the downsides, the lack of SD and user-removable battery may be an issue, but I had a 4GB card before and didn't run out of space (well, I did but only for apps, thanks to the ridiculous partitioning of the internal memory), and the battery got removed only when it hung. Also, I miss a couple of tweaks from the CM build I ran on it - gesture support in the SMS app, and the auto-silent-mode you could set overnight.
I'm assuming that I have a g+ account, since I had to create a google account in order to use Google Play.
It depends on when you joined and how vigilant you were. I got my Google (non-plus) account over 2 years ago, and don't have a G+ account linked to it.
However, my mum got an Android phone last month, and when she created her account, she automagically got a G+ account along with it (which she immediately deleted).
As and when you connect your account to a new phone or tablet, you will be cajoled (Mrs Doyle-like) into "upgrading" to a G+ account.
Why do they record them at all? Is it for use as fixed reference points?
tl;dr: Yes.
A GPS fix takes time to acquire - maybe up to 2 minutes - and can fail altogether if the receiver can't see enough sky.
(Phone) base station info is virtually immediate, but low resolution: usually +/- a kilometre or two. With a corpus of wifi hotspots, an intermediate Location Service can triangulate the receiver's position really quite well, and gets better in the sorts of locations where GPS performance fares less well (cities with buildings blocking the sky, but full of hotspots).
Indeed. You can work it out for your own car, given the energy density of the fuel (it's 32-40 MJ/litre for diesel), and your average MPG and speed.
I get ~27kW for a small family car (that claims 61mpg on the trip computer).
Agreed, it's just about there (as a 2nd car in our case).
But... it's ~£8k too much. By my calculations, it'd start to be cheaper than our Splash in about 14 years' time (which would probably be 4 years after we'll scrap it).
Even if you compare it to more luxurious competition, the TCO balances towards the i3 only after 6-8 years - just as the battery runs out of warranty.
As the news item proves, if you have an AV monoculture, everything's fine until your entire network gets b0rked by the fuck-up.
Perhaps the bloke who suggested this could talk to a health professional about analogues in the medical world (MRSA springs to mind), and see what they think about a single defence vector.
That web users actually *want* adverts?
Bit of a straw man?
It seems that ads are the only current reasonable compromise, given that tip-jars and micro-payments as a whole are few and far-between. So I applaud making ads less objectionable, less invasive, and the creation of tools which can express fine-grained user desires more fully.