Posts by Lance 3 464 publicly visible posts • joined 17 Jun 2009
Some of the limitations in the mail client in S60 3rd Edition FP2 are in Symbian^3. I have reported it to Nokia several times and got confirmation back from management and you can see how well that worked. For every BCC you have, it send the message individually. Say you have a 10MB file attached and 9 BCC's plus one in the to field. The message will be sent 10 times, so 100MB in total.
In the future when you are evaluating software, you should be using all the browsers to test; IE, Firefox, Safari, Opera and Chrome. If the software will only run on IE, the software should be failed. What is the point of web based apps that are locked to one browser? You might as well as be using a client.
"Microsoft is offering free Windows phones to Android malware victims, providing they are prepared to tell world+dog about their problems."
So what they are really saying is that their manufacturing partners have a lot of phones sitting on the dock that they can't get rid off and MS has found a way to buy market share.
"The company maintains those results were based on hugely-inflated transmission power, and that the leak was deliberately "intended to damage LightSquared's reputation, spread false information in the marketplace, and prejudice public opinion against LightSquared"."
The same company that also claimed that there was no interference issues at all and the GPS manufacturers were wrong. Then tests were performed and there was interference just as the GPS manufacturers stated. Sorry LightSquared, but you have lied, lied and lied every chance you had.
The FCC needs to revoke their waiver for terrestrial use and force them to use the band for the purpose it was sold for. If they didn't like it, they shouldn't have bought it.
"No call, no text, no update, is worth a human life," said NTSB chairman Deborah Hersman in a statement, noting that the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has said that over 3,000 people were killed last year in accidents caused by what has become known as "distracted driving".
You have a better chance of being killed by the flu than being killed by texting. You have a better chance of being killed walking across the street than by texting. 3000 deaths is not all that many when you look at the population.
"The men allegedly scanned the internet to identify POS terminals that used certain remote desktop software applications and then gained unauthorized access to them by guessing or brute forcing passwords."
Whoever nus the IT department needs to be fired. Those devices have no need for Internet access and if they must be accessed remote, you make sure the whole Internet doesn't have access. A VPN should have been used. The head of the IT department should be equally liable in this case. If the equipment was properly secured this would never have happened.
"It acquired the rights to the name in many countries between 2000 and 2004, and sold the “global trademark” to the name to Apple in 2006 for around $35,000"
They sold the rights way too cheap. Apple would have paid much more then $35,000 for the name. After all, they could have just told them to "pick a new name, it isn't that hard."
If Intel tweaks existing equipment and it is low cost, then others can easily license it and do the same. Others might also find ways to further refine it. If Intel finds an entirely new method that is cost prohibitive for the others, then licensing it is not likely. This gives Intel a competitive advantage. They will do anything to keep it which has been proven by their practices.
“Google Wallet does not simply access the operating system and basic hardware of our phones like thousands of other applications. Instead, in order to work as architected by Google, Google Wallet needs to be integrated into a new, secure and proprietary hardware element in our phones.”
"Our" phones. There you have it, if you have Verizon and the screen is broke, take it back and demand that they fix their phone.
"What prevents any other application on the device from reading the log?"
What prevents another app from doing the same or worse than what CIQ is doing? The "log" you speak of would have less information that the source of that information, the handset itself. As for what keys were pressed, if the software that could read CIQ logs were installed, it could be a keylogger itself.
What did CIQ do wrong?
1) They didn't install the app, the carrier did
2) The carrier asked CIQ for this app
3) The servers are controlled by carrier
4) The carriers already save the SMS messages anyway
5) It it not a keylogger
What about call failures when there is 5 bars? You can have full strength and still have a call failure, garbled voice, etc. You can even have a call setup failure; this no end call button pressed.
Take an Android phone, Google has all your info, it logs every AP and the MAC address it has and reported it to Google. My AP's are known by Google and yet never has an Android device been connected to them.
Shareholders want profits and they do elect the board. So would Intel turn away a customer just to make a point and lose money in the process. Sun can easily just go over to AMD and that is something that Intel doesn't want.
Intel couldn't just lie and state that Intanic is part of a strategic move. Shareholders could sue if that turned out to be false and shareholder was lost due to that false announcement.
There is a reason why there is no 3G; they don't want the bill. While your Nook has it, buying a book from them more than covers the amount of data used. The Fire on the other hand, it requires the cloud and imagine people buying a movie, music, or just watching something that has long since been paid for. Amazon would have a huge bill for all the streaming the users would be doing. 3G takes that cost away from them.
It is NOT a trespass in the legal definition. They could sue you, but they would have to show damages, of which, there would be NONE.
A peep show cam is covered under different laws AND you would need to enter their property to install the camera. Attaching a GPS tracker would not require that as you could wait until the car is someplace else, like PUBLIC property. The house would never be on PUBLIC property. Most states have a peeping tom law which is what that camera would be covered under.
No, as it is legal to do today. The Constitution that prohibits illegal search and seizure is aimed at the government, as well as the rest of the document as well. Like freedom of speech is to make sure the government doesn't try to silence those that oppose it or its actions. An employer can limit your freedom of speech as the constitution does not apply. So, you can attach GPS tracking vehicle to any vehicle you want, it is not illegal. Going on private property to attach it, that can be illegal.
The FBI better contact the FCC as LightSquared might make GPS tracking a thing of the past with their network.
Nokia owns Navteq and they have 3D maps. So why would Nokia use maps from another firm?
"With some 3D data now in hand, Navteq has begun selling what it calls Enhanced 3D City Models. It can be used in navigation devices to give people in cars or on foot a better graphical idea of their surroundings, the company said.
Navteq said it's showing off a True-equipped data collection vehicle and the 3D city maps at CES in Las Vegas this week.
The Enhanced 3D City Models are available for the United States, with Europe, Asia, and South American models scheduled to arrive later this year. The True system is being deployed in the United States first, with Europe to follow soon and Asia coming later in 2010.
Navteq's move to slurp up 3D data is no surprise. Microsoft said in December that its Bing Maps service will use the Navteq 3D imagery."
What Apple has bought is a company that has been use declassified material; so it is not even the same technology being used.
Google has been collecting its own Street View imagery with 3D laser technology since at least 2008."
How about LightSquared abide by what the spectrum was BOUGHT for? It was sold for satellite usage and they are trying to use it in a way that will cause issues. That is the main point. If they use the spectrum for satellite communications, there would be NO interference issues. The root of the problem is that they are trying to use a much more powerful signal that is closer to the GPS receivers and it causes an issue.
But will Intel be able to compete with ARM in the Ultrabook category? The ARM will get better battery life and with what ARM is currently doing, that spells big trouble for Intel. The Atom is just not what is going to do the job. I think ARM or one of their licensees should use the name "Smasher" for one of the big.LITTLE chips and take the fight right to Intel.
They sold the ARM division to focus on x86 and to bring it to where they were selling ARM. So they decided to enter the market and failed. They failed at the TV market as well. Intel wants x86 everywhere and it is just not going to happen. Even the large Xeon trounces the Itanic 2. Do you really think Intel wants to continue to sell it? They want everything to be x86.
"[This is] so great that no reasonable person could understand that the performance on the track is capable of a direct comparison with a public road."
In the US Tesla would have prevailed. After all, a "reasonable person" would be suing over something like this anyway. In the US, you can sue for spilling hot coffee on yourself, even when the cup says that it is hot and steam is coming out of it.
Simple, the vendor takes care of it. "AOL has been operating a trial datacenter that runs without any on-site staff" The vendor would not be considered on-site staff. The vendor could have someone on-site and AOL could still say that it runs without any on-site staff as the vendor is not considered staff.
70% effective, maybe because you have people coming from one temperature zone to another and then rushing to the gate while pulling/carrying luggage.
"The Future Attribute Screening Technology (FAST) system uses high-resolution cameras and other “non-invasive” sensors to monitor human behavior, including “cardiovascular signals, pheromones, electrodermal activity, and respiratory measurements,” according to a 2008 DHS report on the project."
So cardiovascular and respiratory measurements could easily be skewed. Electrodermal? Just what people want, to be hooked up and have electricity put through their body. If they suspect the suspect, do they turn it up to taser levels? Pheromones? Some of the fat fucks sweat just thinking about walking 5 feet.
"But LightSquared reckons better filters are all that's needed, and now claims it will have 25 working prototypes of such filters within the next couple of weeks."
Before LightSquared mentioned before that they wouldn't interfere with GPS at all and welcomed the GPS industry to the tests. The tests clearly showed that there was interference, so this wouldn't be the first time, the second time or even the third time that LightSquared has lied.
If they filters were commercially available in a month, it wouldn't change a thing, how many devices would need to be replaced? Car NAV's, portable NAV's, phone, aircraft, etc. Sorry, but unless you are talking about a decade long plan before you light your network up, it won't help.
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