Posts by JaitcH 3904 publicly visible posts • joined 12 Oct 2009
moral turpitude and is a United States legal concept in the that refers to "conduct that is considered contrary to community standards of justice, honesty or good morals". It appears in U.S. immigration law from the nineteenth century. In other common law jurisdictions it is dated or obsolete.
I wonder where murdering your own citizens or innocent children overseas with drones fits in this?
Better charge Obamarama, Bush and the CIA.
Many people, when washing their hands, include, in the process, their wrists. This means the proposed device should be waterproof. Then there is the concern caused by deluges of water be it bog standard UK rain shower or tropical downpours.
And Apple has taken the opportunity to include a power connector with a different form factor. Another $40 attachment?
And what of burning batteries? Perhaps they could put a logo on the case adjacent to the battery so overheating batteries will brand the sign of the Devil (Jobs) on a users wrist as it fails.
many governments have decreed all cell phones shall be sold unlocked and without any restraints! And governments generally own one of the networks in most countries.
And no Carrier IQ (remember that).
New SIMs (plus start off air time) costs USD$5.00; replacement SIMs USD$0.15 (15 cents) with old number retention. No monthly top ups - my SMS phone has not had any money added since the original USD$50 for almost 6 years!
The term "Christian entertainment television series" best sums up all these 'religious' entities.
At least many governments are waking up and denying Scientology a religious status.
As someone who lives in the Far East I am amazed at how much electrical energy is consumed, primarily in the Philippines, as this mob broadcast using multiple 500, 000 watt transmitters, beamed at China and other nearby countries and how the funding just keeps on flowing in from their sucker supporters in the USA.
The joke is that it is extremely hard to buy domestic receivers with AM bands any more - FM with MP3 players be far more popular!
Not far removed from the cave man with his club, either.
My company has a blatantly discriminatory HR policy: Employees: Single mothers, must speak English. Three (Western) male owners/partners have employment contracts: No personal relationships with staff. All staff: No fraternisation (or smart talk) during work hours.
In return: Company pays well over the average salary; 50% cash under the table (non-taxable); company pays all deductibles (tax, social insurance ad pensions); we supply twice annual dental checks/treatment. We also pay 50% child care/school fees.
Worked for fifteen years and most employees are over the 10-year point in service. Very low staff turnover. And we have employee harmony!
I actually know someone who now works in a middle management position at Oracle Australia and to my knowledge their employment standards are pretty well enforced. She has worked for Oracle in three countries so she has a pretty wide experience in Oracle.
In Bangkok, the bar girls outside on the sidewalk get 'volunteers' to join them in the bar by snatching peoples glasses.
A simple 'granny' cord, bought at a sports store, slipped over the ends of the temple tips (arms of a frame), stops all but the most aggressive troll.
Should work well on Google Glasses, too.
The MS glasses might have larger viewing areas but the contrast between the real scene, in front of the wearer, and the superimposed images will be tricky at times.
Wonder what Apple is dreaming of?
Oakley glasses are massive with all sorts of junk hanging off the temples.
HSBC-CA uses a very 'secure' system: DoB and Mother's surname. If you forget them, simply look up your genealogy on a certain massive web site and give them a call.
And the last 10-digits of your plastic is all that is required to open up InterNet banking - the cards, of course, contain the full account name just to make it that much easier to hack the accounts.
I stopped buying originals after sending a defective OEM version of Windows back to MS and they 'lost' it.
Our local copy shop, only kilometres from MS VietNam, always laughs at the 'suits' from MS who regularly visit and tell him he is illegal or asks he want to sell legal MS products. The 'copyright' squad of Vietnamese Plods hasn't been around for a couple of years now - I guess their inspection 'sting' has faded, ever since they were forced to issue Notices advising when they were coming!
His prices are unchanged, USD$1, for a DVD crammed with all manner of MS software starting with the latest versions.
Really free enterprise rules!
We had hand-cranked and pedal cranked generators in the British Army and the manufacturing date on the labels indicated they were made well before the latest version was 'invented'.
As for criminalising copy cats, would this include Apple or Microsoft? Didn't think so.
You will rarely beat the Chinese replication industry. Is is far too advanced, and some of their 'copies' are improved versions. The Chinese have the capability of copying all but the latest, very fine traced, silicon chips. And they find making 500-1,000 copies economically viable.
The West can only implement it's rules in the West, and in countries where Western 'niceties' are observed. The rest of the world is uncontrollable.
Take the 'Gucci' and 'Burberry' copy market. One of the driving forces is that this type of company, like Apple, makes exorbitant profits and thereby affords a opportunity for copycats to operate.
Recently, two high-end shops, Mondo and Gucci, who have flagship stores on Dong Khoi Street (our Regents Street) in Ho Chi Minh City, were raided by VietNam Customs. These officials weren't in the least bit interested in the product - only the missing duty and taxes.
Ironically, the imported goods were genuine and had been rerouted through HongKong for relabelling as they were in actuality the REAL goods and not off copies! The re-labeling was intended to support a claim they were made in China and therefore had a lower duty/tax rate.
All Apple has done, in China, is to create a market for Apple knock-offs that sell for around UAD$150 - genuine copies that are so close to the real thing they run iOS!
Apple, and others, could cut into this market if they weren't so bent and determined on maintaining their 47% mark-up.
QUOTE: “Other countries securing their data is effectively helping us secure our data. I think this is an area where Britain has some real competitive and technology advantages,” said Cameron.
Companies only use foreign entities to save money.
HSBC hires a special sort of company, one with no intelligent employees who's abilities could be replaced with a screen reader. One female was happily reading the standard response when she missed a word. I told her she had missed a word and asked that she re-read the paragraph all over again!
And most of these sweat shop call centres are owned by an American company based in California.
We should expect our British business be conducted in Britain, not in some slum in India where many are tempted to make money on the side by selling data. THE LEAKS ARE NOT IN COMPUTER SYSTEMS, the leaks are by foreign employees who are simply trying to make a few extra Rupees on the side.
I refuse to deal with these entities, in fact one refuses to deal with me and simply bounces the call back to the UK - which is what I want. If you want the same go learn some 'bad words' in whatever language they speak in the call centre location - you can end up dealing with your British company in the UK.
This price most likely includes Apple's profit margins - somewhere north of 52% - after all they screw all their customers, why not insurers?
Perhaps they should also invest in some alarms, as well, something like the < http://burglarbomb.com/ > which fills the protected area with pepper gas spray.
If the concern is about pictures, simply designate camera characteristics.
The GoPro camera shown above has very poor response to dimly lit scenes I teach young men and women English in my apartment and, for my own security, when no one else is in the apartment, I run GoPro's to record training sessions in case any accusations might be made.
I have found the ambient has to be quite high, so any aerial Peeping Toms would likely be disappointed.
Even running at a high frame rate GoPros exhibit quite a bit of blurring, not to mention the lenses fogging up from the heat of the camera.
Of course, surrounding your property with lightweight fish nylon netting would likely win you a few cameras and aircraft.
since Apple filed a patent for their shops.
Google can surreptitiously see the weaknesses and change the layouts and then they are ahead.
They could even pick over the 'genius' shop hand training manual - except they should use a name people can relate to.
There's a new rail station being built in NYC - great place for a Google store to bug the hell out of Apple.
Silent Circle uses encryption/decryption performed at either end.
You can now even send 60-Mbyte encrypted files, should be long enough for even the most verbose correspondent,
The file is held encrypted until the recipient opens it, at which time the key is deleted.
RIM security has always been good, ask Obama, BUT it's weakness is it's use of servers which can be used to obtain / access decrypted messages. And, of course, Plod, RCMP, FBI, et al, are able, and do, access this information. With distributed, corporate, servers, corporations might satisfy their needs for access.
These days Silent Circle provides a good solution - the 'encryption', in effect, is in your hand. Whilst I am not in the habit of building UIDs or remote triggering devices, my communications are mine, and simply none of the business of any government or civil servant.
An added feature with Silent Circle is the new ability to send files of up to 60Mb fully encrypted which should satisfy most users.
Notwithstanding this limitation, BB has always offered a quality product and let's hope they return to their former glory. Unfortunately, I will not be a user as I am happy with my Samsung Note 2.
I was based in LEE Kwan-Yews dictatorship, Singapore, for several years and was well integrated in to the Chinese community knowing many people on a family basis.
Ignoring the fact that Singaporean males are somewhat childish around the subject of sex, having met many of the islands 'matrons' I can well understand why they might fall for this trick.
If the women loosened up more, there might be fewer 'spare tyres/tires' in circulation. The mainland Chinese are much more liberated - although there are still a fair number 'spare tyres/tires' around.
I wonder why the Singy police never intervened, given that residential computers are restricted by a fire wall and subject to active monitoring.
Older readers, with a good memory, will likely recall all the 'adopting' (plagiarisation) Apple has done over the decades starting with both the corporate logo and name, followed by purloining Xerox designs, Japanese connectors, Creative of Singapore, etc.
Not all the problems are of Apples doing, many stem from the poor law that implements and governs the USPO activities. What stupidity awarded a patent for corners and curves? And pixel formations in icons/avatars?
In areas of fast development, where inventions have short Best Before times, they should patentable duration of five years.
I remember visiting George Barnes Boot Factory, Chesham, Buckinghamshire, and there were all these ancient machines for boot and shoe manufacturing. I asked why not more modern machinery and was told they had to rent the machines from an American company dating back to the 1800's.
They couldn't improve the designs as every which way was covered by patents.
No wonder the Chinese don't pay too much attention to patents. Can't really blame them.
Many Apple products are glued together that save screwing in strange screws AND it is even more successful at keeping out would-be DIY artists out of the goodies.
Time the EU passed legislation requiring all electronic assemblies be serviceable. That would end the era of glue.
So who says Apple doesn't plagiarise repeatedly?
Apples logo and name were 'borrowed' from competitors when it could only afford half-page adverts in the BYTE magazine.
Now a COUNTRY has proved that Apple missed the mark by several years.
They should have done a Walmart - paid off officials in South America.
Do people have to really care or know? Just like a car engine, you turn it on and drive, you don't have to know it's inner workings.
Likewise, people don't give a hoot about OS other than how many Apps there are; and the fact that iOS6.1.1 sucks batteries fast. And Android is freedom where as iOS is jail.
Post Office Telephones, with their little Post Office Morris series Z bashed out by Morris. The colour dated from their original wartime colours. If a technician was caught with Post Office tools in his house, he was liable to be charged with theft.
The labs were, long ago, a centre of technical excellence even the code-breaking Colossus computer, used at Bletchley Park during WW2, was built at the Post Office Research Station in Dollis Hill by a team led by the late Tommy Flowers.
ERNIE (Electronic Random Number Indicator Equipment) was built there for the government's Premium Bond lottery, Dollis Hill conceived Viewdata and the Prestel service (launched 1979) and Dollis Hill even has a war time cabinet bunker under it!
Sadly, it no longer enjoys it's former status.
Obviously, some American companies have been dropping brown, or red, envelopes of money in Congressional pockets so they get the business.
Maybe China should jerk the financial reins and remind the US whose money they are running on for without the Chinese the US Federal Treasury would be broke. Can you blame the Bundesbank for pulling their gold out of the USA?
The EU should tell Bing and company to take a running jump. All they are doing is wasting EU taxpayer money.
I have no problem with Google promoting Google, just as MS promotes that useless shadow of an 'equivalent' Bing or Yahoo or whatever. Google should start taking longer to respond to MS take down notices - another 'service' that Google provides at zero cost to MS.
The one big thing that annoys me with Google is their stealing my positional data from my Note 2. But I've fixed that by using a TP-Link Portable 3G Wireless N Router (that's not associated with me) and disabling the GPS output. I don't have a SIM in my Note 2 - I live in the land of free WiFi.
The other thing is the way Plod can get data out of Google, but that can be minimised, too.
No one is forcing Google on complainers, and they don't even charge for most services. Even dedicated Phanbois like Google maps.
The self-proclaimed 'world centre of technology', the USA, is exactly in the same position.
If this were true, rank amateurs such as McKinnon wouldn't be be able to wander around the US data-banks looking for Site 51.
And implementing Mad May's 'UK government in your pants' strategy is no answer, technology is fast overtaking government capabilities. And I hardly think students reared on Raspberry Pi processors will provide the immediate answer, it takes experienced hackers to fight experienced hackers.
Cook is no Jobs, who had dictatorship down to a fine art.
What Cook does share is his wanting to treat Apple shareholders as he does it's product purchasers as an necessary pain in the a*se. Cook is not a money man - he is a supply line specialist.
He should accept he is the servant of the board of directors who derive their power from the shareholders.
The sheep who reside in the USA and the UK, who let their respective governments do almost every thing they want to, wouldn't garner this much attention from their respective politicians.
It all dates back to the late Pierre Trudeau, who had the audacity to stick his middle digit up to the USA, and refused to adopt the preferred US 'guide lines' unlike governments in the UK.
Must have been his French heritage, France has a similar attitude. One is called 'independence' and the other 'subservience'.
Unlike other governments who cross-link all their data-banks so all and sundry, regardless of their need, Canada's data-banks are deliberately decoupled - no nosy civil servants trawling through your life. Occasionally these controls can be a pain, as an inquirer has to travel from one department to another to collect data for the first.
A small price to pay for privacy.
Th US building supply monolith Home Depot is American and just as much as Americans are pro-everything American (even if made in China) so too are Canadians.
So screw you Home Depot, you can close a few more Canadian outlets, we have some well-priced Canadian alternatives.
Wow, this is a BIG opening for fraud - just bonus so trackers, have then claim 'hits' and Capita make yet another fortune from the British taxpayer.
Ever notice just how small the government's contract telephone list. White collar - Capita; Red collar - G4S. If these companies can locate end contractors who will do the job so cheaply why can't the government go for bids?
Another point, what assurances do people have that these ultimate contractors can be trusted with hot data that could be sold on? It is no secret that tax preparer make additional income by selling 100% accurate data to credit agencies. Likewise with insured medical services and medications.
The government seems oblivious to the fact that data is worth BIG MONEY.
Whilst I have no objection to loaner demo's or rental cars having built in software, I do object to this damn stuff being present in a vehicle I actually possess title to.
A vehicle I owned back in Canada had seat-belt/crash bag electronics incorporated in it and the then Sergeant Cam Woolley, (retired since a new chief decided he was the only mouthpiece) of the Ontario Provincial Police, became aware of exculpatory evidence contained in these chips and he started reading these chips with his little goody box intended originally for mechanics.
Then some police forces started using them as proof of speeding, in other words, writing your own tickets.
I carefully excised my unit and placed it elsewhere in my SUV, leaving the original connector dangling and the device hooked up discretely with my wiring.
Presently there are masses of vehicles driving around with 'hidden' electronics, all busy recording your every vehicle activity - some even calling home via cell networks.
The public doesn't need any more Big Brother stuff, but it's good to see a NYT reporter caught out parsing his story - he should have known better.
If you intend to do crime, make sure you use an old banger or visit your friendly mechanic, first.
When is the right of ownership going to recognised and accepted by these damn American companies?
The EU bureaucracy might appear to be under employed but they do have a hight success rate of kicking US commercial butts. Even the near God-like MS and Apple have bowed to their demands, before, albeit reluctantly.
Perhaps the EU should mandate the MS walled garden feature must have a switch in the BIOS so the owners can decide their modus operandi. Not all PC users are Apple-subservient types.
Before his DoD, Jobs used to wander forth and do his "Apple defective" spiel and most of his suckers would swallow the platitudes.
By an Austrian cellco saying: "trying out test firmware from Apple as it investigates the issue" it is obvious Apple is trying a new tactic - plausible deniability".
Doesn't work, guys, you aren't like the emperor with his suit of invisible clothes.
Better if the USPO cleaned up it's action and stopped patenting wet dreams that will never come true.
More proof that Jobs was using a publicly owned company contrary to the shareholders interests. Now Cook should hope no one starts a Class Action.
I guess this is the audience that Raspberry Pi seeks to encourage with their project.
These youngsters should be encouraged to pursue their interests, although not password cracking, and the Canadian authorities should go light on this chap (he has not reached an age of criminal responsibility which is 12 in Canada) so that, hopefully, will keep him from getting a lengthy stretch of incarceration in a US jail, (the present Harper Tory government prostrates itself in front of the US government), or driven to suicide by an over zealous US prosecutor.
Canada and the USA has been plagued with these nuisance calls for years,
Now both countries have DO NOT CALL lists in operation which MUST, by law, be honoured. Those foolhardy enough to ignore the Lists can be fined and/or have their telephone service ordered withdrawn.
These are called SIT (Special Information Tones) signal: Vacant Circuit (out of service or non-existent phone number). The can be sampled at: < http://www.artofhacking.com/files/sounds/live/aoh_sit-vc.htm >.
I made one using a pair of dual 555 ic's and it plays twice when I go off-hook (pick up the handset), then the handset is connected to the line.
It is very easy to make (for techies) see: < http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/hw/switches/ps2246/products_configuration_guide_chapter09186a00800ea889.html >
Name Description:
NC1 - No circuit found
First Tone Frequency - Duration
(Hz) (ms)
985.2 380
Second Tone Frequency - Duration
(Hz) (ms)
1428.5 380
Third Tone Frequency - Duration
(Hz) (ms)
1776.7 380
Since most of these machines are of US manufacture, they often drop the calls (and record the fact the number is "out of service"!
Gee, for a minute I thought they had caught up with ticket-cheat Osborne for not paying for his rail rides.
Some countries make everyone, including companies, pay VAT first, then they can seek a refund after they can prove goods were sold on. Seems to work well. The governments always get the cash first then payout after satisfying themselves all was well.
Guess what, MM (Mad May) has just had her dream eclipsed. This technologically brainless MP is about to discover as from late this week or early next week Silent Circle is offering the ability to transmit up to 60-megabyte files, encrypted at point of transmission to point of reception with no intermediate decrypting.
This means she is SOOL in using her eavesdropping toy and she can't even order backdoors be installed, unless she sends a Chippy around to each and every smartphone loaded with Silent Circle.
You can pack a lot of Bin Laden videos, or EID construction manuals in a 60-meg file. Same with kiddie-porn or any other material Plod might want to get their hands on. Drug dealers would welcome it - all completely out of reach of the DEA.
That MP's are questioning MM's is very good, they know the game ministers play to pad budgets.
How is 'continuity of custody' going to be proved or if the data has not been tampered with if it is held by telephone companies, internet service providers and others for data storage?
Or, once again, are the protections supposedly offered those accused of offences in Britain going to be compromised yet again such as 4 years or your password, give us the story now or loss credibility, etc.
Given the sorry state of financial affairs, the UK can not afford to indulge this hapless female's wet dreams - she should resign.
Many countries don't have grounds/earths but they DO have ground trip breakers in lieu of.
With the advent of plastic water pipes, creating a chasm between the street water main (which are also increasingly plastic) many grounds are dependent on ground spikes driven into the ground and saturated with copper sulphate, etc.
There is an assumption of continuing moisture to maintain the conductivity - again this might be lost when the area surrounding a ground pole is covered with concrete!
In North America, as well as large chunk of Japan, two phase + ground (120-120/240) is used and although the 240V phase-phase is used for cookers/stoves and laundry driers, as well as central air-con systems, phase-neutral (120V) is used for regular outlets and connected to achieve balanced loads.
Ontario, Canada, had a 'gold' kitchen system whereby a double outlet would share the neutral line but each half of the double outlet would be connected to different phases,
This means that both HomeGrid and HomePlug would need to have sufficient power to reach the the other phase - via a street transformer - or some cross-connection between phases would be needed to enhance transmissions.
Obamarama and the US Congress already think the hallowed Constitution is just a piece of a*sewipe as the governments, Republican and Democrat alike, happily ignore, or twist, the meaning of this piece of paper.
'Due process of law' - yet they simply kill even their own citizens without trial; 'writ of habeas corpus', released from imprisonment after such arrest - go tell that to Guantanamo residents; 'secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures' - Patriot Act.
Call their bluff, why should an entity with fewer people dictate to one with more people?
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