* Posts by jonfr

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Zuckerberg loses $8bn in Facebook IPO fiasco

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I am worth...

I am worth -4963 USD at the moment. That must put me on some list. But I should give Bill Gates the heads up when I bypass him about 15 years time if everything goes according to my plan (it never does).

The plan is simple. To own in hard cash 1 to 100tn (€) euros in the bank.

Listen up, Nokia: Get Lumia show-offs in pubs or it's game over

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Nope

Nope. I still refuse to buy this phone. It has windows on it. Something that I consider not mobile friendly. Whatever the Microsoft PR makes one want to think.

Nokia tears wraps off new Windows Phone Lumias on steroids

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FAIL

The camera ange

The camera is still less then my Nokia N8. But that has 12MP camera. I wonder why that is.

I am still not going to get me one. It run windows. I do not an mobile phone that gives me blue and read screen of death.

Sharp cuts exFAT deal with Microsoft for Android mobes

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Alert

Don't use FAT16/32

Companies should be smart and stop using FAT16/32 on devices. Since the patient is owned by Microsoft.

AT&T to mothball 2G network by 2017

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Re: re: Smart move

The reason 3G works so bad in many areas is this. It has been oversold as a broadband solution to people. This means there are too few transmitters in the area and two few users. This is the reason where in many area mobile phone companies re-direct voice calls two 2G in areas with high data usage. I am not sure what 3G only mobile phone company do in this type of situation.

With LTE and 4G taking over as data service networks. The issue with 3G should soon resolve it self. At least I hope so.

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Smart move

This is a smart move. Not only does it free up spectrum. But it also allows for faster service and better coverage for 3G/LTE. In the U.S they use 850/1900/1700/2100Mhz for 3G. I am not sure what is used for LTE besides 700Mhz.

I am expecting that carriers in Europe are going to start doing the same soon. They are having same issues with 3G and LTE in terms of spectrum usage.

UK 4G auction: No word on what will be flogged, or what it costs

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Boffin

Use of radio spectrum in mobile technology

I do not understand the logic behind current spectrum use. For instance, LTE (4G) now has the option of using 800Mhz (not the same as 850Mhz as GSM/3G uses), 1800Mhz and 2600Mhz. GSM has in Europe only 900/1800Mhz. At the same time 3G has only 900/2100Mhz in Europe. The amount of spectrum allocated to LTE is interesting in this terms. But the mobile bubble is going to go bust soon or move over to short range WLAN in terms of data and speed (802.11n offers at minimum 150Mbps over air. But 300Mbps is common today). The move over to WLAN means the bubble is going to pop for mobile network companies in terms of data usage.

It is also a fact that GSM is still in full use today. So today we have 2G, 3G and LTE (technical 3.9G but they call it 4G). If they want to free up spectrum. They should start by cleaning up 900Mhz of 2G and move it to 1800Mhz while it is still in use. But the limit is that 2G in areas where population is limited is better off using 900Mhz.

Both technical standards and spectrum wise the mobile service and industry is getting it self into a whole a lot of problems by not dropping 2G orderly and in decent way. It should have started to do so years ago. But has not done so yet and that is evolving into a big problem.

As for myself. I am going to use 2G on my mobile phones for the next 2 - 3 years. As 3G coverage is still lacking in many areas. In some areas it is none at all. This applies mostly to Iceland, where I am from. But most of Iceland has no 3G coverage from Vodafone/Nova. Síminn has better 3G coverage in part of Iceland. But it still full of holes and no coverage areas. When it comes down to it. The failure of 3G is lack of coverage and over demand to use it as broadband service. Rather then to use it as voice and data service for mobile phones. As it was intended originally I suspect.

Where I live in Denmark 3G coverage seems to be decent (I use Telia DK. I also roam into Telia DK with my Icelandic phones). But with holes in it (some large). It is also a problem that 3G bandwidth has been oversold to mobile broadband (slow and expensive) in Denmark. This comes down on voice quality on mobile phones during peak hours. But with LTE being rolled out in Denmark that might change with time. This pattern is going to be repeated with elsewhere, including in the UK in my view.

I can only use examples that I know of. Those are from Iceland and Denmark at this point. I do roam into GSM/3G when I go to Germany. But that is not so often I do so properly and for long period of time.

Smutty books strip Harry Potter of Amazon crown

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FAIL

Re: Old news

They want subscription. Too bad. I like internet humor web sites. But it is not worth to subscribe to them, or any other news site for that matter. Paywalls do not work.

Indian software pirating suspect faces US extradition

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Jurisdiction

I think FBI is way out of it's jurisdiction now. As this is not part of Int. laws to allow FBI run investigations in other countries.

Shuttleworth: Why Windows 8 made us ditch GPL Linux loader

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Windows 8

I am never going to use Windows 8. No reason to do so. I am also not going to use Windows 9 or Windows 10. But that does not give Microsoft the right to tell me what I can and can't boot on my own computer.

This is getting out of hand. This is our hardware that we buy for our money. They might have designed the Os and "licensed" it to us. But it does not give them right to control what we boot on our own hardware.

Finnish PM rules out Nokia rescue package

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Terminator

No Windows phone for me

I am never going to buy a Windows phone from Nokia, or anyone else for that matter. My last Nokia phone that I buy might be Nokia 701 Symbian. But I am still considering that options. Since my current phones are rather new.

Too bad that there are not many 3G phones that support 850/900/1700/1900/2100 as Nokia N8/700/701 does. I want nothing less.

Sad story about Nokia. But this is what you get when you hire a Microsoft office pencil pusher to work in your company. The lesson. Do not deal with Microsoft unless you want your company to go the bankrupt way.

Nokia's Great Software Cleansing scrubs off everything since the '90s

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Boffin

My next mobile phone

My next mobile phone won't be Nokia. But it is going to be something that can handle at least 3G 850/900/1700/1900/2100 and GSM 850/900/1800/1900. I might just buy a other Nokia N8 when my current phone dies of old age (going to happen in the end), or just move to a different brand. I am not yet sure about Android. But maybe it has developed a bit since I last version that I used (v1.5).

But I won't be buying any of Nokia Windows phones.

Microsoft forbids class actions in new Windows licence

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Stop

What Windows 8 ?

I find it highly unlikely that I am going to update to Windows 8 any time soon. Given that I am still using Windows XP for games.

I use Gentoo Linux for other important stuff.

Judge: Big Five ISPs must block The Pirate Bay

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WTF?

They are getting paid

They are getting paid. By the corporation that did hire them. They won't get filthy rich like the corporation that did hire them.

But this is a good excuse for internet censorship and red herring arguments.

Nokia: No Belle download for Apple users

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WTF?

Never going to a Windows phone

I am never going to a Windows phone. It is a bad security risk. I also find Android not up the task yet. Maybe in about five more years it is going to be ready. However I do not like Google control over it and lack of features.

As for Symbian. It is a bad move to kill it as they are doing by moving to a Windows phone. But this is what happens when they did hire an ex-Microsoft guy as CEO. It was an bad move that is going to cost them billions of euros in the end.

Most EU states sign away internet rights, ratify ACTA treaty

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Forward it to ECJ

If everything else fails. Forward the ACTA to ECJ. As I find it in my opinion that ACTA breaks several EU treaties by default. That way it should be possible to kill ACTA in simple manner.

Eurozone crisis: We're all dooomed! Here's why

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Boffin

Dear Mr. Wrong at The Register

Hello Mr. Wrong and UKIP supporter at The Register.

The Greece might well be having hair raising problems in terms of debt problems. But as they are a country they cannot default (a common mistake) on its debt. But they can and often have refused to pay back what they owe to its creditors. From what I can tell that is not going to happen to Greece or Italy. While the problems are big and complex, they are going to be solved and fixed. It is just going to take some more time. I also have no worries about the euro. It is going to remain and only get better with age.

Now. If I where you I would worry about that pound that you have. The inflation rates are not looking good for the next 48 months forecast.

Apple was OK to fire man for private Facebook comments

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FAIL

Companies that can't take criticism

Today's companies cannot take criticism. That is why in fact they censor there employees with this rules.

Apple is at fault here for not being able to deal with criticism in reasonable manner. This also applies to every company how behaves like this.

Anonymous shuts down hidden child abuse hub

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WTF?

Reporting it can land you in jail

The sad reality is that reporting child porn can land one in jail. It has happened and can happen again. If one wants to report this to the cops, he better do it anonymously. So one does not land in jail.

I am sure that the authorities did not have a clue about what was going on there.

Here is a tinyurl on the news reports on those matters from three years ago, http://tinyurl.com/cuzklh

Here is the obligatory youtube link, http://youtu.be/i8z7NC5sgik

Chaos feared after Unix time-zone database is nuked

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WTF?

Nobody bothered to check the website

It seems that nobody bothered check the web site in question. The fact of the matter is that this website is nothing but selling bullshit to people. That is nonsense. It is also quite badly coded in html as can clearly be seen.

The fact that this website has nothing to do with standard time makes this lawsuit baseless and it should be thrown out of court in the U.S. Somebody should also sue that guy for scams that he is currently selling to people. Because it is nothing else.

I fear that the keeper of this Unix time database reacted too quickly. The owner of that bullshit website astrolable cannot due anything but loose. As he has no facts. In fact he got less then nothing to support his case.

Now. Can somebody please sue him or report him to the FBI for the scams that he is currently selling over the internet.

Amazon algorithms price bio book at over $23m

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A book for sale on just $900 million dollars

Here is a book for a sale of just $900 million dollars.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/B000RJRWW8/ref=tmm_pap_used_olp_sr?ie=UTF8&qid=1303614178&sr=1-5&condition=used

This is a strange way to price items on Amazon.

Diary of a Not-spot: The readers speak

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Boffin

Monopole antenna

What you have there is a monopole antenna with a amplifier. This might work for you if the noise level is not too high. I wonder how your signal is in the rain. But I do not know what the gain is for you type of antenna. But I am assuming that it is somewhere between 4 to 9dBm or in that range.

But I have refined my advice for you. But you might need some how knows radios and antennas to build this for you. As this is home made do it your self high gain Wlan antenna (19dBi gain).

The instructions can be found here, http://trevormarshall.com/waveguides.htm

The guy how did design this has a phd or so claims his web site. The bigger this antenna is, the higher the gain is.

Primary school miss flashes porn vid at kiddies

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Paris Hilton

Only 4 years until the parents have to explain sex to them kids

There are only something of four years until that outraged mom has to explain sex to here kid. Regardless if she likes it or not.

Otherwise it is clear that it is getting rather annoying all the people how make up the outrage when something like this happens. The people should be revealed. Reality has finally come to the kids on how the world works and it saved a lot of explanation by the parents and the sex ed, teachers.

Unless the parents want to live in a bubble...a big bubble world.

Diary of a Not-spot: One man's heroic struggle for broadband

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Boffin

Parabolic wlan antenna

You need a parabolic wlan antenna. You have to build it your self and all. But this type of antenna should give you the range and the signal strength that you need for wlan communications for up to 10 km if your antenna is big enough.

Here are some basic instructions for this, http://www.educypedia.be/electronics/Wlan-antenna/wlan-antennas2.htm

Android rebellion: How to tame your stupid smartphone

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WTF?

Forgotten problem

There is one forgotten problem not listed here. On many handsets you can't upgrade Android. One of the being a Huawei device phones. I have one with Android 1.5 and I cannot upgrade it to newest Android.

Youth jailed for not handing over encryption password

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Stop

Some people never learn...

Some people never learn, see youtube video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8z7NC5sgik

HABITABLE ALIEN WORLD discovered 20 light-years away!

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Boffin

There is no life there

I think it is quite clear that there is no life there. But there might be a liquid water there at the equator. But no life, my argument for that is this star system is actually too cold for a life to evolve there.

More information on this solar system.

http://www.solstation.com/stars/gl581.htm

Moms stand firm against antenna madness

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About those transmissions...

Given that in the U.S they use GSM850/1900 (3G1700/2100/1900/850) there is no way that the cell mast have any health effects what so ever. The transmission power is also quite small, just 10 to 50W at maximum.

Given those facts in mind. I say that in confidence that this peoples are idiots. The mobile companies should do this people a favor and remove all the mobile masts in 2km range or more.

Microsoft locks down Windows Phone 7 code

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Boffin

About those hours...

I doubt that they have tested it for 10 million hours as claimed, as 10 million hours are 6944 days, or 578 years according to my calculations done with Google.

How this calculation was done. I did break down 10 million hours my divide them into 60 min, then I did divide again with 24 hours to get the days, and I finally did divide that number with 12 months in the year to get numbers of years. This might all be wrong that I am doing here. So please do check them, as they might be wrong. When I mean wrong, I mean wrong. I disaster like wrong.

I still doubt that Microsoft has tested anything more then up to 10 to 24 months. But no more.

Defcon speaker calls IPv6 a 'security nightmare'

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Boffin

Mac address and IPv4

You also can get mac address from IPv4. The only difference is that it is not used to make a IP address like in IPv6, where part of the mac address you have comes from your nic.

But random strings in IPv6 already hide those anyway. So people should be pretty secure with IPv6.

UK population to be guaranteed mobile 768Kb/sec service

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Boffin

No UMTS at 1800Mhz

Currently I don't know about any handset that supports UMTS at 1800Mhz. There are handsets that support UMTS at 1700Mhz. But those can only be found in U.S and Canada and few other countries.

The Wrath of Jobs' latest victim: Motorola

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Ground connection problem

Now I see it. When the hand actually touches the antenna it gets connected to the ground, and therefore loses signal sensitivity.

Other phones then iPhone 4 don't have that problem, as they don't allow the antenna getting touched by the skin and therefore make a ground connection.

It's is all Apple fault this time around, and there videos won't change a thing in that regard. I also figured out with the Nokia N97 video that they might easily be running a manual tuned signal blocker to fake the video, besides having the battery at the lowest possible level.

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