Posts by Cellco Cabal Buster

Now that half of Nominet's board has been ejected, what happens next? Let us walk you through the possibilities

Michael Lyons excellent 2015 report -

Necessary reading.....

https://publicbenefit.uk/resources/Sir-Michael-Lyons-Report-2015.pdf

Can North Korean nukes hit US mainland? Maybe. But EMP blast threat is 'highly credible'

Why not just plant schrapnel in Satellite orbits?

Nukes are very emotive things - so if Nork wants a decent commercial blackmail plot without nuclear reprisals, it could just blow up a skip full of BBs at 36k km to take out satellite TV and communications - and 20km to make GPS useless. With GPS, goes most driverless car tech and much else that we take for granted ... including plane and missile guidance. (Also see Kessler syndrome).

The cloud of general junk might make all space flight impossible for an indeterminate time.

There are the old ground-based radio navigation schemes from the old days (Loran, Decca etc) that could be brought somewhat up to date - but nothing would be anywhere as cheap, precise or convenient as modern GPS. And an interesting new industry in cleaning up space debris would be accelerated...

FBK could send up a small demo "grenade" to disable a couplel of satellites and get the attention of the operators for a big ransom demand.

Now - would the world sanction nuclear retaliation for such a nerdy but essentially non-nuclear attack..? Interesting dilemma.

An Internet of Things music thingy? What, you’ve already got one?

Supposedly a UK startup? This jars: "Choose your favorite [sic] artists..." and in the Ts and Cs: "to understand your listening behavior". Ugly.

But the most bizarre thing about this project is the list of the massive list of "advisers" who are mostly not from music backgrounds: what are they thinking? What is actually going on? After all, the world is awash with all manner of music propositions and radio stations.

But this is a money no object project - I thought they had died out long ago. The Ts & Cs make a wonderful modern template for any online operation and must have cost a fortune. Even so, there is an obvious typo.

Curious.

FCC commish: We don't need no steenkin' net neutrality rules

Cellco's that do "traffic shaping"

Neutrality is big issue for Android phone users, My Android 4.2.1 phone was working nicely for months - then the access and sync to any google apps (mail, maps, chrome etc) began to get flaky - sync errors, intermittent/no network connection - but everything was fine using WiFi.

Other apps like FB, Skype etc work OK using the Vodafone data connection. It is ONLY the google stuff that does not. I assume there is a separate port or some proxy issue that Vodafone have managed to screw up.

All the evidence suggests that the Vodafone internet data route to google is messing up the link along the way.

Of course Vodafone have no suggestions based on the reported issues, and instead go into some sort of "automated" response sequence, and suggest deleting everything, take out the battery and SIM, and reinstalling. And if all else fails, sacrifice a virgin.

But that simply does not address the fact that it all works with WiFi, but doesn't using their own 3G internet service.

The word is that "traffic shaping" is going on surreptitiously (a euphemism for prioritising customers on fatter tariffs). So I asked Google for a record of my logins, including failed sync sessions, since the amount of Data Google knows about your android devices is already considerable. It will be interesting to see what response I get.