Posts by Khoos

And still...

There will be no actual virgin media fiber connection.

Add the 1800 MHz dect guard band...

I don't know about the UK but in the Netherlands it is allowed to start your private gsm network in the bit of the 1800 MHz band that was once 'dect guard band' but which falls within the 1800 MHz bands supported by GSM handsets (rules apply for power, but a license/registration is not needed).

"DIXI also did the business"

So, have NASA heard about the loo-for-rent business named 'Dixi' ?

Suddenly, it makes sense...

Now I understand why police and border control are so eager to download everything from smartphones.

Dutch frequency allotment authority has been notified

The Dutch frequency allotment authority (agentschap telecom) has been notified of this jamming (over a week ago) and has had at least one jammer disabled.

phonespell d'oh

I'm surprised the editor found the one site where you have to solve captchas = look at ads to find out which letters on your phone keypad resolve to which numbers. That's a whole new low in trying to monetize any service.

It's so small...

one of those 1x1 gifs delivered with this article is the picture of the device.

But it needs an image! Any image! A stock image!

I see this "needs an image! any image!" thinking on other sites too. With usually stock images which have little to do with the story. For example www.nu.nl has a stock image of a CRT (remember those?) with a full-screen (remember?) output of IPv4-only (remember?) of netstat.exe -r applied to lots of stories about computer security.

Interesting operators listed

I can see coverage of AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile and Verizon in London... which together all sound like US operators. Having to do with roaming handsets not properly seeing that they weren't on their home network?

Impact on prices

With a "Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy" like that it is no surprise broadband prices and caps in Australia are still quite different from those in other parts of the world. And yes, situations are different, but there is a point at which assholery is influencing prices more than enormous distances.

Something like this can haunt you for years...

IBM had a commercial (in the Dutch market) with a kid as annoying as this one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLMglsX3bGA with the 'kicker' at the end that you may need to plug in the computer before you can use it. Annoying in itself as a commercial, but even more annoying was the years after that when people would give "helpful IT advice" when you're debugging a deep problem: "are you sure it's plugged in? I heard computers have serious problems when they aren't plugged in".

Probably a simple reason

The hosting bill showed up, and 'unlimited traffic *' turned out to be a marketing term.

And the copy protection finally got removed!

According to this tweet by Jason Scott:

https://twitter.com/#!/textfiles/status/192303728202743808

CAN'T-FAIL APPLE II CRACKING STRATEGY: 1. Wait 22 years 2. Source released on github 3. Patch source 4. Success!!

Has anyone checked with Sky

My guess (as a foreigner with an interest in broadcast systems) would be 'unavailable on sky (sat? cable?) at all' or 'removed from the sky electronic program guide'. Has anyone checked that?

Oh no, a computer was used!

Lovely writing in the Northjersey.com article: "The 911 caller whose hoax prompted a tense police standoff in a quiet Wyckoff neighborhood used a computer to mask the origin of the call, authorities said Sunday".

The whole article reads like the 'reporter' got introduced for the first time to the interesting artefacts of cheap VoIP trunk services and spoofing providers.

And now the correct conclusion, please

To me the right conclusion would be 'pharmacy spam works'. The broadband just helps the spam get delivered.

Interesting misparse

And here I thought "massive T-mobile data scam" was an article about the international data roaming tariffs.

"disabling outrun"

I hope outrun isn't installed on these systems.

On the other hand, it might be a better way to fill the time than actually looking at the boring numbers from the control systems.

"Keep the car. Go Home"

Pics?

Any pictures of those scary monster cabinets taking over the streets? How bad is it?

Will we see stories of monster cabinets roaming around, scaring little children, messing up gardens and doing generally inappropriate stuff?