Posts by Richard Cartledge 470 publicly visible posts • joined 25 Aug 2007
I issued a small claims court summons for £6. They settled out of court and paid the £30 court fee. How do you claim the 25p per minute back other than that? anyway, they didn't give me this option despite a faulty 8 year old cable modem. Other than that, I have to say VM are one of my best value utility suppliers, notwithstanding the appalling "Hey there! fancy a gobble?" type marketing literature they send out.
The same vulnerability can't be used against more than one box - how can that give a balanced result. The results will be skewed by the attractiveness of the platform for the hacker to hack, something which the organisers say is specifically intended not to happen.
"You take your product with the RFID tag, remove it from the box and discard the box/wrapper/tags and the RFID tag goes with them."
D'er, yeah! That's the point, everything you buy has a unique serial number tied to your debit card/loyalty card/ID card, this opens up all sorts of issues, as a single example, rubbish - Councils charging you a penalty if they don't like what you've put in your bin *as most of us know, they have introduced this technology into bins and bin lorries). Insurance companies will ask you to sign a Permissions to Disclose Bin Contents form much as they do with medical records. How about the Council's Community Enforcement Team sending round communist officials to help you devise a life-plan based on what you buy or your diet (which they collected from your bin RFID chip and packaging RFID).
"Quick. Name one thing that the Apple Air has that the Asus Eee PC doesn't. " - are you kidding? The Asus one looks like that $100 notebook made for African tribes! The Macbook Air has design and good taste, and runs OS X, that's all it has going for it. It's great if you're rich, just like an expensive watch.
10 years ago, it would be OMG that is so cool, but what's the point? who wants something so frustratingly laggy and where you have to flail your arms and hands about instead of making small wrist movements with a mouse? We will within a month or two, see yet another stage in this technology's advancement and it will be in popular consumer products made by Apple.
I expect to see something quite revolutionary in terms of UI. ie, keyboard and mouse and touchscreen. It's no coincidence that Apple are weening users off tactile feedback of input devices, coupled with the mighty mouse and latest keyboards, coupled with the iPhone's touchscreen implementation, you can see where it's all leading.
If it had 3G, it just wouldn't be iPhone as we know it as it would have to be thicker and the battery would last 1/3rd less. New chipsets worthy of the iPhone which fit inside these sleek phones and don't guzzle power aren't available to Apple et al until early 2008. Apple can't make them if the materials don't exist.
I don't miss 3G, I have had it on Nokia Smartphones and found it to have poor coverage and nowhere near the supposed speed.
Wifi is fine, I have it at work and home, and you can get it free on many trains, and McDonalds etc... also many people have it in their homes unsecured.
My Jesus phone is on O2 PAYG, so no free Edge either, but you don't miss what you've never had, and I could never go back to an ordinary mobile phone.
By 10am Saturday, the first SIM unlock software was available. I went to Carphone Warehouse to buy one, but was greeted by a several attempts to Scam me with bogus insurance advice, forms and contracts, oh just sign here to say you've picked the phone up (3 pages of 7 point text!)
I left in disgust and ordered elsewhere.
"So she has opted to close down her eBay and PayPal accounts and vowed never again to do business with the company."
- You can't blame ebay or paypal, it's Microsoft's insecure operating systems coupled with the way they confuse ordinary users through a poor interface.
PS did you see the yellow bar? WTF!
If I was going to spend £369 on Vista, I'd have a sanity check and then I'd spend it on a Mac Mini Core2Duo and next month OSX 10.5 Leopard is released, which will take Mac OS from being years ahead to light years ahead. I have tried Vista and after a few months it claimed it wasn't some sort of genuine advantage and stopped logging in, so I trashed it for my old copy of XP and was astounded how much better it seemed after using Vista for some time.
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