Posts by JaitcH 3904 publicly visible posts • joined 12 Oct 2009
The only cloud related to this is Balmer's mind.
MS has 'lost' data previously (mail) and gives Plod instructions have to circumvent security (see Cryptome).
Why should MS be entrusted with storage? Or possibly anyone - unless you employ multiple back-ups and TrueCrypt? Always remember the Patriot Act which permits the US Government to access any US-based computer without a warrant.
If if USA had ratified their side of the Treaty - only done by Senate 29 days ago, seemingly the Congress (two houses like UK) has been too busy with some financial misdeeds on Wall Street and spent a year on fixing up healthcare - the fact remains the inequality of the provisions, weighted against UK citizens remain, and were symptomatic of the 'puppy dog' syndrome exhibited by Blair and highlighted by his adopting lies to justify the Iraq invasion that resulted in the many deaths of British youth.
My use of capitalization is for emphasis and not some other reason. Have a careful read of < http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extradition >, < http://www.statewatch.org/news/2003/jul/25ukus.htm > for particulars of the inequalities.
The agreement under which British citizens can be extradited to the USA not only is ONE-SIDED, on favour of the Americans, naturally, but their part of the agreement has NEVER BEEN RATIFIED so only UK citizens are deported, under unequal TERMS whilst US citizens are essentially immune to deportation except for the most extreme crimes.
This new, wimpy, Britain, made so by Blair, et al should tell the new government ENOUGH IS ENOUGH. Either the UK prosecutors should get off the pot and charge the man, if he didn't breach a British law and tell the Americans that until the agreement is ratified with provisions that nothing will be done in any matter.
Besides, if a government is so inept that it can't manage or secure it's computer systems the blame ;lies with them if someone happens inside their data.
Obviously the deaths of this product presaged the defects in the Icrap series of telephones with batteries burning, cases melting culminating in their latest fiasco of bars and antennae that don't work. iCrap 4 still maintains the self-combustibility that is the heritage of the Apple communicators. Remember they had monitor problems, too?
Obviously Apple is too ashamed to sue TimeCapsule for abusing their logo, Apple has never made gravestones even though they manufactured the 'bodies'.
May they R.I.P.
Judges are usually busy brown nosing Plod and praising them to Hell and back, ignoring their 'exaggerations' so for one of them to say "I'm quite used to incompetence but this really takes the biscuit. ... this is a disgrace. Nothing surprises me now about the lapses and incompetence of prosecutions." REALLY highlights the problem.
Pity it wasn't in Canada or the USA where time limits apply to these situations.
Most likely Plod was too busy harassing photogs under Sections 43 and 44 whilst they took pictures of military installations called castles and owned by the National Trust.
Let's hope the new government gets a grip on them.
Given the governmental abuse of data in many countries, within and without the EU, NO data should be permitted to cross any border without disclosure to and the specific permission of the data subject.
Even within the UK we have idle trolls who access our data our prurient curiosity entrusted to the government and this data, as well health records, end up in the public domain.
There is absolutely no need for all this data gathering in the first place and joining the databases together inly adds to the wrong doing.
Canada, for one, has a government policy of segmenting data, so that authorised users can only access what is pertinent to their job requirements. Data is spread between the national and provincial governments increasing the protection against illegal viewing. Mind you this can reach extremes where services cannot be obtained without data from both levels of government.
Clearly the U.S. government is the most prolific gatherer of mundane information with the UK not being a too distant second. I reside in an authoritarian country, complete with ID cards, bur individuals data is far less than that of other countries.
Unlike the cheap power blocks available all over, undoubtedly Apple blocks are different ... they catch fire or cause fire in the products to which they ate connected.
The cheaper blocks are super reliable and conform to all required international standards.
Maybe Apple will take a patent out on how to set screws - all their slots aligned in a single direction. Or how about a patent on the plug pins? Apple is a patent happy entity whose time would be better spent on figuring out why their products have such poor safety performance.
Jobs will be getting worked up again about 'theft' of his products. Fortunately he won;t be getting his local gendarmes to do anything about this product pre-release.
Likely it is genuine as the PCB has an Apple logo and obviously is not a development component.
Once again the EU bends over and surrenders to the U.S. of A. It is high time E.U. stood up to this world bully. If the U.S. wants to search data, the EU can do it on their behalf and hand over the screened data.
But no, down with EU citizens privacy, and hand over everything and 'trust' the U.S. who even breaches their Constitution and spies on their citizens.
The word 'stunned' is what best describes the Apple hardware designers.
After a series of fires emanating from several models they have marketed in recent years you would have thought Apple would have designed in current limiting components.
Guess Jobs can't fix this latest with another software patch! And as they have already absolved the iCrap owner of fault that leaves only one entity ... Apple.
Maybe they should get HTC to design the iCrap5. They never seem to have fires or bad antennae.
Most people call this shopping, As others have pointed out Apple is just trolling looking foe future income. Many of the things described are available, and implemented, already.
Given Apples prowess with Radio Frequency techniques and antennae/aerials it will never work.
And what if two or more people are using their iCraps co-located in a supermarket aisle? How will the shelf technology be able to direct suggested recipes to the correct iCrap device?
Obviously another Jobs wet dream.
Next they will be patenting gestures.
Unfortunately the trustworthy Dixon of Dock Green perception of police was trashed when Blair and Brown decided they had a better idea of law and order.
It's my experience in rhe U.S.A., Canada and the U.K. that when it comes to justifying their actions most become liars that would make Pinocchio's nose look like a dimple. The whole bunch should be book authors.
I was visiting London when one of those Wanna-be -a-plod-characters (community something) approached me and said, in some form of English, I was breaking the law taking pictures. I responded, in Chinese, which was met with the response of 'bloody foreigner' as he wandered off. Obviously this frustrated ersatz version of authority was your typical little nothing, sporting some badge of authority.
These encounters do nothing for tourism.
At least foot bound snappers are protected but the Plods still have those topless tourist buses to harass. Likely they will have insufficient guts to take on a bus load of people.
My company prepares databases pertaining to air travel for distribution to travel agents most of whom leave their computers running overnight for logistical reasons.
Our database products are distributed as Torrent transmissions. Does the brainless Mandleson-sponsored act mean that all our UK clients will be branded as illegal downloaders? Will they even try to identify the actual Torrent content?
Many businesses deploy large data content as Torrent traffic so there will be quite a few false accusations as government panders to a failing business model employed by media companies.
In any process the end user is the most important. A large US air reservation system sent teams around to study how end users did their work and, after correlating the accumulated data, they re-did their user interface, idiosyncrasies (strange - to IT people - work flow processes) and when it was rolled out it proved to be so very successful it increased use.
The CEO was correct: make IT departments SERVE the end user than vice versa.
It is simple for governments to supply public computer terminals for accessing government services and are a natural addition to libraries, shopping malls and, naturally, government offices.
No home computer needed. Add a free telephone line to the computer and even the most neophyte computer user can use the telephone.
It is a natural to post it on government employment agency websites.
The UK government really needs to chat to the Canadian and Ontario governments who have been on-line for years. All manner of services, including driving and car licence issuance and fine payment collection, are made available on-line AND at public computer kiosks throughout the country.
These are frequently supplemented by (free) 1-800 numbers which means the Canadian public can minimise contact with the ever decreasing number of civil servants.
Who really cares about an overpaid Hollywood air-head?
It appears The Reg is pandering to the lowest common denominators, unless you consider the digital drunk monitor to warrant this piece.
Even Jobs lies are more pertinent and interesting, inasmuch he can doublespeak about the iCrap4.
Obviously the trade group has a lot to hide as it's members terminals have flaws, like so many other things including voting machines. Why should these defects be protected speech?
For a copy of the official document check with: < http://www.enisa.europa.eu/act/ar/deliverables/2009/atmcrime >.
Also note:
Ref. code: ISBN-13 978-92-9204-023-9
Publication date: Sep 07, 2009
Authors: ENISA
What the BBC Trust doesn't understand is that the BBC website represents Britain to the world. It's where many students worldwide find resources for their homework and language training.
In countries where the BBC news is blocked many permit access to the non-news pages, so even countries politically antagonistic to the UK realise the value of the web site - pity the Neanderthals aren't as smart.
There are hundreds of thousands of former Brits, dare I say millions, scattered all over the world who listen to the BBC via short-wave or the InterNet. The World Service only fills part of this listening requirement as these wandering souls, of which I am one, want to hear the 'home' services of the BBC, just as they did in their years in the UK.
The proof of the popularity of the BBC is the fact that National Broadcasting radio and television services have such high audience counts for the BBC originated programming. Notwithstanding the BBC has it's fare share of 'junk' the news, drama, factual documentaries set the benchmark for such programs.
As I sit on my small patio overlooking a lake in Indochina, or deep in the interior of Laos I can enjoy some sanity over the digital InterNet not the digital DAB. The iPlayer is not appreciated as it represents unneeded computer overhead. We can still view BBC video as if we were sitting in the UK, thanks to private proxies, as well as record programming for later viewing.
If the BBC spent it's budget more judiciously to HELP listeners access programming instead of wasting it creating technical challenges that simply provide work for the gifted to circumvent.
IMHO opinion, the current Director General is as out of touch as many of his predecessors were, along with the BBC Trust.
Jobs obviously needs something to do other than to utter flatitudes (aka verbal diarrhoea) about software fixes (which still don't fix the REAL problem), how to hold iCrap phones, etc.
Given his apparent mental challenges to anyone challenging The Jobs Commandments with respect to verboten software and applications will likely give him real to challenge him.
Obviously he isn't THAT smart. Apple computers were crippled shortly after the initial D-I-Y friendly models which affected their ratio to PC's; now he is repeating the effort to eventually lose the war against Android software. Tunnel visioned AND short-sighted.
This subject was raised in another piece earlier in the week and I suggested Apple would change the bars and software.
BUT Apple is still conning people as the antenna output signal level to the receiver IS reduced as the tuning of the antenna is offset by the effect of the hand *in the wrong place".
The GOOD NEWS IS that Apples latest piece of iCrap can be returned for a 100% refund which must make Jobs really, really, sick (to admit Apples engineering wonder is just iCrap).
Given how paranoid the thieving employees of TSA are it is practically impossible that it "was caused by a passenger who brought a container of spoiled meat onto the plane" as TSA would have found it first.
Likely it was airline food, a recent report from the U.S. FDA that has condemned many airline 'kitchens' reporting all manner of extreme violations of hygiene rules, rodents, etc.
In saying it was a passenger, US Airways demonstrates just how delusioned it is as overhead lockers are checked after each flight for stuff left behind by PAX.
Besides the smell would have alerted any decent airline. US Air was the carrier that allowed a Vietnamese pot bellied pig to travel in the cabin when the owner/passenger said it was like a dog to her!
Even the most censorious governments, including North Korea, appreciate the value of the InterNet ans provide access to it to approved people. This is the reason they permit connections.
If Pakistan decides to e remain in the Stone Age, so be it. Notwithstanding their governments short sightedness, there will always be ways of accessing the prohibited, it's Human Nature.
I have never thrown away any cell phone I have bought and that includes a 8-year old Mitsubishi cell (which perfectly fits WITHIN my four fat fingers) and an even smaller Panasonic which is completely covered when in my hand and, proving Jobs is a liar, they work perfectly WITHOUT signal reception signal level dropping. Ichecked them just before writing this.
Given today's snatch your phone and run social environment, Jobs proposition that hand phones be treated as some British hold a cup of afternoon tea is TOTALLY impracticable. And risky.
The answer for fools who bought Jobs latest iCrap is for Apple software writers to change the software so that increasing signals are IMMEDIATELY displayed but decreasing signal levels are only displayed after 5 or 10 seconds so no users know what is going on.
This is why they are called IDIOT LIGHTS.
This series hit the wires at just the right time! Thanks Register for these articles.
I receive container loads of used computers rolled over from Canadian companies originally donated to children's organisations, whose member children seemingly disparage 3-year old machines, rather than have them become landfill.
The government here (VietNam) is a Linux/Open Systems proponent and they have been developing school software for all ages K through 18. All we lack is sufficient hardware.
Recently, the police have been checking software licences, which has necessitated running two OS - Linux for police inspections on one and *hot) Windows for working! Now we can really start switching to Linux.
My only complaint is the word 'tomorrow' is 48 hours between sections!
Whilst rummaging through the Chinese hieroglyphics in the manuals and messing with the CDs that came with the tablets I discovered one called the Odroit-T - a 10" tablet - HAS A 3D DISPLAY.
This clears it as being a iCrap knock-off as Apple CAN'T DO 3D!!!
I rest my case.
There are surprisingly few identical characteristics between the Chinese tablets and Apple other than the concept which is like saying a Toyota is a knock-off of a Rolls ioyce because they both have wheels, and engine and a people compartment..
Jobs might have announced his latest box in January BUT the Chinese had product on the shelves.. Living next door to China I am well aware of their respect of IP rights so your proposition that these other products is without foundation.
I guess you are therefore implying Google knocked off Apples IpHONE? What of of RIM and Apple or Palm and Apple - following your logic Apple knocked off that product. Likewise with their computer and IBM.
That said I would concede the point that the Chinese copied the IpOD - and some are very good, in fact I have a stainless steel cased copy, as do others in my family and the quality is first class.
The bottom line is the Chinese products have superior software, very adequate displays, superlative features and a licenced OS. If you were to get the Application Notes for the RockChip 2808 you would understand the fallacy of your statement: "leeching off the R&D work of others".
The Chinese are technically very competent and without them Apple and many other US companies would have no products to sell.
After reading your comment I checked all the Chinese tablets I have and all have compliant power blocks and apart from the fact they have American or European 2-pin plugs they meet UK requirements.
As for batteries incinerating people/things - check back on Apples smoky record!
How can anyone steal or knock off a design months ahead of Apples iCrap? The OS is different, the PCB is different, the functionality is different. In reality Apple copied these products that have been around since 2010 JAN.
Last week I received 2 tablets from Zenzhen and they were different to each other. Both had Chinese characters in their names (one also had RK2808 in the name).
I spent the weekend in Zenzhen and picked up 5 more tablets, all different in design and feature although there is commonality in components and some of the software. None had Android v2+ and therefore I would recommend those people not in SE Asia buy from a supplier within your country so you can get warranty service but ONLY after they load V2+.
Chinese products can be crappy from a reliability perspective. For myself it is simply crossing the border. That said the units I bought had mature PCB designs with zero mods, added components or jumpers. Software can be loaded through mini-USB connectors and external screens can be run from some tablets.
Even though Apple hit the market months after these units, it failed to add the many neat features these early bloomers had working 5 months early than Jobs did. You can actually use some of these tablets as a game controller playing on an external monitor. The Apple tablet is a missed opportunity - unless you want to sell annual 'upgrades' as has happened with the crippled IpHONE.
Manuals tend to be written in Chinglish, with poor illustrations. Three units have soft manuals loaded and further copies on the InterNet. Even schematics are shown. However, the unit operations are intuitive and my son has figured out the operation in under an hour.
I live in VietNam and frequently visit China - two countries that have blocked, wisely IMHO, Facebook - and as a result web sites that use FB as a login (one is The Daily Beast) are no longer accessible for comments.
Yahoo should be careful as in VietNam it is No. 1 in e-mail here.
Besides FB privacy is so dubious I am extremely careful who gets my core e-mail addresses relying on single use email addresses in case some idiot tries to 'share' FB with me.
Ridiculous rulings such as this one show the courts up for their ignorance of the InterNet. UK law doesn't govern my use of the InterNet outside the UK and besides most rulings are circumvented by the US Constitutional provisions.
I live in a 'controlled' InterNet environment where users are prevented, thankfully, from signing into Facebook and a few other web sites.
None of these precautions work, even from behind the great Firewall of China. Whilst Mr Justice Kitchin might wallow in the glory of his ruling, it is hollow and meaningless and demonstrates how futile the courts are when faced with proxies and VPN technology.
Jobs, of Apple, purportedly has a short fuse (temper) and the availability of these competitive devices should make him sit up and think about the crippled iCrap products.
A colleague, recently back from China, returned with one each of aPad and RK2808. We opened them up and there was one added component and one added jumper wire which demonstrates a mature product. The motherboard was fibre rather than an economy material.
I have a custom e-interface on my motorcycle, run on a under-the -seat Notebook computer and I have managed to transfer some of the functions on to the RK2808 tablet which offers a far superior display to my home grown LED display.
Since the screen might be hit by the deluges of rain we have in VietNam, the only question is whether the touch screen is too sensitive or not. Splash-proofing the device will be easy with the use of a custom stainless steel and a tube of silicon glue.
Forget Apple - get the REAL thing. RK2808!
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