Posts by Tempest

And the US is the world's leading tech nation?

Dream on.

Europe's Galileo satellite navigation system is subject to US control - or a bomb

"According to a leaked US Air Force document written in 2004 August and obtained by The Business, Peter Teets, under-secretary of the US Air Force wrote: "What will we do 10 years from now when American lives are put at risk because an adversary chooses to leverage the global positioning system of perhaps the Galileo constellation to attack American forces with precision?"

"The paper also reported a disagreement between EU and US officials this month over Galileo at a London conference which led to the threat to blow up the future satellites.

"The European delegates reportedly said they would not turn off or jam signals from their satellites, even if they were used in a war with the United States.

"They made it clear that they would attempt what they called reversible action, but, if necessary, they would use irreversible action," the official was quoted as saying. (AFP. 2004 October 24)

Ar*eholes!

Who trusts governments? Even more so, who trusts the US government?

The US government has got to be the least trustworthy government, neck and neck with the UK.

Start filling information requests up with garbage, at least that will slow them down.

Far better they have a human data request filter to make sure they at least seem to obey the rules.

A Cat has NINE Lives but Mad May ...

of Hurst, Berkshire, has NINETYNINE!

When will this odious woman, touted as post-Cameron material, be booted. She obviously can't be someone's love interest with a face like that, so what gives?

What's wrong with TETRA?

There are numerous reasons why TETRA should be replaced. SDR is one good reason.

With SDR (Software-Defined Radio) has most of the answers to TETRA'd deficiencies. In fact there are several InterNet SDR systems running circles around TETRA UK providing full decryption of Plod radio in the UK.

The ability of SDR's software emulating hardware components such as mixers, filters, amplifiers, modulators/demodulators, detectors, etc. can be achieved with an embedded system. SDR systems are today based on an internationally endorsed open Software Communications Architecture (SCA). This standard uses CORBA on POSIX operating systems to coordinate various software modules.

The P25 Program in the USA high-tech digital radios used by the FBI, Secret Service, and Homeland Security were designed so poorly that they can be jammed by a $30 children's toy GirlTech IMME, Mattel's pink instant-messaging device with a miniature keyboard that was marketed to pre-teen girls!

A P25 Digital sells for USD$3,295! Read: <https://gcn.com/articles/2011/08/11/p25-radios-eavesdropping-jamming.aspx> for full details. The Texas Instrument CC1110 sub-GHz RF chip is the key to this pursuit!

Motorola (aka Airwave) produces these P25 Digital USD$3,295 Edsels!

(Amateur and home use, see: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software-defined_radio>)

Remember, every voice call is more grist for their voice analysis computer

All calls to HSBC are 'recorded', the term HSBC adopts for voice analysis.

A background paper said: "The smart phone would capture the customer’s spoken words and transmits it to the bank for authorisation. The sent words would then be compared with his voice in the database, if it matches, he would be authorised. If not, he would be denied access and asked to try again."

To circumvent this blatant invasion of privacy you can (1) Have a 'talk' playing loudly where you make your call; (2) Use cotton wool padding in your cheeks; (3) Remove your false teeth; (4) Alter your voice electronically. All are intended to change audio spectrum of your voice.

They will not/cannot disable the feature on request. The voice database is accessible to police, et al.

Just Apple PR keeping the name in the Press

I guess they can't make it a 7 incher otherwise it would prove Jobs was wrong.

The question is whether even iPhans would get sucked into paying the premium for a product that is similar to a $200 pad from the rest.

Question: Will Jelly Bean handle Quad Core hardware?

At a recent release of an Android smartphone, tech writers questioned the absence of a Quad processor.

Therefore, the question. Will Jelly Bean be up to it?

The airlines had problems with reservation system veracity

One thing you forgot to highlight was the fact that airlines trusted the reservation accounting systems: that is until they found out that they were being charged too much.

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The reservation systems earn their money when a seat is sold - but they charged/debited the airlines when an inquiry was submitted and held pending customer acceptance. What is supposed to happen was when a 'held' booking was cancelled as a result of a no-sale or confirmation period time-out.

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The airlines then installed software and all hell broke loose as they had the proof the reservation systems were overcharging them, which is more properly called fraud. Smaller airlines opted for the weakest link in the deal - the travel agent - billing them for charge-backs rather than going after the thieves in the mess.

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Then travel agents got suspicious of res systems and found they were not being credited with all the seats they sold. Travel agents get bonus payments for large bookings with a reservation system. In fact there was a court case, brought by Galileo against a travel agent in Toronto, Canada, which was withdrawn after the reservation system realised they would be vulnerable to questions around their accounting accuracy. (There is no record of this action as it was heard in secret)

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I agree with you that the presence of Google will improve things for the travelling public who, at this time, are being nickle and dimed to death by airlines imposing their usurious fees (started by American) which has now led to ridiculous baggage limits which offer the carriers to collect yet more fees for bags they once carried free.

What concerns me most about this matter is BA's hiring practices? Don't they do background checks?

BA, like all major entities, owe it to their customers to do through background checks on employees that can exploit vulnerabilities in corporate entities.

Abother reason to avoid flying BA>

Idiots must use Safari; Anyone with an IQ under 80 should be forced to use Safari.

Just about covers an iPhan.

(Why should other people get more red button hits!)

Guilt by innuendo - must be following FBI entrapment stories

" having links to the to the attempted shoe-bombing of a plane over Detroit on Christmas 2009" then they start talking about "with the people you have is is it possible to get a package or a person with a package on board a flight".

So I wonder what is the link between a guy living in Nigeria, flying to Amsterdam and then trying to blow his underpants up over Detroit AND a package? Commonalities are air, explosives, USA.

I think the Met Plod have been reading too much about the far fetched FBI-sponsored bomb plots starting up all over the USA.

Another point. Presumably BA does background checks when it hires somebody: why did it not detect this dodgy computer guy earlier, or did the Plod use him as bait and, inter alia, putting passengers at risk had the computer guys alleged friends been successful?

Methinks there is much more to this than has been released. Or the Plod has presented a fairy story.

Since when have convictions be based on evidence using the word 'may' as in "may have been planning"? He either did or he didn't.

Forget product delays: Verizon now reporting Grip of Death problems!

Now Verizon (CDMA) users are complaining that the so called Lemon 4 is exhibiting the very same problems that were experienced on AT&T a year ago.

Corporate mouthpiece Natalie Kerris reiterated Apple's mantra: "The (Lemon) 4 has a great antenna that allows it to have an amazingly thin design, great battery life and reception," Kerris said. "We designed the iPhone 4 external antenna to work great on Verizon's CDMA/EVDO network.""..

Unfortunately the trusted Consumer Reports, who ran their usual tests, didn't agree.

Who would a normal person believe?

All this speculation depends on whether or not ...

Jobs will even heed the call of the Grim Reaper, given that he is used to people following him.

Americans make death such a fetish: all fancy coffins, urns, etc. Death is natural, so why fear it or treat it as being so 'special'?

New listings don't reply, don't add data

Newer listings seem to have just been added as there is little enthusiasm shown by filling all the details. No contacts, no web site, no pictures.

Perhaps Alibaba just added the names to keep their numbers high.

Obama makes even George Bush look good

Here we have this lawyer who had a golden opportunity to do good but his Wall Street friends have persuaded him to look after them.

Now this lawyer is deliberately floating the law, again, by seizing property with due process involving both sides.

And Obama wonders why he has 'domestic terrorists'?

Watch out for the Bittorrent there really are ...

problems with the files in PDF format by way of viruses.

I think anonymous jumped too soon, they should done it during the presentation with someone in the audience to ask a question!

I have no postal code where I live ....

therefore I am unable to get past the first section.

Incomplete census forms are unacceptable ergo I don't mail mine.