Attack on Net Neutrality
This is really an attack on net neutrality by telcos. It is none of their business to meddle with my communication data.
Posts by Another User
100 publicly visible posts • joined 12 Jun 2012
Wakey wakey, app developers. Mobile ad blocking will kill you all
Apple iPhones, iPads BRICKED by iOS 9's 'slide-to-upgrade' bug
AssangeTM says Sweden squibbed on promised interview
LA schools want multi-million Apple refund after kids hack iPads
Thursday 16th April 2015 17:22 GMT
Khan academy works great on iPad and other devices
There is such a plethora of information available nowadays. Kids can have easy access to all of this. Sadly they are wasting their energy.
I suggest to try sites like http://khanacademy.org to see what I am talking about. Especially have a look at the Mathematics curriculum presented there.
Learning a foreign language on an Android or iPad tablet works great too. You get instant feedback and can perfect your pronunciation. This is something a book and paper cannot do.
Home Office: Fancy flogging us some SECRET SPY GEAR?
Hungary's internet tax cannot be allowed to set a precedent, says EC
Wednesday 29th October 2014 07:57 GMT
Re: There is a point
Already invented. Think of stamps for email. German DE-mail is 0.39 EUR per sent email. Tax is included. It is authenticated and to be used for communication with authorities and for business purposes. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/De-Mail
In other words: Pigs can fly
(I do not know how many such mails are actually sent.)
Jeff Bezos rolls up another $437m, lights Amazon's cigar with it
Really... an iKeyfob? Apple continues war on fanbois' pockets
Wednesday 22nd October 2014 07:09 GMT
Nothing new: Key helps locate a car
That is what most car keys do already. Press a button and your car honks or flashes it's lights.
So car thieves could have used this "feature" for years.
If Apple were to use the Apple watch as a key then this kind of theft would not work. The watch monitors heart rate and switches off payment functionality when the watch is removed from one's wrist. Similarly it could stop working as a car key.
No one wants iOS 8 because it's for NERDS - dev
Mars needs oceans to support life - and so do exoplanets
Monday 21st July 2014 21:04 GMT
Re: Planets without Endorian Wood Terrorists.
About 70% of the surface of the earth is covered by water. "Dry" land is a result of plate tectonics and volcanism. Both of these mechanisms rely on a hot core. This same hot core also enables the magnetic field. As already mentioned the magnetic field protects the atmosphere from the solar wind.
So maybe another planet which could sustain life would have to be quite earth-like.
Sit back down, Julian Assange™, you're not going anywhere just yet
Microsoft: You NEED bad passwords and should re-use them a lot
Wednesday 16th July 2014 10:40 GMT
Use reset password link via email
Nearly all websites offer a "reset password via email link". For rarely visited sites there is no need to use a simple password. Just enter random characters which you do no not even have to memorise.
Next time you access this site click on reset password option, lather, rinse, and repeat.
German server lockbox scores MEELLION dollar seed-smashing record
Thursday 5th June 2014 10:11 GMT
Not fit for purpose
Cisco gear was supposedly intercepted on route to the customer and "enhanced" by the NSA.
Why should a Protonet or Draytek router be safe then?
This needs to be solved with laws and punishment. Society should not accept secret laws, secret courts, and secret services infringing on everybody's rights.
Kafka is closer than we think. Today there is news about a planned secret trial against two terror suspects. Why aren't we allowed to know who is accused and of what?
Your devices Heartbleeding - again
Boeing, Cupertino to 'explore weaponisation of Apple technologies'
Inmarsat: Doppler effect helped 'locate' MH370
Wednesday 26th March 2014 08:55 GMT
Re: Truly astonishing amount of information stored
There is no information that this collection is limited to a ping handshake. The last attempted handshake was described as incomplete. I do not read it as telling that there was no reply from the airplane at all. Further analysis would not be possible w/o data.
10,000 km road trip proves Galileo satnav works, says ESA
Why Bletchley Park could never happen today
Friday 25th October 2013 09:55 GMT
Re: It's all about who you employ
Your name alludes to Gideon's spies: The secret history of the Mossad.
Now we can infer: a) You do not work for the Mossad, b) You have an interest in espionage,
and c) Someone needs to double-check that you did not pass a vetting process which you should have not...
Microsoft announces execution date for failed QR code-killer
Bug-finder chucked for posting to Zuck
Mystery object falls from sky, area sealed off by military: 'Weather balloon', say officials
Friday 2nd August 2013 08:22 GMT 
Ridiculous
It was apparently attached to a balloon. It was broken. How on earth did these guys think that this was something suspicious?
One TV crew seems to make fun of the entire situation: ... some type of alien life form ...she wasn't off a rocker ... phone lines were even cut off... neighbourhood held hostage by this white box... a weather monitoring device.
Apple Maps. Remember that? Apple does. It just gobbled Locationary
Sunday 21st July 2013 15:55 GMT
Same old same old
Satellite imagery has improved a little bit. Reflections from solar panels have replaced the previous clouds.
Routing is still abysmal. Ever other month I try a route and compare it with the one suggested by my sat nav.
Yesterday the maps app suggested a route with a detour clearly visible as a spike (detour with U-turn).
Another nasty result is produced with destinations it does not know about. Instead of telling it gives a result which seems to be the geographic center of the area in which the destination is located. As this point cannot be reached the maps app tries to navigate in circles around this point. And you can guess that you are miles away from where you want to be.
Now you can use your phone instead of your wallet at the ATM, too
Monday 10th June 2013 09:03 GMT 
Today is not April 1st
Fake QR code? Not needed. Simply replace the QR code with the valid QR code of "another" ATM.
Now all a crook has to do is to wait at the other machine and wait for money to be released. Magic!
Depending on how NFC is implemented this might work even better with NFC.
Who thought that giving up the principle: something you have, something you know was a good idea?
The same guys that sold us electronic voting machines ...
Another iPhone passcode bypass spell revealed
Top Gear isn't TV, not when it's on YouTube
Linksys vuln: Cisco responds
Friday 18th January 2013 08:07 GMT
Re: Better patch
Are you sure that these versions are not affected?
Leon Juranicvor, CEO DefenseCode confirms that this vulnerabilty does not work from the internet.
Asked whether Tomato, Robin, dd-wrt, Free-wrt are vulnerable he only points to busybox. As all of these share a common heritage I take this as a hint that all are vulnerable. In two weeks we will know more...
Quotes on Youtube:
...We're still investigating some tricks to exploit this vulnerability from the internet, but for now, yes - it seems safe from the outside of the network. Of course, unless services are available from the internet. ...
... Pause video on 1:51 my friend. It's busybox, right?. :)
NRA: Video games kill people, not guns. And here's our video game
DefenseCode turns up Linksys zero-day
Tuesday 15th January 2013 10:18 GMT
Re: It probably only works on the local side
Leon Juranicvor, CEO DefenseCode confirms that this vulnerabilty does not work from the internet.
Asked whether Tomato, Robin, dd-wrt, Free-wrt are vulnerable he only points to busybox. As all of these share a common heritage I take this as a hint that all are vulnerable. In two weeks we will know more...
Quotes on Youtube:
...We're still investigating some tricks to exploit this vulnerability from the internet, but for now, yes - it seems safe from the outside of the network. Of course, unless services are available from the internet. ...
... Pause video on 1:51 my friend. It's busybox, right?. :)
Facebook testing $100 fee to mail Mark Zuckerberg
Curiosity gives Martian rock its first scrub down
Wednesday 9th January 2013 09:27 GMT
Re: Circular structures on the cleaned surface
Your answer may sound witty but lacks substance. The picture shows the size of a cm. The circular wire brush marks are easily discernible. They are an order of magnitude larger than the circular structures I was referring to.
NASA took an additional close-up image of the area. Most certainly they do not want to check if it is really clean now.
Those among the readers (not those who downvoted me) might be interested to see if the structures match the impact of tiny meteorites (images of the space shuttle window available). Others could be tiny gas bubbles.
Tuesday 8th January 2013 10:29 GMT 
Circular structures on the cleaned surface
There are some circular structures visible which have only a few mm in diameter. These remind me of burrows in a sand bed created by some marine creatures. If the concrete like material was pelted with small meteorites then there would not have been a significant atmosphere. I am curious about the kind of material seen here and some explanation. Hopefully NASA gives us soon a follow-up.
Anonymous wants DDoS attacks recognized as speech
Google maps app is BACK on iPhones, fanbois spared death
Thursday 13th December 2012 12:30 GMT
I hope not
The TomTom app is a drain on the battery. It is the only app I have which heats up my iPhone. On hot summer days this can lead to a heat warning message and the phone shuts down.
The Apple app lacks some basic functionality like display of speed and also lacks more advanced functionality like re-routing based on traffic, road-blocks,etc. The dismal maps are not part of the Apple maps app.
Apple updates maps to remove Australia’s ghost-city in the desert
Tuesday 11th December 2012 07:40 GMT
Apple fixes map - if they can be bothered to
This shows that Apple fixes issues if the public pressure is high enough. Paddington has been fixed. Luton airport is only found if you give both words.
I am still wondering why Apple purchased sub-standard aerial photographs in the first place.
Did they simply forget to draft a contract that described the properties images should/should not have ( no clouds, colour, angle of view, age of image)?
A lot of these images look like junk nobody else wanted to purchase.
Nine sentenced in Chinese kidney-for-iPad scheme
Saturday 1st December 2012 21:23 GMT
Re: Legal age to vote used to be 18
That depends on where you live.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voting_age
There is a trend to lower the voting age to 16. Near the top of the linked article you will find
a EU initiative from 2009 proposing exactly this.
From the linked article:
The minimum age is 16 in Argentina, Austria, Brazil, Cuba, Ecuador, Nicaragua and the Isle of Man, Jersey and Guernsey (three self-governing British Crown Dependencies). People aged 16–18 can vote in Bosnia, Serbia and Montenegro if employed.
Nokia HERE today with decent mapping on Apple devices
Tuesday 20th November 2012 19:23 GMT
Satellite data from 2008
In my area the satellite data is from 2008. There is one large construction site visible where I know the date of.
Right through our house goes a street according to "here". A two year old street is missing. Google has all streets around here correct. "here"/Nokia comes second, TomTom has several more errors and missing changes here. Apple based on TomTom has some additional errors on top of the TomTom errors.
Texas woman sues cops over burst Bulgarian airbag
Monday 5th November 2012 18:34 GMT
A lot of pathetic comments
With a little bit of effort the readers and the editor could learn more about what happened or allegedly happened.
The incident took place on Oct. 28, 2011. The dashboard camera video was deleted after 90 days. The woman had to undergo a complete mastectomy of her right breast.
There is no claim that the woman was intoxicated or aggressive (The available picture shows a friendly looking woman). This leaves me to wonder what would happen to the other commentators were they to be pulled over.
UK iPad Mini FRENZY: Queues stretch SEVERAL FEET from till
Apple to drop chip-baking partnership with Samsung?
Adele's Skyfall poised to fall from sky
JK Rowling's adult novel arrives on ebook full of FAIL
iPad no flight risk says Federal Aviation Authority
Tuesday 11th September 2012 05:47 GMT
Old News?
From last years Guardian (Aug 20, 2011)I can quote:
Pilots on United and Continental Airlines in the US are replacing their heavy paper flight manuals with iPads loaded with a special aviation navigation application created by Colorado-based Jeppesen, while American and Delta are also testing the technology. Alaska Airlines has already shifted over to iPads.
So the only news seems to be that American Airline switches too now.
Apple pulls in TomTom, kicks Google off iPhones
Tuesday 12th June 2012 13:22 GMT
Re: TomTom, pretty shit here.
Where I live google maps was using 6 - 8 years old maps. Only last week there was an update.
Streetview? Yes, I saw the Google car a year or two ago but this is still not available for non- paying customers.
TomTom is also lacking. It was great several years ago but the cards do not get updated in my area.
I uploaded a score of error reports to Tele-Atlas. Hopefully they will fix it now.
OpenStreetmap has current cards of my area but Apple is using some old snapshot missing a lot of the newer streets.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
