Journal Cyberdyne's Journal: Cellphone Schadenfreude 11
The cellphone industry seems even more enthusiastic about bizarre acronyms than most technology areas, but this guy knows his way around them better than many. A good explanation of the nature of TDMA, GSM (actually an alternative layer on top of TDMA, as he explains) and CDMA, as well as the two competing CDMA derivatives, WCDMA (also known as UMTS or "3g") and CDMA2000, although he does focus more on the lower levels of the technology and how GSM's weaknesses are causing major headaches for the networks using it, rather than the security flaws in the higher levels...
Yah but old (Score:1)
Still good article, I reread it yesterday, I had read it before a few years ago.
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Re:Yah but old (Score:1)
Err, maybe we should get together and send him an e-mail asking for an update?
Re:Yah but old (Score:2)
I find it more interesting to read predictions after the predicted developments have (or haven't) happened. In this case, he seems to have been pretty accurate; the sad thing being, the Euro-Empire is still insisting on forcing UMTS out there no matter what. On the other hand, one detail he missed is that upgrading to CDMA2000 would be just as difficult a
OT: Acronyms (Score:2)
Re:OT: Acronyms (Score:1)
You know why Golf is named "golf"?
Because all the other four-letter words were taken.
Cars & Games (Score:2)
As for the game of golf, although I have never been foolish -- or brave enough --- to try it myself, it appears that only a four-letter words would be strong enough to describe it. But it supposedly builds character. Writes P
Re:Cars & Games (Score:2)
Men should be arrested for flogging their balls in public.
Re:Cars & Games (Score:2)
Ah, need to clean the monitor after that one...
Re:OT: Acronyms (Score:2)
We have not stopped inventing new words. Not even English words. "Blog" and "blogger" are quite novel, for instance. We may have stopped inventing proper names for all the new things invented;
Name and Number (Score:2)
Once upon a time we used to be able to come up with words -- or, if you prefer, proper names -- for objects such as Common Haunch and Ass Inviting Receptacles without pretending that they, in and of themselves, involved descriptions of the object(s) in question. I think we just chickened out. I blame JFK. Or FDR. Tiny, obnoxious liberals might prefer to blame LBJ or GWB; dyslexics SUE (So