Our 3 kids were born in hospitals, delivered by Midwives - the first in New Zealand, the other two in Australia All 3 times they waited until the cord stopped pulsing before they claped it and invited me to cut it.

IMHO getting your baby delivered by a midwife, at the hospital gives you the best of both worlds. Obstetricians can be a little gung-ho about intervening in the process of childbirth instead of letting things progress naturally, With our first the obstetrician was concerned at how slowly things were going and wanted to induce labour. The midwife stood up to her and said the baby & mother didn't appear to be in any distress so lets just wait a while longer and see what happens. We did that and had a completely natural childbirth a couple of hours later, but we had the comfort of knowing that if things weren't going well the obstetrician and all the specialist help we would need were right there.

Aha I read the site and you are right - but you can only transfer via a wireless network... It was loading content via USB that apple nuked.

I've had a series of nokia symbian phones since 2002, first the 7650, then the 7610, now the 6110 and I use the multitasking abilities all the time. I've never had a problem with background apps causing slowdowns etc in real-world use.

Hi there. I always carry a spare battery for my phone when I go on a trip. Always have done. Nice to meet you :)

Yeah, there are definitely some nice apps out there for the iphone. So much tho that I'm actually considering getting the next one... As long as there is an untethered jailbreak available for it. I have an itouch, and yes the apps are cool... but on my current phone my 3 favourite apps have no iphone alternative - that I'm aware of. I use:

- An answerphone app. If I don't answer in x rings, this app answers my phone, plays my greeting and records the callers message right on the phone. Then I'm not stung for call charges to later check my messages, as it is all on the phone.

- An e-book reader. I have a large collection of ebooks in plain text, html and pdf. On I use mobipocket reader to read these on my phone, and its a simple matter to load these onto my phone from my pc. Mobipocket isn't availalbe on the iphone/itouch, and I haven't found any alternative that lets me load MY OWN content onto the device. Stanza used to do it, but apple forced them to update it so you could only get ebooks from itunes store, and not your own PC. That sucks the big one.

- An automatic profile changer. I've got it set up to automatically change my phone to a silent profile at 11 at night, then back to normal profile at 7 in the morning. This app can also automatically change the profile during an appointment in your calendar, etc etc.

I can't see apple allowing developers the deep integration with the OS that is required to write apps such as a profile changer or an answerphone.

The iPhone does appeal, the hardware is very nice and the OS is slick, and I could probably forgive it for not taking a micro-sd memory card like most other smartphones, but if apple are going to be dicks and stop you puting your own content on it then its a dealbreaker. (both apps AND data... can you have your own custom ringtone these days or do you still have to use either a built-in ringtone or a song you purchased in itunes?)

As others have pointed out to you, this is pretty much no security at all, as each of those devices is broadcasting its MAC address with each packet, all someone has to do is sniff one packet and impersonate that MAC address

But if you aren't using WPA or WEP then all the traffic on your wireless network is unencrypted and anyone driving past/sitting in the snow can eavesdrop on your email, harvest account passwords, etc etc.

Of course anything using HTTPs/SSL is still encrypted, but typically pop/imap email is not.

No, I see one crucial difference in the way these two mediums are being treated that I haven't seen brought up anywhere else yet.

In other forms of media the censoring applies to the creator of the media. What the filter proposes to do is censor the audience, not the creator.

Now I'm of the opinion that total freedom of speech isn't necessarily a right I feel everyone needs. The greater good of our society trumps the rights of the individual when it comes to banning things such as child pornography, hate speech (at its most extreme), and shouting fire in a crowded cinema. I have no problem with these things being illegal, and the authorities coming down on those responsible for such things.

But don't persecute the audience. (with the exception of child pornography, where there is a clear link between the creator and the consumer)

Freedom to listen is a much more important right than freedom of speech

Yeah, I've still got some VCDs at home which appeared to be legit licensed versions of hollywood movies that I brought in Singapore and Hong Kong in the mid 90s. They were sold everywhere. I doubt if they were bootlegs, I brought most of them in reputable looking music and video stores at the airport, not some shady stall in a market.

Like what? Seriously, name one thing you can do on an iphone that you can't do on an E90 or N95.

The secret sauce of the iphone isn't its huge feature set. Its how _well_ it implements the features it does have. Nokia's approach is different. They cram so many features in their smartphones that they are very powerful tools, but full of rough edges. The iphone has reduced the number of features available to the user, so there is a much reduced surface required for apple to apply their polish.

Ahh... oops.. Yep, right you are. Sorry, my bad.

Wow, nice way to find/create an anti-ms slant on the story. I can respect people who bash microsoft if they know what they are talking about, but you clearly don't so no biscut.

Prolems with your theory:

1) Microsoft updates don't patch files. They replace them. Probably to avoid the issues you assume are happening here (even though they aren't). I'll excuse you for not knowing this.

2) The file that the rootkit infects isn't the file affected by the patch. The file MS patched WAS 100% clean. The rootkit was either modifying or calling the patched file using a static offset. After the patch this offset was no longer correct and the rootkit caused a bluescreen when it used it.

3) Even if the patch was a delta and not a whole file, and the file to be patched was the infected file, and if the patch _did_ checksum the file first then the checksum would not have revealed anything was wrong. Do you even know what a rootkit is? A rootkit, by definition cloaks itself by modifying the OS so system calls will not reveal the rootkit. Read the file where the rootkit resides and the rootkit will intercept this and return the original file contents, sans rootkit.

The foundation books, while great Sci-fi, don't have a lot of action.

I'm beting that Emmerich will "sex up" asimov's grand story with some ridiculous chase scenes and lots of action.

Sounds like that is exactly what this is. The file being patched isn't infected, but the rootkit has some dependancy on the exact layout of this file, and when the file is updated by the patch the rootkit (accidently) causes a bluescreen. Possibly the rootkit tries to patch the in-memory image of this file, which messes things up.

What I find really frightening about this situation is how widespread the rootkit that is causing this problem is. Most people have no idea they were infected. (and still do, they are blaming microsoft)
MS is really gonna cop some flak for this one. Unfortunately this rootkit seems to be so stealthy that its damn hard to tell if the machine is infected until its too late and your machine won't boot.

A machine that had been on our network has the patch yesterday and won't boot, could be some be _very_ interesting when we roll out the patch via SUS to the rest of the machines in the network and smoke out how many are really infected.

Except its LOTS more crappy than pc suite. I'd consider it an alpha version. Shows some promise, but they need to finish it.

I just installed on my win 7 x64 machine at work here and I'm probably going to go back to the old pc suite.

It keeps offering ovi maps 3.0 for my phone, which is NOT compatible with it (6110 navigator). If I go to the "maps" section it says there has been an internal error, and helpfully suggests I restart ovi suite, and if that doesn't work I should try and restart my PC. WTF?.

There is no "sync" log to see what contacts/calendar entries were updated after a sync.

And yesterday it started crashing about 30 seconds after my phone connected (via bluetooth). Every time.

I unplugged my bluetooth dongle, started it, disabled all the sync stuff and plugged my phone in. ovi suite connected to the phone, then blew up again.

And then it offered me an update to ovi suite, would I like to install it? I said yes please, and it failed with an "unknown internal error" halfway through. Tried it like 5 times, same error. In desperation I started ovi suite with "run as administrator" and what do ya know, it updated. And now it won't crash when I connect my phone.

What Progress!

But I'm still in shock that their new flagship desktop application for working with your phone, probably designed to compete with itunes (not that thats really a worthy target, but I digress...) DOES NOT RUN PROPERLY WITH UAC ENABLED.

k'mon nokia, you released this app since 7 came out. and its not properly compatible with 7, or vista.

PC Suite used to be the biggest flakiest turd on my PC 5 years ago, and since that time most of the bugs have been ironed out. Why chuck all this out and go back to the drawing board??

Maybe Peter Jackson should have a crack. They said LOTR was "unfilmable" too :)

Thats a very cool link, thanks

The great part about galvanising is it is still effective even if the galvanised surface is removed, exposing the steel underneath.

Zinc is more reactive than iron, and acts as a sacrificial anode. In short, the steel won't really corrode until all of the zinc in contact has corroded away. Look up the chemistry of oxidisation and galvanizing on wikipedia or something.