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Comment Re:Google == NSA (Score 1) 82

I own a GTA02 and it was hardly useful as a full time phone. Sometimes it would fail to come out of suspend when called, sometimes lock up and need rebooting and other faults. It's power management wasn't that good either - 24 hours per charge if that. It lives in a drawer now, I bought a Galaxy S3 to replace it.

The GTA04 OpenPhoenix replacement board is a joke. 666 Euros ($AU 1000). It does not have a fully working kernel yet, there are various kernel versions with varying degrees of functionality. Even battery charging is broken. Not many people on the mailing list use it as a day to day phone near as I can tell.

While the idea was good, how did Golden Delicious (who sell the GTA04) think they were going to make this work without a kernel developer?

These phones are so secure that you are lucky if you can make or receive a call on them.

Comment Re:Well ... (Score 1) 70

What about internet supplied products such as music downloads. There is no reason at all us Australians should pay $1.69 when he same track is $0.99 in the US. Remoteness is not a factor. It is select companies deliberately price gouging us because they feel the market will bear it. I for one look forward to law changes to correct this problem.

Comment Re:If facts count at all, the Aussies are correct! (Score 3, Interesting) 386

I'm Australian and our company uses cloud models for some of our business - as per my other post - it would be crazy for an Australian company to host in USA. It isn't the latency ... that just sets an initial response delay. A lot of ppls in the "outback" have broadband via satellite ... database access assured but don't try and play quake :)

Data retention, security, availability and backup are what we need. My ideal then is an Australian hosting company with exemplary credentials. We have that!.

The USA has introduced laws and policies that withhold legitimate data from its owners. Even if costs were 50% ,given current US policy (we own EVERYTHING attitude), I don't think I can justify a business case that allows the hosting to be there. Megauploads serves as a perfect example.

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