Comment Inconsistent results in Firefox private mode (Score 1) 46
Opened it 3 times in Firefox private mode, got 3 different results, all apparently "unique".
Chrome private browsing seems consistent, but much slower.
The U.N.'s Push for Power Over the Internet 326
Omnifarious writes "China (along with other member nations) is trying to push a proposal through a little known UN agency called the International Telecommunications Union (aka ITU). This proposal contains a wide variety of problematic provisions that represent a huge power grab on the part of the UN, and a severe threat to a continued global and open Internet. From the article: 'Several proposals would give the U.N. power to regulate online content for the first time, under the guise of protecting against computer malware or spam. Russia and some Arab countries want to be able to inspect private communications such as email. Russia and Iran propose new rules to measure Internet traffic along national borders and bill the originator of the traffic, as with international phone calls. That would result in new fees to local governments and less access to traffic from U.S. "originating" companies such as Google, Facebook and Apple. A similar idea has the support of European telecommunications companies, even though the Internet's global packet switching makes national tolls an anachronistic idea.'"
Comment Re:Room on the island? (Score 1) 167
Well, Bin Laden had taken over Hitler's spot of "Evilest Guy Alive" for quite a few years. It's no wonder his death is much discussed.
As someone whose persona was so large, and whose death was always going to be controversial, I guess that means he joins Hitler, Elvis, and Michael Jackson on the island of dead people who are regularly sighted.
Seriously? Since when was Hitler the "Evilest Guy Alive"? I must have missed something.
Submission + - Stephen Fry and DVD Jon back USB Sniffer Project (kickstarter.com)
An anonymous reader writes: bushing and pytey of the iPhone DevTeam and Team Twiizers have created a Kickstarter project to fund the build of an open-source/open-hardware high-speed USB protocol analyzer. The board features a high-speed USB 2.0 sniffer that will help with the reverse engineering of proprietary USB hardware, the project has gained the backing from two high-profile individuals Jon Lech Johansen (DVD Jon) and Actor and Comedian Stephen Fry
Comment Re:What about common-sense PHONE features? (Score 1) 606
Yes, I'm quite serious. Just search the 'net (forums and blogs) trying to find a solution, I know I failed to find one.
The SMS and call history stuff are reasons that will probably make me buy another phone soon (even though they've announced SMS stuff is coming to the 3.0 OS, which is due this summer).
Comment What about common-sense PHONE features? (Score 3, Insightful) 606
I'm still surprised how many features that I've come to expect from a normal phone (it's still called the iPhone, right?) are missing...
Here's a short list:
- Call duration display after hanging up. At least for the last call, if not for all calls.
- Deleting individual SMS. I hate keeping useless stuff in conversations, just to avoid losing that single SMS that has any importance among 10 that are useless.
- (related to the above) ability to save a SMS as a note
- Ability to forward a SMS
- Deleting individual calls from the recent calls list. Because sometimes I don't want certain numbers in my recent calls list (be it an ex girlfriend, or customer, or something else).
- Sending a contact via SMS, or receiving one.
- Having a date in the calendar marked as an anniversary or birthday, and having the phone notify you, and calculate the years passed... OK, this one is more of an extra, but I used it a lot.
My old Nokia 6310i did all of the above (SMS -> note was actually "move SMS to another folder"). Also, its battery, after 57 months of daily usage, would last about 6 days with medium-light usage. My iPhone sees a bit more usage, but it needs to be recharged every day.
Comment Re:*Sniff* they grow up so fast! (Score 1) 388
I've had a similar problem back around 2000-2002, only this time STP was on, and would have avoided the problem... if only it was globally on.
One of the engineers tried to test some ADSL equipment, back-to-back. They put the devices in bridge mode, and disabled STP on those. They tested with their own machine (plug into ADSL ethernet port, go via wire to the other ADSL box which was plugged into the network), and all seemed fine. But later they wanted the devices up (and with links) for a while, to look at error rates at different speeds.
They plugged the other ADSL devices into a port on the wall. The problem was, the devices in bridge mode did know about STP, but had STP disabled (I'm not sure whether it was the engineer who disabled it, or it was disabled by default). Long story short, one mostly unusable network and a few tens of minutes later, I found the culprit: broadcast storm between two ports on the same switch. Too bad I didn't have out of band management at the time.
Unfortunately, the engineer hadn't realized that by plugging the other end of the "ADSL extension" into some port on the wall, they were basically plugging it into the same switch, and thus creating a loop. And the really bad thing was that those ADSL bridges didn't forward STP frames when STP was disabled on the bridges themselves. Also, having STP up on the ADSL bridges would have saved us a lot of trouble.
Submission + - Windows Expert Sees the Light
An anonymous reader writes: Scott Finnie, computerworld's windows expert gives the final verdict to Windows, after 3 months of using a Mac. And the verdict is: "Sayonara".
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?com mand=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9010759&intsrc=hm_ ts_head
From the article: "If you give the Mac three months, as I did, you won't go back either. The hardest part is paying for it — everything after that gets easier and easier. Perhaps fittingly, it took me the full three-month trial period to pay off my expensive MacBook Pro. But the darn thing is worth every penny." Scott Finnie is well known to / readers from earlier stories documenting his trials with Vista Betas, and more recently his displeasure of it.
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?co
From the article: "If you give the Mac three months, as I did, you won't go back either. The hardest part is paying for it — everything after that gets easier and easier. Perhaps fittingly, it took me the full three-month trial period to pay off my expensive MacBook Pro. But the darn thing is worth every penny." Scott Finnie is well known to / readers from earlier stories documenting his trials with Vista Betas, and more recently his displeasure of it.
Journal Journal: Post A Resume - Get Spammed
So, I've been looking for a job recently. After the SuperBowl ads, I thought I'd post a resume on CareerBuilder.com. Yeah.
Submission + - Google opens Gmail to all
Russian Art Buyer writes: "CNet is reporting that GMail is now open for all, no longer restricting to "invitees only." From the article: "Google on Wednesday said its Gmail service is now open to anyone who wants an account. Previously the service, which provides users with 2.8GB of e-mail storage space, has been by invitation only.""
PS3 Oblivion Approaching PC Quality Visuals 242
fistfullast33l writes "After taking a beating in Gamespot's side by side Comparison of Xbox 360 and PS3 graphics, Playstation 3 owners may finally have something to hold over the 360 fans. Both Gamespot and IGN have previews posted yesterday that talk up the graphics and performance improvements over the 360 version. Load times and texture quality and draw distance have been improved, as well as 'new shaders dedicated to rendering the foreground cleanly with sharper details, so rocky landscapes now have craggy appearances instead of smooth, non-distinct surfaces,' according to IGN. They end with the ultimate hype, 'screens from the PS3 version should approach those from high end PCs running Oblivion, which is an impressive feat.' How is this possible? Gamespot reports that 'Oblivion will make extensive use of the PS3's hard drive by caching multiple gigabytes of data, which seemed to help with load times from what we saw.' While there are no official reports of this making it into the new 360/PC expansion Shivering Isles, a rumor on the Gamespot preview says that 1up might have the scoop."
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