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What they do is traffic shaping / policy management / caching to reduce the amount of traffic delivered to the device via the mobile network.

The issues here are part of the overall network neutrality theme besides privacy & user experience issues.

Key technologies used are DPI (deep packet inspection) and PCRF (policy & charging rule function) within their IMS and even on the edge of their networks (mostly caching plus location capture etc). There are whole application ecosystems around these providing specialized solutions depending on the infrastructure (provider) used by the TelCom.

Leaders of the pack providing such technology are Sandvine, Ericsson, NSN, Cisco, Procera, Allot & Arbor Networks. CDN providers like Akamai or Level3 are tmk also active here.

Beyond the above there are pure HW players that e.g. provide TCP/ IP processing equipment which allows real-time inspections of 10/100Gbps streams together with development stacks - typical development providers include Continuous Computing (they have some nice posters to familiarize you with normal TelCom infrastructure) and smaller ones like Cavium Networks.

Besides all of the above commercial tools there is the so-called Lawful-Inspection where who-god-knows is peeking into the telcom traffic with special installations (now also in almost all western countries) so that even the Telcos don't know where the data is going to.

To get an overview what is happening in that industry segment have a look at http://broabandtrafficmanagement.blogspot.com/ - be aware that the TelComs are using a special lingo and acronym soup!
The compiler could also be an interpretor. ;) What could be a better way to chose the algorithm than to try them all on the actual data runtime (or in "training mode")?
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Three's headers contain my phone make and model as a wap profile header - nothing personal apart from that.
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There is nothing inherent in that people should value economic productivity above all else. That's the gospel of the industrial revolution, and it's not really valid anymore in the (post-)information age.

If you cannot be part of "economic productivity" then it is natural to look at other ways to feel good about yourself. "useless" is a value judgment that you cannot really make about other people and causes a lot of grief.

Anyway, I was just trying to say that these concerns are orthogonal to the macro-economy. I'm with you though, that more free market economics is not a solution to anything...
With this technique, replies go to the correct sender number sent not the spoofer, right?
Direct competition is difficult due to patents among other things. That is very evident in both the desktop OS as well as mobile OS war. Startups are going to have an insanely difficult time trying to get something up without getting sued by dozens of company brewing in this war. And if thats not the issue, certainly licensing fees will be hefty.

But putting all that aside, Apple is great in many ways currently. To do better is insanely difficult in part because no one has a clue what better actually is and hardware is a huge gamble unlike software. This and the above factor makes things difficult out the door. I would certainly love to see another hardware/software company come up to compete, and even one with a more web presence too (something Apple lacks a lot of when you look at companies like Amazon, Facebook, and Google), but I'm not sure I see a reason for such a company to exist at the moment.

Most companies exist because there is an inherent problem that can be done better. I'm not sure I have much to complain with the way things are going as I'm sure many others don't either. Most of the complaints, if any, are Apple EULA or their closed ecosystem, not so much about things that are actually wrong with their products to the point where its a huge pain point.
> but given the margins associated with SMS

Do you mean the margins that lead to a several hundred to several thousand percent markup?
I think I prefer Gigpop. If the letters are transposed there, Gipgop is a bit funny - better than Bogpig!
I had the header at 9.30 this morning. I just refreshed the page and my number has gone, so either they've fixed it or I'm using a different proxy that doesn't have the issue.
>"The 256 MB of RAM will be very constraining for any app trying to use all that power, though."

My Archos 101 has 256MB RAM and runs Android suprisingly well. It only does 720p video playback though; full specs http://www.archos.com/products/ta/archos_101it/specs.html?co.... I'm not going to lie, it does tend to lag a bit; wonder how easy upgrading the RAM will be on the RPi.
The write down after AOL bought Time Warner, and AOL's stock went south.
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Disclaimer: I am not an expert and basically just some random internet person. I've read several recently-published books on cancer, including "The Emperor of all Maladies," (http://amzn.to/xr2Mx1) which I highly recommend.

We keep thinking we have a lock on curing cancer, but it continues to be very elusive.

As I understand it, using automation to "debug" individual cancers is scalable. That is, reading a cancer, adapting to it, and creating a vaccine is something that can be done with increasing levels of detail as automation increases.

So if they only show a 1% improvement, it's a strategy definitely worth continuing. This is very much like the hacker who keeps playing around with a broken method until it works -- only it's all automated. It very well may be that we "learn" how to contain/control many cancers without having a traditional understanding of them at all. Fascinating approach, and much different from previous forays. Watch this space. Given the history, my money says it's still going to be a long, hard slog -- perhaps decades, but still, a promising approach.
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That's why I was really disappointed in Tiny Tower, really was hoping it was a new implementation of Sim Tower instead of a Farmville set in skyscrapers.
This is done inside the TelCom core - you have no control over that on the device.

That's also why headers from normal (non-mobile) endpoints including WiFi are considered unreliable for such information.

All that might soon change with the use of IP6 addresses.
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Correct. But that can often make the pranks even better. Especially if you send simultaneously from two people to one-another.
What no-one will talk about is: the economy never actually recovered from the dot-com crash. The last 10 years were a mirage built on debt. So now we need to deal with TWO aftermaths. And that is why economists say UK standards of living will revert to 2002 levels.
I've heard of Gary Taubes and I've been shown the same stuff.

I mentioned a control system and I meant it. Weight loss is an enormously complex system internally. Almost all of the mechanisms are unobservable.

What is observable is: food in vs weight / calliper measurements.

Paleo works for lots of people. That's awesome. But it doesn't change the fact that a large component of the weight loss is removing calories in by cutting out sugar-dense foods.
It will, and pretty much! Different battery types have also vastly different responses depending on the current draw. For example, http://data.energizer.com/PDFs/EN91.pdf (the first bar graph) shows one example of capacity vs. discharge current.
Does anybody know the name of this game, please?!

http://static.arstechnica.com/scummvm-history/scummvm-androi...
I do on mine. What apn have you got set? Mine is mobile.o2.co.uk username o2web. Maybe some apns are different?
Yea, you will invariably run into the halting problem and similar. But I think academics are too held back by that in general. The "program space" is very large, and there's of course a lot of strange beasts out there, but only a very small subset of all possible programs are meaningful to create (in the sense that people want them or their output).
I mentioned weight training, not by accident. Steady state cardio using the lipolytic energy system[1] is a very slow way to create a caloric deficit; and it causes atrophy. It's not unusual for Olympic marathon runners to have higher body fat percentages than their sprinter compatriots.

I admire your grit, but have you tried some weights or perhaps some high-intensity interval work?

[1] http://www.hussmanfitness.org/html/TLEnergySystems.html discusses the four energy systems at a high level.
Almost infinite margins!

Check this out for a good read: Anyone who has industry experience knows that it's trivially possible to spoof SMS phone numbers.
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Does the iPhone 4S actually use a Tegra 2? Everything I've read indicated it used a PowerVR GPU, just like every other iPhone, not a Tegra 2. The article seems fundamentally misguided and incorrect if this is the case.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/4951/iphone-4s-preliminary-ben... says SGX543MP2.
Absolutely. Find the diet that works for you; there's hundreds. I've found intermittent fasting works well for me, but there's no magic. I'm basically just skipping a meal per day and that causes the deficit.
For those with money.

The working poor, created by organizations such as the iPod factory quoted in the article, still can't afford anything, because the living costs are rising faster than their income.

We need to stop subsidizing companies that offload the costs of their labor onto the rest of us.
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It should be possible to sync it e.g. with Android via ActiceSync. Some time ago I managed to do this with Android 2.3. I don't have this setup any more, so if you need details try searching for "windows live activesync" or something similar.
In UK slang, to "mong out" is to relax on a sofa in a state of immobility, generally after overenthusiastic herbal indulgence.

It may be related to the insult against those with downs syndrome, but people aren't thinking about that when they say it. They're thinking about lying on their bed with a laptop having just woken up at lunchtime, browsing through funny pictures using only the arrow keys.
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> Do you choose to use software instead of employing a person because you prefer the software

I think in the long run the software will do a much better job than a person. It's inevitable in my opinion. We are not even a century into computing and look what we already have achieved.

> I do not like to think about an automated, antisocial world

That is because you define your world as the action of going to work in order to receive food and shelter.
This does not necessarily have to be your world. I say we should leave this world to machines while everybody can go on to do what he is really passionate about.

Of course we need a different distribution mechanism of goods created by the machines. But that's a different question.
I try to keep kosher when it comes to pigs. Gigpop started to annoy me after a while. To me Bop is better than Pop: Bop is like Bebop, it has lasting value unlike Pop which changes with the times.
What we want are ways of dealing with production and communication -- the notion of 'property' is almost exactly what we want to leave behind.
How about the WEB developers tart respecting tab order and such devices in their applications?
The SMS service that I use to send messages has an option to send an SMS 'from' any number I choose and it works nicely.

I can send messages 'from' anyone I want - and we actually use this feature to facilitate a user to easily get replies to her messages sent directly to her phone.
Thanks. I loved it when I was a kid.
Yeah i think you're spot on, it's that ability to shine out from the crowd that is required. Although i guess the exclusivity of being a graduate could easily return with recent hike up in fees within the last couple of years.
Looks like Mali will be the first ARM graphics core to get a free driver http://www.fosdem.org/2012/schedule/event/mali
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In my experience the best way to do it is to setup a couple of searches by make & price and subscribe to those RSS feeds. I'm usually looking at maybe 8 or 10 types of cars, not all cars. In fact when I was buying my last used car I had picked out make, model, trim, year and even with that I was able to look at 4 or 5 in a few weeks from the local craigslist ads.
I can vouch for a similar increase in consumer markets in Bangalore.. Been in chennai a few months and am suspecting the same here too....
Their Twitter account ( https://twitter.com/#!/O2 ) has a burst of new activity. Looks like this has been passed up from Tier 1 support.
If you can live without such luxuries as an operating system, libraries, and drivers then you too can write software as efficient as Defender! But resources are well spent on abstraction, most of the time.
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Not since the last snapshot. It syncs as close to real-time as possible without the latency and network speeds affecting the performance locally.

This solution isn't designed to replace fault-tolerance on local hardware. It is for close to realtime offsite replication and backup.

Data in S3 is stored in at least three geographically separate locations and snapshots are very fast and very efficient on storage space.

The final major advantage you get through a solution such as this is that if you do have your primary site go down (floods, tornados, etc), you can bring up all your existing images via EC2 without having to have a bunch of redundant hardware sitting around waiting for disaster to strike.

And what do you pay for this? $125/month plus a per GB storage cost CHEAPER than enterprise storage generally is.
I think the author is saying that the Broadcom GPU outperforms both the Tegra 2 (used in Android devices & netbooks) and the iPhone4S's GPU.

(edit: fixed typo)
> stock is partial ownership

This is a nice idea, but it's not immediately obvious it should mean anything. If someone owns 1% of a company they may theoretically own 1% of its assets, but if they can't practically make use of those assets for personal benefit then that value evaporates.

Say I'm the director of a company. I own all of its shares and am the one-member board. As chairman of the board I appoint the CEO (myself) and in tandem with said CEO I make all decisions regarding hiring and pay. My company pays no dividends, and I've made it clear that I will never sell more than 49% of the company.

Now, the 49% that I might sell technically confers partial ownership, but it gives no control, no dividends, no benefit of any kind.

Say my company only does one thing: It invests in Company2, my other business. Company2 is run in exactly the same way as the first company of mine. Now, say I was willing to sell you 49% of the first company, and my first company (me) was also willing to sell you 49% of Company2. You'd own nearly 75% of Company2, but you'd have no control over anything.

I could keep nesting companies inside other companies until you effectively owned 99.9% of the company that did the actual work, but that's completely irrelevant - even if the company was worth billions, there is no logical reason that the value of those shares should be correlated with the value of the company. They might as well be correlated with the weight of the CEO, though they should probably be worth nothing at all.

I'm pretty sure partial ownership is only worth anything when it is relevant to a credible possibility of controlling ownership.
Still on this:

"Copyright does not protect an idea, but the expression of an idea."

Copyright actually protects from copying. Even if the expression is identical if no copying took place then there is no infringement.

That said. Copyright also expires which is what you, bane, have failed to mention. Also, copying the style - in this particular case - would have been something along the lines of a yellow cab on the brooklyn bridge with the background in monochrome. Even it seems if they'd had a red bus on Tower Bridge or elsewhere. But here they've used the same style and very nearly the same content. So I don't think you're being quite fair.

An analogue might be recreating Warhol's Campbell's Soup Cans with the cans marginally rotated, basing the piece on the original work (trademark issues aside). Now I'd like to say that I think that piece actually would be a valid new work - and have quite a lot of substance - but nonetheless it would be derivative of the original beyond mere inspiration IMO.

Before I get any further I'd better read the ruling ...
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There is so much talk about SPYW and its evil implications. If google just adds a new tab , saying social search , wont that solve the problems. And if twitter wants to share its tweets , fine , lets get twitter on board as well. And I dont think facebook will let google access its data , and it might still say its evil.
Did you really think a national healthcare system is a "whacko communist" idea? If you want to debate it's merits please do, but don't resort to petty name calling.
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Thanks. I remember having 2-3 die on us on my startup at the time, but wasn't sure if it was 2004 or earlier. Those were IBM branded though, not Hitachi yet. I remember reading some hilarious advice on the net by IBM, like "don't run them for more that 18 consecutive hours" or something like it.
I would have expected that the networks cross-reference the device an SMS was sent from (IMEI?) with the sender phone number claimed in the message. I don't think that's unreasonable, but Richard seems to have found that this basic check isn't being performed here.

Are you so keen to see a system remain with this insecurity just because you have a fundamental belief that perfect security isn't possible? Most if not all security is a case of shades of gray, and there's clearly a lot that could be improved here by the network.
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Totally agree, and this whole thread allowed me to understand very clearly my gripes about the evolution of google search.

I use search at home, when going out, at home, everywhere. And in every different context I have very different expectations. Precisely sharp results for anything in my domain of expertise, blurry and "good enough" results for generic searches, multilingual results for broadly relevant searches, very local results for everyday related searches.
And these expectations might change depending on any random factor.

I don't think google can weasel out what I want in what context. And I don't feel like adjusting dozens of options everytime I do a different kind of search.

Before google started making search smarter, the burden was on my shoulder to do the work to get relevant results for my queries. Now that the algorithms do more and more assumptions, I get to fight with it more and more, and before the blame lies on my search skills, it goes to google for making it hard.

My solution was to use separate engines (including multiple instance of the same ones, like ncr, US only, jp only etc), but a fast a dumb engine is really the way to go.
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Oh but they didn't stop buying Fords -- even Pintos -- when this was happening.

But your inclusion of government raises a good point. You're right. In the US, government is really just an extension of the corporations. It stopped being true democratic government, representing the people, long ago. So why not reduce that inefficiency and just be honest about it?
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The most impressive part of the story for me:
"Strigeus, who left in early 2002, went on to develop several more open-source projects, most notably OpenTTD—a remake and expansion of Chris Sawyer's classic sim game Transport Tycoon Deluxe. He also authored BitTorrent client µTorrent, which was purchased by BitTorrent, Inc. in 2006, and was chief architect of the Spotify beta."

It appears as though the only significant piece of software written by this guy which I haven't used extensively is Spotify, and that's just because it isn't supported in South Africa yet.
My lack of knowledge on this subject is evident here I am afraid. Is there not a way the networks could, like Google, try and detect spam or spoof messages?
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Another fact is that the human body is trained to survive starvation. When you consume less calories, the body will simply burn less calories.

And yet another fact: there are people that could eat enormous amounts of table sugar and French fries and pork grills and whatever else is considered a calories-bomb and do so daily and not gain any extra weight and if they do, they return to a normal weight immediately after stopping this unhealthy practice.

Clearly something is missing from this picture and losing weight by starving yourself is not sustainable, even if it works for some people.

Your body will just adjust and after a certain threshold it will stop losing weight. And as soon as you break the rules, your body will put back the lost weight faster than ever before.

The (biggest) problem lies with carbohydrate-rich foods - things like white bread, potatoes, pasta.

E.g. if you eat meat and only meat (disregarding the healthiness of this approach), the daily intake of calories doesn't really matter as you will lose weight. You can also be a vegetarian - as long as you stay away from starch and sugar, you will lose weight.

Also - only thin people are suggesting that for losing weight you should eat less (in general). There are fat people out there that barely eat anything and are still fat. Spreading such lies can do real damage.
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Here's a statement from the Information Commissioner's Office:

"When people visit a website via their mobile phone they would not expect their number to be made available to that website.
"We will now speak to O2 to remind them of their data breach notification obligations, and to better understand what has happened, before we decide how to proceed."

http://news.sky.com/home/technology/article/16156276

O2 are in trouble.
So the complaint is that no one tells the world about the insecurity of text messages. And the blame is laid on a network provider.

This is wrong. First of all I think it's a bad idea to jump on the (valid!) privacy complaint against O2 in the UK with this unrelated thing. Second, as many pointed out already: This is not a problem of any carrier.

So your peers are surprised if you send a text message from their mum's number? Sure, understandable and maybe that needs to be fixed. But your carrier is not responsible for that in my world, just as yahoo/google etc. cannot protect you from most spoofs in the mail world.

And - gasp! - you can do similar things with a call (ever noticed that Skype offers to call 'from your number'?).

If the article wouldn't hijack a real issue _and_ wouldn't blame the wrong target, then I think there's a valid point somewhere in there: We, the technical crowd, should find a way to educate people around us about inherent trust issues. But that should be a constructive project, not mud slinging.