mobile phones: how is it as a phone?

Why is Motorola targetting the iTard market with the Motorola Droid?

Should not phones primarily BOTH

(1) have excellent signal reception/relay
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(2) have excellent audio fidelity / vocoders

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YES!

Does the motorola droid? who knows?!  The engineers might not have bothered testing.  What has happened to the motorola name? merely YAPP (yet another phone producer)?

Does anyone test PHONE network connectivity or test PHONE voice quality anymore?

As long as a phone is SHINY, small, light, and run programs to delight the feckless surely it will be a winning selling product…

Soon the generation who inflicted contraceptives on society will in turn receive the similar gift of euthanaia. … iTards and useful idiots first.. then second generation iTards.. then public school employees and overseers…

I want a slimmer motorola e815.  HTC has one passable PHONE, but I am not interested in paying a $60/month verizon FINE.  One cannot opt-out of the verizon penalty fee.  I want to use the PHONE as a PHONE and nothing more (than the occasional SMS).

edit: even eWeek doesn’t bother to review PHONES  as a PHONE per se... seems like eWeek has moved to the iTards column

Where are the QUALITY PHONES????

edit:  droid “does” stuff but how well IS it a PHONE?

S.H.

solving the google picasa local storage problem

google picasa is a storage glutton… encourage google to support adobe lightroom with web picasa

the problem:  infinite space a logical contradiction

the solution:

suggest a google analog of layers in a file… both reknowned photoshop and painter support layers.. even GIMP

consider a set: original, mod file (layers), and output file.   Incremental changes are made to google mod file and final output available online.  No need for large amounts of space

the future of commenting? past come alive: voice

comments in voice?

http://vocaroo.com/

google voice is much creepier than gmail

google voice is much creepier than gmail

creepier than gmail owning a slice of your digital soul through cross correlation of search results, ads, and EVERYBODY you ever interact with on their other platform tools?  Google will cross identify your surfing (through searches and ad presence) and email habits against those of your circle of friends, family, business associates, and website visitors (should you use their widgets);  Should they be unable to identify you per se they certainly will if you volunteer your credit card to purchase international calling minutes.

I spent about an hour with the number picker, got a really really really cool phone number that I am in the midst of porting out.. so it was awesome in that respect only.

Google Voice might seem impressive to someone who has never tinkered with voip.

Better option: Orgasmatron VPS with Vitelity ITSP with voip.ms and callcentric backups.

much needed search engine features: learn the spam I wish to avoid

server side search engine spam result filtering.. hueristic?

Sure, there are some nifty greasemonkey UserScripts for hiding undesirable search results.  I don’t want to see evil blog scrapers (IP piracy).  I don’t want to see offers to buy illegal drugs when researching a drug.

Learn what I do NOT want to see and NOT-return it for my query.  This need not require signin and microsoft’s new BING engine implies.   Hueristic server side search engine filtering is a must have especially as it would be cheaper than hiring assassins to find and kill spammers.

[IE8 sucks: no native FORM spell checking as you type]

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IAX2: S100-FX

yay

http://100p.com/products/FXS.php

http://voipon.co.uk/atcom-ag188n-iax2sip-analog-telephone-adaptor-p-1662.html

http://michigantelephone.wordpress.com/2009/06/02/review-of-atcom-ag-188n-iaxsip-ata-voip-adapter-%E2%80%93-part-6-final-thoughts-and-summary-review/

NXP TV543 — hello developers? TVersity to HDTV made easy… or PNX5120 .. new HD LCDs have built-in ethernet ports

ethernet H.264 / MPEG-2 to TV _ Philips NXP HDTV

http://nxp.com/#/aip/aip=[aip=456]|pp=[t=aip,i=456]

IPTV and plays well with DLNA

@devs:

http://ashling.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=320

– why wait for developers to produce a LOW COST “media extender”? NEW Philips HD LCDs sport built-in ethernet ports!! oooh

PNX5120 (series 9000 LCDs)

• PNX8543 Video and аudio processor
• PNX5120 HD-NM FHD 100Hz Video Back-End Processor
• EP3C25F324C7N FPGA (“Local Contrast”)
• HD1816AF Hybrid Tuner
• DRX3926K Demodulator DVB-T,DVB-C
• TDA9996 HDMI Switch
• TPA3123D2PWP Class D Power Amplifier
• DP83816AVNG PCI ethernet media access controller and physical layer (MacPhyter-II).

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spintronics femtosecond hard drive a data pipe dream

femtosecond data pipe dream hard drive

spintronics yay? 

device availability speculation has only been happening for more than a decade

Colossal Storage has had a few patent on petabyte spintronics hard drives since 2000:

http://colossalstorage.net/spintronics.htm

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naturally employing CYA grammar the speculation continued:

http://www.lbl.gov/Science-Articles/Archive/sabl/2006/Jan/02-spin-drag.html

could prove to be either an advantage or a disadvantage for future spintronic technologies.

 

Well before then Ratheon (US gov) was experimenting with biological storage mediums.

SLC SSD is the now- and  future replacement of HDD, the slowest component in today’s desktops.  Holographic storage will replace both bloootardray and HD-DVD (the current winner despite the hype).  Inphase Technologies has already demonstrated 500 Gb/in

> ten years back: When a teenager attempts to build a breeder reactor

the USSR plan of destroying education from within has succeeded: we now have a Marxist as Executive in Chief.  Both China and the once former USSR now wag their respective fingers at us.

verizon makes it easy to use neighbor’s FIOS

Verizon fires laser into foot with FIOS CPE defaults

abandon the sinking RoadRunner infrastructure ship… as much as verizon sucks FIOS is the better choice (as long as there are no install glitches or funky flags)

someone, Kyle Anderson, as I warned would take the time to correlate SSID to key:

http://xkyle.com/2009/06/01/my-wireless-cracking-tool/

The foolish default state of BOTH residential- and business FIOS (FTTP as opposed to superior ARCH) CPE is WEP with “random” SSID/key assignments on (raped) OpenRG with mixed hardware.  Brilliant.  WEP has been cracked for how long now?  Why not default to WAP in WPA2-PSK AES or at least WAP off?  No, that would make sense, and require end users to understand the technology they use.  In verizon-l0gik potentially awesome CPE is further crippled with feasture limitation-, Microsoft style “are you sure”-, SEVERE bugs some basic QA would catch, phenominally poor L1 tech ’support’ (to upsell $150/yr premium soho tech consultation), [ad infinitem it seems] .. 

Kyle’s FIOS Wireless Cracking Tool (coralized to save Kyle bandwidth)

Kyle’s FIOS Wireless Cracking Tool v2 (coralized)

 Comnically FIOS 50/20 package has some other issues like 45Mb/s links that will cause more fun down the line (pun intended)

Motivate verizon to correct FIOS CPE by letting your neighbors cover your ultraband internet costs for the next few months:

http://xkyle.com/2009/03/03/verizon-fios-wireless-key-calculator/

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free XP n2n compile to compete with hamachi?

almost hamachi alternative: n2n  (EPC-Virtual Multiplayer Lan [alpha])

http://subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?p=1075858 [client, no supernode (server)]

1. The TAP adapter is from the OpenVPN package. ( there are some vista 64 issues afaik ) [[Himself will test windows 7 (vista sp3)  when SLC SSD >64g is available on a BIOS-flexible ASUS mobo with 16+g of RAM .. for future >8 stream CableCard applications]]
2. the DHCP server & network is a service provided by [pieterbaarlo].
3. the Gui is only a gui written in realbasic, and a frontend to the following tools.
4. the n2n core is created by ntop.org
5. forcebindip is created by r1ch.net

XP n2n gui alternative:

http://www.vpnhosting.cz/index.php/N2n-na-VPNHosting.cz.html

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 n2n allows use of any private address per RFC1918

n2n supernode in VMWare seems entertaining… I’ll toy with that in a bit

http://luca.ntop.org/n2n.pdf

 

 

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OS integrity does not wane with use: OSX

OSX: the X11 of the future.  Transition sponsored by microsoft

thanks microsoft by making OSX more appealing by the hour

hulu certainly does NOT need to store flash shared objects (SOL : flash cookies)

DENY hulu the privilege of storing flash shared objects (SOL) in your Local Storage

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Flash settings manager is NOT capable enough.  flash player hack?  Currently it only sports a whitelist:.

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DRM urinates on the American way.  STOP hollyfascism in its tracks at hulu.  Thankfully no elaborate tools are required.  Obviously, though not to the cretins, my objective is not piracy.

[105% NoSquint zoom had been in effect prior to all screen captures]

block ALL hulu ads with ONE adblock plus filter

blocking ALL hulu ads with merely FOUR adblock plus filters

yes, only four filters will kill all interstitial hulu ads.. mwahaha

configurable security policy joy

.. taking advantage of the hollywoodifizing of browser technology

Circumventing hollyfascism is trivial. The hollyfascists will never win.

Configurable Security Policy (CAPS) extension for firefox oh so close

rally the troops… please? Sure this is an OLD idea. Is now it’s time?

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1154

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/7478

http://people.mozilla.com/~bsterne/content-security-policy/

link to evil-google withheld

http://jeremiahgrossman.blogspot.com/2008/06/site-security-policy-open-for-comments

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Security_Policies

http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/components/ConfigPolicy.html

NoScript is only a tiny slice the user’s CONTROL

Though extensive RT content filters ought not be happenning within the browser: use hardware appliances for that.

This will be my last Microsoft OS laptop (XP).

MY hardware MY rules. Mine is the last word.

is Asus EeePC the modern toshiba libretto?