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by fpp 15y ago
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
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by fpp 15y ago
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 experi
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by fpp 15y ago
4 Billion videos a day, I'm always astounded by such numbers - who is watching that many Videos? A bit of common sense: - World population: 7 Billion - Estimated total Internet users (including those that can't use videos due to bandwidth/v
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by fpp 15y ago
Some examples of typical service offerings you're planning / providing would be nice.
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by fpp 15y ago
Try cleaning your browser cache and Flash local storage - most likely you've been browsing a lot of anti-sopa content (not completely unrelated ;) - http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/geoip.png ) The best anti-sopa ad I've seen this morning (12h
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by fpp 15y ago
A. After HTC has sold enough Android phones
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by fpp 15y ago
Another great read from Matt Taibbi on Rolling Stone. Have a look at his articles at Rolling Stone (besides his blog there)
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by fpp 15y ago
it is called the functional threshold
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by fpp 15y ago
Besides the money he had given to the apparatchiks and money wasters of the Global Fund to fight AIDS, TB & Malaria (GFATM) where - as it became public latest last year - up to 2/3 disappeared with mismanagement, corruption and other ab
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by fpp 15y ago
The largest share of aid money is not used for treatments or activities in field - in other words does not arrive with those in need. It disappears by wasteful use of resources, massive overheads, corruption and inefficiencies of the partic
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by fpp 15y ago
This is indeed another confirmation of what I've heard earlier this year that 1kw can now be build for about $1000 (including inverters / control devices) - now put this knowledge into context - One of the biggest solar plants currently bei
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by fpp 15y ago
On December 12, 2011 congress has authorized offensive military action in Cyberspace - CONFERENCE REPORT ON H.R. 1540, NATIONAL DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION ACT FOR FISCAL YEAR 2012 - (see some comments at http://www.activistpost.com/2011/12/cong
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SkyNet now officially online - sync your watches - December 12, 2011(fas.org)
1 points by fpp 15y ago|1 comments
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by fpp 15y ago
From the Wikipedia article you cited: "...Design patents can be invalidated if the design has practical utility..." Besides that this is a "natural evolution of design" and using key design formulas some known since more than 2000 years (e.
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by fpp 15y ago
Judge also considers Fidler/Knight Ridder work from 1994 on tablets as prior art and believes overall value of Apple's design patents reg. tablets is rather low. see 1994 video at http://youtu.be/JBEtPQDQNcI (from 2:21 you have your recta
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US Judge denies Apple request to block Samsung tablet sales(fosspatents.blogspot.com)
4 points by fpp 15y ago|1 comments
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by fpp 15y ago
It still is almost comical - my best comment on that is an old computer joke from the 1980s (it would be a joke if not so true). You know, I live in a house that has a door, windows and a roof and one thing is certain - one day Apple is goi
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by fpp 15y ago
Does pretty much look like that - and you would not exactly buy the runner-up of the 4square / Gowalla competition at a premium - so might have also been a deal at quite favorable conditions for f-book. Given the understanding here that Gow
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by fpp 15y ago
Don't worry - they are just waiting if it passes in the U.S. I would be surprised if the various "usual suspects" & MPs in Europe don't already have a European version of it ready "for discussion" and to be run through as new law(s) e.g
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by fpp 15y ago
Have a look at http://www.opencongress.org/bill/112-h3261/money - which companies / interest are supporting - who received money from them - who's opposing - who the opposing groups sponsored etc
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by fpp 15y ago
With direct patent troll cost (loss of company values) calculated for the last years by BU at about half a trillion plus blocking of innovation, loss of jobs and indirect costs to companies at one point society has to question the prioritie
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by fpp 15y ago
One of the reasons for MS being able to extract such amounts (same as their whole OS lic costs) from HW manufactures like HTC & Samsung is the continuing almost monopoly of MS Windows as a desktop OS in business environments. And – as s