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How the Chinese screwed up their 3G mobile phone networks | Samizdata / Michael Jennings #China #iPhone
A long and fascinating introduction to what happens when politics and national pride get mixed up with technology implementation that’s moving at the speed of Moore’s Law: This might help explain why [China Mobile] are unable to offer the iPhone. So, it appears that the largest Mobile carrier in the world, in a country perceived…
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This is what happens when you implement Censorship on the Internet, part 2
From An update on the censorship in Ethiopia | The Tor Blog. A few days ago, we published a blog post exposing the use of Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) to filter all Internet traffic in Ethiopia, including connections to the Tor network. We concluded that they are doing some sort of TLS fingerprinting, but had…
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This is what happens when you implement Censorship on the Internet, part 1
Let’s ignore the illiberality and instead focus on the tying-yourself-up-in-knots game of whackamole which is necessary to prevent “symbolism”: Each year, the Communist Party’s censors go to remarkable lengths to prevent Chinese citizens from accessing, or spreading, their memories of what happened on June 4, 1989, when an unknown number of people were killed during…
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Loose Connections – Oldest and Fatherless: The Terrible Secret of Tom Bombadil
So, if this is true, then why does Bombadil save and help the ringbearer and his companions? Because they can bring about the downfall of Sauron, the current Dark Lord of Middle Earth. When Sauron falls, the other rings will fail and the wizards and elves will leave Middle Earth and the only great power…
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Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No … it’s a dead cat with propellers stuck on it! – in pictures | Art and design | guardian.co.uk
Part of my finds this slightly distasteful but mostly I have known a few cats that would see opportunities in being helicopter cyborgs: After his cat Orville died, Dutch artist Bart Jansen decided to give him a new lease of life … by having him stuffed, attaching propellers to him and flying him around as a…
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Twitter Updates for 2012-06-05
: Costa Coffee in Hartley Wintney plans 33 seats in Cafe http://t.co/Tegv58GW #
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Costa Coffee in Hartley Wintney plans 35 seats in Cafe
Further to my previous posting, I extracted this from the planning documents: I would call that… a stretch goal. Perhaps even brave. UPDATE: In haste I missed two (see diagram) – that makes 35
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Twitter Updates for 2012-06-04
: Thought for today http://t.co/TQLUwgDD # @WorkhouseCoffee Yes that's my blog; the chances of Costa being able to supply better crema & roasts than I can get at home are slight 🙁 # : INCIDENTAL COMICS: Cycles of Life # for cyclists everywhere http://t.co/ZN8eRH5W # I'm not sure what it was, but something just sat…
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The Times has dropped its paywall for the jubilee, so I am introducing a friend to AA Gill’s Restaurant reviews
For instance: The menu arrived with an efficient and Latinly suave waiter. It has a bit of a concept, but not enough to bother with. You can ignore it and order meat, fish or pasta. I started with scrambled eggs, tipped back into their shells, with the addition of gorgonzola and hazelnuts. An egg is…
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INCIDENTAL COMICS: Cycles of Life # for cyclists everywhere
So I am currently panels 1 – except I have a tadpole not a delta – 7 and 8; I’m glad I’m not doing life in the usual order… .