Posts by Rich of Observationz
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Management didn’t forecast demand, went too early with marketing, etc
From talking to people at Telecom, nobody in the senior management structure knew the difference between an RNC and an office chair. Their assumption was that they picked a supplier, ticked a few boxes and a working system would materialise.
(Vodafone *do* actually have some level of inhouse expertise, albeit overseas and have had visibly less technical problems).
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Hard News: The Huawei Question, in reply to Russell Brown,
I don't think there needs to be a link to Huawei - the Chinese government want to export stuff, especially stuff that's up the tech ladder. If they see hacking as an obstacle to this, they might stop.
It's not even faintly possible that NZ companies could build these networks on their own, without large, specialised international vendors.
I'm not suggesting we make routers from sand up. What we can do is have some control and knowledge over what's being built.
Look at Telecom's failures with CDMA and then XT. The root cause of those was having dumped almost all technical skill and knowledge in favour of picking a solution ready rolled from overseas. The first attempt was a market failure (cheap, nasty, failing standard) and the second a technical failure (inappropriate scalability and no fallback). A company that knew what it was doing wouldn't make these mistakes.
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A couple of points:
- firstly, there has been evidence of government linked hacking from China, which is antisocial at the least. If the Chinese governments sees this resulting in it's exporters losing business, they might start playing more nicely.
- secondly, I think it's a general problem that NZ telcos are basically marketing operations with the smart stuff contracted to overseas systems providers and the digging of holes done by Aussie labour hire outfits. If they moved the line down a bit, we might get better results in a few areas - confidence in network security would be one of them.
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Graeme - I'm guessing that S.216B of the Crimes Act requires intent, and recklessness isn't enough. Also, "more likely" is not "beyond reasonable doubt?".
If that's the case, then Bradley Ambrose didn't intentionally record a conversation, and hence no crime was committed.
I'm thinking that if the complainant was anyone other than a Government minister, the police would have rapidly established that there was no evidence of intent and declined to proceed further within a few days.
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E* didn't provide the required amount of French language content and therefor was an illegal product in Canada - and legally couldn't be stolen
We should have this in NZ. Any content not available in a Te Reo translation doesn't qualify for copyright.
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Hard News: Back to mediocrity, in reply to Russell Brown,
awful Speights rather than awful Tui
I think they come out of the same vat.
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Hard News: Back to mediocrity, in reply to Jono Baddiley,
Interesting. My Nexus One has 802.11 a/b/g, but I'm not sure how it picks which to connect on.
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Hard News: Back to mediocrity, in reply to Eediot,
And don't bother trying to use the stadium wifi. Useless.
Does any (large area) public WiFi system work properly? I'm yet to find one. Mostly, they show their presence by stopping my phone working on IP until I disconnect or key my email into a (non-Opera Mini) browser. Once I've done that, the connection is invariably patch to useless.
Or are they just symbolic - if you're at an overseas unconference, do you have to use different washrooms if you come from a city with no public WiFi?
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a conference centre is trickling down money from attendees to local business and airlines and hotels
You could apply the same logic to a brothel.
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Hard News: Time to move on, in reply to Russell Brown,
Hey, I've read some of the "Green Book" (rule #1, stay off the piss and don't tell everyone you just joined the IRA. Sensible, that)
Apart from anything else, it's a historical document. I also have the British Army's history of the conflict.
I've never made a petrol bomb though, but imagine the time for which it's actually a restricted weapon might be a bit short lived.