Posts by NitricJerkSud

5 posts • joined Monday 26th November 2007 02:05 GMT

Posted in 'Untraceable' phone fraudsters eye your credit card

Posted Wednesday 4th June 2008 12:53 GMT

NitricJerkSud

RFC for SIF Protocol

There needs to be a companion protocol to VoIP's 'SIP' created -- SIF. Through the SIF protocol, you could select on option on your phone to have the caller 'Stabbed In Face'.

Posted in NGO attacks Apple's lack of action on climate change

Posted Friday 9th May 2008 15:04 GMT

NitricJerkSud

Let's talk about power consumption...

I have two similarly-equipped servers in Colo. The Apple Xserve (quad-core, 3Ghz) consumes under 2A, the IBM p510Q, 4.5A. The Xserve could be a noisy neighbour at my desk. The p510Q sounds like a jet engine.

Focus on the power efficiency of their products and the impact to the environment, not the fact that a company has a dedicated 'green-washing' team of PR wanks.

Posted in Apple gets into mine-sweeping, missiles and storage

Posted Saturday 26th April 2008 15:10 GMT

NitricJerkSud

Has anyone bothered...

... to look at the patents they hold?

By owning the company, they own the patents, which allows them to use some (or, let's face it, all) of that technology in the custom-designed chips in their products.

Apple can now design their own chips (or license the patents to their vendors) and take advantage of PA Semi's technology, skipping the costly and annoying litigation step entirely.

Posted in Bell Canada chokes BitTorrent traffic on someone else's ISP

Posted Thursday 27th March 2008 20:20 GMT

NitricJerkSud

Maybe you're missing the big picture...

Today, it's P2P protocols. Tomorrow it's your VPN session. Then it's your TV episode downloads from iTunes that competes with their satellite television or VDSL offerings. Then it's your VOIP traffic from another provider. Then it's your SSH session.

It's anti-competitive, anti-consumer behavior. Bell specifically advertises a service that doesn't slow down during busy times... And now they're CAUSING the network slowdown.

If they're not fought on this front, we're all fucked in the end.

Posted in Top US engineer in piss-off-everybody car fuel solution

Posted Monday 26th November 2007 02:24 GMT

NitricJerkSud