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75,000 Raspberry Pi baked before August

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Re: “Pi sales have overtaken Arduino in an instant”

"And don't all things that overtake do so "in an instant"."

Well, except any two lorries on a 2-lane carriageway...

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Windows phones send user location to Microsoft

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WTF?

Because it's easier...

...than every application having to have it's own database of cell tower/SSID identifiers.

WP7 uses cell towers to get a rough location, refines it using SSID's then refines further using GPS. This means it's quicker to get you results than by having to wait for a GPS lock every time. This is simply reports to whatever application is asking as Lat/Long/Accuracy.

The alternative is for every application to have to get cell tower and SSID's and transmit them to their own server for lookup, or have a database of every cell tower and SSID on your device.

Which alternative would you prefer?

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UK mobile punters get swift network switcheroo ability

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I've never been a great fan of Three's general attitude. A few months ago, I started getting calls on my O2 mobile from an 0800 number I didn't recognise. Now I have a habit of not answering numbers I don't know, and instead Googled it to find out it was Three. Calls started coming in from this number at all hours of the day, and initially I ignored them thinking they might give up but alas, they didn't. Eventually I caved in and answered with "Hello, Three" to which they claimed not to be Three and started asking questions about my contract. After 5 minutes of me asking who they are, they eventually admitted to being Three, I told them I wasn't interested, and they are not to contact me again.

Guess what? The calls didn't stop. 3 more times I asked them to stop contacting me and they didn't, so the 4th time, I answered the phone "Good afternoon, Essex Police" and suddenly they apparently had the wrong number!

Heard nothing until a couple of days ago, when calls from an 029 number started coming in, and low and behold Google informs me it's Three again. Any ideas on how I could wind them up this time?

P.S When the lady in the recording said you could transfer it to someone else, I'd have asked for her name and asked her to transfer the contract to herself ;)

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