rainnw's comments

rainnw | 12 years ago | on: An Open Letter from a Phone Phreak

Its sad that we are regressing from high quality to low quality voice telephony. Telephone companies are already petitioning (rather silently) to remove any aspect of regulation from the state utility commissions. I got a tattered postcard in fine print from CenturyLink explaining about such a hearing that will take place in .. get this .. 4 days on a weekday. I suspect they don't want the public to be very aware of this.

Soon, the last saviors of communication, the battery bank powered analog telephone line with cold war reliability, will be replaced with garbage DSL/VoIP modems that crash on a daily basis with choppy audio... yay.. i can't wait for another actiontec. This is going to be the replacement for the "landline". Seriously.

rainnw | 14 years ago | on: Nissan Leaf leaks your current position to RSS feed providers

No need to map it out, as the LEAF provides the current or last navigation destination lat/lon in the request as well! Most LEAF drivers will probably have something programmed in, as the car provides range information and traffic re-routing functions based on destination.

rainnw | 14 years ago | on: Nissan Leaf leaks your current position to RSS feed providers

I am having a hard time determining if its the vehicle making the actual request, or if the request is somehow proxied from the Nissan CARWINGS data center. If its just the CARWINGS data center, that is probably a really easy fix.....but if its the car....ugh...
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