Beat the Spam with Iphone!

While I was looking over the simpleton software, flashlights and radio
players on the new Cnet websites about iPhones, I stumbled upon "Mobile
Home", a simpleton app that converts an iPhone into a WAP-like text
browser.

Cnet pointed me to m.dom.net, the iphone portal, and it didn't lockout
Firefox 3 so I fooled around with its WAP services.

It's great! I can look at all kinds of news WITHOUT BEING PISSED ON BY THE
SPAM!

Thanks, iPhone!

Maybe there IS a use for it, after all.

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It sure looks like a lot of "free" apps are just beta tests for stuff
that's gonna cost users in the near future. I suppose that's why iPhone
has that nasty app-cancellation "feature", if you can call it that.

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Larry <[email protected]> wrote in news:Xns9B09E4AC0880Dnoonehomecom@
208.49.80.253:

> m.dom.net, the iphone portal,

I'd also like to apologize to the iPhone users for these idiots including
BBC news pointers on their iPhone website that sends you to the standard
BBC webpages your iPhone cannot watch because it's all Flash 9.

I, for one, don't think this is funny.....at all.

....how do we get rid of spam from [email protected] ? :P

"Larry" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> Larry <[email protected]> wrote in news:Xns9B09E4AC0880Dnoonehomecom@
> 208.49.80.253:
>
>> m.dom.net, the iphone portal,
>
> I'd also like to apologize to the iPhone users for these idiots including
> BBC news pointers on their iPhone website that sends you to the standard
> BBC webpages your iPhone cannot watch because it's all Flash 9.
>
> I, for one, don't think this is funny.....at all.
>

"Arrow" <[email protected]> wrote in news:[email protected]:

> ...how do we get rid of spam from [email protected] ? :P
>
>

Probably can't on WebTV....

"Larry" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> While I was looking over the simpleton software, flashlights and radio
> players on the new Cnet websites about iPhones, I stumbled upon "Mobile
> Home", a simpleton app that converts an iPhone into a WAP-like text
> browser.
>
> Cnet pointed me to m.dom.net, the iphone portal, and it didn't lockout
> Firefox 3 so I fooled around with its WAP services.
>
> It's great! I can look at all kinds of news WITHOUT BEING PISSED ON BY
> THE
> SPAM!
>
> Thanks, iPhone!
>
> Maybe there IS a use for it, after all.
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> It sure looks like a lot of "free" apps are just beta tests for stuff
> that's gonna cost users in the near future. I suppose that's why iPhone
> has that nasty app-cancellation "feature", if you can call it that.
>

Larry, did you borrow the iphone...er ah ..is it yours???

"John B. Coarsey, PE" <jcoarsey<nospam>@yahoo.com> wrote in
news:[email protected]:

> Larry, did you borrow the iphone...er ah ..is it yours???
>
>

Several unfortunate friends are now staring into its inferior screen, which
has a tendency since 3G of turning all white or all black or locking up
with the company's logo on it.

As with their computers, I have many electronic devices thrust in my
direction with pleas to "fix it, please", since long before iPhone.

My efforts to deflect are usually ignored....

My shop is their shop...I suppose.

What kind of PE are you, anyways?

"Larry" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> "John B. Coarsey, PE" <jcoarsey<nospam>@yahoo.com> wrote in
> news:[email protected]:
>
>> Larry, did you borrow the iphone...er ah ..is it yours???
>>
>>
>
> Several unfortunate friends are now staring into its inferior screen,
> which
> has a tendency since 3G of turning all white or all black or locking up
> with the company's logo on it.
>
> As with their computers, I have many electronic devices thrust in my
> direction with pleas to "fix it, please", since long before iPhone.
>
> My efforts to deflect are usually ignored....
>
> My shop is their shop...I suppose.
>
> What kind of PE are you, anyways?

60 cycle mechanic.
>

"John B. Coarsey, PE" <jcoarsey<nospam>@yahoo.com> wrote in
news:[email protected]:

>> What kind of PE are you, anyways?
>
> 60 cycle mechanic.
>>

Doing anything with super HVDC transmission?

I find the use of switching technology to reduce our losing 1/3 of the
power generated to 60 Hz radiation just fascinating, being an RF guy,
myself.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iy47NzfCc20
....and you guys think our transmitters are dangerous....(c;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vIn1OTFH6g
careful where you park the van....

"Larry" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> "John B. Coarsey, PE" <jcoarsey<nospam>@yahoo.com> wrote in
> news:[email protected]:
>
>>> What kind of PE are you, anyways?
>>
>> 60 cycle mechanic.
>>>
>
> Doing anything with super HVDC transmission?
>
> I find the use of switching technology to reduce our losing 1/3 of the
> power generated to 60 Hz radiation just fascinating, being an RF guy,
> myself.
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iy47NzfCc20
> ...and you guys think our transmitters are dangerous....(c;
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vIn1OTFH6g
> careful where you park the van....
>
Na, just a plain old utility guy in NE Florida with the local electric
utility. Spent most of my time down in the dirt (distribution). Actually,
you may remember about 20-25 years ago there was talk about microwaving
power down from platforms in low earth orbit. It was all the buzz for a
couple of years then died down. I just read last week or so how someone lit
up a light bulb using some form of RF, sorry I don't remember the details
but the power loss was not insignificant. Best regards to you.

"danny burstein" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> In <[email protected]> "John B. Coarsey, PE"
> <jcoarsey<nospam>@yahoo.com> writes:
>
>>couple of years then died down. I just read last week or so how someone
>>lit
>>up a light bulb using some form of RF, sorry I don't remember the details
>>but the power loss was not insignificant. Best regards to you.
>
> "Intel Moves to Free Gadgets of Their Recharging Cords"
> ...
> "On Thursday, the chip maker plans to demonstrate the
> use of a magnetic field to broadcast up to 60 watts of
> power two to three feet. It says it can do that losing
> only 25 percent of the power in transmission..."
>
> http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/21/te...y/21intel.html
>
>
> --
> _____________________________________________________
> Knowledge may be power, but communications is the key
> [email protected]
> [to foil spammers, my address has been double rot-13 encoded]

Thanks Danny, I think that was it.

"John B. Coarsey, PE" <jcoarsey<nospam>@yahoo.com> wrote in
news:[email protected]:

> Actually,
> you may remember about 20-25 years ago there was talk about
> microwaving power down from platforms in low earth orbit. It was all
> the buzz for a couple of years then died down. I just read last week
> or so how someone lit up a light bulb using some form of RF, sorry I
> don't remember the details but the power loss was not insignificant.
> Best regards to you.
>
>

I've read all that. It was Tesla's dream, of course, free power for all.
Even if it worked, "they" would never allow it as there is no way to TAX it
and control its distribution for profit.

Most people always seem horrified when they find out a good 35% of the
power generated in the country goes off as leakage, waste heat from IR
losses and just plain lack of good maintenance. It's still cheaper to
overpower the system than to repair it, so it seems.

Power is still relatively cheap in SC because we have so many nuke plants
running. We're a power exporter.

Larry <[email protected]> writes:

> "John B. Coarsey, PE" <jcoarsey<nospam>@yahoo.com> wrote in
> news:[email protected]:
>
>> Actually,
>> you may remember about 20-25 years ago there was talk about
>> microwaving power down from platforms in low earth orbit. It was all
>> the buzz for a couple of years then died down. I just read last week
>> or so how someone lit up a light bulb using some form of RF, sorry I
>> don't remember the details but the power loss was not insignificant.
>> Best regards to you.
>>
>>
>
> I've read all that. It was Tesla's dream, of course, free power for all.
> Even if it worked, "they" would never allow it as there is no way to TAX it
> and control its distribution for profit.

Concepts for Solar Power Satellites with microwave transmission usually
require very large ground antennas for reception and then distribute the
power through usual means. It's plain impossible to transmit the power
directly to the consumers from the satellites, since this would require
energy densities that would toast everything in between. So, the actual
way of distribution is in no way different than those from conventional
plants. In fact from a profit point of view this is the only way to keep
the profits in the few hands involved, since "normal" decentralized
solar power (on the ground) would not only allow but encourage small
plants in private or community hands. *This* is the real threat for the
energy companies.

Jochem

--
"A designer knows he has arrived at perfection not when there is no
longer anything to add, but when there is no longer anything to take away."
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

On 9/3/08 12:23 PM, in article [email protected],
"Larry" <[email protected]> wrote:

> "John B. Coarsey, PE" <jcoarsey<nospam>@yahoo.com> wrote in
> news:[email protected]:
>
>> Actually,
>> you may remember about 20-25 years ago there was talk about
>> microwaving power down from platforms in low earth orbit. It was all
>> the buzz for a couple of years then died down. I just read last week
>> or so how someone lit up a light bulb using some form of RF, sorry I
>> don't remember the details but the power loss was not insignificant.
>> Best regards to you.
>>
>>
>
> I've read all that. It was Tesla's dream, of course, free power for all.
> Even if it worked, "they" would never allow it as there is no way to TAX it
> and control its distribution for profit.
>
Sorta' like the Internet, eh?

> Most people always seem horrified when they find out a good 35% of the
> power generated in the country goes off as leakage, waste heat from IR
> losses and just plain lack of good maintenance. It's still cheaper to
> overpower the system than to repair it, so it seems.
>
Here, in Houston, people were freaking because our overpriced light rail was
leaking big time, but the Metro Board said "Don't Worry". It's just our
taxes going into another government rathole.
> Power is still relatively cheap in SC because we have so many nuke plants
> running. We're a power exporter.
>
After our nuclear plant, the environmental whackos prevented any more. But
we have an overabundant supply of overpriced natural gas.