[AusNOG] Conroy censoring dissent?

[Jasper Bryant-Greene]

On 12/11/2008, at 4:40 PM, Sean K. Finn wrote:
>> Reading that, I'm guessing that you're over the age of 35 or so.
>
> Not at all, I'm smack in the middle of Gen-Y, have you met or  
> socialised with any of mainstream Gen-Y lately?
>
>> Gen-Y is sufficiently jacked-in that circumvention methods will  
>> spread
>> like wildfire.  They won't be complicated, they'll just be "point and
>> click"methods to bypass the censorware systems.
>
> True, but more than half of Gen-Y think that the iPhone is an  
> outstanding piece of pocket technology. It doesn't even have proper  
> GPS. (Hence why everyone's getting lost, they can't find their way  
> home from the pub).

(this is a little OT but I think people should get the facts straight)

The iPhone does have proper GPS. I wish people would stop spreading  
this FUD when even a tiny bit of research would set them straight.

A-GPS /is/ "proper" GPS, with the added feature of fast startup time  
due to the ability to obtain a rough location from the cell sites and/ 
or download an almanac and ephemeris data via the cell network.

A-GPS starts up faster and performs better in weaker signal  
conditions. A-GPS works fine when there is no data network available,  
it just starts up slower and needs a better signal to get almanac and  
ephemeris.

I understand the built-in Maps application might have some problems  
operating when there's no data signal, but that might have more to do  
with not being able to download any maps. As someone who has worked  
with the Core Location API I can confirm 100% that the GPS  
functionality in the iPhone works without a data connection.

If you're going to criticise the iPhone, at least stick to facts, like  
its inexplicable intermittent slowness, its lack of basic features  
like copy-paste or email search, the limited nature of the API, etc.

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Jasper Bryant-Greene
Network Engineer, Unleash

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