It's not the existence of SCR that people object to, it's the p'ss poor security that this project has.
In my own case my son has multipe medical conditions, and our way of making sure he is treated properly when something goes wrong is to carry a copy of his discharge letter(s).
A SCR will be a very big help, BUT, if there is no true audit trail for every use of the system, then who knows where hte data will end up.
AC at 18:45 hit the nail on the head, you jump through hoops, prostrate yourself before some clown, who's in a government job which is safe as houses and comes with a pension the rest of us an only dream about, and for what - enough money to ensure that you can't afford to get to an interview in the next town.
Job centres are a waste of time for anyone in IT - let's be honest you would never stick an ad for a position in your workplace in there. We know the job centre would just send you anyone who had a passing glace at a playstation down for an interview, and HR would much prefer to go with their mates at the agency.
Contrast the clinical detachment of seeing the data lines goin down at Cantor Fitzgerald, with the increasingly desperate messages sent when someone hasn't called for an hour, to the multiple medication reminders sent from an HIV clinic.
It may not have changed everything, as some would have us believe, but it certainly altered millions of lives in countries around the world for a very long time to come.
And that is the beauty of a strict liability offence - typically there is no defence possible and you are assumed guilty merely for possesion, no arguing about how it came about.
The CPS still have to take a decision on whether or not it is in the pulic interest to proceed, and no civil servant is going to put themselves in the position of saying the defendant had CP, but I was OK with their explanation.
In effect the whole process grinds on through the motions and one more name is added to the register (sorry!), some people will complain about the courts not listening when the real complaints should be directed at the government which passed such nasty legislation.
I fully expect to hear a spurious argument back around how can you possibly defend those who have this material on their HDD, so consider this scenario:
Someone who isn't as technically minded/paranoid as the readership on here gets misdirected to a page infected in the manner described. They see something they find distasteful and immediately backtrack, forgetting about it after a few days.
At some point in the future they decide to take the machine to the local PC shop to get something fixed/upgraded - technician finds the filth, plod are summoned and another life is ruined, because the law says possesion = liability.
Only time I ever pre-ordered with them, the game failed to appear when advertised, was passed from pillar to post and told to wait 21 days and they would reship if it didn't appear.
21 days later, sorry, we don't have the special ed in stock anymore and don't know when we will get it back in.
All in all, my card was out £45 for over a month before I finally got my refund.
Now all I use them for is the odd PS2 or DS game on special offer, the rest I'll head into town for
I they can organise nicking that lot, they will be able to burn off the insulation and shift it in smaller, bagged lots.... I would imagine.
Up here there was a spate of thefts of signalling cable from beside rural railways a while back, not too clever when you have 20 coal wagons rumbling down a single rack stretch
The facts are that Sir John Stevens published a report on 17 April 2003, which detailed the collusion between the security forces and loyalist paramilitaries, although he did note it was neither widespread nor institutionlised.
Week after week we get the same scripted stuff about getting Helo's out to "Our Boys" and it's all the fault of the big bad MOD and the contractors, but the Armed forces themselves need to lok at what they are doing with the kit that they already have.
We have people being blown to bits in Vikings and Jackals on an almost daily basis, and all we get from the army is that they value the ability to manevure over protection (Look at the jackal, you're right over the front axle with nothing between your arse and a buried artillery shell, but it is built in Blighty, so it must be good)
We have the papers screaming about how bad the Vikings are (designed to zip aroud Norway) and how they aren't being replaced quickly enough, but the Mastiff is so large and heavy it needs to travel on roads, which are lacking in Afghanistan. In addition the roads that are there tend to be mined beyond belief, sometimes even within sight of British bases (Please read the MIchael Yon reports from Afghanistan, it gives you a glimpse of the challenges faced out there)
This then brings us to the staple of the UK press that if the roads aren't safe then we need helos to move people. While this avoids people driving down roads that we have no chance of securing, and also highlighting the fact we would rather send out ordnance disposal than use a wheelbarrow to rip out an IED, you then play into the enemies hands by repeatedly giving them the opportunity to bring down a chopper (2 chinooks in the past month or so) . Additionally this also highlights the fact that if we can't drive down a road, how the hell are we supposed to rebuild the country/hand over to the local army.
The current strategy of sending soldiers out to defend FOB's which cannot be supported from Camp Bastion 4 miles away WITHOUT resorting to regular helicopter runs is utter lunacy, and it's time we decided do we want to be there.
That won't hold water, a contract has to be signed by a party who can be held accountable to the contract. It would be in your name I'm afraid.
Given the civil cases that Davenport tried to bring, and in quite a few cases fell flat on their @rse as the person didn't download the material in question - what is the standard of proof?
IP address - Can be spoofed easily
Access point - Will the legislation now make it an offence to run an open access point? My local council have one in the library down my street, if I piggy back onto that who is held responsible?
Will there be any opportunity to have a case heard or will it be another case of a pseudo law like ASBO's, where they don't have enough proof to bang you up, but they will grab enough power to make your life hell?
They have been in the public domain in Hermann Rorschach's native Switzerland, since at least 1992 (70 years after his death), according to Swiss copyright law.
Alright, it wouldn't be the first time wiki has been wrong, but if they ARE public domain then WTF are they complaining about?
"In the UK (and probably most countries with a similar legal system) betting contracts are NOT legally enforceable anyway. The only reason bookies ever pay out is that people wouldn't bet with them if they didn't."
The 2005 Gambling Act states that gambling contracts are now legally enforceable as ordinary contracts and thus subject to the same rules and procedures that apply to any other contract.
Despite what the bookies may claim, you can enforce it - true they will invariably claim a palpable error and refer you to IBAS, but you CAN take them to a small claims court if you really want to push the point.
Interesting, I wonder who holds the copyright on my piece, given that I was so young and that my parents cannot recall ever having a letter home regarding my contribution.
Perhaps the local council, as the authority running the school, would hold it?
The rebranding my local library had a few months back, loads of free bookmarks with a nice multicoloured crap on a black background - costs thousands, but the only people who saw them were the ones going in to the library in the first place....
We had a thing at school (I would have been 7 or 8) where we had to write a piece about our local area. Somehow my deliberation on the best places to ride a bike around Ayr was submitted and I ended up in it.
Not that my school ever got a copy of the disks, but I did get a very nice letter read out at assembly.
I'd like to think that in a few thousands years some traveller from a far ff planet will find a copy and ponder the best places to ride a BMX in and around Ayr :)
'Ok so my non-tech neighbor is having the exact same problem on BT. All of a sudden last week BTs DHCP started issuing him a 169. IP address, where the normal from them is a 168., thus he cannot get a connection to the web.'
Not cleear whether it's wireless or wired, or indeed a laptop or a desktop.
If it's a laptop, then unless it's one with a seperate wireless cardthen it's dead as disco.
If it's a desktop, try another NIC in it.
No charge, and I didnt even look at your beach photo's :)
It could have been some 20 stone terrors with coloured in bingo wings and badly drawn arseantlers....Nowhere does it say they were standby suicide girls
Virgin Mobile piggyback on T-Mobiles infrastructure, so they in turn would be dependant on Vodafone playing fair - Can imagine Ofcom having a few words to say on the matter
They tried the same thing with the South African Rooivak attack helicopter.
Basically they said, we are interested, but if you could send us one then we'll let you know what we think and we might buy some more...
Pretty sure Sukhoi are having the same issue with one of their development fighters, the Chinese bought one, measured it and are now knocking out replicas
Whilst I do appreciate a good rant, there is another reason why we need more Typhoons - the air defence of the United Kingdom.
The tornado F3 is being stood down at an accelerated rate, and we will be very hard pushed to respond to any meaningful breach of UK airspace in the short term.
Say a couple of russians wandering down from the Norwegian sea, and the fighters are routed up north, as things stand at the moment we would be hard pushed to get a quick response to any incursion from the rest of the continent.
For the carriers, it might make better fiscal sense to pitch in with the USMC and go in with the America class carriers - the projected air wing for each of these consists of 12 V-22s, 8 AH-1s, 10 F-35s, 4 CH-53Ks, and 4 Navy CH-60 helicopters. Total cost for the ships is actually below that for the Queen Elizabeth class ships.
So the fact you can see that this bloke has p'ss poor security on his house from the street is due to Google?
Have you actually tried to go down a street in street view, you spend 15 minutes lookin at you own house from a variety of angles to work out if you were home that day or not, never mind try and case the joint.
Sorry Fancis, but even up here in Scotland those who are cursed with fanta pants have the p!sh ripped, it's not English, anti-celtic anythig, it's kids picking on the odd oneout.
"It wouldn't cost Virgin much to extend their fibre to the home from the street cabinets."
Well they are still trying to service the debt that was run up putting the street lines in, plus local councils are unlikely to agree to all that additional diging up after the hassles the last time. If you ever listen to the complaints on cable orum you'll see lot of people who cannit get service to a house which should be ok because the original duct work has collapsed in the intervening years and they cannot make a business case to dig it up for repair.
As an example I live in a block of flats, council sent in some contractors two years ago to rewire the communal TV system. Speaking to the contractors and it appears that the costs of drilling lots of new cable runs through the reinforced concrete was a total pain, the original cable runs were built into the walls and are pretty much inaccesible.
I've seen a load of kit arrive faulty recently as well. Swings& roundabouts.
Ireland made a lot of hay while they were the cheapest manufactiring site in the EU, now they are being undercut they get to taste the same medicine we had in the 90's.
Obviously you make sure that the market you are betting on has clear rules about when bets become void - for a nice example of when this went very wrong, have a look on the Money Saving Expert forums for the crowd who managed to scrwe up the first goal scorer betting on Betfair
The runway at Stanley was not long enough to support fast jets - The argentines were trying to extend it and the raids caused enough disruption to delay them longenough to get troops in.
You are actually complaining that a story about one of the worlds largest tech companies is squeezing contractors - many of whom fall within the target audience of this site?
Or has it been that long since you read anything other than a Paris or Playmobil article that you forgot what this site is actually about?
I can remember working at the beeb up here about 5 years ago and a large chunk of the senior management in scotland were pretty much all from the western isles.
they didnt half get upset when you asked why they didnt do pogrammes in urdu, more people in scotland list that as a language thy can speak ;-)
If the Grandmother has removed the child from the custody of the parent who has access, and has previously indicated that said parent will not se the child agin, then yes, charges should be brought.
So following the hysteria yesterday, it now appears that the school, which was already having to merge with another due to p!ss poor performance, is the one to blame.
I wonder just what will happen to the teacher in this case? I know up here in sunny (but bloody cold) Scotland a teacher was struck off for professional incompetance - news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/tayside_and_central/7762518.stm
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David Neil
I haven't read the full report but... → #
Posted Monday 1st March 2010 10:52 GMT
In Apple uncovers child workers in its plants
Have they actually taken any action, other than name & shame?
David Neil
Missing the point → # ↑
Posted Saturday 27th February 2010 04:52 GMT
In Computer boffin on NHS Spine: Get out while you can
It's not the existence of SCR that people object to, it's the p'ss poor security that this project has.
In my own case my son has multipe medical conditions, and our way of making sure he is treated properly when something goes wrong is to carry a copy of his discharge letter(s).
A SCR will be a very big help, BUT, if there is no true audit trail for every use of the system, then who knows where hte data will end up.
David Neil
His nickname → #
Posted Wednesday 17th February 2010 00:38 GMT
In Google Buzz bug exposes user geo location
"RSnake"
Really, he's never said this out loud...
Sounds like a gay pron star
David Neil
This is the same Govt which is whining about RBS bonuses? → #
Posted Tuesday 8th December 2009 17:09 GMT
In Bonuses all round for failing Border Agency
Left Hand, meet Right Hand
David Neil
It's all gone a bit Daily Mail on here → #
Posted Wednesday 2nd December 2009 21:14 GMT
In Govt promises unemployed free laptops, net access, websites
AC at 18:45 hit the nail on the head, you jump through hoops, prostrate yourself before some clown, who's in a government job which is safe as houses and comes with a pension the rest of us an only dream about, and for what - enough money to ensure that you can't afford to get to an interview in the next town.
Job centres are a waste of time for anyone in IT - let's be honest you would never stick an ad for a position in your workplace in there. We know the job centre would just send you anyone who had a passing glace at a playstation down for an interview, and HR would much prefer to go with their mates at the agency.
David Neil
A snapshot of history → #
Posted Thursday 26th November 2009 00:00 GMT
In 9/11 pager messages released on Wikileaks
Contrast the clinical detachment of seeing the data lines goin down at Cantor Fitzgerald, with the increasingly desperate messages sent when someone hasn't called for an hour, to the multiple medication reminders sent from an HIV clinic.
It may not have changed everything, as some would have us believe, but it certainly altered millions of lives in countries around the world for a very long time to come.
David Neil
@ Christoph → #
Posted Friday 20th November 2009 10:04 GMT
In Scareware tool dumps smut on Windows PCs
And that is the beauty of a strict liability offence - typically there is no defence possible and you are assumed guilty merely for possesion, no arguing about how it came about.
The CPS still have to take a decision on whether or not it is in the pulic interest to proceed, and no civil servant is going to put themselves in the position of saying the defendant had CP, but I was OK with their explanation.
In effect the whole process grinds on through the motions and one more name is added to the register (sorry!), some people will complain about the courts not listening when the real complaints should be directed at the government which passed such nasty legislation.
I fully expect to hear a spurious argument back around how can you possibly defend those who have this material on their HDD, so consider this scenario:
Someone who isn't as technically minded/paranoid as the readership on here gets misdirected to a page infected in the manner described. They see something they find distasteful and immediately backtrack, forgetting about it after a few days.
At some point in the future they decide to take the machine to the local PC shop to get something fixed/upgraded - technician finds the filth, plod are summoned and another life is ruined, because the law says possesion = liability.
David Neil
Play.com - Useful, but not reliable → #
Posted Friday 13th November 2009 18:09 GMT
In Play.com leaves Modern Warfare 2 buyers empty handed
Only time I ever pre-ordered with them, the game failed to appear when advertised, was passed from pillar to post and told to wait 21 days and they would reship if it didn't appear.
21 days later, sorry, we don't have the special ed in stock anymore and don't know when we will get it back in.
All in all, my card was out £45 for over a month before I finally got my refund.
Now all I use them for is the odd PS2 or DS game on special offer, the rest I'll head into town for
David Neil
You want gross? → #
Posted Friday 6th November 2009 23:55 GMT
In Is this the world's dirtiest PC?
I once worked on a contract at a factory which processed cowhides into sausage skins.
Opening a case was akin to something out of aliens, due to the amount of gelatin in the air.
And you got followed by dogs on the way home.
David Neil
Won't be dirt covered → #
Posted Saturday 31st October 2009 02:19 GMT
In Thieves target BT cables as scrap value rises
I they can organise nicking that lot, they will be able to burn off the insulation and shift it in smaller, bagged lots.... I would imagine.
Up here there was a spate of thefts of signalling cable from beside rural railways a while back, not too clever when you have 20 coal wagons rumbling down a single rack stretch
David Neil
Maybe I'm missing something → #
Posted Monday 19th October 2009 11:22 GMT
In Motorist in laptop blaze
But am I expected to believe that is the actual laptop that the battery blew up in?
With no scorching visible on the upper plastics at all?
David Neil
In addition... → #
Posted Monday 28th September 2009 11:26 GMT
In Attack of the Killer Tits
To follow on from "Tits are not the same as Boobies", one should also be careful not to attempt to introduce a shag to an old bat.
http://www.rspb.org.uk/wildlife/birdguide/name/s/shag/index.asp
David Neil
@AC 17:49 → #
Posted Tuesday 15th September 2009 09:37 GMT
In Rise in Northern Ireland violence highlights data failing
The facts are that Sir John Stevens published a report on 17 April 2003, which detailed the collusion between the security forces and loyalist paramilitaries, although he did note it was neither widespread nor institutionlised.
David Neil
@ AC 8:25 → #
Posted Wednesday 2nd September 2009 09:49 GMT
In Arms biz: Your taxes mainly go on our fat salaries! Ha ha!
"On top of that, there is no tax on the salary during abroad postings and so on."
There is at least one Lance Corporal who would say your talking pish.
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/campaigns/our_boys/2614984/Brown-can-only-squirm-as-squaddie-grills-him-on-heros-tax.html
David Neil
All as bad as each other → #
Posted Wednesday 2nd September 2009 09:46 GMT
In Arms biz: Your taxes mainly go on our fat salaries! Ha ha!
Week after week we get the same scripted stuff about getting Helo's out to "Our Boys" and it's all the fault of the big bad MOD and the contractors, but the Armed forces themselves need to lok at what they are doing with the kit that they already have.
We have people being blown to bits in Vikings and Jackals on an almost daily basis, and all we get from the army is that they value the ability to manevure over protection (Look at the jackal, you're right over the front axle with nothing between your arse and a buried artillery shell, but it is built in Blighty, so it must be good)
We have the papers screaming about how bad the Vikings are (designed to zip aroud Norway) and how they aren't being replaced quickly enough, but the Mastiff is so large and heavy it needs to travel on roads, which are lacking in Afghanistan. In addition the roads that are there tend to be mined beyond belief, sometimes even within sight of British bases (Please read the MIchael Yon reports from Afghanistan, it gives you a glimpse of the challenges faced out there)
This then brings us to the staple of the UK press that if the roads aren't safe then we need helos to move people. While this avoids people driving down roads that we have no chance of securing, and also highlighting the fact we would rather send out ordnance disposal than use a wheelbarrow to rip out an IED, you then play into the enemies hands by repeatedly giving them the opportunity to bring down a chopper (2 chinooks in the past month or so) . Additionally this also highlights the fact that if we can't drive down a road, how the hell are we supposed to rebuild the country/hand over to the local army.
The current strategy of sending soldiers out to defend FOB's which cannot be supported from Camp Bastion 4 miles away WITHOUT resorting to regular helicopter runs is utter lunacy, and it's time we decided do we want to be there.
David Neil
Command & Conquer → #
Posted Wednesday 26th August 2009 15:13 GMT
In Lightning-gun tech 'approaching weaponisation'
Tesla towers & tesla tanks, all we need are giant airships and we can send for Yuri
David Neil
@ M7S → #
Posted Tuesday 25th August 2009 13:04 GMT
In UK.gov revives net cut-off threat for illegal downloaders
That won't hold water, a contract has to be signed by a party who can be held accountable to the contract. It would be in your name I'm afraid.
Given the civil cases that Davenport tried to bring, and in quite a few cases fell flat on their @rse as the person didn't download the material in question - what is the standard of proof?
IP address - Can be spoofed easily
Access point - Will the legislation now make it an offence to run an open access point? My local council have one in the library down my street, if I piggy back onto that who is held responsible?
Will there be any opportunity to have a case heard or will it be another case of a pseudo law like ASBO's, where they don't have enough proof to bang you up, but they will grab enough power to make your life hell?
WALOFS
David Neil
Public domain → #
Posted Tuesday 25th August 2009 10:28 GMT
In Doctor investigated for posting inkblots to Wikipedia
They have been in the public domain in Hermann Rorschach's native Switzerland, since at least 1992 (70 years after his death), according to Swiss copyright law.
Alright, it wouldn't be the first time wiki has been wrong, but if they ARE public domain then WTF are they complaining about?
David Neil
@ Matt83 → #
Posted Monday 27th July 2009 23:19 GMT
In Taiwan consumer org 'froze' Dell bank account
"In the UK (and probably most countries with a similar legal system) betting contracts are NOT legally enforceable anyway. The only reason bookies ever pay out is that people wouldn't bet with them if they didn't."
The 2005 Gambling Act states that gambling contracts are now legally enforceable as ordinary contracts and thus subject to the same rules and procedures that apply to any other contract.
Despite what the bookies may claim, you can enforce it - true they will invariably claim a palpable error and refer you to IBAS, but you CAN take them to a small claims court if you really want to push the point.
David Neil
@ Adam 52 → #
Posted Friday 24th July 2009 15:06 GMT
In Startup crafts DVD-Rs for the 31st century
Interesting, I wonder who holds the copyright on my piece, given that I was so young and that my parents cannot recall ever having a letter home regarding my contribution.
Perhaps the local council, as the authority running the school, would hold it?
David Neil
The logo reminds me of → #
Posted Friday 24th July 2009 12:30 GMT
In Canadian uni catches the rebranding sniffles
The rebranding my local library had a few months back, loads of free bookmarks with a nice multicoloured crap on a black background - costs thousands, but the only people who saw them were the ones going in to the library in the first place....
David Neil
Domesday book - I was in it! → #
Posted Friday 24th July 2009 12:01 GMT
In Startup crafts DVD-Rs for the 31st century
We had a thing at school (I would have been 7 or 8) where we had to write a piece about our local area. Somehow my deliberation on the best places to ride a bike around Ayr was submitted and I ended up in it.
Not that my school ever got a copy of the disks, but I did get a very nice letter read out at assembly.
I'd like to think that in a few thousands years some traveller from a far ff planet will find a copy and ponder the best places to ride a BMX in and around Ayr :)
David Neil
It's a dead machine → #
Posted Wednesday 22nd July 2009 15:59 GMT
In O2 coughs to data failure
'Ok so my non-tech neighbor is having the exact same problem on BT. All of a sudden last week BTs DHCP started issuing him a 169. IP address, where the normal from them is a 168., thus he cannot get a connection to the web.'
Not cleear whether it's wireless or wired, or indeed a laptop or a desktop.
If it's a laptop, then unless it's one with a seperate wireless cardthen it's dead as disco.
If it's a desktop, try another NIC in it.
No charge, and I didnt even look at your beach photo's :)
David Neil
You are all making a big assumption → #
Posted Thursday 16th July 2009 23:34 GMT
In Tattooed Swedish devil girls sexually molest cyclist
It could have been some 20 stone terrors with coloured in bingo wings and badly drawn arseantlers....Nowhere does it say they were standby suicide girls
David Neil
Store and forward → #
Posted Tuesday 7th July 2009 10:26 GMT
In NASA fires up the 'interplanetary internet'
I'm fairly sure this was the original model proposed for the IMP traffic on the ARPA network, but they had issues with filling the storage available.
The more things change, the more they stay the same
David Neil
A lot of assumptions being made re. the job → #
Posted Monday 29th June 2009 13:08 GMT
In Girls Aloud net obscenity case falls at first hurdle
I don't know the answers, but I'd like to know the following:
What was his job?
Did he lose his job as a direct result of being charged?
If so, was it in his contract that conduct which reflected badly on his employer could result in him loosing his job?
Was he a permanent employee or a contractor who didn't have his conract renewed as expected?
If he feels he has lost his job unfairly, then why hasn't he requested a tribunal, he just coughed for a QC?
David Neil
In addition... → #
Posted Monday 29th June 2009 10:06 GMT
In Vodafone said to be mulling T-Mobile UK bid
Virgin Mobile piggyback on T-Mobiles infrastructure, so they in turn would be dependant on Vodafone playing fair - Can imagine Ofcom having a few words to say on the matter
David Neil
Re. the train copying → #
Posted Tuesday 16th June 2009 13:49 GMT
In Chinese Green Dam pilfers open source too
They tried the same thing with the South African Rooivak attack helicopter.
Basically they said, we are interested, but if you could send us one then we'll let you know what we think and we might buy some more...
Pretty sure Sukhoi are having the same issue with one of their development fighters, the Chinese bought one, measured it and are now knocking out replicas
David Neil
Air defence fighter → #
Posted Tuesday 9th June 2009 06:38 GMT
In Anti-Eurofighter Downing Street e-petition started
Whilst I do appreciate a good rant, there is another reason why we need more Typhoons - the air defence of the United Kingdom.
The tornado F3 is being stood down at an accelerated rate, and we will be very hard pushed to respond to any meaningful breach of UK airspace in the short term.
Say a couple of russians wandering down from the Norwegian sea, and the fighters are routed up north, as things stand at the moment we would be hard pushed to get a quick response to any incursion from the rest of the continent.
For the carriers, it might make better fiscal sense to pitch in with the USMC and go in with the America class carriers - the projected air wing for each of these consists of 12 V-22s, 8 AH-1s, 10 F-35s, 4 CH-53Ks, and 4 Navy CH-60 helicopters. Total cost for the ships is actually below that for the Queen Elizabeth class ships.
David Neil
Did you ever pick your feet in Poughkeepsie → #
Posted Saturday 6th June 2009 11:05 GMT
In Money mule cops plea in online brokerage hacking scam
Not exactly the French Connection, but still, a nice bit of detective work nonetheless
David Neil
FFS → #
Posted Friday 5th June 2009 11:03 GMT
In Home and Away star in 'Lewinsky' moment
How many times do you need telling, if it's in the Bootnotes section, there is an odds on chance it's got bugger all to do with IT
David Neil
@ AC 11:27 → #
Posted Wednesday 20th May 2009 13:10 GMT
In MP expenses leaker may never be found
The Royal Mail has to deliver it, it's not illegal(yet) to express an opinion which the majority disagree with.
David Neil
@ CItizen (sic) Kaned → #
Posted Tuesday 12th May 2009 11:15 GMT
In Greece grounds Google's Street View fleet
So the fact you can see that this bloke has p'ss poor security on his house from the street is due to Google?
Have you actually tried to go down a street in street view, you spend 15 minutes lookin at you own house from a variety of angles to work out if you were home that day or not, never mind try and case the joint.
David Neil
And the weird thing is → #
Posted Wednesday 29th April 2009 13:09 GMT
In T-Mobile flips bird to alternative voicemail
Virgin mobile are hosted as a virtual network on T-mobiles infrastructure and don't charge for voicemail.
Either they eat the charges they incurr or T-mobile are getting fat on the profit from their own punters
David Neil
Hair colour → #
Posted Thursday 23rd April 2009 15:23 GMT
In GPS, swipe cards to monitor Welsh school kids
Sorry Fancis, but even up here in Scotland those who are cursed with fanta pants have the p!sh ripped, it's not English, anti-celtic anythig, it's kids picking on the odd oneout.
Nice fishing attempt tho
David Neil
@ kenny millar → #
Posted Friday 17th April 2009 14:50 GMT
In BT chief: People don't need fibre to the home
"It wouldn't cost Virgin much to extend their fibre to the home from the street cabinets."
Well they are still trying to service the debt that was run up putting the street lines in, plus local councils are unlikely to agree to all that additional diging up after the hassles the last time. If you ever listen to the complaints on cable orum you'll see lot of people who cannit get service to a house which should be ok because the original duct work has collapsed in the intervening years and they cannot make a business case to dig it up for repair.
As an example I live in a block of flats, council sent in some contractors two years ago to rewire the communal TV system. Speaking to the contractors and it appears that the costs of drilling lots of new cable runs through the reinforced concrete was a total pain, the original cable runs were built into the walls and are pretty much inaccesible.
David Neil
Opens Popcorn → #
Posted Saturday 11th April 2009 15:29 GMT
In Microsoft conjures imaginary 'Apple Tax'
This should be fun :-D
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David Neil
And yet... → #
Posted Wednesday 25th March 2009 15:49 GMT
In Dell retreat from Limerick will leave 9,500 casualties
I've seen a load of kit arrive faulty recently as well. Swings& roundabouts.
Ireland made a lot of hay while they were the cheapest manufactiring site in the EU, now they are being undercut they get to taste the same medicine we had in the 90's.
Lifes a bitch innit
David Neil
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Posted Friday 13th March 2009 21:03 GMT
In The good book: How to bet better online
@ Warren
Obviously you make sure that the market you are betting on has clear rules about when bets become void - for a nice example of when this went very wrong, have a look on the Money Saving Expert forums for the crowd who managed to scrwe up the first goal scorer betting on Betfair
@ Paul
Gambling debts are now legally enforceable
David Neil
Black Buck → #
Posted Friday 6th March 2009 17:05 GMT
In Vulcan appeal in emergency tin-rattling
The runway at Stanley was not long enough to support fast jets - The argentines were trying to extend it and the raids caused enough disruption to delay them longenough to get troops in.
David Neil
All joking aside → #
Posted Friday 27th February 2009 14:53 GMT
In Judge issues radioactive 'pr0n downloader' alert
At least the kids will know if he's hiding under the bed.
I know, I'm going to a bad place....
David Neil
@Doug Glass - Seriously? → #
Posted Friday 27th February 2009 13:53 GMT
In Microsoft temps get shorter hours
You are actually complaining that a story about one of the worlds largest tech companies is squeezing contractors - many of whom fall within the target audience of this site?
Or has it been that long since you read anything other than a Paris or Playmobil article that you forgot what this site is actually about?
David Neil
@ David Edwards → #
Posted Friday 27th February 2009 00:46 GMT
In Teen sacked for 'boring' job Facebook comment
Slight problem with your rant Mr Edwards, she did not identify her ex-employer.
I wonder if you are involed with this bunch of ethically dubious clowns?
David Neil
@Steve → #
Posted Tuesday 24th February 2009 16:36 GMT
In Virgin Media boosts bottom tier broadband
Branson never had anything to do with actually running the company - NTL decided to rebrand and paid a wedge of cash to use the Virgin Media branding.
He got some shares, but he sold them on long ago
David Neil
@ AC ranting about Scotlands taxes → #
Posted Wednesday 18th February 2009 01:02 GMT
In Scots and pilots brace against ID cards
We'll stop claiming what the UK Government say we can when we get the back payments due to us for raping our natural resources
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/7890226.stm
David Neil
Not exacty a surprise → #
Posted Monday 2nd February 2009 16:43 GMT
In BBC pumps 60 quid a head into Gaelic
I can remember working at the beeb up here about 5 years ago and a large chunk of the senior management in scotland were pretty much all from the western isles.
they didnt half get upset when you asked why they didnt do pogrammes in urdu, more people in scotland list that as a language thy can speak ;-)
David Neil
Re. Who else has UAVs? → #
Posted Tuesday 27th January 2009 13:44 GMT
In Humvee with frikkin laser on it takes out killer robot
Well Iran has them, and has been shipping them to their mates
http://www.defenseindustrydaily.com/hezbollah-mirsad1-uav-penetrates-israeli-air-defenses-0386/
Like most war tech - once someone works out how to build it, it pretty soon becomes available to anyone with the funds
David Neil
@A J Stiles → #
Posted Friday 9th January 2009 12:50 GMT
In 'Kidnapped' child tracked by mobile phone and Street View
If the Grandmother has removed the child from the custody of the parent who has access, and has previously indicated that said parent will not se the child agin, then yes, charges should be brought.
David Neil
now it makes sense → #
Posted Tuesday 9th December 2008 13:26 GMT
In Exam board to hear appeal over format cockup
So following the hysteria yesterday, it now appears that the school, which was already having to merge with another due to p!ss poor performance, is the one to blame.
I wonder just what will happen to the teacher in this case? I know up here in sunny (but bloody cold) Scotland a teacher was struck off for professional incompetance - news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/tayside_and_central/7762518.stm
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