Posts by David Neil

They don't offer the standalone modem on any tier any more.

If that one breaks, you'll get a superhub

not quite accurate

They bought a piece of hardware with software installed on it, but the issue of apps, content and ongoing support is always liable to change. Your example of is off, you buy the service from Sky, to receive that service you need the dish. You would reasonably expect a refund for the service, but in thjs case the equipment will still surf the web, play mp4 video, look at photographs. The service, app store or whatever, is incedental to the product being sold.

The bare minimum they have to do is fulfill the sale of goods act requirements in terms of warranty support, but the rest, well you take your chances. Same as any other item, what if I bought an N64 the day before Nintendo said they weren't building any more, do you honestly think I would have a claim against them for not releasing any more games?

Errr...

Only an idiot would argue there isn't any climate change, but on the flip side only a zealot would say it's solely down to mankind

Argos do have them

But those of us who saw the writing on the wall at the weekend got a reservation in early.

If you're not fast, you're last

yes

no further comment

Really?

US oil companies did a lot of the hard work

Well said that person

The dangers of whataboutery are apparent, the stamping of feet and screaming "but look what he did" is the refuge of a 5 year old on a tantrum.

If people were that concerned about MP's on the fiddle why did so many of the buggers get back in? Could it be that in certain parts of the country you could shave a chimp and stick a rosette on it )pick a colour) and people would vote according to their own prejudice.

The people complaining the sentences are too harsh should have the complaints dealt with by courts of appeal, NOT politicians of any stripe, otherwise we get into the hand wringing mess that has encouraged British society to allow adults to abdicate any sense of personal responsibility in favour of bleating about how they are victims of circumstance.

So what your saying is...

The benefit system should be overhauled so that it is on a sliding scale so that going out to work means you are actually better off?

We then won't hear any more bleating from people saying "why should I work a 40 hour week to end up £10 ahead but have to pay full rent and council tax"?

Sorry that won't happen, we have a society that has been raised over generations that the state will provide and if you stamp your feet and throw a tantrum the worst that will happen is a stern look - listen to the consistent message coming back from those who were involved over the past week, we cannot be touched, theres nothing you can do about it.

A whole generation of people who have grown up with the moral compass of a 5 year old at his grans.

Following the above

The Scottish legal system is different again, wait till you see the fact we have 3 possible verdicts in a criminal trial.

DPA

I thought that you had to purge old personal data if it was no longer required for the purpose it was gathered for?

not quite accurate

WWI, fought at the behest of one load of German monarchs squabbling with their cousins, and once it was over they deployed their troops and tanks in several cities in the then United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland to put down 'subversive elements'

Same as it ever was, we just get more pictures nowadays

The content isn't hosted on Newzbin2

It's hosted on Usenet servers scattered across the globe, in binary newsgroups. Newzbin2 provide an index.

Also, Newzbin2 were not even represented in court, this is a case of party a asking the court toforce an ISP to block an overseas site. That precedent has now been set and you can expect everyone from Scientology to the Chiropractors tobe applying for "Newzbin2" orders in the near future.

Not strictly true

The couch analogy has a flaw.

S.3(1) of the Theft Act 1968 states:

``Any assumption by a person of the rights of an owner amounts to an appropriation, and this includes, where he has come by the property (innocently or not) without stealing it, any later assumption of a right to it by keeping or dealing with it as owner.''

While you may not have had the intention of permanently depriving the owner of their property, if you later became aware that they were indeed seeking recovery then you could be charged with theft.

Sounds like piss poor implementations then

The company where I work, a failed service gets fixed (lets use your failed drive example) as soon as possible, the change requests can be submitted after the fact. Even in more complex cases ITIL does recommend you have an emergency CAB who can evaluate and decide - rather than 10 dept heads you can have the change mgr, the incident mgr and a couple of techies to tell you whats what.

You can also define pre-approved changes to accomodate network patching, account creation & alteration and the million other admin tasks a IT dept undertakes. As long as you record the change and you don't stray too far then it works. Obv if some clown decides to repatch the server room without telling anyone then you have a problem, but by and large, if you have a demonstrably repeatable task then it makes sense to setup a pre-approved change template for it.

tl;dr don't blame ITIL for piss poor management

Alternatively

She might actually be a decent manager. A decent manager has to be able to play the politics of their organisation, otherwise some other bugger will shaft the team, but they should also know when to take the advice of the technical people they manage.

To flip your closing line around, I've come across many technically gifted people who ended up in management positions and had the people skills of a bag of lettuce.

You are absolutely right

Such innovations as full screen apps really do justify paying extra

Or...

They built this first then built the iPhone app using the same look and feel.

Been using it since the start of the season, pretty good app.

Really

We have generations of people in this country who have no intention of holding down a job as the state will provide, what makes you think a similar percentage of people elsewhere are any less likely to have worked out a similar outlook on life?

In the US

You only have to demonstrate that you have a reasonable belief that that statement was true, as opposed to the UK position where you have to prove it.

The question still remains, on what legal grounds did the council challenge on?

The bit you missed out

The lady in question asked for £50k to keep her gob shut, and when he declined she asked for a meeting to discuss the matter further.

Said meeting was had, but she had contacted the Sun and they were camped outside the hotel where they had arranged to meet.

He gave her a signed shirt to auction off or somesuch thing, but further declined to pay her £50k.

Upon leaving the hotel the paper snapped away and it was this setup that is at the centre of the argument.

Obv trying to keep his name out the papers he didn't complain to the police about blackmail, but if this story has even a glimmer of truth in it he'd be well within his rights to get her charged.

Mr Goodwin & the rest

The problem with the Goodwin injunction was that the terms granted by the courts were such that you couldn't inform the FSA or the shareholders of the relationship between the Chairman and a senior member of staff, and any questions of improper conduct were hushed up.

The way in which these injunctions are coming about also stinks to high heaven, you stand up in court and say don't let person A tell a newspaper about events involving her as my kids might get the piss taken out of them.

Perhaps if you'd kept it in your football shorts and not knobbed someone who has demonstrated a willingness to expose their life for 15 mins of fame and a photo shoot in Nuts we might have some sympathy.