* Posts by Rod Giles

4 publicly visible posts • joined 16 Oct 2007

Sony Xperia converts flash motors into fancy remotes

Rod Giles
FAIL

Re: if one were to buy a brand new Jaguar or Land Rover.....

You would be buying a TATA. Ford sold JLR back in 2008.

First fondleslab found in 1970s kids TV sci-fi gem

Rod Giles
Boffin

prior art

Yes, Arthur C. Clarke did describe geo-stationary orbit in a book, but it wasn't a Sci-Fi book, it was a rocket science book! He also a published a paper in the British Interplanetary Society journal and Wireless World.

'Extra-Terrestrial Relays — Can Rocket Stations Give Worldwide Radio Coverage?', published in Wireless World in October 1945

The alternatives to password protection

Rod Giles

Car Registration Passwords

Even better would be to use *someone else's* car registration, not your own, or at the very least not your current car's registration. Unfortunately this technique doesn't work if the requirement is for a minimum of 8 characters. If so you could always use two registrations, which gives 14 characters of mixed numbers and letters and should be fairly memorable.

Unimpressed Sheilas mock boy racers' todgers

Rod Giles
Happy

Why bother?

Why have a successful speed reduction campaign when you can reduce the speed limit to 20 mph in towns and collect all those lovely speeding fines?