Posts by Tony Humphreys

Wow

Something got in before TV licensings ritual warning of the end is nigh.

VULA

Bad me, I read it wrong, I am seeing extra V's now!

Whatever next

Scratch and sniff?

Meg Hillier

It must have been my tired eyes, but I read Hitler instead of Hillier.

I need a screen break!

The BBC?

If its right that during the election period a facebook group supporting one side may be illegal, surely the BBC would be illegal (along with NSPCC, RSPCA, WWF, Carbon Trust, and every other group that wants just £3 a month).

Perhaps this post is illegal, if not now then maybe retrospectivly in the future. I would not at all put it past them.

What?

Hopefully, I have skimmed this article and missed something.

So if I drive my kids and one of their friends on the 2 minute drive to school, I would need to be vetted, yet if I got a job patting down people at an airport I would not need to be.

My gut instinct is this is not true, but my head can believe it. Even if it is not true it says a lot about this country these days that it is believable.

How come

So they can now stream on demand over the net to a games console, but they cant seem to put a new viewing card in an envelope and post it to me to get rid of that "Insert your new viewing card" message.

Idiots

What, back up a minute...

Theres a Cleaveland Show!

A little late?

Wasnt there a video game in the 90's that tried to do this? Cant remember what it was called though some 3 inch high chick would (appear to) stand on a glass panel.

I never knew that...

So its actually legal to put up a No Fat Chicks sign.

Get the paint!

Simple really

They need to go to the planet Spaceball, overpower dark helmet and steal Mega Maid.

Coverage

£5 for a gig a month on three - what do you expect.

Ideal for emergency (SSH works fine) and camping - what do people expect from a mobile phone network.

As usual - coverage could be better - especially on three - although I have always been able to get a connection outside, and even 9.6 is fine for text based stuff.

No youtube or torrent though - why when out and about!

... did I pay for then

So am I legally entitled to even listen to the track! If now why do I even bother paying for it and just get a knock off copy - its easier anyway!

Ok, how

So the new laptop arrives. you turn it on and decide you are going to use firefox, youve been told its the best and all you need to do is download it... how, with what.

First chink in the armor

What about the memory

Is there a full wiring guide to the rope memory?

Now that would be a big book

How!

How can data be more expensive than a phone call! There is no international element required. For data, exactly the same route is (probably) used for roaming customers as local customers (if not then why not).

The only justification for higher romaing as opposed to local data is for billing purposes, and that is miniscule.

Data roaming is the biggest rip of yet.

Why look like XP?

One thing that I cant understand is why Asus bundled the distro that they do, its awful and looks so cheap and homemade. There is an alternitave - eeebuntu, much better, looks professional, much more intuitive and has a mac feel to it.

It has more features, and 100 times better. I was ready to install XP on my asus until I found out about it, now, I have no need.

Wow

am i still allowed to comment?

The way this countries going it wont be long before I will not be allowed (either by law, or the usual suspect of fear that my message will be read, tracked and the thought police arriving on my doorstep to cart me off).

Now thats something to fear.

Heard this before?

Isn't this what the stazi did?

Cab we have a "black helecopter overhead" icon please - in the distance is a long lost age of freedom in communist britain now

you forgot the biggest advantage of Windows

When windows fails, they can call someone. All users want is it to work - and with windows they are willing to throw money constantly at it until it does. Dont even bother trying to bring them round to linux, they are not interested, just let them pay you to fix windows - its a nice little earner, while you can count your pennies in oo on ubuntu!

Use open source then

Simple solution when budgets are tight, use free and open source instead. Send a message to the multinationals that you are not prepated to pay their extortionate prices. Piracy need not go on with such software as Ubuntu, Open Office, Gimp, Thunderbird (with google calendar extention), Scribus, Eclipse, Netbeans... you get the picture.

Um

Sorry, was there a story too? Did'nt get past the picture.

Um, rinse, repeat?

Have I got this right?

Our dear leader builds a database of all our children so all those that come incontact with the kids can spot patterns of abuse, etc. This is of every single child and is said to be needed to be accessed by so many so that social workers et al can update and spot problems.

Now, for those that are in need of help, their details are to be witheld - WTF. So for those that this is claimed to be needed their details cant be displayed to 'protect' them.

Whats going on - do they look for holes instead of data!

As usual with our dear leader, this has nothing to do with protection, but all to do with control of the menials.

The KGB would be proud.

Secure - for who!

So anyone will be able to register at my address, and then apply online for a loan (sent electronically) and verify themselves as being on the electrol roll at my address.

I know I would not be liable, but try telling that to a debt collector or baliff on your doorstep.

Electrol rolls should be for that purpose only, and not for any other.

Sorrt

Sorry, there has been an error in wft-am-i.exe

Please restart your journey and try again!

Dicators and their databases

Thats it - no more, bye bye. WTF is it with this communist dictatorship and databases.

I'm off to a country where I can go an hour without being watched and recorded, one where a burglary is treated higher than a speeder on a phone.

Somewhere which has more freedom than here - China perhaps!

Canada's forms are already downloaded and filled in!

Numnuts

How dare the government gather my information like this.

I foresee a market for home mail servers too, and VPN's to a foreign server, and anarchy too.

Free society? Ahh the good old days, and we fought a war against this!

Looks nice

Certainly appears to compete well with zde, and free too!

If NetBeans can properly mount and use nautilus's server shares (zde cant) then this will clinch it for me.

Editing filed via FTP would be good, as it is useful in zde when it hits the fan.

I like the memory thing at the top too (no idea what it is though it looks useful)

I assume ...

I assume they plugged in a new mouse to work on the machine.

Don't we all hate sticky keys.

and the real reason is...

another 100,000 ID cards issued - to bump up the figures a little and fake another survey to say everybody really wants one.

am I missing something

So CORE are protesting that were shipping our 'glow in the dark' to another country - IE It is leaving Cumbria.

If they dont want that stuff there, then the answer is to send it elsewhere.

WTF is their problem! Do they think they will miss it.

Without condoning their actions in any way

... how were they funding terrorism, prostitution and drugs.

Isn't that what all pirates do, or so we are told!

and they wonder why

A national version of Londons local station just does not work - and even advertisers are finding that one out.

All DAB seems to be is more of the same.

I like the way to kill it off to, chuck the BBC and all its propaganda onto it, and leave real radio to those who do what the people want.

Yea - and

After enjoying a warm 18 degree February day on Saturday, even I agree hybrids are not the way.

I think we should all get big 4 litre 4x4's - this global warming is becoming a hoot, and we will soon be able to sale over the top of Canada - just like the Vikings did (they obviously had 4x4's and jumbo jets too as they successfully changed the climate).

One day will dig up a great big pit full of viking fridges - the ozone busting ones they dumped to cause the cooling.

Is'nt mankind clever!

Man the lifeboats!

Shock, Horror!

Arctic ice retreating, melting like never before!

The end of the world is nigh, imagine living in a world where it was so hot you could sail around the top of Canada.

How did the vikings manage, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northwest_Passage how did they do it - did they have patio heaters and 4x4s to irrevocably damage the earth?

I know what will fix the problem, Tax it. There - done.

Now I am off to burn some history books to keep warm the day after tomorrow!

Get me a drill and sandpaper

I wonder how many Nulabour freaks watched Diamonds are Forever the other week where Q fashions a fake fingerprint Bond could stick on his fingers.

Extreme scifi you would think, I wonder if they saw the Mythbusters episode where the same thing was done for real, and fooled their vast array of security devices - even the airport style readers.

Now, would you want anybody downloading the data to do that to you!

Drill and sandpaper may be the only way of escaping fraid - thats if the meat cleaver is unavailable.

Fools.

How much!

200 quid PLUS 5p everytime you want to transfer something you already own.

Vendor lock in does not even come close.

E-paper is damn fine though, I think i'll stick to my iliadreader for now, plus I can get mobipocket books for it - and transfer all my PDF's free.

The Kindle is Betamax all over again! Now, can I get Howard the Duck for it.

...and when the 'wind don't blow'

Am I missing something, 24x7x52x30 nuclear power stations are coming to the end of their life, and were investing in windy millers 1900 technology.

Neither is a windmills generating guaranteed (for all intents and purposes) for 30 years, or 52 weeks, or 7 days or even 24 hours. You cant even guarantee that in the next hour power will be flowing.

At least the juice wont be reliable enough for the governments fantastic, alice in wonderland, databases.

Cynic, me, nooooooo

Perhaps its the cynic in me, but are thes plans that are to be 'put on the back burner' or kicked into the long grass the same long grass, bacl burner as the plans to charge us (again) for taking away our bins, or the plans to track our every movement and charge us by satellite.

Thought so.

How about this..

A public burning of these wretched things in Parliament Square.

And no, we wont be applying for permission to do it.

(I know this does not address the real evil, the database, but its a start)

Am I missing something

After the years of bitching between the UK and Ireland, and years of border control being the appropriate accent and a rather successful security service on both sides resulting in not one recallable problem, we now need such measures.

WHY! WTF is going on now. I though the EU was to remove barriers not add ones where not needed or wanted.

So, can we have duty free back then. Though not - all one way eh.

Governments - you are in for a shock when the people get fed up of all this dictating.

4 and a half hours eh

So it will take just 4 and a half hours to get from the gate at Heathrow to the sunny shores of Bondai Beach.

As is typical with the good old british (spanish owned) arports it will take just as long from check in to duty free. Assuming that bottle of coke is chucked so you can by a new shiny double-the-price one on the other side.

Thats before good old Gordon finds a way of taxing it to a less restrictive country - say China.

Ban P2P?

Perhaps the ISPA are secretly behind this.

I cant think of a better way to spank the BBC over their bandwidth hungry P2P pile of shi.... sorry, media player.

What an idot.