Posts by Cthonus

It's hardly a "fixed contract" if one side can arbitrarily change the cost. Perhaps a change in nomenclature is called for. Shafting contract??

<looking at you, Orange>

Published rates...

Aren't they all meaningless anyway? Given the providers seem to have free rein to increase fixed-term contract prices when *they feel like it.

* inflation, retail price increase, an R in the month...

And elsewhere in the UK...

"However, the Crime Map app helps you to make sense of all the statistics by providing a quick overview of crime in your manor and elsewhere in the UK."

This would be the app entitled Crime Map ENGLAND & WALES?

Would be nice if your review had brought that to attention rather than blindly ignoring half the regions that make up the British Isles.

Did anyone see the article in The Times about the senior citizen who's been copying and distributing movies to the US Army overseas for years. Said he'd done thousands of rips.

RIAss of American = <silence>

One law it isn't.

"As such the tool might be employed by perverts hunting for child abuse images on the net."

Oh well done for casually ramping up the hysteria. You don't double as a hack for the Daily Mail do you?

It could just as easily be used to hut for signs of where Elvis is hanging out.

Test Messaging.. Test Messaging...

Just testing.

A tear for Sarah Jane

There's not many people who can resurrect a character from 30-odd years ago AND make a successful go of it.

She follows the Brig to a better place...

dont mention bricks...

jailbreaking <> unlocking.

Unlocking is removing the carrier restrictions on a handset.

Please don't segue terminology.

Dentists...

Dentistry is just legalised mugging. If you don't come away bloody and bruised you still get the contents of your wallet lifted...

O2 fails again

I have in my mail file a lovely email dated last June from the Information Commissioner assuring me that O2 have promised never ever to send me any further SMS messages after their spamfest fiasco last year where they even pissed-off the writer of Father Ted.

At 12:05 this afternoon I got an O2 SMS message...

I'm no longer with O2. I left last summer having suffered their crap service for a year or so. I expect this censoring issue will leave them with fewer customers still.

Do the maths

I'd be gutted if Flickr deleted my photos, though given they must have billions of snaps floating around their servers I've never assumed they had any kind of backup solution. Everything I upload is ultimately backed up to DVD if it's important enough.

Whadya mean DVD isn't a viable long-term solution? I'm not building a time capsule for posterity...

phooey

Yup, saw the advisory from Trapster in my inbox, sandwiched between offers of penis extenders and miscellaneous pills.

Given that account rarely gets spam it's not too difficult to guess where they leeched the address from.

Wouldn't it be nice if they could be fined 0.1p for each email/password harvested.

Pas vrai

"Powdered rhino horn is much in demand in the Far East, where it is considered an aid to a gentleman's boudoir prowess"

Come on, I think you'll find even Wikipedia has sussed that's a just a common fallacy. Or don't your hacks watch QI?

"50 quid off your old (working) computer"

No - £50 off the purchase of your new one.

The redoubtable Miz Bee off on sabatical? She'd never let a basic howler like that slip through her steely grasp.

"stumps?*

They're only stumped if they try and fail and then give up.

Hard to tell whether it's a linguistic fail or just an old hack trying to tempt a flame or two.

Mass effect

The average user has just about learned not to step out in front of moving traffic but put a keyboard and screen in front of them with offers of cute fluffy animal pictures, or warnings that they're about to fall off the edge of the world and Darwin gets to turn in his grave.

GnatWest

I'd happily review my local (Edinburgh) branch for them. Tried to depost two cheques - £1000 and£100 - a year or so ago. Gel behind the counter needed a calculator to add them together and still got the sum wrong.

Guess they really are an equal opportunity employer and take people on irrespective of numerical aptitude.

O2 or O2

I was in Krakow earlier last month so contacted O2 about the data cap and inquire about their Data Abroad 10 bolt-on for £20 which would have given me a pool of 10Mb to use in Poland before eating into the international charges.

Non, said O2 simply.

Customers can ask to have roaming charges capped to £40pcm or they can get the bolt-on. Not both.

In order to get the "cheap" Data Abroad discount customers must waive their rights to have their bills capped.

Please can we have a Money-Grabbing Swine icon?

The truth is out there

"A BT spokesman assured El Reg the measure has not been planned because everyone just wants to watch the game."

Quite correct: it's been planned because the majority of people want to watch the game.

Mind you given the experience of the BT cowboys around here there's less chance of them touching the FUBAR switch if they're off down the pub for the match.

Insert title painlessly here

Rather than forcing capital punishment on this poor misunderstood killer why don't we commute his term to a life sentence of sub-editing the Reg?

Buffalo tech support fail

Given a lot of us are still waiting for a proper fix for a wake-on-LAN issue EIGHT months after the initial issue was raised I'd be wary of purchasing any Buffalo product again.

They takes your money and they leaves you waiting.

Apple's schizoid puritanism

I have less objection to wobbling bits in the App Store than I have to Apple's pop-up warning that I'm attempting to download age-restricted material every time I go near a certain map app or a dictionary prog.

Paris, because anyone can find a Twatt in a map of Orkney.

TW Fail

No it's not back up and running. Though TW aren't exactly hot off the mark telling you when it's fixed - we've been having intermittent DSL issues since last Friday and all TW do is blame someone else.

Generally that someone else is BT....

Putti aren't cherubim

Nice to see the Prof got it right in his title.

Caveat emptor

Nice products per se, but given their tardiness at coming out with a viable OS X 10.6/Snow Leopard interface I'd be reluctant to purchase anything from them in the future without having gone through their 'Mac Compatible' claims with a very fine toothcomb.

Unspam fail

"Further it is projected that advisory mails to be sent to victims and potential victims will be about 230,000 monthly"

So... for every one of those 419s that ends up in my spam trap I'll get another email from the powers that be telling me that the previous mail was spam and to delete it.

Not going to be much better off at the end of the day, are we?

LOLZ

Well Well Well

Wells Fargo takes the plural like Courts Martial.

Not only but also

I've had problems for the past month or so in Edinburgh. Nothing ever appears on the VM Status Page. Last time I got completely cut off I telephoned their support. "Oh," said the nice bod at the other end, "we don't put known issues on the Status Page unless they affect a certain amount of people."

Then he added happily, "We're aiming to get your connexion back up in four days time."

Scotland: East & South East: NO ISSUES REPORTED.

Bah.

"Hadn't committed an offence"

If we applied the same logic here that planning to do something isn't the same as actually carrying it out we'd never bang anyone up for terrorism.

"Between the motion and the act falls the shadow," to quote the illustrious T.S. E

Colour blindness in the workplace

I once kept an overseas Dell support bod on the phone for 20 mins while he asked me if the light at the back was "being yellow" and I kept telling him as far as I was concerned it was being amber.

And we did once have what looked like a 15yo come out with a replacement laptop drive and tell us IT dept bods that it could be difficult to change the drive if you'd never done it before. We had to restrain the IT Manager from taking a swipe at the little oik.

It's US and them again

So Apple, if AT&T object why not just pull the 'offending' apps from the *regional* store - after all there are plenty of apps only available from iTunes.US?

Oh - I know why - it's because if YOU aren't allowed to play with them then you don't want anyone else to be able to either.

Anyone for a game of Monopoly?

Very little sympathy

Never send ANYTHING out from a work email addy that could come back to bite you.

Bullish behaviour

Reminds me of one redneck senator/congressman interviewed on British TV at the start of the Iraq conflict saying France wasn't a proper country because it didn't have any aircraft carriers.

The interviewer then pointed out that, actually, the French had more than the UK did but this shot across the bows didn't seem to make a difference to the argument.

Time & the Conways

I can see the scenario playing out:

Researcher: How many people suffer work injuries in your business each year?

Company: (after 12hrs) Blue, green and orange.

Researcher: That's not what I asked.

Company: (after 6hrs) Madagascar, and the scent of lemons.

Researcher: That's still not what I asked.

Company: (smiles gleefully) Sorry, too late. You've had your alloted time.

wot, no video capture for the 8Gb model?

Funny how Cycorder works perfectly well on the existing 3G hardware yet Apple's home-grown equivalent is unable to.

Seems like another good reason to jailbreak what you have and sod being ripped off by O2's update-before-your-contract-expires-and-lose-an-arm pricing structure.