Posts by pctechxp

@Seán - Re: Constipated types

This service is just plain WRONG.

While I don't doubt it is possible for someone to fake CLID using software or a VOIP service (I acquired a London number for Skype only because that the code for where I live did not appear to be available when I registered for SkypeIn (I've stopped using Skype now because VOIP is crap but the fact that a business is being allowed to sell a service that allows you to ring up an access server and enter any number you would like to present and offer the option to filter your voice through modification software to boot is just ridiculous.

There is a market for this type of service but it should be registered law enforcement ONLY.

Where I work the main switchboard number is presented when we dial out which is fine because at least you are phoning back a number that belongs to the organisation that will be answered and would be quite happy to have my direct number displayed along with the main number (my phonw is part of an Auto call distribution system so cant accept incoming calls that easily but at least it would give peace of mind.

I just gotta hope that some moron doesn't input my home or mobile number in at random and pester their ex-girlfriend/missus and then I end up getting the flak.

Looks like a duck and quaclks like a duck...

you get the idea

looks far too much like an iCon to me.

Is that a Redneck pasttime?

shooting at microwave link dishes?

give up on WAP

Cos it crap.

I mean really, who the hell bothers with mobile websurfing on the small screen unless your an executive from a phone firm whose desparate.

Yes it might have been useful to check your bill or call records but most of this stuff can be built into a SIM application and fetched using USSD cant it?

The only thing I've used O2's Active portal for is buying a couple of games for my mobe (long may that term live in El Reg's slang lexicon)

@greybeard

True, what is the latest on the inflation in Zimbabwe? last time I looked it was 1,000%.

Be like that in Blightly soon at the rate food, fuel, etc are going,

in Other News

telecoms indutry watcher and reg reader reveals that Virgin ARE NTL, its the rebranding stupid!

I reckon they must have inhaled too much of the joss stick fumes to come up with that logo

Anyway, as I've ranted before P2Pers should be charged for bandwidth in the same way as I would be if I rented a server and hosted this stuff.

But yes, wholheartedly agree, Virgin are crap, they control the cable in the area I live in and wont tell the council when they will upgrade it to offer digital TV and they have the bloody cheek to charge me £4 a month for a crap basic aerial grade analogue service.!

Very good

if only one could get away with such things in real life.....(cackles)

Another masterpiece, keep up the good work Simon.

Infamy, infamy, they've all got it in for me!

The IDs that they have been provided with are probably the Temporary Mobile Station Identifiers (TMSIs) which change each time you restart your phone like a dynamic IP address

So just keep restarting your phone every 30 minutes, only the phone company can tie the TMSI to your phone number.

Oh and switch your phone off before you leave work and don't switch it on again until you get back to work in the morning, therefore just going on this info they'll think you LIVE at work.

That's them snookered.

I worked with someone like this

He got hauled off the premises by the Police and security and got the boot.

This was funny to watch though.

You could always

Get SMS deactivated on your phone

No messages = no problem

@Spleen re tar and feather, threatening to dress them in a concrete overcoat and telling them that they will be sleeping with the fish if they dont stop might be far more effective.

I pity the poor bastard/bitch that gets allocated 07999 999999 as he/she will get spam overload either now or when it is bought as a platinum number for £2k on ebay.

@amanfromMars

Are you drunk or just mad?

errr

Am I the only one thats concerned that our aircraft are being controlled by the Amerinuts.

when will the government over here (UK) insist on it

The same people that moan about privacy invasion probably have credit/debit cards and a bank account and want a stop to fraud via phishing or phone scams (if you are stupid enough to give them your details) in the case of phone scams its extremely easy for these to be perpetrated from an unregistered PAYG phone which is disgarded, banks etc wont just keep writing off the money.

However, what about the more serious stuff that causes distress and anxiety such as stalking, and if the worst happens such as a murder or rape or paedophilia where mobile phone evidence maybe crucial, what would you say if you or a member of your family suffered at the hands of someone who was untraceable because people had listened to the crap you people come out with, would you still be singing the same tune you bunch of dickheads?

Would be great if we lived in a utopia where people didn't blow each other up or rape, murder or there weren't sick people that considered children sexually attractive wouldn't it?

If it leads to an increase in convictions for the crimes I mentioned above I'm all for it.

I use a PAYG but it has always been registered with the operator.

Sure I think politicians are slimy pieces of shit trying to fill their pockets but am all for measures that keep decent people safe and reduce the safety of criminals.

Not posted anonymously because I have a backbone unlike the majority of Reg readers obviously.

broadband recommendation

Newnet, excellent network and tech support and they are unbundling slowly too.

It is run by networking professionals who know what they are talking about and actually listen to what you have to say when you report an issue and appreciate that you actually know your stuff too, not like the outsourced morons reading from a screen when you phone up Internet Service Providings.

Not happy with $1.71 million

Shows you how greedy the owner is, if someone offered me a million (sterling that is, don't want no stinkin' greenbacks) for one of my domains I'd take their hand off.

would have thought

She'd have been carrying her weapon of choice, the Blackberry

Bet she is RIM's biggest customer, second only to the network operators.

inclusive bandwidtth and operating costs

If you want a high speed network you will have to start paying more for it because networks cost money to build and operate and then you have the peering connections, while free reciporcal peering does exist, one of the parties will get pissed off if their port is getting hammered by dickheads downloading (and uploading) complete series of 24/Heroes/House or whatever via peer to peer 24/7 and may start charging for the connection.

Franly these people should be forced onto a dedicated network and charged for the cost of a leased line or have their connections stopped.

C'mon if you work in IT you should know this kind of stuff and not be whining about it, its the P2P divs that spoil for the rest of us.

If you want to serve this crap, get yourself a server and pay the bandwidth charges.

No mention of the most important function

It is a PHONE after all so whats the call quality like?

Ripe for a sell off

As it has no more room to expand, maybe Voda should put itself up for sale.

Maybe that South American chap thats made his fortune from mobiles might be interested.

I'm switching to Linux

I dual boot XP and Mandriva now.

I bought Vista Ultimate and it wouldn't run games successfully so I switched back to XP.

I might try again when SP1 has been out a while but my next move will be Linux and perhaps reactOS (thanks for the tip M Burns

thought that they were supposed to have a dual vendor architecture

so why did a line card have any effect?

@fuzzy

No you aren't, though he was standing on the back of a GMC truck when it came to my mind.

My choice would be an uzi 9 mil or Walther PPK

Sounds like the plotline of Highlander 2 to me

Where they set up 'the shield' which turns out to cause more problems than it solves.

The wonders of prepay

Yes I know what a contract is but I choose to be on prepay, no DD cockups, dodgy insurance or pushy sales.

I buy the hardware and pay upfront for a phone service which I use when I want with no drain on my salary (I have the gas electric and BT for that)

I wanna work for BT!

If they pay people with skills more than useless managers then I'll go work for 'em

Where do you apply to?

The purest form of profit ever invented

was a quote used from a 'founder of vodafone'

While there has to be a profit margin, 10p a message is a bit excessive, why not 4 or 5p as it cant cost them that much to carry the data.

I hear

Powerwatch are putting in a large order and will add £200 to the price.

Ah well, a fool and his/her money are soon parted.

I'm on the side of the taser happy cops by the way, I wish they'd use them more on our wayward yoof.

I want one of those

So that I can stun the scrotes that put a stone through my window while I was at work flogging my guts out to earn an honest crust as the police do bugger all

Wish they would taser the little bastards

I want the law changed so that I can buy one legally

responses

1. Philips have adopted the "me too" approach so it'll be as close to the I Con sorry phone as is allowed legally.

2. Yes fair point, my screen at work is crap so that's my excuse :)

3. I dont doubt that Philips make good products, I have a Philips cordless connected to my landline (which I only retain to support the broadband) but after 5 minutes of talking on it the battery needs a recharge, why the hell can they not get that sorted (less transmission power due to shorter distance) etc.

I thank you, goodnight

no problems for me

Running a Pentium D (Presler) @ 3.4Ghz on a clean install of XP SP2 (not an OEM image)

Couldn't download via win update on Tuesday so installed using the stand alone installer.

All OK

not had the balls to play Doom 3 yet

played the origianl doom and downloaded the demo of doom 3 which I ran on a crap spec machine.

Even with the software rendered graphics it looked really creepy, one sight of them spider type things and I was reaching for alt+tab.

I know have a 3D enabled monster and haven't had the balls to install the doom 3 demo.

Oh no

Think I remmber reading about a businessman that had biometric security fitted to his Mercedes S-Class http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/04/04/fingerprint_merc_chop/, the theives simply cut off his fingers to drive it away.

I'd be happy

To take that £15 mill off their hands

NFC

Wish I had this for where I work

Would be a lot easier than having to hang something round my neck to go through reader after reader (as all the doors are access controlled using RFID)

A regards new phones, the operators should cough up for the SIMs with this integrated.

It's the Sun stupid

Call me a heretic if you will but why does no one mention that the so called global warming is more than likely due to an increase in solar activity.

oh dear

if I were paying a couple of grand for a phone (frank;y why would you) I'd expect quad-band UMTS AND GSM AND perhaps CDMA to boot (in fact every wireless standard that exists)

Talk about a rip-off, ah well, least its only the toffs that can afford these things so well fool them for being a Nokia (nasty phone) wrapped in Gold or leather.

idiots.

@AC

Are you that paranoid that you are someone that blocks all cookies?

As for this setup, I'm too old (26) and I get more than enough crap on my mobile thanks.