Posts by bob 46

it a pity

Wow, El Reg does have more than its fair share of idiot responders, doesn't it.

@lieberman, AC etc. Do you really believe that among the dozens or hundreds of talented engineers working on a high profile project for an automobile company with a reputation for safety, not one of them thought about "what happens if a child runs out" or "what happens if the truck turns off"?

Do you really, honestly believe that in the 30 seconds you thought about it, you came up with an idea that hadn't occured to the team at Volvo (who's job it is to think of these things) in the several years they have undoubtably been working on this?

I suspect that the article, in the intrest of brevity, doesn't quite give all the technical details of the system.

And, might I add, nice one Volvo - looking forward to seeing how this pans out.

500MB not enough

My home broadband is pants as I live out in the sticks, so I use my phone a lot for streaming / downloading. Unfortuantely I'm tied into another 18mths. Last time I'll do that. Hope lots of customers vote with their feet so t-mobile are forced to change this policy

Yeah!

I would've been a lot more worried if the data had been handed over. Yeah, in this case it seems harmless, but if the case went to court, the defence solicitor would probably be able to get the evidence dismissed as it wasn't obtained correctly.

Oh, and @ ge : feds? this is derbyshire - you know, in the UK. In case you're wondering where that is, its a small state in the country of London.

Desire

I got the desire when it first came out to replace my beloved N95. My honest opinion of the phone is that as a pocket computer it is lovely. I read books, watch films, play games and browse the internet on it hapily. As a phone it totally and utterly sucks ass. The volume, at maximum is a joke. the speaker quality is awful. It locks after every call, so i have to unlock it to carry on using it. The screen goes dark so I can't disconnect a call when i want to. the bluetooth swings between tempramental to useless. the default on screen keyboards are all rubbish. the sms don't send half the time even though i have full signal. the predictive text choices are ridiculous. I could go on much more. I would never and will never buy an apple product, but how i wish Nokia had got their act together sooner so i wasn't saddled with this thing for the next year.

Mr Murdoch

That man should not be allowed near education. His papers are the very worst type of gutter press, one of the very worst things in the world today. He will do nothing but serious and irreversible harm to education.

why oh why

..couldn't Nokia have brought this out before I bought this piece of crap HTC desire?

How many of you...

...actually have a jailbroken phone? I would think a majority of the readers of this site are higher-than-averagely technical. I am - I work as a programmer and have been programming and working with computers since the early 80s. I have a HTC desire which is not jailbroken. Don't need to, it does what i want a phone to do (more or less anyway - its a great piece of kit for reading ebooks, playing games, navigating and watching videos, but it really, really sucks as a phone)

So come on, how many of you "walled garden" critics have actually taken the time to learn about android and crack your phone?

ViewRanger

Its been around a while now, but ViewRanger on my N95 beats my Garmin Oregon 300 every day of the week. Anyone who goes walking / cycling should have ViewRanger.

cable needed

My dad has one of these. The problem is not the software update, whenever its available, its the cost of the data cable to connect it to the computer. Garmin charge £34 for the PC cable, and another £37 to convert from rs232 to usb. Thats about what we payed for the Geko 201 in the first place!

Negativity

This is a really good initiative which will cost taxpayers a miniscule amount of money. Imagine if there had been twitter and facebook etc. around in WW1 or WW2, and we could browse all that data for free - what a goldmine of information that would be, what an insight into the past.

If this doesn't get the green light, future generations will dispair that all this information was lost for the sake of a few thousand pounds. And all they're asking for is the right to archive information that is freely available on the interweb, without having to ask each website for permission.

How ironic that the one instance where something SHOULD be opt-out rather than opt-in, is the wrong way round.

refuse sample?

What happens if you are arrested, but refuse to give a dna sample unless found guilty? Can you do that? Will they take it by force?

Just curious