Posts by Why Not?

Iplayer - rootkit edition soon?

I want someone effective regardless of their chromosomes.

whilst I think cutting frontline trading standards is a very bad idea as there are a lot of aldulterated goods and dangerous fakes that need to be policed, the sale of Dodgy DVD's and under licensing seems to be something of a civil matter.

If M$ software is being under licensed they and Fast can afford to counter it with a civil case.

I only ever seem to get phone calls trying to sell me seminars and software licensing tools from FAST, this is despite working for a Global company with very tight control on licensing.

The extending battery life I suspect is talking about service life as well, it will last longer in service as you aren't thrashing it. You are also using both power sources in their sweet spot. I assume there are some electronics built in to manage the draw on both. If you decrease the amount of aggressive discharge from the lion cell then you decrease the heating and the likelihood of the battery becoming a bomb.

From the description they aren't losing a great deal of space for the capacitor.

I think the truth will be in the discharge not the heating..

Mobile detectors

As pointed out efficient mobile detectors are dirt cheap to make. You commission some from a supplier and turn the cells over when the alarm goes off.

Not sure with a femtocell you can force phones on it?

like the idea of the IMSI catcher and banning the phones.

It is actually against the rules to have a mobile in Prison isn't it?

single person or multi player?

They seemed to avoid talking about sensing multiple people. Will the cat jumping about turn the lights out?

Kinnect does all of this apart from going through "walls" or as in the demo stud partitions.

Still has a way to go to catch up with the last lot!

http://www.theguardian.com/society/2013/sep/18/nhs-records-system-10bn

I laugh at your sub beelion bar tab, real idiots spaff £10Billion.

But it does seem if they are just collecting data and processing it externally £10 million would have been more than enough. Can't we buy one that works off the shelf?

Oh yes, 'Windows Tiles for Focus Groups' as an ATM.

I can see lots of vandalised ATMs.

Usual government tosh.

There is a deposit scheme Landlords have to use. Its Government mandated and provided by the usual suspects.

https://www.gov.uk/tenancy-deposit-protection

If both the Landlord and the Tennant have to register with this and be verified (proper certificates, insurance, ID etc ) just like the DVLA do with cars and you extend it to hold deposits half the fraud, non compliance and identity issues associated with renting would disappear. The minimal fees required for this would be worth it for tenants and landlords.

Renting or subletting without using the deposit scheme would be illegal.

of course its easier to make the landlords take the blame for poor immigration control.

You have to admire them, they are that arrogant they think they can do anything to their customers & suppliers.

180 day terms BT? oh sorry that is only when you are paying the bill.

Business line - it has to be down for 7 days before we pay compensation of less than one months line rental.

Oh we don't fix residential lines at the weekend? But you broke it by replacing the telegraph pole on Wednesday.

Hopefully Bangalore Telecom will soon be replaced by someone who can do the job.

Maybe its time to change their financing option?

http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/48101

"Taxing citizens to subsidise a biased broadcasting corporation is unfair and immoral.

In the digital age we live in, the BBC should be able to survive on advertisements and selling the rights to its various TV programs and even to charge a subscription if they wish to."

or

http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/54120

"We ask the Government to replace the TV Licence Fee with a voluntary subscription. The commercial element of the BBC would be scrambled for non-subscribers and the public service content would be free to air.

The TV Licence Fee is responsible for 12% of court prosecutions. It criminalises poor people and forces people to pay for genuinely ‘free’ services funded by advertising."

Coitus

Coitus

Cut

Off

In-Flight

Tether

for

Universal

Safety

Surely just adding an O would be a nice way round.

NoSA - sticking it in since 2001.

NoSA - No Security Agency

NoSa - we didn't illegally take your data (needs to be pronounced as Gunnery Sgt Hartman would).

Why for the love of Dog?

Comet is a busted flush and left a bad taste, smell and mess behind for consumers.

May I suggest 'Rasputin Radio', 'Ponzi products' or 'Madoff Machines'?

'Meridian Electrical' would be a better choice.

Not that its easy, Argos have the cheap & here niche, Richer sounds / Lakes the expertise, Dixons have the cheap & cheerful but wait for stock. Amazon/eBay have cheap take a punt and it will be here in a couple of days. Maplin have the gadgets. What need is he going to sell to?

This cost hundreds of millions???

http://www.patch.com/

Blimey where do I sign up as an AOL supplier/imagineer?

Mr & Mrs Gates are Inspirational

If you saw the Academy Lecture with Bill talking about eradicating Polio you could hardly fail to be moved. The work their foundation is doing on sanitation is huge.

However I think he is wrong about this.

There are many things internet access could help with, supplying email, instructions and monitoring to remote areas will have benefits.

Do I think Google are truly charitable? not sure.

I would be so tempted to

Create another app called 'Z**** go bang yourself without Friends' and encourage them to sue.

forget the EPG

would much prefer they told them to stop offsetting programs by 15 minutes so I either miss 15 minutes because I'm watching the similar interest style program on BBC, or I record it and fast forward through the adverts instead of supporting their funding methods. Advertisers please note if its on at a stupid time I dodge the commercials!

They seriously need to change the EPG to correctly classify the shopping and pay channels on freeview. If I want to buy this hours special I will go to the channel.