Catch the pigeon for the 21st century
Posts by ukgnome
2085 publicly visible posts • joined 16 Jun 2011
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Brit military wants a small-drone-killer system for £20m
iPhone 8: Apple has CPU cycles to burn
Hotter than the Sun: JET – Earth’s biggest fusion reactor, in Culham
Shock! Hackers for medieval caliphate are terrible coders
Kebab and pizza shop owner jailed for hiding £179k from the taxman
Equifax fooled again! Blundering credit biz directs hack attack victims to parody site
Quebec takes mature approach to 'grilled cheese' ban
Pirate Bay digs itself a new hole: Mining alt-coin in slurper browsers
Behold, says robo-mall-cop maker: Our crime-busting dune buggy packed with spy gear
Itching to stuff iOS 11 on your iPhone? You may want to hold off for a bit
BoJo, don't misuse stats then blurt disclaimers when you get rumbled
It wasn't a misquote - it was an amalgamation based on the fact that this is purely about statistics, Lies and damned lies never came into it.
Also it's about BoJo, so what I probably should of written is this
Ah Ah Ah well huff puff waffle snarf snarf damned statistics wot wot fuzzy wuzzy statistics bah
Programming in the Middle Ages: Docker makes a lovely pair of trousers
Boffin wins (Ig) Nobel prize asking if cats can be liquid
Facebook let advertisers target 'Jew-haters'
MPs accuse Amazon and eBay of profiteering from VAT fraudsters
I was banned from eBay once because of box shipping.
The only reason I was allowed back on is because at the time I had my small business as was VAT registered and was able to prove that my box shipments were legal and above board. The person who reported me however wasn't, they just didn't like that I was selling at a reduced rate compared to them. Apparently they did receive a stern letter from HMRC. Enforcement does occur, but usually the backward system goes after the legitimate sellers first.
Scientists produce a map marking water hotspots on the Moon
Facebook posts put Pharma Bro Martin Shkreli in prison as a danger to society
Apple's 'shoddy' Beats headphones get slammed in lawsuit
Giant frikkin' British laser turret to start zapping stuff next year
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El Reg is hiring an intern. Apply now before it closes
Monkey selfie case settles for a quarter of future royalties
The thing about ethical treatment is that it has to be everyones ethics and not just PETA.
Judging on some of their campaigns I doubt they fall under ethical, and are possibly not even people.
Their latest BS of Dairy products causes autism is offensive.
These unscientific idiots should piss off!
Scottish pensioners rage at Virgin cabinet blocking their view
Another day, another drone upstart skips the consumer market
Sub plot subplot thickens: Madsen claims hatch fumble killed Swede journo Kim Wall
Argentina eyes up laser death cannon testbed warship
Thousands of hornets swarm over innocent fire service drone
Chinese smartphone cable-maker chucks sueball at Apple
Sony remembers it once made a great little phone
Couple fires sueball at Amazon over faulty solar eclipse-viewing goggles
Re: Not wishing to stick up for Amazon
Wow - your car analogy makes no sense - if a car is recalled and you don't check then YES you are the arse.
Amazon informed its customers - they did the right thing.
I live in the UK and I was well aware of the issue with eclipse glasses purchased on Amazon.
Not wishing to stick up for Amazon
But anyone that bought a set of suspect glasses were emailed rather swiftly, the product was recalled (told to destroy) and all users reimbursed.
You cannot expect Amazon to call each and every person detailing this.
The recall was in the news around the world, all over facebook and twitter.
If you didn't see the media advice on this then the onus is on you.
Belarus declares war on imaginary country within borders of Belarus that is better than Belarus
Stephen King's scary movie reboot provokes tears from 'legit clowns'
Two million customer records pillaged in IT souk CeX hack attack
Terry Pratchett's unfinished works flattened by steamroller
Japanese sat tech sinks Sea Shepherd anti-whaling activists' hopes
Boffin rediscovers 1960s attempt to write fiction with computers
San Franciscans unite to smite alt-right with minefield of doggy shite
Vodafone won't pay employee expenses for cups of coffee
British broadband is confusing and speeds are crap, says survey
Cabinet
Well my property which is EO is a mere 44M away from the exchange. I could kick a ball and hit it (I never said how many times I would kick the ball)
One of the proposals is a cabinet just outside the exchange - that was proposed 3 years ago now. The real reason it has moved so slowly isn't red tape. The reason is priority.
Why plumb in a new cabinet when only a small minority will use it.
We are talking about a small exchange that has no LLU operators present. And it only caters for 511 residential properties and 27 non-residential.
The annoying thing is that the FTTC status is showing as available in some areas. However upon closer inspection it seems that no cabinets connect to this exchange. So available in some areas is quite misleading.
STILL waiting for BT nosuchReach to work out how to provide FTC when all houses in the village connect direct to exchange.
As for up to 17Mbps - If you only get 7Mbps and at peak they throttle you to 1.5Mbps then what is your actual speed? I googled the answer and will let you know as soon as the page loads.