Posts by Oor Nonny-Muss

Damn the Arts Council!

>>The new MHEG channel may be populated with Shakespeare in Urdu and similar

Dang! I was hoping for Ben Johnson in Inuinnaqtun

I have been online since 1989 - I have yet to "accidentally" stumble upon porn. Yes, I have found it, but only when actively looking for it. No different to finding scudbooks (that's jazz mags to those in England) in hedges on the way to/from school - you never found them if you weren't looking.

I have a son at primary school - when he's online at home he is under supervision, not by "NetNanny" or the likes - but by me (or by his mum) - I'm sure I'm not alone in being a techie parent that runs an open but tightly monitored ship (I log all activity on t'internet here and take a scan through the logs for any activities that I don't recognise on a regular basis). I stop nothing and log everything.

On the rare occasion when he's at school and online (which I've signed the consent form for) I take it on trust that the teacher(s) involved will act in loco parentis and supervise appropriately.

He doesn't have a mobile phone because he doesn't need one (and hasn't expressed a desire for one). When he wants/needs one I shall assume that he will be mature enough not to go looking for anything that "distresses him" more than once - if he's not mature enough to handle that, then he's not mature enough to handle the mobile device.

Victorian Dad.

But it's reasonably obvious why...

In my house there is a broadband connection, used by me and all of my family (1 connection used by more than 1 person).

My phone has a broadband connection used by me.

My better half's phone has a broadband connection, used by her.

I have a Mi-fi that has a broadband connection used by me.

I make that 3 connections used by 2 people.

It all makes me laugh...

on 3... they block access to b3ta... but in doing so, they push you to the landing page for their own adult content... so in looking for b3ta, one gets pushed towards the porn. Well done. Even when you have the filter allegedly switched off, it still pushes you to their own porn...

What???!!!

>> In a statement Robin Christopherson of AbilityNet said: "Like everyone else in these hard times the country’s 12 million disabled people ...

Taking the country's population to be 60 million - that's a fifth of the population! There's either some hyperbole going on there or there needs to be some reappraisal of what constitutes "disabled".

Another NFC solution...

... to a non-problem?

Stop fining me...

... in the guise of fining the companies from whom I'm more or less obliged to buy. Jail the directors responsible (at their own personal expense) instead.

Surely the answer to his question is...

"A quiet one where nobody speaks".

Those statistics are backwards surely?

In 2007 there were 2.17 TVs per house, now 2.34 - an increase of 0.17 (normal to take the datum as the original value is it not, rather than the final value?) an 8% increase not 7%

Look at the smartphone - was 0.28, now 0.77 - an increase of 0.49 (from a start point of 0.28) - I make that 175% increase... not 64%

Similarly tablet 0.18 to 0.33 - that would be an 83% increase not 45% & Laptop 0.95 to 1.51 - (59% not 37%)

Obviously....

.... he's the prime candidate for the donkey work.

On a sample of 1

I can tell you that my lad quickly worked out that he didn't need to jump around with any Wii title - he just needed to be able to do an action that the Wii interpreted as the right one... often far more accurately than when doing the "proper" action.

7c per day?

7c per 10 seconds and I might think about it...

Wikipedia is working here just fine....

... in English. However when I let it run the scripts from wikimedia.org, it stops.

NoScript wins again :)

Now I know...

Where my mother's old curtains went. That bloke talking to Prince Andrew seems to have rescued them from the tip and had a jacket (of sorts) made from them.

Lucky...

she doesn't have friends from Muff, Co. Donegal or Nobber, Co. Meath.

Wonder why...

... they need to develop software?

According to http://revk.www.me.uk/2011/11/secret-to-accessing-newzbin2-from-bt.html no software is required.

OK... but there's an elephant in this room

Why would I not get a Sony PS3? - even if I never use it for games, it's a well-supported well-featured BD player that happens to play games too. And considerably cheaper than a number of the models reviewed here.

My parental unit has a PS3 for exactly this reason - side benefit when I (or the kids) go round there's a PS3 there to play with too.