Posts by Velv

Do you REALLY think the networks (mobile or physical) have the capacity to store all the traffic and the metadata to allow this type of matchup to be done?

Only GCHQ has this type of capability (not that they'd ever admit to it)

"this though, makes NO business sense to me whatsoever"

Any yet Apple just became the worlds most valuable company. They must be doing something right in business then.

Back to school with you

Depends if you're in a temperate zone with four seasons or a tropical zone with two (wet season and dry season)

You really didn't think that one through, did you.

If you get the government to lay the new fibre it will cost 10 times as much as necessary, and come in ten years late. Just the point the copper price hits rock bottom.

But who could we find that can afford BT and can run a profitable business. Richard Branson - but then he already has an infrastructure company

Or really XX or XY - we're all just chromosomes.

So that would just be Female or Male then

"Expensive, excessive, largely pointless, but I love all things Dyson"

Conclusive proof that you're a true fan-bois

How about a running total of votes next to your handle. Up votes +1, down votes -1

Nope, you totally missed the point. It's not about the cost of the local call, but the actual digits you dial.

In most places it isn't mandatory to dial the area code to phone your neighbour. You simply dial the last 6 (or 7 for some cities) digits. Under this new scheme, it will be mandatory to dial the 01xxx as well.

Ah, the simple life

"the fault lies entirely ... UK tax law"

Err, no. The fault lies in Global Tax law - you can choose to register in (almost) any country you like and pay your taxes there. Google is registered in Ireland, not the UK, hence even if it made £6Bn profit it would still probably only pay ~£8m in UK tax.

So we need to extend your proposal. All countries in the world need to have the same tax rates otherwise those that can afford to will continue to be "resident" in a lower taxing country.

Somehow I don't see that happening any day soon.

Uses

"advertise the amatory services of ladies of ill repute"

I think Terry Pratchett's term is much more in keeping - "ladies of negotiable affection"

Standard Operating Procedure

The UK always follows this process with anything new.

They try it out in Scotland before rolling it out to the rest of the UK.

Who's the Daddy!

I remember many moons ago a spat between Apple and MS over the WIMP interface, both claiming they invented it. They traded blows for months.

The Xerox slapped the both in the face with their output from Xerox PARC.

I can see similar on the horizon over tablets and UIs ...

The Previous Generation?

Star Trek TNG definitely had an older model. Their one didn't do any fancy orientation based rotation - watch them, they always turn the tablet like printed paper, keeping the bottom as the bottom etc.

Encryption

If the network operators do "sort it out", how many governments around the world are going to ban mobile phones as they can no longer listen in whenever they want?

New Issue

Correction: It *WAS* a technical issue.

Many governments are now demanding that all these private systems have the ability to permit lawful interception. Some governments are more public about it than others, but you can be that every single government is secretly lobbying to have a way in to the private BES (and every other "secure" service.

Just because your government isn't making an arse of itself publicly demanding access doesn't mean they aren't trying to intercept your messages.

Who Givesafuckbook?

Err, isn't that the whole point of the site. To find those peoplecwho do give a fuck ;)

Shoot yourself in the foot with the Royal Mail argument

On a one off "connection", Royal Mail will deliver your pirate DVD.

But when they suddenly get a bulk delivery into a depot, they are required to consult the authorities if they suspect illegal activity. It's about what flies below the RADAR - if a user/customer starts sending 1,000 packages a day, they get suspicious. Might be legit, might not. But they do investigate.

Errrr, fail

@s. pam

Errr, fail. You get traffic throttling on all packages except then100M service. Even the XXL 50M service has a caveat that they may throttle the upstream.

Single point of failure

Why not go back to sweeping the floor since you clearly know very little about running such services.

Floppy Disk

There was a time when you age a computer geek by asking them to format a floppy disk.

There was the knowledgeable generation who opened a command prompt and typed "format a:"

The there were those newbies who would open explorer, right click on the floppy drive and selected "Format" from the menu.

Now they look at you blankly and say "What's a floppy disk?"

Paris? Because I'm getting old :(

Data or Content?

Data is data, and should be charged the same?

By the same argument, pay TV should be a flat fee for all channels. It's all just 1s and 0s being broadcast, and your box receives them even if you haven't paid to unlock the content.

What we should have is a FAIR and TRANSPARENT model for charging. As has been said many times, "Unlimited" should be truly UNLIMITED.

But will the regulators do anything?