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Years ago I had a mobile phone battery short and overheat while in my pocket....I was just about able to remove the battery before it caught fire, suffering burnt fingers and groin in the process. If the battery had been fixed in the phone it would have gone up in flames. If that had been on a plane, the consequences would have been catastrophic. You can't stop an electrical fire - unless you have an asbestos box at the ready........

That was just one battery. The hazards of multiple batteries are just horrendous

If he was really "revered" In think I would probably have heard of him, even if I didn't like him. But the simple fact is......no, I've never heard of him at all. Neither positively or negatively.

I see that a number of inflammatory posts have been deleted from this thread by its author......I wonder why..? Trolling backfiring on him maybe?

"A recent Telstra survey asked IT managers what were the drivers influencing their move to the cloud and the top five answers were:

Improving security (71 per cent)"

there you go, thats their claimed top answer

How does handing your data over to a third party increase security? This "survey" is total bunkum. The methodology cannot be valid

I hope I'm wrong, and I have no knowledge of the company except as a user of Daisy's phone and broadband services, but the hype and speed with which Daisy acquires businesses reminds me so much of the rise of the chemical business MTM before it went tits-up.

The speed of growth through non-organic means was disturbing then, and looks so similar now

crappy storyline

Differing market sectors have different views....

I find it interesting that most of the immigrant working girls I've met have Lumias running Win8.

The phones are cheap, do what they want i.e. phone calls/e-mails/facebook/check their personal websites for customer contact.

It seems that if you're Polish or Romanian or Czech or Spanish and female, brands such as Apple or Android have zero significance. All they want is a phone that does the minimum they need, has reasonable battery life, and is cheap. These girls don't give a monkeys about technical fashion name branding - they just want something that works and is value for money - which at present, Lumias are. Of course it also helps that a lot of current Lumias look a bit girly with their bright plastic cases.....

My belief is Microsoft will go down a similar route, offering cheap, reliable, functional phones to countries like Brazil, Argentina, South Africa......Countries with a demand, but no preconceived marketing notions, especially among the women. Wouldn't surprise me if they tried aiming Lumia as a brand at women globally - something on the lines of "Lumia - the phone for people fed up with Android and iPhone penis envy...." I'm sure they'd phrase it differently, but you get the idea

1) that's borked any chance of the NHS ever adopting Win10

2) that's effectively forcing large sites to upgrade from Pro to Enterprise with a heck of a cost increment

Sasquatch??? More like Homer Simpson

I heard that IBM were considering purchasing Alfa-Laval's milk parlour business

he needs a ten year stretch in jail, filming the aftereffects of a bank heist

stupid prat

OK so you create a new website over a weekend, populate it with pages hacked from another site, and by tuesday enough people are reading that new site to affect share prices?

Sorry but I smell bollocks here. The timing is too fast. Its too quick for that number of people to have discovered the site. Google isn't going to give the site a high ranking. More likely there was share manipulation going on anyway and the website is simply there to confuse the trail.

don't worry - once you replace it you won't have to do it again for another two years

I was on a contract team which setup one of the rooms in the Bolton centre a couple of years ago. I've seen some bad call centres, worked in a few, but the environment there was easily the worst.

Untrained staff, mainly asian origin with minimal language skills being treated as near-slaves. The management attitude worked down to the front line staff, who in turn treated the customers like shit.

Bullying of staff, limited loo breaks, impossible call rates, IT support staff who were prevented from fixing things for budgetary reasons (i.e. no spare keyboards or mice). 60% of the light tubes were faulty - and requests to fix them were refused on cost grounds, despite the illumination breaking HSE regulations.

Once the PCs in the room we set up were installed, I was glad to be away from there.

The key thing is that the site was contractor-run, not a part of the civil service. It was expanded while DWP sites such as Norcross and Piel Park were being closed. Who ran it? United Utilities.

I see oxfordcollegeteens.com and oxfordcollegelesbians.com are still available. I'm surprised the university LGBTs haven't grabbed the second

while on the same train of thought, CambridgeUniversityNaughtyTeenStudents.com is also available

current list of KMOWN bugs

http://www.hscic.gov.uk/media/17750/Summary-of-Known-Issues/pdf/Summary_of_Known_Issues_10_07_15.pdf