* Posts by Andy Livingstone

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Adobe urges 'caution' for 64-bit Flash player beta

Andy Livingstone

Adopey

With just about every Adopey product under Warnings right now, who could possibly think of using one?

BT ad banned for 'misleading' customers over broadband speeds

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Inaccurate quote - surely?

"Because we had not seen sufficient evidence to support the claim that BT's new broadband service was consistently faster than its existing 8Mb service even at peak times, we concluded that the ad was likely to mislead," said ASA.

Who at ASA thinks the existing service is 8Mb? The weasel words "up to" have not been noticed by ASA? Did you really quote them accurately?

Virgin Media to warn malware-infected customers

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Custers Last Stand?

Letters.

Are plasma TVs killing radio?

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Geeks laugh at Beardies

I know it is the silly season, but how does that twaddle even pretend to be news?

The only things harming domestic radio are foreign continuity announcers (Radio 4) and the need for subtitles in English (Radio 5). Even China Radio has better quality English speakers in its relays from Radio Luxembourg...... once the home of Dan Dare and the Top Twenty........ blimey, is nothing sacred?

UK.gov sticks to IE 6 cos it's more 'cost effective', innit

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Headings

Dear sub-editor,

Please could we have headlines in English?

Thank you.

YouGov tests the waters on internet snooping

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How many said yes?

Who has the connections to tell us that one?

Firefox update guards hen house

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Speed?

Only change made to one PC is Firefox update. Now moves with all the vigour of our proverbial dead parrot.

Mozilla snuffs password pilfering Firefox add-on

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Crap spelling or Political Correctness gone mad?

"block-listed"????????

Mobile broadband: not up to the job?

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No comparison

A much better read all round than the original article.

BT settles pay row with union

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Both sides claimed victory

Of course they did.

We the customers are stuffed as the losers.

No difference there then.

UK.gov considers tougher powers for ICO (again)

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Wrong Direction

More powers? The ICO cannot cope with what they receive. They take far too long to deal with enquiries. Waste time and money writing 3 page letters when 3 short paragraphs would suffice. Get them proper management not more power. A comparison with their opposite numbers in the Channel Islands would show up just how dreadful the mainland ICO actually is.

40% efficiency savings here could easily be made by the application of quality business standards.

Home Office promises spycam review

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Innacurate

"In total the the National ANPR data centre holds 7.6 billion records."

Cannot be National if Scotland is separate.

Ten Essential World Cup Apps

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The Off Switch

Much more important for the next few weeks.

A.B.E.

The World's best World Cup Calendar (maybe)

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What next?

A World Cup 2010 loo brush?

It's only a bunch of kids playing a game.

ID card scheme barely broke 13,000 mark, minister confirms

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Deduct people like David Blunkett.....

leaving no -one at all.

Nominet announces Baroness as new chair

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4 legs goo, 2 legs bad

Round here chairs have 4 legs.

Yahoo! signs up Becks as footie pundit

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Any excuse to mention the World Cup?

That's three articles in one day.

Met lab claims 'biggest breakthrough since Watergate'

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Toys for boys.

Is there any chance the Bluebottles could stop playing with toys and start walking the streets again?

Looks as if their only contributions to public savings is a reduction in show leather.

Teletext licence holder fined for killing service early

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Info for ITV advertisers

Without Teletext I don't bother watching ITV. Teletext was the only thing having it on for.

Approaching space object 'artificial, not asteroid' says NASA

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I know how to defend myself

I've started to dig out those old Slim Whitman records gain.

Blunkett threatens to sue for £30 ID card refund

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How does he know it's not just a blank bit of plastic?

Well?

Brazilians ordered to have more sex

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Only one question

If I get a prescriotion, where do I take it?

BT loses on termination fee back payment

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Why am I here?

No idea why I even bothered to read the article, ezxcept for the attraction of anything headed "BT loses"

New road made from pigsh*t in Missouri

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Whereas in the UK....

We simply leave our roads to deteriorate to that.

P.S. I love the Show-Me state.

BT fibre upgrades hit full speed

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Independence this way, please

True enough, these upgrades are going where the population is most dense.

Bank security guru: Sue your bank for refund

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They have now closed his account??

Wouldn't that be the usual action by Banks?

Radio lobby 'hides' 2m analogue receiver sales

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Damn and Blast

DAB = that or Dump and Burn.

Why can't Government back off and leave things alone.

As for GfK NOP, have you seen the volume of complaints on the net about their unwanted phone calls? They don't call me any more since I asked for 10 guineas to answer each question - payable in advance. Seemed fair as they get paid for the results.

Oh and yes, I am content to use guineas, shillings, and even metres.......of the 208 variety.

Sod progress and Nanny McBroon.

Lords: Analogue radio must die

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Democracy?

"Digital radio isn't great and the public doesn't want it, but you're going to get it anyway".

Replace subject with anything you can think of.

It's Britain today.

Blighty gives Street View the bum's rush

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CMK - normal behaviour.

Don't know anything about Omagh, but the second picture is from Milton Keynes. I live there. You sure that was for Google's benefit as it looked like normal, every day behaviour?

Microsoft confirms IE9 will shun Windows XP

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Ho, hum

" This is hardly a surprise " So it's a slow news day is it?

Microsoft cuts out paste

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Not the first time it has been dropped.

They probably thought that after removing it from Windows Live Messenger without complaint it would not matter.

Ordnance Survey consultation reaches end of line

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Now you tell me - so what's mine is mine.

Dessert Storm.....

Dear Nat West,

You were paid for with my money. I'll be in tomorrow. Have £10,000 ready for 10 am. No, you cannot charge me for it as it is only a refund of my own money. By the way, do you know where the nearest Northern Rock branch is, please?

Andy.

Google '99.9%' certain to pull China search plug

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Who cares?

Well?

UK shoppers ignorant of online rights

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Don't think so!!!!!

From personal experience....Retailers know a heck of a lot less than their customers about buyers' rights and Government Agencies are no help in supporting customers either.

Virgin signals start of telegraph pole broadband test

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Who lives in a house like this?

Which Virgin exec lives in that village?

For sale: One des res nuclear bunker

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Buy to Rent?

How much to rent it during elections, World Cups, and similar threats to the will to live?

BT blamed for Davina McCall spamcalls

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BT? Ethics?

That's near Thussex, isn't it?

And of course that was not a call. Just as their "correspondence cetre" is incapable of responding to letters. And their Customer Care staff could not care less.

Everything, as in NewSpeak , is exactly what BT deems it to be.

US school comes out fighting over webcam spy claim

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Silly bugger.

What are you on about, AC, 20/2, 04:43?

Have you tried walking down any UK High Street at lunchtime?

Police feel safe only in pairs. School staff no where in sight. Kids on the rampage.

You have had your rant. Please return to the present reality.

Spanish city shuns Brit 'Saga louts'

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Read the quote again, please.

It is not the "Brits" he is complaining about. It is the "English". There is a difference.

BT revenues down

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Drop means less, doesn't it?

"BT Retail made £2,061m, a five per cent drop,". That's cropped from the article. I stick with my previous opinion.

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How would a normal business react?

As opposed to the fixed "we are still a monopoly" minds at BT who will simply increase prices yet again.

See the recent letter from Warren Buckley about the "useful features of your landline" which on the back and in smaller sized print listed the April increases.. Even smaller print at the bottom tells you those prices are only correct at December 2009.

How many customers are they prepared to lose before taking a common sense approach?

Carly Fiorina unleashes 'demon sheep'

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Usually works fine

A.C. 49 other States say it's OK. Crossing the pond fast too. Innit.

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My hope

is that her bid for the Senate is as successful as her time at HP. Total obscurity beckons.

US plans crewless automated ghost-frigates

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Steal one?

How protected from Somali pirates?

Brits left cold by mobile internet

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Chicken or Egg first?

A prerequisite to use is a viable signal. I have the gear, but not the signal. OK, I'm a bit in the countryside, but the main North South railway line is only a couple of hundred yards away.

An follow-up analysis by Essential Research on true signal availability, rather than promised, would be most useful.

MS to release WinMo 7 to phone makers in September

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What's the point?

Version 7 of a turd is still a turd.

UK government rebuffs cries for free postcode database

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Money, money, money.

Roughly translated from Brown-speak....... No, you cannot have it free; I intend to sell it as yet another asset from which I can make money to help my desparate budgets.

Google taps Gmail for more clicks with ad tweak

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I could use that.

If I write through Gmail to a certain Scotsman in Downing Street, telling him he is a f******g w****r who should resign now then go s-------f himself in Fife till hell freezes over what sort of adverts might appear?

BT reveals faster broadband pricing

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Infinity?

The only association with Infinity is the wait for any reasonable service.

I had the "Great News" that BT can take great delight in telling me that they can now offer me 1 Mb less than I already enjoy.

With the extra 50p monthly they will grab through my phone bills what will they provide.

Expect it to be Road Tax. All tax, no roads. All 50p, no improvement.

No World Cup anthem for England football heroes

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Aye, Right!

TeeCee.....who thrashed England not long after their 1966 fluke?

John H. Woods....England ceased to be a country on its own when the Scots took it over in the 17th Century. Since then it has been a region of the United Kingdom.

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