Posts by BristolBachelor

How

People turned up with with a new Chip-n-pin card unit (they were just being introduced) and told the part-timer behind the desk that they had to be changed. The new unit read all the details from the chip (which is enough to reproduce the mag-stripe, together with the PIN that was typed in. The units that I am aware of then sent batches of numbers by SMS to a mobile registered somewhere in the East, so impossible to trace.

Bogus cards could be made for cash machine use, and together with the snaffled pin gave free money...

Symbian is perfect?

Except that it isn't. I only did one upgrade of my E90. Afterwards it wouldn't allow any of my paid-for apps to install, because the certificates allowing them to be installed were out of date. Even trying to force it failed.

It then re-synced my phone book and created a separate entry for each telephone number that anyone had, instead of having single entries with multiple numbers.

Also, afterwards, the phone silently decided it needed to talk to the network if you opened the maps application; cost 54cents each time it was started, plus 54 cents every half-hour that the application was left in the background - there was no mention that it would do this, and the option to turn it off is not even in the maps application!

This is a fecking title :)

"Linux...when it works it's great, when it doesn't, it can be a real sod."

But is Windows any better? The insides are hidden away so much, that sometimes it's impossible to sort out and the automatic answer is "Reboot and see if it's better", and then "Re-install it".

I'd certainly agree that Linux can be a right sod to sort out when it goes bad, but I wouldn't say that Windows is better in that sense. Sorry that I can't compare with fruit flavoured computers.

Yes and Yes

Sorry, I forgot to mention that. So to summarise:

The system already had all the identified "benefits" of the new system,

The system was already there with no millions of cost to put it in place.

It just worked™ (including digital x-ray).

Only about 20 people could get access to it, all logged and no burning it onto CDs, loosing it in the post or selling it to medical / insurance companies.

Hang on a minute

I guess that you don't take photographs then?

The spirit of the anti-terrorism laws is that they stop "terrorism" from affecting people's way of life. The fact is that the anti-terrorism laws are reportedly being used to actually terrorise people and interfere with their lives.

As for your 24p, I guess it was given to you by the company you work for? How do they feel about the US seeing all of their bank transactions? Will you be out of work if they lose their next contract to a US company (See EADS wins the new tanker refueling contract with the US DoD, then it doesn't for an example of how US interests are protected)

Another quote

"Every bad guy known to man has on email"

Quick; ban email?

Internal temperature

Raising your outside temperature on a rock just wont do. You need to raise your internal temperature.

That is what black coffee was invented for :)

Re: dave 93

Yeah, because nobody else ever benefitted from graduates.

I mean, nobody was ever helped by a doctor. Nobody uses electronics, or vehicles (or eats food transported by vehicles), or benefits from civil engineering creating the country's infrastructure. Yes, make the doctors et. al pay for the educations that everyone else benefits from.

Your suggestion of making it retrospective is even better. I mean the UK is not the most attractive place to live and work anyway, so encouraging the educated to move abroad will surely help other countries!

Yay, I say back to living in caves, killing what you eat (or killing who has something you want).

(Exception to graduates of the previously mentioned football and bookbinding degrees. Perhaps the government should only sponsor degrees of use to society? If you want to study a different one, pay your own way).

Isn't it more like...

I read it as being more like that there are laws and rules to follow, and the lawyers were just being lazy, cutting corners and possibly making it harder for the court and the ISPs to properly assess each case.

Ironic really that they are not following the rules, and then complaining that others are not...

what's the 'install disk' for?

I thought that when you got a mMac, it "just worked" (TM)? What is an 'install disk'? And what does it do? is it something to do with Windows?

OK - I'll go back to living under a bridge and demanding a fee from anyone wanting to cross :)

calling 0800

Yes, O2 are charging me lots to call 0800 numbers. (In fact, they charge me lots to call any 08xx number), whereas 01* and 02* are included in my plan.

Please tell me who I can change to. Please ensure when you pick another carrier that their network covers me.

Re: Better picture showing Atlantis about to dock

Funny, your link just sent me back to this page!

This is a picture taken by a French guy in Madrid, showing Atlantis approaching the station:

http://axilone.com/legault/iss_atlantis_transit_2010.html

competatively priced contract

idasben says:

"...the government would be unable to get anyone to sign a competatively priced contract..."

Was that a joke? Exactly when does the government ever get a competatively priced contract?

Downloaded files

So when the plot have you in front of a judge because your harddisk contains files that are not liked by the current government this week (youtube clips, squid porn, bus timetables that may be of use to a terrorist, etc.), you can say:

"Look, this little flag tells you that it was downloaded from the internet..."

Re: I tried that once...

Bruce4:

Did you take the wheels off their car, and watch them try to drive home?

The machine still has to pay its way

Obviously the rest of the time, the machine will be doing what it was bought for; modelling the decay of nuclear weapons to know when they will need to be refurbished, or modelling new versions of them so that they pack more punch for their size?

Earlier version

The earlier version of this article didn't say anything about the hotel company not being made aware of the contents of the contract that they signed (surely it is a matter of practice to read a contract before signing it?!)

What the earlier article did say was that the supplier couldn't really rely on this part of their T&C because they did not provide the hotel company with sufficient information for them to identify that the software was not fit for the purpose for which they were buying it. Instead, the hotel company relied on the opinion of the software company that the software was just what they wanted, and was suitable for their purpose.

However, I am more than happy if courts will now look at T&C and stike down clauses that are unreasonable that say thinks like "The software does not have to work properly, if it doesn't we are not responsible for anything"

Voda P&G in Spain

I have a Voda pay and go sim in Spain, but the data charges on that are stupid. My wife pays less using her UK O2 P&G sim roaming in Spain than I pay on my Spanish Voda P&G in Spain!

cars that are clearly too powerful for the average British road

I challenge you to find a car that is not powerful enough to crash into a lamp post, or to mount a kerb. (Childrens plastic cars with pedals do not count).

I don't recall ever reading about a car that it is impossible to crash because it is "sensible". I would say that chance of an accident has more to do with the fleshy part in the seat than the mechanical parts...

Ethernet socket

OK, I've found the ethernet cables on-line.

Now where do I find an ethernet socket for my phone / iPod / Wife's DS...

I think I've seen it...

It's the one parked in a barn, minus any wheels?