Posts by Mark Eaton-Park

The solution :-

The Government should provide a free text number so you can report offenders that you see whilst driving, there by at a minimum doubling the crime detection rate on each offence.

Seriously though the solution is to make having the telephone turned on in a car an offence, that way a simple detector connected to speed cameras would identify offenders, well in the event that they bother to put film in.

I thought it was the astral women toliet sign

Like I said above, it looks like the toilet for Jack the Peg's wife

Hard earned tax payer V sponger

If instead of paying Crapita to give the kit away , the Gov. should instead have given the laptops to the schools to lend out to impoverished pupils. This would have met their requirements and have been much cheaper in the long run the kit could have been reused

1. They wouldn't have had to shell out for all the private companies to get their cut including (Crapita, ISP, seller/ support company, rubbish "education" software developers, insurance company etc )

2. The kit would have been owned, supported and insured by the schools own infrastructure and loaded with software consistent with the school's approach to education.

3. I would have set up a wireless zone around the school to provide web based educational content or if pupil lives to far then I would make BT provide a free connection. This gives the required email and provides additional infrastructure for the school to create content to enhance classroom learning..

I could go on and on about how badly they planned and implemented this scheme and how offensive the posts of " I am so angry that I have to work for a living, I believe that under privileged kids should be punished for the sins/ bad luck of their parents". These kids you are attempting to limit are going to be paying your pensions when you retire. If they do not have a good education how much money do you think you will get competing with the other techo-illiterate countries?

All the people who posted all unemployed are criminals are ignoring that everyone during their life between jobs was unemployed somebody was always paying for you.

All the "I know a bloke who isn't working who owns something I don't " are forgetting that different people have different priorities, they may have the item you lust after because they went without something you take for granted or it may be a gift, you just don't know.

All in all the scheme failed as it attempted to take educational resources away from the schools and as it is now unpopular enough the Tory Government is shutting it down to save money just like free school milk. . So again we will all be paying for the loss in the future and that is someone else's problem isn't it? This country is in a financial shambles not because of the unemployed but rather the avarice of the housing market and banks. A few laptop are nothing compared with the billions lost through the greed and jealousy of the affluent

return of the rats? and the russian doll of packaging

If they are going to charge the individual consumer for waste disposal on a quantitative system the end result will be more rats, more smog and a general lowering in the quality of environment and our health.

The people who say "I am not one of the naughty children, I recycle my waste carefully" are missing the point. Processing rubbish at home is less efficent and produces more harmful gases and smog, even when everyone follows the rules. The fact is that there are always some people who will just dump their rubbish if it is not taken off them.

How many times have to bought something packaged like a russian doll, all that superfluous waste needs to be stopped at source not messianicly shuffled before being driven about in a car.

It is commendable that people want to do their bit for the environment but the truth be told their efforts are in vain they are simply hiding the evidence for the state.

unfortunately Martin47 is referring to the US law

I have been hoping for similar in the UK but as BT has a large say in any law that regulates them they still get to profit from crime.

There are controls on local premium rate service providers but BT say they have no control over international comms. This means that all the autodialler and confidence scams operate from outside the UK.

A bunch of criminals in Florida was running a number a few years ago and BT stated they have no way of limiting access (LIE) even though they knew who was doing it and had received hundreds of complaints.

The best we have inthe UK is to waste the time of the calling agent however once they know your number they will sell it on to other organisations, so are making out of us anyway.

As you can see from the likes of the PHORM debarcle BT are a law unto themselves with the state providing little protection for their customers. OLD BOY network avatar required but pirate is close enough

So you put your real details into a untrusted web forum?

DOH !

Good riddance to bad rubbish

Crapita only employ Monkeys that is why they are loosing out, now they are having to compete on an even footing with real technical staff they don't have a chance.

Crapita IT will disappear being as Crapita is an investment group, money was their only motivation for being in the market in the first place.

I blame advertising

You mean you are all putting your real identities into Farcebook? DOH!

What is the general rule about information on the internet? If they want your info it is because they hope to sell it, so have you had your cut yet?

Any WWW database of people is a choice plum for advertisers and will, IMHO, always be plundered whilst money is to be made

Give the web your ID and you might as well give them your life too

about time too

One wonders if there was intent in the previous goverment failure to investigate as per their duty. I hope the people who okayed phorm are put away, ignorance of the law is no protection an all that, especially as they only thought to check after allowing PHORM to spy on us.

Burn BT execs not flame

The reason why police shouldn't be allowed to use

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/lawandorder/5552821/Police-watchdog-to-investigate-Taser-use.html

This is a link from "Dance for me monkey boy"'s post from earlier, no only do the police taser but also punch repeatedly punch this Nottingham Chap.

I think firearms are more humane and at least the police have to be vetted before being allowed to wield them

I reckon Labour are just making sure they don't win

BT have been making money hand over fist for the same old bit of rope that was stolen from the tax payer.

After the PHORM fiasco BT should be made to provide this service at their own cost, they are still laying copper now just because no one has forced them to do otherwise.

Provide a proper service or we take the network back and do it ourselves, then I would't mind paying a tax, atleast it would be spent on the network rather than rewarding the fools who managed to milk a cash cow dry.

IP is theft

Every idea had already been thought before many times before it is written down. Every patent is based upon the work done by other people most of whom will never get a penny. The patent system was designed to allow the theft of invention not protect it, that and provided work for lawyers.

The only fair outcome I am aware of is for Dyson of the carpet cleaner fame and his idea was hardly revolutionary (no pun)

What about Valve / Steam have you read their contract?

All these internet based anti piracy attempts are useless, if enough people want the software then a hacked version will appear.

Software piracy loss is a calculated percentage of the cost of all software and even when the software hasn't been ripped we all still end up pay it.

All my software is legitemate however most of the stuff I have paid for it has bugs and vunerabilities that are continueously patched at my expense.

I personally do not sell buggy code so to me anything with bugs is still beta and hence they shouldn't be charging for it.

If these developers want my sympathy then they shouldn't release thier software until it works properly, there is no excuse. Anyone who says complex software must come with bugs knows nothing about developement. The vendors know that they can simply release unfinished products as they can con their customer into repatching over and over again. The likes of microsoft have done this for years, when they get close to a working version they release it as a brand new product.

So cry me a river we all know you still make your money regardless of how many pirates are out there not to mention the free support knowledge base and sales recommendations these pirates provide.

I am more worried by the deleted posts

Having read a large number of posts on The Reg I would like to know why the missing post was deleted after going public. Does this mean someone other than The Reg insisted on its removal? are the Global Warming crowd doing a Scientology style censorship on our Reg?

The telco should require verbal authorisation

The simple answer to all this dial premium service malware is for the telco to provide premium services as an option, if the mobile owner has to speak to a human before any premium lines can be called then problem disappears for most owners. In the real world the telco does not care if the owner has been defrauded as it isn't there problem, they still get paid. The idea of suggesting that the telco is acting as an accessory to fraud wouldn't wash in the UK I think without a very expensive court case. When you telephone a premium line in the UK they are required to confirm age of caller and if they are the bill payer, this I understand has to be a human operator at both ends. With overseas premium services these rules don't apply and the local telco is not required to give an option to disable all overseas premium services.