Posts by Steve Davies 3

Re: School Teacher

As he has been named and probably done the 'perp walk' in front of the TV Cameras, his life as he knew it is over. He'll be lucky to get a job in clearing turds in a sewage plant after this.

Don't you just love the US Legal System where in some places even having a pee behind a dumpster after a few too many beers could get you tried as a sex offender. After all you exposed your thing in public.

Won't someone think of the kiddies!

Re: Been saying this all along

£20 for 15Gb per month is not really expensive. Go over the pond to the USA and see how far $25 takes you with data. There are people who pay well over $100 for their monthly plan. Add another $200 for cable and more for Amazon Prime, Netflix, Spotify etc etc and suddenly you are paying $400/month.

Even VM have not managed to get a plan that high (AFAIK).

Now if your network is so deluded and charges you more for 4G over a 3G connection then move to one that is not so idiotic (and does not pay Kevin Bacon a small fortune to front their adverts)

Trump : Only a bit of an arse?

Really? Methinks that is a gross underestimation. The sad bit is that he will soon have control of the Nuclear codes.

I wonder if he thinks it will be cool to tweet them to the whole world?

I can't help thinking that he'll do so much damage to the USA that it will take 20+ years to clean up the contamination/mess. It could also make the GOP as electable as Jeremy C's Labor party for a good long time.

Re: Crew members

Phew, for a moment, I thought you meant 'Nigel 350M per week Farage'.

OTOH, it might be a good idea to send him and his pal Donald off on a long voyage preferably one way.

Re: Leave them...

I would just toss them all in the trash compactor/furnace along with the marketing and corporate types who come up with this stuff.

There fixed it for you. Even that is not enough though.

CES is a great CES{spit} for crap. Every few years something actually useful manages to emerge from the slime.

Local Gov Bin Schedules

The description of the Kirlkees system is exactly the same as the one for Rushmoor (Aldershot & Farnborough).

This place also shares the factoid with Kirlkees in that the place called Rushmoor is not in the Council District.

The people in Whitehall must have been really pissed when they stuck the names on the councils back in 1973/4. (playing tail on the donkey I expect) I expect that there are more like this all over the country.

Re: To sum it all up

Errrr France isn't a full member of NATO/OTAN. DeGaulle made sure of that.

Otherwise Stross has only a few days to go before the first one of his predictions comes true or falls flat on its face.

The next few years will be tough that is for soure.

Descending drones

and the jetsream don't mix.

Perhaps Amazon are trying to out do El Reg in the Paper Airplane Altitude race?

Not all of London has 'superfast' Broadband

There are bits not far from Old St that are on country bumpkin type speeds.

Apparently, the cable ducts are far too full to run any Fibre.

But yes, make sure it is spent only in places that are outside communting distance of London.

Make sure that it is FTTP, none of this FTTC cop out.

Re: Smart water meter data as evidence

The water was needed to wash away the blood etc from the dissection of the dead body.

The severed parts were put into plastic sacks for which there is a receipt from a local store as evidence.

These sacks were loaded into the back of the accused's car and disposed of.

The Police have CCTV of the car at a filling station that shows that the back of the vehicle was clearly sitting lower on the suspension than the front.

We retrieved those plastic bags and found the accused's DNA and finger prints on the bags.

I rest my case for the prosecution M'Lord.

Re: “solutions” (hopefully that word will die next year)

s/Hmpf/Trumpf/

There fixed it for you.

Re: IE share

The only 'Edge' I'm interested in at the moment is listening to

'Close to the Edge'. Yes it shows my age but I've been around long enough to know that Windows 10 is a lemon of the highest quality and should be consigned to the great OS graveyard with others like Varian Vortex.

W10 is nothing more than Spyware and should be treated as such.

don't forget to add....

The Half Dozen Teslas in the garage plus the multiple Powerwalls so that when the brownouts happen you can carry on lighting up your home like a Christmas Tree.

Nothing like keeping ahead of the neighbours eh?

Oh, and a sign on the Remote controlled Electric Gates of your community

"Trump Supporters not admitted". {I did see one in CA in September. If it is still there they need to change it?}

For those inside the enclave, the world had not changed in 2016.

I agree but

how did cars get around before the invention of the 'gas gauge'?

Oh wait.... they carried some extra fuel in a can.

Ok Apple can I swap the battery for a new one? No?

I'll go buy a Surface Pro instead. Bummer can't swap the battery in that either.

We are Doomed I tell ye, doomed.

The US Healthcare system is screwed up

when you can't get your Doctor to write you a script for a non addictive steroid that costs $15 to fill without a 30 minute appointment when he did give you the very same script 6 months ago and he knows full well that your condition comes back every 6 months or so. Naturally the next 30 minute appointment is in mid january.

Your only solution is to go to the ER when your breathing gets bad but not fatally restricted an get the $15 script from the ER room. Your insurer then gets a bill for $4000 minimum rather than $40.

So you premium goes up another $250/month.

The ONLY winners in the US are the Lawyers and Healthcare Insurance Companies.

And we think the NHS is F****d up?

Re: 5 percent

This is not the first price increase since last June.

Tesla's are just getting far too expensive for the average person to even consider even with the Model 3 coming in 2018 (for those who have not reserved one).

Where are the BEV's that look like average cars (BMW, take note that the i3 does not cut it nor does the Leaf) and that the average punter can afford and actually get a decent range on the Battery?

Even the Mini Electric seems to be years away.

Re: Checklist

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Her transformation to 'Full Stasi' is now complete.

Not quite.

We haven't reaced the stage of neighbours informing on neighbours.

We can leave that to Frau Merkel.

Re: 90% of what?

90% of whatever OFCOM deem it to be. Today it is probably the amount of Christmas Pud that got eaten at their Christmas bash.

That is the correct answer.

Re: How is Nokia a patent troll?

The key word in your post is "Standards".

These then come under FRAND when it comes to patent licensing. Well, they do if those patents are essential to making the tech work.

That means that the patent owner has to give the same terms to ALL licensees.

When the details of the patents become clearer people with more understanding of the tech needed that us here will be able to see if they are indeed covered by FRAND.

If Nokia are in the wrong then they need to be taken to the cleaners (unless their legal manouvering as described makes it impossible).

If Apple are at fault then they need to stump up. (goes without saying}

I can't get the phrase 'last throw of the dice' out of my mind.

Re: Ofcom missed an opportunity...

You are speaking common sense. Two vital words that seem to be banned from being used inside OFCOM.

Re: Business Decision

Simples.

The CEO will hand out the P.45/Pink Slips to the whole IT Team with a huge grin on his face.

He'll justify it to the BOD by 'Think of all the savings I've made...'

Re: You say England and Wales

Wales have a separate system which hasn't had any issues that either we know about and/or that the Welsh Government knows about.

There fixed it for you...

Re: Just...

Just trying to have a bit of fun. We all know that there are some Windows FanBois lurking here (as evidenced by the downvotes) so I didn't want to dig them too hard in the ribs.

This is the season to be jolly isn't it?

Re: A very simple solution...

If that money became available it would be spent on the NHS. Nothing else.

The Mirror, Sun, Mail and Express would not let HMG do anything else with it.

Re: hmmmm

Yep,

I seem to recall pictures of the X1 (and other X series) craft being launched this way.

In military terms, the lauch process is called 'stand off' because the rocket thingy is dropped away from the mothership before the rocket ignites.

now that I think about it, don't air launched cruise missiles work this way?

But the X-1 etc seems to predate it.

Way to go NASA. Keep spending those tax dollars re-inventing the wheel (or in this case the X-1)

Re: BBC take note

about 50% of the news items with videos on the BBC (www.bbc.co.uk/news) needs flash.

A PITA whare the A means Areseoles. Should have saved all that momey moving to Salford and fixed their website.

Re: Apple only Hard disks

none of the MacBook's I've opened up and replaced the HDD's since 2008 have this 'feature'

I've been able to replace the standard HDD with either a larger HDD or an SSD without a problem.

These include

2008 Mac Mini

2010 Mac Mini

2008 17in MBP

2009 13in MB

2012 15in MBP

2012 Mac Mini

2015 15in MBP

Was what you were seeing on a particular model/device? Please tell us.

sure, Apple have lots to answer for but in recent years your point is not one that I've come upon.