Posts by Blitz 47 publicly visible posts • joined 25 Sep 2007
I can tell you from experience that Edinburgh must be on the low side as well. From about 8pm to 1am nightly bandwidth for myself goes from an average of 11Mbps to 4-6Mbps. Watching streaming movies becomes an exercise in futility.
I can now understand why Sky is offering SkyGo downloads (for paying customers) rather than their 'On Demand' only service. Such a hassle at peak times to watch streaming media.
This is truly amazing - but it would be even more so if we were to send a probe to the surface of venus that could last longer than 40 minutes. Appreciate the atmospheric pressures and temp on Venus makes this a challenge but surely it would be worth it?
The Russian probe that was there in ('78?) lasted all of 20 some odd minutes before dying. I would think we could do better than this now.
There are no recorded transmissions of Hep B or C via breastmilk itself.
Only in cases where the nipple is cracked and bleeding are there possible issue and the immuno-agent within the breastmilk are KNOWN to sterilize HBV and HBC.
It is very easy to screen for diseases in breastmilk and frankly there are very few that can actually be present. This is 'Daily-Fail' rubbish that has led to the usual misconceptions and ignorance surround breastmilk.
Source: US CDC
Thanks Council for setting back our already ridiculously backwards ways.
Signed, The only mammalian species on earth that doesn't support and feed it's young from the milk it was intended to.
And you're wrong - branding IS everything.
And branding keeps company's product popular even when 'made in China' catches up with the quality of the product. Quality isn't everything - look at Apple, the sleek design and packages and marketing helped Apple become the leader in mp3 devices. Make no mistake, Apple has had its fair share of quality issues.
With that said, no one sound worry too much about the ATI brand - its not like its being thrown in the trash. Brands get retired, a company holds on to them and then brings them back if they feel the need.
AMD may one day decide to sell (unlikely I know) its graphics card business along - most likely the ATI brand would be part & parcel of this deal.
How during this supposed credit crunch which has resulted in a huge liquidity crisis companies can continue to pay millions of £££ for CIOs is beyond me. I've worked in a number of large global corporates at fairly senior levels and have never seen a CIO do more than parrot what those below him/her have come up with.
Top tip Royal Mail Group. Can the £3.5m CIO. Encourage joint leadership of senior managers (at no additional pay) to lead the company based on the businesses needs. Use that extra money to keep fueling infrastructure investment, staff training and business improvements.
The days of charismatic leadership and corporate hero worship need to end. There is no mythical figure no hero that can lead a company from the red to the black. The only people that can achieve this are the employees themselves.
So you disconnect the cable(s) from the building to the machine and dye or acid or nuclear reaction occurs.
What about if there's a power outage? How does it know the difference? I'm not being critical just trying to think of the solution.
And if it's just a sensor cable attached to the building then surely these crooks would chisel/explode out the bit they needed. They've already proved that they have zero qualms about deconstructing a building!
Here's a beer for thinking about sulfuric acid on a Friday.
You mean the clueless older women that were busy raising you whilst you and your dad played about in your home computers and the like?
You mean the ones that cooked, cleaned and sorted your lives out?
No wonder they're 'clueless ones' - they were (and prolly still are) too bloody busy to get a chance to listen properly.
Sooooooo...maybe next time rather than disappearing into your Linux cave and let them do all the work you should take the time to do some of household stuff yourself and let your wife, daughter, mother, grandmother play about on the computer so they actually get a chance to learn how to use it.
This article is spot on.
I think that the business managers must continue to develop their understanding of IT and use it to be able to successfully take the transition between a business need to business project to ongoing IT support and maintenance. This ability is so far rare but ithat is changing.
On the subject of complex and often confusing budgets, at a very low level, I've seen this fighting over allocation of cost taking place. We recently went through a project whereby printing was rationlized -> rather than having a printer of everyone's desk MFD's were put into place and different departments charged for their individual printing including toner, paper, ink etc. The amount of disagreement of the proporation of the printing budget owed, even after a login code was used to allocate the printing to specific department, was huge and still goes on.
What's it going to be like when 7 different businesses occupy 7 different virtual servers in a data centre? How do costs get allocated then?
Wil-E-Coyote to get 're-education' and to learn to only use Acme safety products to show kids that rocket propelled coyotes and dropping boulders on roadrunners is not the way we operate in society.
Or...the parent could actually be a parent to their child rather than expect: tv, the government, social services and the schools to raise their child.
And now they're taxing us for it. What a brilliant model. Tax all of us to help pay to get the network infrastructure in place so that the vast majority of the populace can access DSL and then tax them when it's done.
A win/win situation for them.
If Labour remains in power within 5 years the 50p a month tax will turn into £3 and so on. Then one day we'll wake and realize that our broadband tax is equal to our TV license - and at least with that we sometimes get decent telly from the Beeb.
In the case of the policewomen, a neighbour reported them to Ofsted.
So after they roll out the ID Card scheme <coughcough> I mean background checks to anyone that even sees a child during their day the government will start to publish 'dos and don't' for parents in the home.
Words that you can and can't use; phrases that shouldn't be used.
Neighbours, friends, families and even our own children will be rewarded for reporting breaches. Cameras with audio recording and behavioural analysis will patiently watch over us.
We will be taken away and re-educated in the correct manner.
Sound like a conspiracy theory? Look at Germany, Cambodia, Modern China and a host of others for actual history.
Hurrah to Brown for the public apology. The redress may mean nothing to the man because sadly he's gone but it means to world to many in ICT as this was a founding father who was so grossly mistreated.
I'm going to find out if there's a way to petition the Queen and the Bank of England so the Mr Turing may get his posthumous Knighthood and a place on a £££ note.
Many thanks to all of those from the Register readers whom, along with myself, signed the #10 petition.
As a dual citizen I've been to some places that Americans aren't supposed to go to and have done so on my British Passport.
I'm going to use the FoI and request my report and see if it contains travel information that the US, in theory, shouldn't know about.
I'm normally all about the rule of law and state on The Reg' 'if you've done nothing wrong...' etc - however, I've always been against the US keeping any kind of 'score' on it's own citizens. God forbid I have a conversation with any of Muslim friends and suddenly find myself on the static end of a cattle prod.
I once read that if all office buildings in the UK were required to shut their lights off at night and power down non-critical servers and workstations that we would no longer be a net importer of energy in the UK.
Maybe that would at least buy us some time to put a sensibly balanced energy plan in place.
I don't remember the figures but the seemed quite plausible.
And hey, we might be able to see stars at night again.
Black helicopters - because they won't be able to hide in our reclaimed night skies.
Rightly or wrongly I see a lot of criticism regarding this issue but very few answers. It's very easy to rip the govt apart for implementing background checks etc.
The same posters would be the first in line of an agry mob if there were in fact no checks in place and a child was harmed - shouting "Why didn't you do a background check on this felon?"
We have to do something to protect children. So the majority of crimes against children occur at home and there is a lot to be done to help kids out in that position and prevent it from happening in the first place. But why do nothing for children that are under public responsibility (such as in schools, community groups etc)?
As for the people worried about allegations, inuendo and rumour I would suggest that every background check I've come across in the UK and EU (and I've managed more than a few in my role) only deals with actual convictions. However, if a call is received from someone saying "So and so is hurting children" of course it would be investigated - what person that cares about kids wouldn't?
Background checks on people that work ad-hoc in the presence of children but whilst always supervised by another vetted adult is a little overboard. However, background checks on an adult that supervises children by themselves - even if only for 1 hour a month - is not overboard.
Finally, as for the poster that stated the wrong message is being sent to children, aka trust no one by these background checks - are you so sure about that. Maybe we should instead of paranoia and 1984 worries be sending them the message that we're doing our best to help ensure that they aren't put in needless danger.
Summary: This may be overboard, but not performing background checks on adult in supervision of children is an unacceptable risk.
So not at all the 1984 secret investigation of an anonymous poster that we were led to believe in yesterday's article.
Some stupidity on the young Lisa's part - but frankly, if MPs and their staff were fired for stupid actions, there wouldn't be very many left working. Disciplined? Perhaps. Fired, no.
I still hope she takes them to tribunal - she'll win.
A pint of lager - because that's what I'd buy her.
"...was sacked in May after an anonymous posting was traced to her work email account"
So let's get this right, post to any Government 'open forum' with an opinion that they don't like and you'll get the comment traced back to your door where they'll fire you for it.
I hope that she takes them to tribunal for it and drags them through the muck.
New Labour sometimes makes Orwells 1984 look less like a work of fiction and more like a documentary.
As a result I got this from samknows.com (thanks Paul)
"BT have set a target date of Q3 2011 for the switch to 21CN for the Loanhead exchange"
As usual if you live outside of the Bypass in Edinburgh you get to contend with Stone Age internet speeds.
And it doesn't mean that its a sexist company.
Shock horror, Dell is trying to sell netbooks and accesories by associating it with things that many women think of like recipies, work presentations and family management.
I see this targeted more at the 'Sex in the City' style with patterned netbooks, carrier bags etc.
Did most of the commenters even look about the mini-site?
You know what the reason is that the vast vast majority of dishwashing adverts have women washing dishes in it is? Because in the vast majority of families - women buy the washing up liquid.
The perception with computers and the looming netbook wave is that men buy them and that as a result they're only made for men (aka black lacquer shiny and gun metal silver). So why not attempt to break into a potentially huge market and sell to women at a level that appeals?
I see nothing wrong with this site, I don't see any sexism here and I hope Dell continues to provide a targeted approach to its customers that will appeal to them.
People are so desperate to find controversy that they don't see the truth.
Yes, let's put massive fines on all our major corporations because they're 'evil'.
Then we'll all villanize them further when they start letting staff go etc.
This is simply the EU trying to pay for its massive deficit spending.
My coat is the one with shares of Intel & Microsoft stock in it.
Sorry, I'm not hopping on the 'hate the military spending' and hate the USA bandwagon.
There are indeed extremist elements in our nations that want to:
1) Blow us up
2) Force convert us to their religion
3) Damage our economy
3) Or perform all of the above
So in order to fight this we need to have covert ops in both our home nations and theirs.
Also, as the big kids on the block with the world's strongest economies we have to protect them. Doing this means that we have to make sure the other kids on the block keep giving us their lunch money (or their oil more specifically)
So what if we have to torture extremist to get intel? If I knew there was someone out there that wanted to kill, main or ruin my family - I'd be prepared to torture whomever it took to protect them.
So what if we blow the hell out their countries to make certain that down the road they don't blow the hell out of ours?
Practically every nation on earth wants to be number one. If the UK and USA want to stay there and our citizenry continue to enjoy that position (lots of toys to play with!) it's going to cost us lots of money and probably some lives.
It's called 'The Great Game' and it's been going on for a very long time and will continue to go on.
I believe this is how (if like myself are a BT Business customer) you 'opt out' of this absolutely ridiculous scheme by BT. I'm absolutely f*cking speechless at their audacity to resell bandwidth that I HAVE ALREADY BLOODY PAID FOR!!!
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How can I turn my BT Openzone service on and off?
This can be done via the BT Business Hub's web interface. From a device connected to the Business Hub and local area network (either connected with Ethernet, USB or on the BTBusinessHub SSID), do the following:
Open a web browser and go to http://home.
Click on the Services tab at the top of the page.
Click on the Openzone menu option.
Click on the Enable/Disable button, depending on the action you wish to perform.
Note:
The changes may not be instantaneous. It could take up to 30 minutes for the service to be fully enabled or disabled because of the need to communicate with the BT network. The status shows as pending until this process has completed.
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Paris because much like BT you never know what bad thing you'll get when you dip into it.
What a brilliant idea if it turns out to exist. Disabling vehicles (at least non-carbureted ones) with EMPs or MBTs, Helis, etc will bring a new dimension to the battlefield.
On the down side...lead lined counter-emp anything is going to weigh ton! :-)
>>>>My coat is the one with cybernetic implants...
I completely and wholeheartedly agree. What's is the point of stripping (literally from the sounds of it) the rights away from ALL British citizens whilst we let every single immigrant and 'asylum seeker' into this country with little or background checks.
We don't control our borders at all - so what is the point of all of this.
Control.
Welcome to 1984 citizen.
Why is this ruining Christmas?
Why is it such a horrible thing to limit your children's time in front of any electronic babysitter. When the timer is up - send them outside to play, yes shockingly enough, one can send those obese little fatties outside to play to actually get <gasp!> some exercise! Or even worse <this is going too far> have them open up a book to read and actually use their imagination!
As Cosby once said "When I was a kid we walked uphill to school both ways. We ate dirt and we were thankful for that dirt!"
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