Posts by Martin Richards

Lesbians like straight men, researchers find

@Michael: "cure" for lefties

Just go look-up the root of "sinister" if you want to understand the historical response to left handedness... I reckon the mediaeval neurosurgeons would have been right in there if they'd found one!

Virgin Media dishes out free bandwidth boost

Can I be first?

... to leap in with the inevitable request that we actually get something close to the speed we're already paying for (and a service that works a bit nearer to 24x7 than the recent 16x5...) before they tout any more speed bumps?

Researchers share video contact lens vision

Science imitating Fiction?

Has no-one read Artemis Fowle? I wonder what other ideas they'll rip off from these books next?

YouTube biker clocked at 189mph

Wreckless?

Wreckless it was. The reckless bit was probably posting the video, in case he gets caught!

I've just got back from 140 mile round trip, mostly M3 and A34, and as ever saw consistently far worse driving than anything on that video (why do they bother to build lane 1 when so many people seem determined to drive in lane 2 all the time?!) Even the bit on the single carriageway didn't look too horrific - he was hardly blasting by the cars, and they don't come in for any criticism

Virgin Media eases off bandwidth throttling

@Anigel

You say "I have no difficulty getting 20mbs down from various high capacity servers around the world" - can I ask which ones? My standard test is "wget http://blueyonder.linux.tucows.com/files/Eagle_2_2_0.iso" as

- the server's on their network (I think!)

- it's a big enough file to iron out fluctuations

Best I've ever manged is 1.2 M BYTE/s against a theoretical 2.5ish for 20Mbit but atm I'm getting 100k BYTE/s tops...

Vodafone UK loses roamers worldwide

Vodafone Voicemail notifications

I get the chance to answer calls OK, but if I do miss one, they seem to have stopped telling me about it... I have to dial voicemail and see if I've got anything rather than the usual notification text and icon. Seems to have been going on for 2 or 3 days. Is it just me they're out to get?