Posts by JonDoe

China again signals desire to shape IPv6 standards

Re: IPv8 anyone?

"IP is just not practical for interplanetary communications."

I thought that was what IP stood for...

'Podestrian' risk rising for drivers, warns insurer

@Matthew

That's exactly why I don't use my mp3 player when I'm cycling. I don't understand why so many of my fellow cyclists do. Or the looks of blank incomprehension when I ask them why not being able to hear the traffic behind them doesn't worry them...

Dutch boffins clone Oyster card

@AC "DoS"

"Place a very large person in the way. That's a DoS attack"

Which presumably means using 4 small people instead is a DDoS attack...

Men could have kids with chimpanzees - gov must act

persons...cannot be reduced to ‘piles of cells’

Of course they can, you just need a really big blender.

Oscar Wilde voted top Brit wit

@Adam Maguire

There is an Irish nationalist sentiment which resents that the term "British Isles" has traditionally been used to refer to Great Britain, Ireland and all the smaller islands scattered around.

Doesn't make them right...

@cor

These islands on the North Western corner of Europe are the British Isles. The largest of these is called (a bit obviously...) "Great Britain". Hence the country comprising the largest island and (slightly less than) a quarter of the second largest - unfortunately called "Ireland" and not "Little Britain" - whilst simultaneously uniting several formerly independent kingdoms (and a portion of the foremerly independent kingdom - itself a united kingdom of sorts - from the other island) under a single throne - is known as "The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland".

EU watchdogs aim for broadband equality

I don't care how many people can sell me access t'internet...

... if it's coming through BT's crappy infrastructure and I can barely get 512kbps.

I'm hardly in the middle of nowhere either, I'm in the centre of Cambridge - supposedly one of the UKs centres of high-tech goodness... (No, there is no cable on my street. The 19th century technology of copper wire is all I get).