* Posts by Phil Launchbury

3 publicly visible posts • joined 11 Dec 2007

Police nick 460 a day for using mobiles while driving

Phil Launchbury
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Re: Safety Cameras

>How hard would it be to make a camera that could detect the signal from an active mobile, and take a photo of that?

Very difficult. Especially as the mobile in question may not actually be being used for voice but may be downloading (automatically) emails, receiving an SMS or MMS..

In short - the 'active phone' is not enough.

Tiscali bandwidth throttling flub fix flops

Phil Launchbury
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re: Thickoes

>So why not give good old BT a call, or how about Demon? At least their service works

I'd give Demon a miss - they are suffering from many of the same problems (server outages, inaccessible helpdesk, unhelpful helpdesk (when you do get through) and the inability to run a billing system).

Which is why I've just got a MAC from them and signed up with IDNet.

Daring Register raid snatches key government URL

Phil Launchbury
Boffin

Point it at your news story about the 25 million names missing..

After all that demonstrates our governments IT capabilities quite nicely.

"If nothing else a fool can serve as a warning to others"