Posts by Nardak

Regulator warns on school CCTV schemes

As bad as taxes.

Cameras are the easy answer to any given problem for any given authority, in the same way that taxes are the answer to any given problem for the government.

Any authority will take the easy route to tackle any given problem symptom rather than the cause (Film bullies in changing rooms, instead of tackling the problem properly)...

Just like the problem of Taxes in the UK, the problem with the over proliferation of CCTV needs to be addressed in a very urgent and real manner.

Mike.

Microsoft proposes gadget feature disabling tech

Train crash?

Take for example a train crash where people were injured. One of these gadgets deployed broadcast a "no calls allowed"... It will costs lives.

MP accuses BBC chief of illegally championing Microsoft

We already own the BBC.

The BBC is funded, let's face it, by a TAX (The TV License cannot be anything else when every registered address in the UK has to pay it!)

IMHO Everything shown by the BBC is paid for and owned by the British Public. Let's be done with this IPlayer faff and just get the Beeb to make programs available to the Public on DivX filtered by IP origin.

For those who whinge that the programs will leak out of the restriction of the UK - they're going to do so regardless, so lets have less of our BBC-TAX money spent on funding Microsoft and DRM companies and more money on content we can enjoy!

Watchdogs probe Sky dominance on pay-TV

Pay and pay again!

Everything provided by Sky with the sole exception of the premium movies is ad-supported - you pay TWICE - once to watch the program, and once again by watching the ads.

When I left Sky years ago with that reson, the peons in their call centre didn't understand this and simply went silent... Charge me for the content, but not the ads as well...

Americans can swear at toilets, judge rules

Humour!

They do know of Humour... *shock*