Posts by kerr smith

Iranian gov mouthpiece Press TV finally gets taken off the air in the UK

Russia Today

I find myself watching Russia Today far more than the BBC as their news seems to cover an awful lot of things the BBC seems to be ignoring. The protests in the US were hardly mentioned on the BBC but had full coverage on RT.

I like the way RT has a different perspective on the news and makes you actually think about what is happening in the world - their reports on the banking crisis go far beyond the BBC's 'oh, they did a few things wrong, never mind, forget about it and move on'. They point out that things are still the same as ever and the banks have not changed in the slightest - not something the BBC ever mentions.

I would definitely recommend a look at RT and, as mentioned above, the Keiser Report will certainly make you look things from a different perspective which is always a good thing.

UK BitTorrent admin acquitted on fraud charge

Excellent!

This is brilliant news and exactly the correct outcome of the trial!

Tiscali bandwidth throttling flub fix flops

Avoid Tiscali at all costs

I was also unfortunate enough to sign up to Tiscali. Immediatly I noticed that in the evenings at the same time every day my broadband speed would drop from about 6Mb/s to dial up speed and all ports except web and email were blocked. I could not use FTP, play online games or go on IRC or do anything other than go on the web at a very very slow speed. I began to complain and wrote constant messages in their forums. In the forums the moderators admitted they were blocking ports and slowing connected to try and stop P2P use but when Icomplained via telephone the Indian operators would repeatedly deny this. In the end I complained to the ISPA and received a call from someone in Tiscali's UK high level complaints department, he admitted he knew nothing about the technicalities of how their system worked. Eventually I managed to get my MAC code and he cancelled my years contract which I was only three months in to. I changed ISP and instantly had high speed broadband all day and night and could at last play online games, use FTP and go on IRC. My advise is to definitely avoid Tiscali unless you are prepared to spend hours on the phone to their customer support in India having to perform the same computer and modem tests repeatedly as they refuse to admit it is their fault the speed and connection is extremely poor.

Beeb censors Fairytale of New York

Offended?

I find it more offensive that they think I would be offended by the lyrics of a song!