Posts by Tom 106

Cyber security minister ridiculed over s'kiddie hire plan

He He

Sounds to me like there are jealous people criticising Lord West.

Web swoons as Jackson dies

****Breaking News****

MJ isn't dead, my mate has just phoned to say that Jackson has been seen buying a pair of moosehide moccasins over in Camden Town.

Anyone in that area, keep your eyes peeled for him.

I wonder

If we will see more of Janet now that Mike has sadly departed?

ISPs vs BBC iPlayer: Missing the point?

Get rid of BTW.

Firstly, to own a website, you pay the host for the bandwidth that your site will use, when your visitors come to your site and browse. For example, I have my own small website venture, and I pay for £6 per month and I am allocated 150gigs bandwidth each month, therefore, I ensure that I do not store streaming media from my server, because my bandwidth will be used up in no time at all. Obviously, I could pay more to my Hosting Provider for more bandwidth, but I choose not to.

As a site owner, I accept no responsibility for how visitors come to my site or for their own monthly bandwidth usage as provided by their ISP. If a visitor to my site has taken out a contract with an ISP who limit their monthly bandwidth usage, then that is a contract solely between the vistor and the ISP and clearly has nothing to do with me as a website owner.

Secondly, this is yet another example how here in the UK, we fall behind the rest of Europe and the USA in regards to technology. Our counterparts in Europe and the USA enjoy far greater speeds and bandwidth allowance than we do, and their infrastructure is supposedly better invested in by their ISP's.

Surely, it's time for the BTW monopoly to be dissolved and to go that one step further and take the telephone exchanges away from BT too, as this may allow potential investors to help develop and deliver a much needed improved overall network for the future. Otherwise, we will forever be in debt to BT and it's outdated copper system.

Thirdly, if an ISP takes the decision to request payment from website owners of face not receiving traffic because the ISP will block their customers from visiting a particular site, and once this becomes reported, I envisage those ISP's losing customers by the droves in favour of ISP's who do not block or restrict access to websites and content.

Lastly, my conclusion is that the responsibility falls with the ISP to increase the bandwidth to keep up the the demand, in fact I would go further and suggest that ISP's should be increasing their bandwidth allowances and put an end to throttling, at the same time keeping prices and competitive, thus allowing end users to have a more competitive broadband market, than the contrived one which is currently available.

2010,The Broadband Wars.

Microsoft's Bing in travel trouble

TV Adverts.

Perhaps either MS or Kayak should embark on their own version of "compare the meerkats" type tv adverts to sort out their differences........or would that gain it's complaint?

Hero: HTC names third Android smartphone

Considering

What a Sony P800-p910i could do, these so called Smartphones, haven't actually improved vastly over the years, have they?

It all seems to be centred around Facebook and fiddly apps which may while away a bit of time on the tube from home to work, but there's so much more to life than fiddling with an app or becoming fixated on facebook or what others are twittering on about.

But then, what hope is there if an ISP cannot cope with the amount of bandwidth it's customers are using for online gaming, or for just simply watching BBC iPlayer, then what chance is there or more importantly what costs are involved for Smartphone users who wish for the same?

Gripe over.

Windows 7 RC downloads to end 15 August

Who cares

Having downloaded and used Win7 RC release for about 3 weeks, I got rid of it and I'm more than happy to continue using Vista.

I read about how better Win 7 was meant to be, and how it was lighter and faster that Vista, but I found it to be no lighter than my Vista, and it ran at the same speeds, give or take a couple of tenths a of a second. With vista, after logging in and with only my Vista start up progs running and with my AV and FW, I use in the region of around 650mb mem. Whereas with Win7 I was using 635mb. Okay, it's pips Vista, at start up, but that is going to convince me to run out and splash out a few hundred quid on a new OS, especially when associates are attempting to persuade me to opt for Linux Debian or Ubuntu which are FREE.

I've personally configured what Vista is allowed to load at start up time that gives my a slight advantage over the general everyday user of vista, I don't know, but I do know that I won't be in a rush to be using Win7 once it's out on the market.

PS. Did I not mention the use of Geeks Squads MRI and Customizer? Oh well.

UK police chiefs mull regional cybercrime squads

Fantastic News

A Cyber Squad of Police officers, who are contactable via email and website support tickets.

They don't really exist as humans, other than a X member of Geek Squad working away in a control room, filtering through all the various messages into categorys of Urgent, Non-Urgent and passed by date.

With a black and silver gradient coloured website, with the occasional blue flash to keep a visitor entertained, and whose jurisdiction will be limited to regions.

Web victim from Somerset: Help I've been robbed of £10.65, the geezer in China has sent me the digital camera he/she was selling on Ebay.

Cyber Squad reply: Please contact Ebay for assistance.

Web Victim from Surrey: Help, my 14yr old son is viewing porn on his new laptop we got him for xmas.

Cyber Squad reply: Please install the appropriate parental control software to prevent this from happening or take the damn thing off him.

Overall, yet more wastage of Taxpayers money. The police already have powers to confiscate PC equipment where applicable and to view emails etc. Or is this a case of the Regional Cyber Squads being set up to entrap people on the net, because they are pretty much useless are preventing and solving crime in real time?

Rapidshare stung with €24m fine

That's a bit of a surprise

Considering that back in April of this year, Rapidshare was handing over personal details of uploaders who were uploading music files.

More info: http://torrentfreak.com/rapidshare-shares-uploader-info-with-rights-holders-090425/

Please don't eat your horse, EU asks owners

My title has been stolen, by a 3 fingered eel.

Nay laddie, don't be throwing the sheeps clothing in the dumpster, toss it over the hoss, and go fetch the double barrell. It's time to put 'Ed out of his misery, and put some meat on the dinner plates.

Paris because she likes to ride. Ride baby ride.

MS names ship date for free security suite

Hey up, somerat for nowt.....arrrrgh

140mb of Free security software.....hang on a mo.... I'll stick with Dr Web, even if it does mean shelling out a few quid each year to keep the zombies, slurry and sewage away from my pc.

US record industry wins $1.92m from file sharer

Tut Tut.....

$1.92 million? Is that all? Small change really, when you think about people being sued in the USA for sums in the region of 10's of $millions.

She should arrange to pay it off at a $1 and a dime a week.

When will people learn and put an end to using unsafe P2P software. Encryption, VPN's, Onions, and proxies are the way forward.

UK gov admits gamble on massive net snoop plan

Fantastic News.

Now people ought to sit up and realise, that all these ideas that Jackboot Smith came out with which appear to have had the backing of the Unelected Prime Minister is nothing short of mismanaging tax payers money.

This is a blatant example of Ministers "gambling" with tax payers money. Forecasting the costs for a spy technology without having the technology in place though hoping it would one day catch up is yet another example why this current government is not fit to be in office.

So what we do when ID Cards 1.0 finally dies?

Bravo

I fully agree with the sentiments of this article.

Labours idea of an ID card is poor and guilty of wasting money.

I understand the need and purpose for an identity card but I have always disagreed with the amount of information about what is disclosed about myself and my family members to just about anybody.

We ought to be looking to the future and not thinking about what was possible yesterday and making that fit in for tomorrow. Therefore, I am in favour of a technology that allows limited information to those that are permitted for a legitimate reason.

I also don't understand why we should be made to pay for the card. The first issue of the card should be free. As every child turns the age of 16, their card can be then issued in the same way as the current National Insurance card is. Where a card is lost or damaged, then the issuance of replacement card will need to be paid for. At present, if asked to prove who I am there are a number of ways in which I can do this, therefore, why do I have to compulsory pay for another method?

I would also want an ID card to replace the Drivers Licence, NI card and my Birth Certificate, as this would stop others from attempting to obtain the different forms of my ID.

Johnson shuffle returns ID cards to the table

Psss

....can someone whisper into jonnymans ear to have a look at scrapping IMP & MIT while he's at it?

Cheers.

'Alien' lifeform wakened from 120,000 year Arctic slumber

Alien life form found the Artic

Hasn't Dan Brown already explored something similar to this in his novel "Deception Point"?