Posts by micheal

Finnish boffins don tinfoil hats, admit Northern Lights are noisy

There's also the idea

That Jean Jarre will base a new album on this!

GPS spoofing countermeasures: Your smartphone already has them

Typically 'Mercans

come in years after it was started and claim it's a new thing.....I can see the SER-FUJ-HP-Atos directors salivating at the prospect of bidding for another ring fenced pork barrel

Health dept puts off NHS 111 helpline roll-out for 6 months

With CAPITA running it

You're more likely to get the correct service by dialing 118

Barnes & Noble files official complaint over ebook settlements

Re: Would you like some cheese to go with that?

B & N, the Sony to the RIAA of the book publishing world

New London Bus API arrived at approximately ... 15.00

Re: Pardon?

auto top up only works if you use trains too

you cant collect it from a bus

The Great Border Agency IT Crash: Just who was responsible?

When they won the contract

They tried get me to leave low paying SERCO to start at Lunar House as I had current DV clearance

and offered me less money but expected me to travel an hour at my own expense each day

Phoenix burns engineering and Northampton call centre jobs

Cut workforce to maximise profits

Just as Fujitsu and SERCO did.

Cut anyone who earns the money and be left with the cheap know nothings

Another Govt IT Old Boys Network bidder doing as all Govt IT outsources do, decrease ability whilst increasing Directors bonuses, suffer the poor taxpayer who funds them

Cisco predicts 1.3 zettabytes of annual data movements

Re: 1.8 Zettabytes

Almost as much RAM as Windows 10 with office 2015 will need

Dole Office staff snooped into private data 992 times in 10 months

I think it should be interpreted as

"we only ever caught one person and they had unlawfully accessed data 922 times"

the rest took us for a drink and it was all forgotten about.

Fixed that for them

Behind the lens of NASA's self-adapting ISS space telescope

At last

Doing something useful with the overpriced moneypit ISS.

Putting people in space for years on end isn't advancing colonisation one iota, and they'll never build a moon base whilst Fujistu, EDS and HP etc are draining the government pots with their overpriced support contracts and we rely on breathing oxygen.

As for bench testing, remembe how much money it took to build Hubble and launch before someone noticed the mirror was wrong BIG OOPS!

What does the Titanic's sinking tell us about modern science?

Re: Re-"...which has trawled through some old shipyard records..."

the holes were not drilled but punched into the hot steel plates

Who killed ITV Digital? Rupert Murdoch - but not the way you think

Similar to BSB

"no one wants to watch VHS quality TV, they'll pay the premium for our superior services", same as sony thought joe public wanted to pay for betamax over poor quality vhs

UK drivers' privates fondled overseas in new outsource plan

I like this bit

He added that all the DVLA's data is stored in the UK and there are no plans to change this, and IT systems will have to be managed to the same standards as if they were in the UK.

"We will ensure that all appropriate controls for data protection are in place, and will continue to be in place. These controls are independently validated and approved in line with government information security requirements and procedures," he said

SO expect to find unencrypted data on CD's, Mem Sticks and printed off in wads at the local Bangalore bus and taxi ranks

So, what IS the worst film ever made?

Aside the others

No one here had to endure Open Water?

Or for the Brit's, Paul McCartney's 1980's turkey "Give My Regards To Broad Street"

Makes the Killer Tomato's and The Phantom Menace look like Oscar winning material

GiffGaff goes titsup again in 'leccy cable gaffe

You have

A day of peace, lucky sod!!

Eddie Murphy heading for worst movie ever glory

lets add

Open water was a waste of almost 2 hours of my life

If it was based on a true story, and they both died, how did the scriptwriter know what happened overnight?

Tourists follow GPS, drive into sea

Re: Pile of water?

Perhaps they watched "moses" as the in-flight movie and assumed the sea's would part as they progressed

Lingerie-clad she-devils romp past watchdog

Re: So for all you guys out there...

see just as much flesh in perfume adverts on telly during daytime hours (think Dior)

Point as stated, dont go to anne summers website and complain about the buzzy toys they have,

dont go to underwear sites to complain about showing underwear.

As for the "target Audience" things, how many perfume ad's sell the sex angle of the fragrance?

All of them, yet perfume isnt as sexy as underwear

Crims fall back on old-school cons to avoid anti-fraud tech

Re: Re Time to phase out cheques

Tell me if i'm being rather petty here,

He accepts cheques and you write cheques.....therefore you both have a bank account so why not do a credit transfer (they are free for personal banking), asd by way of you giving him a cheque, he has your account and sort code so you have given him your bank details.

Paper plane world record disputed

Re: How quaint

sticky back plastic

Fablon (r) or Kontact (r)

Hubble snaps exploding star's near-fatal weight-loss bid

Stop using this new fangled ISO units

One solar mass is equivalent to 1.98892 x 1030 kilograms?

how many double decker busses, blue whales and A380's is that?

Avoid flying next to blubberbeasts with seatmate-finding site

I only suffered

An hour from Antwerp next to some fat dude who clearly should have booked 2 seats or freight, played with his laptop (could have fitted a 30" screen on that lap) the whole way so flab and elbows spilling over the armrests.

He didnt know what deodourant was either

He had to be greased to fit into his seat.

there should be more airlines with passenger width and weight limits.

Court rejects Tesla’s latest libel spat with Top Gear

Re: All electric has a long way to go

As I said in a post a while back, trains that generate their own electric when overhead power isnt available have been about for years.

Why not the same with cars?

Re: Re: Re: Tesla is the future, old people....

Almost everyone that lives or works in London and lives / works outside the M25

Not just the mileage, it's the use of ancilliaries whilst standing that drains the battery too (lights, wipers, satnav etc

Apple vs Bank of China in iPad Shanghai showdown

Even as an non apple lover

(i have ipads and iphones as well as normal kit), I still see it as the Chinese governments attempt to dictate to the world that they can change the rules as they wish on legal agreements with any non state owned company

Third of Blighty stuck on snail-speed broadband

PE32 2**

between Fakenham and Dereham, no BB at all, only dial up

and 130K plus line noise

Swiss space-cleaning bot grabs flying junk, hurls itself into furnace

It's was done in the 80's

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078681/

Ofcom: UK broadband speed on the up as punters' packages swell

Here in Rural Norfolk

We have bought a "3" sim card router as the speed (280kbs is almost 20 times the alternative which is dial-up

with a village of 60 people we are not even on the list to get mains gas anytime soon even tho the pipe runs across the field 200 yards away, likeways, BT went past us, into the town and back to us making it over the 4Km BB distance

UK.gov 'pay as you go' IT services cloud to float in March

"where are your medical records?"

From what i remember of the last govt., somewhere in Mombassa or Mumbai i'd hazzard a guess

Untangling the question of antimatter mass

But seriously

would their mass be in elephants or gerbils?

this new money stuff is alien to me

RM cuts loose Easytrace, flogs AMI biz as top boss legs it

RM statement also said

Our gold plated cash cow and pork barrel "preferred school computing supplier" quango will stay with us as it guarantees 90% of our income however crap the service we give it

Hold on a sec - leap seconds granted a last-minute reprieve

all this

Another great British invention lost to the Eurotwats

It's called GMT cos it starts at Grenwich.

Like us moving to European time, all measures by them Germans to take over Not So Great Britain again, like in 1939 and 1918

Kodak's moment: Camera biz files for bankruptcy

Yet Another long standing

Company blinded by the idiots with boardroom bonuses, with little care for the people trying to innovate and create new products to make the money that funds it

Careless care charity loses unencrypted patient data stick

And they were no doubt

Taught all their information security skill by the HNS before being wooed by the better pay in the private sector

Darwin's lost fossils found down the back of a cupboard

Just wondering

Who paid the "Big Yellow Self Storage" bill for 165 years without ever asking what's stored there?

Did they find any patents to use against Samsung?

Crossley cops two-year suspension

He's aware of the bankruptcy laws

and will be back as a new conpany soon as he can register it (not a typo)

ICANN snubs critics, opens domain extension floodgates

So I Take It

the richest person called smith will get .smith? or will it be done by a raffle ticket type draw?

Verizon retreats on ‘convenience fee’ for online bill payment

Unfortunately in the UK

you tell them to pay it on the 4th, they take it from your account at Midnight on 4th, use it for themselves for 3-5 days, then pay it into the recipients account at midnight on the 5th day**

** or any time they feel, if it's late, not the banks fault, read the small print T&C's about electronic payments

You're so out of touch

"please key in your card number followed by the hash key"

bip, bip, bip.

Your card number is "*******" is this correct? press 1 for yes, 3 for no

Jonathan Ive is knighted in New Year Honours list

I wonder if, at any point

HM actually has any input in this list? just a thought.

The PM has an honours list too, as possibly some others, Blair took good care of his "mates" with his departing one.

It just suprises me that HM knows and can choose single people from the 56 or so million UK residents and also knows the whole sum and names of UK nationals living abroad....or does she only get to sign the list and it's passed off as hers?.

Thatcher declined a hereditary one on grounds that it's not right, lennon handed his back, Piggot and many other crooks keep theirs....the honours list is worthless nowadays, when someone like Norman Wisdom waits 80 years for his, yet Beckham gets it in less than 30.

what an idea, Simon Cowell's new show, see which nobody they can big-up to get an honour in the new years list, to fill in after the hyped to Xmas number one slot.

Online Christmas orders from retailers go titsup

I wonder which

preferred Gov IT bidder installed the system?

Lincolnshire cops to chuck £200m at G4S in ICT deal

I remember

When SERCO won the court and prison transport from G4S, it turned from crap to worse.

Now a non IT company will be doing the IT?

Payback time!!!

Dole office sticks ID services tender in EU journal, quickly pulls out

Poor Atosercohpeds

No more pork barrel until 2012

Ofcom maps out what 'psychics' are allowed to do on TV

The conundrum has always been

If they're psychic, why do they need to broadcast using an earth based transmitter?

The cost of psychic broadcasting is less than TV channel rental fees.

The church is still the biggest scam game in the world, and they dont have to say "services are for entertainment purposes only"

Ministry of Justice dreams of £1bn mega IT framework

Roll Up, Roll Up!!!!

the list-X pork barell is open for consumption!!!!

Parody is illegal, say barmy bureaucrats

Wierd Al Yankovic

Had a new album out about 2 years back, he, like the Baron Knights, Grumbleweeds and such do great setting words to the tunes.

I would also suppose that any recording not by the songwriter is in reality, a parody of the original

Stolen, remote-wiped iPhones still get owner's iMessages

Been said before

The provider only blocks the imei in the country of purchase, not worldwide...hence the majority of stolen phones end up in countries of the 419 region.

Also, if you bought it from Apple, why would the provider bother blocking the imei? no loss to them, maybe even a new customer to boot!

Feds charge eight former Siemens officials with bribery

They'll have made that back

From the clauses about cancelling the WES congestion charge area

UN, IMF join opposition to ICANN top-level domain plans

Add the cost of

.coke in several languages, and the scale of teh problem becomes clear.

Who gets .jeans then? bet an american company would win over texstar so that company will buy the domain in it's home country, then we get more money spent for .jenans.usa, .jeans.america

lets ask the simplest question for congress, which state will be first to buy .governor?

Feds propose 50-state ban on mobile use while driving

It's illegal in the UK already to drive whilst distracted (phones or cofee)

but the police cant be arsed to do the paperwork and the young bee-emm drivers with the loud music still do it, even under the nose of passing police.

Before cell phones you got to the end of your journey and rang home to check all is OK......why suddenly is it more urgent to check?

possibly this will be just another rarely enforced legislation?

as previously said, guns and knives kill more people, ban them in all states first