Posts by peter 45

'Hypersensitive' Wi-Fi hater loses case against fiendish DEVICES

Re: very quick to assume he is wrong

A technologist. wow. is that like some kind of braniac rocket scientist or what?

Teachers get earful of racy XXX chat in Capita IT cock-up

Re: Crossed lines?

What is more likely is that 'crossed wires' is PR doublespeak for 'we screwed up the shortcut numbers we programmed, but want to message to imply it is not our fault.' I know what my pound bet is on.

New Zealand Prime Minister apologizes for Dotcom spying

so........

The surveillance was illegal

the evidence supporting the arrest warrent was minimal

the raid was totally over the top

the arresting agents lied

the extradition info supplied was insufficient

the bail conditions were idiotic

evidence was removed from the country illegally

anything else?

Key evidence in Assange case dissolves

Re: If it's not on...

" The lack of DNA evidence doesn't imply innocence"

Let me just correct your logic for you. "when there is a lack of DNA, when you would expect there to be DNA, does imply innocence."

Cambridge boffins: Chip and PIN cards CAN be cloned – here's how

Re: peter 45

'no longer......haven't done for years' Do they used to do it then? As in the past tense? As in history?

Past, present. Its so difficult to keep up eh?

@fibbs

"Your bank must only refuse a refund for an unauthorised transaction if it can prove you authorised the transaction – though your bank cannot simply say that use of your password, card and PIN conclusively proves you authorised a payment"

You have forgotten a bit of history. This was introduced BECAUSE of the increasingly large number of disputed ATM transaction where the banks took the universal line of 'chip and PIN is secure so it must be your fault' and refused every claim.

Hold the chips: Apple axes Samsung RAM order for iPhone 5

Re: Tumbleweed Moment

not forgetting Motorola.. I played with an all touchscreen unit back in 2002 which never made it to the UK or US shores.

No Apple TV this year: Media moguls still won't cough up content

hmmmmm

Bet there is some Music Executive somewhere who told Jobs that they knew more about the music business thansome upstart computer manufacturer.

PLT chair: UK Radio Society is 'living in a dream world'

Re: If a HAM radio enthusiast

So you don't have any mains wired through your house then?

(hint. Everywhere you have mains wired, you have a penetration through your precious stonework and where you can run a cat5 cable in parallel)

Wow.

Just how much rubbish can these people spout with a straight face.

" our kit isn't generating the interference, the mains wiring is"

So if i disconnect your kit, the mains will continue to generate interference all on its own will it? Funny but last time I had to have some of my kit tested for CE marking, we had to connect it up using representative wiring...as called for by the CE regulations? Why do you get a free pass, alone amongst the whole electronics industry?

" in many homes the wiring is sufficiently shielded that no interference is generated anyway".

Err. What country are you living in? Care to point me at the wiring regulations that call for shielded wiring as standard? Care to point me at a housing development that uses shielded wiring?

Taking their argument to its logical conclusion, PLT kit should be banned from being used in any house that does NOT have shielded wiring. Wonder how big that market is? Zero?

"UK Ofcom .. saying it can't do anything as the devices themselves aren't radio transmitters so fall outside their remit." What utter complete rubbish. Their remit is anything that causes interference. Whether you call it a 'transmitter' or not is deliberately playing with semantics to avoid the issue.

"Ronald Storrs agrees that PLT kit is generating unacceptable interference, but reckons that every day there isn't an applicable standard more unrestricted kit is getting into the marketplace" Again, that is not an issue with having a standard, but having existing standards that are not policed properly (or at all it seems). Issuing a new standard without policing it will not help one jot. Try prosecuting a few of the suppliers of these PLTs generating unacceptable interference and just see how fast they get withdrawn from sale.

"Today's equipment has no restrictions". Again, utter tosh. They all have to conform to CE standards to be legally allowed to sold in this country. The fact that suppliers seem to be able to skirt around the regulations points to the lack of effort in monitoring and policing the standards, not the lack of standards. Adding an extra standard, without policing it, is a complete waste of time.

"detect and avoid busy bands dynamically." does not help reduce the interference TO other users. It helps protect itself against interference FROM others. To somehow argue that this helps reduce interference to other users in the band is, at best, a mis-understanding of the technology and, at worst, a deliberate attempt to throw out a smoke-and-mirrors argument.

Smoke and mirrors seems to be the only consistent thing about this whole saga.

Apple accuses Samsung of abusing its 3G power

Re: Funny

When making existing technology look pretty is what earn you billions, you can see how they get seduced into thinking that is worth so much more than the technology behind it. Unfortunately in a society where you can triple the price of a pair of jeans just by putting a label on it, there is some truth to that argument.

Apple pounces on Samsung doc as proof of 'slavish copy' claims

Re: Well yes

Your full stop came too early.

Lawyer. n: Someone who tries to prevent anyone else getting hold of your money...........by taking all of it away from you.

Re: Fundroid commentards are funny

You mean there is a document that compared the two phones and pointed out the bits that the iphone did better....as in differently.

Think about that one that again, the document Apple is using as a smoking gun to prove they are the same is the one that points how how they are....ahem...not the same.

Room spinning. Head hurts. Must lie down.

Mobile phone health rules need update, warns US watchdog

"While the GAO report indicates there is not evidence to suggest using a cell phone causes cancer"

" the GAO report indicates there is much evidence to suggest using a cell phone does not cause cancer"

Fixed in for you Anna. You're welcome.

Will Samsung's patent court doc leak backfire spectacularly?

Evidence? Citations?

"Blow a lawyer to pieces"

Oooooh. Thats Malicious Communications Act 1988 that is.

The helicopters are commming to geeeeet you

Samsung docs tease 11.8in, 2560 x 1600 tablet

Next lawsuit

This sounds like the Retina Display (TM) (Patent) (C) that Apple INVENTED .

(that it buys the display from Samsung is a fact to be decided in a Court of Law when Apple gets to vigorously defend its valuable IP rights from those out to steal its years of hard work and investment. )

Japanese fanboi builds FrankenPhone from 'bits of iPhone 5'

Hmmmm

Rounded corners eh? Good thing you pointed out it was an Apple. I nearly mistook it for the new Samsung.

TalkTalk Q1 sales fall as number of broadband punters declines

Re: Not really surprising customers are leaving

"They won't charge you when you're not with them in the change over."

Really? Are you sure? If so you are better informed that the lady explaining the the 'deal' to me.

Still since I am not staying with them I don't really care any more.

Not really surprising customers are leaving

Been a customer for 5 years and no real problems to speak of (apart from reallllllly slow broadband during the day).

Now we are moving house and want to stick with them cos "its really easy with Talktalk (TM)".

"Thanks" says Talktalk, "we will start charging you from today, but it will be 6 weeks before we can connect you. Oh and by the way, its a brand new 18 month contract, no you cannot stick with your old package, no you cannot have any of these special deals 'cos you are not a new customer, oh and you can only have one of these two packages on offer which cost more than your old package. You can be there on this day for the Engineer to visit can't you? Er no, it cannot be your wife, it has to be the account holder who has to be there in person".

So which particular bit of that wonderful offer actually makes a loyal customer want to stay with them?

Plusnet here I come.

Apple CEO: Frothing fanboi iPhone 5 hype screwed our sales

Re: Cupertino Head Cook lashes out at rumour mill

Apple stratecy

1. Keep everything secret in order to build huge expectation and momentum before launch

2. Huge expectation and momentum kills current sales

3. Complain

GPS-equipped sheep prove herd mentality exists

and in other news

These scientists announced a plan to attach GPS units and excretia sensors to bears......in woods.

ITC was wrong: Apple, RIM owe us $1bn for that patent – Kodak

Re: Finance 101

From first hand experience...there is ALWAYS money to pay the Lawyers (because if there wasn't, it would have already folded).

The company i worked for went under some 10 years ago and I was a Creditor as they had not paid my expenses. The entire business was sold off within the year, but for about 8 years I regularly got a report telling me that they were still sorting out how much was owed and could therefore not tell me how much I was going to get as an unsecured creditor, but they had paid themselves out of what was left for that year. The letters stopped coming so I assume the money had run out.

Judge: Apple must run ads saying Samsung DIDN'T copy the iPad

Re: Indeed and it works both ways...

Yet. di

dn't Samsung realise RAM comes in rectangular shapes. How dare they !

Samsung swoops on Brit chip biz CSR, grabs talents'n'patents

Re: Whaaaa?

Not to mention real patents. None of this "we thought of using rectangles first. Wah Boo Hoo!" rubbish.

Olympics security cockup down to software errors - report

Re: What About A Bit Of Project Planning

Just how true is that.

A friend did the Prince 2 courses and now teaches Prince 2. He has never run a Project in his entire life. He knows it and his employers know it, but as long as he has that Certificate, Companies keep paying him to teach experienced PMs how to do it 'properly'.

As he says, if those Companies are stupid enough to keep paying me to teach people who, on a real project, would be teaching me, who am I to refuse them?

4 jobs =1 person

Around here, its 1 person to do the job, 2 managers to manage him, and one senior manager to oversee the other two, leaving guy doing the job only 1/4 of the time to complete the task before MS project complains about overspend.

As with any big Company

There is a simple reason for this.

A complex management structure meant different people were in charge of recruiting, interviewing, training and implementation, each with their own reporting structures and no-one was looking over the whole system.

Senior management relied on getting a traffic light and SWOT report landing on their desks once a month and issued dire threats if the reports didn't improve.

The temporary Middle Management listened to the threats and responded by massaging the figures and polishing their CVs for the next position.

Finally the poor schmucks at the bottom finally manged to scream loud enough for even senior management to hear that there was no way on this God's green earth that the figures are going to be met.

Suddenly its the 'reporting system' fault for not providing accurate information from the coalface. Not the middle management who have been massaging the figures nor the senior management inability to actually find out the truth. Oh No. The reporting system. That was it.

Tell me anyone who has suffered traffic light and SWAT reporting that this ain't true.

Minister of Fun bends Ofcom's ear on Freeview-4G knockout

Re: So what about masthead preamps?

I have an extra high mast on top of my house and a masthead preamp, and still only get freeview most of the time (i.e. hint of high pressure and is all goes tong.) I also have a bunch of mobile masts about 50ft away. Good location for a new 4G service, no?

Just how much attenuation in the passband can be allowed before the freeview signals disappear (no filter is loss-less) and how much attenuation will be needed in the reject band so the nearby 4G transmitters don't overwhelm the preamp?

I am guessing I will be one of those who will need a filter the size of a shoebox or spend more cash for a freeview sat dish.

Watch out, Apple: HTC ruling could hurt your patent income

Re: Hear, hear!

Sorry to say, 'patent the bleeding obvious' has been going on for some time. I remember getting an unsolicited bid to buy a patent (applied for) for the design of a controller for playing games on mobile phones.

It basically slapped the Nintendo pad layout (X and + buttons) on a mobile phone. I wrote to the guy and asked

1. for proof that he was not infringing on design rights that Nintendo may claim

2. to explain why the Nintendo controller design could not be considered prior art

3. to explain why putting an existing controller design on an existing phone design was not obvious.

The only answer I got was basically " because its on a mobile phone".

We didn't bite.

Reg hack attempts gutsiest expenses claim EVER

What?

You mean the establishment didn't give you handful of blank receipts with their letterhead with the instructions to fill it in with whatever you want? Works well with taxi drivers as well, especially if you tip them well.

Turing Machine brought to life with Lego

Re: Binary?

I think you answered your own question.For this 2 bits flipped = 2 and 4=4

i.e. not binary

Foreign Office commercial chief: Suppliers, don't be liars

Oo oo oo, can I play?

My faves include:

1. Government hires loads of 'experts', usually health and safety.

.......on cost plus, who cost the Government more that the entire value of your contract.

.......who provide advice expert advice without any technical understanding of the technology being sold, and thus have zero understanding of the risks associated with that technology.

.......whose advice is plain wrong, but until you write pages of justification showing why they are wrong will mean you don't get paid.

2. Talking to Government commercial officer who did not understand how by adding 'just 1 requirement' to the procurement spec could double the costs. He honestly thought you could take cost of project, divide by number of requirements and come up with an additional cost per requirement figure.

Watch out, world! Ofcom is off the leash to bite radio jammers

Now thats Consultation for you

6 pages from RSGB pointing out regulatory flaws, and the entire response from OFCOM.....a single word response 'yes'.

Sill, they can claim they consulted extensively and responded to people's concerns (without actually doing anything), so they met the point of the consultation, didn't they?

Now TalkTalk cuts Brits' access to The Pirate Bay

Re: Erm...

Cough....parody......cough.

Rats with GPS backpacks prepare to sniff out landmines

Re: Umm

Mmmmmm. Tender rat, well fed, healthy and hand reared.

........and a free gps, battery and little tranmitter module with each to sell on the next door market stall.

What could possibly go wrong?

Samsung Galaxy Tab 'a harmful drug', says Apple in ban bid fail

Not forgetting

How much 'return on investment' was lost by Oracle recently.

Oracle case crippled after judge rules APIs can’t be copyrighted

Re: Incredible

For once the usual spelling mistake also makes perfect sense. loose>lose.

Tee Hee.

Space Station crew enter the Dragon

"wearing the customary protective masks and goggles just in case"

I thought that hard hats and hi-viz vests as well were mandatory results of any Elf and Safty Wisk assessment...at least it is in my Company.

New smart meter tells Brits exactly what they already know

Re: Nonsense...

'Only idiots and those who can't be bothered to find out through simple means don't know how much energy they're using'

Too right. I had a tenant who dried clothing indoors, with all the ventilation closed and the heating switched off and then complained that there was condensation. Well colour me surprised.

I even supplied a dehumidifier, which she refused to use as it 'costed too much money'.

I finally ended up being taken to the small claims court for being a nasty horrible Landlord. Best bit was when she repeated that it was too costly and I handed over calculations that showed that it would cost about 10p per day.

The Judge actually asked her whether she was serious about not being able to afford 10p per day, and followed it up by dismissing the claim.

Kim Dotcom resists password grab

or even

AAccused of providing the means that others allegedly used to violate copyright laws.

Apple, RIM didn’t infringe Kodak patents

and another thing

KKodak got a billion for essentially doing FA, and they still manage to go bankrupt . Wow.

1 billion?

1 billion dollars extra sales were generated just because of that particular feature?

I think not. More fool them.

Java jury finds Google guilty of infringement: Now what?

Re: bias

Subtle Troll baiting at its best. Even I had to read it twice

Sir, applause is due

Re: Misleading

"Groklaw's views always favour Google".

Seems that a Jury agrees with Groklaw, and for that matter with Google. Now how did that happen?

Engineer Doe thought people's private info 'might be useful'

Fave colour

Usually have to wait for the the IT guy on the other end to stop giggling when he hears the response to the question of what is my favourite colour.

Pinknotbrown

Phone-hack saga: Murdoch 'not fit' to run News Corp, blast MPs

Re: Same old story

Yeh. I heard it was not long before he floated to the surface.

'Oppressive' UK copyright law: More cobblers from IP quangos

Copy £10 note

Yes I can. I can copy a £10 note. In fact I have just been to the photocopier and made a copy. i am now going to use that copy in any way that I choose for my own purposes. I am to use it as a substitue for a bog roll. However whether the treasury allows me to do it is another matter.

What i an not allowed to do is use that copy as legal tender. i.e. in exchange for goods and services, nor can I copy it onto a bog roll and sell it.....or even give it away.

That is what fair use should be all about. Once i have bought the CD, i shopuld be able to use it in any way i want for my own purposes - even copying it to transform it into a new format. Just as long i do it for myself and don't sell it or give it away.

Murdoch 'sorry' he didn't shut News of the World years ago

Yeh right!

"Murdoch had said earlier that it was "grossly unfair" to his flagship redtop, The Sun, to be "lumped together" with the NotW."

You mean the Sun is a well respected, independent newspaper with a proud record of in-depth investigative reporting by journalists of impeccable character who gathered the news entirely within the law, and does not suffer from the celebrity led, gossiping, hyped –up, hysterical half truths normally associated with the gutter press……….and they don't have pictures of ladies with their tits out.

Who knew?

(talking of ladies with their tits out..)