Posts by Chris Martin 2

China Telecom piggybacks EE to create UK network

And Who wants Internet?

Probably will come with all you can eat data, most sites including the BBC will be blocked though!

Ofcom squeezes local TV into 20 cities' tight White Spaces

It will start off as local TV, someone wil buy out each franchise and it will end up like a sudo ITV1 with patchy coverage.

So are they going to stand up a DVB-T Mux to put it in, perhaps fill it with some regional radio while your at it.

Essex police charge BlackBerry user over inciting violent disorder

They have it so so wrong (Government)

What is really concerning me is the way the governement are dealing with this. In the business world we use tools like Root Cause Analsis / Six Sigma to model and understand these problems.

All the government seem to want to do is pick off technologies one by one until they can disrupt communication enought to stop the problem. BBM is not really something new, riots in the 80's they used CB Radio to get organised...

How about understanding the variation in people which causes the problems, a simple General Linear Model based around a good measurement system and interviews with the Good Guys and the Bad Guys would get you your answer.

Stop blaming technology, it is an enabler, not the cause!

Ofcom maps state of UK broadband

Really?

Cheltenham and Gloucester seem to be in the 3 zone although we are in a Virgin Media Area. I have no problems with their 30Mb Service. And of course faster speeds are available. So wondering why the South West scored so badly.

BBC to take cautious approach to 3D 'hype'

Investigate the Technology

I dont understand why the want time and money to investigate the technology, if they are commimng that late to it can't they take some best practice from other broadcasters such as sky?

Cable vendor slapped for unproven claims

HDMI .. ?!?!?

Confused.. Isnt HDMI digital so it either work of not work? I have always bought ones of Ebay for Circa £3

VAT fraudster gets 9 years for refusing £40m bill

Vodafone

Isnt the VF tax avoidance something like 600m? Think in private eye magazine they compared it to being the same amount as the cock up that inland revenue made who said that they cant afford not to get it back.

WD Livewire four-port powerline Ethernet adaptor

Interferance

To be honest the interference that you get is probably down you your inadiquate screening of Electronic devices. This made worse by the influx of poorly screened electronics from the china etc. Ham operators are required as part of their licence to address such issues, so it is probably work mentioning your issues to any operators in your immediate area.

BT feathers ruffled over pigeon-based file transfer caper

It took Longer than that...

Surely they should have included the time it took the truck to drive the pigeon(s) down to where the data was attached to the pigeon before it was sent back to its home with the data.

Vint Cerf mods Android for interplanetary interwebs

Speed of Light...

So the Ping time to Mars which is somewhere between 3 (x2)minutes and 20(x2) minutes still exists and is caused by the limitation of the speed of light. So why did they start looking at this protocol in the first place, as it defaulted to a terrestrial use...

11 Time Lords plan charity shindig

Stop

However the BBC Denies the Dr Who Reunion...

http://www.digitalspy.com/cult/a161598/bbc-denies-doctor-who-reunion-reports.html