Posts by Christopher Officer

O2 PR calls Reg readers 'techie nerds'

was going to join O2...

Was thinking seriously of switching to O2 next week from Orange. Might go give 3 my business instead now.

More remote workers squatting next door's broadband

@senor beavis

I imagine the law that would be applied isn't trespass but the computer misuse act. If I remember correctly the act makes it an offense to access a computer or network without authorisation.

In fact here it is:

http://www.opsi.gov.uk/acts/acts1990/ukpga_19900018_en_1#pb1-l1g1

1 Unauthorised access to computer material

(1) A person is guilty of an offence if—

(a) he causes a computer to perform any function with intent to secure access to any program or data held in any computer;

(b) the access he intends to secure is unauthorised; and

(c) he knows at the time when he causes the computer to perform the function that that is the case.

(2) The intent a person has to have to commit an offence under this section need not be directed at—

(a) any particular program or data;

(b) a program or data of any particular kind; or

(c) a program or data held in any particular computer.

(3) A person guilty of an offence under this section shall be liable on summary conviction to imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months or to a fine not exceeding level 5 on the standard scale or to both.

Post Office loses Amazon contract

Well no more amazon buying for me

Royal Mail was the only Amazon courier I haven't had any problems with. If they're only using Home Delivery Network now then I don't plan on ordering from Amazon at all in the future. Last time they delivered something for me it sat in a depot for a week because one of their drivers was sick (no attempt was made to get another driver or to deliver it any possible way) and they wouldn't give me a number or location for the depot so I could arrange collection myself.

In the end I met a bloke who used to drive for them who gave me the depot number. When I called amazon to complain I got the same rubbish as here about not commenting on their suppliers. They made it very, very difficult to make an effective complaint about the shoddy service I'd received on their behalf.

An internet search at the time revealed a large number of people who'd had similar problems with HDNL and with Amazon's customer service procedures.