Posts by Andy Taylor 368 publicly visible posts • joined 9 Jul 2007
Images are one of 2 things, either they have been lawfully created and no offence has been commited, or they are unlawful and constitute evidence. If lawful then the police (or anyone else other than the owner of the images) have no right to delete them and if unlawful the police have a duty to preserve them as evidence of an offence.
Remember also that there is plenty of software available to recover deleted images from memory cards.
One of my previous employers is a large charity that, amongst other things, provides IT services to a number of related, but legally separate charities. Several of the services are web based and hosted on Windows.
According to Microsoft, if you run a web site that is available to the public, that's fine, shove it on IIS and away you go. Alternatively, if you run a wabsite that is only available to employees of your organisation (aka an Intranet), that's fine too.
But any service that caters for your related, but separate organisations requires all the servers that provide that particular website to have an additional "interconnect" licence.
Does this special licence provide any additional functionality? What do you think?
12 grand for no discernable benefit to anyone except Microsoft. Of course my ex-employer simply paid up rather than tell Microsoft where to go or switch to a proper web server platform.
@The Dorset Rambler - of course they're waiting until they have the results they want. It's a common tactic. They've taken things a stage further with the Badman review of Home Education, fed up with not getting the result they wanted 4 times in 3 years, they've found a lackey to write what they want him to. Now they've given him extra time to "collect more evidence" for an upcoming Select Committee review of the review because he can't now produce the evidence to back up what he said.
Yes, Minister anyone?
Oliver Postgate was a truely inspired and inspirational man and I am sad to hear that he has died.
I remember watching Ivor, Bagpuss and the Clangers when growing up and now my children are fans as well. They watch (nearly) all the modern shows and enjoy them, and are equally happy to sit down and watch Ivor or the Clangers on DVD. This is a true measure of the genius of Postgate and Firmin.
This poor lady has given up any hope of ever being able to teach again (she has surrendered her teaching licence) as a result of something she had no control over. I understand that she is unwell and unlikely to want to return to teaching, but she now has a criminal record thanks to idiot prosecutors.
Well, at least the supermarkets have a better track record of keeping personal data safe than Government agencies or contractors.
I suspect all these unfortunate data losses are delibrately designed to make personal data less valuable as a prelude to the ID card.
When's the election due?
It's the masthead - has The Register and logo and underneath "Biting the hand that feeds IT." but aligned to the right of the top line. Having this on the left hand side looks strange.
Either left justify the second line or put the whole thing in the middle and I'll be happy.
Increasing the font size in Firefox looks fine.
No problem at all. Plus the number of times you hear these bloody adverts, it'd only take a couple of listens to get it.
I don't tend to listen to commercial radio any more, but I did catch my local station the other day and heard a radio advert that could have been from twenty years ago. If you remember Radio Active's "Martins of Bond Street Sale" sketch, you will understand. Ghastly.
My late father introduced me to Reggie Perrin, a real comedy gem.
It was ruined by the "Legacy of Reggie Perrin" (get all the surviving cast back together years later for a barrel scraping 4th series), a remake sounds ghastly, especially if Martin Clunes is involved.
We also used to watch Tomorrows World in the days of Raymond Baxter, Michael (Screen Test) Rodd, Judith Hann and Maggie Philbin. I don't think that the show can ever be successfully brought back after "Look Around You" though. Times change - those of us who are actually interested in Science and Technology can use technology to find out for ourselves using something called the Internet.
"What the Police appear to be saying is that you can be given the all-clear as a bona fide researcher of terror material in the morning – then re-arrested the same evening for the same offence. Surely not, one might think, but that possibility is within the bounds of the Law."
Imagine the scene:
PhD Student: "Why are you arresting me again, officer? Just this morning you told me I was free to go."
PC Dibble: "Well sir, you've had time to read the manual now."
but if I do have to fly again, Ryanair will be the very last on my list because of their abominable attitude to dealing with disabled passengers.
This is just another case of making sure they get the most out of their passengers who are likely to arrive at the airport with tickets they have no idea have been cancelled.
The passengers will be faced with the choice - book another flight (at a higher cost) or lose their entire holiday/business trip.
The technique goes along with all the other things Ryanair do to extract as much cash as they can from the unfortunates who fly with them.
Salmon Days was a Register production - if you search the archives you'll find the various articles from early 2002.
I think I have all of the videos somewhere.
This one made it to You Tube (NSFW warning, seriously)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GE94BJg3U1Q
The Fax Wizard, and real live clippy are absolute gems.
Any chance of a re-release at a higher resolution?
100+ comments and no mention of Lynne Truss!
There is no excuse for poor spelling. We need to return to the days when all subject teachers would correct spelling and grammar, not just the English teachers.
Pad's comment shows that with the right help and assistance it is possible for everyone to be able to communicate clearly, effectively and accurately.
Looking at their page on VbV, it seems that they have decided to automatically sign every customer up, but rather than have us all remember a new password, they have cleverly decided to use the "memorable name" from the existing security.
Now this is great, I don't have to remember anything new, BUT given that most people will use their mother's maiden name as the memorable name, it is hardly worth bothering with, besides, using the same password for multiple things is bad practice.
From the Smile website:
"How to Cancel"
Q: I don’t want to use Verified by Visa (VbV) how do I deactivate my account(s)?
A: VbV protects your account(s) from unauthorised use. If a VbV password is registered by the Bank/smile, your card cannot be used at VbV subscribed merchants unless the password is entered for extra security. If a VbV password is not registered your card may still be used for online transactions. Therefore to protect our customers The Co-operative Bank/smile aim to register all of our card accounts for VbV.
Q: I cannot use Verified by Visa, what alternatives are there for me?
A: Simply contact customer services on the usual telephone number or e-mail address and we will be able to discuss alternatives with you."
China Blue was the working name of the character played by Kathleen Turner in Ken Russell's 1984 film "Crimes of Passion". By day a sportswear designer, by night a hooker.
"Although we may run out of Pan Am coffee, we will never run out of TWA tea."
Paris for the usual reasons
I used to work in the water industry* and the whole point about using Chlorine to treat tap water is this: Chlorine is added to the water near the end of the treatment process to kill the nasties and then most of it is removed again before the water leaves the treatment plant. What is left keeps the water safe all the way to your tap. If you're worried about it, why not filter the water before you drink it or even just leave it in a jug for an hour or two for the remaining Chorine to escape?
*It was 6 months before someone told me what the windsock at the treatment plant was for - in the event of a Chlorine gas leak, you run in the opposite direction to where the sock is pointing!
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