Yeah. Hence the word 'Distributed'.
Posts by Mike Tree
52 publicly visible posts • joined 16 Jul 2007
152k cameras in 990Gbps record-breaking dual DDoS
Cambridge boffins: STOP the rush to 5G. We just don't need it
Virgin Media spanked by ad watchdog over 'in your neighbourhood' fibs
Google Glass pics will BAFFLE admirers: Nudge nudge, WINK WINK
OHM MY GOD! Move over graphene, here comes '100% PERFECT' stanene
Microsoft touts SCROOGLE merch: Hopes YOU'LL PAY to dump on rival
Reg man goes time travelling at iconic observatory
Pints all round as Register Special Projects hacks hack off feet
'Nutjob' serves half-baked Raspberry PI scam
So, just what is the ultimate bacon sarnie?
Everything Everywhere begs Blighty to back 4G push
ISPs should get 'up to' full fee for 'up to' broadband

Upto 70 mph
Our road infrastructure has an upto 70mph limit.
My rather old landrover will only do about 50mph, so perhaps I should only pay 71% of the Road Tax for my vehicle.
There are several national speed limit roads near where I live. I defy anyone to drive down them at 60mph, even though that is the therectical limit.
When I bought my latest vehicle, I checked the official fuel consumption figures. Apparently I can get 'upto' 52mpg. Like that will ever happen! Even if I drive like a nun.
These days, most ISPs package their products with download limits, rather than speed.
The upto speed is only the maximum of the technology they are using. They could say they use ADSL, ADSL2 & let the customer work out what speed they are likely to get.
Anybody know who to contact to get my Road Tax refunded?
Blighty slaps £100m spending cap on govt IT projects
Behold! Or rather, don't: Bendy see-through DRAM
Japan, Russia in plan for elephant to birth CLONE MAMMOTH
Solwise Net-3G-A10 HSPA Wi-Fi router
UK will obey Euro unisex-insurance rules from 2013
So where will it stop?
First Gender....
Why not age? There's a biggy. Why should I only pay £300 when my nephew has been quoted £3000. That's not fair, is it?
Well actually it is!
They also weight premiums on location too, and job, and probably many other things we haven't thought about.
Is this the first of many changes?
Telcos team to test '4G' in Cornwall
Cornish pasties awarded protected status

@ Tom Mason
No so...
I recently purchased some fine Cornish Pasties from Morrisons in Bridlington (East Yorks), produced in Crantock.
The annoying thing is they were significantly cheaper than the ones I bought direct from the bakery in Cranock a few months earlier.
As a person of Cornish decent, I must approve of the ruling.
Catalans to hunt wild boar with bows and arrows
Lightning bolt smites 60ft Jesus statue
DVLA off-road system seriously off-message
How about
1) Get rid of road tax
2) increase fuel duty (slightly) to compensate. This makes a fairer system by which people that use the roads more, pay more.
3) Introduce an Insurance disc that is provided by your insurance company. I for one would shop anyone I see on the road without one.
It might put thousands of Post Office workers out of a job, but it'll save a lot of hassle.
Lord of the Rings man made a Knight
UK e-car trials kick off with mass motor handover

How far?
That's fine if you never want to drive more than150 miles in one day. It's not going to change the world.
But I suppose you have to start somewhere. I guess the first internal combustion engines couldn't manage over 500 miles on a tank either.
Mine's the one with spare change in the pocket (for the bus ride home!)
Beeb gets grief for Humpty Dumpty rewrite
Lunar ice-mine pole prang probe looking good, says NASA
Playmobil Bible faces wrath of lawyers
Wallet-stretching li-ion G-Wiz e-car goes on sale
Super Micro squeezes four servers into one chassis
Google's email service goes down
HP gives SMBs zero per cent financing
National Safety Council seeks total* cell-phone driving ban
Tories pledge high speed broadband for all in 10 years
Electric car seller hits brakes as UK EV sales plunge
Honda whips out fuel-cell sci-fi style sportster
Zoombak Universal portable A-GPS locator
Vauxhall launches virtual backseat driver
New mobe operator slash Wi-Fi hotspotter launches in UK
Asus Eee PC 901 to hit Blighty on 1 July

Size does matter
It amazed me that people can't get it into their heads that the reason that the EEEpc is small is not to make it cheap, but to make it small.
If you want a full size budget laptop, but a full size budget laptop.
I wanted a small, light, ultraportable laptot, so I bought one. (Admittedly the price did help)
It's the size that makes it special, not the price. Except it's not special any more 'cos everyone is making them now.
Vendor touts notebook as desktop server replacement
Hitachi slips past Fujitsu with speedy 320GB laptop drive
ITV fined millions for phone fraud
The web rip-offs nobody cares about

Delivery Address
"Personally, I'd not mind a small fee per transaction for this, if it was to guarantee cutting down on your chances of having your card details abused like this."
You shouldn't need to pay a fee. The banks would be able to cover it with all the money they're saving due to the reduction in card fraud.
Great idea.
Hidden card fraud taxes UK.biz

Sharing Data
"Sharing data on suspicious transactions is one important technique for combatting the problem, he added"
I'd really like to know how to share this info. We have loads of fraudulent transactions, most of which we're able to spot. We've spoken to the police and our bank, but have had very little feedback on how to handle this sort of thing.