Posts by MisterD 21 publicly visible posts • joined 10 Sep 2014
A man in his eighties gets his license for free, no money, only needs to fill in a form, why would he bother pressing send at all?
A scrounger who wants other people to pay for his entertainment, whingeing, spreading disinformation. If you want to watch it, you pay for it, stop trying to force the rest of us to pay for what we don't need.
Why should it be folded into taxes? Why should I have to pay for your entertainment? Are you offering to pay for my camping trips and track days, should my motorcycle racing also be folded into taxes?
Charge the people who actually use it, stop trying to force me to pay for other people's hobbies. Encrypt the lot and decriminalise evasion so that Capita and TVL staffers can no longer hide behind "detection of crime" defence and can be prosecuted under harassment legislation.
It worries me that some birds of prey are going to end up injured or worse due to idiots using them to bring down drones. Before you ask a raptor to stick its legs in the drone's rotors you should do a pain level test first, I suggest stick your tongue in the rotors and only sending a bird after the drone if you can still speak ok afterwards.
Big John you are very wrong. I've no idea who you've been listening to but they've seriously misled you.
"A person may use such force as is reasonable in the circumstances in the prevention of crime, or in effecting or assisting in the lawful arrest of offenders or suspected offenders or of persons unlawfully at large." (Palmer v R, [1971] AC 814), S3 Criminal Law Act 1967
S76(5(a)) Criminal Justice and Immigration Act 2008 allows householders to use disproportionate force when defending themselves against intruders into the home.
It's not clear if spoofing is illegal? It seems as clear as crystal to me.
My telephone is a computer, as are most phones these days. One of its jobs is to make a record of the number of all callers so that I can return calls. Spoofing deliberately causes a false number to be recorded. I have never authorised anyone to record false data in my computer's record of callers.
S3 of the Computer Misuse Act 1990. Unauthorised acts with intent to impair, or with recklessness as to impairing, operation of computer, etc.
(1)A person is guilty of an offence if—
(a)he does any unauthorised act in relation to a computer;
(b)at the time when he does the act he knows that it is unauthorised; and
(c)either subsection (2) or subsection (3) below applies.
(2)This subsection applies if the person intends by doing the act—
(c)to impair the operation of any such program or the reliability of any such data
It could not be any clearer, spoofing is an offence under the Computer Misuse Act 1990.
The gas company recently decided that our gas meter was no longer allowed to live in a brick-and-metal box sunk in the wall of our house but instead must be moved to a fibreglass carbuncle mounted to the outside wall. The only reason I can think of for this is to prepare for the meter emitting RF signals.
ICO's web forms for reporting nuisance calls are unnecessarily cumbersome, placing an unwelcome burden on the abuse victim by requiring them to re-enter all their personal details for each instance of abuse. It is orders of magnitude easier to commit abuse than to report it. I can recall an occasion where the same telespammer repeatedly abused my phone 3 or 4 times before I had managed to fill in the form to report the first abuse instance.
Nothing is worse than vodafone, they don't even respect customers wishes. I have tried to opt out of their marketing SMS 27 times since last December, the messages keep coming despite escalation to store staff and to CEO's office. Finally escalated my complaint to the ombudsman service yesterday when Vodafone's customer service rep refused to deal with me unless I could tell him the amount I last topped up (I never keep a record of how much i top up, it's always the amount of small notes in my wallet when the last top-up runs out. somewhere between £5 and £30, the rep kept insisting I could somehow "look it up").
If you have a b&w license, I hope you only have a b&w set. With no license the Capita/TVL thugs have no automatic right of entry to your home and must apply for a warrant to force entry, but one of the T&C in the license is that you agree to allow them access to inspect your equipment. Don't use B&W license to dodge full fee, it's a trap!
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