Posts by BlokeOnMotorway

Unexpected OutSage: Sage Business Cloud enjoys a Tuesday totter

Re: Looking for something better than Sage 50 Pro.

Try QuickBooks.

Lots of TV advertising at the moment, so it must be good.

Terry Pratchett's unfinished works flattened by steamroller

Re: The Salmon of Doubt

I wonder; maybe knock up a bot or two to keep the online presence going? That could balls things up quite nicely.

Fewer than half GCSE computing students got a B or higher this year

Re: Isn't C supposed to be average?

"As a population we are NOT getting more intelligent on an annual basis."

The Flynn Effect. Take a look at it.

BA's 'global IT system failure' was due to 'power surge'

Still, ElReg finally got the story about 7 hours after the Beeb and everyone else, and have managed to add exactly what insight?

Need the toilet? Wanna watch a video ad about erectile dysfunction?

That first video...

Stuart Copeland?

Face down in a Shoreditch gutter: Attack of the kickstarting hipster

"persuading a small fingerprint reader to recognise prints at a variety of ankles"

These guys are good.

Official: America auto-scanned visitors' social media profiles. Also: It didn't work properly

Err, British troops in the photo?

How-to terror manuals still being sold by Apple, Amazon, Waterstones

Why does ElReg feel it's necessary to get involved in what books which sellers can provide?

Brexit judgment could be hit for six by those crazy Supreme Court judges, says barrister

Re: Thursday's explosive anti-Brexit judgment

What have Florence Ballard, Mary Wilson and Diana Ross got to do with it?

'What this video game needs is actual footage of real gruesome deaths'

Re: To do anything else would be dishonest

Conical Citroen surely?

Cisco warns responders: Drop ego, assimilate with the IR playbook

Ok, but what's Das Boot got to do with it?

Boffins achieve 'breakthrough' in random number generation

Guessing that the "no correlation" bit is really quite important.

My devil-possessed smartphone tried to emasculate me

Hand me the rap rod, Plate Captain.

You've seen things people wouldn't believe – so tell us your programming horrors

It was on an Oric.

So yes, you were.

We're getting kick-ass at seeing through walls using just Wi-Fi – MIT

Re: Is it just me?

There's an insulation product sort of like bubble wrap but made of foil that I stuck up in a loft once. Difficult to know if it had an effect on the mobile signal in the house , as the signal in the area was shit anyway.

Although presumably you could get some shredded foil, but like those separate strands of tinsel that get bloody everywhere, stick it to a sheet of lining paper, then that to a wall, then ordinary wallpaper on top. Might just have enough of an effect to render this sort of system ineffective. Bit like chaff really.

Hey, folks. Meet the economics 'genius' behind Jeremy Corbyn

Re: Utility not income

You ought to be writing more articles so we have to put up with fewer repeats...

Hurrah! Uber does work (in the broadest sense of the word) after all

Slightly different over there. The medallion owner has the right to operate a firm, and thus create a taxi fleet by leasing cars to drivers, who I think are also individually licenced, but only as drivers. There isn't an equivalent firm/medallion licence in the UK, as each licence (driver, operator) has to be held by an individual, not a corporate entity.

If I remember correctly, medallions change hands via auction, and NYC (back in the nineties) certainly took a percentage of the price.

Also, IIRC, each metropolitan/city area has/can have a different licencing scheme, so back in 2001, in the Garden City area, there were taxis that could only pick up and drop within the city limits, those that could only run between the city area and the airports & hotels, and other variations and terms. In London, there are two licences for black cabs, one for the centre of London and one for the suburbs. A driver can hold both.

Ofcom tackles complaint over Premier League footie TV rights

'tis true. If memory serves, the EU decision, due to the timing of the existing contracts, first impacted Serie A, where each team was expected to sell rights for their home games. Result was that only AC Milan and I think Juventus, managed to do so. The start of the season was delayed by 4 to 6 weeks.