* Posts by Reginald Pérignon

4 publicly visible posts • joined 31 May 2018

Select few to watch World Cup in 4K high dynamic range colour on BBC iPlayer

Reginald Pérignon

I'm sorry?

Ofcom has said 13.9 million premises have access to speeds of up to 100Mbps, although many have failed to upgrade their packages." - Failed be buggered?

So I'm finally making the jump from a steady 7.6 to a somewhat 'guaranteed' 35Mbps for bafflingly the same 'affordable' price of about 20 quid a month. I don't know what in the world I'll use all that extra bandwidth for - apparently not watching high res 'dive-kick' that's for sure :'C

I'm kinda giddy at the prospect of having such excessive and luxurious downstream and yet I've failed?

I'm a failure? Fuck you OFCOM, what the fuck did you ever succeed at - it's 2018 and I still can't count on reliable 2/3G coverage or an affordable ubiquity of VOIP alternatives? Cram it up your sanctimonius shitpipes.

Samsung escapes obligation to keep old phones patched

Reginald Pérignon

Stupid users?

Across two handsets and about 5 maybe 6 years I've been lucky enough to get ONE android update from GB to ICS. Hell I put CM 12 on my gen 1 Note and that never got a followup stable release or 'security update' either. Does any 'droid handset manufacturer have anything even approaching a 'support track record' to even look at?

Britain mulls 'complete shutdown' of 4G net for emergency services

Reginald Pérignon

Boy howdy...

"The department has said it will not expect the emergency services to use the network until they are satisfied it will support them in operations." - Wheesh! - Never in the field of horse shitting was such fatuous crap presented so 'credibly' to such piss poor effect.