BT riding the backs of its customers.
8th
July 2010
when I started setting up a computer to connect to my router by wireless It
connected to a nearby BT router. At first I thought someone had failed to
encrypt their wi-fi, but this turned not to be the case.
It turns out that if you are not bothered about cost and sign up with BT
broadband they supply you with a 'BT Home hub' This device not only allows
you to get on line it allows anyone who pays BT or are BT users at home to
connect through your Home Hub. They call it 'BT FON'
BT advertise it as a BT service and charge for this service even though it
is using other people connections as hot spots.
On their web site I found this description of BT FON.
"BT FON creates your
Wi-Fi Hotspot by taking a small part of your broadband
and sectioning it off when other BT FON members want to access it. The rest
of the time it's all yours."
If you happen to live in an area where this could be used by a lot of people,
such as near a camping site it could be more than a small part of your
broadband speed!!
My question is. How come the person having his connection used by others isn't
paid by BT?
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How to waste Money.
5th
July 2010
Our local Town Council are not short of money. They have so
much spare cash that instead of putting up a signpost indicating where the
Local Heritage Centre is, {They waste our money running} they had castings made
to imbed into the pavement and what looks like an over sized manhole cover.
And many of these imbedded into the pavement for you to follow.
No wonder our council tax is so high.
Which Council I am referring to? you ask.
Whitchurch Shropshire.
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Basic Science.
29th
June 2010
I just chanced upon an old episode of Star Trek Voyager.
The episode was called "The 37's". It starts with them finding and old
ford truck floating in space. They bring it into the ship and one of them
gets into the truck and starts it!!!
I guess the writers new nothing of basic science. If you were to place an
automobile in the vacume of space, all of the liquids such as water and
petroleum's
would boil away in seconds.
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They lost.
28th
June 2010
All the people that wasted their money England flags can
take them down now. I suppose the TV channels will be full of people discussing
what went wrong, then hopefully they will shut up about the world cup. I can
understand people taking an interest in sport, but they seem to get fanatical
about it. One person near me didn't just buy a flag. He bought a flag pole and
put it in the front garden of his little semi. More money than sence.
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The Budget.
22nd
June 2010
There was no big surprises. All those already earning too
little to pay income tax will be worse off due to the increase of VAT to 20%,
and I wasn't surprised they did not increase the tax on smokers and boozers. A
genuine caring government would have increased them to persuade people to stop
smoking and to drink less. So despite the increase in how much you can earn tax
free it was still a budget that hurts the less well off.
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Another Planet.
9
th June 2010The radio and TV news is all about the world cup and it hasn’t even started yet. For those of us who have no interest in football it becomes an irritation. Once it starts it will be difficult to find and TV or Radio stations that don’t start talking about it. If you go on line to read the news you are bound to end up with something about it on the screen even if you add –football to your Google search. What I need is another planet so far away that the signals from Earth referring to the first ever mention of sport have not reached it yet. In the UK among those that have not succumbed to the craze there is a joke going around. “How do you spot a moron on a motorway? Just look for the George Cross flag flying from his car.”.
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The Cameron speech.
7th June 2010
I just heard our Prime Minister speech. He started by
telling how bad the debt is. He followed by telling us the last government was
to blame. He said we are all in it together and we will solve the problem, but
as usual and like everyone else he didn’t say how.
Well let me make a forecast of what will happen. Taxes ‘including’ VAT will
rise a hell of a lot, and services will be reduced.
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As seen from the USA.
2nd June 2010
There were two references to the USA in the mornings news
today. One saying that the USA are happy for Israel to hold its own
investigation into the blockade deaths, and that they intend to bring criminal
charges against member of BP after the Oil rig accident.
Now we know where the UK stands in the eyes of the US. They trust Israel to investigate and bring their own Justice without anyone overseeing the investigation, but do not trust the British. The oil rig disaster was an accident. Yes, one with horrible consequences, but BP are doing all they can to stop that oil. The Jews on the other hand are doing all they can to grab everything for themselves without regard to Palestinians. The building on occupied land makes that clear.
I guess its the Jews holding the reins in the United States.
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Is it time for a Change?
31st May 2010
The Royal family are asking for an increase of £6,000,000.
Don't they know what is going on? It is time for cuts rather than increases Your
Highness. Maybe we should get rid of the royals and make the UK a UR instead.
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Israeli raid on Gaza flotilla.
31st May 2010
I hear Israeli are killing people again. It is time the rest
of the world told the Israeli government to stop murdering people. By force if
need be. They should never have been given that land in 1949. That was the
mistake the allies of the time made back then. I guess they felt sorry for what
they went through in the second world war. The mistake we are making now is not
forcing them out of the occupied land back to the land they were allocated.
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Obey the law, Law.
30th May 2010
David Law, having been caught with his hand in the till
has resigned. I should think so too. I am amazed he wasn't kicked out before he had
chance to resign. His apology for stealing the £40,000 was pathetic, but
Cameron and Clegg have actually suggested he will be brought back into the
government. What is wrong with these people? He has not been prosecuted
for the theft yet, and they are talking about bringing him back. It all stinks
of corruption at the top to me.
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MPs' Expenses: Treasury chief David Law's £40,000 claim.
29th May 2010
He fiddled a total of £40,000 and when he gets found out he says
he didn't do it for the money, but to keep his homosexuality and his lover
private.
Oh how believable!! He stole from the tax payer and if this coalition does
anything less than throw him out then we can assume corruption is to be
tolerated.
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If The Pope wants to visit the UK then he should pay the costs.
23rd May 2010
They say the visit will cost £15m, not including extra policing and security.
The Church's share of the cost is £7m, and the British tax payer is going to
have to pay out the rest.
Why when we have the biggest financial crisis in modern history should we pay
for his visit? If he wants to come then he should pay. I also feel that in the
light of the evidence of him covering up child abuse by other members of the
Catholic Church that it is an insult to ask our Queen to meet with him.
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Scrappage scheme for old radios.
19th May 2010
In a desperate attempt to get us to buy DAB radios they are going to offer a
discount on the DAB radios if you give in a FM/AM radio. Well there is an offer
no stupid person will be able to resist. You hand in a perfectly good radio
that is receiving the stations you wish to hear and pay an exorbitant amount
for a digital radio that will eat power at least 10 times as fast as the FM
radio. They are very unlikely to close the FM/AM stations. If they do, you will
still be able to receive them without a DAB radio as they are also transmitted
on the Freeview TV system as well as been available on line.
My kitchen radio never gets tuned to anything other than radio 4. The batteries
last for months. If the unlikely happens and they stop transmitting radio 4 on
FM I certainly won't spend my money on an over priced power hungry DAB radio
that will be requiring new batteries every few weeks.
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Clegg sells the Libdems down the river..
13th May 2010
Glegg had the Tories over a barrel. If he had refused to get into bed with them
unless full electoral reform was assured he would have got it, but he let
himself be bought with few minor concessions and some places in the cabinet for
him self and a few others. It will be a long time before the floating voters
(They are the ones that think rather than voting for the party they were
brought up to vote for.) vote liberal democrat again.
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No news in the UK..
10th May 2010
No news in the UK. Just reporters telling us how much they don't know about the
talks between the Tories and the Liberals. They call it a hung parliament but
not a single MP has been hung yet.
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It's the day of the election at last.
6th May 2010
The day to vote has arrived at
last. I say this not because I am dying to vote, but because once it is all
over we may get something else talked about on the news programmes. I am
absolutely fed up with them telling me it is going to be close. I am
absolutely fed up with them telling us about the campaigning of the three
main parties with hardly a mention of the other parties. The UKIP hardly
got
a mention.
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Another black box.
28th April 2010
They have just supplied us here
in North Shropshire with another black box and a leaflet telling us it is
for plastic bottles which must be washed and crushed. I am all for been
green but we already wash tins and jars. In these days of water meters it
actually costs people to wash their waist. I have never put the plastic
bottles the milk comes in, in the waste in the winter as they make
excellent
fire lighters, and I will continue to do so, rather than buy firelighters.
This means we now have 3 black boxes, a green bin and a grey bin. Not quite up to the level of Newcastle-under-Lyme, but it is beginning to get silly.
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The massive bin collection.
26th April
2010
I hear the Council for
Newcastle-under-Lyme Council in north Staffordshire have introduced a new
waste separation system. This system increases the amount of waste
separation required by the householder to a ridiculous extent. They will
have a silver slop bucket to be kept indoors for food waste, which is they
will have to empty into a large green outdoor bin.
They will also have a:
Pink bag for plastic bottles.
Blue box for glass, foil, tins and aerosols.
Green bag for cardboard blue bags for paper and magazines.
White bag for clothing and textiles.
Wheelie bin with a brown lid garden waste.
Wheelie bin for non-recyclable waste.
I hope all the people in Newcastle-under-Lyme have plenty of space. in
their
gardens for this massive array of bins, boxes and bags.
The grand total of 9 bins/bags is just too much, so I see a revolt coming.
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Oh for an election free news bulletin.
15th
April 2010
If you want the world news on
UK radio or TV then you will have to wait until after May the 6th when the
general election is over, because all the news channels spend most of the
time telling you what this that or the other party leader is rabbiting on
about. few people trust them. I understand they are going to be in an
American style live debate today. Now there is a good programme to avoid.
They are all telling us how they will help us in various ways when it is
obvious that the once the election is over the British public will be held
upside down by their feet and shaken until their money falls out of their
pockets, to pay for the massive national debt.
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No useful vote for most in the UK.
12th
April 2010
Because of the first past the
post system in the UK the majority of the voters that think and then vote,
live in areas where the non thinkers vote for the party they and their
fathers before them have always voted. I live such a constituency. It
remained Tory even when the Labour party won the election by a record
majority, so as the running is close nationally this area will certainly
stay Tory. This means that there is absolutely no point in me bothering to
vote. If I did vote it would be for an independent candidate as I have no
wish to support the money grabbing thieves we have in the main parties.
I have given up listening or watching the news channels as it is nearly all pre election banter. One party promises not to increase income tax but refuses to make the same pledge on V.A.T. Another party does the opposite. Anyone with half a brain knows that the money spent to rescue the banks will be collected from the public one way or another who ever gets in power.
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Say goodbye to internet freedom.
7th April
2010
I
t
looks like the digital economy bill will get through in the next few days
without proper consideration. It will give the British government powers to
block any web site they choose, and to spy on internet users. If you think
it is only countries like China that want to hide things from the people
then think again. They are doing this to protect the entertainers. A
minority that get very rich while the majority work for a pittance all
their
lives only to find their saving devalued by inflation and poor interest
rates.
I hope the software
writers are awake and working on ways to bypass the blocking of web sites
etc. and making the software widely available and easy to use..
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Google news search.
3rd April
2010
I tend to keep up with the
latest events using the TV news and the Google news search. I have found it
easy to use. Instead of reading through a lot of pages from a single news
site, I get results from a range of sites. But now with the announcement of
a certain newspaper requiring payment to read, I see a problem. If the
Google search includes results from papers that will not allow you to read
the page without registering and/or paying then we will click on things to
read and be redirected to a signup page. If like me you value your privacy
and don't allow cookies you would find yourself having to enter your
username and password to see the page even if you were willing to
register/pay. Here is an example from the Financial Times where the page
went dark and was overlaid with this:
I never register at web sites for any reason so these sites will just irritate me.
The question is; Will Google arrange for these pages not to be listed in the Google search, or will I be forced to pick a few web sites to read that don't require you to subscribe instead of using Googles' news search?
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Higgs boson.
30th
March 2010
The Large Hadron Collider
achieved its first proper particle collision today, and we are
still here, so if the unlikely happened and it did generate a black hole,
then it disintegrated
rather than swallow us all up. Next we wait for a set of computers to scan
through the
masses of data collected in the hope that the Higgs boson is found.
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The times they are a changing again.
28th March 2010
Twice a year we have to change the
clocks by an hour. This I read was originally done to give the farmers light
earlier in the morning during the winter months. Why they couldn’t leave the
clocks alone and just change the time they started work by an hour I don’t
know.
I wish we could just pick a time ‘say GMT’ and stick to it all year around. Any
group wanting the light later in their day could then start and finish earlier,
and anyone wanting the light earlier could start and finish later. There is and
never has been a good reason to keep changing the clock. In these days of
international chatting on line using applications like Skype it would help if
we
could all leave the clocks alone. America and Canada changed their clocks 2
weeks before we did this spring making keeping a scheduled chat even more
complicated. Before the internet I use to chat to people around the world on
Ham
Radio, but we didn't have this problem as we all used GMT as the international
time standard for radio communication.
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Goodbye to the Times.
26th March 2010
Rupert Murdock owns many
newspapers around the world, including the UK papers called 'The Times and
Sunday Times'
As of June the 1st he is switching the web version of these papers into pay to
read sites. Well,
there are plenty of web sites to get news from without the Times. I will be
amazed if they get enough people willing to pay on line to see their rag. I
certainly won't. Every time you set up a method of payment on line you are
increasing the risk of someone getting your details and stealing money from
you,
so I certainly wouldn't do it just to read a web site.
The Google news search will have to ignore these pay sites because if users click on a link only to be asked to pay to read, they would soon get fed up with Google news search. This will ultimately mean that the pay news sites will disappear from view and get forgotten about, so Mr moneybags Murdock, feel free to change all your news coverage to pay to read and watch your readership collapse.
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Congratulations America.
22nd March 2010
It has taken a long time for
America to get started on treating your population as people rather than
commodities, but the success of your national health bill through congress is a
good start. Before the vote, I heard one of your republicans running down
the bill, saying that America has the best health service in the world. I would
contest that. You may well have some of the best hospitals, but you have to
have
loads of money to make use of them while the poor were palmed off with minimal
emergency treatment and a few antibiotics. Even after the changes brought about
by this bill have gone through. the average British person is going to get
better medical treatment regardless of funding than the average American. It is
a good first step your President Obama has made for you. I hope you don't waste
it by giving the people in opposition the chance to kill it.
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The Irish Catholic church scandal indicates the non existence of God.
21st March 2010
It was reported that these
Catholic priests abused children for many
years, without being found out. Now if there really was a God wouldn't
he have stopped them?
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We must stop internet censorship
21st March 2010
If you are a British resident then
I urge you to go to
http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/dontdisconnectus
/ and sign the
petition against the Digital Economy Bill because amongst other things it
allows the government to force your ISP to spy on you and block any
web sites the government desires.
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NHS data base should be opt in, not opt out.
10th March 2010
To insure they get as many people
on their data base as possible they have arranged it so you have to opt out. To
take no action means your information goes onto the data base. This data base
will no doubt be available to medical staff anywhere in the country and it only
takes one individual with access to pass the access codes on for crooks to get
it.
If like me you don't want your information placed on this database then print out the form below, fill it in and get it to your doctors surgery quickly.
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Maybe Labour want to lose.
10th March 2010
There has to be a general election
by June this year, and I don't think the Labour government really want to be
re-elected. If they did they would not be proposing things that a lot of people
will not want just before the election. There has been a bill going through the
house of lords to force ISPs to report anyone breaking copyright by file
sharing, and to give the government powers to block any web site they don't
like. The outcome could give the government powers that the Chinese use to keep
their people in the dark, and now I heard on the news they are proposing that a
law be introduced to force all dog owners to have their dogs micro chipped and
forced to insure them. If they want to control the louts that buy vicious dogs,
I am sure they could find a way of doing it that doesn't penalise the average
dog owner who's dogs wouldn't hurt anyone. The only reason I can think of for
bringing in such unpopular laws just before a general election is to put people
off voting for them, leaving another party the job of taxing the public to pay
off the massive debt they incurred rescuing the banks.
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A flashy waste of power.
7th March 2010
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I recently purchased a USB hub from a local shop. It works fine, but it also lights up like an over decorated Christmas tree. In these days when we are constantly been asked to conserve energy, why does so much equipment have to put on a light show. All I want it to do is allow me to connect more USB devises than my PC has inputs for. |
