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Submission + - Computers can not solve everything (bbc.co.uk)

eionmac writes: See web link for what the internet can not do, even with all our connections and endeavours. A limit to computer technology!

Comment different folk! Use different set ups. (Score 1) 159

as Buyer (i.e. facing your sales folk )I get a 'rosy picture'.
As buyer I always require the folowing:
a) I will give you a no-disclosure agreement.
b) You will advise me all existing problems with your software and allow my qualified persons to analyse your reporting times/solving times for bugs.
c) If you will not or cannot disclose existing bugs then you will have unlimited liability for any default caused by any existing bug after purchase.
d) All you competitors are asked the same question.
e) Do you wish to conclude this meeting or continue?

It is sensible to have all bugs reported, (I would welcome your approach of visible lists) but perhaps from a commerce point of view only viewable by a restricted list of developers or non-disclosure bound paying customers.
Make it a sales point:
a) We try to make our software the best, you can help us by reporting any problems.
b) When we have an established relationship, if you agree to non-disclosure terms then we can allow your folk who are software intelligent to aid your use and others by joining our development team as advisers. This impoves your competative edge and ensures your ability to get the maximum from your purchase.

Submission + - Rasbery Pi to the moon (bbc.co.uk)

eionmac writes: Cheap good telescope from Pi with 3D printer. (say GBP100 or USD160)
Successful quality 'equivalent to units costing ten times as much reported in BBC.co.uk

Comment Buy a "SIM FREE" phone in UK, and note! (Score 1) 259

1. Buy a 'sim free' phone in UK on arrival. Different bankwidths and safety regulations as she must use a "CE" marked phone within the EU.
2. At beginning certainly use a pay-as -you-go-phone. She cam swop to her USA SIM when she goes back to USA.
3. Coverage: Very necessary to know actual telcom providers ( both real and 'virtual' who piggy back on an other telecos line) relative to the area she will be in, Albeit most telecos claim 90+% coverage, they do this by piggy backing (roaming charges) on other networks and operation is very limited in mountainous regions.
Example: Within my areas near Manchester in England and in Galoway in southern Scotland, signal strengths vary widely. ( 300yards = 80% loss of signal on two telecos but not on third) In cities mostly OK, but in rural and some islands areas you have problems.

Comment Re:How far do these laws go? (Score 1) 104

In UK these laws apply to all 'personal data' , even in written form inside your organisation, all personal data must be securely held.
Thus membership list etc should be kept in a safe or locked cupboard in locked premises if in written form and in secured electronic form if on a database or website. No if, No buts! Germany is the toughest on data protection.

Comment already in UK. as BT Wifi; BT FON (Score 1) 253

All routers supplied by major UK ISP BT (British telephone) reserve 10% of bandwidth for public access to router, but on a separate log in. BT-Wifi OR BT-FON, thus you as a deal if you permit this 10% sharing [Itis an opt in service] can thus access any free BT WiFI or BT FON elsewhere away from home or in home. On 'find all wireless signals' my router detects My WiFi , neighbours's WiFi all named and locked encrypted and two other signals BT FON and BT Wifi unencrypted available to visitors (thus their doings not on "my ISP" logs or outsiders not on "my ISP" logs). I find it useful at home and abroard.

Comment "The Wallace" (Score 1) 796

A play on freedom, what to do to get it and maintain it. The actions of greed, advancement and lust in some persons and the cruelty of those in power (power corrupts) to keep it
The play by New Zealander Sydney Goodsir Smith, published by Oliver & Boyd of Edinburgh, Scotland, 1960, is in the "Lallans" (Scottish) dialect of English.
Once read , it changes how you look at the persons 'seeking' financial/social advancement in any polulation.
I am biased, as a Scot living in England, but it made great sense to my Russian colleagues.

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