Shetland - BBC TV

Shetland on BBC TV is an enjoyable low detective story. Shetland looks quite bleak and fairly treeless. What i find incredulous is how DI Perez can  always get a signal on his mobile wherever he lives! I struggle to get a decent signal near Whitehaven Cumbria, and this is an urban area of 50000 population. Hey it's only fictional tv.

broadband scam?

Anyone else noticed these "enticing" superfast broadband offers on at the moment? To me the only thing is they say in the small print " landline rental at £17 per month"! Outrageous. Nearly all within a few pence. No discounts. Seems only just over a year ago line rental was around £11 a month. How has it changed?
I predict soon we'll all go Mobil. Stuff their line rental. What a waste all this upgrading to superfast.

The Santander Clause - Register for alerts from your Bank Account - No not Santa Claus

The Santander Clause - register for alerts from your Bank Account - No not Santa Claus. Now the very nice Santander people have offered me to setup alerts to my Mobile or Email  on my account .
I can get a text message if my balance goes over or under a certain amount and a weekly update of balance and transactions. Could be useful and is FREE.

I wonder how many people actually read the terms and conditions, but just tick the box? I do READ them before i tick.

How many folk kn ow about this clause. The Santander Clause!!

Please note - (and I have done this anyway) - PROTECT YOUR PHONE WITH A PIN!

If you don't then Sanatander (and I guess other banks) will have a "get out" clause if anything goes wrong.

You have been warned.

Android phone lost data settings?

I had to reset my Samsung phone to factory settings. It wouldn't boot. Kept cycling around .

2 things.

1. Make sure you've backed up. You can sync to gmail. Or export contacts to sdcard . Before you lose them.
2. You'll need to restore your data settings .

On my Talktalk Samsung phone message to 40127
Talk
This will return to you the configuration settings but it will not be in your normal messages.
Open Messages press Menu there Will be Configuration Messages press and Install the latest message.
You may need to restart but now you should be able to connect to internet etc.
Done

Push electric cars

No not literally - the Government is trying to promote electric vehicles.

Lets face it  - who wants to pay £25k for a little car that only goes less than 100miles before you need to charge it, Where do you charge it?

Who can afford a £25k car?

Buy a £15k car and then you've got £10k to spend on f uel. Even at todays prices that goes a a long way!

At £1.40 a litre and 50mpg that woudl get you 350000 miles. Even at 35000 miles a year that would take you 10years motoring.

So next, I said yesterday the lights will goi off soon so how do you charge your electric car? Whene every home has one, that will drain the grid even more.

Then the Governments daft isdea is charging points every where. Imagine it - Electric bollards all along the streets.

• Cables going to each car.
• A Health and Safety nighmare. 
• That's assuming the Vandals don't cut your cable, or worse.
• Someone may trip over the cable and sue you. Forget its plugged in and drive off. 
• Who's going to lay the cables to the bollards. 
• Who's going to pay for the electricity?

Now lastly in a few years cables to cars will be as old hat as the Landline phone is now. We all have mobiles! Technology exists now to charge cars remotely like WiFi. Yes the cables need laying in the roads, but all you need is top park over it and the car charges. they can even be in the road providing power while you drive. A pilot scheme is running Europe for this already

Usual story Britain is years behind.

Wait and see. Monty told you first.

Driving while using a mobile phone

I totally disagree with using a mobile phone whilst driving. Its dangerous - how can you control a car with the other hand holding a phone? I often encounter cars around here (Lincolnshire) with the driver having a mobile clamped to his ear, driving with his elbows! Why, you see they don't get caught. There's no deterrent in fines and points if you stand ZERO chance of getting caught, no police around here. 

Its like drink driving, people now almost universally agree NOT to do it. If you do it you are shunned as a pariah. Its genuine antisocial behaviour. Worse you could kill someone or even yourself. Its exactly the same with a  mobile but when are we gong to treat people the same as a society as DOL drivers?

I also think the same about smoking. If it started today what would folk say about lighting a piece of weed wrapped in paper,  holding it in one hand taking it off the wheel to whilst you were driving , then puffing on it breathing in the smoke! It would be banned. You can't have naked flames in a car! how stupid and dangerous.

Anyway, I watched a film the other night, and have you noticed how in America they often show the actors driving and using a mobile phone! (cell phone). Is it NOT illegal in America? I think the censors should rate these films/programmes X if they show a patently illegal and dangerous act in a film in this country. Or be forced to put a warning on screen, "this film depicts driving whilst using a mobile phone which is contrary to UK Law". If its part of the story like anything else (killing people is illegal but we all know that), then let them show it but like supposedly the rating stops children seeing it and  being influenced (like killing) only adults should be allowed to see it.

Any answers on US law?