Privatise the BBC - £1000 bounty to catch dodgers

TV on the Taxpayers? Ludicrous in the 21st Century. Why put people in prison for watching TV. When there are all the alternatives to the BBC - all Private and they can make money WHY do we have to pay the Licence fee? Its a TAX on entertainment.

They could save all the money in the courts hounding people and making criminals out of them and in this time of austerity we can't afford a £145 a year tax. I've had no pay-rise for 5 years yet MPs are to get 10% whether they want it or not.

Privatise the BBC and do away with the Licence fee. Public service TV can be paid for out of levy on all of the TV channel providers SKY can afford  bit.

"5 day lag" on your iPhone - not synching emails/no data

If you are not apparently not getting your GSM signal and/or no data downloading try this.

I spoke to Vodafone and they suggested this.

They said the phone had a "5 day lag" - I'm not sure what this means but they suggest that you "reset the Carrier"

On the phone go to 

Settings/Carrier

It should be set to "Automatic"

Turn off "Automatic"

It should Search then for available networks.

Select one - not Vodafone, or whatever your normal carrier is, 

Set back to automatic

(it should fail)

Repeat and select Vodafone (or your normal Carrier) again and set back to Automatic.

This should resolve the data problem.

Some Acronyms for Telephone protocols

·	WCTP - Wireless Communications Transfer Protocol - a standard message delivery for Internet communications to a wireless provider (both HTTP and HTTPS are supported)
·	SMTP - Simple Mail Transport Protocol - an email protocol used by many wireless providers

·	UCP -  Universal Computer Protocol - a delivery protocol for analog modem, or direct serial communications to a wireless provider
·	GSM-AT - Global System for Mobile communication AT Command Set - a method used to communicate with a directly connected mobile phone or wireless modem for end-to-end wireless message delivery

·	Touch-Tone - DTMF (Dual Tone Multi-Frequency) - a way to deliver touch tone messages to older numeric-only pagers and similar equipment
·	Fax - Facsimile Machines - message delivery to destination Fax machines via faxmodem

·	Raw-Serial - transmission of message text over a standard serial port (direct connect or via modem)
·	Raw-TCP - transmission of message text to a host via a TCP/IP connection SNPP - Simple Network Paging Protocol - a standard message delivery protocol for Internet communications to a wireless provider
·	TAP - Telocator Alphanumeric Protocol - the standard message delivery protocol for analog modem, or direct serial communications to wireless providers

Big Brother Watching?

This has not surprised me, actually surprised they don't make more use of it.

Tesco, e.g. you use your "Clubcard" so they have all your details, what you buy where, when etc. Don't htey see a pattern? Look at thousands of shopppers, even with out Clubcard they've got the PLU's on their system as they scan the stuff at the checkout. Yet we go to Tesco or on-line and they don't have what we want!

Appalling - no wonder they're losing the Supermarket race.

Thinks about it every time you shop/buy and use a card they know where you bought and what. The Banks could use this in conjunction with retailers to do some sort of marketing/deals.

Data Mining I call it. Again surprised there isn't more targeted stuff. Or better service.

Who will start doing this and win the race?

Scotland vote.

I predict a yes. Not logical but the people are fed up. Aren't we all. Like we'd vote to come out of Europe.

Knights of Badassdom

Very silly - entertaining. Only watch if you know about LRP and Dungeons and Dragons games. Also are a heavy metal fan.
3*

No to Asserby Windfarm - Victory for Louth Canal Protesters

Uncle Eric is helping the ANTI fight and has stopped the appeal over the Louth Canal Windfarm. Maybe there is hope for us *AGAINST the Asserby Farm?

I hope so.

We've just had a holiday in West Cumbria and they have a lot of Turbines along the coast and in the Sea. Seems reasonable as its quite hilly and the one out at sea aren't noticable and its quite windy. However travelling back I did notice a lack of Turbines between there and here (Lincolnshire) it was not until you get to the M18 that you see the Goole farms and so it goes on, with all those planned for East Lindsey might as well call it "turbine County" not "Bomber County".

Doesn't make sense.