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Bloody cheek !!!! No I haven’t gone soft (as you put it) but I am responding to loads of comments and requests from members. This is to the effect that they are sick and tired of threads being constantly spoiled by unnecessarily nasty, belittling or spiteful comments.
The upshot is that a decision has been taken that threads that get ”out of hand” and degenerate into abuse will be summarily deleted. If they become over argumentative or combative then they will just be moved into the STD clinic.
Members are expected to act in a reasonable way towards each other and if they REALLY have to pick a fight with another member, then they should do it in PM but NOT do it all over the boards – as this will no longer be accepted.
And before anybody goes there …. this is not an attack on free speech or unnecesary censorship, but it IS a determined attempt to make the message boards a nicer environment where people can post their stuff without being ”attacked”.
Hopefully, all will see it this way and I then won’t have to have a total sense of humour failure.
Well as this ”new” technology is getting more & more popular it might be an idea to explore the security of the connection.
I know that if you have a wireless broadband connection at home, it transmits its presence for quite a distance – sometimes hundreds of metres. If the password that is used to access your own connection is ”insecure” (i.e only a few alpha characters and maybe could be ”guessed”) then anybody within range can ‘piggyback’ onto your connection and use it. if your firewall isn’t properly configured, then they can read your traffic or access your computer.
I’m assuming that a similar thing applies to an internet connection via a mobile….. the commonality being that they both transmit & receive data via radio waves. As I understand it, you plug a ‘dongle’ into a USB port and the computer is programmed to dial an access number and handshake your way in to the internet via an ISP.
When you initially instal the software to initiate the connection process, is there a pre-programmed password/number that identifies the connection? Oh and can you alter it and set your own? If so then this may give the necessary security.
Sorry to go on a bit about this but I suspect that it is a subject that a number of our members (and even visitors) might want to know more about.
@sword wrote:
Been using the Vodaphone £15 a month version for the past couple of weeks whilst I wait to get my broadband back, due to moving. It can be a bit tempremental and slow and isn’t really very satisfactory for home use.
I can see it being a good asset when on the move however. For 15 quid a month you can’t really go wrong if you are in need of mobile broadband.
Are there any security issues with this type of connection?
I know that with a home ‘wireless’ connection you have to be pretty careful about secure encryption (of the wireless modem) to prevent unauthorised ‘piggybacking’ on your bandwidth. Do the same considerations apply to this ”dongle” type mobile connection?
@forumhostcl wrote:
AND………………
A XMAS SPECIAL WILL BE…….. CHATHOSTUK V’S FORUMHOSTPB.I thought a “Christmas special” was a stuffed Turkey.
Well let me tell you that ChatHostUK’s team sure will looke like stuffed Turkeys when my team have finished with them.
MMMMMM just imagine waking up in your coffin in time to hear the crematorium workers saying “Better give this one gas mark 7 Harry” and then the oven door slamming as they shut you in!!!
Wood is a good insulator, so it would take several minutes before you started to cook properly. Mind you, they wouldn’t hear you screaming above the roaring of the gas flames…… and nobody would ever know !!!
…. and what’s wrong with “man flu” ffs ???? I’ve had a really unpleasant dose of MF over the last several days and it’s no fun I can tell you. Sniffing & snuffling; barking; feeling REALLY sorry for myself – and that was only Day 1.
The absolutely worst bit was that Senior Management affected a ‘slight sore throat’ for one day only and that was all. I’ve been dying here all week and do I get any sympathy???? Yeah right …. sure i do !!!
Well I’m not so sure Ruby. Thing is that dear old Tony spent many years bleating on about how much he supported the ”workers” and how we all had to make sacrifices etc – when in fact he went back to his mansion and wealthy lifestyle afterwards leaving the ”workers” (and his commie fellow travellers) to wallow in their poverty.
I also intensely disliked his oh so smug reminiscences, in his later years, making tape recordings of the minutae of his endless meetings, with his affectation of the mug of (working class) tea in one hand and his pipe in the other.
A typical champagne Socialist.
No, I kinda blew that one didn’t I? Still, my excuse was that I was in a hurry and couldn’t be bothered to buy the stuff online.
I detest silly little adolescents (usually female) who try to impress by inserting the word “like” into sentences where it adds no meaning at all – as in:
“Like I said to him like you’ve gotta get one of these like cool i-pod thingys ‘cos they’re like ….so cool”
@rubyred wrote:
oh i know Esme.. I live in earlier times in my head. and folks MAY laugh at what is a fairly simple approach. but i think WE are the sensible ones. Im glad i was a baby boomer and a bairn of the 60’s .. ironically i could buy and sell most of my peers on here. as well fine YOU could.
Anthony Wedgewood Benn was that man that SHOULD have been. hey ho..
Surely you mean Lord Stansgate who transformed himself into Anthony Wedgewood-Benn and then later on became just Tony Benn, man of the people and working class hero.
Mind you with a millionairess American wife and a lifestyle to match, I guess he could afford his extreme left wing views.
