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Posts by jeremy
7 publicly visible posts • joined 14 May 2007
JPG hole cuts RAZR open
'Extreme porn' law could criminalise millions
Orange eyes up TeliaSonera
Thursday 17th April 2008 15:29 GMT 
Oh dear :(
Telia is Blizzard's ISP.
I wonder how this will play out. Blizzard have about 10 million paying customers who rely on Telia to play WoW. Telia hasnt got a great record sadly, and I suspect it will only get worse if Orange take it over.
Apart from the anti-french angle, takeovers pretty much always cause operational problems. If they cock-up connectivity to WoW servers...well, lets just say I would be the first to cancel my account - till they fix the problem of course :)
My suspicion is that Orange only want to take TeliaSonera over because they are Blizzard's ISP, possibly with an additional factor that Vivendi - who are french too - own Blizzard.
I hope my fears are unfounded, but I suspect they will make a terrible mess of it.
While I am on the anti-french thing - is it just me or does anyone else find it bizarre that we (the UK) have sold key infrastructure to foreign govts? I refer here to EDF primarily, a french govt subsidised company (and hence run to promote French national interests).
Bah Humbug.
Creative climbs down over home brew Vista drivers
Plan for 20mph urban speed-cam zones touted
Saturday 20th October 2007 13:21 GMT
>80% road deaths are under 20
Then raise the minimum age of driving to 21.
Personally, I would raise it to 25.
Stop your moaning all you <25 year olds. Driving is NOT a right, it is a privelege, and as you continue to demonstrate your manifest unsuitability to engage in this dangerous passtime, you should not be allowed to do so.
Full Stop - unlike you in your car....*crash*
Tasmanian tumours blamed on inbreeding
Monday 8th October 2007 12:23 GMT
Humour vs Fact
Your mention of Cousin-Coitus in the first line of your article is sadly contra-factual.
Sexual reproduction between cousins - and first cousins in particular - actually maximises the heterozygosity of the MHC, rather than diminishing it.
I will extend you the benefit of the doubt that you were merely trying to be humourous, but you should really be sure you know what you are talking about before you make jokes about a subject that might make cousin married couples worry or even panic about the health of their kids for no good reason.
America haunted by ghost of ice gravity
Monday 14th May 2007 10:55 GMT
Accuracy required.
Isostatic Rebound is responsible for the slow uplift of modern northern Europe - as a previous comment probably meant to indicate. This has been known about for some time.
The mermaid of Copenhagen is slowly being raised higher since it was installed in 1913. Scotland is rising and the south of the UK is sinking. Numerous other examples are known. All are caused by the rebound of the crust that was compressed by the sheer weight of the ice sheets that covered it for so long (Isostaic Rebound). In Europe the rate of rebound has by now decayed to about 1 cm per year.
While an ice sheet will of course exert a gravitational effect, it is negligable, it is the effect of the Earth's gravity on the mass of the ice sheet that creates its weight which in turn compresses the crust. Once the ice sheet is removed, the crust slowly rebounds towards its previous position at a rate that decays roughly exponentially.
Curious readers who wish to know more may find useful information here: http://www.homepage.montana.edu/~geol445/hyperglac/isostasy1/
Biting the hand that feeds IT
