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Not that money multiplier myth again. Don't tell me you still believe in that old chestnut. Even the Bank of England has given up that myth.

Saw this link: http://boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?s=adf37f5bc9893161b909b2f8ed3a15e7&t=2055944813
on this story: http://forums.theregister.co.uk/forum/2/2010/06/28/ofcom_pln/

Which seems relevant to you - maybe a neighbour turns on something noisy.

Sam

From what I can tell via google,

- Ash melts at 1100 degrees, below operating temperature of jet engines, and fuses into the engine
- Windshields can be abraded so badly you cannot see out of them
- Ash is dry and doesn't show up on radar, so new sensors are needed so pilots can discover it
- There are no standards for how much ash is allowed or how to test aircraft against it.
- Possibility that propellor planes and helicopters are safer

So my conclusions for now are:
- Need better rules, and government should pay for the experimentation
- Need better intelligence, so we can be sure a route is safe
- Need to examine flying propellor planes slowly at very low altitudes below the ash
- Nobody has thought about ash bothering ground transportation. Does it?
- Need alternative transportation
    o Trains, buses, boats
    o Slower aircraft.. hovercraft or balloons? (they still have engines though)
    o Need a closed engine design. (chemical or hydrogen powered electric closed engine?)
    o This is a common problem, more needs to be done for global transportation security. I even found a volcanic explosion in Japan yesterday at the ash advisory center, though it is not in the news at all.
http://ds.data.jma.go.jp/svd/vaac/data/TextData/20100420_SAKU_0403_Text.html

Links:
http://www.pprune.org/rumours-news/412103-ash-clouds-threaten-air-traffic.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2010/apr/15/volcanic-ash-bad-for-planes
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?threadid=2055888944
http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/VAAC/vaac.html

the "Steorn" guys/scammers here in Ireland are still at it

http://boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055768261

with their machine that creates energy out of nothing :D

Israel refuse to co-operate with UN on nuclear inspections

I have a USB TV tuner, it doesn't even work, probably because I have a bad reception here. This being said many people here don't have a TV either just like me, the main reason being to avoid paying that TV tax. So you see, that's not as much bullshit as you'd like to believe. And I believe it's a growing trend, so I'm telling you, 10 years from now, a significant number of young people won't have a TV, just like a lot of them don't have a landline phone anymore, because it's been superseded. Internet supersedes the TV set.

The RTE Player is not an Internet Service in that it is a Timeshift service derived from a programme that was Broadcast . That is the opinion the minister has.

As it's not an internet service (and through the interplay of a few other definitions we've not listed here but which are in the act), the RTE.ie server basicly drags all of us into this...

"television set" means any electronic apparatus capable of receiving and exhibiting television broadcasting services broadcast for general reception (whether or not its use for that purpose is dependent on the use of anything else in conjunction with it) and any software or assembly comprising such apparatus and other apparatus;

142.--(3) This section does not apply to a television set, which is of a class or description for the time being declared by an order of the Minister to be a class or description of television set to which this section is not to apply

"Minister" means Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources; "MMD system"

If you want to know if your apparatus qualifies as a "television set" then you'll have to ask the Minster for bicycles .. :)

' Minister Eamon Ryan .. set up and ran two businesses, Irish Cycling Safaris and Belfield Bike shop'

http://boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055433051

Here in Ireland the man has just announced to pick 3's 3G(HSDPA)to meet their requirements for universal broadband by 2009!

http://www.rte.ie/news/2008/1125/broadband.html

WTF! How can you say 3G is broadband! Just check out the problems people in Ireland have been having with 3's service http://boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055115306

I'm lucky to have fixed wireless here in North Cork, but have friends who have no broadband access at all.

Sony has several models with mpeg4 support
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055218841
http://www.rikstv.no/Hva-trenger-du/Digital-mottaker/Godkjente-mottakere2/Flatskjerm-med-innebygd-mottaker-IDTV/

In Ireland thanks to a J2ME program called AFT we get our text messages for a quarter of a cent each, or 1c each (depending on network). Id love to bring it to a few other countries too, basically it uses GPRS to send webtexts provided free by the operators. VoipBuster is also supported so it should work in the UK too

Check out http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=20 54984709

Its still not part of the British Isles. As well as which its perfectly accurate to call it the Republic of Ireland; I'm not sure what you are correcting here.

Hahah, I love how it gets the brits all hackled up. Not Yours. Heres a link to a very recent discussion board just FILLED with posts from Irish people who think you're wrong. So tis you who is confused. Sorry about that. Maybe a little more education next time, hey?

Heres a link to a very recent discussion board just FILLED with posts from Irish people who think you're wrong. So tis you who is confused. Sorry about that. Maybe a little more education next time, hey?

And heres a very very recent online poll done of Irish people (not Irish Americans) stating that the term British Isles is offensive to aforementioned Irish people. Take your west brits, rum, sodomy and the lash, and stay on your smog shrouded little rock. Cheees, mate.

Naturally, there are many ways to heirarchically structure the same information (by topic, by geography, by time), but a forum is forced to commit to only one.

Not any more.. forums are not forced to only one these days since things like topic tagging are taking hold (even here on slashdot!), enabling forum users to build a folksonomy which can completely change the hierarchical structure to suit the user and the data and can easily co-exist with existing structures. Check out http://www.boards.ie/ and http://blog.boardtracker.com/viewtopic.php?t=131 for examples.

I've been following this since it was announced last Friday on Irish Radio. There is a thread on it on an Irish webboard with more details and the interview.

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=20 54978407 (Includes an interview yesterday night with them on TodayFM).

It clearly looks like to me as some kind of scam or marketing ploy. They already have a VC giving them a couple of million and are already making a loss on this.

They should be.

2004 Wall Street Journal story

High-Tech Holiday Light Display

Draws Everyone But the Skeptics

By CHARLES FORELLE

Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL

December 27, 2004 4:23 p.m.

Flying in TV station KMGH's "Air Tracker 7" helicopter earlier this month, Alek Komarnitsky told the Denver ABC affiliate's audience about the 17,000 Christmas lights flashing a thousand feet below on his Colorado home.

"You can go to my Web site and not only view the lights via Web cam but actually turn them on and off," said Mr. Komarnitsky, who lives northwest of Denver in Lafayette. "Which is exactly what we're seeing right now."

"That's great," said one of the station's anchorwomen, over the chopper's whir.

"That's wild," added a co-anchor.

So wild, in fact, that it isn't true. In what he describes as an excess of desire to spread a little holiday cheer, Mr. Komarnitsky pulled off an Internet Christmas hoax worthy of April 1.

The lights on his house are real enough. So is Mr. Komarnitsky's Web site, www.komar.org, which has seen 4.3 million hits this month as word of its supposed features was spread like a virus by news media and the Internet.

But Mr. Komarnitsky now acknowledges there is no Web cam taking live pictures of the house. And, he adds, visitors to the site have no ability to switch the lights on and off. To fool KMGH into thinking it was broadcasting Web surfers switching the lights on and off, Mr. Komarnitsky says his wife was inside the house, working a remote control.

"It's fake," says Mr. Komarnitsky. He says he decided to fess up because the whole thing "had gotten too big," and he didn't want to mislead anyone any longer.

Via the ruse, Mr. Komarnitsky's abode became the Internet age's version of the neighborhood house with the dazzling Christmas show.

Mr. Komarnitsky gave radio interviews to stations as far away as Australia. Web sites from NYTimes.com to geek hangout Slashdot.org linked to his site. An Associated Press item about his site was picked up by newspapers from Los Angeles to Columbia, S.C. As of midday Monday, according to Mr. Komarnitsky, the "Web cam" was asked by online visitors to snap a new picture in the same spot 334,832 times. The lights had supposedly been changed 91,978 times. But instead of a live camera, komar.org is really showing off 32 high-resolution digital photographs, taken in four sets with different amounts of snow on the ground. A sophisticated computer program, which Mr. Komarnitsky wrote with input from a friend skilled in digital imaging, serves up a section of the appropriate photo, depending on actual weather conditions and what lights the online Web visitors expect to see.

For extra verisimilitude, sometimes the program digitally adds in passing cars. One in five pictures is generated with fake airplanes in the expansive Colorado sky. The human-shaped shadow occasionally seen walking past the ornament drawn in lights on the lawn? A digital apparition, nothing more. Occasionally the software shows the garage door up.

"I'll get e-mails saying, 'Hey, Alek, your garage door is open,'" he says.

Hoaxes have a storied history in the annals of technology, and the Internet provides a fertile field for cultivating them. Some are banal -- earlier this year, the town of Aliso Viejo, Calif., considered banning foam cups because they contained a substance called "dihydrogen monoxide." A city employee fell for a prank Web page decryi

That said, I suspect part of the problem is Irish BB's implementation of Ripwave - even their premium services have severe problems, so who knows? The Aussies may luck out.

Irish Broadband have offered this is Ireland for Years now .

The only problem is there a FUCKING CRAP ISP .

Actually there were at least two versions shown beforehand. The US got the precut version, so a lot of music and other bits were missing/not cleaned up. The EU got a prerelease of the final cut which only had a few plot holes left in it (Whedons own quote :).

I got to see the prerelease in Ireland. The movie is fantastic and if your a fan of the series it will put you into shock. That and Batman Begins are two of the best movies I've seen recently.

Jewel and Sean showed up. Jewel is yummier in real life! :D

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=29 4202

There is also an ant build kit for eclipse here (based off the roachfiend tutorial)..

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=21 1600
and (later version)
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=21 4576

Its pretty good.

There is also an ant build kit for eclipse here (based off the roachfiend tutorial)..

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=21 1600
and (later version)
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=21 4576

Its pretty good.

http://boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=225541 &highlight=jesus/

http://boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=225541 / tbh.

Latest Build kit is here.

Its already happening.

It isn't always for cash. Some players offer other goods and services for ingame stuff.

they already did :)

I'm so there!