I was a PCSO around the time that happened in Waltham Forest (the borough Walthamstow is in for none locals) JC for the police.
Sounds like the TSG (Tactical Support Group) that did the beating up, I really never met a copper from the borough who would actually beat anyone up (oh and the TSG are basically the riot police that support the local officers). Your right about PCSO's not knowing anything about the law, at the time we had a 3wk course which barely covered laws beyond common law, funnily enough I would know exactly who told you to stop filming since I was one of the first one's posted to that borough.
I really hope it goes somewhere, I quit 2yrs ago to go into IT because its such BS, they're all looking out for each others backs and something that was made up by one officer resulted in me having enough and leaving.
A lot of coppers are good guys just trying to make ends meat and counting the days down to retirement, the ones that enjoy doing the beating up; scum of the earth.
....telling everyone that the Internet is reaching capacity is just the ammo companies need to cap your connection further OR in a worse case; make transmitting data across continents expensive to keep everyone "in house". You want to read that news article on your president that fox news wont admit exists? Tough! Your ISP won't let you to save bandwidth!
Well yeah you have fair use I admit, but the point I was making was that we have "unlimited" in our country compared to everywhere else with clear limits even on gold services. I myself on both BT and virgin have exceeded 200Gb in a month and never heard a peep out of either of them.
21cn is about making us IP based, and i did say 2010 upwards (I think 2012 was the new push back date? lol). But several new housing developments have fibre installed ready for it and for others it will be similar to cable where fibre goes to a cabinet in the street with coax to the house. You can't honestly tell me you expect 256k will still be the norm for someone in the country with 21cn on their street?
The limit of speed on the tech will be the hardware in exchanges or whatever house is owned by bt in your are with a couple of frames in it, 100mb wont be from the word go but we will be on par with virgin media. If we don't were pretty screwed!
Maquis196
P.s - Oh and yeah your right, its a bad excuse for why your sync speed reads 5mb but your getting 2mb -- "we would upgrade the router in your exchange but since 21cn is coming any day now (tm) its pointless.....
Oh and disclaimer, I do work for them like ive said before, but im not an apologist, too much what we do is for profit like any good corporation:(
Caps? On transfers? you must be thinking of most of the world. I think that in the UK were extremely lucky for caps. Almost every ISP's gold service is unlimited downloading. I work for BT so I might be slightly biased but we already offer a movie download service and it doesn't touch your monthly limit (if your on opt 1 or 2).
I imagine that as many ISP's move be be media providers, movie downloads (esp from themselves) wont count towards your monthly limit. I recommend everyone checks out http://www.bt.com/btvision for the here and now on internet movies to your TV.
Maquis196
P.S - Our bandwith does suck to most places though, 8mb is great if you can get, I only get 4 to the door which is what you need for vision. However look out for 21cn (100mb to door via fibre in most places) which is due 2011 onwards.
I tried Vista so I could get my own opinion of it (as a Linux and xp fan). Tbh, I found it cumbersome even with aero off although I am pointing my fingers at the nvidia drivers, I like to play football manager in a window and that was slower then under wine!
but wait for it... it does allow me to play Dungeon Keeper II!! I have not been able to play that since I switched from 2000 years ago. I have tried under everything including vmware to no avail, for this reason alone vista will stay on my hard drive. I don't think vista is as uncompatible as people think, hell once I have the time I plan on trying some of my old games and see what works!
Maquis196
Lol I can see what your saying but on this site with all US/UK broadband subscribers.... moaning about a 1Gb line not being 1Gb and saying you would be happy with a 100mb is akin to someone moaning to a developing world citizen that you can't have evian but volvic will do.
I work on a community team and we use the ANPR facility quite a bit, the main reason is that its a GREAT figure generator! Thats what the home office want these days I am afraid. Safer Neighbourhoods was created to address the concerns of the community we serve but instead we have to use things like the ANPR to get figures to make sure that our existence is worth while.
Racial profiling is a bit of a harsh thing to say, having spent countless hours on ANPR operations ive discovered that the ANPR is actually the least descriminate form of crime fighting going. It reads number plates for crying out loud, it doesn't actually look at whos driving! If your car has no insurance, then your gonna get pulled over! No tax? pulled over. Theyre all punished on my operations.
Any O2 users in here, ive downloaded the phone successfully over wap but it says im not connected:-/!
To narrow it down more what about sony-ericsson users on O2? hopefully its just my phone (the s700i, damn thing is the buggiest phone ive ever owned!)
Cheers
Maquis196
Im in the Metropolitan Police Service on a Safer Neighbourhood ward in East London and with a good few 1000 people residing in it. Anyway, as a part of service to the locals ive created a newsletter that is in circulation and spreading the word of firefox,spyware and other internet nasties to all these people who wouldnt normally hear about these things
hopefully it will become best practise and be sent across London
I myself got the e606 about 3weeks ago here in London. The main i chose this phone and network was mainly because of the tariff!
Lets see,i get 1000mins to any network,250 free txt's,100mins free video calls and free insurance. This tariff alone makes the whole thing worthwhile. Video calling has that cool factor,a few of my friends have switched over so i can make good use of it but like the review said the requirements of the handsfree make video calls on the move annoying (especially if the handsfree is tangled which it frequently gets being stereo).
however the voice on video calls is about 750ms faster then the video which can be quite frustrating at times.
The battery is a pain in the ass,pure and simple! The phone came with just 2 batteries (the 700ma variety) and 2 chargers but like the review said u can only charge one at a time and the life is horrible; about 100mins of talktime was the usual and maybe about 45mins of videocalls if you were lucky.
The network isnt so bad but 3G coverage allthough good in and around London is still sketchy!! You could be sitting at home and every 5mins your phone will switch between 3G and 2G mode (which as i understand it uses the T-mobile network) my beef is that if the switch takes place during a call you loose all signal and the call will cut out,it happens a lot more then the review suggested!
Overall - Phone is great for the tarif and the cool factor and the network problems should be gone in 2-3mnths (according to 3) i myself am wating for the ericcson version to come out!
Maquis196
"Before he started brewing, he ran it about 20 times to remove any soap residue."
And after he finished brewing he ran round the block 20 times to get that foam outta his mouth:)
Maquis196
...Im glad theres a pond called the Atlantic between me and the USA! That RIAA of yours is starting 2 overextend its reach,soon you will have to login on ur computers where a central computer will log ur exact movements on it to see if your music (if you listen to music on it) is legall for you to posess.
I hope the European flavour of the RIAA doesnt get so powerfull! I truely feel sorry you guys trapped in a so called democracy where the individual is powerless.
Maquis196
"Every French person I know is a snobbish asshole that quickly turns on an extreme defeatists attitude when plagued with any difficult situation."
You mean like most people?
And fyi im not angry I just passionatly enjoy arguing with narrow-minded peeps who wont change there mind. Lol reminds me of an arguement I had with a bunch of mulims about whos opinion on the world was right,theres or mine (Im atheist so it was quite a good arguement)
Maquis196
On my old phone (Here in England) I was on Vodafone and virtually all my msgs that were sent got to there destinations, however I had a friend on BTcellnet (now O2) that would very rarely get my msgs (maybe 1 out of every 10) and her messages would virtually never get to me (I believe it was about 1 out of every 20!) but since then ive switched to Orange and everything that is sent is recieved eventually.
Maquis196
Check your dictionary you cock,racism applies to any group of people or race,and you are simply racist (not that I give a shit) and about the casuality rate; I worked the wrong angle, the fact remains that the French army was the most effective on the Allied side but in those days victories came at a high price. Look at the british army in WW1: very little achieved but extremely high casuality rates. So stop your trolling you f***king idiot
Maquis196
Oh and just to clarify; I use Mandrake (sorry if my last post was a little of topic but I h8 how people can get away with Rascism when it involves Europeans)
Maquis196
Oh ha ha, typical bloody american/british humour! (and to clarify im both british and french)
Really why is this funny to you? France has done a lot for this world (believe it or not), I take it all the surrender jokes are about French military history no?
Well as a historian let me tell you this; (please excuse all incorrect spellings)
France (or the franks at the time) under Charlemagne brought Europe out of the dark ages! The French revoution marked the 1st step of the downfall of MANY monarchies! Napoleanic France brough about the Napoleanic code,a lot of which is still in use today with countries all over the EU! Unfortunatly due to Napoleans defeat France has been very week population wise, this is how Bismark defeating them shortly after. In WW1, French troops suffered the highest casualties (with the possible exception of German troops) because they where the most effective. British troops where useless because their leaders were still in the 19th century and American troops didnt arrive until the last year of the war. At the beginning of WW2 France was next door to a very powerful enemy, France fell quickly, so would have Britain,America and everyone else for that matter if they were next to them. The channel saved the British (I live in London) and the Atlantic saved the Americans.
So could some sad Troll here please explain this surrender thing to me please? Cos I would love to hear from someone (virtually every country in the world has surrendered to someone at somepoint!)
Ive been a capital one credit card (wow 4 c's) holder for over a year now,ive had no problems with using the website with mozilla,galean,konquerer,the whole works. I am talking about the Uk site though (www.capitalone.co.uk)
Its well unfair to compare your VERY old T10 (not a flame as it is still a not bad phone) to a brand new nokia. I use the Ericson R320 which is a super fone but i want this t68i and have done for about 4 months now but having used it I must say it is a very good quality phone! Most of all i love its battery life as its around 9hrs talktime fully charged!
Maquis196
THis phone has just come out on Orange here in the UK, only £150!! its a shame that sending pics costs a fortune as the GPRS market is still young! soon soon
Maquis196
Slashdot Mirror
Sounds like the TSG (Tactical Support Group) that did the beating up, I really never met a copper from the borough who would actually beat anyone up (oh and the TSG are basically the riot police that support the local officers). Your right about PCSO's not knowing anything about the law, at the time we had a 3wk course which barely covered laws beyond common law, funnily enough I would know exactly who told you to stop filming since I was one of the first one's posted to that borough.
I really hope it goes somewhere, I quit 2yrs ago to go into IT because its such BS, they're all looking out for each others backs and something that was made up by one officer resulted in me having enough and leaving.
A lot of coppers are good guys just trying to make ends meat and counting the days down to retirement, the ones that enjoy doing the beating up; scum of the earth.
Maquis196
I must be getting cynical reading ./ all day
Maquis196
Well yeah you have fair use I admit, but the point I was making was that we have "unlimited" in our country compared to everywhere else with clear limits even on gold services. I myself on both BT and virgin have exceeded 200Gb in a month and never heard a peep out of either of them. 21cn is about making us IP based, and i did say 2010 upwards (I think 2012 was the new push back date? lol). But several new housing developments have fibre installed ready for it and for others it will be similar to cable where fibre goes to a cabinet in the street with coax to the house. You can't honestly tell me you expect 256k will still be the norm for someone in the country with 21cn on their street? The limit of speed on the tech will be the hardware in exchanges or whatever house is owned by bt in your are with a couple of frames in it, 100mb wont be from the word go but we will be on par with virgin media. If we don't were pretty screwed! Maquis196 P.s - Oh and yeah your right, its a bad excuse for why your sync speed reads 5mb but your getting 2mb -- "we would upgrade the router in your exchange but since 21cn is coming any day now (tm) its pointless..... Oh and disclaimer, I do work for them like ive said before, but im not an apologist, too much what we do is for profit like any good corporation :(
Caps? On transfers? you must be thinking of most of the world. I think that in the UK were extremely lucky for caps. Almost every ISP's gold service is unlimited downloading. I work for BT so I might be slightly biased but we already offer a movie download service and it doesn't touch your monthly limit (if your on opt 1 or 2).
I imagine that as many ISP's move be be media providers, movie downloads (esp from themselves) wont count towards your monthly limit. I recommend everyone checks out http://www.bt.com/btvision for the here and now on internet movies to your TV.
Maquis196
P.S - Our bandwith does suck to most places though, 8mb is great if you can get, I only get 4 to the door which is what you need for vision. However look out for 21cn (100mb to door via fibre in most places) which is due 2011 onwards.
Maquis196
I tried Vista so I could get my own opinion of it (as a Linux and xp fan). Tbh, I found it cumbersome even with aero off although I am pointing my fingers at the nvidia drivers, I like to play football manager in a window and that was slower then under wine! but wait for it... it does allow me to play Dungeon Keeper II!! I have not been able to play that since I switched from 2000 years ago. I have tried under everything including vmware to no avail, for this reason alone vista will stay on my hard drive. I don't think vista is as uncompatible as people think, hell once I have the time I plan on trying some of my old games and see what works! Maquis196
My 5 pence..... please stop teasing us :P
Maquis196 - frustrated with his 10mb line now
Racial profiling is a bit of a harsh thing to say, having spent countless hours on ANPR operations ive discovered that the ANPR is actually the least descriminate form of crime fighting going. It reads number plates for crying out loud, it doesn't actually look at whos driving! If your car has no insurance, then your gonna get pulled over! No tax? pulled over. Theyre all punished on my operations.
Just my two pence
Maquis196
To narrow it down more what about sony-ericsson users on O2? hopefully its just my phone (the s700i, damn thing is the buggiest phone ive ever owned!) Cheers Maquis196
hopefully it will become best practise and be sent across London
Thumbs up people!
http://www.met.police.uk/saferneighbourhoods/
I myself got the e606 about 3weeks ago here in London. The main i chose this phone and network was mainly because of the tariff! Lets see,i get 1000mins to any network,250 free txt's,100mins free video calls and free insurance. This tariff alone makes the whole thing worthwhile. Video calling has that cool factor,a few of my friends have switched over so i can make good use of it but like the review said the requirements of the handsfree make video calls on the move annoying (especially if the handsfree is tangled which it frequently gets being stereo). however the voice on video calls is about 750ms faster then the video which can be quite frustrating at times. The battery is a pain in the ass,pure and simple! The phone came with just 2 batteries (the 700ma variety) and 2 chargers but like the review said u can only charge one at a time and the life is horrible; about 100mins of talktime was the usual and maybe about 45mins of videocalls if you were lucky. The network isnt so bad but 3G coverage allthough good in and around London is still sketchy!! You could be sitting at home and every 5mins your phone will switch between 3G and 2G mode (which as i understand it uses the T-mobile network) my beef is that if the switch takes place during a call you loose all signal and the call will cut out,it happens a lot more then the review suggested! Overall - Phone is great for the tarif and the cool factor and the network problems should be gone in 2-3mnths (according to 3) i myself am wating for the ericcson version to come out! Maquis196
"Before he started brewing, he ran it about 20 times to remove any soap residue." And after he finished brewing he ran round the block 20 times to get that foam outta his mouth :)
Maquis196
...Im glad theres a pond called the Atlantic between me and the USA! That RIAA of yours is starting 2 overextend its reach,soon you will have to login on ur computers where a central computer will log ur exact movements on it to see if your music (if you listen to music on it) is legall for you to posess. I hope the European flavour of the RIAA doesnt get so powerfull! I truely feel sorry you guys trapped in a so called democracy where the individual is powerless. Maquis196
"Every French person I know is a snobbish asshole that quickly turns on an extreme defeatists attitude when plagued with any difficult situation." You mean like most people? And fyi im not angry I just passionatly enjoy arguing with narrow-minded peeps who wont change there mind. Lol reminds me of an arguement I had with a bunch of mulims about whos opinion on the world was right,theres or mine (Im atheist so it was quite a good arguement) Maquis196
On my old phone (Here in England) I was on Vodafone and virtually all my msgs that were sent got to there destinations, however I had a friend on BTcellnet (now O2) that would very rarely get my msgs (maybe 1 out of every 10) and her messages would virtually never get to me (I believe it was about 1 out of every 20!) but since then ive switched to Orange and everything that is sent is recieved eventually. Maquis196
Check your dictionary you cock,racism applies to any group of people or race,and you are simply racist (not that I give a shit) and about the casuality rate; I worked the wrong angle, the fact remains that the French army was the most effective on the Allied side but in those days victories came at a high price. Look at the british army in WW1: very little achieved but extremely high casuality rates. So stop your trolling you f***king idiot Maquis196
Oh and just to clarify; I use Mandrake (sorry if my last post was a little of topic but I h8 how people can get away with Rascism when it involves Europeans) Maquis196
Oh ha ha, typical bloody american/british humour! (and to clarify im both british and french)
Really why is this funny to you? France has done a lot for this world (believe it or not), I take it all the surrender jokes are about French military history no?
Well as a historian let me tell you this; (please excuse all incorrect spellings)
France (or the franks at the time) under Charlemagne brought Europe out of the dark ages!
The French revoution marked the 1st step of the downfall of MANY monarchies!
Napoleanic France brough about the Napoleanic code,a lot of which is still in use today with countries all over the EU!
Unfortunatly due to Napoleans defeat France has been very week population wise, this is how Bismark defeating them shortly after.
In WW1, French troops suffered the highest casualties (with the possible exception of German troops) because they where the most effective. British troops where useless because their leaders were still in the 19th century and American troops didnt arrive until the last year of the war.
At the beginning of WW2 France was next door to a very powerful enemy, France fell quickly, so would have Britain,America and everyone else for that matter if they were next to them. The channel saved the British (I live in London) and the Atlantic saved the Americans.
So could some sad Troll here please explain this surrender thing to me please? Cos I would love to hear from someone (virtually every country in the world has surrendered to someone at somepoint!)
My 2p
Maquis196
In soviet Russia,they hang peeps for taking the piss!
Ive been a capital one credit card (wow 4 c's) holder for over a year now,ive had no problems with using the website with mozilla,galean,konquerer,the whole works. I am talking about the Uk site though (www.capitalone.co.uk)
Maquis196
Its well unfair to compare your VERY old T10 (not a flame as it is still a not bad phone) to a brand new nokia. I use the Ericson R320 which is a super fone but i want this t68i and have done for about 4 months now but having used it I must say it is a very good quality phone! Most of all i love its battery life as its around 9hrs talktime fully charged! Maquis196
THis phone has just come out on Orange here in the UK, only £150!! its a shame that sending pics costs a fortune as the GPRS market is still young! soon soon Maquis196
yes,damn CS too addictive!
"Of course at $347 it also better make me coffee" OMG this is the funniest thing ive read all week!
Not the best place to scream this but senegal SUCK theyre such flukey bastards. we will have our revenge!! yes im french supporter! Maquis196