OT Totally, and a little bit rude... The side effects of fixing empty buildings...

[Tim S]

Andy Luckman (AJL Electronics) coughed up some electrons that declared:

OK - put them on the universal blacklist.

I don't think "rightly" comes into play. Nominet UK manage the public side of .uk and if a registrar who is registered with them isn't playing ball I think Nominet have a moral duty to sort it out, or strike the registrar off is they are truely useless.

There's too much of the "subcontract out - oooh not our responsibility guv" bollocks these days.

Technically I'd have to appeal to Verisign for a .net domain - I think mail bombing would be more productive.

I'll phone them first and give the supervisor a bollocking.

Tim

[tony sayer]

In article , Tim S scribeth thus

If you really sent that then well done!, their a big bunch of incompetent muppet's if ever there was one;!...

[Broadback]

I think you are lying through your teeth, everyone has a TV, even as long ago as the '80s. I know this for a fact, as my son's class was given the task at school of writing an essay on a TV program they had watched in the last week. When my son asked what else he could write about, as we have no TV, he was called a liar by the teacher. I went to the school to remonstrate with said member of the intelligentsia who the told me I was telling lies just to protect my son. So you see you Do have a TV, you are just a liar!

[Tim S]

The Natural Philosopher coughed up some electrons that declared:

It would be Versign for me (.net).

Just to have the cannon balls ready, I've emailed Verisign to query what arbitration procedures are available should I need them. I've learnt previously not to waste time waiting around.

In the meantime, just been fobbed off by the registrar again. I'll call later and get a supervisor.

So - name and shame time:

just-the-name.co.uk

Quick enough to take your money, not so quick when you want to leave...

[clumsy bastard]

I was talking to a chap the other day who just has a B&W, I see that the licence costs under £50.

"Detector vans cannot distinguish colour/monochrome sets Black and white licence holders may be visited at home"

Can detector vans detect anything? I doubt it.

[Tim S]

tony sayer coughed up some electrons that declared:

Really! In as far as it's in the hands of RoyalMail...

[Tim S]

clumsy bastard coughed up some electrons that declared:

The technology exists to reconstruct the image from a CRT at a distance from the re-radiated EM noise thrown off by the set - but I'm not sure if it's either very precise, geographically, or whether they ever actually had the kit.

Not sure about LCDs and plasmas - not such an obvious thing to do.

[clumsy bastard]

lets give them the benefit of the doubt and assume they stopped when houses were more likely to have a PC on than a TV.

[Tim S]

Bob Eager coughed up some electrons that declared:

Hallejuya! I have the code. This domain will self destruct in 5 seconds.

Pays to be a stroppy bastard. I wish it weren't true - but so many times I've been nice, waited 3 days, been nice again, etc. Just end up wasting time and phone calls. Now I tend to operate 1 request, one nice followup and then get stroppy from there.

The difference between just-the-name and Andrews and Arnold is:

If I email just-the-name, they ignore it and we get into this whole boring routine.

If I email A&A, they will take a day to do it, but I've found I can rely on them to do it all by themselves without further prodding, so I don't sit around wasting time worrying that they won't.

Sometimes I wonder why I pay 30 quid a month for broadband and a bit of DNS/domain service, but at times like this I remember why. The broadband never throttles out either, well, not that I've noticed...

Cheers

Tim

[Andrew Mawson]

distance from

They used to detect the i/f oscillator with a directional aerial, and probably do a similar thing these days.

AWEM

[Tim S]

clumsy bastard coughed up some electrons that declared:

Probably went blind after getting too many facefulls of sheepporn

[ARWadsworth]

I have modified the sign in my window from "No salesreps, hawkers or bible bashers. Thank you" to "No salesreps, hawkers or bible bashers. If you are from the TVLA then FUCK OFF. Thank you"

Adam

[The Natural Philosopher]

Not these days probably.

They used to detect the analogue IF frequencies but with everyone gone digital..and RFI stuff being very hot, I doubt the average STB emits enough to give meaningful results.

[ARWadsworth]

Atotally different stand in my letter

"please note as you have not supplied your name, we are unable to withdraw the common law right of way. TV Licencing needs to be able to identify an individual to administer a withdrawl of the right to visit."

and further down

"should we receive a request from you that gives your name, is signed and withdraws the common law right to approach your propery, this does not stop TV Licencing reserving the right to use other methods of enquiry."

I suppose I could change my name for ¢G10 to "The Legal Occupier" to piss them off.

Adam

[Huge]

It's called "Van Eck Phreaking";

- but I'm not sure

But that isn't how detector vans work (if indeed they exist, and can be said to "work" at all - I have no opinion on that). It is entirely possible to detect radio (including TV) receivers by 'listening' for the local oscillator signal that leaks back up the antenna feed and is radiated. This is, for example, how radar detector detectors work. The military go to a great deal of effort to minimise this leakage in their comms systems, since you do not want your forces detectable by the local oscillator leakage from their radios.

Since the L/O frequency changes according to the channel being watched, the assertion that it is possible to detect this is also true.

[dennis]

I doubt if you can do that. You could fit gates and lock them.

[dennis]

They can, if they /are/ detector vans and not just the dummies you usually see. Most (all?) TVs leak signals at the IF frequencies and crt tv/monitors leak signals at video frequencies and it is quite possible to receive these signals and display what is on your TV/crt monitor.

For one mod project we had to make sure all the monitors were screened so no one could see what we were doing.

[John Rumm]

Do they not offer full DNS control? Otherwise you could change the tag or name servers yourself...

[Tim S]

John Rumm coughed up some electrons that declared:

Nameservers yes, tag no...

Cheers

Tim

[John Rumm]

That is obviously the intention, although usually if you deconstruct the tangled language they use, they step back from actually saying it outright. They have some weasel words about watching stuff while it is being broadcast which itself is rather vague and opens up all sorts of unintended consequences if interpreted literally.