Comments for Damien Mulley http://www.mulley.net Invisible people have invisible rights Wed, 14 May 2008 01:27:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 Comment on Three Ireland - Banning Irish gay sites for the sake of the children? by squid http://www.mulley.net/2008/05/13/three-ireland-banning-irish-gay-sites-for-the-sake-of-the-children/#comment-777025 squid Tue, 13 May 2008 23:31:42 +0000 http://www.mulley.net/2008/05/13/three-ireland-banning-irish-gay-sites-for-the-sake-of-the-children/#comment-777025 It must be your handset settings then as I am also able to access twentymajor.net It must be your handset settings then as I am also able to access twentymajor.net

]]> Comment on Three Ireland - Banning Irish gay sites for the sake of the children? by Shauna http://www.mulley.net/2008/05/13/three-ireland-banning-irish-gay-sites-for-the-sake-of-the-children/#comment-777015 Shauna Tue, 13 May 2008 23:22:07 +0000 http://www.mulley.net/2008/05/13/three-ireland-banning-irish-gay-sites-for-the-sake-of-the-children/#comment-777015 Vodafone seem to have a strange attitude to what is deemed inappropiate adult content- just a selection of urls that prompted the access denied message on my phone this evening: www.beaut.ie www.meetingpoint.ie www.boards.ie www.twentymajor.net and last but not least: www.mulley.net !! Who in Vodafone decides that this stuff isn't acceptable for the poor vunerable children of Ireland? It's pathetic, it really is. Vodafone seem to have a strange attitude to what is deemed inappropiate adult content- just a selection of urls that prompted the access denied message on my phone this evening:

http://www.beaut.ie
http://www.meetingpoint.ie
http://www.boards.ie
http://www.twentymajor.net

and last but not least: http://www.mulley.net !!

Who in Vodafone decides that this stuff isn’t acceptable for the poor vunerable children of Ireland?
It’s pathetic, it really is.

]]> Comment on Three Ireland - Banning Irish gay sites for the sake of the children? by squid http://www.mulley.net/2008/05/13/three-ireland-banning-irish-gay-sites-for-the-sake-of-the-children/#comment-777010 squid Tue, 13 May 2008 23:18:46 +0000 http://www.mulley.net/2008/05/13/three-ireland-banning-irish-gay-sites-for-the-sake-of-the-children/#comment-777010 oh am vodafone RTG by the way. oh am vodafone RTG by the way.

]]> Comment on Three Ireland - Banning Irish gay sites for the sake of the children? by squid http://www.mulley.net/2008/05/13/three-ireland-banning-irish-gay-sites-for-the-sake-of-the-children/#comment-777009 squid Tue, 13 May 2008 23:18:00 +0000 http://www.mulley.net/2008/05/13/three-ireland-banning-irish-gay-sites-for-the-sake-of-the-children/#comment-777009 Am able to access GCN.ie on my handset, Curious to know if the likes of Stormfront is banned on 3? Am able to access GCN.ie on my handset,

Curious to know if the likes of Stormfront is banned on 3?

]]> Comment on Three Ireland - Banning Irish gay sites for the sake of the children? by manuel http://www.mulley.net/2008/05/13/three-ireland-banning-irish-gay-sites-for-the-sake-of-the-children/#comment-776990 manuel Tue, 13 May 2008 23:01:27 +0000 http://www.mulley.net/2008/05/13/three-ireland-banning-irish-gay-sites-for-the-sake-of-the-children/#comment-776990 Seriously that is fucking scandalous....... Seriously that is fucking scandalous…….

]]> Comment on Three Ireland - Banning Irish gay sites for the sake of the children? by click here http://www.mulley.net/2008/05/13/three-ireland-banning-irish-gay-sites-for-the-sake-of-the-children/#comment-776851 click here Tue, 13 May 2008 20:54:12 +0000 http://www.mulley.net/2008/05/13/three-ireland-banning-irish-gay-sites-for-the-sake-of-the-children/#comment-776851 Seems like someone who's experienced this needs to take some steps to rectify: - http://www.equalitytribunal.ie/index.asp?locID=6&docID=-1 - http://www.equalitytribunal.ie/index.asp?locID=58&docID=-1#3 (I'm a pay-as-you go Vodafone customer, but apparently my phone's memory is full, so can't say for certain what they censor.) Seems like someone who’s experienced this needs to take some steps to rectify:
- http://www.equalitytribunal.ie/index.asp?locID=6&docID=-1
- http://www.equalitytribunal.ie/index.asp?locID=58&docID=-1#3

(I’m a pay-as-you go Vodafone customer, but apparently my phone’s memory is full, so can’t say for certain what they censor.)

]]> Comment on Broadband choices and options in Ireland (Updated July 2007) by Chris http://www.mulley.net/2006/02/09/broadband-choices-in-ireland/#comment-776666 Chris Tue, 13 May 2008 18:29:26 +0000 http://www.mulley.net/2006/02/09/broadband-choices-in-ireland/#comment-776666 Just to echo warnings about Clearwire. My recent experience with them has confirmed to me that the service is unreliable, the customer service is ineffective and deceptive, their finance team are unscrupulous and their sales team is just ignorant. I suffered twenty rounds of back and forth, (being told I needed to fill out this form and email it to X address, wait for a reply and then contact them again, etc...) and still ended up being retroactively charged for two months of service, three months after cancelling! This was despite the fact they agreed my connection never attained the minimum bandwidth that my 49.99 euro/month plan supposedly guaranteed. I will take this matter up with various consumer rights organisations in due course. My main reason for posting is to tip you off about a practice they employ with testing bandwidth. Basically, they send you to http://www.irishisptest.com to test your connection speed. Everytime you run a test you get stellar results within the minimum guaranteed by your Clearwire plan. I got suspicious though and tested the connection using lots of different sites and always got poor results. I challenged Clearwire on this and they said other sites were unreliable since they weren't based in Ireland. This is a complete lie. Bandwidth is measured by sending packets of information back and forth from your computer to the speed testing server. Geographic distance (at least between 1st world nations) only adds milliseconds to the time, which amounts to very, very little difference in bandwidth measurement. I have now switched to NTL, because I don't want to pay a standing charge for a phone line. NTL have equally terrible customer service, but at least the bandwidth is satisfactory. Just to echo warnings about Clearwire. My recent experience with them has confirmed to me that the service is unreliable, the customer service is ineffective and deceptive, their finance team are unscrupulous and their sales team is just ignorant. I suffered twenty rounds of back and forth, (being told I needed to fill out this form and email it to X address, wait for a reply and then contact them again, etc…) and still ended up being retroactively charged for two months of service, three months after cancelling!

This was despite the fact they agreed my connection never attained the minimum bandwidth that my 49.99 euro/month plan supposedly guaranteed. I will take this matter up with various consumer rights organisations in due course.

My main reason for posting is to tip you off about a practice they employ with testing bandwidth. Basically, they send you to http://www.irishisptest.com to test your connection speed. Everytime you run a test you get stellar results within the minimum guaranteed by your Clearwire plan. I got suspicious though and tested the connection using lots of different sites and always got poor results. I challenged Clearwire on this and they said other sites were unreliable since they weren’t based in Ireland. This is a complete lie.

Bandwidth is measured by sending packets of information back and forth from your computer to the speed testing server. Geographic distance (at least between 1st world nations) only adds milliseconds to the time, which amounts to very, very little difference in bandwidth measurement. I have now switched to NTL, because I don’t want to pay a standing charge for a phone line. NTL have equally terrible customer service, but at least the bandwidth is satisfactory.

]]> Comment on Blog Post of the Month by Alexia Golez http://www.mulley.net/2008/05/13/blog-post-of-the-month/#comment-776646 Alexia Golez Tue, 13 May 2008 18:15:14 +0000 http://www.mulley.net/2008/05/13/blog-post-of-the-month/#comment-776646 First! Oh shit.. Too late. As always. First! Oh shit.. Too late. As always.

]]> Comment on Three Ireland - Banning Irish gay sites for the sake of the children? by Shauna http://www.mulley.net/2008/05/13/three-ireland-banning-irish-gay-sites-for-the-sake-of-the-children/#comment-776588 Shauna Tue, 13 May 2008 17:16:32 +0000 http://www.mulley.net/2008/05/13/three-ireland-banning-irish-gay-sites-for-the-sake-of-the-children/#comment-776588 Just tried to get into gcn.ie from my Vodafone bill pay phone and an error message comes up saying "access denied as content deemed unsuitable for under 18's. Please bring proof of age to Vodafone agent for age verification. Presumably they will unblock it if they are happy enough the person is over 18, but still, thats very big brotherish... Havn't been to the gcn site in a while, but I don't remember it ever being a hotbed of sin and vice! Just tried to get into gcn.ie from my Vodafone bill pay phone and an error message comes up saying “access denied as content deemed unsuitable for under 18’s. Please bring proof of age to Vodafone agent for age verification.

Presumably they will unblock it if they are happy enough the person is over 18, but still, thats very big brotherish…

Havn’t been to the gcn site in a while, but I don’t remember it ever being a hotbed of sin and vice!

]]> Comment on Three Ireland - Banning Irish gay sites for the sake of the children? by Daragh http://www.mulley.net/2008/05/13/three-ireland-banning-irish-gay-sites-for-the-sake-of-the-children/#comment-776568 Daragh Tue, 13 May 2008 17:02:40 +0000 http://www.mulley.net/2008/05/13/three-ireland-banning-irish-gay-sites-for-the-sake-of-the-children/#comment-776568 @Shane I've tried a few Google searches for porn - the search results appeared but when I try clicking on the links the sites are blocked. @NiallOK Free 3 to 3 calls, free Skype (not just in wi-fi zones, and no data charges for using Skype over 3G) and 300 "flexi-units" per month (1 unit = 1 minute/3 texts/1Mb data) Was going to stay with O2 but they annoyed me in the shop when I was changing ownership from company to personal - told me I could have a free phone, then after 20 minutes waiting around said "sorry, you can't have the phone, unless you change your number" - after I'd taken it out of the box and played around with it. Thinking of going back to O2 as I think that qualify for the phone now - as I'll be coming from another network. @Shane
I’ve tried a few Google searches for porn - the search results appeared but when I try clicking on the links the sites are blocked.

@NiallOK
Free 3 to 3 calls, free Skype (not just in wi-fi zones, and no data charges for using Skype over 3G) and 300 “flexi-units” per month (1 unit = 1 minute/3 texts/1Mb data)
Was going to stay with O2 but they annoyed me in the shop when I was changing ownership from company to personal - told me I could have a free phone, then after 20 minutes waiting around said “sorry, you can’t have the phone, unless you change your number” - after I’d taken it out of the box and played around with it.
Thinking of going back to O2 as I think that qualify for the phone now - as I’ll be coming from another network.

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