Posts by Pete

EU slaughterhouses may get animal welfare officers

Having visited slaughter houses

on a number of occasions and seen how the animals get treated, I'm all in favour of this. No, I'm not a veggie...

Firefox sweeps away carpet bombing bug

Have they

fixed the video bug in FF3 yet? The one that crashes it when playing wmv etc?

Phones 4u accused of misleading customers

@Stupidity

If the yoofs are too busy skiving off or admiring each others phones to pay attention in school when being educated about the pitfalls of modern life, well, thats their fault isn't it?

Whitehats tackle The Great Botnet Dilemma

Let the owner of the machine decide

Send them a message, or instructions on how to remove themselves.

Hellboy helmsman to direct The Hobbit

Whether or not Tolkein sucks as a writer,

as a world creator, he was fantastic and these extra movies hopefully will show that. Just please god, no Tom Bombadil !

Paris, even though shes not a writer...

Brain-plug weapons could provide war crime immunity

Problem is,

thoughts never harmed anyone previously, now according to this they will be able to? In which case, someone fitted with this must be responsible for their own thought and actions

Google and Yahoo! skewer anti-DoubleClick law

you can always spot the scammers,

when they say "yes, we can voluntarily regulate ourselves, you have nothing to worry about" financiers and ad-men, evil gits the lot of them..

FIPR: ICO gives BT 'green light for law breaking' with Phorm

Alternative direction for pressure

As usual, this and most other schemes that impose on privacy is about money. The ISP gets paid to allow Phorm by Phorm, Phorm gets paid by advertisers who think direct targetting is better.

So as well as going against the ISPs and the Govt for a legal challenge, how about going after the advertisers? Without their money in Phorm, the whole house of cards collapses.

Id suggest a pre-emptive campaign, with a whole bunch of people [eg the petition signers] signing a pledge that any company advertising through Phorm will be boycotted by them until the company apologises and withdraw the paid adverts.

It's not the perfect answer, obviously law courts and very expensive suits will be, but it could be a way to slow things down until we can get rid of the whole kit and kaboodle.

Terry Pratchett has Alzheimer's

Theres a long way to go yet,

good luck Terry.

To the critics, read "Night Watch". Nuff said.

UK firm 'recalls' 575 knee implants

Not suprised

A spokeswoman admitted that whipping the implants out might cause "more distress and worry" than leaving them be:

considering the cost of each op is between £6000-£10,000. Roughly 3.45 million at least. Thats, thats, nearly as big an one of their execs bonuses!!!