Posts by Matthew

MP 'devastated' over Facebook profile hack

Fabricant

That sounds like a made up name anyway

Criminal record checks could hit over 14 million people

Sh*t Chit

How long before you need a CRB check to use a public loo?

Family Guy creator's sellout to Google almost complete

English

What does 'monetize' mean in english?

AMD inks aid for HPC parallel code hounds

Parallel code?

Both the BCS and the ITC are calling for a paradigm shift from thread based programming tofunctunal programming. This would put more oto the tools and OS amd give the programmer an easir time of working out all those concurrencies etc.. Sounds good to me!!

Windows veteran jumps to second Silverlight

But Seriously

the main reason for not using flash is it doesn't play well with screen readers. How accessible is sliverlight to the visually impaired?

Watchdog demands MSN Music mea culpa

@Dazed and Confused

I agree. Remember that in Microsoft T&C you haven't bought anything but the right to use <product> until they want to take it away, which they could at any time.

Home Office defends 'dangerously misleading' Phorm thumbs-up

Er...?

"BT representatives maintained the party line that no personally identifiable information was shared"... If that is the case how do they know I'm me to target the ads at?

I also have issue with the statement from PHORM, that last bit, "help people make valid informed choices". What choice were the people in the secret trial given?

If someone signs up to this sort of ad targeting then that's OK for them, however ISPs will just change their T&Cs to include consent then we'll be stuck with it even if we don't want it.

Q1 post-Xmas lull reverses iPhone growth curve

This is a surprise?

Surely after all the people who want one have bought theirs the sales would drop off anyway. Paris could have worked that out.