Posts by psychochief

Why are fervid Googlers making ad-blocker-breaking changes to Chrome? Because they created a monster – and are fighting to secure it

i dont know why so many folks use chrome its a data slurping monster, i use vivaldi which is so much quicker than chrome and DuckDuckGo for search, give then a go folks.

Chrome wants to remember which Websites to silence

Re: Disable HTML 5 Autoplay plugin for Chrome

this works great, been using it for a while, it even stops next autoplay, even on you tube and the BBC.

Alert: Using a web ad blocker may identify you – to advertisers

use vivaldi ??

use vivaldi, its not supported on the test site, so i assume the slurpers have trouble too ??

Virgin Media swallows 215,000 new fibre customers in Blighty

Re: 4k Tivo?

i upgraded to V6 4k tivo and i have to say its blown me away, everything is now almost instant on it, just like the old tivo boxes should have been, records 5 channels too, streams from other tivo boxes and lots more tricks.

im on 200 Mbps broadband, i just ran speedtest and its showing 221 Mbps !!! its like that at all times of the day and night, its very consistant.

VM may be a bit pricey to some but as far as im concerned it cant be beaten and ive been with quite a few suppliers in my time, it pays to get the full package with VM, you even get loads of 'free' box-sets in with the top tv package, i certainly wouldnt put any money in that bastard Rupert Murdoch's pocket.

EU calls for tougher data laws

@more and more i want this womans babies O_o

wash your mouth out with domestos jeremy !!!!! do you mind you bounder sir, she's allready spoken for, but out pal grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr O_O

go go go Viv, stick it up um my dear lol :O)

Meet Phorm's PR genius

@MinionZero bravo :O)

very elogantly put if i may say so MZ, i couldnt have put it better myself. :O)

i'm well versed in afflictions of a psychiatric nature and your use of the term narcissistics (as in narcistic personality disorder) is spot on, i jest you not, its a very very nasty illness !!!!!!!

its amazing just how many of them can be in one place at the same time, PHORM GO PHUCK, GET TREATMENT PLZ, do us all a favour plzzzzzzzzzzzz !!!!!!!! :O)

Brussels to sue UK over Phorm failures

the domino effect yippeeeeeeeee :O)

here we go hot off the press, Amazon tells phorm to stick it !!!!! :- http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7999635.stm the dominos are starting to fall !!!!!! :O)

i want you to have my babies Viviene !!!!!!! :O)

only one word needed :-

YIPPEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE !!!!!!!!!! :O)

MySpace rant was not private, rules US Court of Appeal

an old addage lol :O)

as my old pappy used to say lol

"keep ya mouth closed and peeps might THINK your a prat, open it and they'll KNOW you are" !!!!! O_O

MY SPACE private ?????? silly cow, ROFLMFAO :O)

Boffins invent automatic net-hookup roboffinry machines

@Carl etc :O)

gizzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzza job ?????? O_O

British steam car completes final testing

@MJI :O)

took the words right outa me mouth, sounds about right to me ROFLMAO O_o

Google makes Gmail search accessible to all comers

cookies anyone ?? O_o

sorry to be a cynic, but will it work without cookies, hmmmmmmmmmmmmm thought so, never mind, after all it is another beta innit :O)

mines the one with Opera that clears NEW cookies on exit O_O

Moderatrix quits El Reg: Latest

nice one lol :O)

that' ll be WHITE lilies i take it then Sarah, your just MAGNIFICENT when in full *cough 'flow'

Mr. WebTV gives games thin-client treatment

@Carl etc :O)

saw this earlier today, the server was 50 miles away and supposedly good to up to 1,000 miles, Sarju Shah of GameSpot was well impressed when she played crysis on a cheapo lappy !!!!!!!!! but as has allready been pointed out, its dead in the water unless ALL of the broadband issues are sorted out.

quote :-

"Analysts believe the success of OnLive could go one of two ways depending on pricing models.

"Depending on what business model these guys adopt, they could be wildly successful or a footnote in history," said Michael Pachter an analyst with Wedbush Morgan Securities."

Last day for anti-snooping petition

@michael and @jason the FACTS about PHORM !!!!!!!! :O(

you sure you know what your talking about michael ???? errrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrm i suggest you look at my post here titled "The Internet Advertising Bureau wont bite the hand that feeds them !!!!!!!!!!" :- http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/03/05/behavioural_ads/comments/ and @jason and any other peeps, draw your own conclusions, toodle pip :O)

mines the one with the big pinch of salt and flying pigs in it :O)

Industry’s behavioural ad guidelines criticised

The Internet Advertising Bureau wont bite the hand that feeds them !!!!!!!!!!

as the title says, FFS its their own body we are talking about, not a legal eagle INDEPENDANT official watchdog, since when can ANY industry be trusted to police itself and NOT be biassed/influenced in favour of its own members that pay said associations wages/profits, FFS lets get real peeps :O)

@Norman Andrews, your half right Norman but its a lot worse than you think, whether opted out or in, ALL of BT's traffic is redirected to the PHORM servers (webwise.net) and basically the site you requested is MIRRORED from PHORM'S proxy servers masquerading as the original site you requested to visit, see here for simple diagram :- http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/c4/Phorm_cookie_diagram.png grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr :O)

apart from the privacy issue, just how much slower is all this $hite gonna make the web, jeeeeeeeeeeeeez, BT's slow enough allready, so wheres all this extra bandwidth coming from to drive this beast ?? yep you got it, its you the punter that pays in the end one way or another, heads they win, tails we lose, its as simple as that, also who's to say its targeted adds that were talking about and not just adds from PHORM et al's highest bidders, hmmmmmmmmmm, whos to know eh ??

see here for more on PHORM's previous errrrrrrrrrrrrrr, forms (pun intended) :- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phorm#Company_history

quote about PHORM :-

"Company history

In its previous incarnation of 121media, the Company's products were described as spyware.[13] As 121Media it distributed a program called PeopleOnPage,[14] which was classified as spyware by F-Secure.[15] PeopleOnPage was an application built around their advertising engine called ContextPlus. ContextPlus was also distributed as a root kit called Apropos,[14][16] which used tricks to prevent the user from removing the application and sent information back to central servers regarding a user's browsing habits.[17]

In November 2005 the Center for Democracy and Technology in the US filed a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission over distribution of what it considered spyware, including ContextPlus. They stated that they had investigated and uncovered deceptive and unfair behaviour. This complaint was filed in concert with the Canadian Internet Policy and Public Internet Center, a group that was filing a similar complaint against Integrated Search Technologies with Canadian authorities.[18]

In May 2006 ContextPlus shut down its operations and stated "[Contextplus are] no longer able to ensure the highest standards of quality and customer care". The shutdown came after several major lawsuits against adware vendors had been launched.[17] Phorm has countered this with an admission of a company history in adware and the closing down of a multi-million dollar revenue stream as people confused adware with spyware.[19]

Kent Ertugrul - "The problem for newspapers is that a story headlined 'Two Dead in Baghdad' isn't very product-friendly" said Kent Ertugrul, chief executive of Phorm, a behavioral targeting company working with British newspapers. "But if you know who is looking at the page, that's where the opportunity is."

bahhhhhhhhhh, money grabbing $histers grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr !!!!!

/rant over, im going outside now to have a good scream in the park :O)

mines the one with the valium in the pocket O_O

Scots and pilots brace against ID cards

rap talk or wat ?? :O)

well, like it or not wacky jacky smith is gonna have to start payin attention to objections to her (and the one eyed scotsman's) proposed orwellian state plans, these peeps and the likes of Dame Stella Rimington (ex head of MI5) exposing their plan for what it is, see here :- http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7893890.stm where stella states :-

"It would be better that the government recognised that there are risks, rather than frightening people in order to be able to pass laws which restrict civil liberties, precisely one of the objects of terrorism - that we live in fear and under a police state,"

up to now its only been the unwashed masses that have been vocal in this area, these are the first volleys from any 'big guns' that our proposed police state has had to deal with, 'thunderbirds are go, go, go !!!!!!!!' WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOT :O)

this is gonna be soooooooooooooooooooo good to watch, lets face it if these crazy notions can be delayed till the next election, the problem will die a natural and deserving death O_O

mines the one with the false nose and glasses and wig :O)

yayyyyyyyyyyyyyy let battle commence :O)

well, like it or not wacky jacky smith is gonna have to start payin attention to objections to her (and the one eyed scotsman's) proposed orwellian state plans, these peeps and the likes of Dame Stella Rimington (ex head of MI5) exposing their plan for what it is, see here :- http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7893890.stm where stella states :-

"It would be better that the government recognised that there are risks, rather than frightening people in order to be able to pass laws which restrict civil liberties, precisely one of the objects of terrorism - that we live in fear and under a police state,"

up to now its only been the unwashed masses that have been vocal in this area, these are the first volleys from any 'big guns' that our proposed police state has had to deal with, 'thunderbirds are go, go, go !!!!!!!!' WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOT :O)

this is gonna be soooooooooooooooooooo good to watch, lets face it if these crazy notions can be delayed till the next election, the problem will die a natural and deserving death O_O

mines the one with the false nose and glasses and wig :O)

EU threatens 'formal action' against UK.gov on Phorm

rap talk or wat ?? :O)

god bless ya viv, its a good job her mobs paying attention, cos one things for sure, the 'old school tie brigade' are in control with the likes of BT, BBC, etc etc how many times do we see, so called uk 'watchdogs' turn a blind eye to their school chummy mates underhand/illegal business practices !!!!!!!!!

go go go viv, kick um in the nuts, public schoolboys dont like that, dont ya know, toodle pip, woooooooooooooooooooot :O)

paris cos even she knows when she's had a good stuffin O_O

Novarra offers to infest mobile data on laptops too

WTF, faster browsing ???? O_o

wait, am i getting this right ?? novarra takes out content (compresses) then injects branding (adds content) and adds targeted advertising, presumably using flash crap and javascript and pages load quicker on mobile, beeeeeeeeeeeeejeeeeeeeeeezus its a furkin miracle O_O

FFS can somebody explain to me how that works then in words of one sylable or less, cos i must be a right dumb furker, it dont make any sense to me whatsofurkinever !!!! :O)

paris cos she likes 'value added' insertions O_o

Large Hadron Timewaster

money wont matter (intended pun) :O)

we might not need any money after the first time they boot this baby up for real lol, looking for 'god' particles ??? 'mini big bang' ??? WTFs a mini big bang, either its a BIG bang or it isnt innit ???

should be mighty interesting if theres anything left after the first (and only ??) run lol, this delay has allowed me to complete my very very very deep bunker in a disused coal mine in the uk, probably a waste of time, but heh, ya gotta look on the bright side and keep a stiff upper lip dont ya think ?? :O)

Phorm: BT system 'most definitely' online by end of 2009

rap talk or wat ?? :O)

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suicide mission :O)

bloody arseholes, i for one will be taking my mac code elswhere, ffs more orwellian $hite, WTFs going on in the UK, this is the final straw, pick up thy mac codes and walk my children !!!!!!! :O)

XSS bug crawls all over PayPal page

sounds about right !!!!!!!

why oh why anybody still trusts paypal/fleabay any more is beyond me, they cant even secure their own sites, if it wasnt so serious it would be hillarious, if they cut down their use of javascript and wide-open flash content, joe public might have a chance, pigs might fly too, some chance eh ?? bloody oxygen theives grrrrrrrrrrrrrrr :O)

Ex-eBay CEO to bid for Schwarzenegger's California job

what they smoking in californeeeeeee these days ???

jeeeeeez a has been *cough 'actor' replaced by another has been, whatever is it californians are smoking these days in the sunshine state, remind me not to try it please, state budget by paypal, state telecoms by skype, consumer goods/shopping from fleabay, i really pity our colonial friends !! :O)

Google faces post-Fleetwood Mac comedown

rap talk or wat ?? :O)

cheers amanfromMars, wazzat then rap crap or wat, youll have to excuse me im british dont ya know, toodle pip :O)