Posts by C

Privacy watchdog hoists Google by its own petard

How

did they know where Mr Page lived? Once you have that, everything on streetview is irrelevant.

If you were planning to kidnap him, you would surely take a drive around before doing so, rather than just studying streetview?

To link this issue with privacy is asinine.

New York lawmakers approve 'Amazon Tax'

Jersey again

Chewy said that UK does not pay VAT on stuff from Jersey. This only applies on goods worth less than £18, so not very useful really...

Zep promoter piles into eBay

Facts

1) This gig is for charity. Led Zep will not be paid for it, neither will Mr Goldsmith.

2) eBay directly profit from tickets being sold on. If they had a responsible attitude towards these things, they would allow the tickets to be sold, but only if all proceeds go to charity. Everyone wins then.

3) If you so much as mention some words in an auction, it is automatically pulled. This is because eBay are terrified of law suits from the "big designer labels".

4) As this is a charity event, they know they won't be touched. They could sort this out, but choose not to and by their inaction, they profit.

eBay glitch sends packages to wrong addresses

Ebay and Paypal have

an effective monopoly. Is it any wonder their service is worse than appalling?