Sim-O

The considered view of Phorm from a law firm.
Out-Law.com:

…It all boils down to consent. Ertugrul (Phorm CEO) said there will be a screen presented to people to ask them if they consent to Phorm and they will get periodic reminders that Phorm is switched on. I asked, “will they be given the choice of yes or no?” Ertugrul replied “Yes.” I asked, “Always?” Ertugral said “yes”.

If it is operated with consent and transparency, Phorm’s privacy revolution looks like it may happen quietly without waking the Home Office, the CPS or the ICO. Others may want to run for their private lives. But Phorm could be the future, a future in which targeted advertising is essential to the business model of an ISP.

Mike Power has a very convincing argument in the abortion debate.
It is here.

…by being cunts.
C4:

The company maintains that it did not believe it had done anything that would constitute a criminal offence.

You don’t have behave illegally to behave cuntishly. Making and selling guns, is after all, legal.

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from Truthdig

Without wishing to start up the discussion/battle from last month about Iains’ and Pauls’ stats (from Tims’ posts here and here with the bulk of the discussion here @ Devils Kitchen), I spotted that Iain is trying not to kick it off again too in his April statporn* post:

After all the froth created by blogging traffic figures last month, let me now be clear where I stand. This may be boring to most but it is important to get it on the record. Up until recently I used a stats tracking package called…

he then explains what the various metrics mean.

Then unfortunatley opens the next paragraph with:

That’s the factual bit out of the way…

I laughed anyway.

*I’m not quite sure what it says about my thought process, but everytime i read ‘statporn’, I read it as ‘strapon’…

A little quiz. What’s this about?

8^th May 1978:

1) I didn’t receive the DEC message, but I can’t imagine I would
have been bothered if I have. I get tons of uninteresting mail,
and system announcements about babies born, etc. At least a
demo MIGHT have been interesting.

9^th May 1978:

Well, Geoff forwarded me a copy of the DEC message, and I eat my
words. I sure would have minded it! Nobody should be allowed
to send a message with a header that long, no matter what it is
about.

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Bloody hell! What’s going on? An Isreali soldier, convicted of killing a Palestinian.

ei:

On 28 April, Israel’s Jerusalem District Court sentenced border policeman Yanai Lazla to six years’ imprisonment for the killing, in 2002, of ‘Amran Abu Hamdiya, 18, from the West Bank town of Hebron. Lazla and three other policemen threw Abu Hamdiya from a jeep moving at high speed after they had abducted, beaten and abused him. His head struck the pavement with great force, killing him. The policemen also abused other Palestinians in Hebron. The entire affair was exposed by B’Tselem and the Palestinian human rights organization al-Haq

Exciting or what?
For nowt I’m getting George Orwell: The complete novels and in return all I’ve got to do is review it.

Sign up to Blog a Penguin Claasic and see what drops through your door.

How hard can it be to write a book review?
*flicks through yellow pages for ‘ghost writers’*

Cheers Justin

The Reg:

Virgin Media today sought to publicly clarify its relationship with Phorm, amid concerns that spin from the controversial ISP adware company has worried many of its customers.

Virgin Media has extensively rewritten information on its website about the “Webwise” advertising targeting system to make it clear that it has not agreed to deploy or adopt the system. The newly spelled-out position runs contrary to repeated Phorm press releases and statements made by its executives.

Phorm’s share price has been battered by the two-month storm over its history, technology, behaviour and business model.

While we’re talking cars…

Via Why, That’s Delightful!