Posts by ben 16 publicly visible posts • joined 9 Oct 2007
Regarding the D Cell vs. Rechargeable issue, how about reading the comments thread from the El. Reg. Article dated 8th Jan this year http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/01/08/dad_battery_challenge_droid_sub/comments/ - The cells will be at or near 0 C for their mission duration, so conventional D Cells work better (apparently).
One also does have to credit the designers of the device with some intelligence - I think they might just have thought about using rechargeable cells and then discounted them for valid reasons.
I think you miss the point slightly.
How do you think your GETs get to the remote end?
They go off your PC as a TCP/IP Packet, routed via the backbone to its destination.
The backbone can mirror those packets without your consent or knowledge - do you see where I am going?
As BT are signed up to Phorm, and IF Phorm are found to be legal, I can see nothing really preventing them from writing a bit of code for the backbone (OK all the backbone routers) to mirror all http GET packets to the BT Phorm servers regardless of their (the IP Packets) origin. If AT&T in the states also sign up to the Phorm nonsense, it will be nearly impossible to stop this Pharming going on and you, the end user, will have no chance at all of opting out.
/me I'll get my own TFH thanks
It doesn't matter two hoots if your ISP is a Phorm Signup or not, or if you have the opt out cookie.
Your IP traffic will go via some Phorm signed up ISP router somewhere and hence be profiled...
In the UK, as BT pwn much of the backbone and BT are part of the Phorm collective, I suspect all your http GETs are belong to Phorm anyway...
Dead vulture cos resistance is futile
The free market will out. The big guys will always buy the little guys... and the consumer will eventually suffer.
Mind you with Tiscali's CS record, as far as Broadband is concerned, "things can only get better" to quote a well known election anthem... and yes I am well aware just how successful that anthem was for the party concerned.
/me Getting my coat for being old enough to remember the song
A local secondary school censors the entire verse when the song is performed at the Christmas concert, because the parents of some year 7s (11 y/o) may be offended that their children hear such language... As if their darlings didn't hear and use much more offensive words day by day in the playground.
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