Posts by lostsomehwere

That's poor targeting

I've worked with loyalty card data for decades now, a general principle is that you don't send promotions to shoppers on the basis of what they have stopped buying because might be associated with negative life events, especially such as death of a family member or pet.

Offers should be sent on the basis of recent purchases, that manages the risk, but is not perfect.

We need to start somewhere

If Facebook and Goggle can work out who I like, where I have been, what I like, what I want to buy and make lots of money from it then they can spend some of it on more robust ways to block children from content.

20 years ago, we would have considered what they can do by tracking us as being magic, and I have no doubt that if their business model is threatened then in the future there will be more magic.

We need them to introduce systems that can't be defeated by VPN's, Token Sharing and anything else that can be used now.

And this comment "lol no kid will be “saved” from the porno" is just ignorant and crass.

The trouble is not the Government

it's Facebook which has under invested user safety for decades preferring to rake in the cash.

On a recent laptop

If you pressed the top left of the trackpad it disabled it completely and showed a miniscule, dim, red led to tell the user that it happened, but no one ever looks on the track pad for a warning light! I wasn't the only one got frustrated by it happening 'cause nearly everyone was walking around with their laptops like babe in arms to avoid upsetting it.

Eventually was able to disable a setting in the track pad user settings, which when shared increased my popularity for nano-seconds.

I grew up in Woomera

My father worked on Blue Streak: I heard so many launch countdowns over the tannoy system that I learned to count from 10 to 1 rather than the way I use now.

Re: Easy to hack ...................

I can never understand why people get so up in arms why people get so excited about government snooping when Facebook, Google, Amazon know so much more about you than the government could ever do.

My guess is that the legal action was needed as a requirement of an insurance claim.

Still futile though

I hope the Register has one the right thing

They have identified a potential crime. so should report the traders to HMRC for investigation