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  1. Phorm on UK ISPs To Start Tracking Your Surfing To Serve You Ads · · Score: 3, Informative
    From Phorm's website:

    "With OIX and Webwise, consumers are in control: they can switch relevance 'off' or 'on' at any time at Webwise.com. There's no small print and no catches: it's completely up to the consumer."

    In the comments on the Techdirt article somebody is saying that Phorm are the latest incarnation of 121media which made the contextplus rootkit. A quick search later and indeed they are the same company.

    Anybody got any more dirt on them?

  2. Re:Already sold in Greece on An Early Warning System For Earthquakes · · Score: 1

    not in greece. There's never been a hurricane, or a flood iirc, or a large forest fire. flooding and forest fires in Greece.

    No hurricanes but plenty of force 8 winds in the Aegean throughout the summer months (sorry can't find ref. but have been told about this by Greek friends)

  3. Help Apple be greener... on How Steve Jobs Got Green Overnight · · Score: 1

    ...and buy white i-pods to help increase the planetary albedo.

  4. Re:Slashvert on GeoTagger Adds Positioning Info to Snapshots · · Score: 1
    That's because it is a press release!

    Have a look under the contacts section of the site linked to in the story and you'll see the author's name.

  5. Oh the irony... on World's Most Expensive Mp3 Player · · Score: 3, Funny
    ...of a site dedicated to the most expensive things, running Google ads that are for the *cheapest* mp3 players alongside TFA.

    Back to Cute Overload it is then...

  6. Re:Bristol, UK? on A National Archive Moves to ODF · · Score: 1

    Well if they make enough money through their database work with the Open Source Academy then you might.

    Don't hold your breath though.

    They may choose to make their website a bit better - but it is better than Cardiff's website which is dire to the extreme - capital of Wales and using front page?!? I resent every penny of my council tax spent on that dross! (Sorry had to get it out of my system :-)

  7. Re:Bristol, UK? on A National Archive Moves to ODF · · Score: 2, Informative
  8. Kebab meat... on Fossil Rises From its Grave · · Score: 1
  9. BBC bias on Britons Unconvinced on Evolution · · Score: 1
    If anybody cares to carefully read TFA, they will soon realise that it's basically a promo for a BBC2 program that just happens to air tonight! It's not a news story on any other major Britsh news source at the moment.

    As a BBC licence fee payer I am getting heartily sick of this happening. I suspect it's mainly due to the humanities graduates that run the BBC having no clue about science, but they know what makes good publicity.

    Personally, I'm almost at the point of burning my tv in front of the local BBC offices to prove a point...grrrrrrrrr!

  10. Re:Could someone explain this show to me? on Dr. Who on Sci-Fi Channel in March · · Score: 1
    Because we can all remember as kids hiding behind the sofa, scared shitless, when Dr. Who was on.

    I used to regularly have nightmares about the various monsters when I was 6 or 7 (Tom Baker was the Dr.)

    The new series is quite good, I thought Billie Piper was going to be bloody awful, but was then fairly pleasantly surprised. The Xmas edition where the transformation takes place is rather cheesey at times, and quite chilling at others.

  11. K9 is back in new series... on Dr. Who on Sci-Fi Channel in March · · Score: 2, Informative
    K9 returns to our screens, in the new series that is being filmed down the road from me in Cardiff, Wales at present, .

    I have seen BBC trailers that show K9!

    And he (she? it?)better be on there or else I'm demanding my license fee back http://www.bbc.co.uk/info/licencefee/

  12. Re:Commercials on /. on On the Matter of Slashdot Story Selection · · Score: 1
    We don't accept paid advertisements on the main page, period. The reason you don't see a warning is because we don't do it.

    Erm... why have I just seen an advert on the homepage of /. ?

    Maybe it's because I don't pay.

    Maybe it's because the main page is not the homepage, so what is the main page then?