Re: Virgin Media Phorm Webwise Adverts [Updated: See Post No. 1, 77, 102 & 797]
 

Done and done. :tu:

Re: Virgin Media Phorm Webwise Adverts [Updated: See Post No. 1, 77, 102 & 797]
 

FT.COM amongst those mentioned here http://www.phorm.com/about/launch_agreement.php

Re: Virgin Media Phorm Webwise Adverts [Updated: See Post No. 1, 77, 102 & 797]
 

any spread bets for tomorrow? lol :)

Re: Virgin Media Phorm Webwise Adverts [Updated: See Post No. 1, 77, 102 & 797]
 

Hmm, could this be construed as incitement to commit a felony?

Re: Virgin Media Phorm Webwise Adverts [Updated: See Post No. 1, 77, 102 & 797]
 

Welcome to the new joiners and thank you for coming from the shadows. Currently there are 37 members and 38 guests viewing this thread; discounting the spies there are still a few decent people out there who can provide the support needed now that we at least seem to be on the cusp of a change in ISP attitude. Please join up and join in.

VM's apparent change of stance is very encouraging. Tbh, I do not want to change my ISP and am more than happy to continue supporting VM's business through my subscriptions. VM must realise by now that Phorm could well be their undoing with so many normally mild-mannered customers absolutely against this technology. Please, please shape up Virgin; if you lose support, you may never regain it and that, in the long run, would make us all losers.

No PIA. No video. No PR Spin. They tried to make us go to webwise and we said no, no, NO!

"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men (and women) do nothing". (Edmund Burke)

Re: Virgin Media Phorm Webwise Adverts [Updated: See Post No. 1, 77, 102 & 797]
 

Doh! I've just noticed that I'm not logged in (deleted cookies, etc. after the video site hijack scare a few days ago) so one of those lurkers was me! Also, I often check the latest news here from work when I'm on nights, but do it without logging-in (my employer's IT department has some dodgy individuals working for them that I suspect deploy keyloggers on some network machines so I won't do anything from work that entails a personal log in)

:clap: That's exactly how I feel.

Re: Virgin Media Phorm Webwise Adverts [Updated: See Post No. 1, 77, 102 & 797]
 

you might use this google news search with the site: directive set for /.

perhaps you can use google rss in some way to feed your own Rss, i dont use rss so not really sure

http://news.google.com/news?oe=utf-8...nG=Search+News

you might be better to use this basic REBOL script as a base to parse slashdot and/or combine it with the above in some way ?....

------------cut
url: read http://slashdot.org/index.rss
parse/all url [
any [
<title> copy title to </title>
(print title)

|
<description> copy desc to </description>
(print desc)
|
skip
]
to end
]
-------------cut

taken from here
http://www.oreilly.com/pub/a/mac/200...scripting.html

i cut and pasted it into the rebol view shell, and it parses the url and displays the text......

but it needs more work to make it look pritty, perhaps a GUI scrolly banner rebol script example exists, if you can be bothered to find it, and add its content if your a happy script writer Alexander...

btw http://www.ispreview.co.uk/news/EkpAyuVypuhUqUpcQx.html
01 May, 2008 - 1:40 PM
Alexander Hanff's Legal Analysis of the Phorm Trials
Cable Forum's Alexander Hanff has made public his dissertation on a legal analysis of BT's secret Phorm trials, which took place during 2006 and again in 2007. Hanff has carefully analysed the relevant EU and UK laws, statutes and directives to find that, "fundamental legal requirements were not met."

Hanff goes on to conclude that BT's covert trials were illegal under criminal law and unlawful under common law, pointing towards the need for relevant public authorities to, "officially investigate the matter in the interests of public justice.":

Re: Virgin Media Phorm Webwise Adverts [Updated: See Post No. 1, 77, 102 & 797]
 

<delurks>
That's me!

Hi all, I have the dubious honour of being with BT and have posted to their forums.

May I add my thanks to the people who are doing so much to stop this nastiness. You know who you are!

Nothing that I can add to what has already been said on this and the BT threads, but if enough of us make our voices heard it must make a difference.

Dave

Re: Virgin Media Phorm Webwise Adverts [Updated: See Post No. 1, 77, 102 & 797]
 

Understood ;).


My worry is that VM could underestimate the backlash if the deployment goes ahead. Internet users are a savvy bunch (as this thread proves) and if VM try to railroad them, the vitriol spewed in The Apprentice will seem like a kiddies tea party :D.

Welcome Dave! :)

Re: Virgin Media Phorm Webwise Adverts [Updated: See Post No. 1, 77, 102 & 797]
 

Glad my message in the Mods on ISPr worked :)

We are still a long way from completing this but we are on the right track and getting there.

Re: Virgin Media Phorm Webwise Adverts [Updated: See Post No. 1, 77, 102 & 797]
 

I contacted VM telling them that if they went ahead with this I would be cancelling my VIP service and going elsewhere. I told them I would be recommending that family, friends and customers change ISP if this is launched, and that they will be getting no more recommendations from me until they have announced that they have abandoned this hair-brained scheme. I let them know that I've put a lot of custom their way, and can and will take those customers away from them.

Re: Virgin Media Phorm Webwise Adverts [Updated: See Post No. 1, 77, 102 & 797]
 

I dugg this too. I know it's nearly cheating as a duplicate but still, the more the merrier eh? Dig in boys and girls.

http://digg.com/tech_news/Alexander_...e_Phorm_Trials

Re: Virgin Media Phorm Webwise Adverts [Updated: See Post No. 1, 77, 102 & 797]
 

Welcome GoldenBoar ;). Come on you lurkers, get behind the people who are sticking their necks out on our behalf. Whilst people like Alexander are self-motivated, you can't beat actually knowing that the support you have is growing. It may make all the difference.

Re: Virgin Media Phorm Webwise Adverts [Updated: See Post No. 1, 77, 102 & 797]
 

http://digg.com/tech_news/Legal_Anal...7_Phorm_Trials

I digg'd it. My first ever digg.

Then...
http://digg.com/tech_news/Alexander_...e_Phorm_Trials

My second ever digg :)

A very happy digger ;)

Hank

Re: Virgin Media Phorm Webwise Adverts [Updated: See Post No. 1, 77, 102 & 797]
 

Thank god finally caught up with the end of this thread :confused:
I have just read an article in this weeks MicroMart entitled Bad phorm
by Mark Pickervance and i'm pleased to say he likes them about as much as we do; he doesn't find a single redeeming feature in four pages of comment and ends with "I would leave any ISP who implemented this"
I was starting to wonder when someone would give them a good shoeing in the computer press