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

And another good example is counterfeiting money.

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

I had another listen to this today. I experienced all those emotions you mentioned.

I couldn't say for sure if he was really making it up because it was an mp3 and I couldn't see if his lips were moving. ;)

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

SO how is this different from phorm, from a website owner's perspective? http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/07...ping_bravofly/

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

that puts Bt in the hot seat and if that is proven webbys rejoice

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

[Dreaming]
LOL you know, it might be werth buying up all these freehold BT buildings and land around the country, and setup a Co-Operative ISP ,were over time, the locals could have all kinds of interesting additions to the basic services that might be put there.... wireless Messed Wimax and all the rest :erm:

perhaps theres even some existing dark fibre already there directly to some well connected Co-Locations sites somewere ?, put loads of low bitrate free Meraki Outdoor units all over the place, hell ,even allow for point to multipoint 1gig wireless microwave kit directly to your home, if it's dreaming, might as well do it big :monkey:

it would be nice to say to such a Co-Operative, i want IP Multicasting as standard to everyone,and secure https as standard to all, i want some rackspace and ports for the new Co-operative MC TV like the janet network use...

the potentials there, and people are starting to think it might be time to get away from these DPI intecepting ISPs, and we might as well have direct access to Uk based webside server space and all the benefits that gets you....
[/Dreaming]

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

Help... how do I add a link in an El Reg Comment text?

---------- Post added at 19:13 ---------- Previous post was at 19:11 ----------

That is a B-E-A-UTIFUL thing. Thumbs up to Ryannair.

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

i forget how but it can be done, you add something to the end of the ElReg base page URL

i just re-read my post , and realisd ,wrong end of stick , i ment copy any of your related CF posts into the ElReg story comments so they can copy/paste back here if they feel like it....

but im sure you can link the Elreg comments as above somehow, but cant find the references of how to do it....

[Opps]

Paul Delaney saves the day, see below :)

yes, its a shame ElReg dont allow live URL parsing to just (right)click and go

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

I hear they are keeping some buildings apparently something to do with storage of some Duff servers or similar ,phorm your own opinons :D:D:D
Maybe they'll be on Ebay

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

Meanwhile, over the pond.

"Legal Implications of Online Behavioral Advertising Practices: Collection of Internet Content from ISPs May Violate Federal and State Wiretap Laws"

http://cdt.org/press/20080708press.php

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

Any truth in the rumour that Phorm may be going to join the environmentally friendly energy production by harnessing together banks of rotational devices for electricity generation and they will use small furry rodents to rotate the devices and generate power,it isto be called "Rodent Induction Power" and if successful you will see a lot of ads for Phorm RIP. personaly I think there are similar devices that could be converted for a small fee.but the sooner I see Phorm RIP the better.

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

Each El Reg comment is allocated an anchor point expressed as #myanchorpoint at the end of the URL

View and search the source code of the page for the text you want to link to:

<h3>Phorm is a crime or is not,There are rules that would suggest that it is...<a name="c_265300"> </a></h3>

and use the c_265300 as the anchor point reference like this: /#c_265300

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/07...ents/#c_265300


:D


EDIT: Did you mean create a live link from El Reg comments to here?

I'm not sure you can because they only allow plain text comments and you'd need to wrap the link with [ U R L ][ / U R L ] (html) to make it live.

:)

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

i like the quote
"With an opt-in in place, a NebuAd has little hope of corralling the web surfers it needs to make its ad-happy technologies commercially viable. Heck, if an opt-in is required, most ISPs won't even sign the contract. They're more than willing to pimp your data, but not without an ample return."

so what happened to user wanting the service?? and the magical reports that say WE ALL WANT ADS

BT , PHORM you listening???

peter

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

Yeah - I was tempted to comment:

I know of one idiot ISP that signed up!

It becomes more and more obvious that BT did very little research before comitting themselves to this...

Probably a poor analogy but when being interviewed about his addiction to sex by Jonathan Ross, when asked the question "Do you take precautions?" Russel Brand answered:

"Well yes, first I make doubly sure that it is a woman, then I'm straight in there!"

BT obviously went straight in and omitted to make the most fundamental of checks first...




:D

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

I'm not a great fan of Peter Ryan, but he fights like a lurcher after a hare, so if we can point him at BT/Phorm/Webwise it might be a very entertaining little exchange. I think he enjoys taking on the big ones. I'll investigate sending something to him tomorrow.

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

What a day. They wouldn't let me on the train because the doors closed as I got on the platform (screw up in the ticket office delayed me) so I was an hour late for my CoL Police meeting (they were very good about it though).

I explained that I would be presenting them with a case file on the day of the protest too and initially they thought it came under the jurisdiction of the communications commissioner (as you lot discussed earlier today) however I pointed out that the Home Office has stated it was the responsibility of the police and the Chief Inspector who was in the meeting actually agreed. So we may get somewhere next week with the case file. The police will be providing 10 officers throughout the protest in the interests of public safety and they will be providing some barriers too. They are perfectly happy about the protest and have no issues.

Now on to the House of Lords. First they serve fantastic coffee! But on to the serious stuff. My meeting with the Earl lasted almost 3 hours and it was an incredibly interesting discussion, he is very easy to talk to and I have most of our discussion recorded (we had a chat about it all first before I started recording).

I haven't listened to the recording yet (just got back very very long day) but I will go over either tonight or tomorrow and it will be put online within the next 48 hours (dependent on how much cleaning up I need to do on the sound.) Be aware in advance that there will be some background noise as we were in a room with other people as well, so you will have to put up with that.

Anyway, just wanted to update you all, it was a very positive experience today and a little spoiler for you, the Earl doesn't think the Phorm system will be deployed at any point in the near future and perhaps not at all, he also feels if BT do deploy it, it would be a very serious mistake.

Back soon,

Alexander Hanff
PS I will probably have a cold or something on event day because I got absolutely SOAKED today in London.