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Submission + - Phorm "edited and approved" Govt advice (pcpro.co.uk)

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Barence

on Tuesday April 28, 2009 @05:27AM

Barence writes: "The UK Home Office allegedly checked whether its interpretation of the law suited Phorm, before issuing advice on whether the controversial advertising service was legal. The Home Office and Phorm entered a dialogue about the company's services back in August 2007, after Phorm requested that the Government take a view on its technology. In an email sent to Phorm in January 2008, a Home Office official writes: "I should be grateful if you would review the attached document, and let me know what you think." After Phorm made deletions and amendments to the document, the Home Office sent another email to the company stating: "If we agree this, and this becomes our position do you think your clients and their prospective partners will be comforted?""

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Comment Re:Who cares (Score 4, Informative) 204

by seaton carew on Wednesday March 18, 2009 @04:14PM (#27246783) Attached to: UK Gov't May Track All Facebook Traffic

Concerned? Nah, not really.

The current incumbents are so fekking incapable they would struggle to work out which end of a USB stick goes where. The chances of them implementing *any* form of large scale IT system is zero. Zip . Nada. Not gonna happen.

They'll be out of office in a year or so anyway.

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Comment That's one helluva security hole (Score 1) 290

by seaton carew on Thursday January 22, 2009 @09:01AM (#26558469) Attached to: US-CERT Says Microsoft's Advice On Downadup Worm Bogus

Holy Cow, are you saying that if there's a CDFS partition on the drive, the program specified by autorun.inf will run *regardless* of any settings?

Wow. I guess that "feature" will be coming to the next evolution of Conficker in, say, some time in the next 5 minutes?

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Comment Re:Actually... (Score 1) 681

by seaton carew on Thursday August 28, 2008 @06:02AM (#24776785) Attached to: The Power Grid Can't Handle Wind Farms

Not quite. If you've paid a lot of money for a clean energy generator, you don't have the luxury of just using whenever you happen to need it. It's too expensive. You need that baby to be working flat out, 24/7, 265 days a year - otherwise it's just not cost-competitive with the centralised power plants that DO work all the time.

It's even worse with intermittent sources like wind. As soon as the wind blows, you need to be selling/using that electricity 100% to make it pay. "Make hay while the sun shines", etc.

If you don't need the electricity around the clock, you need to be able to sell it to people who do. And to do that, you need a very good transmission system that gets the power right to whoever happens to need it any time of day or night (you can't store this stuff, remember?) The net effect is a big increase on demand on the grid, usually right in the places where the infrastructure is weakest - at the tail-end of the grid. This is what the article is trying to explain.

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