competition

You won't get a competitor to ebay, because it's in the seller's interests to go for the largest market (ie: ebay), so they get the best price, so why would they go elsewhere?

if NY citizens should be reporting this in their tax return

why doesn't NY just ask Amazon for details of all transactions sent to NY, and bill their residents accordingly?

Alcohol and pork-related business?

Are there companies out there that exist to get pigs drunk?

Re: 18:41 GMT

CISAS also regulate ISPs. Tell the wankers at Plus net you wish them to either settle your complaint, or to raise it with CISAS.

Also, if the Register would tell me what questions they had for Plusnet, then I'm quite happy to make them my questions...

Useless

Poverty -> Ill health. Poverty also leads to lower internet access levels. So what's the point of a Website?

Plusnet = Wankers.

Q: Dear Plusnet. Isn't failing to protect personal information a breach of the Data Protection Act?

Q: Dear ICO. Given that Plusnet screw up on a frequent basis, destroying or disclosing personal information, why haven't you acted?

Q: Dear Plusnet. When you statement says "As previously announced", does this mean you were planning on losing the data?

Q: Dear Plusnet. How come you contrived to lose all the genuine emails, and none of the spam that you keep sending me due to your previous screwups?

Better than the ICO

Is this more potential crims than the ICO has ever caught, in its entire useless history?

IT relevance? :)

And surely being dead shouldn't be any obstacle to using Jon Pertwee.

A coconut boost

is the proper Boost. The others are poor later revisions

But it's in Scotland

I think they need to up their rate a bit

Comments are for the feeble minded

Good code should be self explanatory.

If you need a comment to explain trickery, remove the trickery.

Why not scrap data protection laws?

It's not as if the ICO actually enforces them, so they might as well scrap them. Why spend the money on the ICO if it's not actually doing its job.

Orange launch widescreen phone

presumably is the next headline

because the ICO won't

Protect your own data, because the ICO won't. If you contact them detailing a breach of the law, they never act. Occasionally they'll ask the company, who respond "we're not breaking the law", and the ICO says "they said they weren't doing anything wrong", and believes them. It is, without a shadow of a doubt the most pathetic, toothless, idle excuse for a regulator in existence today.

Why limit it to their marketing folk?

Why limit the fuckwitticisms to Orange's marketing folk? It's endemic throughout the entire company (see Inigo Wilson for further idiocy)

The Protx Saga

Protx good. Protx taken over by Saga. Protx now shit. Coincidence?

I have a list of suspects

Who suspects the RIAA? Or Sony's Rootkit department?

There's an old style mini in SF

with the plate "SHAG ME". Clearly the vernacular passed by the US authorities

how ironic

that someone doing some work should be prosecuted, but the ICO, which does bugger all, is allowed to continue pretending to protect people's data

Let me predict...

... that the chocolate teapot of the ICO will do precisely sod all

Could be worse, you could be with Plus.net

It could be worse, you could be with Plus.net. Then you'd have had your email addresses distributed to all and sundry while they claim they can't do anything, and it's not their fault because despite Plusnet being insecure, the taking of the email addresses was a criminal act.

The most important question

What we need to know is why the kangaroo started hopping in a different direction in 1968. Can you find out, Lester?

fried apples

Oh, I can't wait. All those Apple disciples who've spent years in a security bubble caused by next to no-one running their system, happily browsing the web from their iphone at a snail's pace, being turned into jelly by a hacker who turns the iphone's microwave transmitter to 100%.

Don't mistake Connect for a Union

Connect isn't a union. It's a management patsy.

I worked at BT once. Connect supported BT Management in their call for a pay freeze (ie: A real terms pay cut)

Ha ha ha

"Lastly: Get a grammer-checker. "

Ha ha. Pass me the Alanis Morissette dictionary.

Don't worry, Matt

I recognise humour when I see it, even if no-one else does.

As a former PlusNet subscriber...

I look forward to receiving a few hundred of these by Monday.

breville? delonghi?

Dualit!. Honestly. Breville! Some people.

Is that you, Rufus?

Is that you, Rufus? Are you working at PlusNet now?

What happens if you don't pay the activation fee?

I suppose these prices are exclusive of sales tax, and other ambushes on the unwary too?

If getting to PlusNet requires initiative

... then their staff won't be able to. In my experience, they couldn't find their arse with both hands and a map.

Frisbee Pizza

They said they ordered Pizza. They didn't say they arrived. They've probably done it so they get the "free pizza" credit.

Is this an April fool?

ICO pulls its finger out? I may have my mind addled by glastomud, but you won't fool me with that one.