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Summary: Will “BBC” stand for Bill’s British Cuckolds”?; US Computer Users are blissfully ignorant, it turns out; List of Ten Most Addictive Games is out.BBC in bed with Microsoft, or not….<\/strong>From Slashdot:<\/a><\/p>\n

“The BBC’s head of technology denied rumors that a secret deal with Microsoft was behind the XP-only launch of the BBC’s iPlayer. According to Ashley Highfield, the reason that the player only supports Windows XP is that only a small number of Linux visitors have come to the BBC’s website. Why he would expect a large number of Linux-based visitors to the site when the media downloads are Windows XP only is not clear. He also thinks that ‘Launching a software service to every platform simultaneously would have been launch suicide,’ despite the example of many major sites that support Linux (even if this is through the closed-source flash player).”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This is interesting, because it is also the case that the BBC recently claimed that in Britain, there were only about five or six hundred Linux users that regularly signed on to their site. There are places in Britain where dozens of Linux Using BBC Reading Folk can stand up and glance out of their cubical to see the bemused and startled looks, on hearing this assertion, of many, many other Linux users. One Brit notes: “The claim is incredible – if true, it means that my office represents ~10% of the BBC’s entire GNU\/Linux usage. [source]<\/a>“Further investigation reveals that the actual number is much, much higher. Go read about it.Big Brother is Watching<\/strong><\/p>\n

Every single move you make online can, and often is, tracked by online marketers and advertising networks that gather and use the information for serving up targeted advertisements.But the average American consumer is largely unaware that such tracking goes on, the extent to which it is happening or how exactly information is being used.That’s according to a new poll released this week by the Samuelson Clinic at the University of California, Berkeley, and the Annenberg Public Policy Center at the University of Pennsylvania. The survey of nearly 1,200 California adults studied consumer perceptions about online privacy and common advertising practices.[source]<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In case you are not busy with anything else:<\/strong>The alleged “The en most addictive online flash games ever made” are listed here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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