Being written to an unnecrypted DVD, posted to the other office, lost by the transit agent and will turn up on eBay next week for fifty quid.

It's lovely to see weeds like gator die, they keep springing up but eventually we manage to get rid of them.

121Media, aka Phorm should be next, a little weed called Webwise has sprouted up within the BT network and needs an extra dousing of insectiside.

Up the ass to Phorm, NebuAd, Claria, and Gator and anyone else who comes up shite like theirs.

Hanging's too good for the B@st@rds!!

Here's an idea. How about a new "Freeserve of the Naughties" in that you could get a free ADSL ISP in return for them monitoring all your web surfing habits and serving up targeted ads based on those habits?

I'm thinking along the lines of someone who often goes to sports web sites getting adverts for Sky Sports, or someone going to review sites for mobile phones getting adverts for mobile phone contracts. Likewise for Wine, Property, Cars, Clothes, Gadgets, Holidays, Books, Music, Headphones, Games, etc. etc. You know, everyday stuff.

Hmmmm, I've just writting a business plan, no? Any VCs reading this send a barn load of money my way please.

Of course it would have to be done properly. They would have to ignore sensitive items.... but wouldn't Mr. and Mrs. Average go for this in a big way. They just don't really care about privacy.

Oh, hang on. This is The Register. What am I thinking?

Steve

Unless you want it to survive, perhaps herbicide would be more useful on a weed?

Herbicide, pah! Real men use fire.

It's natural, organic and versatile enough to be used on plants and CEOs of dodgy companies.

That'll teach the evil kid to kill all those lizards, and throw the others to the crocodiles. The Australian authorities should sue the parents into oblivion, or better still force them to put the bastard child in the ant enclosure, covered in honey. I blame video games.

solomon said: 'lets face it; I don't think there's a person who will read this who wouldn't grab some mega-bucks if they thought they could do it...'

well i can tell you that you're wrong about that..

some people have enough morals to know and choose what is right, and some even understand that greed is a bad thing.

you may think that i'm only saying that as a justification for not having megabucks, or just plain misconstrued self-rightiousness, but you would not be correct about that either.

though most are indeed selfish greedy fools, we are not all like that. some are more human and less animal than others.

"Yeah, the "tracking" companies are shite, but lets face it; I don't think there's a person who will read this who wouldn't grab some mega-bucks if they thought they could do it..."

Speak for yourself, bonehead. There is no way I'd even consider doing this for any amount of cash. Integrity is more valuable than wealth, in my view. But at least we now know that you'd happily whore yourself for a quick buck, nice one.

Quote: "nabbing $11.5m from VCs with very short memories"

Correction - that should be "VCs with long memories". Memory != moral fiber. In fact not having it is probably a job requirement for VC-ing in the valley.

Me coat.