Irish law regarding unsolicited SMS messages : what is the law, and how to make a complaint against an Irish company, via Donncha
(tags: via:donncha law ireland sms texting spam unsolicited bulk texts)Logitech Formula Force EX Driving Wheel And Pedals : good and cheap; good reviews; supported by Linux HID force-feedback joystick library; EUR58 at Play.com
(tags: linux hardware ui games racing controllers steering-wheel pc pedals)Joysticks, force feedback and racing games working under Linux : an alternative way to get pedal controls working; use a racing-game steering-wheel controller, instead, since they’re cheaper
(tags: linux hardware ui games racing controllers steering-wheel pc pedals)Gmail now intercepting “mark as spam” and interpreting it using the List-Unsubscribe header : good call. but as one commenter notes: why isn’t there an “unsubscribe from this list” button in the normal UI? now if I want to use this as a quick-unsub mechanism for mail I know is ham, I’m _forced_ to use “mark as spam” to get this shortcut, which doesn’t make much sense
(tags: via:aliverson gmail google spam filtering ui mail mailing-lists unsubscribe)Spinvox in trouble after BBC investigation : ‘A UK firm that turns mobile messages into text faces questions over its privacy standards, technology and finances following a BBC investigation’ .. ‘claims to the BBC suggest that the majority of messages have been heard and transcribed by call centre staff in South Africa and the Philippines.’ ‘The fact that messages appear to have been read by workers outside of the European Union raises questions about the firm’s data protection policy.’
(tags: data-protection privacy facebook bbc technology mobile transcription spinvox security south-africa offshoring)