Charter Deep Packet Plans, Hulk Trailer, HBO on iTunes, and Voters

Charter Plans to Violate Your Privacy - The cable company has announced an "enhanced" plan to use deep packet inspection to target ads directly to their customers based on their internet searches. The plan is going to be automatic to all customers and will require a complicated means of opting out (that has to be repeated whenever you clear your cookies). Of course this plan is designed to generate more profits for the company while not sharing that boom with decreased pricing on services. Even worse though is more then likely this inspection is just a small leap to monitoring all your internet activity to view websites you go to, email, peer to peer downloads and really anything else you do online. Also, it will allow traffic shaping which basically means throttling your bandwidth anytime they feel like it (regardless of what speed your paying for). Long story short, Charter is about to hose their customers in multiple ways.

New Hulk Trailer - A new trailer for the movie. I have to admit that, unlike those for Iron Man, the Hulk trailers are pretty darn dull and does very little to make me excited to see the movie.

HBO Programs on iTunes - The channel has started selling their programs on iTunes, often at a higher cost of $2.99 breaking the practice of standard pricing that Apple has been using. Shows available include Sopranos, Sex in the City, The Wire, Deadwood and more. Honestly at $3 a pop your better off just waiting until Best Buy runs a sell and buying the DVD box set as it would be cheaper.

Voters More Concerned About Bush than Wright - In a slight bit of relief for me, it appears that some of the American public have it straight on what’s important in voting. A new study shows that more are concerned about McCain's association with Bush then Obama's relationship with Reverend Wright. The bad news though is the margin is only 38% to 33% showing that there are still a lot of idiots out there. Once influences and creates policy...the other just preaches. Of the two it’s pretty easy to make a call on who can cause more problems (and has). When will people get it that McBush is simply promising four more years of Bush policies?