Dear silicon.com... work and play, mobiles on planes, data leaks...

What's got silicon.com readers reaching for their keyboards this week? Reader Comments of the Week showcases how our users are responding to the latest tech news and views on the site...

'I'm on the plane... '
UK in-flight calls get green light

Why oh why are they bothering with this.

I have never spoken to a single air passenger who wants this. Almost without exception, all are vehemently opposed to it.
-- Anonymous, Cambridge

You have got to be joking. Trapped in a metal tube with people who can't survive without a phone and speak loudly so that we can all hear how important they are. (please remind them that giving out personal mortgate/banking details this way is stupid) .

It'd bad enough on the train without subjecting us to this!
-- Anonymous, Hertfordshire

The employment game
Photos: GCHQ aims to recruit with in-game ads'

Next step - the on-line game replaces the interview? Get to level 10 and you're hired.
-- Graham, Scotland

Editor's choice

silicon.com news editor Steve Ranger flags up his picks on the site this week...

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♦  Tech Visions: TV extends its reach

Death to the PC?
Mobile phones to kill off the desktop PC?

My T-Mob Vario II is a lifeline when I'm away from a PC. When at home or work it's connected to the network keeping in sync.

As for the being plugged into TV marlarky...

I have been preparing to order a slingbox. So not far from his idea, but could do with being a bit more plug and play and user friendly for the average home user before we see wide spread use.

I'd stake my life on that fact that this sort of tech will be more widespread in the future and available and useable by the masses.
-- Rob, Herts, UK

I was recently interested to read about Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer's 'vision' for the future of services, but where was the vision? To me, it was nothing more than a sales pitch from Microsoft, not conveying effectively the more intricate nature of the rapid evolution the software industry is facing.

Terms like "plug and play", "pay as you go" and "on demand" exist in our society because, as consumers, we demand more of the technology that surrounds us.

We don't want to know about the technology itself, we just want it to work.
-- Tristan Rogers, managing director, Concrete Media

Got da skillz
Computer games 'can help plug IT skills gap'

So they want to plug the skills gap ! The best way to do this is to take all the IT professionals who have experience and are out of work and pay to retrain them.

I've been an IT professional for nearly 20 years, I learnt Cobol, Pascal and others, but I've had to self learn my new skills without any help or assistance.
-- Anonymous, Midlands

Security, security, security...
'Security not just about user education'

I have read a number of articles recently that would have us believe the nation's workers are spending their time plotting to steal confidential company data in all manner of 'James Bond'-esque ways. It is right that businesses should look carefully at the security threat posed by staff, but many of these articles are unnecessarily sensationalist in tone. Although the occupation of security experts is cautious by nature, an overly suspicious view of staff behaviour can hinder sound judgement of a company's exposure to information loss.

Independent Gartner research shows that the vast majority of data leakage is a result of accidental not malicious or deliberate activity, with 80-90% of sensitive information leaks expected to be unintentional or the result of poor business processes through 2010.
-- Mark Murtagh, technical director, Websense

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