At a press conference held for the opening on the new DNA sequencing laboratory for New Scotland Yard, the Minister of Health, The Rt Hon C U Bollocks (Complete Utter Bollocks) said the government had thought long and hard about the decision, but in summary Microsoft Healthvault represents the best value to the tax payer.
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/12/10/1553242
“What does Firefox have to do with social justice? How will the one laptop per child project discourage genocide? How soon will Microsoft collapse? Watch Eben Moglen’s inspiring keynote from the 2006 Plone Conference (Archive.org: mp3 or qt; or YouTube). The video presentation is ordinary, so the mp3 is an equally good format. ‘If we know that what we are trying to accomplish is the spread of justice and social equality through the universalization of access to knowledge; If we know that what we are trying to do is build an economy of sharing which will rival the economies of ownership at every point where they directly compete; If we know that we are doing this as an alternative to coercive redistribution, that we have a third way in our hands for dealing with long and deep problems of human injustice; If we are conscious of what we have and know what we are trying to accomplish, when this is the moment for the first time in lifetimes, we can get it done.’”
IR: …”Second reaction is the link with Mk1. Marxism which identified the condition of people as a consequence of their relationship to the ‘Means of production’.”
Businesses and individuals may soon have to release their encryption keys to the police or face imprisonment, when Part 3 of the RIP Act comes into effect
The UK Government is preparing to give the police the authority to force organisations and individuals to disclose encryption keys, a move which has outraged some security and civil rights experts.
The powers are contained within Part 3 of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (RIPA). RIPA was introduced in 2000, but the government has held back from bringing Part 3 into effect. Now, more than five years after the original act was passed, the Home Office is seeking to exercise the powers within Part Three of RIPA.
Full article here.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/talking_point/4625971.stm
Anyone want to bet on how long it will take between the first ID card being issued and a reporter from The Sun managing to get a low paid data entry clerk to assist them in producing a fake?
Paul, Loughborough
The US appears to be run by corporations, who provide funds for political parties in elections.
The US TV networks do not carry International news, why not?
Hypothesis:
The population would switch their TV off and not watch the ads.
Discussion:
The UK carries International news, but this does not mean the UK population switches the TV - therefore advertisers are happy to have ads inbetween the sought after evening news slots.
Question:
Does this tells us about the dummying down of the US population v the UK - just still bright enough to follow the news?
So if the corporations run the US, who is running the UK?
Will the Chinese actually have their revolution?
(To be continued and explaned - here for noting purposes only)
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