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- 11/09/2009: The National Memorial Arboretum - What a disgrace.
- 15/08/2009: ID Cards.. The Scary Truth.
- 06/05/2009: Let them eat cake (or buy an ID card)
- 05/05/2009: Hand over your privacy me hearties!
- 23/04/2009: Planet westminster - a strange world indeed.
- 21/04/2009: Dick Cheney is so very wrong
- 16/04/2009: MyRail Lite... an update
- 15/04/2009: Sorry is the hardest word
- 06/04/2009: Big Brother is watching you.
- 02/04/2009: National Rail Enquiries (update)
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Let them eat cake (or buy an ID card)
06/05/2009 by The Daily Male.
You can tell when a government is out of touch when they think it is okay for ordinary people to volunterily pay £60 for an ID card they do not want, do not need and has no practicle use. The trouble with Jacqui Smith and her ilk is that they have spent so much time sponging off the tax payer they have lost all concept of the value of money. To them £60 is a claim for a new set of scatter cushions, so an id card is virtually free. For you and me £60 puts food on the table, shoes on your children’s feet or the ability to heat the house for a few weeks.
I hope the good people of Manchester have the sense to boycott this ridiculous waste of money.
FYI, Jacqui has just handed over nearly £650,000,000 to IBM and SCS to build the ID databases, money well spent? (more)
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Hand over your privacy me hearties!
05/05/2009 by The Daily Male.
I was reading Phorm’s website this weekend and notice that they have started a new website called Stop Phoul Play(did you see what they did there?). This is to respond to the various critics to their software, which I guess includes me. This site describes it’s critics as “Privacy Pirates” and attempts to address the various criticisms of it’s software. Phorm of course has every right to defend it’s position and to emphasise their privacy policy and correct any misconceptions about it’s system, but by using the term privacy pirate it shows a lack of willingness to engage with it’s critics. What the hell is a privacy pirate anyway? do we set sail upon the wild piva-sea and attack poor impoverishes multi billion pound multinationals armed only with our sharp tongues and steely gazes? ”Prepare to be boarded me hearties and have your encryption keys at the ready”. Perhaps we should retaliate and compare Phorm to the East India Company, profiteering from out personal data, trading our lives to the highest bidder, the data slavers of world wide web.
So given the choice I think I would choose to be the Captain Jack Black of the datashpere every time.
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