Is that a bargain PC under your tree?
News: Is that a bargain PC under your tree? There are some pretty good deals out there if you happen to be looking to pick up a nice PC for the kids or something. You could end up with a pretty decent machine.
EU considers plans to outlaw racism
news.telegraph.co.uk – EU considers plans to outlaw racism This is scary. This is total “thought police” kind of stuff.
BT admits sending internet virus to its customers
News UK: BT admits sending internet virus to its customers. Ouch, that’s a rather embarrassing thing for an ISP to have to admit. Of course if people had kept their browser upgrades and patches up to date it wouldn’t matter who sent it to them, it couldn’t hurt them. Guess that’s asking too much though,…
China closes 17,488 Net cafes
China closes 17,488 Net cafes This is the sort of thing that happens when the government tells you what you can and can’t read, and what is appropriate for you to be informed about and what is “subversive”. .
Comedy site has plug pulled
BBC News | UK | Comedy site has plug pulled Freeserve pulled the plug because it ” was likely to cause “offence and anxiety”. Given the current legal conditions and ISP’s willingness to shutdown a site rather than deal with the complaints, I vote that we start to complain to ISP’s about stupid websites. No…
ACLU: Face-recognition systems won’t work
ACLU: Face-recognition systems won’t work Now let me get this straight, the systems would have only stopped 2 of the 19 terrorists, maybe, if they worked perfectly and the CIA had good accurate pictures of them. The system only works about 90% of the time, meaning hundreds of people everyday are going to be misidentified…