Posts by Iain Argent 9 publicly visible posts • joined 16 Apr 2007
The big problem with OpenDNS et al is that my browser is configured to give me useful options when a server is down. With one click I can retry, go to the Google cache for the page, or several other useful options. OpenDNS stops this very useful feature working because my browser doesn't receive an error.
And what exactly are they going to do if nobody decides to incriminate themselves? Can they get a court order allowing them to randomly enter business premises and start poking around with their computer systems? I've been through this already with our Indian office. We are quite careful not to use pirated software (there's no need with FOSS) but I always resented the debt-collector tactics used to try and scare our employees into letting strangers onto our systems. I've never known exactly what the legal situation is, so we politely used to inform them that all our software was legal, and that if they wanted any further information, they would have to get a court order. It seemed to work ok on the three individuals who visited us.
@Kevin Eastman
That's a quote from Ramirez (Connery's character in "Highlander"). Although Connor McLeod did call him a Spanish Peacock.
The swords were all Spanish, though. Made by Fabrica Martos in Toledo.
...oh, and of course the Russian Kurgan was played by an American. Not entirely sure where the accent was supposed to be from.
@ Anonymous poster (What's the big problem?")
You've hit the nail on the head - it's not a full DNA database. I would feel a bit safer if all MPs, police officers and members of the judiciary were placed on the database. Perhaps safeguard might be taken a bit more seriously then.
You either have a complete database and admit that that is what you are creating, or you destroy the samples taken from innocent people. It's the lack of openness I object to.
...and whilst we're not learning proper physics anyway, the curriculum is further polluted with Intelligent Design crap.
My physics teacher impressed on me right from the start of the course that employers liked physics O-Grades (like O-levels) because "Physics shows you can think". Unlike faith schools, which bleed out capacity for original thought.
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