Posts by Wokstation 267 publicly visible posts • joined 17 Jun 2008
From The Times:
"Despite the judgment, Alan Johnson, the Home Secretary, said that police would continue to use the powers, which allow them to stop and search people without having to suspect them of involvement in terrorism."
So "lalala we can't hear you" then, just like with PHORM...
BT: "Look, we've got this thing. It intercepts what people send across the internet and gives them adverts on the basis"
UK.Gov: "Erm, that's illegal under RIPA"
BT: "You want us to upgrade our infrastructure?"
UK.Gov: "Yes"
BT: "Then pay for it"
UK.Gov: "No"
BT: "Well we're not paying for it, it might dent our profits. So let us do this and we'll get some more money, see... and some of that money we may spend on infrastructure!"
UK.Gov: "Hmm, ok."
*later, after the PHORM PHIASCO*
Uk.Gov: "So about that infrastructure?"
BT: "We're still not paying for it. The profit margin is too small"
UK.Gov: "Well, it was the public that stopped you using PHORM."
BT: "Yes..."
UK.Gov: "Let's pop a tax on their ADSL lines. Won't pay by PHORM? They can pay direct. Either way, they're paying".
That's how it seems to me.
If I send them a DPA compliance notice, surely they have to abide by it? I don't care if they're not taking ex-directory requests, because I thought they HAD to by law? (Ok, you can still do it by post, reading between the lines, but still... the statement seems designed to try to stop people from requesting their details be removed from the database).
http://www.google.com/finance?q=LON:PHRM
Oh yes, it really, really, does.
Of course, if they deploy in Korea and Europe eventually rule that they require the permission of website owners for interception (unlikely, I know, but bear with me)... couldn't they be prosecuted here for intercepting a UK-hosted site with their server in Korea...?
From National Geographic, in 2004:
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2004/07/0722_040722_gayanimal.html
"Zoologists are discovering that homosexual and bisexual activity is not unknown within the animal kingdom.
Roy and Silo, two male chinstrap penguins at New York's Central Park Zoo have been inseparable for six years now. They display classic pair-bonding behavior—entwining of necks, mutual preening, flipper flapping, and the rest. They also have sex, while ignoring potential female mates. "
...tell me how many stomachs a badger or cow has.
Nor is it able to give a full answer to "how many kilobytes per megabyte", because it ignores what's been the usual since the 60's and only gives the SI answer. It doesn't even mention that until recently, a meg was 1024kb - even though almost every single dictionary (a source that should be aggregated) defines a megabyte using the 1960's method, not the SI method.
So it's ok... as long as you check it's answers through Google. So... might as well just Google it?
"and various mice and keyboards."
And joysticks. Really-not-that-bad joysticks. Really-not-that-bad joysticks that Redmond would love us all to forget about. Really-not-that-bad joysticks that Redmond themselves seem to have forgotten about, dropping support for them as they did a long time ago.
...x, y or z without an ID card? The government said I didn't have to have one!
Oh I see, I get to choose not to have x, y, z, therefore it's a choice! Of course!
I trust governments with using, securing and maintaining databases about as far as I could throw John Prescott.
What's not clear in the article is if the patient is expected to pay for services from these Bupa nurses... it sound a bit like the Bupa nurse gets to target a condition, eg asthma, and then contact all patient with that condition and effectively try to sell them a private healthcare session?
Or have I got it wrong?
Most of the stations round here on the East Coast Line are unmanned, which'd make this a bit tricky to enforce. Those that aren't unmanned have large sections of track visible from public land... including level crossings. All they'll do is move the spotters to the unmanned stations and potentially dangerous, un-supervised, areas.
...homosexuality in animals is common, ongoing and well documented. Of course, you don't hear about it often in nature documentaries, probably because the broadcaster is worried about the viewer's "sensibilities".
From 2004:
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2004/07/0722_040722_gayanimal.html
"Roy and Silo, two male chinstrap penguins at New York's Central Park Zoo have been inseparable for six years now. They display classic pair-bonding behavior—entwining of necks, mutual preening, flipper flapping, and the rest. They also have sex, while ignoring potential female mates."
Chinstrap. Heh. Heh. Heh.
...saying they're waiting for guidance from the government.
Given that holding the samples of someone with no charges/convictions is illegal under HR law, as definied by the ECHR, wouldn't it simply require the threat of legal action against the force to make them remove it?
Afterall, they know they won't win. Precedent was set in the ECHR. It is the last level of appeal, and as such any "junior" court would surely be bound by the precedent?
Would a force then be able to justify the costs of defending against such a case, given that they have a certainty of losing even if early courts don't abide by the ECHR ruling? Afterall, eventually it'd get to the ECHR and deemed illegal again, as set by the precedent.
I suspect that they'll refuse to remove in the first instance, but because of the cost of fighting a battle they know for a fact they will lose, will probably cave at the first or second letter with hints to litigation...
"Releasing the papers would do "serious damage" to cabinet government, he said, and outweighed public interest needs.", said the Beeb.
So saving them from looking like corrupt moronic warmongers (allegedly...) is more important than the public interest need?
I swear Labour are doing their best to make people either riot, demand a new government, or simply boot them out ASAP.
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