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OK, I think they made another appearance in July 2011. This was around two weeks after a report of a NATO missile killing children in Libya. The British public were not keen on another war in the middle east. Then this appeared in the Telegraph. The strange thing is that this village is neither on the Heathrow nor Gatwick flight paths. I know the area quite well and there are no low flying aircraft there, no wonder the villagers were amazed, it was all arranged for the national press. Here is a good analysis of the story.

Nobody can fake a tape - except the Met Police who can play back their recorded hum in a soundproof room. Of course the would never tamper with evidence. Would they?

It took 4 years 1 month and 18 days to comply with the first ever Freedom of Information Act request:
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This is down to:
a) the watering down of the Bill by Tony Blair after entering office on a supposedly pro-democracy agenda.
b) a deliberately underfunded Office of the Information Commissioner (£20m or about £1,200 per case to deal with stalling ministers, legal costs etc). If you're wondering why you're getting endless illegal robocalls, the same office is supposed to deal with it somehow.

And in case anyone's feeling sorry for ministers, Freedom of Information Act also has exemptions for national security, harm to international relations/public affairs/any individuals' health:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_Information_Act_2000#Harm-based_exemptions

• Uses TMSI, Bluetooth and Wifi for tracking
• Uses the GNU Radio Universal Software Radio Peripheral

YOU ARE NOT GONNA GET IT GOOGLE!!! You Do. Not. Need. A. Copy. Of. My. Passport.

How about sending them something like this? Or something like that, but instead of blanking out the birth year, you'd leave that year intact, but blank out the month, the day, and pretty much everything else that could possibly be used to identify you?

This could work well too for privacy-related petition drives. Petition your National government for more privacy, and just leave enough information to infer your nationality. And for those of us in the US who'd like to petition our State Senators, just leave your two-letter State abbreviation, and blank out everything else. And if you'd like to show that you're old enough to vote, you could just show them a glimpse of your double-chin, or something.

This would make for some great online petition mosaics too. Of course, it would be super insecure as well. In terms of privacy it would only be slightly better than signing Facebook petitions (or filling out official petitions), so I'm suggesting this as more of a symbolic gesture than anything else.

By the way, you should familiarise yourself with what the boxes look like so that if you see one, you can report them for wiretapping.

But what if you want to donate to Wikipedia... only you don't have a credit card, you wouldn't piss on PayPal if it was on fire and Jimmy Wales has apparently never heard of cash drafts, international money orders or even plain old postal orders?

Ah, this old yarn! As another poster has already mentioned, it was named "Greenland" to lure settlers. But more importantly, there *were* places in Greenland that were green. Those same places are still there, and are even bigger today. Despite attempts to, the Vikings were unable to grow any crops on Greenland, and the only non-animal sources of food in their diet were wild berries, grasses, and seaweed. Today, Greenland cities can grow beets, rhubarb, and other cold-weather plants that the Vikings were unable to.

PayPal usually suspends non-profit organisations, because PayPal have to comply with local taxation laws involving the tax exempt status of such organisations, and with the world wide anti-money laundering red tape and bureaucracy.

You end up having to send them details of your charitable status, or, failing that, proof that you have a bank account in the name of your group etc.

The site also describes how wikileaks is "deep linking" a graphic on their site that may cause problems with keeping anonymity, though I can't see how that is related to the suspension.

Which is easier, trying to stem the phishing epidemic or putting away a UFO nut ..

"The Americans have a secret spaceship?" I ask ..

".. What were the ship names?"

"I can't remember," says Gary.

"I was smoking a lot of dope at the time. Not good for the intellect."

I think I'm being watched has really got me thinking. Is it auto-irony or making people used to idea of being watched?

Is it possible for wikileaks to get wikileaks.org changed to another domain registrar or should they just jump ship from this spineless drone?

1 Dynadot shall immediately lock the wikileaks.org domain name to prevent transfer of the domain name to a different domain registrar,.

Part of the settlement with Dynadot is for them to lock the domain so it cannot be transferred. Of course should the ruling be overturned they can then change ISPs if they want.

It's a typo.

and lets face it terrorism (yes its an overused bogeyman, but if you traveled to work everyday in London via the tube, it would seem important to you)

I do travel to work every day by tube, central line, from Zone 6 in the east, through the centre, to Zone 2 in the west. I spend 2 hours a day on it, half of that is in deep tube (most of the July 7th casualties were on the picadilly line as it's so confined). Terrorism doens't concern me, the lack of police on the streets does, the fact that when they are allowed to get out of the office and capture criminals they often get off lightly. The fact even when they don't get off lightly, and there's a near-100% chance of being caught, it still goes on, it's a cancer in society that more surveilance of the 99% of people that don't cause the problems won't cure. Even when you get a decent CCTV image, how often are perpertrators identified? Of course that's a good excuse for face recognition on CCTV. But how to you find them once you identify them -- how about a nationwide searchable database with everyone's location on it.

People aren't as concerned with drivers causing over 20,000 deaths in the UK this decade, a number that hasn't wavered despite the massive increase in surveilance (and associated decrease in real patrols, and increase in car safety). 50 deaths from terrorism in the same time doesn't even register. People aren't even concerned about the numbers of unregistered, uninsured cars on our streets, especially in London (which the cameras don't catch up on).

The problem isn't when Labour are in power. As bad as our current government is, they aren't ones to go Mugabe on everyone. The danger isn't even if the BNP come to power. It's the present thread of when someone hacks into the centralised database, or buys their way in. Right now people with convictions for pretty nasty crimes can get your name and address and come around and intimidate you into paying them large sums of money without due process. If the information is collected, it will be sold and stolen.

Quite possible. Blair has been very evasive on tapping MPs or what's called the Wilson Doctrine.

His last utterance said "that the Wilson Doctrine should be maintained."

Artfully avoiding saying whether it is being maintained and especially whether it was being maintained.

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