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The Prime Minister recognises the achievements of Professor Stephen Hawking and the widespread regard in which he is held. But it is of course the case that only about 60 Knighthoods are granted each year and there are many deserving candidates for each honour.
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Unfortunately in the UK banks are no longer required to help you out or issue chargebacks in cases involving PayPal. The reason is that the banking code only requires them to do anything when you have a dispute with the person you had a transaction with, which in this case is PayPal. You send the money to PayPal, and then in a separate transaction they send it to the seller. So, if you problem is with the seller, they don't have to help.

I started a petition to get the law changed: http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/3partyccs/

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A large part of the motivating force behind this law are the anti-pornography feminists.

This has been my experience following the progress of the law too. And people should note that that's specifically anti-porn feminists. I know many sex-positive and anti-censorship feminists opposing this law.

The Government's so-called "evidence" for this law, the Rapid Evidence Assessment, was in fact written by three feminists with known anti-porn views, and has been criticised widely by academics.

One of my friends, a feminist who was hosting a speech at a feminist conference about this law, started receiving harrassment and abuse (in fact from charliegrrl, and other anti-porn feminists), unable to believe that another feminist could oppose the law, and doing their best to stifle any debate.

The height of the madness was a petition started by group mediawatch-uk - I can understand this getting support from the anti-sex religious groups, but to my disbelief, I saw feminists giving their support to this pro-censorship anti-sex organisation, that would result in criminalising images of a wide range of sexual acts. The worse part is that they play the card of being oppressed feminists - even though they are in bed with organisations in power that are lobbying for these laws, that will persecute and oppress others.

One of the sad things is the way that this mad law has got support from anyone jumping on the anti-porn bandwagon. Even if you think porn is bad, this is still an awful law!

These anti-porn feminists have been waging a gorilla war against porn for the better part of 4 decades. This law is just the beginning of what they'd like to see. They seriously believed that porn causes women to be raped and that seeing porn turns men into rapists. They don't get a lot of attention because most people think they're nuts. I'd say that their success in getting this law as far as it has gotten should change that. If you don't want to live in a society where porn is banned because those in power believe that it turns men into rapists, then you'd better start paying more attention to what radicals like these are doing - and opposing it.

I agree - some are even calling for all porn to be made a hate crime against women.

The summary of the story doesn't emphasise the point that the spying test was just a small trial, and that Phorm is actually coming directly to the UK.

3 of the major UK ISPs: Virgin Media, BT and Talk Talk are getting all ready to implement and bring in Phorm. More information and details are available at the useful website BadPhorm: http://www.badphorm.co.uk/

Thousands and thousands of UK users are going to be subject to this inescapable violation of their privacy with little to do about it. There is an opt-out cookie, but this does not prevent the fact that the users browsing still goes through the Phorm servers. Would you be happy with all your internet browsing going through a third party server, let alone one owned by an advertising company that wants to profile you and "see the whole internet" (Reference: http://www.badphorm.co.uk/news.php?item.30.3 ) through your browsing history.

There is lots of interesting discussion going on about this, particularly at Cable Forum by Virgin Media users, who are going to be thrown into this spying (Link: http://www.cableforum.co.uk/board/12/33628733-virgin-media-phorm-webwise-adverts-updated.html )

A fast growing petition to the UK government on the governments website is nearing 10000 signatures, and just shows how many people do not want this to happen (Link: http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/ispphorm/ )

This may not concern many people in the US, or people on the smaller ISPs in the UK - but the worrying thing is, other ISPs are already saying that they are going to watch the results and see if the ISPs can get away with it - if they can, they will likely pick it up to. And your ISP might do too!

I am glad someone finally spoke out, even more so because i am WITH TalkTalk!

What these idiots want ISPs to do is pathetic, it is NOT their responsibility to police the customers.
If the internets start getting policed, why not sales of adult material in stores?
Most shopkeepers are perfectly fine with giving stupid kids cigarettes and alcohol and other adult materials, OH MAI THE HORROR.
Hell, i even saw a video of it, i could get a shopkeeper jailed because the idiot let 2 kids record them on phone selling them cigarettes

Screw the music business, either you learn to adapt to the internet or kindly GET THE HELL OUT!

Also, if you haven't already, sign this petition!
Open Internet Petition
E-mail/mail/phone/harass everyone you can about this, we can't let them win!

In a possibly futile attempt to influence the government, I have created a petition (not up yet, pending approval), that shall be found here when it is accepted:
http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/dnacollection/
If any British citizens/expats could sign, it'd do us all a whole lot of good

Isn't it kind of the point that a net neutral ISP would not be able to watch data over their network and prevent piracy*?

It's kinda like saying if we let the Royal Mail read ever letter, we might catch a few criminals. If we don't, we'll have to catch them in some other more complicated and convoluted way.

Seriously, if its a criminal matter, I've not got too much of a problem with the GOVERNMENT watching our downloading. There's a possible reason behind it. Plus (usually) it'd go to a criminal court. If its just any company checking to see if I've just listening to 30 seconds of some other artists music, is it really their right to be able to use my own ISP against me without any proof?

* (read as: be forced to sue their customers on behalf on a organisation that doesn't stand for its members)

I know a lot of you won't agree with this petition that I set up on the Downing Street site (and I don't expect it to do anything), but please read it and offer your criticism and comments, I'd appreciate your thoughts.

There's a petition to save Jodrell bank here.

I'd be more bothered by the fact that you have to give your full address and have it all sent in cleartext.

Well there was http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/secure-https/ , but unfortunately not many people were willing to sign it... ;)

You can also sign this petition: http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/openinternet/

An admin deleted a link because the UK's Prime Ministers office wasn't considered an authoritative source on House of Lords reform. When Wikipedia lets it's admins practice group think and self evident bias daily, it cannot be considered creadible.

Sign the petitions to revoke scientology's tax exempt status in the USA:

http://www.petitiononline.com/cofs1/petition.html

6 petitions that British citizens and/or residents can sign by going to the Downing Street website:

http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/StopNarconon/
http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/scientologyno/
http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/-Scientology/
http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/anti-scientology/
http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/PoliceandCoS/
http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/ScientologyNMW/#detail

Sign the petitions to revoke scientology's tax exempt status in the USA:

http://www.petitiononline.com/cofs1/petition.html

6 petitions that British citizens and/or residents can sign by going to the Downing Street website:

http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/StopNarconon/
http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/scientologyno/
http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/-Scientology/
http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/anti-scientology/
http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/PoliceandCoS/
http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/ScientologyNMW/#detail

Sign the petitions to revoke scientology's tax exempt status in the USA:

http://www.petitiononline.com/cofs1/petition.html

6 petitions that British citizens and/or residents can sign by going to the Downing Street website:

http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/StopNarconon/
http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/scientologyno/
http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/-Scientology/
http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/anti-scientology/
http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/PoliceandCoS/
http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/ScientologyNMW/#detail

Sign the petitions to revoke scientology's tax exempt status in the USA:

http://www.petitiononline.com/cofs1/petition.html

6 petitions that British citizens and/or residents can sign by going to the Downing Street website:

http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/StopNarconon/
http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/scientologyno/
http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/-Scientology/
http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/anti-scientology/
http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/PoliceandCoS/
http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/ScientologyNMW/#detail

Sign the petitions to revoke scientology's tax exempt status in the USA:

http://www.petitiononline.com/cofs1/petition.html

6 petitions that British citizens and/or residents can sign by going to the Downing Street website:

http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/StopNarconon/
http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/scientologyno/
http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/-Scientology/
http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/anti-scientology/
http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/PoliceandCoS/
http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/ScientologyNMW/#detail

Sign the petitions to revoke scientology's tax exempt status in the USA:

http://www.petitiononline.com/cofs1/petition.html

6 petitions that British citizens and/or residents can sign by going to the Downing Street website:

http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/StopNarconon/
http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/scientologyno/
http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/-Scientology/
http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/anti-scientology/
http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/PoliceandCoS/
http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/ScientologyNMW/#detail

Looks like they are caving in to Political lobbying. Given the modern governments tendency to follow what focus groups say we need to counter that pressure. Somebody needs to create a petition.

To be honest, I'm surprised there isn't an online petition at http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/ yet (or at least one that I could find).

I would make one, but I'm not really too bothered by this new regulation.

here is a petition for net neutrality, I think that fits for this http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/Netneutrality/

http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/list/open?sort=signers There is a means to petition the Prime Minister. I don't know how effective it actually is, I've signed a few myself in the past, and one or two of them have made headlines. However, I don't even know if the bugger even reads any of them, or even gets to hear about any of them, but it is another outlet for your voice. Personally, I'm actually looking for work overseas, because I've lost all love for my homeland, this legislation is looking to be the final straw and I hate feeling like this.

Interestingly, A little under 40,000 people in the UK want Jeremy Clarkson as Prime Minister, and have signed a petition on the Downing Street web site http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/PMClarkson/. Ironic that the reason he got stung was trying to disprove the risk of ID theft after the recent child benefit data loss. I guess he really is suited for the job.

If you didn't know and you live in the UK (or an ex-pat) then you can petition Gordon brown at the Number 10 website on this matter. There are a number of petitions relating to Burma, including this one which asks him to "actually DO something instead of just threatening sanctions".

If you didn't know and you live in the UK (or an ex-pat) then you can petition Gordon brown at the Number 10 website on this matter. There are a number of petitions relating to Burma, including this one which asks him to "actually DO something instead of just threatening sanctions".

If you didn't know and you live in the UK (or an ex-pat) then you can petition Gordon brown at the Number 10 website on this matter. There are a number of petitions relating to Burma, including this one which asks him to "actually DO something instead of just threatening sanctions".

Yeah, I know I'm probably going to be modded -1 Offtopic, but this is the most relevent Slashdot story in a while.

There's a petition for the BBFC to not have powers to ban video games on the 10 Downing Street petition site, with Manhunt 2 the main inspiration for the petition. Now I know that online petitions rarely do something, but this isn't petitionsonline.com. It's got over 200 signatures, so the least we'll get is a response from the government (the ID cards petition got one supposedly from Tony Blair himself). It's got 4 days left, so we should have a response by then.

I don't know about last year, but this year more innocent British people have died in Britain from heart attacks brought about by the excitement of riding a motobike for the first time in their life, than from terrorism. The fatality counts being zero and one repsectively.

For the USA? Let's take the last decade:
~170,000 homicides (not counting terrorism)
~300,000 suicides
~300,000 road traffic fatalities
~3000 killed by terrorism

What I'm really interested in, is how many Americans are killed each year by their own Police force?

(P.S., if anyone is interested, can we please try to fire the head of the UK Association of Chief Police Officers? He's been asking for the power of unlimited duration detention without even filing charges.)

There is a saying; put a frog into a pot of boiling water, and it jumps out. Put it in a pot of cool water, then slowly raise the temperature, and it will stay in the pot until it dies.

The British police are also asking for the power to hold suspects "for as long as it takes" to get the evidence needed to formally charge them. I will have none of it; here is a petition calling for the removal of the head of the UK Association of Chief Police Officers.

Is anyone laboring under the impression that e-petitions do anything?

Talking of petitions pushing for more open source support where public funding is concerned, I am waiting to see if the government make any response to http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/Open-IT-projects/ when it ends later this month.

Alternatively, sign this one which covers the same issue and has far more signatures.

Please feel free to sign the petition on the Government website.

http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/bbcmicrosoft/

Always good to raise the profile of this...

There are some petitions on the Government web site if anyone would like to sign them (UK people only, of course).

http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/50years/

http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/copyright50/

There are some petitions on the Government web site if anyone would like to sign them (UK people only, of course).

http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/50years/

http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/copyright50/

Well, this puts me right off David Cameron.

but if it is the UK gov doing it, nobody bats an eyelid.

For example, smoking. I hate smoking, it's horrid. But if people want to do it, they should be able to go to pubs where it's allowed.

And if people want to copy music or books or whatever of an artist that is well dead and buried then they should be able to do that too.

There is an 'e-petition' that can be signed by UK citizens or residents at http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/iplayer/ (9,058 signatures at the time of this posting)

Will someone in the US government please do the same?

If your British, let the goverment know, right here : http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/videogames/

England Prevails!

UK and ex-pats only though.

http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/iplayer/

Then they suddenly became very friendly with Microsoft (not sure if it was connected with the change of management after Blair kicked the existing one out by saying bad things about Iraq or whether Bill came by with a sack of cash) - they developed iPlayer which was based on Windows Media Player, so now Linux and even Mac users were left out in the cold. In effect the BBC started discriminating against people unwilling or unable to pay the Microsoft Tax.

The BBC have lately promised to also make the content available on MacOS X eventually, but no dates have been fixed. In the end for it to work on the Mac they will have to offer their content either in an open DRM-free format or use Apples DRM. If they stick with the DRM route it will mean Linux and other OS users will be out of luck. FWIW (not a lot probably) here's a petition to make iPlayer cross platform (with a name like iSomething you'd expect it to work on a mac!).

There is a petition with goverment response in this area
http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/theholocaust/ where they say

The Government is aware that there has been some misreporting on the teaching of the Holocaust in English schools. The e-petition has picked up on these reports, and we are able to say categorically that the Holocaust is a compulsory part of the Key Stage 3 National Curriculum for history and is a very well resourced topic as it has been compulsory for 10 years. Such is the importance of this area of study it will remain compulsory in the new Key Stage 3 curriculum from September 2008.

By the way, there's a petition here to the British government to abolish Crown Copyright. I'd urge any British citizens to sign this; as well as the KJV Bible, there are numerous works under Crown Copyright which would be incredibly useful if made freely available to the general population (ordnance survey maps, for example).

Sign the petition to stop UK ISPs from advertising unlimited packages when there are in fact hidden caps in their un-Fair Usage Policies
http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/Unlimited-ADSL/

I find it very hard to accept that anybody "acted" in a country where they were not physically present at the time. Not even in a physical case of say a missile. Absolutely ridiculous. Even worse is the fact that the one way extradition arrangement was put in to fight terrorism not a stoned guy breaking security so weak it makes the rest of the world laugh. For citizens of the UK there is a petition to scrap the extradition arrangement used: http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/Extradition/ The US never ratified it because it was "unconstitutional". Well they got that right, why we ratified it is a complete mystery. Hey Tony can you bend over any further ... well actually George maybe I can.

vote with your personal information: http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/GaryMcKinnon/sign send blair an email to tell him what a gimp he's made out of the UK, nothing like the movie.!

I got a copy of this via e-mail this morning. I must say, it was nice to hear back from Number 10. I know they've had problems with the online petitions and I had worried that a potentially useful system like this might be abused, and/or ignored by Blair - particularly since some of the online petitions asked for silly (but funny) things like having the prime minister make the petitioner a cup of tea (that one was rejected because it was 'outside the remit or powers of the Prime Minister and Government', but not before it gathered a lot of signatures). Getting an e-mail acknowledging the patent issue and explaining Labour's policy was reassuring. From a democratic standpoint, and because it shows corruption of the patent process in Europe hasn't hit to the depths of the US.

Another you might find interesting: http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/Open-IT-projects/

"We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to require that all publicly funded software projects publish source code under a Free licence."

I've signed it. :-)