Canadian ISPs Could Take On Big Brother Role

QGambit writes: "C|Net is reporting that the Canadian Government is considering a proposal that would force ISPs to keep logs of web browsing for up to 6 months, allow police to get search warrants allowing them to find 'hidden electronic and digital devices' and ban the possession of computer viruses. Canada and the U.S. have both endorsed this proposal, contained in a cybercrime treaty of the Council of Europe. Both countries are non-voting members of the Council. George Radwanski, Canada's privacy commissioner has not yet commented on the proposal."

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Re:1984 all over again...

[perfessor multigeek]

It'd be really cool if we had a beowulf cluster of baked beans.

It would, of course, be gas powered.
lessee, black beans for SETI@home and secret stuff. Red beans for political/demographics. Mungbeans for grotty code. Kidney beans for repeating processes. Black-eye peas for tracking violence statistics.
Government projects would work on pork and beans.
Massively iterative jobs would create refried beans.
Christian attempts to analyze word patterns in the Torah would use GOYa beans.
MIT would resent the assumption that they used Boston beans (Cambridge, dammit!)
And, of course, the Genome Project would use Human Beans.
Aaaggh! Stop me before I free associate again!

Rustin