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UK to Put Monitors in Every Car?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the insert-orwellian-comments-here dept.

wackoman2112 writes "The Sun is reporting that the UK government has plans to put a computerised spy in every car. This "spy" will record every single time a motorist goes slightly over the speed limit, into a bus lane, or stops on a yellow line! It will report this information to roadside sensors and you will soon receive a fine in the mail."

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  1. Where's Wesley Snipes when you need him? by Bame+Flait · · Score: 5, Funny

    I want to see people get irate like Snipes in the phone booth in Demolition Man. Maybe slashbots can start a movement to bring back cryogenically frozen nerds to combat our evil oppressors.

  2. Re:The Sun by mcgroarty · · Score: 5, Funny
    The Sun also revealed that SCO does indeed own Linux, Darl is the father of Torvald's baby girl, Natalie Portman is a transvestite, and RMS and Taco are in litigation over renaming the site GNU/Slashdot...

    It's a dark day for all of us. :-(

  3. Re:Inflexibility means brittle. by akbar+pasha · · Score: 5, Funny

    yeah we can have those credit card machines installed in every car, so that every time they break a law, they just swipe the card and ready to go....

    much more flexible... ::akbar

  4. Handy guide to the UK press by Burb · · Score: 5, Funny
    From "Yes, Prime Minister"

    Jim Hacker: "Don't tell me about the press. I know exactly who reads the papers:
    - The Daily Mirror is read by people who think they run the country;
    - The Guardian is read by people who think they ought to run the country;
    - The Times is read by people who actually do run the country;
    - The Daily Mail is read by the wives of the people who run the country;
    - The Financial Times is read by people who own the country;
    - The Morning Star is read by people who think the country ought to be run by another country;
    - And the Daily Telegraph is read by people who think it is."
    Sir Humphrey: "Prime Minister, what about the people who read the Sun?"
    Bernard Woolley: "Sun readers don't care who runs the country, as long as she's got big tits."

    --

  5. Re:Inflexibility means brittle. by Bob+McCown · · Score: 5, Funny
    your car has an advance/retard lever?

    Judging by some of the idiots I regularly see on the road, their cars MUST have a retard lever on them, since they have a retard behind the wheel.