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UK Email Retention Plan Technically Flawed
deltaromeo points out a BBC report calling the UK's law requiring ISPs to retain users' emails for at least a year an "attack on rights." The article also points out financial and technical flaws with the plan (which we first discussed in October). TechCrunch goes a step further, detailing how it conflicts with other governmental goals. Quoting:
"...with one hand the government seeks to lock down the British Internet with an iron fist, while at the same time telling us it is boosting innovation and business online. It is quite clearly blind to the fact that one affects the other. Are we also expected to think that the consumers using online services are not going to be put off from engaging in the boom of 'sharing' that Web 2.0 created? How would you feel if every Twitter you sent, every video uploaded, was to be stored and held against you in perpetuity? That may not happen, but the mere suggestion that your email is no longer private would serve to kill the UK population's relish for new media stone dead, and with it large swathes of the developing online economy."
How the fuck was this modded Informative? What non-geek, who can barely be encouraged to use something other an IE is going to go to the effort of setting up their own email server? And how can you measure the tangible benefits when they could just use something like GMail and get on with their lives?
Do any of you geeks mingle with non-geeks once in a while?
A 110 floor building fell on it. The side of Building 7 facing the towers was TORN TO SHREDS. Of course it was going to collapse, because it was structurally compromised. Now it might have stayed standing despite that wxtreme damage, but since the whole building was an inferno, the steel literally melted and then failed.
As for the Pentagon, even if it had stayed in pristine shape and was never struck, isn't the attack on the Twin Towers enough reason to assassinate Bin Laden? I say yes.
And finally what about the smoking crater in Pennsylvania where a few hundred souls are buried? Those people were hijacked by terrorists!!!
I am sick-and-tired of listening to this shit. It's almost reached the point where I think members of the KKK make more snese than youn onpsiracy songs odf itdfhes who dont' giv s CAMN aobu ht e3000 people who died that day. Gop put as bullet in your ehad and make the world a better place, if you care so little about the Victims. Cold hearted bastard.
"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." - historian Evelyn Beatrice Hall
The elderly population is growing in Britain. This large group is full of fear-filled ignorant and backwards people.
Despite being alive either in or around WWII or during the 60's when they were all for love and peace, these people are happy to turn the UK into a Nazi state so long as it keeps the coloured people out and criminalises young people just for being born.