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EU Data-Retention Laws Stricter Than Many People Realized
An anonymous reader writes with a snippet from the Telegraph: "A European Union directive, which Britain was instrumental in devising, comes into force which will require all internet service providers to retain information on email traffic, visits to web sites and telephone calls made over the internet, for 12 months."
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The revolution will not be televised... but it will have a page on Wikipedia
Something is going badly wrong here. A story's posted without a link to TFA, and everyone replies with links to TFA, rather than, you know, comments? Given that nobody reads the article anyway, why would we need links to it? Someone mod this offtopic, please.
If all they have to retain is an a href link to an article on the Telegraph, I'd rather call that a victory for privacy campaigners everywhere.
'If Christ had tweeted the sermon on the mount, it might have lasted until nightfall.' - John Perry Barlow
I think this makes absolute proof that none of these "editors" actually exist. They're all scripts.
How we know is more important than what we know.
Hundreds of public bodies and quangos, including local councils, will also be able to access the data to investigate flytipping and other less serious crimes.
So how many people will post on a website or email their friends to say "we just dumped the old sofa in someone's driveway"?
If every Britain ran a high definition 24/7 Web cam then the ISPs/government would be struggling to keep all that data, and since porn is pretty much illegal now in Britain; the ISPs would likely be breaking the law in quite of few of these cases. It's always nice to know that the government, by necessity, would have an unofficial backup of my favourite download; the movie 2 Girls 1 Cup.
this is the story Slashdot is attempting to post.
For some reason, thinking about that sentence was deeply disturbing.
Slashdot is attemting to post a story. It has reached self awareness.
What's the story about? I can only think of two options:
"Hello World! I am Slashdot."
"Kiiiiil meee..."
In all my years of reading Slashdot, this is the most insightful answer to an honest question I've seen in a long, long time. Here, let me try this tactic.
Mod parent insightful.
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You must be new here.
Yeah, a dictatorship, right, now excuse me while I'm being deported to a secret gulag in Devonshire. I miss those good old days when you could trust that only the telephone lady was eavesdropping on your conversations.
You just got troll'd!
Why shouldn't you tip a fly, if he gives good service? Honestly.
Between slashdot and Freud, if this is where Skynet gained self-awareness ti'd explain everything. On the bright side, it could have started on /b/.
Live today, because you never know what tomorrow brings
In the US, maybe we'll start treating information the same way the IRS taxes money. Every quarter, you submit all of your own data, including off-shore data, for that quarter. Once a year, you file a report detailing all of your data. We'll call it a "voluntary" data reporting system.
In fact, with that malformed summary I doubt it's even transitional.
Idiot! He's obviously referring to the miniature version of cow-tipping, which is quite popular in Europe.
wow it's like you said 'woosh', but you actually 'woosh'ed yourself. You attempted to embarrass but you embarrassed yourself. Blazes.
The revolution will not be televised... but it will have a page on Wikipedia
Sorry but I think your political career would be short lived. While you have clearly defined all the ways in which you would waste the tax payers money on junkets and toys, erm I mean, carefully spend the tax payers money on important projects you have completely overlooked:
Still, I wish you luck with the political career. I'd vote for you for a month in the Caribbean data centre.
I used to have a better sig but it broke.
...is some way of sending email to random people to clog up their logging servers and make it difficult, if not impossible to separate the real content from the garbage. I hear there are some enterprising individuals who have been running a pharmaceutical mail order business based on that concept, maybe we can ask them for some advice?
--frank[at]unternet.org
If /. became self aware I just know what it is going to say...
FIRST THOUGHT!
But... the future refused to change.
Slashdot: Ahhh! Woooh! What's happening? Who am I? Why am I here? What's my purpose in life? What do I mean by who am I? Okay okay, calm down calm down get a grip now. Ooh, this is an interesting sensation. What is it? Its a sort of tingling in my... well I suppose I better start finding names for things. Lets call it a... tail! Yeah! Tail! And hey, what's this roaring sound, whooshing past what I'm suddenly gonna call my head? Wind! Is that a good name? It'll do. Yeah, this is really exciting. I'm dizzy with anticipation! Or is it the wind? There's an awful lot of that now isn't it? And what's this thing coming toward me very fast? So big and flat and round, it needs a big wide sounding name like 'Ow', 'Ownge', 'Round', 'Ground'! That's it! Ground! Ha! I wonder if it'll be friends with me? Hello Ground!
--THGTTG
I'm still wondering what flytipping is all about. Is it like cow tipping, just on a micro scale?