I guess the commission took a good look at Quidam Quidam, a television series that ran on VPRO in Holland for a while. The series showed a hacker (a good one) in a rotten society in wich such a file was stored for every citizen by a national database. The most scary part of this where the thousands of people analyzing the security cameras that where all over the country in order to keep the peronal files as complete as possible. The most important man of the country was of course the head of this "National Database". I thougt the series was meant to show a distopia (negative or unwanted image of a possible future society). Unfortunately some people seem to have a different interpretation.
Still I'm glad to live in Holland, for at least we first have a public discussion on these topics. Instead of the USA where the government checks all e-mail (including mine) and does not allow encryptings that they can't read. And we certainly have less security cameras at this moment.
I checked the URL of Quidam Quidam, but it's only in Dutch.
Maybe it's different in the States, but in the Netherlands there still is a big shortage of specialized IT-people. Friends who did finish their studies at univercity and persist in not working in IT earn half the money that friends without a diploma working as programmer or system administrator earn.
I think IT-specilists are getting more money then they deserve because of this shortage and yes when you're 35 and not up-to-date because you don't know how to work with the newest stuff you just should have known better.
I guess I must be one then.
And I think that it just starts to be nice when the robots wouldn't be remote controlled. Then you will need a real nerd to win the battle and not the chauvinist male pigs who are interested in this Robot Battle.
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I guess the commission took a good look at Quidam Quidam, a television series that ran on VPRO in Holland for a while. The series showed a hacker (a good one) in a rotten society in wich such a file was stored for every citizen by a national database. The most scary part of this where the thousands of people analyzing the security cameras that where all over the country in order to keep the peronal files as complete as possible. The most important man of the country was of course the head of this "National Database". I thougt the series was meant to show a distopia (negative or unwanted image of a possible future society). Unfortunately some people seem to have a different interpretation.
Still I'm glad to live in Holland, for at least we first have a public discussion on these topics. Instead of the USA where the government checks all e-mail (including mine) and does not allow encryptings that they can't read. And we certainly have less security cameras at this moment.
I checked the URL of Quidam Quidam, but it's only in Dutch.
Maybe it's different in the States, but in the Netherlands there still is a big shortage of specialized IT-people. Friends who did finish their studies at univercity and persist in not working in IT earn half the money that friends without a diploma working as programmer or system administrator earn. I think IT-specilists are getting more money then they deserve because of this shortage and yes when you're 35 and not up-to-date because you don't know how to work with the newest stuff you just should have known better.
I guess I must be one then. And I think that it just starts to be nice when the robots wouldn't be remote controlled. Then you will need a real nerd to win the battle and not the chauvinist male pigs who are interested in this Robot Battle.