It's the information it might hold in the future that matters and that's basically anything that the government want it to be. Today they want your name and address, tomorrow they could add ethnicity, religion, sexuality, salary or political preferences.
Hell, they can put anything they want on the database, you're giving them that power, and guess what, you're also giving them your identity. Once an ID system is in place it is the state, the card and the number which define *your* identity, not the other way round. The real Colin Smith becomes the person with the Colin Smith card and the Colin Smith ID number.
You may well think this is paranoid. Well I would have thought so as well but history says that it isn't, look up Tutsi and the J stamp on Google in the context of ID cards.
The thing is that an ID card is an enabler for discrimination, it is *specifically* designed to allow the government to discriminate against non citizens, but why stop there? Adding another field to a database is a seconds work.
You missed out the quality of the admins and the numbers of problems which have to be solved per desktop etc etc.
I for example am quite expensive. I can on the other hand quite easily set up a system that supports hundreds, thousands of concurrent users and requires bugger all administration, on cheap commodity, even obsolete, hardware. A small amount of time from an expensive admin is cheap. A large amount of time from a cheap admin is expensive.
Good god, would you really want to employ someone who was unable to transfer their knowledge of one application on to another of the same type?
Then there's the corollary, would you want to work for the kind of muppets who couldn't realise that the concepts are the same for all word processors, hell even the menu layouts are similar.
Reality check. People who are this dumb are going to get eaten alive in the globalised economy.
The big difference with your driver's license is that your drivers license is a license to drive a vehicle and not a unique index which will allow any and all transactions using it to be collated by pretty much anyone who can afford it.
"This national ID is exactly the same. Do you really think that the Terrorists will go to the DMV and say, "Hi, I'm Osama Bin Laden, I'd like my Driver's license today. Thank you?""
Actually, yes I do. I think they will do it again and again and again until they have all the cards they need.
Not my own MP though, his voting record is a near perfect copy of Tony Blair's.
We do need proportional representation. *36%* is all they got, barely more than 1/3. I'm going to have a word with my new MP and inform him that he is supposed to be a representative for his constituency, including the 58% majority who didn't vote for him.
The "New Labour" government got back in the UK (with a reduced minority) so are going to try to introduce ID cards here, but at least there's going to be a hell of a debate on it now they won't be able to steamroller it through.
There are lots of spyware detection and removal applications out there for Windows. They're even pretty simple to install, use and are even fairly effective. This is product placement, not news.
There have been boats built out of concrete for years, they aren't a new phenomenon, the hull has some flexibility. Replacing the steel reinforcing with fibres is an interesting development.
I mean, wouldn't it be more valuable to leave the hole in place and wait until millions of machines have IIS installed? If I was a serious cracker that's what I'd do.
"The technology to circumvent censorship may exist, but if you use them, you have next to no chance of flying under the radar."
Not true, at the moment it just requires a bit of tech savvy to do it. Encryption, steganogaphy, watermarking can all make information dissemination virtually unstoppable and virtually undetectable, even in the most totalitarian of states. All it takes is intent. To really f*ck up the authorities all that would be required is someone to combine the three into easy to use packages, then make them freely available.
Thing is, the Internet is the physical network and networking protocols on top. That in itself can be physically disconnected. Course, someone can just dial a modem or plug in a satellite phone should they want to bypass that disconnection. The actual information itself on the other hand can't even be disconnected, it's far more difficult to control than even the Internet.
The Chinese think they have something censored but should the people want to see something, they will. The key is the _desire_.
This concentration of resources in a single company or product is stupid, you just take your eye off the ball. Do what you do best and let others get on with what they do best.
I have no idea what kool-aid is but I do know that for the last 20 years people have had to learn to be flexible, not to expect a job to last any more than a few years and to show exactly the loyalty to an employer that they would show to their employees.
13,000 is a tiny, miniscule number out of the workforce of a single country never mind 25 countries.
If you're willing and able to move to where the work is it's easy to get a new job. If you are unwilling or unable then you may well be in for a long wait.
13,000 jobs lost aren't a problem, they'll easily find work elsewhere. The problem comes when you have thousands of jobs lost in a single area with people who are unwilling or unable to move to where the new opportunities are.
As soon as people have easy access to information, specifically the internet, trying to stop the spread of information of any kind is akin to trying to hold back the ocean. It doesn't work. The result is going to be a very very interesting liberalisation of Chinese political system. Hopefully they'll ultimately decide on a better system than what the UK and US loosely call democracy.
The software's written by people who know what they're doing, a bit like the software for fly-by-wire planes.
The irony is that it can be done today.
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Just not on regular roads. Retrofitting the existing road network with the required level of instrumentation is actually more expensive than building a new one.
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It's the information it might hold in the future that matters and that's basically anything that the government want it to be. Today they want your name and address, tomorrow they could add ethnicity, religion, sexuality, salary or political preferences.
Hell, they can put anything they want on the database, you're giving them that power, and guess what, you're also giving them your identity. Once an ID system is in place it is the state, the card and the number which define *your* identity, not the other way round. The real Colin Smith becomes the person with the Colin Smith card and the Colin Smith ID number.
You may well think this is paranoid. Well I would have thought so as well but history says that it isn't, look up Tutsi and the J stamp on Google in the context of ID cards.
The thing is that an ID card is an enabler for discrimination, it is *specifically* designed to allow the government to discriminate against non citizens, but why stop there? Adding another field to a database is a seconds work.
Get your tinfoil beanie out.
http://www.webactivemagazine.co.uk/news/1162852
There are many boroughs in London, Westminster is but one of them.
Move away. I just did.
Less noise, less pollution, less traffic, less crime, less intrusion, less stress, less expense.
London is a great place to visit for a week. It's a horrible place to live and work, though it's still better than Manchester.
"If all you will hire is people with that kind of skill, you won't be hiring many people, and you'll be paying them large salaries."
Bollocks I will. If they don't have those kinds of (pretty bloody basic) skills, there are 1,000,000,000 Chinese who will at a fraction of the cost.
Seems like.
You missed out the quality of the admins and the numbers of problems which have to be solved per desktop etc etc.
I for example am quite expensive. I can on the other hand quite easily set up a system that supports hundreds, thousands of concurrent users and requires bugger all administration, on cheap commodity, even obsolete, hardware. A small amount of time from an expensive admin is cheap. A large amount of time from a cheap admin is expensive.
Good god, would you really want to employ someone who was unable to transfer their knowledge of one application on to another of the same type?
Then there's the corollary, would you want to work for the kind of muppets who couldn't realise that the concepts are the same for all word processors, hell even the menu layouts are similar.
Reality check. People who are this dumb are going to get eaten alive in the globalised economy.
The big difference with your driver's license is that your drivers license is a license to drive a vehicle and not a unique index which will allow any and all transactions using it to be collated by pretty much anyone who can afford it.
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"Anyone have a non-biased link or news item"
You believe there's such a thing?
http://forms.theregister.co.uk/search/?q=ID+cards
The points on the ican and no2id.net pages are simple, straightforward and very good reasons why ID cards should not be introduced.
FFS! It's not compulsory, it's *voluntary*, just don't put the postcode in if you don't want to... OR, just read the FAQ and web page.
There's rational debate and there's paranoia. Rational debate can accomplish things, paranoia gets you locked up in a padded cell.
"This national ID is exactly the same. Do you really think that the Terrorists will go to the DMV and say, "Hi, I'm Osama Bin Laden, I'd like my Driver's license today. Thank you?""
Actually, yes I do. I think they will do it again and again and again until they have all the cards they need.
UK anti-ID card pages:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/ican/A2561834
and
http://www.no2id.net/
Not my own MP though, his voting record is a near perfect copy of Tony Blair's.
We do need proportional representation. *36%* is all they got, barely more than 1/3. I'm going to have a word with my new MP and inform him that he is supposed to be a representative for his constituency, including the 58% majority who didn't vote for him.
Here's some prepared earlier.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/ican/A2561834
http://www.no2id.net/
Where's the debate on this?
The "New Labour" government got back in the UK (with a reduced minority) so are going to try to introduce ID cards here, but at least there's going to be a hell of a debate on it now they won't be able to steamroller it through.
http://www.no2id.net/
There are lots of spyware detection and removal applications out there for Windows. They're even pretty simple to install, use and are even fairly effective. This is product placement, not news.
There have been boats built out of concrete for years, they aren't a new phenomenon, the hull has some flexibility. Replacing the steel reinforcing with fibres is an interesting development.
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http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=ferrocemen
I mean, wouldn't it be more valuable to leave the hole in place and wait until millions of machines have IIS installed? If I was a serious cracker that's what I'd do.
"The technology to circumvent censorship may exist, but if you use them, you have next to no chance of flying under the radar."
Not true, at the moment it just requires a bit of tech savvy to do it. Encryption, steganogaphy, watermarking can all make information dissemination virtually unstoppable and virtually undetectable, even in the most totalitarian of states. All it takes is intent. To really f*ck up the authorities all that would be required is someone to combine the three into easy to use packages, then make them freely available.
Thing is, the Internet is the physical network and networking protocols on top. That in itself can be physically disconnected. Course, someone can just dial a modem or plug in a satellite phone should they want to bypass that disconnection. The actual information itself on the other hand can't even be disconnected, it's far more difficult to control than even the Internet.
The Chinese think they have something censored but should the people want to see something, they will. The key is the _desire_.
This concentration of resources in a single company or product is stupid, you just take your eye off the ball. Do what you do best and let others get on with what they do best.
I have no idea what kool-aid is but I do know that for the last 20 years people have had to learn to be flexible, not to expect a job to last any more than a few years and to show exactly the loyalty to an employer that they would show to their employees.
Welcome to the free market.
Lets get some perspective.
13,000 is a tiny, miniscule number out of the workforce of a single country never mind 25 countries.
If you're willing and able to move to where the work is it's easy to get a new job. If you are unwilling or unable then you may well be in for a long wait.
13,000 jobs lost aren't a problem, they'll easily find work elsewhere. The problem comes when you have thousands of jobs lost in a single area with people who are unwilling or unable to move to where the new opportunities are.
As soon as people have easy access to information, specifically the internet, trying to stop the spread of information of any kind is akin to trying to hold back the ocean. It doesn't work. The result is going to be a very very interesting liberalisation of Chinese political system. Hopefully they'll ultimately decide on a better system than what the UK and US loosely call democracy.
"In short: Just what, exactly, is going on here?"
NASA have to find some way to spend $16,000,000,000. It's not as if you could find any another way to spend that kind of money on space is it?
The software's written by people who know what they're doing, a bit like the software for fly-by-wire planes.
Just not on regular roads. Retrofitting the existing road network with the required level of instrumentation is actually more expensive than building a new one.
http://faculty.washington.edu/~jbs/itrans/PRT/