An ID card doesn't. An ID card that's linked to a database with a unique ID that's used to tie it to information in other databases across various governmental and non-governmental departments and organizations, that infringes on privacy.
You people have an natural, healthy distrust for government.
FTFY. Our governments over the last 25 years in the UK have shown repeatedly, not that they are malicious and intend to abuse all the data that they would collect on us as part of the national ID card scheme, but that they are *incompetent* and cannot be trusted not to lose, misuse, alter, sell or otherwise screw up the data that they would collect on us.
The card is just there to make everyone's life easier.
This is bullshit and will always be bullshit. The UK national ID card scheme was all about Fighting Terrorism, except when it was all about stopping Organised Crime, apart from that time it was all about Improving Access To Services, although there was that bit when it all about stopping Illegal Immigration and I seem to remember that for a while it was definitely all about helping to prevent Identity Theft, honest.
Scrapping the plan was never really about the cards; most people weren't really bothered about the card itself, it was the vast amount of data that was to be linked to the card via the National Identity Register that was cause for concern - especially as the previous government had a truly shocking record on both data security and large-scale IT projects.
I don't know, WB using this software to combat piracy but then getting sued for pirating said software themselves is pretty ironic - but as you said, it's rather unclear as to what's actually happening in this case.
Facebook's problem is that its "lots of options" are spread over about 5 different sections of your profile in various sub-categories and with a wide variety of titles ranging from obvious to cryptic - choice is no good if you can't figure out what you're choosing from.
It's not so true any more; technology is making it increasingly easy to access all of this information and make use of it without human intervention. It used to be that most people didn't have to worry about being targeted by a phishing attack or tailored malware for exactly the reasons you state, but these days it can all be automated; I get targeted email scams directed at my domain on a regular basis and there's nothing overtly of value to be had from it (that they couldn't obtain just as easily from any other random person, I mean).
You may not think that anyone cares about you in particular, but they don't really need to if they can get their software to do all the legwork and flag up anything about you that's of interest to them.
There's an important difference between me downloading a movie illegally and me downloading a movie illegally *and then publicly screening that movie after removing everything that identified the original creator(s)*.
Cue an endless series of phishing sites: "Did you know that anyone on the internet can see things you post on your Facebook page? Just type in your username and password and we'll scan your profile to see if it's secure..."
For the same reason that we haven't all been using Fibre Channel drives for the last 10 years; just because there's something "faster" available doesn't mean that it's good value for money.
I'm quite happy with my cheap & slowish 1Tb magnetic drives for large amounts of infrequently accessed data and don't really want to spend multiple times that for sub-ms access times. Yes, eventually SSDs will probably overtake magnetic storage simply because they have the potential to outdo them in the capacity stakes, but it'll be quite some time before multi-Tb SSDs are affordable by the average user no matter how much the manufacturers push them.
While he's probably not very well known outside of the UK, it's a bit harsh to call him an "actor"; he's been in quite a lot of successful stuff including Star Wars: Episode One, Shaun of the Dead, Spaced, Black Books, The IT Crowd, Look Around You, etc.
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An ID card doesn't. An ID card that's linked to a database with a unique ID that's used to tie it to information in other databases across various governmental and non-governmental departments and organizations, that infringes on privacy.
You people have an natural, healthy distrust for government.
FTFY. Our governments over the last 25 years in the UK have shown repeatedly, not that they are malicious and intend to abuse all the data that they would collect on us as part of the national ID card scheme, but that they are *incompetent* and cannot be trusted not to lose, misuse, alter, sell or otherwise screw up the data that they would collect on us.
The card is just there to make everyone's life easier.
This is bullshit and will always be bullshit. The UK national ID card scheme was all about Fighting Terrorism, except when it was all about stopping Organised Crime, apart from that time it was all about Improving Access To Services, although there was that bit when it all about stopping Illegal Immigration and I seem to remember that for a while it was definitely all about helping to prevent Identity Theft, honest.
Scrapping the plan was never really about the cards; most people weren't really bothered about the card itself, it was the vast amount of data that was to be linked to the card via the National Identity Register that was cause for concern - especially as the previous government had a truly shocking record on both data security and large-scale IT projects.
I don't know, WB using this software to combat piracy but then getting sued for pirating said software themselves is pretty ironic - but as you said, it's rather unclear as to what's actually happening in this case.
The European Patent Office will issue patents for software, despite there being no legal basis on which to enforce them.
Facebook's problem is that its "lots of options" are spread over about 5 different sections of your profile in various sub-categories and with a wide variety of titles ranging from obvious to cryptic - choice is no good if you can't figure out what you're choosing from.
It's not so true any more; technology is making it increasingly easy to access all of this information and make use of it without human intervention. It used to be that most people didn't have to worry about being targeted by a phishing attack or tailored malware for exactly the reasons you state, but these days it can all be automated; I get targeted email scams directed at my domain on a regular basis and there's nothing overtly of value to be had from it (that they couldn't obtain just as easily from any other random person, I mean).
You may not think that anyone cares about you in particular, but they don't really need to if they can get their software to do all the legwork and flag up anything about you that's of interest to them.
Which makes perfect sense in Europe, which is world renowned for its love of Baseball...
Storing != Publishing without attribution.
There's an important difference between me downloading a movie illegally and me downloading a movie illegally *and then publicly screening that movie after removing everything that identified the original creator(s)*.
2.1 has Exchange support (I'm syncing my Nexus One with my work exchange server right now). 2.2 just has *improved* Exchange support.
The Bendy Bus replacement: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/8685486.stm
And this is different from any other Phone, or indeed software of any kind because..?
It doesn't *make* you do anything. Don't want Flash? Don't download the Flash app from the marketplace.
So the blog of a guy who works for the DOD and a website owned by the DOD say that the guy criticizing the claims of the DOD isn't credible?
Turns out they were running on Windows 95
It doesn't if you're running a multi-monitor setup.
Cue an endless series of phishing sites: "Did you know that anyone on the internet can see things you post on your Facebook page? Just type in your username and password and we'll scan your profile to see if it's secure..."
For the same reason that we haven't all been using Fibre Channel drives for the last 10 years; just because there's something "faster" available doesn't mean that it's good value for money.
I'm quite happy with my cheap & slowish 1Tb magnetic drives for large amounts of infrequently accessed data and don't really want to spend multiple times that for sub-ms access times. Yes, eventually SSDs will probably overtake magnetic storage simply because they have the potential to outdo them in the capacity stakes, but it'll be quite some time before multi-Tb SSDs are affordable by the average user no matter how much the manufacturers push them.
While he's probably not very well known outside of the UK, it's a bit harsh to call him an "actor"; he's been in quite a lot of successful stuff including Star Wars: Episode One, Shaun of the Dead, Spaced, Black Books, The IT Crowd, Look Around You, etc.
When the law is being paid for by people who claim to represent him, his opinion matters.
While you're at it, I'd like a pony...
I believe the phrase is "What could possibly go wrong..."
iPhones are easy to spot, they all look the same.
Yes, it supports it out of the box.