It's interesting, but I fail to see anything that makes BOA notable. Sure, it uses tags in its language (which, by the way, does *not* make BOA "absolute[ly] html"), but other than that, it's no different than PHP or ASP, et. al. In fact the BOA home page describes itself as "yet another server-side scripting language".
What Mr. Straw fails to appreciate is the difference between wholly public areas and private ones. Perhaps no one is complaining about cameras in the streets and shopping centers, but there'd be a bloody row if the government tried putting cameras in people's homes to ostensibly prevent crime.
And that's what widespread DNA testing is. It's like aiming a camera over someone's shoulder for the rest of their life.
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Here's Philips' device, the iRex (a Philips spin-off, apparently) Iliad:
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http://www.irextechnologies.com/shop/products/ili
It's interesting, but I fail to see anything that makes BOA notable. Sure, it uses tags in its language (which, by the way, does *not* make BOA "absolute[ly] html"), but other than that, it's no different than PHP or ASP, et. al. In fact the BOA home page describes itself as "yet another server-side scripting language".
What Mr. Straw fails to appreciate is the difference between wholly public areas and private ones. Perhaps no one is complaining about cameras in the streets and shopping centers, but there'd be a bloody row if the government tried putting cameras in people's homes to ostensibly prevent crime.
And that's what widespread DNA testing is. It's like aiming a camera over someone's shoulder for the rest of their life.