Most people don't know how scary Britain has become in the last 12 months.
In addition to their other Nazi
laws, only yesterday it was leaked that Blair
is going to tap MPs phones.
The US spy on the UK communications and the UK spy on the US and UK communications. Then they compare notes.
The UK is in the process of building the world's most intrusive mass surveillance system, including car tracking, email surveillance, child databases etc.
It doesn't take a genius to figure out that Opera is by far the best of the PC browsers. Now that it's completely free and Opera Software are doing some decent marketing for once, it will inevitably take significant market share.
Lucky that the EU are giving MS some anti-trust grief, eh?
Forgive me for assuming that you're a Firefox groupie.
There are plenty of websites which explain why Opera is better. Speed is the obvious one, both of loading/rendering and usability eg gestures. The less obvious one is that Opera doesn't force you to adapt to it - it adapts to you. It's so configurable that it becomes more-or-less the perfect browser.
I'm kinda baffled you asked this question since you obviously saw the sentence where ID cards was mentioned.. yet somehow missed the sentence before it which was the basis of my whole post.
I might add that none of your documents has an RFID chip in it or are even compulsory.
Nor can the banks etc track your internet usage or stop you from accessing public services or leaving/re-entering the country.
They probably don't have a record of suppressing dissent either.
Thing is, if an evil government did get into power at some time in the future,
the fact that ANPR wasn't introduced now wouldn't stop them. They'd implement
ANPR themselves.
I might disagree. Blair is going to give up control of the Government to Brown at some point and the Tories at a future point.
Even if he could convince us that he isn't a reincarnation of Stalin, it is gross negligence to assume that his successors won't abuse the powers he creates.
Oh, did you also know this Government passed an identical
law to Hitler's Enablement Act? This law enabled Hitler to assume
absolute power after he burned down the Reichstag and blamed it on communists.
My Grandfather fought Hitler across two continents to protect Britain from
this kind of totalitarianism. The least we can do is help the resistance
campaigns at Privacy International
and No2ID.
All these are relatively minor intrusions into privacy until the Government links all the data to you under one unique identity number. Unfortunately, this is part of the ID Card Bill currently going through the House of Lords.
Oh, did you also know this Government passed an identical
law to Hitler's Enablement Act? This law enabled Hitler to assume
absolute power after he burned down the Reichstag and blamed it on communists.
My Grandfather fought Hitler across two continents to protect Britain from
this kind of totalitarianism. The least we can do is help the resistance
campaigns at Privacy International
and No2ID.
... although Echelon is
a UKUSA agreement. In the UK, nearly all internet traffic is tapped by the Echelon
network up
the road at GCHQ. Every email address will have a record showing how
many times you've said "bomb" and God knows what else. Up to
1 million citizens will have files that link to their email addresses, bank
account numbers etc.
In the UK, of course, the powers that be weren't satisfied and so RIPA was
born.
The Regulation
of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 (RIPA) allows the government to access
a person's electronic communications in a very unrestricted manner, thus infringing
in the privacy of their correspondance in a manner many would not tolerate regarding
their postal communications. The act:
In other words, unlimited mass surveillance of the internet.
This info is derived from the excellent Magna
Carta Plus site which details how British freedoms have been destroyed over
the last 10 years.
Not content with that, our Dear Leader is creating a way of linking together
all our records on British civil (and corporate) databases, by numbering
us under the Identity Cards Bill. This will create a database on citizens'
way of life which is 20x more intrusive than anything else the planet has ever
seen.
Furthermore, British citizens be will required to buy a "Government Approved"
identity to use public services, be allowed to travel in or out of the country,
maybe even to vote.
Because the Government has successfully kept such legislation low profile,
only around 1 in 20 citizens are aware of it. Those who are aware are
terrified, especially as the Govt keeps threatening to withdraw from the European
Convention of Human Rights.
The totalitarian UK Government already has unlimited access to ISP records,
courtesy of the Regulation
of Investigatory Powers Act 2000.
RIPA also can force ISPs to install mass surveillance equipment.
Slashdot Mirror
Read some of the links, wake up and smell the Zyklon B.
Most people don't know how scary Britain has become in the last 12 months. In addition to their other Nazi laws, only yesterday it was leaked that Blair is going to tap MPs phones.
The US spy on the UK communications and the UK spy on the US and UK communications. Then they compare notes.
The UK is in the process of building the world's most intrusive mass surveillance system, including car tracking, email surveillance, child databases etc.
It all starts by numbering everyone under the ID card legislation:
http://www.bristol-no2id.org.uk/blog/?page_id=5
It doesn't take a genius to figure out that Opera is by far the best of the PC browsers. Now that it's completely free and Opera Software are doing some decent marketing for once, it will inevitably take significant market share.
Lucky that the EU are giving MS some anti-trust grief, eh?
Wow, you really are in the Dark Ages - you don't even have tabbed browsing.
Haven't MS have pretty much given up on IE?
Cool, I never got modded 'flamebait' before. :)
Forgive me for assuming that you're a Firefox groupie.
There are plenty of websites which explain why Opera is better. Speed is the obvious one, both of loading/rendering and usability eg gestures. The less obvious one is that Opera doesn't force you to adapt to it - it adapts to you. It's so configurable that it becomes more-or-less the perfect browser.
Opera is now free, no banner ads and makes Firefox look and feel like a Java app.
I'm kinda baffled you asked this question since you obviously saw the sentence where ID cards was mentioned.. yet somehow missed the sentence before it which was the basis of my whole post.
I might add that none of your documents has an RFID chip in it or are even compulsory.
Nor can the banks etc track your internet usage or stop you from accessing public services or leaving/re-entering the country.
They probably don't have a record of suppressing dissent either.
By omission are you admitting I'm better qualified to diagnose fruitcakes than you?
And you still won't answer the simple question about whether our Govt pays you to lie for them.
No, you didn't, you still haven't and are still resorting to pathetic insinuations - which just makes the question even more pertinent.
All you've done on Slashdot is defend the Government and its mass surveillance intentions, and we know that the Govt DOES pay people to lie for it on public forums.
Are you qualified to make such diagnoses? Because I am.
Now if you can rationally debate the issue instead of resorting to weak insults, we'd appreciate it.
Answer the question.
Are you being paid by our Government to be here by any chance?
Thing is, if an evil government did get into power at some time in the future, the fact that ANPR wasn't introduced now wouldn't stop them. They'd implement ANPR themselves.
At least that would give us some warning before the boots started stamping on your face, forever.
And what makes you think our current Government isn't evil?
Closer than you think
Yet gun crime has doubled.
I, for one, am worried about the world my 3-year-old will come to know.
This is why they want to catch them young.
Previous comment: Can anyone deny we are heading to 1984?
Convenient for any future dictator.
Your new identity number is also designed to link together every civil record in the country into a personal Stasi dossier.
Very convenient.
I might disagree. Blair is going to give up control of the Government to Brown at some point and the Tories at a future point.
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Even if he could convince us that he isn't a reincarnation of Stalin, it is gross negligence to assume that his successors won't abuse the powers he creates.
My main comment on this thread:
http://politics.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1719
I wrote about this yesterday.
Oh, did you also know this Government passed an identical law to Hitler's Enablement Act? This law enabled Hitler to assume absolute power after he burned down the Reichstag and blamed it on communists.
My Grandfather fought Hitler across two continents to protect Britain from this kind of totalitarianism. The least we can do is help the resistance campaigns at Privacy International and No2ID.
all the data to you under one unique identity number. Unfortunately, this
is part of the ID Card Bill currently going through the House of Lords.
I wrote about this
yesterday.
Oh, did you also know this Government passed an identical
law to Hitler's Enablement Act? This law enabled Hitler to assume
absolute power after he burned down the Reichstag and blamed it on communists.
My Grandfather fought Hitler across two continents to protect Britain from
this kind of totalitarianism. The least we can do is help the resistance
campaigns at Privacy International
and No2ID.
... although Echelon is a UKUSA agreement. In the UK, nearly all internet traffic is tapped by the Echelon network up the road at GCHQ. Every email address will have a record showing how many times you've said "bomb" and God knows what else. Up to 1 million citizens will have files that link to their email addresses, bank account numbers etc.
In the UK, of course, the powers that be weren't satisfied and so RIPA was born.
The Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 (RIPA) allows the government to access a person's electronic communications in a very unrestricted manner, thus infringing in the privacy of their correspondance in a manner many would not tolerate regarding their postal communications. The act:
In other words, unlimited mass surveillance of the internet.
This info is derived from the excellent Magna Carta Plus site which details how British freedoms have been destroyed over the last 10 years.
Not content with that, our Dear Leader is creating a way of linking together all our records on British civil (and corporate) databases, by numbering us under the Identity Cards Bill. This will create a database on citizens' way of life which is 20x more intrusive than anything else the planet has ever seen.
Furthermore, British citizens be will required to buy a "Government Approved" identity to use public services, be allowed to travel in or out of the country, maybe even to vote.
Because the Government has successfully kept such legislation low profile, only around 1 in 20 citizens are aware of it. Those who are aware are terrified, especially as the Govt keeps threatening to withdraw from the European Convention of Human Rights.
* Firefox : This has undoubtedly been the year of Firefox. If you aren't using it yet... what are you waiting for?
I'll probably get banned from Slashdot for saying this but I'm not going to wait. It will be years before Firefox catches up to Opera, if ever.
Yes, corporations shouldn't revolve around the needs of the shareholder - but the needs & desires of the employees & customers.
This is surely a legal issue.
The totalitarian UK Government already has unlimited access to ISP records, courtesy of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000.
RIPA also can force ISPs to install mass surveillance equipment.
I mentioned some of the Govt's other totalitarian laws earlier today.