http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/08/19/ukgov_uber_database/ has details of a possible “data silo” that contains all of our data.
This blog-post is meant to be a list of potential sites that will enable british citizens to escape the police state that we are rapidly becoming by moving their data outside teritorial waters.
For those of you who honestly believe “those who have nothing to hide have nothing to fear”, please add a comment listing your bank account and PIN numbers, full address and contact details including every email address, mobile phone and landline number that you have and details of where you work. If you could also send me a copy of your front door key so I can come and visit you and watch your TV or sleep in your bed whenever I want, that would also be good. If you’re not going to do this, then you’ve got something to hide, haven’t you???
Please add to the list of datacentres using the comments section below. I’ll turn this into a proper database at somepoint (and publish the schema here for openess!) and link to it from here.
PF.
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http://whythatsdelightful.wordpress.com/2008/08/12/be-my-hive-brain/
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I just had an idea for the perfect email plug-in for all email clients.
It would monitor the number of posts in a thread and, when it reached a given threshold, automatically invoke Godwin’s Law and post to the appropriate list.
/me searches for the “Claws development manual”…
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Diane Abbott’s 42-days speech
The Hackney North and Stoke Newington MP’s speech last night was hailed by the Tory who followed her, David Davies, as ‘one of the finest speeches I have heard since being elected to the House of Commons’.
David Davies has since resigned over the same issue.
Diane Abbott’s speech can be found here and Davies’ speech here.
The thing that struck me most about these speeches was that we live in an era where the general population loves to watch Big Brother on TV and yet the same population is happy to live in blissful ignorance as our civil liberties are eroded one by one.
meh… 
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Please note these are more notes for me than a finished write-up, however I hope to document this on the Nagios WIKI in due course…
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I’ve just found Goodbye Microsoft! – a site that gives you a windows program that then talks you through installing Debian GNU/Linux onto your computer.
For those of you not brave enough to install direct to disk, Wubi can install Ubuntu Linux onto a Windows disk and give you an icon on your desktop to try it out.
I’d recommend using both – Free your PC today! )
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"Programming is like sex. One mistake and you have to support
it for the rest of your life". (Michael Sinz)
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=friS4OOcdgQ
Just watch it, seriously.
Oh yeah, it might be considered NSFW within some (most?) organisations…
[Edit]
I’ve just been advised that this video has been pulled…
boooooo… (
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Becta (the UK’s advisory body in IT in schools) has released a report entitled
Microsoft Vista and Office 2007 – Final report with recommendations on adoption, deployment and interoperability.
In it, there are a number of interesting conclusions, including the fact that there is no real case for upgrading to Vista in the education sector. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in Education and Schools, Microsoft, Open-Source