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- inactive, on 04/16/2009, -3/+21"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
—Benjamin Franklin - Pigeon, on 04/16/2009, -0/+14You also have to bear in mind that the British Government are REALLY REALLY GOOD AT LOSING DATA.
I'll just leave this database on the train.
Or I'll just leave this big list of military personal with their names and addresses in this Starbucks etc. - Dankoozy, on 04/15/2009, -0/+13They're supposed to wait until everyone fully embraces this JavaScript-based cloud computing BS and then start the surveillance. not while everyone still understands the concept of storing stuff offline without some cool web based sharing cloud service
- Arrakistor, on 04/16/2009, -3/+13Britain needs a constitution. Literally. They don't have any rights, only permissions.
- DestroyedAUS, on 04/16/2009, -0/+10I will add that we here in Australia could do with some actual 'rights' too. Our 'rights' seem a nice mock-up of by-laws that can choked or suppressed when deemed convenient. The temporary police laws that came in during the G20 summit in Sydney are a good example of this.
- ohreilly, on 04/16/2009, -0/+8Glad to see everyone jumping to the "zomg UK is terrible cameras everywhere", when the article is about the EU having a go at the UK because their data protection legislation is not at the EU standard. It has more to do with a PRIVATE COMPANY trying to get ISPs (3 out of hundreds in this country, so far) to allow access to their users for the purposes of behavioural tracking and advertising, rather than anything "1984" or "police state" government related.
- Perleeeze, on 04/16/2009, -1/+7The dock is the place where the accused stands in a court of law.
In the dock is colloquially used to mean someone is being vigorously questioned. - UK31337, on 04/16/2009, -0/+5Actually, those camera type things are sensors for detecting traffic coming from different directions so that the lights can operate automatically. If you go up to the lights during the night when there's nobody else around, they'll go green immediately instead of you having to wait like you do during the day.
- DestroyedAUS, on 04/16/2009, -0/+4What? Haha.
- Hurricane, on 04/16/2009, -0/+4You forgot the /s, I hope.
- Ninh, on 04/17/2009, -0/+3Britain is very quickly diving to the bottom of the EU as far as standards of the modern age go. Most measures Labour has enacted would previously have been unthinkable, even for the Tories under Thatcher.
- uberduger, on 04/16/2009, -0/+3The only reason its so slow is that you get all these selfish ***** trying to use torrents/p2p on it. Seriously, go through some digg comments on a MAFIAA/privacy story and there'll always be some moron who asks how to route his Limewire downloads through it...
- Snappysnap, on 04/16/2009, -0/+3It's no accident that George Orwell was British. He understood what a fundamentally controlling state Britain is.
- inactive, on 04/16/2009, -0/+2Britain has always been like this.
How do you think America and Australia became the dumping ground of their so called "*****" and later became a force in their own rights only to end up being taken over by the same rich ***** that created Britain?
You there yet? English lords, Control government, own the land, own the people living on the land, own the profits of the land, own the women, own the children! Slaves!
That's how it was / is....
Challenge them and they raped your wife.
Cause damage to them and they kill your wife.
Steal from them and they rape you
Hurt them hard and they kill you...
Nothing has changed!
/Irish.. - letsgetsurgical, on 04/16/2009, -3/+5Slipping? They've been there. Just about every intersection in major cities in Britain has a group of surveillance cameras on the traffic light poles.
- mabsark, on 04/16/2009, -0/+2Of course we have rights.
- Hurricane, on 04/16/2009, -0/+2Xerobank is commercialized Torpark, get Torpark2 for free, the problem with TOR is that it is slow, oh yes you will be 99.9% anonymous but it will be dial-up speed, when it goes at all.
- Hurricane, on 04/16/2009, -0/+2@uberduger
Indeed people abuse TOR, but there is really no way to stop them from doing it due to only the local client and the exit node having access to packet structure and thus very few options for packet filtering.
I have always wondered if Xerobank, being a pay service, is any better? Perhaps I should find out? - KooperG, on 04/16/2009, -0/+2but you have to admit that this headline is nicer, tho :D
- Stavrosian, on 04/16/2009, -1/+2Our rights are defined by laws, which can be altered. Your rights are defined by a constitution, which can be altered.
What's the difference? - hiPpymIck, on 04/16/2009, -1/+2http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_yacky_dock._I_ha ...
"What is yacky dock. I have tried every spelling I could think of. It is a term we used during WWII when the mixed drinks tasted terrible we called it yacky dock. I keep getting the DUCK answer.?" - mabsark, on 04/17/2009, -0/+1Exactly.
- Thomasaka, on 04/19/2009, -0/+1Um, no.. that's called the witness stand.
- inactive, on 04/16/2009, -0/+1Cheney wiped his nose with constitution and then left it for landfill...
No one did *****! You were too busy war mongering for revenge of 9/11.... - mabsark, on 04/16/2009, -1/+2Not true. We have higher standards of education and health than America.
- ohreilly, on 04/16/2009, -1/+1Time to up the medication, KooperG.
- KooperG, on 04/16/2009, -1/+1I'm sure that's what they told you...
- letsgetsurgical, on 04/18/2009, -0/+0I stand corrected
- Pixelante, on 04/16/2009, -1/+1Why do you bring America up? I'm not American. And your standard of education and health are laughable in most of Europe.
- durrah, on 04/20/2009, -0/+0why went i search certain webpages i got this link //0.0.0.0/ after several minutes? anybody can help....
- Stavrosian, on 04/16/2009, -1/+1Except this story has nothing to do with people giving up liberty for safety, and is about whether or not customers of an ISP should have to give consent to have their online activity tracked for the purposes of targeted advertising.
As true as the quote undoubtedly is, I wish people would stop blindly pasting it into every thread they think might be vaguely related. - ohreilly, on 04/16/2009, -3/+2The ones near me have the loops in the road, instead.
No doubt you'll be dugg down for stating truth though. - ohreilly, on 04/16/2009, -5/+3Got proof?
As someone who lives here I find it's nothing like that at all. - Thomasaka, on 04/16/2009, -7/+3"in the dock"? wtf are you talking about?
- batfink, on 04/16/2009, -11/+5And it was a good story when I posted it too:
http://digg.com/tech_news/Phorm_UK_faces_court_for ... - Pixelante, on 04/16/2009, -9/+2Britain is well below ANY standard. No surprises here.
- Arrakistor, on 04/16/2009, -10/+2XeroBank defeats US / UK / EU internet surveillance and data retention. You can try it for a month for only a buck. http://xerobank.com/personal/
- inactive, on 04/16/2009, -18/+3Europe is the worst country ever.
They have no authority because England is part of Australia.
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