Posts by ElFatbob

re:some perspective on biometrics

While it's true that some of the bio systems you mention are hard to compromise, you can bet your boots that our governement will buy the cheapest, shittest hardware / software systems they can lay their hands on.

Then they'll 'protect' it by making sure anybody can access it ('admin' and 'password' are tried and tested favourites) - this should save on costs a bit (especially if somebody forgets their password)

Then they'll give every public servant you can think of access whilst selling as much of the information as they can to companies (and remember, the NIR has been enabled with statutory instruments that will allow the home secretary to increase the amount of data collated about you with NO recourse to parliament).

Well come on - how else are you going to raise revenue when we've got no industry and are massively in debt?

Haven't

they gone ahead and done this is Scotland anyway?

AFAIK, very few people opted out as they WERE NOT told they could.....

@ andy gibson

So when we have a national DNA database and you are either mis-matched as being at the scene of a crime or someone picks up a fag butt you discarded and leaves it at the scene (example only used to make point), you'll welcome it?

Or when they come and arrest you because a car used in a crime had your cloned number plates on an identical type of car, you'll be smiling?...

Or the debt collectors come calling due to unpaid parking tickets / fines for the same scenario as above..

Aside from all the privacy issues, the law of unintended consequences is going to be interesting.

'It's only a police state if you're up to no good'

And finally, i'm sick of the inference that i have 'something to hide' because i disagree with these intrusions.

Who has the right to make such pronouncements?... Self righteous twats.

Maybe...

matt damon's film should've been called 'The Retarded Shepherd (and the halfwits)'...

The US must sleep well at night....

Re: Gilbert Wham

Couldn't have put it better myself.

Who would have thought that the 'loony left' of the 80's would get to implement all their fucked up ideas?

I can only see one type of bag at work here - a bawbag.

@ Anarchy

Strange how you seem proud to claim heritage from monkeys.

So somebody found a jawbone they think will fuckin make their career and we're all supposed to whoop with joy because it may 'prove' that we are decended from apes.

Anybody remember how NASA got substantial funding re-instated for Mars exploration after suddenly 'discovering' evidence that it may have supported life xxxxxx million years ago (the implication being that we could conceivably live there after inflicting earth with our locustisation)?

wise up...

at last, some truth.

""As a family we are heartbroken and are very disappointed with Emily's behaviour,"

reads..."oh shite, she's been found out as the bullying piece of crap she is"

ye reap what ye sow....

lol @ dormant

Hehe,

Ye, i've read TTP. Certainly a head-f***, but I don't remember any explicit references to bicycle shagging!

That said, we appear to be entering a vision of hell under Nu-Labour at least on a par with Flanns'.

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Actually, i dont care about the 'tech' arguments.

Just happy that technology has helped track down an alleged pedarist.

I hope that any court this individual may face provides appropriate justice.

If the allegations are true..one only hopes that this individual reaps what he has sown...

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Dunno where i am on this debate...

I have a PS3 and i love it. I've never had a console before - always preferring the PC for FPS (my preferred game type).

So people buy them for diff reasons (obs), but here's a glimpse into the 'fuzzy' logic that went into my choice.......

Friend got a Wii - I tried it, liked it...was going to buy a Wii, then read that MOH Airborne Assault only had 5 (albeit good) levels & COD stuttered a bit...so

thought the 360 was a good choice due to the amount of games available and poss HD player upgrade..then spoke to the guy in the shop who was on his 4th (in a year!)...didn't like the prospect of multiple meltdowns...so

Decided on the PS3 and i like it (didn't like the cost though!). Like the games and like the Blu Ray... think it has a lot of potential....

And at the end of the day, each console has it's strength, but what i have learned through all this is that...a (or should it be 'an' - i can never decide) FPS needs a mouse and keyboard to be truly fulfilling ;-)

Right Action, Wrong Person

In the circumstances where you have a suicide bomber who may be using a deadman switch, shooting the bomber in the mouth to sever the brain stem is the correct course of action.

If the bomb is attached to a deadman switch the finger remains locked on the trigger, if not, the message to depress the trigger does not make it from the brain to the finger. I can only presume that using this type of ammunition was felt to increase the chances of this happening.

What is unacceptable is the bungling intelligence / police operation that led to the death of an innocent man.