Nope, papers aren’t good enough – UK police have a device to fingerprint you on the streets. Of course, it’s not compulsory to allow yourself to be fingerprinted… yet. Of course, if you show suspicious behaviour (such as not allowing yourself to be fingerprinted voluntarily?), then the police can force you.

All your base are belong to us! Screams Ballmer at the Linux crowd whilst frothing at the mouth – or did no-one tell him that SCO tried this around a year ago?

In their quest for global domination in the Global Big Brother State of USA, they’ve come to the conclusion that all of their seperate profiling and tracking systems don’t work, so what they’re gonna do is combine them all into one huge system called TIA 2. This will supposedly not use personal information (hahahahaha) and [...]

Big Brother isn’t just watching you (with the most camera’s deployed anywhere in the world), they are also fingerprinting you in the pub in the UK. Pub owners have been pressured gangland style by HM Government to take your fingerprints on entry.

The US Patent office has allowed 50 tax deduction strategies to be patented and there are 81 more pending. Which means that financial firms can now sue other people and companies for interpreting the law the same way they do.

These robots swarm together to achieve unified goals, based on an insect model. Check out the videos.

Some US local court thought it had the power to put down Spamhaus as a result of a countersuit by e360 Insight – basically a bunch of spammers branded as such by Spamhaus – but no-one is cooperating. Spamhaus, which is UK based, refused to recognise the court’s legitimacy and ignored the whole proceedings. ICANN [...]

Cheap flights to Hong Kong! GBP 75,- for starters, which means that a return including taxes and fees will start at GBP 261,- The carrier flies 747s and claims that it will run a luxury interior for everyone.

Showing what a joke the supposed independance of ICANN is, they’ve just cancelled the .xxx TLD, probably under heavy influence from the third reich of the USA Christian lobby. Freedom of speech? Not if the USA has any say in it.

Having tried to register a few .eu domainnames from the 10th of April, I was quite frankly surprised to see how many had allready gone. No, I’m not talking about sex.eu, but more normal ones, ones which should have been free. OK, so I quicly realised the reign of the cybersquatters had begun on that [...]

The following question is one I’ve had to struggle with as well: I know a lot of people are concerned about Big Brother, but my response to that is, if you are not doing anything wrong, why should you worry about it? Schneier gets some good responses on his blog.

They had a competition to name the book about the US Army in 2015. Here are some of the names that came in: Asymmetrical Warriors Brave New War Future Knights of the Global Table The Iron Fist of Freedom Molded Children, Future Warriors There’s more at Harpers…

OK finally the boffins have found a way to fund extra space exploration: yes, tourism is a (small) part of it, but 3554 Amun is a larger incentive: It’s a space rock about 2 kilometers in diameter that looks as if it might have fallen straight out of The Little Prince. There are three key [...]

Published in Febuary it’s a little hard to find, but I’ve got it – staggering amounts of money in this!

Nerve.com has a very readable article on how the church made up it’s mind in the west to increase the goldflow in the coffers and thereby help end the arranged marriage in the west.

Apparently now they want to make creating a copy of a legally bought CD or even copying music from it to your IPod illegal. Despite having stated before that it is legal.

Or at least the EFF says it is. Why? Because default settings allow you to ‘search across computers’ – and people will probably not be aware of this. Basically Google stores everything it finds on your desktop on its own servers for some period in text form. Which means they have everything on your PC!

Not bad – for EUR. 100,- you can buy an acre of Amazon rainforest. You recieve the GPS cooridinates of it, so you can check up on it on Google Earth as well! Save the lungs of the earth – stop them from deforesting your bit of rainforest.

Pyramids Sweet. If you haven’t used Maps before – you can click and drag the map as well as zoom in and out. Other places: Area 51 Statue of Liberty WTC NYC (zoom in) Burning oil wells in Iraq (zoom + might be gone after next update..) Uluru (Ayers Rock) SR71 Blackbirds (center of image) [...]

TOKYO — Japan wants to help build a lunar base and populate it with advanced versions of today’s humanoid robots by around 2025, according to the head of the nation’s space agency. The idea is more than a pipe-dream; it is part of a 20-year plan, called JAXA Vision 2025, that was drawn up by [...]

This page is quite interesting – how more and more people are pulling away from reality to immerse themselves in virtual lives. Lots of statistics and pretty graphs.

This document on decision making is generating a lot of buzz. Give it read. http://home.ubalt.edu/ntsbarsh/opre640/partXIII.htm

And commented on by this guy – good man! I’ve read through certain bits of the constitution, and find it waaaay too long, difficult and ambiguous to be able to endorse it, but if you want to get into an argument about it during the coming referendum then this is where you can find your [...]

This website pretends to be about e-marketing, but in fact, is using the adsense google clicks it collects to buy shares in Google. So as people are using Google adverts, they are slowly buying up google in order to give it back to ‘the people’ (Whoever they are)

According to El Reg, there’s a job opening with a GBP 90 – 100 thou salary, managing a budget of GBP 27m and 475 staffers: as the new gadget king of the spies! Unfortunately, I can’t find it on the MI5 website Or on the MI6 (SIS) jobs site