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Possibly, this may actually be a good thing, at least as far as the internet is concerned. When governments realise that they can't get any "special exemptions" put in for them, th…

Hmm.. that's nice, but I don't care, this NSA/GCHQ nonsense has burnt me for cloud computing, sorry. What needs to happen is that the market heavily punish, and legal teams sue bac…

I've said this elsewhere; but this is all part of an attempt (or at least an institutional belief) that equates opposition and protest, which is part of a healthy democracy, with t…

I find the phrase "Memorisation not rationalisation" deeply sinister.

At home, and everywhere I've had a say on how the network is laid out during working hours, I treat wifi as external. They get internet access, and there's a password to prevent th…

Commented earlier on another Women In Tech thread (seems to be the meme of the day). The question is not "Why are there so few women in IT?", it's "Why are so many men in IT such j…

Even if you no longer own or control the content?

Yeah, 'cos I really want a convenient way to send my fingerprints to the government.

This shit has got to stop. Seriously. As MEN in our industry we need to take a stand against this sort of behaviour which is truly endemic and all pervasive in our industry. This i…

I would love to see everyone in the IT industry take a similar pledge. If enough of us do we can choke off the oxygen supply to these organisations, especially if we make it an una…

Absolutely, but it changes the economics substantially in your favour.

That is the rub of course. Self hosting is somewhat better, if nothing else because it presents a much less tempting target, and it is a privilege currently only available to the t…

Except of course, as we've learnt over the last few weeks, they're essentially one and the same thing. You can't trust a third party with your data if you want it kept secure. Peri…

I'm not taking any side here, but both this link and the top story provide little evidence, and neither side is quoting particularly credible sources.

http://skunk.marcus-povey.co.uk/debogotron/?url=http://www.t... :)

Two separate questions conflated together: 1) Why aren't there more women in positions of authority? 2) Why are the majority of people in authority incompetent? The answer to the s…

In the light of everything that has happened over the last month, this has to be a joke, right?

Is there a summary page somewhere that lists, in plain English, what laws data is subject to in a given jurisdiction worldwide? So, for example, as a UK resident, I am subject to R…