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UK Government To Outsource Data Snooping and Storage 114

Posted by timothy on Friday January 02, 2009 @07:40AM from the avoid-conflict-of-interest dept.

bone_idol writes "The Guardian is reporting that the private sector will be asked to manage and run a communications database that will keep track of everyone's calls, emails, texts and internet use under a key option contained in a consultation paper to be published next month by Jacqui Smith, the home secretary. Also covered on the BBC."

Comment Oh God not more unnecessary legislation (Score 1) 377

by IngeniousCognomen on Saturday December 27, 2008 @11:34AM (#26241627) Attached to: UK Culture Secretary Wants Website Ratings, Censorship

Hooray! More kneejerk legislation by people who quite evidently have far too much time on their hands. If Burnham is worried about what his kids might encounter online, there are such things as net filtering services to take care of this for him, though I suppose it is a little too much to hope for that the witless dingbats infesting the current Labour government could ever be aware of such things.

Comment Re:For the uninformed: (Score 2, Informative) 160

by IngeniousCognomen on Wednesday November 05, 2008 @05:48PM (#25650479) Attached to: Critical Vulnerability In Adobe Reader

Sure, Foxit is fine as far as it goes, but it runs slower than Adobe Reader on my PC. Plus Adobe lets me save as text, where Foxit expects me to pay for that functionality.

Asus To Phase Out Sub-10" Eee PCs 497

Posted by Soulskill on Sunday November 02, 2008 @03:16PM from the taking-the-sub-out-of-subnotebook dept.

jeevesbond writes "The Register reports that Asus president Jerry Shen has revealed his company will be phasing out all sub-10" Eee PCs. According to Shen, the 'standard' netbook next year will be a 10" model with a hard drive running XP. Shen also said XP is outselling GNU/Linux on netbooks by a ratio of 7:3. This is somewhat contrary to news from the UK earlier in the year that GNU/Linux units were out of stock while XP machines sat unsold. Are Brits more open-minded than the rest of the world when it comes to choosing an OS?"

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