Also you can use notaries with other methods than perspectives like using the SSL observatory. I love that talk.

That is a good point - also made by Dawkins...

Personally I'd be ashamed to have a Bible on my shelf - it's full bigotry and exhortations to violence and sexism. For example: "“If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, which will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and that, when they have chastened him, will not hearken unto them: then shall his father and his mother lay hold on him, and bring him out unto the elders of his city, and unto the gate of his place; and they shall say unto the elders of his city, This our son is stubborn and rebellious, he will not obey our voice; he is a glutton, and a drunkard. And all the men of his city shall stone him with stones, that he die:"

Until you want to do anything with your data other than have it sit there - remember homomorphic encryption doesn't work and probably never will...

Exactly: Correlation is not causation

Apparently in the EU at least, the analogue TV spectrum about to be freed up will solve the problem for the next few years.

So um - what does this data actually say ??? Anything controversial? I can only find arguments about whether it's ethical to keep it secret.

Big problem seems to be how easy it is to copy. I can copy your card with phone camera, without you even knowing about it - or at least with a reasonable zoom lens. BTW there are 5 bits per digit, except the final one, since two are shared between each digit.

This stuff: http://etherpad.com/ is really cool for collaborative text editing. It says it is intended for team coding too, although I haven't tried it.

Actually, Godwin's law didn't mention the case where the actual article the discussion is about is already making a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler. I suppose it's what you would call a degenerate case of Godwin's law.

USB Keys in car parks used by personel?

http://www.laquadrature.net/files/UK_PROPOSED_AMENDMENTS_on_net_neutrality_DRAFT_20090223_print.pdf [laquadrature.net]

I suspect this is a flamebait. Check the original document rather than the IPTegrity piece. The fuss seems to be about the following amendment:

"there should be transparency of conditions under which services are provided, including information on the conditions of to access to and/or use of and distribute information or run applications and services, and of any traffic management policies"

This seems to propose transparency about existing access conditions, not imposing some new conditions or allowing ISP's to impose more conditions. They justify it in the text as:

"There is nothing in the Framework or elsewhere preventing a service provider from providing subscribers with access to predefined and differentiated set [sic] of services or applications .... Competition will only be effective if consumers are fully informed of the conditions under which the particular service is provided"

See http://www.laquadrature.net/files/UK_PROPOSED_AMENDMENTS_on_net_neutrality_DRAFT_20090223_print.pdf

I would bet big money this is just another iteration of the Knowledge Scam. Read this: http://personal.lse.ac.uk/angell/papers/knowledge%20management/km.htm

Use a secure php config file - see http://www.securityfocus.com/infocus/1706