Comment Re:FYI (Score 1) 299
Oh, right! Because your name is "bungo" and his is "A/C", your word is more believable than his?
I think the point he was trying to make, was not to exaggerate about the privacy issues. You seem to be dragging racism issues into the discussion... but hey, the fact that our ID is digital or not doesn't change a thing about the racism. So I think we may want to discuss that at another place.
Here in Belgium we have a quite good social security system. People are generally content (although, of course, some people just always complain) to trade this off for some privacy. There is actually not that much of an issue about the privacy... which is well enough protected by law.
For the record: I'm a Belgian too, also hoping to get my master's degree in CS in a few month's time; I have also posted as A/C before, just because I hadn't made a
