Build Your Own Multitouch Surface Computer

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For around $450,- these guys have documented how they made their own microsoft surface thing. They used open source tools for the applications, and got it looking very slick. It took them about two weeks to do, so with instructions, you should be able to make it more quickly.


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UK Internet records to be stored for a year

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Well, in the Netherlands they’ve been stored for 5 years since around 2002, so there’s hardly any news there. What is news, however, is that the UK government seems to be giving this information to all and sundry to peruse at their leisure. Whether this is because they know they can’t secure it or because they think privacy is an outdated construct, I don’t know. Glad I’m not living in that oppressive country though.

Brein bullys Dutch Bittorrent sites

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Brein, which is like the Dutch version of RIAA, went and physically visited a server colo host and through intimidation and threats managed to get him to take the sites down. Under Dutch law, running a bittorrent site isn’t illegal. That’s currently being decided by the outcome of the Mininova lawsuit.
That these kind of strong arm tactics are permissible in Holland is disgraceful.
Basically Brein is behaving like a bunch of thugs.

UN votes that ripping the piss out of muslims is illegal

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Apparently these followers of the paedophile prophet are so worried about people blackmouthing them, they feel that the UN needs to encourage its members to outlaw free speech.

Of course if I was a member of a religion mainly implemented in a way to keep the masses stupid and opressed, I wouldn’t want my people to hear about things like science either.

Most surprisingly – the resolution passed.

Jim Webb vs The US Prisons

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For the land of the free, it’s a bit strange that the US has 25% of the global prison population – whilst only having 5% of the total population. Where Stalin had his gulags, the US is doing much much worse with its prisons. It has more of its own population behind bars than any other country!

Thankfully there’s a politician in there – Jim Webb – who thinks this is ridiculous and might actually stand a chance of doing something about it.

Deutsche SS Storm Wikileaks owners’ house

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The German government has stormed Wikileaks’ owners house for ‘distribution of pornographic material’ after Wikileaks published the censorship lists of Australia and several other countries.
Is this a sign of the rising of the Fourth Reich – nip the opposers voices in the buds for complete control of your remaining, potty trained and scared shitless population?

The UK will lose your data one way or another

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If the government isn’t handing out your personal data on USB sticks, laptops or just through their unsecure own networks, they’ll dump computers containing your hospital and patient data unencrypted on the streets for you to take home with you. They can’t give it away fast enough!

Now, let’s make a database with all the children in the UK in it! And a centralised ID scheme with all your biometric data in it! I’m sure whoever the government gives that to will love it.