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Petition for PayPal credit card transactions to be properly regulated

09/06/2008 – 11:09

My petition on the 10 Downing Street Petitions web site has just been approved, so please sign it! http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/3partyccs/ Currently, you are not protected by your credit card company when paying for stuff with a credit card using PayPal, which basically means when buying anything with credit card on eBay too. The problem is that [...]

By mojo | Also posted in law | Comments (0)

New "virtual" child porn laws a bad idea

05/06/2008 – 15:34

I have held off writing this entry for a long time, because I was worried about the response I might get. So, I’ll start by pointing out what I hope should be obvious anyway: I do not support or seek to protect paedophiles. Anyone who abuses children deserves punishment. The issue at hand is new [...]

By mojo | Also posted in law | Comments (0)

Student arrested under the Terrorism Act for Al Qaida research

27/05/2008 – 11:52

Yet again, it looks like a climate of fear and abuse of the Terrorism Act have have lead to an innocent man being imprisoned for six days (via The Guardian). To summarise, an asian student downloads the Al Qaida training manual for research on his post-graduate course from a US government web site, and it [...]

By mojo | Also posted in law | Comments (0)

BNP using BBC Have Your Say as a platform?

02/05/2008 – 11:25

The BBC Have Your Say forums have always been full of ignorant morons, but it looks now like the BNP are making a concerted effort to use the site as a platform for their views. Here is a selection of the highest voted comments today: No elections in my area this time but I would [...]

By mojo | Also posted in idiots | Comments (5)

EU to expand definition of criminal terrorism

20/04/2008 – 11:24

I was reading over at Ars Technica that the EU has agreed to harmonise what acts are considered criminal in relation to terrorism. In particular, they want “public provocation to commit a terrorist offence” to be a crime. Problem is, who determines what is provocation? It’s that old chestnut again – who defines what kind [...]

By mojo | Also posted in idiots, law | Comments (0)

Precrime and branding innocent children criminals

17/03/2008 – 14:17

From The Guardian: “Primary school children should be eligible for the DNA database if they exhibit behaviour indicating they may become criminals in later life, according to Britain’s most senior police forensics expert.” Gary Pugh is a spokesperson for ACPO, the Association of Chief Police Officers. Essentially, this is branding children as criminals before they [...]

By mojo | Also posted in idiots, privacy, security | Comments (0)

Plastic bags – what's wrong with paper?

01/03/2008 – 21:15

The current hot topic here on Airstrip One seems to be plastic bags. Much as I hate to find myself agreeing with the Daily Hate Mail, they really should go. What I can’t understand is why everyone seems to dismiss paper bags out of hand. The main complaint seems to be that they disintegrate in [...]

By mojo | Also posted in idiots | Comments (0)

UK ID card "coercion"

02/02/2008 – 19:13

An allegedly leaked document from the Passport Service shows that the government intends to use “coercion” to get people to sign up for an ID card. While this isn’t news per-se, as we knew they would anyway, it is probably the first time they have actually admitted it. Typical tactics will include requiring people to [...]

By mojo | Also posted in privacy | Comments (0)

My MP just spammed me!

25/01/2008 – 13:49

Checking my inbox this morning I noticed a red, high priority email from Sarah McCarthy-Fry, my MP, with the subject “JANUARY E-NEWSLETTER FROM SARAH MCCARTHY-FRY MP”. Opening the email, I find it doesn’t even have any text, just one massive image… And I didn’t even ask for it! Pretty much all the trappings of SPAM, [...]

By mojo | Comments (0)
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