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 Biting the hand that feeds IT Copyright: Copyright 2008, Situation Publishing Sat, 22 Nov 2008 04:58:25 +0100 And other world news from the futureUnited States government intelligence hasn't exactly been on a winning streak for predicting future events, but recently it's been painting a somewhat bleak future for Western society.… Fri, 21 Nov 2008 15:24:07 +0100 JFK would have gone for it, Mr ObamaA prominent US wargames and military crazytech expert has called for the Obama administration to build a large fleet of X-Men style stealth transport planes, able to deliver America's secret elite forces anywhere in the world regardless of the local government's wishes.… Fri, 21 Nov 2008 14:31:26 +0100 Frontline access frozen by political fearsThe Department for Children, Schools and Families is resisting broadening access to the ContactPoint database for police officers and A&E staff, two groups most people would consider to be the frontline of spotting child abuse.… Fri, 21 Nov 2008 12:27:24 +0100 Rock against extraditionUpdated Rock band Marillion have offered to take part in a gig in support of accused Pentagon hacker Gary McKinnon with proceeds going to autism charities, according to local media reports.… Fri, 21 Nov 2008 11:55:37 +0100 Brown supports repatriation, in principlePrime minister Gordon Brown has spoken about the Gary McKinnon extradition case for the first time, supporting the principle of repatriation of sentenced prisoners while declining to get into the specifics of the case, which remains under judicial review.… Fri, 21 Nov 2008 11:35:01 +0100 Contempt warningsThe Metropolitan Police is investigating websites which are naming the mother of Baby P and her boyfriend at time of the child's death.… Fri, 21 Nov 2008 10:18:05 +0100 Don't care, won't careA year and a day after losing child benefit records for every family in the UK and promising to reform data handling the British government is still losing a laptop every single week.… Fri, 21 Nov 2008 02:31:15 +0100 'Just do what Shai tells us to do'The San Francisco Bay Area has embraced Shai Agassi's Better Place vision, announcing a "sweeping plan" to drive public and private investments in electric cars and the infrastructure needed to run them.… Fri, 21 Nov 2008 00:44:16 +0100 Unified, horizontal system for communications...bitch!An Ohio-based technology company is suing Facebook for patent infringement, claiming it invented the platform the insanely popular social networking site uses to store and manage information.… Thu, 20 Nov 2008 17:31:10 +0100 MSPs say nae, but move means naethingThe Scottish Parliament has voted against the government's proposed ID cards, in a gesture of Pythonian futility.… Thu, 20 Nov 2008 15:52:33 +0100 Oh no! Here comes the government...A day after Nominet decided to sue one of its own directors, a senior civil servant warned that the domain industry must be better behaved to avoid government intervention.… Thu, 20 Nov 2008 15:11:33 +0100 Backseaters still tolerating pilots for nowBandwidth-starved military spyplane chiefs are resorting to the use of humans as airborne data-processing nodes, according to reports. Difficulties in deployment of unmanned robot surveillance craft have led to the purchase of basic civilian planes for use in intelligence work above Iraq and Afghanistan.… Thu, 20 Nov 2008 14:33:44 +0100 70 hits a secondThe Wikileaks website struggled to stay online yesterday because of thousands of people looking for the leaked BNP membership list.… Thu, 20 Nov 2008 13:58:57 +0100 If they're not ranting, they're bumblingComment The times, they may be changing on the internet, but if our Parliament has anything to do with it, that change is unlikely to be for the better. The problem is that far too many MPs not only don’t get it when it comes to the net, they actively bask in their ignorance of new technology.… Wed, 19 Nov 2008 16:08:49 +0100 Davenporn Lyons defends Army F*ckersThe law firm Davenport Lyons, best known online for accusing people of illegally filesharing on behalf of video games companies and threatening to take them to court if they don't pay hundreds of pounds, has now begun doing the same for producers of hardcore gay porn. It denied any plans to work for "adult entertainment" rights holders less than three months ago.… Wed, 19 Nov 2008 15:29:54 +0100 Disconnection loomsEuropean law is introducing a "three strikes and you're out" law for ISPs to disconnect illegal file sharers "under cover of stealth", according to legal experts. The EU's telecoms reform package could guarantee the legality of such schemes.… Wed, 19 Nov 2008 14:45:19 +0100 Genie + bottle = foot + mouthThe first public sector employees are waking up to the fallout from the leaking of the BNP membership list yesterday.… Wed, 19 Nov 2008 14:23:16 +0100 Indian navy sends buccaneer mothership to Davy JonesThe world's media continues to follow the long-running piracy problems in the Gulf of Aden, with interest stimulated by last week's fatal shootings by Royal Marines off the Yemeni coast and the reported sinking of a buccaneer "mothership" by the Indian Navy yesterday evening. Meanwhile, other seaborne raiders in the region successfully hijacked five merchantmen including a 300,000-ton supertanker loaded with crude oil.… Wed, 19 Nov 2008 13:13:28 +0100 Sex and politics do mixAustralians are having a Sex Party – and before you all start sniggering at the back, this time they could be serious. Because depending on your point of view, this is either a cynical use of politics by an industry worried about its bottom line or the beginning of a fightback against government that has lost touch with ordinary voters.… Wed, 19 Nov 2008 12:28:33 +0100 Will use data stored on ID cardsIdentity checks will normally rely on the biometric data held on cards and passports rather than the National Identity Register… Wed, 19 Nov 2008 11:51:55 +0100 Also: Eurofighter development far from completeThe just-retired chief executive of BAE Systems plc has once again suggested that the company will move to America if it doesn't get what it wants from the British Ministry of Defence. Mike Turner also admitted that the controversial Eurofighter superjet is far from fully developed, calling on the MoD to "finish the job" and sink extra billions into completing it.… Wed, 19 Nov 2008 11:41:22 +0100 Brown
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