David Hugh-Jones' blog

Deborah Hyde on the new anti-porn laws 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7364475.stm
Interesting stuff, you can hear an interview with her on the web page.

'...It is this latter ability that has caused so many problems for Facebook users. Third-party plugins such as "SuperWall" claim to extend functionality of the Facebook application, but have behaved in anything but a friendly manner. SuperWall would randomly send messages to existing people in a user's Facebook friends list, claiming that they had to install SuperWall in order to read a new message from that user. Once installed, it would keep performing this trick with the next person, and so forth. As it turned out, this behavior was by design.'

from Between black and white: the state of grayware on the PC

http://www.shovrimshtika.org/index_e.asp

Thought for the day 

It's better to know what you want, than have what you want.

woohoo, just became a fan of Margaret Thatcher 

that's one in the eye for the snivelling pinkos. suddenly facebook is cool again.

Bit of background 

'At the end of 2005, the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture, Dr Manfred Nowak, visited China, Tibet and Xinjiang. Dr Nowak stated that "he was struck by the strictness of prison discipline and a palpable level of fear and self-censorship when talking to detainees". He also confirmed that a variety of torture methods are still widely and systematically used; including beatings, use of electric shock batons, submersion in pits of sewage, exposure to conditions of extreme heat or cold, deprivation of sleep, food or water, prolonged solitary confinement, denial of medical treatment and hard labour.'

from http://www.freetibet.org/campaigns/stoptorture/index.htm

National Identity Scheme document leaked 

A policy document on the ID card scheme has been leaked to the internet. No2ID have done a write up on it.