http://www.infiniteideasmachine.com/ en-us phil@einsteinsattic.com 2004-11-09T03:36:44+00:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://www.infiniteideasmachine.com/archive/000140.html NO2ID have launched an e-Petition against the Government's Orwellian, intrusive, impractical and immensely wasteful ID cards and identity register proposals. Please take the time to visit http://www.no2id-petition.net/ and sign it - these people already did: Spy Blog UK Indymedia Samizdata.net... 140@http://www.infiniteideasmachine.com/ ID cards 2004-11-09T03:36:44+00:00 http://www.infiniteideasmachine.com/archive/000137.html Martin Brampton acts as an excellent Devil's Advocate in his article, Does the UK need ID cards? on silicon.com. The comments are starting to reflect people's growing concern with Blunkett's scheme - and I have to say, despite my inevitable... 137@http://www.infiniteideasmachine.com/ ID cards 2004-10-19T15:56:13+00:00 http://www.infiniteideasmachine.com/archive/000135.html John Lettice's comprehensive overview of the government's newly-announced e-Borders initiative, Blair's Britain vies with US in ID snoop wars, is in turns both terrifying and depressing. Blair, Blunkett et al. are steaming ahead with a scheme that far exceeds even... 135@http://www.infiniteideasmachine.com/ ID cards 2004-09-30T01:17:01+00:00 http://www.infiniteideasmachine.com/archive/000134.html Philip Chaston's, It's the Database, Stupid! on both White Rose and Samizdata.net raises some good points about what a couple of the speakers said, most notably: Both were unable to provide a convincing story as to why the government was... 134@http://www.infiniteideasmachine.com/ ID cards 2004-09-23T17:28:27+00:00 http://www.infiniteideasmachine.com/archive/000133.html Our friends at Spy Blog and White Rose both wrote up the NO2ID public launch on Saturday. WTWU's account, NO2ID campaign launched to the public even has pictures - well, one at least: here. Philip Chaston's, It's the Database, Stupid!... 133@http://www.infiniteideasmachine.com/ ID cards 2004-09-20T19:13:20+00:00 http://www.infiniteideasmachine.com/archive/000132.html Sounds too good to be true? Well, it's a little more complicated than going down to PC World, but a genuine DTI tax break nonetheless. Patrick Collinson's article Screen savers in the Guardian on Saturday explains the scheme. Essentially, it's... 132@http://www.infiniteideasmachine.com/ Technology 2004-09-14T23:01:03+00:00 http://www.infiniteideasmachine.com/archive/000131.html Come to NO2ID's launch event as advertised on Upcoming.org, Indymedia and the NO2ID site. Kick-off is at 11:00am on Saturday 18th September at The Corner Store, 33 Wellington Street, Covent Garden, London WC2E 7BN (nearest tube, Covent Garden - although... 131@http://www.infiniteideasmachine.com/ ID cards 2004-09-08T01:12:35+00:00 http://www.infiniteideasmachine.com/archive/000127.html Just when the banks would have you think that Chip'n'PIN was going to save your bacon... Market analyst Datamonitor warns "that as it became more difficult for fraudsters to commit card fraud, they [are] likely to turn their attention to... 127@http://www.infiniteideasmachine.com/ ID cards 2004-08-29T09:13:12+00:00 http://www.infiniteideasmachine.com/archive/000128.html Dave Birch gets it. From Second sight in Thursday's Guardian: The identities within these national ID computers [i.e. smartcards] used to transact business (in the general sense, such as voting, shopping, booking a squash court and every thing else) in... 128@http://www.infiniteideasmachine.com/ ID cards 2004-08-28T22:14:58+00:00 http://www.infiniteideasmachine.com/archive/000130.html ImpeachBlair.org have published the report, A Case to Answer [607 KB PDF file], written by Glen Rangwala - lecturer in politics at Newnham College, Cambridge - and Dan Plesch - honorary fellow of Birkbeck College, London - for Adam Price... 130@http://www.infiniteideasmachine.com/ Society 2004-08-27T03:12:46+00:00 http://www.infiniteideasmachine.com/archive/000126.html After a short break in Cornwall (avoiding the flash floods) and Wiltshire, I'm just getting back into the swing of things - and trying not to feel *too* guilty for neglecting to blog. Actually, things have really got quite busy... 126@http://www.infiniteideasmachine.com/ Fun 2004-08-26T23:52:37+00:00 http://www.infiniteideasmachine.com/archive/000125.html No, really. Thanks to Phil in Brazil* for pointing this [blog] out to me ;) Charlie Williams' brief, but incisive dissection of Blunkett's Response to the Home Affairs Select Committee report seems particularly apt. *I met and conversed with Phil... 125@http://www.infiniteideasmachine.com/ ID cards 2004-08-06T23:47:46+00:00 http://www.infiniteideasmachine.com/archive/000124.html Now here's a thing. Last Thursday I wrote a letter to the Guardian, hoping to refute Blunkett & the Home Office's continued assertion that 80% of us support their proposals. We don't, and they know it - either that, or... 124@http://www.infiniteideasmachine.com/ ID cards 2004-08-02T23:42:39+00:00 http://www.infiniteideasmachine.com/archive/000123.html [Apologies to any journalists, but I couldn't resist the pun] It's been an interesting few days, kicked off by a fine evening spent selling NO2ID T-shirts and signing up supporters at the Big Brother Awards. 'Hi' to everyone (new) I... 123@http://www.infiniteideasmachine.com/ ID cards 2004-07-31T22:27:05+00:00 http://www.infiniteideasmachine.com/archive/000120.html The Times reported yesterday that All children [are] to go on [a] 'big brother' computer. One aspect of the Children's Bill that, e.g. Spy Blog has been tracking with increasing alarm since at least March of this year, cf. Big... 120@http://www.infiniteideasmachine.com/ ID cards 2004-07-26T01:40:08+00:00