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Pirate bay verdict
Problem is that if I were to download, say, a digital version of something I already own on vinyl I'd be breaking the law. You have to buy it again and again, which is great for the Beatles. A lot of indie groups just want to be heard and aren
Data mining
When I worked for (a well known database company) one of the consultants told me the following story about a bank in the US:
Mobile phone as a self-surveillance device?
Comment here I could get arrested if I leave my power hungry iPhone charging and forget to pick it up?Plus integrating credit cards and ID cards is being thought of at the moment too.In Franco's Spain you had to show ID when you bought anything.
DNA Database blues
I left this comment in response to some naive comments here: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/04/06/dna_deletion/comments/ "My utterly unique fingerprint will be on a database that police can use to exclude me from suspicion"... and a