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So Angela Merkel is so p'd off with the yanks for bugging her private phone, and likely all her digital communications, that she's lobbying similarly minded eurocrats to set up new infrastructure that's totally under European (read her) control. This raises the obvious question as to whether you'd trust Fritz any more than Uncle Sam. I think the answer from the UK should be that we are staying with the devil we know - you can spend your own money on this Angela, not ours! Of course this is just something else we'll have our minds made up for us on, as the "good Europeans" we are. If there's any UK money to be spent in the wake of all this it should go on a national monument to Edward Snowden. Who, despite all the huffing an puffing from the likes of O'Barmy and Creepy Clinton, is in fact a very brave and well motivated soul. We should - at very least - be offering to pay the Ruskies his board and lodging!
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It's growing rapidly in the UK apparently, but never used it myself. Just wondering if anyone had any experience of other auction/fixed-price sites? http://uk.ebid.net/ eBay really does need serious competition, they are far too greedy, dictatorial, and service levels are near non-existent.
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Maybe I should have titled this post "Whatever happened to The Big Society?" http://www.conservat...ciety_plan.aspx Goodness, it was all there a few days ago! Full story at Computer Weekly: http://www.computerw...internet-h.html Cam is the man who wants us to believe that this time around he will keep his promise for a referendum on the EU in 2015, and that we can trust him to renegotiate our membership. Promise, what promise? Referendum, what referendum? Don't remember that; do you Nick?
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So the initial "Internet Honeymoon" is over, and you now realise that you've given too much of your personal information away. Or maybe you've just grown-up a bit? How do you pull back and get your account information removed from sites you never now visit? Always, of course, assuming you have the remotest idea of the data trail you've left. A couple of British lads have set out to help with an extremely simple concept: http://justdelete.me/ The buttons are colour coded to indicate the degree of difficulty you are likely to experience in getting your on-line account deleted. Maybe checking with justdelete.me before you create a new on-line account anywhere is the wisest thing to do.
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Bored with their new toy - The Large Hadron Collider - CERN has decided to climb on the techno-nostalgia bandwagon by restoring the very first web page at the same URL as before. The fact that they are attempting to host it on the original hardware will become apparent when you try to download it! http://info.cern.ch/...TheProject.html What!? You expected pictures? You'll need to wait a few years (maybe for the very first bedlington.co.uk page?) for those. BTW notice that although there's a WWW in the URL the bottom level domain is in fact info. It was only later that "www." was widely adopted as the name of the machine that delivered an organisation's http: content. Even today CERN themselves are ignoring this convention and using "web." instead.
