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To: 8bits who wrote (42809)	12/14/2005 11:58:50 PM
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Moving INTO it? BWAHAHA - stop! China - we can put them into the 1984 category - Europe is there to my friend: ask.slashdot.org It's "1984" in Europe, What About Your Country? Posted by Cliff on Wednesday December 14, @10:16PM from the orwell-was-only-slightly-late dept. An anonymous reader asks: "A few hours ago, the European parliament accepted a proposal '...on the retention of data processed in connection with the provision of public electronic communication services...'. Summarized: any data (internet connections, traffic, email, file sharing, SMS, phone calls) of 450 billion people of Europe has to be collected by telcos, to be used by governments in their fight against 'crime and terrorism' ... oh, and child porn, of course. In Germany, over-the-sea reports are limited and usually do not include the latest developments in law and order, but since Slashdot has readers all over the world, I would like to ask: how is the status of YOUR country in terms of anti-terrorism-laws, observations and such? Any recommendations where one can still live free and unobserved in a non-nanny state?" yro.slashdot.org No More Internet Anonymity Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday December 14, @09:15PM from the the-computer-knows dept. inkhaton writes "This Article tells of an Orwellian chip that, once installed in your computer (and not by your choice), will allow any website you visit to "read" your identity. The article goes on to describe how many benefits there are for using this to facilitate online business and even suggests some negative points. It ends with "Ultimately the TPM itself isn't inherently evil or good. It will depend entirely on how it's used, and in that sphere, market and political forces will be more important than technology." ... ugh. Well we all know what that means." I live near Tampa florida friend - we had a computer science professor here - Sami Al Arian - do an SI search for him - I posted a reply to Jim McMannis where one person makes the case that resumes at the justice department are why this citizen has lost his job, 3 years of his life, and who knows what else - you and I must live in very different realities - if that is not 1984 - what is? I dont think it would have mattered if sami or you have all the gold in the universe - if a bunch of men with guns put you in a jail cell or a 6 foot hole - I dont see how gold helps you much - explain to me why brave soldiers go over and give thier life all over the world and how they will stop doing that if you say to them - hold up - I got shiny metal - HUH? I debate with Chen for a reason - his grandpa had a lot of wealth too - the General said it was oil wealth - but he still went into jail many times - with lice covered assassins - all that wealth and he still got locked up by men with guns! But your gold is gonna stop that eh? hehe What dreams citizen!