Top Stories published by Desiderium Sciendi in March of 2009

Links

I know I’ve not posted links in here for ages (if people are interested they can subscribe to my Google Reader RSS stream) but there’s a bunch of stuff that’s come up recently that I’d like to share.

Dollhouse and sexual exploitation. Alas, I’m not the only person not finding Dollhouse terribly enthusing.

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No2ID

At the Convention on Modern Liberty I went to a talk run by the folks at No2ID. This pressure group started off protesting about proposed ID cards but now spends more time discussing the “database state”.

One of the things I picked up was the No2ID pledge. 

This says:


Website to allow public to see local criminals

Okay — I’ve got mixed feelings about this one.

One the one hand it (1) publicly marks petty criminals even more as outsiders — ‘them’ — making it even harder for them to try fit into normal society, (2) it potentially increases the notoriety of…


Abandoned jail and probation computer project cost £155m

Arrrrrrrrrrrggggggggggggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.

‘The chairman of the Commons public accounts committee, Edward Leigh, said the problems with the project, to ensure that the services could share information, were “in a class of…

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