Wednesday, December 6, 2006
For the truly paranoid, careless parent, help is now at hand in the form of the i-Kids child tracking device. In this initial version, the device is not actually surgically implanted, though perhaps this step is just a matter of time. Under UK law, it seems, the poor child would actually have the consent to [...]
Tuesday, December 5, 2006
Blair is quite right in pursuing his nuclear policy, for this reason: the time scales involved are long. A decision taken now will affect Britain’s defence policy for the next fifty years – the replacement systems would not even come into service until the 2020s, and that is if the project is on time. It [...]
Now, here is an interesting question: does a ‘roving wiretap’ give authorisation to bug every conversation you have? The US has passed ‘roving wiretap’ laws. Until that point, it was necessary for a warrant to be obtained for every telephone the government wished to tap. Now, a warrant can be issued against a person, rather [...]
Gordon Wood gives an interview here.
An American Historian has attempted to put the current debate about torture into a historical context.
Well, it seems that officially, at least, there still is one.
The maths of google
How does Google work?