OMG!!! PONIES!!!!

valis · Post by **valis** » Sat Apr 01, 2006 4:39 am

You guys taken a look at slashdot today? Apparently they're trying to appeal to a 'wider demographic' now...

http://slashdot.org/

lol

Mr Arkadin · Post by **Mr Arkadin** » Sat Apr 01, 2006 6:53 am

GSM shutdown in UK

The sad thing is that it sounded like exactly the sort of thing our government would do, stop giving them ideas.

Shroomz~> · Post by **Shroomz~>** » Sat Apr 01, 2006 7:23 am

The truth is that they truely are in the middle of building a system where the public is FULLY monitored. Wave by by to the concept of privicy sooner than you think unfortunately. The huge installation nationwide of police CCTV survielence was only a starting point, but it's been easily justified to the public as being for crime-stopping reasons only. Think again, you're ID tags or dog tags will somehow be beacons without a doubt. Advanced Mobile & stationary Camera networks can then home in on whatever the ID's coordinates are. Bingo. Big Brother truely in your face in our military state. sigh.

Post by **garyb** » Sat Apr 01, 2006 9:43 am

oh yes. implants.

who prints the money? they'll put a stop to whatever business they see fit. it's their money.

at0m · Post by **at0m** » Sat Apr 01, 2006 10:59 am

After being the first worldwide testcase for M$ and Adobe, next step in Belgium for digital ID's has been proposed by scientists from the university of Leuven - the ID chip implanted in your tooth:
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/do ... 524944.htm

http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/20/worl ... phone-spy/
To spy on your friend's phones, there's even software you can install on it while he's away and all communications will be forwarded to the number you set up... Being caught with that however can cost up to 500.000EU.

For USA and Commonwealth countries (UK, Australia,..), they can spy freely and legally upon any phone or email in Europe they want. Our Minister of Defence was interpelled on weither Echelon would still be in use, after 3 months of research he replied he could not know cos it'd be secret anyway and we don't have the resources to track it.

No april's jokes unfortunately :/

chill out, everything is under control

at0m.

Counterparts · Post by **Counterparts** » Mon Apr 03, 2006 2:29 am

One of my faverite April Fools was done by TW3 - "That Was The Week That Was", an early satirical show hosted by the BBC (back when they still made good television programmes).

The show had footage of a spaghetti farm, with the spaghetti crops being harvested.

The BBC were subsequently innundated with requests for how to order spaghetti plant seeds and nursery plants