UK Technology Newswire Archive
Why do activists continue to make use of MySpace? - Calling for a new online social network
15-02-2007 14:42
After some recent discussion on whether a local critical mass group should set up an account on the social networking site MySpace, some interesting things came to light. The amount of activist and campaign groups using the social networking site is growing. These groups include not only critical mass groups in London, Oxford and Manchester and anarchists from Norwich, Gwent, Ipswich but also bigger initiatives like Earth First (1) | (2), Plane Stupid, the Anarchist Federation (1) | (2) and the Cowley Club in Brighton. Even within the independent media world Democray Now, the Indypendent (1) | (2), and Indymedia (1) | (2) collectives from San Diego, Los Angelos (1) | (2) and Indybay have joined the MySpace craze. All but to name a few really. But is MySpace really the online community I would want to be part of? Looking into its structure and the real reasons behind its existance, I doubt I would.
Mobile Phones Are Bugs
12-02-2007 12:59
this is old news but the debate continuesFor those who still don't believe it is possible to be bugged even when you are not using your mobile phone there is plenting of info showing this is the case going back several years.
one such article reprinted here from FT.
" more significantly they can also remotely install a piece of software on to any handset, without the owner's knowledge, which will activate the microphone even when its owner is not making a call, giving security services the perfect bugging device. "We have inadvertently started carrying our own trackable ID card in the form of the mobile phone," said Sandra Bell, head of the homeland security department at the Royal United Services Institute."
Nuclear new-build, LNG Pipeline, offshore Oil Licenses
11-02-2007 18:58
Disempowered governments are selling the energy ticket to private interests and endangering people, planet and the futureSeedy Sunday Brighton 2007
06-02-2007 15:55
The EM Radiation Research Trust
06-02-2007 13:51
The difference between piracy and theft
04-02-2007 15:58
CDs always only cost a few pence to produce, but until file-sharing became wide-spread they were always sold for £15 in the UK, $10 in the US. That hefty mark-up was the same for Sony BMG CDs, for EMI CDs, for Vivendi Universal CDs and for Warner Music CDs. No legal charges against this monopolistic, exploitative, price-fixing cartel were ever brought because governments protect business not citizens.Germany: another 1,000 tonnes of nuclear waste headed to Russia - PROTESTS!
02-02-2007 21:31
TAG Aviation Public Inquiry
01-02-2007 16:06
Paedo-police video every UK child naked
29-01-2007 10:51
The Suns front page 'scoop' today is 'State X-Ray Spies To See You Nude (you are undie surveillance)' but I prefer my headline as for once the Sun understate the issue. The article is giving the great-unwashed notice what has been decided long ago and has already been trialled without the public being informed.TAG Aviation caught rigging on-line poll
27-01-2007 21:08
TAG Aviation have been caught red-handed rigging an on-line poll to support their plans for a doubling of weekend and bank holiday flights at Farnborough Airport.Manchester No2ID Meeting, Thursday 22nd February 2007
23-01-2007 12:05
the Friends Meeting House, Mount Street, Manchester.
10 Downing Street Hacked by Cops
21-01-2007 12:02
Police have allegedly hacked into 10 Downing Street computers to get evidence in the Cash for Honours inquiry. It's difficult to know what to make of this being neither a fan of Downing Street or the police.WikiLeaks
13-01-2007 09:26
There is a new website aimed specifically at helping people leak documents to the public domain. Rather than being a competitor to IM it may be a useful and specialised companion.Are your kids lucky enough to be tagged from birth
10-01-2007 21:48
A PRIMARY school has become the first to use fingerprint technology.America's Germ Warfare Capabilities developed in secret in US Corporate Labs
07-01-2007 15:07
The costliest, most grandiose research scheme ever attempted having germ warfare capability is going forward under President Bush and in apparent defiance of international treaties such as the Geneva Convention of 1925 that bans biological agents.And this program, involving some of the world's deadliest and most loathsome pathogens, many of which could trigger plagues and epidemics, is being conducted largely in secret without adequate oversight and in flagrant contempt of NIH's own rules.
Project Censored: US Electromagnetic Weapons and Human Rights
07-01-2007 15:04
Nano Hazard Competition samples
07-01-2007 06:18
X-ray Asylum Seekers
05-01-2007 08:14
The Guardian today published a report on a new government plan to introduce x-ray and dental checks for young asylum seekers entering the UK to assess their age. The article says the plan is seen by "an array of medical specialists and children's campaigners" as "unethical and ineffective", but does not say how racist this new neo-Labour invention is.URGENT : Tamil Nadu and GM crops...petition
05-01-2007 01:03
URGENT: On 31st January 2007 there's a major hearing in the Supreme Court in India on the writ petition over GM crops.
The organisers of this petition want to be able to show that there's massive worldwide support for calling a halt to the problems being inflicted by GM crops on India. They can only do that with your support.
PLEASE SIGN THE PETITION AND PASS THIS ON TO ALL YOUR FRIENDS AND COLLEAGUES:
http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/no-to-indias-crops-being-genetically-engineered.html Sheffield Mapping Party
02-01-2007 16:10
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Sheffield Following is an email sent to the Linux users lists in Sheffield: