The Belgian city of Mechelen is planning to put up road surveillance camera’s up on all big exit and entry roads to the city. The reason for this is -of course- the same as it always is when it comes to invading your privacy: to increase security. The plan is to scan every license plate [...]
The guys and girls from Breakcore Gives Me Wood are infamous for their awesomely wicked breakcore parties they throw in our little Belgian country. For their 7th anniversary they threw another one which featured the artist Parasite from the UK among others. To promote the party they also put a promo mix online for free [...]
The European Union wants that internet traffic, phone calls and generally every form of electronic communication data (e.g. Skype) is logged and kept for 2 years. The logged data has to contain personal information to identify the user and location information such as time, date, place, length of the phone call/internet connection, the text/MMS/email-message itself. [...]
You’ve probably heard of them in the news. The Swedish Pirate Party is one that sprung from the Pirate Bay bittorrent search engine lawsuits and is a modern party which focused on issues concerning privacy and copyright which have changed considerably in the last decade due to the influence of the internet and modern technology. [...]
Yep. Been to the Dour festival again after a number of years and it turned out to rock just as hard as before. Instead of the long post I had been typing up earlier I’m gonna distile it down to a few points to sum up that sunday I spent there: Peeing is free for [...]
December 22, 2008 – 17:10
Recently Telenet increased it’s bandwidth limits to 25 GB, instead of the previous 20, which came from only 10 GB last July. Now the competitors Scarlet and Tele2 are dropping their bandwidth limitation all together, and are opting for a Fair Use Policy to cover their telecom asses for abuse. I can only be geekishly [...]
December 11, 2008 – 14:00
Well, maybe not yours, but if it qualifies for the following rules, it does. So check em out. You can’t store my name. My name contains something called an umlaut which is used in Germanic languages like German (duh) and Dutch for instance. My name either turns up with a missing letter, or I get [...]
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