UK ISPs oppose data retention. Compulsory scheme likely after industry baulks at voluntary codes [The Register]

» The following data is required to be held for up to 2 years by each ISP and for each of their customers:

This data would include catalogues of web sites visited, records of e-mail recipients, lists of telephone numbers dialled, and the geographical location of mobile phones at all times they were switched on. It doesn't include the contents of messages.

Quite apart from the ridiculous notion that collecting this information will help the fight against crime (unless the governement are going to make it illegal to use a non-UK mail host or anonymous browsing services) I also consider it a bloody liberty on their part.

I'm certainly letting my MP know that.

I met up with Marc, Paolo, and Monica for the first time last night.  We had quite a lot of beer and chat at 'The Chandos' pub near Trafalgar Square, a great Indian at 'The Red Fort' in Dean St. and then more beer back at Marc's hotel before heading our separate ways at a disgusting hour of the morning :)

Quick note: I have updated my utils tool for Radio (and Frontier I guess) to add a "Make Root" function.  When invoked this will make sure that every script in the targetted root is compiled.  Actually make is a misnomer really since I don't know how to detect whether a script is already compiled, so I just compile 'em all.

I can now confirm that all 175 scripts in liveTopics compile properly.  They may not work, but at least they compile!

Ballmer baulks at Oz Xbox chippers charter. Threatens to go legal, take football away [The Register]

» I like the idea of an Open Hardware Foundation.