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BCS = Brilliant, Brave and Beautiful Computer Society?
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| The British Computer Society (BCS) is not an organisation I refer to much in
| these posts. That's because there's not really that much intersection between
| its interests and mine. BCS represents the computing establishment, if you
| like, while I'm just some crazy blogging about all this weird open stuff on
| the margins.
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| [...]
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| If we now have the pre-eminent establishment computing organisation raising
| its voice in protest against the unprecedented, transformative nature of this
| bill, isn't it perhaps time for the UK government to stop and think again?
| Who knows? - maybe it could even ask the BCS for some sensible advice.
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http://www.computerworlduk.com/community/blogs/index.cfm?entryid=1888&blogid=14
BCS accuses UK.gov of grabbing 'draconian' data powers
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| The British Computing Society has joined the chorus of criticism of the way
| the government has hidden major changes to data protection law in unrelated
| legislation - the Coroners and Justice Bill.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/02/17/data_giveaway_wrong/
EU privacy chief supports Amendment 138
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| The European Data Protection Supervisor expresses support for Amendments 138
| and 166, which provide user safeguards against abusive practices by
| rights-holders or network operators. And he chastises the Parliament for
| giving in to pressure.
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http://www.iptegrity.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=256&Itemid=9
Related:
How Healthy are the Views of the BCS?
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| This is very worrying: if Britain's leading computing institution thinks that
| Internet Explorer is the acme of safe, fast, standards-based browsing, it
| could probably do with some healthcare itself.
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http://www.computerworlduk.com/toolbox/open-source/blogs/index.cfm?entryid=1246&blogid=14
British Computer Society hangs up on Microsoft call
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| The British Computer Society, BCS, is not going to heed Microsoft's call for
| another over-arching framework to certify technical architects, Computer
| Business Review has learned.
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http://cbronline.com/article_news.asp?guid=2AA3F373-73BE-4E7A-94B0-D0F6B118BC40
Linux to overtake Windows?
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| Jim Zemlin, while acknowledging that there have been many 'year of the Linux
| desktop' predictions before, believes that fast booting-up times could be the
| catalyst.
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| He cites a New York Times article by Matt Richtell which explained how some
| of the big PC makers are creating machines which provide access to basic
| applications like email and browsers 'in 30 seconds or less'.
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| The 'interesting part', says Mr Zemlin, is that 'Linux is providing that
| access'.
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http://www.bcs.org/server.php?show=conWebDoc.22698
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