Everyone is an IT-expert nowadays

This is really funny! Even the BBC goofs up big time. They mistook a cabdriver for an IT-expert. Live, on TV. The look on the guys face when they mention his (wrong) name: priceless (for everything else: Mastercard). Check out the whole story: A computer expert has described his astonishment at seeing the BBC’s 24-hour news channel interview a taxi driver – in the mistaken belief it was him. Guy Kewney – a white, bearded technology expert – was astonished to see himself appear on screen as a black man with an apparent French accent. He was even more shocked […]

Above the law

Out of control. That is the only way I can describe the efforts of Bush to get information about ‘terrorists’ by spying on his own citizens. No matter how he tries to defend it, he is just taking everything one step to far. The worst thing is that he really believes he has the authority to step over every boundary there is. His latest venture: letting the NSA try to get their hands on all the phonebills from the major telco’s. USA Today reported last Thursday that the NSA was building a database with the help of three major U.S. […]