The summary is completely broken which should be easier to notice than dupes? Anyway, it is supposed to say (from the Firehost article those to lazy to click):
"A European Union directive, which Britain was instrumental in devising, comes into force which will require all internet service providers to retain information on email traffic, visits to web sites and telephone calls made over the internet, for 12 months.
Police and the security services will be able to access the information to combat crime and t
You're probably right. The massive overhead required will be costly, and likely drive some small ISPs out of business.
Other thought: The E.U. just crossed the line into U.S. government territory. In addition to citizens being harassed by the local "state" governments - now it's also the central government that is directly harassing the citizens via stupid laws/directives. Twice the fun! Congratulations Europeans. Now you get to have the same fun we Americans have been experiencing since 1933.;-)
No no, it's fine - "The UK government has agreed to reimburse ISPs for the cost of retaining the data."
I run a small ISP for 5 users. I estimate that I will need 27 new servers to handle the data, and that it will take me 42 days to implement, at my standard rate of £1000/day plus expenses.
It will be a big project, so I will need to employ all of my friends and every member of my family to consult on the work, for the full duration of the project, at their standard rate of £500/day.
Where do I send the bill? I'll ask Jacqui Smith, I've heard she knows the address of the expenses department.
1. Larger secure facility (new house) 2. Method of transportation to said facility (new car) 3. Consultants, due to the nature of the work, are generally higher paid. Lets just call it £1500/day each.
I'm sure I've missed a couple of things here as well...
Thank you for raising those points. And I can't be earning less than the people I'm paying, so I'd better up my daily rate too. £3000/day sounds reasonable.
Might be worth building a data centre in the Caribbean too. For remote backups, to ensure data integrity. Just off the beach, facing the sea, to take full advantage of the sea breezes to reduce cooling costs. Will need to spend at least 6 months a year out there maintaining the systems, so may as well add a small apartment to the data centre, to save on hotel bills. 7 bedrooms should be enough for me and my consultants, who would need to rotate in on a 4-weekly basis.
I should stand at the next election, I've clearly got the right attitude for government.
Sorry but I think your political career would be short lived. While you have clearly defined all the ways in which you would waste the tax payers money on junkets and toys, erm I mean, carefully spend the tax payers money on important projects you have completely overlooked:
Thinking of the children.
New ways to raise taxes while claiming to lower them.
Restricting freedoms.
Ruining the national infrastructure (extra points for claiming to be improving it).
Clearly I have misunderestimated the complex skillset required to run the country in this day and age - and outed in such a public forum, my career is over before it has begun.
Still, you're more than welcome to a month in the Caribbean DC - the more the merrier. If you lack the necessary skills we can train you up, perhaps using a government-funded apprenticeship scheme. Think we're going to need a villa complex attached to the DC though, to house the workforce.
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it is estimated that will take between 20,000 and 40,000 terabytes of data for one internet service provider to store this data for 1 year.
Well, it will certainly be easy to ferret out any important data in that dataset, huh
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it is estimated that will take between 20,000 and 40,000 terabytes of data for one internet service provider to store this data for 1 year.
Well, it will certainly be easy to ferret out any important data in that dataset, huh
Oh, I was going to say that this database is just begging to be destroyed by a coordinated flooding effort. But perhaps it will destroy itself.
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You're probably right. The massive overhead required will be costly, and likely drive some small ISPs out of business.
Other thought: The E.U. just crossed the line into U.S. government territory. In addition to citizens being harassed by the local "state" governments - now it's also the central government that is directly harassing the citizens via stupid laws/directives. Twice the fun! Congratulations Europeans. Now you get to have the same fun we Americans have been experiencing since 1933. ;-)
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No no, it's fine - "The UK government has agreed to reimburse ISPs for the cost of retaining the data."
I run a small ISP for 5 users. I estimate that I will need 27 new servers to handle the data, and that it will take me 42 days to implement, at my standard rate of £1000/day plus expenses.
It will be a big project, so I will need to employ all of my friends and every member of my family to consult on the work, for the full duration of the project, at their standard rate of £500/day.
Where do I send the bill? I'll ask Jacqui Smith, I've heard she knows the address of the expenses department.
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Come on mate, you forgot a few things.
1. Larger secure facility (new house)
2. Method of transportation to said facility (new car)
3. Consultants, due to the nature of the work, are generally higher paid. Lets just call it £1500/day each.
I'm sure I've missed a couple of things here as well...
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Thank you for raising those points. And I can't be earning less than the people I'm paying, so I'd better up my daily rate too. £3000/day sounds reasonable.
Might be worth building a data centre in the Caribbean too. For remote backups, to ensure data integrity. Just off the beach, facing the sea, to take full advantage of the sea breezes to reduce cooling costs. Will need to spend at least 6 months a year out there maintaining the systems, so may as well add a small apartment to the data centre, to save on hotel bills. 7 bedrooms should be enough for me and my consultants, who would need to rotate in on a 4-weekly basis.
I should stand at the next election, I've clearly got the right attitude for government.
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Sorry but I think your political career would be short lived. While you have clearly defined all the ways in which you would waste the tax payers money on junkets and toys, erm I mean, carefully spend the tax payers money on important projects you have completely overlooked:
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Clearly I have misunderestimated the complex skillset required to run the country in this day and age - and outed in such a public forum, my career is over before it has begun.
Still, you're more than welcome to a month in the Caribbean DC - the more the merrier. If you lack the necessary skills we can train you up, perhaps using a government-funded apprenticeship scheme. Think we're going to need a villa complex attached to the DC though, to house the workforce.
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I should stand at the next election, I've clearly got the right attitude for government.
Or retired bank CEO?
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>>>"The UK [workers will be billed more money in the form of higher taxes] to reimburse ISPs for the cost of retaining the data."
Fixed. :-)
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Thanks for that! Always good to see the loss of subtlety and sarcasm is not complete.