Slashdot posting on snowy plate

There's currently a very scary thread on slashdot about the Brits tracking every car on the road by the licence plates. This is not only going to track criminals (and those who drive "near them"), but monitor everyone and track speeders, overdue fines, and expired plates.

I added a small comment here, but the more important posts in the thread (as of this moment, it is the top thread and therefore very active right now) are this one, this one, this one, this little defence when U.S. firearm laws are insulted, and also a couple postings make reference to this Wired article.

I think I've sort of covered this thought before. Below you've seen my posting on the 9/11 conspiracy nonsense, and it seems an interesting point that when left-wing conspiracy theories are brought forth they end up having no supporting evidence, while right-wingers who bring up the tin-foil hat material have a nasty habit of always being right. (We didn't choose right-winger for no reason!)