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This is the UK we're talking about, there's no constitutional amendment that says you can't repress political speech and people can be sent to prison for what they write on twitter: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-17515992

That's not political speech, that's racist hate speech from what the article seems to say.

We (most commonwealth nations) have laws to protect our rights. The constitutions are mainly about how the government works. I do wish our constitutions had our rights in them though. Takes the people to change the constitution so it's a lot less vulnerable to corrupt governments like the US.

You could almost argue that any block, even if you 'can' opt out of it, is an unfair restriction on free trade. As for no-one wanting their daughter involved with porn, maybe it's time people realised what equality really means, and ask the woman in question what she feels about it, as opposed to letting their own moral bias infringe upon others' rights.

Sometimes I do despair...

With kids moving to VPNs (see http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-17922214), the filters will be useless.

One could almost say that *IAA are pushing kids to bypass government filters and hence get uncensored access to porn.

This is the UK we're talking about, there's no constitutional amendment that says you can't repress political speech and people can be sent to prison for what they write on twitter: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-17515992

Interestingly, the BBC article calls CERN "Cern" as though it were a person. To whom do we address our complaints?

You're not the first person to notice this. They've been up to this stupidity for a while now.

Google also turned up this official-looking BBC capitalisation guide, but it doesn't mention acronyms - all the ones actually in that page are capitalised correctly, though.

This seems to be the place to complain.

Interestingly, the BBC article calls CERN "Cern" as though it were a person. To whom do we address our complaints?

You're not the first person to notice this. They've been up to this stupidity for a while now.

Google also turned up this official-looking BBC capitalisation guide, but it doesn't mention acronyms - all the ones actually in that page are capitalised correctly, though.

This seems to be the place to complain.

You telling the police "I'm not a gut who robbed that bank" is not the same as having an ID that easily proves that.

Oh, I do apologise - I hadn't realised that bank robbers have to show valid ID as part of committing the crime. Because lets face it, that's the only way that having a different ID paper easily proves you aren't the one.

What the fuck makes you think ID actually helps? You can't get much more personally identifying than DNA, and knowing exactly who is was is what caused this guy six months in prison for a crime he didn't commit:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-17953266

Personally I think anonymity is important. I've been in East Germany and seen the effects of pervasive surveillance and I don't like it.

Wow, way to re-write history, are you a Russian propagandist or something? The very link you posted points out the fact that it wasn't just a clear cut out of the blue assault on South Ossetia, but a response to months of attacks on Georgian territory from South Ossetia by not just separate weaponry but Russian weaponry - there is video showing the blatant shooting down of a Georgian UAV filming over Georgian territory by a MiG 29 for crying out loud, it's kind of hard to dispute that.

Read this section of the very link you posted to see how completely wrong your view on Georgia is:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_South_Ossetia_war#Pre-war_clashes

"Same with Ukraine, it's just local clans fighting for influence, one than the other gaining more power and pushing their people as presidents. It has nothing to do with "evil Moscow hand"."

Seriously? Your lack of knowledge on this topic and the previous is astounding, it's like you've been watching Russia Today a little too much. The fact you use the term "local clans" gives the impression you're confusing the Ukraine with a country like Afghanistan which genuinely does have clans. This implies you don't even have the first clue about the nature of the Ukraine as a nation. It's a very modern country and referring to the people who backed the orange revolution as a "local clan" is equivalent to just writing off all those protesters in Egypt, Tunisia and so forth as a "local clan".

"Stop smoking whatever you are smoking and get your facts straight."

Might I suggest you watch the rather excellent BBC 4 part documentary series Putin, Russia, and the West here? -

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01b434y/episodes/guide

It covers all of these episodes and is extremely impartial in that it interviews figures directly from Russia including Putin himself, people from the US such as Colin Powell, Georgian leaders, and Ukrainian leaders - it gives a good background to the events of the last 10 years surrounding Russia and the West straight from the horses mouths in every case. The Russian leadership admit from their very own mouths to some of the political games they played in this documentary so pretending there isn't some "Moscow hand" is comical - those interviews aren't some biased edits being shown out of context, they're pretty clear cut interview questions being answer in a pretty clear cut manner.

Perhaps when you're a bit more educated on the topic and aren't just spouting some shite you read on an extremely one sided blog somewhere or whatever you can come back and rejoin the conversation with something useful and a bit more objective to add?

Still, congratulations on the up mods, at least if nothing else you've proven that many moderators on Slashdot are for the most part as uneducated on topics such as global politics as you are. At very least in future could you please read the links you yourself cite as sources so that you can recognise the fact that your understanding of the situation is actually quite unobjective?

Actually, it is flawed, because automobiles are just about the only things for which the courts have upheld this idea...

Oil tanker owner held liable for captain being negligent and crashing. Owner of a building complex that caught fire held liable, even though he wasn't the one who started the fire. Hotel owner held liable for meth lab being setup in room. Owners of male cattle not held responsible for bull killing someone. By the way, that's a biblical reference; I just wanted to demonstrate it's not a new concept. I can provide many, many more examples. It's not just cars. If you own something, you can be held responsible if you're neglegent in the maintenance of it.
Your failure to secure your wifi connection and then having it used in the commission of a crime makes you liable for damages. This has already happened in the UK and Germany. It's currently being looked into in several jurisdictions in the United States. Bottom line here, there is plenty of legal precident here and globally to create, enforce, and have upheld, a law that makes the owners of an unsecured network legally liable for illegal activity which occurs on it.

No, there isn't. I know for an absolute fact that my state laws contradict every single thing you have stated here, the sole exception being the part about automobile liability. And I am pretty sure that most other states are similar.

I have provided several links indicating that at the state and national level, this is something that is being considered, has legal merit, and may be enforceable. Your turn.

Actually, repeated headers (especially from long crosses, punts, etc) can cause pretty significant long term brain injury, as well. There have been plenty of studies on that already. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-15917035

After a somewhat botched attempt to head a long punt once (caught me too high on the forehead) I literally couldn't tell the different between the teams' colors for a few minutes. Luckily I usually play keeper so it's rare that I have to use my head :) (though I did get a really nice concussion once from a boot to the head while challenging a breakaway, ugh).

A US Court has ruled that Motorola can't force Microsoft to stop trading in Germany, if you read the BBC News version: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-17924190

"However, Motorola cannot enforce the ruling until a Seattle-based judge lifts a restraining order.

The restriction was put in place after Microsoft claimed that Motorola was abusing its Frand-commitments - a promise to licence innovations deemed critical to widely-used technologies under "fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory" terms."

The full quote is this:

Civilization, in fact, grows more and more maudlin and hysterical; especially under democracy it tends to degenerate into a mere combat of crazes; the whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary.

I very much doubt that Menken would approve of his words being put to your apparent meaning.

But, if you want to pretend that Menken's quote applies to the problem with Islamist terrorism, then tell me: Whom are you going to believe, your lying eyes, or the misuse of Menken's words? It appears most people commenting on this story will go with the misuse of Menken. No surprise I guess. Those whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad, which makes his next quote apropos:

Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.

The full quote is this:

Civilization, in fact, grows more and more maudlin and hysterical; especially under democracy it tends to degenerate into a mere combat of crazes; the whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary.

I very much doubt that Menken would approve of his words being put to your apparent meaning.

But, if you want to pretend that Menken's quote applies to the problem with Islamist terrorism, then tell me: Whom are you going to believe, your lying eyes, or the misuse of Menken's words? It appears most people commenting on this story will go with the misuse of Menken. No surprise I guess. Those whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad, which makes his next quote apropos:

Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.

I doesn't seem that anyone was claiming that MIT were the first, but as long as we're looking at prior art: the first Tetris-on-a-builiding was done by electrical engineering students in Delft, the Netherlands, all the way back in 1995, as you can see on this archived webpage. Futhermore, students at Brown University did it in 2000 (BBC article here). Both prior projects, but not Blinkenlights, are mentioned in an article about the MIT project here. It seems to me that each of these projects has something the others didn't, so no need to be competive about it - it's all in good fun.

They're doing it in the UK too : Web War II: What a future cyberwar will look like ; and on the BBC. I wonder if it's just a few select plants in their newsroom, whether they are just being fed this stuff unwittingly, or whether their legendary neutrality is being eroded at an institutional level.

Android is a flop. Hardly anybody is making any money from it and even Google has started to downplay it's significance to them (although this might just be for the sake of the judge in the Oracle lawsuit). ...

The most successful Android device is probably the Kindle Fire and Amazon has done a good job of eradicating any signs of Android branding from the device. I suspect most owners have no idea that it's running an Android fork.

Lots of Android phones are sold, but no single Android handset has done particularly well. None have outsold any of the iPhone models (AFAIK, correct me if I'm wrong).

Give over. Samsung recently overtook Nokia to become the biggest mobile phone maker in the world, with their highest quarterly profits since the recession. It seems to be working out OK for them,

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-17865117

Although no "single handset" might have outsold any single Apple handset, that's a false comparison derived from the fact that Apple only sell one handset. Samsung don't care which of their phones you buy, as long as you're buying one of their phones.

I accept your challenge.

http://www.techspot.com/news/22178-wardriving-credit-card-thief-gets-9-years-in-jail.html
http://www.crn.com/news/security/26806554/wardrivers-plead-guilty-sentenced-to-jail-time.htm

and one from the UK:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/hereford/worcs/6565079.stm

How long do you think Belgium (and the rest of Europe) can afford this? Europe is no longer wealthy, this isn't just my opinion, it's the opinion of former Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad
I'm not saying that worker protections aren't important, but a 38 hour work week and food checks? I suggest you teach your children either Chinese (to communicate to their masters) or Arabic (to communicate to their tormentors).

And still you offer none...

There are plenty of examples to be found...

FRAUD ALERT: It was not a mathematical model that caused the problem. It was fraud. Financial organizations convinced investors that they had a "mathematical model" so that they could steal. The theft was ENTIRELY deliberate, as is described in detail in the 1997 book F.I.A.S.C.O.: Blood in the Water on Wall Street, by Frank Partnoy. Somehow the issues were kept quiet for 11 more years until the theft could be completed in the 2008 financial crash. Traders called their work "ripping the client's face off" .

There are other editions of the book, such as this one published in 1999, Fiasco: The Inside Story of a Wall Street Trader, and a 2009 I-told-you-so edition of the original name.

Nothing has been done to reform the extremely corrupt financial system in the United States. No one in the SEC, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, the government organization that is supposed to police financial fraud, was prosecuted, even though the agency knew of the abuses. See the February 17, 2009 show Frontline: Inside the Meltdown.

Even though the U.S. dollar is experiencing rampant inflation in 2012, U.S. banks give less than 1% interest on savings. Those who would like to invest can't because the system is so corrupt it cannot be trusted. Corporations hold unprecedented amounts of cash. See, for example, the October 7, 2010 Washington Post article, U.S. companies buy back stock in droves as they hold record levels of cash.

F.I.A.S.C.O. stands for "Fixed Income Annual Sporting Clays Outing" (See page 100 of the 2009 edition.), held at a shooting range called "Sandanona, a club in upstate New York" (Page 97 of the 2009 edition). Traders would go there to shoot guns. The idea was to encourage their taste for violence so that they would be even more financially violent toward the customer.

Perhaps the April 27, 2012 BBC article, Black-Scholes: The maths formula linked to the financial crash referenced in this Slashdot story was influenced by public relations agencies trying to get people to believe that the crash was caused by errors in mathematical thinking, and not by fraud, so that the financial industry can continue stealing.

It would be helpful if Slashdot editors signed a statement about each story saying that they know of no conflict of interest, and no one was paid to run the story.

"Some great inventions began in humble surroundings - think Bill Gates and Steve Jobs toiling in their garages - so I'm not being critical".

Steve Jobs yes, Bill Gates no, he toiled in the exclusive Lakeside School. And Apple and Microsoft owe more to Steve Wozniak and Paul Allen than the former two mentioned.

I daresay I have a wider sample size than that, but it doesn't mean much since I'm a Norwegian politician, and those I've talked to are people I've come into contact with in that context. Maybe you too, presumably being American, have a sample bias? The plural of anecdote is not fact. In this case, it's probably best to google around for some polls. Much to my dismay, most polls returned by Google and Wikipedia deal with US popular opinion on the invasion rather than Iraqi popular opinion, but I did find one.

Overall, 59% of those questioned think Britain's role is negative, 22% positive; 64% say the US is negative, 18% positive; 68% view Iran negatively, 12% positively. Also, 56% think the 2003 invasion was wrong (up 6%), while 42% say it was right (down 7%).

Source: BBC

There are better sources at BBC News or Bloomberg.

Oh and LMFAO at that article you linked, yeah a slideshow of some scenic places tells me a whole lot about how much people pay for cocaine

If you read the captions on the slides, the pricing is right there. I'm sorry that you were distracted by the pretty pictures, I didn't create the slideshow.

Yeah that's end user price I was talking about dealer rates...When you buy a kilo u ain't payin to 120 per gram, not if you intend to make money that is. You're talking about something that doesn't have a real cost to manufacture so at dealer levels they basically define the price at however much they want to move to keep their rep up this week.

Why would you quote prices in gram for volume pricing that's usually purchased in kilos?

In any case, the wholesale price of cocaine in the USA ranges from $14 to $39 per gram:

http://www.narcoticnews.com/Cocaine-Prices-in-the-U.S.A.php

While in the UK, you'll pay around 60 US dollars for a gram:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/8044275.stm

You may pay less if you're purchasing cut cocaine.

And those numbers look suspiciously like averages...I mean, noones payin for a gram of anything illegal by the dollar, they pay in intervals of 5 because some drug dealers will actually shoot you in the head if you try to give them 1's or change. In other words, this article is bullshit.

You are kidding, right? How else would you represent the price of cocaine in a country if not using averages? Would you just pick the price at some random street corner and use that as the price for the entire country? And then would you convert from whatever currency they use, then round to the nearest 5 US dollars since that's how a street dealer in the USA would price it?

Yes, a beautiful, graceful swa... OMG Da1T!fak!!@! #!(*#
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It later emerged that a female Tamil Tiger (LTTE) suicide bomber had assassinated Rajiv Gandhi.

Saw a great film about this in college, too

The easiest/efficient way to protest Govt hegemony is to print/circulate/use your own banknotes exclusively among your friends/family/community.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-14774526

Yeah, it's not like variations of the flu have killed more people than all of our wars combined. It's not like we have a lack of organizations that believe in terror or widespread murders. Heck, we don't even have any environmental radicals that just might look at a world wide population reduction as the best possible thing that could happen to the environment. Nope, no reason at all to be concerned about this....

What kind of company fires people by e-mail? Uh, low, disgusting & inhuman! If i were an employee there, I'd really try to find another job.

Those who don't use text messages

although they say the reserves cover large areas of Europe, I guess that means it's not all in a single locatable point. However, the main drilling so far has taken place in Lancashire so Scotland can take its wannabe-president and f**k off. They can take RBS and HBoS and their debts away too.

The problem isn't the rich, or corporations, that's just a red herring thrown at you by the REAL problem: The Democrat and Republican parties.

That's only one political party... The Federalists opposed the Democratic-Republican party, remember? After getting trade with England re-established the Federalist party was shut out for their "Spirit of the Law" thinking, leaving only the Democratic-Republican party as the dominant party... Today it's the only party available. The term False Dichotomy applies somewhat here, except the falseness is in thinking that a choice exists between two when there is only one choice.

Furthermore, thanks to the spoiler effect, no independent party can arise. We need a multi-tiered ballot system whereby your vote says: I want X to win, and if X isn't winning, I want Y to win, and if that doesn't work out I want Z to win... etc. A preferred priority list (Alternative Vote) instead of a single vote system. This would enable you to vote independent, but not throw away your vote if they lose; Thus, opening the door for additional parties to slowly gain support over time, and have a real chance.

I believe Australia has such a system in place. However, that's still not good enough. We also need representation that reflects the actual party percentages.

Of course, with only a single established political party there's no way in hell we'll get them to release their reigns of power and implement a fair voting system -- So, looks like it's back to the "reboot the bitch" Anarchists angle for me.

One counterexample is all that's needed to disprove your original assertion, and here it is: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/newsnight/8245312.stm

Of course, this wasn't in a country where lawyers get to choose the jurors based on their stupidity, gullibility or corruptibility...

They exist. They're just not commercially available yet : http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/click_online/9708468.stm

Privacy and security are almost never a zero sum game. In this case, reducing privacy isn't going to help find more 'criminal/terrorist activity'; It will just cause them to use Freenet, TOR, steganography, for comunication etc. instead and result in making it even harder to track real criminal activity.

The trouble with this argument -- and I write this as someone who is a strong believer in privacy -- is that it assumes all bad guys are smart. Many bad guys don't come from the genius pool, as we can tell from the ways they eventually get caught and the number of times someone has slipped through all this security theatre but then failed to cause any real damage anyway. If anything, the fact that so many bad guys don't seem to be that smart has been doing more to protect us than anything else lately.

I don't like this particular idea because I think the cost to individual privacy and the risk of subsequent government abuse are too high a price to pay. But if we're going to have an intelligent debate about it, we should consider that high level government people have gone on the record in the UK (recent example) to say that the analogous phone contact information is widely used in tracking down the perpetrators of serious crimes and ultimately bringing them to justice. If we take them at their word, there is "a case to answer" here and a genuine debate to be had.

This won't happen.

Why not? Something similar already happened in the UK with Youtube regarding music performer royalties and other demands for lots of cash.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/7933565.stm

"YouTube could face a huge bill for royalties after it lost a court battle in Germany over music videos. A court in Hamburg ruled that YouTube is responsible for the content that users post to the video sharing site. It wants the video site to install filters that spot when users try to post music clips whose rights are held by royalty collection group, Gema. The German industry group said in court that YouTube had not done enough to stop copyrighted clips being posted. YouTube said it took no responsibility for what users did, but responded when told of copyright violations."

to my knowledge this covers flights to/from the us and flights through us airspace.

http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2759167&cid=39538673

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-17764365

http://rt.com/news/eu-us-data-deal-491/

Not just those going to/from USA...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-17764365
http://rt.com/news/eu-us-data-deal-491/

unless these two sites have published false information, you're just fear mongering.

do you have links to backup what you wrote?

unless you're referring to this http://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/04/01/0020259/dhs-will-now-vet-uk-air-passengers-to-mexico-canada-cuba

http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2759167&cid=39538673

but then still, you should not make blanket statements like this. that's just fear mongering.

to summarize: as far as i can tell this pnr agreement covers flights to/from the us and flights through us airspace.

solution is simple: just avoid the us like a pariah.

ps: i am referring to this definition of pariah - one that is despised or rejected.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-17764365

The agreement applies to airlines operating flights between any of the 27 EU countries and the US.

It covers not only European airlines but also any carriers that are "incorporated or storing data" in the EU and operating flights to or from the US.

http://rt.com/news/eu-us-data-deal-491/

The agreement applies to airlines that operate flights between EU countries and the US.

The list of airlines covered by the new legislation extends beyond European carriers to include any carriers that are "incorporated or storing data" in the EU and operating flights to or from the US.

Entire fields "corrupted"? That's a dangerous-sounding generalisation, but it wouldn't surprise me if bad practices were all too common in some of the dodgier "sciences". I could believe that more rigorous scientists would abandon certain fields (like parapsychology) simply because of the continued lack of repeatable results, leaving only the hacks to waffle on.

I like a good Feynman story as much as the next guy, but you're still alleging that this applies to climatologists too, once again without any evidence. You want us to believe on your say-so that, despite the intense media interest, many peer-reviewed papers, enormous political, economical and geophysical stakes, and the huge controversy surrounding the field, all those thousands of scientists are throwing their reputations and careers to the winds by commonly taking shortcuts and not checking their work, or even each other's. You want us to ignore the multiple, independent bodies of work (e.g. NASA, CRU, NOAA) that have all closely agreed, even when studies specifically set out to carefully check that work.

If you want us to believe that climate science is full of unprincipled scientists with poor methodology, then you'll have to explain why this is apparently only true selectively, presumably for the WG2 projections you're taking issue with, because your unsubstantiated insinuations aren't particularly convincing on their own.

This is not a Rush Limbaugh forum, and your retarded post has nothing to do with the topic. If you watch the BBC documentary Madagascar, Lemurs and Spies, you'll see that Gibson looks guilty as hell. A researcher working with an endangered group of Lemurs sees illegal logging in protected wilderness, and they get a hidden camera lawyer posing as an American wood buyer to go deep inside the logging operation, documenting the mass harvesting and lumber mills there producing pallets of fingerboard blanks with the Gibson front company name all over. The sawmill owner even brags on camera about what they are doing.

By your logic, you would shut up and go away if the justice department put people at Gibson in jail. More likely, you would be here bitching about how another American company was shut down by the feds.

Wrong. They won't cost 6800.

China's slice of the iPad is only 3%: http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2012/01/which-countries-make-money-off-the-ipad/251654/
Similar for the iPhone: http://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2011/12/24/china-makes-almost-nothing-out-of-apples-ipads-and-i/

Multiply that by 10x and and the iProducts would be at most 30% more expensive. Most of the people buying them now would probably still be buying them at that higher price.

Of course, from what I see the US workers are not worth paying 10x more for. Judging from the many Slashdot posts by US people the average worker is unlikely to be even worth 3x more (the best on the other hand are a different story). Compare your pay here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-17543356

In some countries there is a better hope since they are educating a higher percentage of their population to higher levels, that way they can stay ahead of the cheap labour (Vietnam etc) and upcoming more sophisticated and efficient robots. In contrast the USA is on the track where a minority rule over a mostly mediocre poorly educated majority. Your rulers don't care of course - it works well for them. Well educated voters will just make their lives more difficult. But you and the rest of the voters should care.

Back in 2009, Ford said the F22 radar technology which they took and built upon for their Taurus was all open source.

what I was most surprised to come across in my investigation was the availability, with no age restriction and free on the internet, of pornography including group sex, anal sex, double penetration, apparently having sex with strangers, women in the middle of a group of men who were masturbating over their face.

Has she (MP Jacqui Smith) been watching more porn at taxpayers expense?

Sun royal editor Duncan Larcombe arrested in payments probe.

Here's the BBCs "what's on" page. Absolute bag of arse. http://www.bbc.co.uk/tv/guide. It was a lot quicker to look it up on ceefax. By the time you've walked over to the computer, waited for the page to load (if it does at all), navigate to the right date & time the programme you were looking for is finished. And what about people who don't have intarwebs?

The rest of the website is largely content free, just links to videos that spin for 20 minutes and then decide not to to play because you're in the wrong country.

The "Dear Ceefax" article on the BBC news site gives a more human perspective... http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-17745100

I'm sad in some ways part of my childhood is going with it. I have many childhood memories of the kids pages, bad jokes, looking up when my favorite TV show was on and *having my name on TV!* on my birthday.

But the world has moved on, the Ceefax that is/was available today is a shadow of its former self.

I'm going now before I get too far down memory lane that I end up late for work...

The title and summary seem to suggest that the system as a whole has had a failure of some kind, though it's nothing of the likes. It's just the analogue > digital switchover means that people will "lose" access to it, however the BBC provides digital services anyway.

Steve Hermann's post on his blog can be found at http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/theeditors/2012/04/from_ceefax_to_digital_text.html

I propose we investigate who would win in a fight between these monkeys and their cyborg brethren.

It may seem gratuitous, but think of how this could benefit all the disabled people who in the future will face the tough decision of whether to fight off the encroaching zombie hordes with a biological arm from the flesh vats, or with a prosthetic chainsaw.

IT needs to stay in IT. The last thing we need is for them to join marketing.
Wouldn't you really rather have them hardening your own installation rather then having them trying to publicly grandstand on a failure of the competition? Doesn't that simply make YOUR company more of a target?

Does Stratfor ring any bells?