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Of course this only works if you trust those who control it.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/coalition-plans-tax-on-fresh-air-177406

No, I don't think that's Steve's silhouette on the logo.

But that does lead to the question, when are we going to start seeing Jobs showing up on tortillas on teh intarwebz?

yes. Really.

http://www.3-mob.com/?p=2140
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2011/03/22/libya-colonel-gaddafi-in-hiding-guarded-by-a-40-strong-squad-of-gun-toting-female-virgin-bodyguards-115875-23006825/
http://darklochnagar.blogspot.com/2011/07/gaddafi-should-be-let-out-on.html

...but Rap music has: http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2011/08/10/london-riots-is-rap-music-to-blame-for-encouraging-this-culture-of-violence-115875-23333250/

Yep.
Another like-minded developer made on in homage to Blizzard.

More relevant than even those, however, is the entire fake mall that opened in 2009. Genuine imitation brands only! Get your McDnoald’s hamburgers, Bucksstar Coffee, and a Pizza Huh (not Hut) Pizza all under one roof! A Google search for fake mall also nets a 2007 YouTube video of an all-fake mall; I don't know if it's the same one (YT blocked by firewall).

Really, this Apple store shouldn't surprise anyone.

Slashdot isn't Wikipedia; do your own fucking research for easily-verifiable information. Rebutting with "citation needed" while making no attempt yourself only says that you're gigantic douche.

No sensible judge concerned with the dignity of his office would issue such a ridiculous gag order for twitter users. It's barely one step above ordering people to stop gossiping in pubs.

Don't be silly, that's what ASBOs are for.
OK, that's a gag, but this is real.

I completely agree, that people who risk their lives to save others are nothing else but heroes.

What I am confused about is what made such an act of heroism nessesary. With all the reports about Fukushima like http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/2011/03/17/wikileaks-cables-reveal-worry-over-japan-s-nuclear-plants-115875-22994842/ or http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/japan/8384966/Japan-nuclear-plant-disaster-engineer-retired-35-years-ago-over-Fukushima-safety-concerns.html I can not shake off the feeling that it was exactly calculated, that this plant will likely cost lives someday.

So now these workers (maybe) giving up their health or more, because someone wanted to make some more money. And what if things go completely fubar? There isn't even a way to punish a corporation for such a behaviour, because the damage is almost always higher than anyone can pay for.

They're not greedy - they just need to pay for their kids' college educations.

That still doesn't explain why in the hell ANYBODY is using rockets for non live payloads these days.Lets face it: Rockets are damned dangerous, expensive, depending on which fuel you use can dump a ton of crap into the atmosphere, it just doesn't seem like the most efficient way to go about it.

I still say Gerald Bull had the right idea almost 50 years ago, first with Project HARP and finally with Project Babylon which ultimately got him killed. I think his idea was just so far ahead it wasn't feasible with the technology he had to work with, and now it is.

We all know the US Navy has successfully been firing a Mach 8 railgun and just as it was military rockets that got our first payloads into space, so too do I believe this military technology is the key to lowering the costs of launches and even making manned missions to Mars possible, by combining this technology with HARP.

Imagine a railgun set up on lets say a mountain in the Marshall Islands. The rail gun would allow the craft to build up incredible speeds before launch, and then at the top of the trajectory a much smaller and more economical solid fuel rocket would carry it the last leg. A good 90% of the fuel used is cutting through the lower atmosphere and building up escape velocity which the railgun would take care of. We already know how to generate, store, and release large amounts of electricity, so this wouldn't require any exotic new technology we don't currently possess, and finally this would allow quick turn around and large payloads with more reasonable cost, and we could use the money generated by launching commercial payloads to help offset the costs of our exploration. We could launch unmanned sections which would be put together in space and allow exploration of Mars and other relatively close neighbors.

We have been using rockets since the 50s, and while the costs have gone down some they really haven't gone down enough to really open space up to us. With resources being used up in an ever increasing rate and by an ever growing population, exploration for new resources and places to colonize like Mars will require new ways of doing things if we are ever gonna really get out there. As Stephen Hawking said "The human race must colonise space within the next two centuries or face oblivion". I don't believe we can achieve that goal with rocket tech but we can using Gerald Bull's idea.

I wasn't fully sure I believed you so I fact checked. the mirror and at the bottom of the wikipedia talk page and also in the page history.. What a shame for the Telegraph.

(And it's all to treat the symptoms, rather than addressing the root causes of the disease.)

The problem is of course just how politically incorrect stating exactly what "the disease" is. We all know it, and as you say, it is a matter of time until there are no alternatives left.

You can't allow people to adhere to violent, barbaric ideologies. It's not tolerant, it's moronic. Insofar as this is part of a "mainstream" religion, that religion must be eradicated or contained - before your own front door anally rapes you anytime you try to go to work.

It's not all religions - not at all - in fact it's not limited to religion. When it comes to bombings (and genocides) a certain political persuasion follows that religion holding the top spot quite closely.

It was a little bit more than that http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2010/10/30/geek-who-posted-jade-abuse-jailed-115875-22675276/ the message were apparently obscene in nature and minors were involved.

Of course a warning for the Mirror for that electronic disparagement of computer geeks, whilst Colm Cross was acting as a troll that has nothing to do with being a computer geek, in fact the exact opposite is more likely to be true.

Still really odd for the court to ignore the mental health of the person in question, that they derived pleasure from some pretty offensive behaviour is pretty indicative of mental instability especially at that age.

All of this is true... so long as the person making the accusation is female and the person being accused of abusing the kids is male. If you're a guy and make accusations in a divorce case that your wife abused the kids - well, best not to go there unless you have rock-solid proof, and think carefully even then because it's a good way to lose all access to them. (Believe it or not, a lot of kids out there are abused by women - sexually, physically and emotionally.)

Also, it's not a simple case of protecting the kids at the expense of wrongfully seperating them from one of their parents. Denying the other parent access is an obvious move for an abuser to make - it ensures that the kids have nowhere else to go and eliminates someone they could otherwise talk about the abuse to. (Well, as long as said abuser is female, anyway.)

There was a lovely case earlier this year here in the UK where a mother of two kids told the police that her ex-husband had harassed her and got them to keep him away from the house where they were staying. She used this opportunity to murder both kids in peace. The reason he was there in the first place was that it was his house - she had a home elsewhere but had broken in. He told the police he was worried about her halming the kids, but because he was male they saw him as the only potential danger.

Pay? In the UK you might even get a flat rent free:

Bradley Wernham, 19, responsible for a £1million crime spree, was spared a prison sentence last October after police told a judge he had turned his life around.
Wernham was given a community service order instead and relocated to another town where he was given a flat rent-free.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2010/08/05/one-man-crimewave-bradley-wernham-jailed-by-the-judge-who-let-him-off-115875-22465784/
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/7926040/Prolific-burglar-given-second-chance-offends-again-after-three-months.html

I was thinking more of this guy.

If Prince wants his advance without having to worry about all those numbers then this is what he gets.

I'd be really angry about this if it was happening in Britain. A video camera is about the the only protection you have sometimes. It reminds me of a case in the UK where CCTV caught police beating up a non-resisting returning soldier from Afghanistan.

I also cornered a minister, Andy Burnham, in 2005 about ID cards. The Blair Govt at the time had already legislated to abolish elections (twice), lied to the public about WMD in Iraq and was set on building the kind of digital surveillance network that would have the Stasi drooling. They had eluded any kind of democratic debate and were forcibly ejecting protestors from their public events. The only way to get any kind of accountability was to challenge them in front of a network TV camera.

The minister refused. I boomed "What have you got to hide?" in front of the camera and you can see a minder trying to block the BBC's footage with his hand.

People on here have probably heard about the tragic state of the UK constitution and demolition of our rights. We have a new Govt now along with a fairly reliable promise to restore them.

My figures were from 2007 but in 2008 the UK's "Mirror" publication states :

"8,000/1 KILLED IN A ROAD ACCIDENT."

Source : http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-world/2008/05/30/scientists-calculate-odd-ways-to-die-115875-17495916/

an automatic targeting program for the laser cannons.

****ing botter! I'm surprised you didn't ask for X-ray vision as well! (But be careful what you wish for.)

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2010/03/23/amazing-x-ray-picture-boy-gets-stabbed-in-the-head-with-10-inch-knife-after-row-over-counter-strike-computer-game-115875-22132969/

I think the Sony OLED TV didn't sell was because it was a ridiculous design. Look at the picture:

    http://blogs.mirror.co.uk/techno-techno-techno/css/sony-xel-1-oled.jpg

What is the point of having an ultra-thin display when the base required to hold it makes the device have the same footprint as a CRT TV? This might have been a good seller if it had been something you could hang on your wall, but even then, most people have enough space in their homes that they don't really *need* an ultra-thin display (and would not pay a premium for it)

I there is a market for ultra-thin displays, but it is for tablet devices and laptops, not TVs. I believe Sony realized this and is simply moving towards that market.

Source forge was blocking downloads by Blanket Jackson??? I didn't even know he was an open source hacker! He doesn't really look old enough...

Link :
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-world/2008/05/30/scientists-calculate-odd-ways-to-die-115875-17495916/

Quotes :
8,000/1 KILLED IN A ROAD ACCIDENT.

EVERY year 1,500 car drivers and adult passengers die in road smashes, while around 1,000 pedestrians and cyclists die in road accidents. Worldwide, over 3,000 people are killed in road crashes daily.

9,300,000/1 DYING IN TERRORIST ATTACK

LAST year there were 651 significant international terrorist attacks worldwide, killing nearly 2,000 people

EndQuotes

In 2007 there were roughly 2500 road deaths in the UK. During that same period 2000 souls were lost to terrorism WORLD WIDE.

There are risks in everything we do.

Link : http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-world/2008/05/30/scientists-calculate-odd-ways-to-die-115875-17495916/

Quote : 8,000/1 KILLED IN A ROAD ACCIDENT.
EVERY year 1,500 car drivers and adult passengers die in road smashes, while around 1,000 pedestrians and cyclists die in road accidents. Worldwide, over 3,000 people are killed in road crashes daily.

9,300,000/1 DYING IN TERRORIST ATTACK
LAST year there were 651 significant international terrorist attacks worldwide, killing nearly 2,000 people.

And you want me and everyone else to pose nude ?

There you go.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2005/11/22/exclusive-bush-plot-to-bomb-his-arab-ally-115875-16397937/

Second hit on Google. Now that wasn't so hard, was it ?

> Since when have we ever returned land to the wild
Go visit America's breadbasket; vast stretches of formerly occupied homes and manicured lawns now turned into buffalo country

Not yet, but they are going to start on this guy...

From the same site: http://www.mirror.co.uk/celebs/news/2009/10/07/michael-jackson-s-face-appears-in-baby-s-ultrasound-scan-115875-21729849/ Meh.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/carcrashfraud/

http://living.morethan.com/2008/03/25/car-insurance-fraud-dont-be-a-victim/

http://www.google.com/#hl=en&q=staged+accident+car+insurance+fraud

Apple has burned me and I am waiting to switch.

Apple burned a few people, actually.

And as if by magic...

Then again, maybe not... Maybe just Android...

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/technology/2009/07/30/acer-android-netbook-back-on-track-115875-21558985/

Well, one PC repair shop diagnosed the sabotage straight away and didn't charge a penny (let alone rummage through the porn): ..AND AN HONEST FIRM'S QUICK FIX

Pix 4 in Shepherds Bush, West London, took their time to carefully examine our machine as we waited. They promptly discovered the loose chip, popped it back into place and told us with a smile there would be no charge.

A delighted spokesman for the business said: âoeWe are glad to be of service, you have to be very careful which repair companies you use these days.â

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2009/07/22/probe-reveals-computer-technicians-paid-to-fix-computers-are-snooping-into-private-files-115875-21538222/

I would like to point out that the BBC, Boingboing, South Africa's Mail & Guardian, the UK's Daily Mirror, the bloody Katmandu, Nepal based Republica, and 632 news sources managed to report the announcement of Google Chrome OS before it was a glimmer in Slashdot's eye.

A very poor show for Slashdot, which is supposed to be news for nerds, stuff that matters.

Your entire rant reads like you think this is for *home* users. It's primarily targetted at business users. Probably those that have bought everyone Blackberrys and then find they don't work in basement etc.

> Why would I PAY Verizon to basically expand their own coverage area?

For the exact same reason you PAY to have broadband, cable or phone lines installed in your house: Because you want to USE IT perhaps?! By paying them to install broadband in your house you're "paying them to extend their network" as you call it. I really don't get what your point is... if you don't want the service, then simply don't buy it - it's OPTIONAL remember. You're not paying them to expand their network, you're paying them to get enhanced coverage inside your office/conference center/show/station etc.

> The ability for ANY Verizon phone within range..[to].place the calls across your Internet connection

With Vodafone's femtocell you can "register the mobile numbers you want to have linked into the service and no one else will be able to pinch your bandwidth." source

> In the UK it seems, not only will you pay to increase their service coverage, but monthly as well

No, not "as well" - instead of. You can EITHER buy it, OR get it free and pay a monthly contract as it says in your quoted text.

This didn't go well the last time. Newspaper headline:

NIGHTMARE ON DREAMSPACE: MUMS, DADS, KIDS PLUNGE TO EARTH

HORRIFIED witnesses told last night how they watched helplessly as parents and children plummeted to the ground after a huge bouncy castle was sent rocketing 120ft into the air.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2006/07/24/killed-by-the-bouncy-castle-115875-17435718/

http://www.google.com.au/search?q=dreamspace+inflatable

They're worried about escalation.

Raping those poor pixels and imaginary children may not matter, but it certainly is easier and harder to detect than stalking someone, don't you think?

It's like that freak that tried to kill someone after watching Dexter. Plant a seed, watch it grow. There's many people with messed up soil, but without the seed they probably won't turn into murders/rapists/thieves/etc.

Mind you, it is possible to turn the soil. Catch a kid stealing candy in the act, and punish them, and they're far less likely to become thieves later in life. I'm not sure how well that'd work with a Rapist or Murderer... it's not something I'd want to check through experimentation.

Or even a porno game where you are a black prostitute and have to sleep with as many Conservative MPs as possible before they get elected. Read all about it

I wonder if Craig Charles has dealt with his serious drug problem

"Please excuse my ignorance but why is UK's current situation so touchy with child abuse?"

Because there was a case here recently of a seventeen months old baby being tortured to death over a long period by his 'care givers'. Despite the fact that he was on the 'at risk register', at no time did the social services notice a broken back. See also here where a mother fakes the kidnapping of her own daughter.

Every so often the nation works itself up into a paedo-panic. Some time back it reached the heights of the absurd where a pediatrician was attacked in his own home. As someone else pointed out, a kid is more likely to be abused by a relative than some total stranger. So, if you're a male of a certain age, don't talk to kids in the street, don't have them in your home, never give your daughter a hug and never let your daughter climb into your lap and under no circumstances be alone in a room with her.

"that's the thing about wasps, they love animals, can't stand people"

Yeah surely playing them Slade's Merry Christmas Everybody and Wham's Last Christmas is more likely to drive them mad than give them enjoyment. The guests of Holiday Inn Kensington would seem to agree: http://www.mirror.co.uk/celebs/latest/2008/12/09/slade-hit-merry-christmas-everybody-banned-by-hotel-115875-20957466/

Not only that, but Dr. #10 was(is?) shagging Dr. #5's daughter...

Doctor Who David Tennant dating on-screen daughter Georgia Moffett

Now, that's just freaky.

While I agree that you should be prepared for anything that may be obstructing the roadway, that white sign halfway hidden behind a bush as you turn a corner is exactly where your attention should NOT be.

In the UK they've recently (last few years) been painting speed restrictions in less-expected places (like on the approach to a small village along a fast, empty road) like this directly on the road. No need to look away. (another picture). It also reduces sign clutter.

Work and Pensions Secretary James Purnell leaves red box secrets on train

Interesting things to note:

• Someone uses the British rail system.
• He's not the first: "The embarrassing gaffe comes days after civil servant Richard Jackson was fined for leaving top secret documents relating to al-Qaeda and Iraq on a train."

Munshi was arrested after police found an instruction manual on making grenades and napalm downloaded to his computer from the internet.

The guy got two years for this and also running a website selling knives and Islamic flags, so yeah reading material can get you in trouble, at least here in the UK. Who needs liberties!

Does France not have anything along the lines of the 'first sale' doctrine?

No, but they really should have a "first, duck!" rule. Even public displays of their government at work can be very dangerous.

To put the performance of the machine in perspective, Thomas P. D'Agostino, the administrator of the National Nuclear Security Administration, said that if all six billion people on earth used hand calculators and performed calculations 24 hours a day and seven days a week, it would take them 46 years to do what the Roadrunner can in one day.

Actually, no. The BBC makes no such reference.

Direct quote from http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7304004.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/2358011.stm
"Although cleared by an investigation, Sir Arthur's unconventional lifestyle continued to cause some raised eyebrows."

His BBC obit is at http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/2358011.stm
Same text. Yes, he had an unconventional lifestyle. That's not the same as stating that he had an unconventional _sexual_ lifestyle.

Nor would it be any of my business, unless he was doing something heinous enough for me to boycott his work. While molesting children of either sex would definitely qualify, the story (in a UK paper that's little, if any, better than a US supermarket tabloid) was bogus. They were then forced to print a retraction, as mentioned above.

See: http://www.mirror.co.uk/ and judge for yourself. Title of the home page is "Celebrity, Football, and Today's News Headlines." Of course, it might be less likely that anyone will hold their feet to the fire if they were to publish something more, now that he's gone. It wouldn't surprise me if a rag like the Mirror were to quote Sir Arthur's bisexual martian lover in tomorrow's edition, and be repeated by similar publications. The Mirror is probably quite popular amongst those who are limited to slowly puzzling out the words.