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I have yet to hear about the UK scrapping the NHS in favour of the US insurance model

Everything happens in stages. You need to pay more attention. In brief: private outsourcing under the guise of choice. Fire people then re-hire them at a lower level as private contractors but at higher wage (in the short term, with no job security or concomitant organisational familiarity and loyalty). See also British Rail.

bitterness and fear-mongering from the section of the population that relied too heavily on labour handouts in the last parliament.

Are you seriously arguing that New Labour was the Party for the mythical Daily Hate Benefit Scrounger, possibly the least expensive source of wastage the government has to deal with?

Its not exactly like they have cameras in their bedrooms.

I think they'e already started exactly that.... "CCTV cameras were installed, including in their bedroom. Social workers explained that the cameras were there to observe them performing their parental duties and for the protection of their baby." http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/law-and-order/3507238/Social-services-set-up-CCTV-camera-in-couples-bedroom.html

Shame that it's no longer winter.

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

A couple of years ago there was a news story about how Chip and Pin devices had been hacked in the factory to send information overseas:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/law-and-order/3173346/Chip-and-pin-scam-has-netted-millions-from-British-shoppers.html

This definitely falls into Villasenor's "shipping data out" category.

There was also a story recently of someone convicted of modifying these devices.

Like in the UK, when they used anti-terrorism law to fine people that were putting their rubbish in the wrong bin or people with noisy children..
(OK not the best source in the world but worrying regardless)

Bearing in mind that Kenya, as a least developed country, is not required to buy carbon credits for it's emissions.

So let's be clear here - you expect to give a free pass to all 3rd world countries on CO2 emissions, and only place caps on 1st world countries? All this does is redistribute wealth, and redistribute CO2 emissions...it doesn't seem like such a system would do anything to stop CO2 levels from rising at all.

What? Climate change causes an increase in hurricanes

Be specific. If you're asserting that warming climate causes an increase in hurricanes, well, supposedly the last few years since Katrina have been the warmest ever, but hurricanes have been quiet.

Conversely, if cooling climate causes a decrease in hurricanes, I would love to know what temperature we'd have to get to in order to have zero hurricanes. Show your work!

In addition Climate Change causes disruption the natural snow melt cycle on the mountains where the rivers begin (the himalayas).

Oooh, oooh, I know the answer to this one! GLACIERGATE!

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/christopherbooker/7062667/Pachauri-the-real-story-behind-the-Glaciergate-scandal.html

Well, because it turns out that the cheap energy isn't cheap at all.

Sure it is. You've just decided that the value that other people put on some mythical idea of "climate" is incorrect.

Much like indie music producers, many love to have their music 'pirated' because it means exposure. Like the old shareware days. Remember when Radiohead did that pay-what-you-want scheme? Not a bad idea. The sooner the content producers adapt to the new distribution models, eliminate the middle-men cartels that get all the cuts (old-school mentality), the sooner the gangsters of profit are shown that information generally wants to be 'free', finding a way to make people pay for it through their own generosity and good-will obligation, as to arm-twisting and draconian DRM, the sooner quality information can flourish, the sooner garbage that keeps our current signal-to-noise ratio so low begins to become weeded out.

Maybe I'm wrong. Maybe there needs to be a front company to sell the work of somebody else. But I believe this should only be true for circumstances in that the producer(s) can't maintain the quality of their work, nor the channels of distribution in a manner that maintains the quality of the original product. But something that is self-contained awesomeness that has a fairly hands off approach, well, find ways to monetize it other than arm-twisting and litigation. This guy seems to get it.

The deniers set up multiple goalposts. There are the ones who deny it's happening at all (a favorite tactic of this group is to start their time series with 1998, which was an unusally warm year, to insist that there's been no warming trend in the last 10^H^H11^H^H12 years)

Funny coincidence, I spotted James Delingpole doing this today, while cramming as many denialist canards as possible into a single Telegraph opinion piece. Brilliantly, he actually goes even further than usual with:

If it's "global warming" you're worried about, it stopped in 1998. Global cooling is a much more imminent and serious problem. Recent changes in the Pacific Decadal Oscillation mean that we're now set for a 30 year cooling period guaranteed to make a mockery of all our fears about "global warming." Yet here we are, embarked on a policy guaranteed to raise our energy bills to unaffordable levels, as we enter a period of colder winters.

The man really is unbelievable.

In a working direct democracy, the government cannot pass legislation that'll piss a majority of the people off. Unfortunately, and that's not even limited to the US of A, a lot of people are amazingly stupid. But to get back to your examples:

Actually they can and do pass legislation that pisses the majority off all the time. Take the recent health care bill in the US for example, if you divide the country in to two segments, supporting and not supporting, then you can further divide each segment into two more groups, doing too much or not doing enough, indifference, and just right. If the first segment was 50/50, then about 30% of each are indifferent with probably 10% supporting or finding something they liked (you can reverse that but it seems to be the general feel of the issue) while the other 70% of each group either didn't think it did enough or that is did too much. That would translate to about 70% or the people not support the health care bill as passed but because the point of disagreement (remember the divide and conquer) is completely opposite of each other and won't come together because of their positions, they are really counted as 35% or so.

Roads, schools, firemen and, well, every other public service need funding. If backed by valid reasons, few people will contest a tax hike.

What about them? The government already has a use tax that is supposed to pay for the roads if they actually spent it on them instead of diverting the money into other areas. Schools in the US are some of the dismal displays of public infrastructure around. Throwing more money at them appears to simply increase the problem while privately funded schools tend to be ranked among the top in the country and the world. Firemen? That's a local funding issue meant to be kept within the community it serves. Why would we need a tax hike for them, unless the area expands in which case the tax base does to and the problem is solved. The problem is that too many taxes are not backed by valid reasons and attempts to legitimize them turn into cronyism and/or payouts for campaign donations. Legitimate taxes for legitimate needs should be finded. But raising taxes to pay the higher salaries, are you serious? And no, this isn't limited to the US either, check your own backyard. And yes, at current exchange rates, that's about 435k US dollars. I bet your even more happier to pay your taxes now right?

You don't get convicted on a breathalyzer readout (not in Europe, anyways. The strange things you folks overseas do are, well, strange). You'll get taken to the nearest hospital, lose a couple drops of blood and with a bit of a delay you'll be on your way without a charge. Use an alcohol-free mouthwash before your next important appointment and you're good. And again, most people prefer a couple of mouthwash-related blood alcohol tests to hordes of drunk people in control (or lack thereof) of two tons of speeding metal each. Cars are dangerous. Operating dangerous machinery while drunk is deadly.

Lol.. Maybe you should look into what your saying before saying it. They can and do convict for a breathalyzer readout. Read up on Ketosis and Diabetes and the dangers of that. Wile it's true that in most jurisdictions, you can ask for a blood sample, it isn't always automatic. But that misses the point entirely. You seem to be the type of lutz who is more then happy to change your ways just because someone told you to. In free countries, most people aren't like that. The real problem is that the BAC levels are dropping to below points in which any danger from drinking is present. It's a money grab by the states and a

That would be great if he even had an address and phone number.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/internet/7909793/Profile-Wikileaks-founder-Julian-Assange.html

please provide details of wikileaks hosting peoples bank account numbers and pins.

People die as a result of politicians and military commanders knowing they're not going to be held accountable for their actions.
Are their lives worth any less?

In fact we don't have regional threats, unless when we follow blindly the Americans (that's unfortunately what happened to UK and Spain because they took USA side in an armed conflict when invading Iraq and got bombed because of that)

Yes, it was all because of Iraq. The fact that you treat your Muslim community like second class citizens has nothing to do with their resentment or radicalization. Why don't you look at your own backyard before you throw stones into mine?

What makes this people even more dumb and ignorant is that even the Vatican accepts Darwinian evolution and tries to find a place for god in it: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/religion/4588289/The-Vatican-claims-Darwins-theory-of-evolution-is-compatible-with-Christianity.html

Like the one on this page:
http://www.ogc.gov.uk/
(just turn it through 90 degrees)

Allegedly it cost 14k
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/1901656/OGC-unveils-new-logo-to-red-faces.html

Could have been worse; could have been this one:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/artblog/2007/jun/05/howlisasimpsontooktheolym
(£400,000, that one).

Reminds me of the new Union Jack contest a few years ago.

While /b/ is NOT YOUR PERSONAL ARMY, it would be pretty funny if companies ended up with hidden in-jokes in their logos, like the work of a demented real-life conspiracy.

Erm....I can't view Facebook, due to having personal data and all, but there isn't a single comment in the link that doesn't look like a well crafted sub-parody. I suspect the linked article is a bit of shameless self-promotion akin to the ones you won't see on MY BLOG!!!!

Whoops.

Seriously, there's far better parodies out there. The Onion for instance, or even better, Tom Chiver's non-parody blog...

That's exactly why it was developed. It was a really nice, consumer-ready reference platform. According to Eric Schmidt:

"The idea a year and a half ago was to do the Nexus One to try to move the phone platform hardware business forward. It clearly did. It was so successful, we didn't have to do a second one." (See: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/google/7864223/Googles-Eric-Schmidt-You-can-trust-us-with-your-data.html)

The demise of the Google Nexus One phone is fairly straightforward: a lack of sales killed the product.

“The idea a year and a half ago was to do the Nexus One to try to move the phone platform hardware business forward. It clearly did. It was so successful, we didn't have to do a second one." Eric Schmidt, Google's CEO [1]

Google has tried to paint the Nexus One experiment as a success because it helped build market presence for Android, its operating system.

Clearly false, Google has painted the Nexus One as a success because it has dramatically pushed phone hardware forward. Whether phones as powerful as the EVO 4G and Droid X would be available without the Nexus One, I'll leave as an exercise for the reader.

"I don't think they will (produce another phone)," Dulaney said. "Maybe when the market matures, like it did with personal computers, maybe then you'll see people buying phones off the internet. But right now people want to go in and see the devices."

Google's CEO announced that they wouldn't be producing a "Nexus Two" three motherfucking weeks ago. Thanks for the completely unnecessary speculation, though. "I called up the board and said: 'Ok, it worked. Congratulations - we're stopping.'" [2]

[1][2] Source: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/google/7864223/Googles-Eric-Schmidt-You-can-trust-us-with-your-data.html

So you want to be like England, where they can search your car without cause and take you in for weapons possession for having a multitool in your briefcase.

When I got my drivers license, they asked me to take a right and a left and _I_ had to decide if I should drive straight-on if they said nothing. If a person next to me says that there is no traffic on his side of the car when crossing, it still is _MY_ responsibility as a driver.

When driving with my satnav on, I KNOW it will be wrong at times, so I still look at traffic signs and what not outside.
When I look at articles like this or this I get a bit angry. Again something where people try to blame others for their own stupidity.

When I got my drivers license, they asked me to take a right and a left and _I_ had to decide if I should drive straight-on if they said nothing. If a person next to me says that there is no traffic on his side of the car when crossing, it still is _MY_ responsibility as a driver.

When driving with my satnav on, I KNOW it will be wrong at times, so I still look at traffic signs and what not outside.
When I look at articles like this or this I get a bit angry. Again something where people try to blame others for their own stupidity.

The Telegraph reports Karen Gillan as specifically denying that Smith's going anywhere, so this is just a spurious attempt by the Sun to generate "news".

Here's hoping Smith stays on for at least 3 years, and we get some more multi-season arcs going.

for instance, has anybody else ever wondered what would happen if one were to crop-dust a heavily populated area with a suitably light-stabilized LSD solution?

That has basically happened in France, thanks to the CIA.

HitWise have graphs that show the decline in market share following the paywall implementation. It shows that The Telegraph (also a slightly right of centre broadsheet) picked up traffic as the Times declined.

What is interesting is that a week after the paywall, there were still users navigating to the website to be confronted with the paywall page - probably because they were being linked to the site from other sites or were using book marks. As they realise that The Times is paywalled, they are not going back.

He is covered anyway via the Sky interests.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/mediatechnologyandtelecoms/media/7890816/Rupert-Murdoch-should-pay-3bn-more-for-Sky.html
The net was just a toy when you have real closed pipes with real viewers 24/7.
Thinking back to the BBC's comedy KYTV :)
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/mediatechnologyandtelecoms/media/7890816/Rupert-Murdoch-should-pay-3bn-more-for-Sky.html

He is covered anyway via the Sky interests.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/mediatechnologyandtelecoms/media/7890816/Rupert-Murdoch-should-pay-3bn-more-for-Sky.html
The net was just a toy when you have real closed pipes with real viewers 24/7.
Thinking back to the BBC's comedy KYTV :)
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/mediatechnologyandtelecoms/media/7890816/Rupert-Murdoch-should-pay-3bn-more-for-Sky.html

By the way, here is an interesting development - seems like it's starting, a Chinese credit rating agency has downgraded credit worthiness of some western countries, including the USA. This is important, China is definitely more credit worthy than US right now, but obviously Moodies is not really doing credit analysis, they know which hand not to bite. This is one of the precursors to the US defaulting or hyper-inflating, as it will find it difficult to refinance its debt, which is all short term right now because US can't get debt like that financed for a long term, because those who finance that debt don't trust US in the long term.

It's not like clockwork, but it has direction and that's what market forces are about.

There's no glue. From the artist:

"At first I thought it would be a complicated procedure to fit the pieces," he said.

"But as it turned out, the bigger plastic pieces were compatible with the smaller ones, and the Lego held itself in place without any glue whatsoever."

But despite their sturdy construction, the artworks-cum-repairs aren't meant to last forever.

"I tried to apply some glue, but, on the dusty patina of the stone, it would not stick," he said.

"So I decided to just put them up like this, aware of the fact of erosion and the influence of weather.

"I like the aspect of temporariness that comes into play."

but say they'd prefer Labour to the Tories, that at very least adds a little more credibility to Labour holding majority of power

Implying that your second choice is worth some proportion of my first choice. Under AV the proportion of Tory MPs would have reflected even less the proportion of people actually choosing Tory.

If you want to justify AV, go ahead. But don't use simplistic arguments to claim that it is anything like proportional, or - more importantly - anything like what the LDs appeared to promote before the coalition. If I can't convince you, consider Churchill's opinion and the link to LD Roy Jenkins' detailed analysis somewhere around here.

Most importantly though it benefits the Lib Dems precisely because they are a moderate party meaning they're more likely to push better electoral reform in future.

It'd be more accurate to say that it forces the LDs to align themselves more closely with the most popular party, further homogenising the parties. Nevertheless, I hope an LD wants PR because PR is fair, not because "it means the LDs will win".

- Abolition of NIR as well as just ID cards

Tory manifesto, page 79.

- Ending of detention of child asylum seekers

This is neither (i) an LD victory over Tory policy or manifesto; nor (ii) politically significant, affecting about 1,000 children of asylum seekers per year. This doesn't stop it being a good thing, of course, but it's not worth forming a coalition over.

- Keeping European working directive

No. To quote the BBC web site: As part of the EU truce, the Conservatives will drop their plan to seek an opt-out from some social legislation, especially the working time directive, but will seek to "limit (its) application". This is political speak for, "We're going to do the same thing but change the language to describe how we do it."

- Removing restrictions on protestors

Page 11 of The Coalition: our programme for government? mentions "restor[ing] rights to non-violent protest" without further explanation. Do you have something of actual substance?

CCTV safeguards

The criticism of "spy"ing councils which immediately follows mention of CCTV on p.93 of the LD manifesto is expanded upon on p.79 of the Tory manifesto. What more?

libel reform

Again, p.79. Although the last sentence of p.93 of the LD manifesto is slightly more specific, the detail "to protect freedom of speech" in the coalition document mirrors only Tory manifesto language.

I'm probably done here unless I get some procrastination time later. I think you need to spend more time on the detail of relevant documents. Have a nice day.

The Telegraph - 2nd March
New Scientist - 2nd March
Fox News - 2nd March
Popsci - 3rd March
Huffington Post - 2nd March
The Economist - 22nd April
The Daily Mail - 2nd March
Time - 10th March

Etc etc.

Yeah trolling on the internet will cease meanwhile meat space trolling will uptick significantly. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/france/7771505/Video-game-fanatic-hunts-down-and-stabs-rival-player-who-killed-character-online.html

Oh, I don't know. Maybe he could point out that in-game grief has resulted in the deaths of real people? Everyone knows kdawson has (serious) editing flaws, but it doesn't require any "spin" to make this look like a terrible decision on Blizzard's part.

Many people were upset with regards to Real ID on the Starcraft 2 forums during the previous phase of the beta [1] [2]. Of course, most people are not happy with the general direction Blizzard is taking Battle.net -- automatic Facebook integration, Real ID, and now this. I should be able to play an online game without telling everybody who I am and where I live. The best part of this whole thing is that Blizzard has given absolutely no justification for this incredible erosion of privacy and anonymity. All they do is babble buzzwords about "social network integration".

Sometimes you want to go where everybody knows your name. For most people, the Internet is not one of those places.

Explanation needed, perhaps, but not "citation".

Try starting here. Don't forget to follow the link giving the detail of LD Roy Jenkins' (RIP!) opinion.

I apologize for replying to an A/C troll, but just in case anyone is curious:

Video games are bigger than film. I think the first reference I ever saw to this was actually the one on Slashdot.

"people on the right (not necessarily applying that label to you, mind) seem really hung up on the question of whether human action is causing global warming (those that are able to get past arguing over whether it's even happening, that is)."

So, if it isn't caused by humans, than why do we need carbon credits? Many governments around the world are forcing people to buy these (Obama has been trying to do the same in the US), which just means more money going into the pockets of the government. If that money is not going to be used for its intended purpose (fixing the global warming issue that humans caused) I see a big problem with it.

It is well known that Al gore has invested in carbon credit and other green-energy related companies.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/energy/6491195/Al-Gore-could-become-worlds-first-carbon-billionaire.html

I might believe him a little more if it didn't seem like he was only doing it for the money. If Al Gore really cared about the environment, his "green-energy" companies would be non-profit (and he would not make any money from them).

"If Earth winds up looking like Mars, knowing the planet is just going through a normal geological cycle that we didn't cause is not much comfort. Not that there will be any complex life anywhere in the Sol system to mourn us."

Your post is what I don't like about pro-climate people. You want to help the environment at all costs. Even if it means lying to the public. If you want people to help the environment, don't con them or guilt them into giving money.

I think you (and they) do not understand Perelman, his mind does not work like that. They should stop annoying him by trying to give him the money.

A better way to give Grigory Perelman 1 million dollars is to give a monthly allowance to whoever happens to be supporting him (and doing a good enough job of it).

Maybe they could secretly[1] give the money to his mom and sister (maybe a small lump sum in addition to the monthly allowance). They were/are supporting him[2].

He does not seem to be the sort of guy who can take good care of himself. I suspect that the people taking care of him allow him to focus on stuff like math, otherwise he might not be healthy enough to do so (or even alive).

[1] He may not take it well if he knew.

[2] http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/1526782/Worlds-top-maths-genius-jobless-and-living-with-mother.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/mar/23/grigory-perelman-rejects-1m-dollars

Freedom of speech allows you to fix things in government. For example, there is never a reason to arrest parents of earthquake victims because they want to know why their children died. Disasters like that have happened in free countries too, but because the government hasn't been able to cover it up, standards have gotten better. Now, as a result, in China, maybe YOU will be the next one to die in an earthquake because of a corrupt government who tried to hide things.

Freedom of speech matters.

I thought this was how every politician operated? Palin, The previous white house, etc, all used non-government assigned email addresses to avoid archiving and disclosure laws.

--jeffk++

The solution is simple. Vote for the one that doesn't use email!

I am only kind of joking... heh...

Mr Cameron claims in an interview that the changes would stop crimes against black and Asian youngsters.
He said: "This is a moment in our history when we have to wake up, sit up and have massive social, political and cultural change.
"We are never going to deal with it unless we free the police to do far more stopping and far more searching.
"I am quite clear the current rules have to go. In the British police service there were problems with racism, there were problems with attitude.
"That needed to change. I think it has now been changed. That change is a good thing. But it's now time to recognise that it is now possible for the police to carry out more stop and searches without being accused of racism.
"We will carry out a review to see how we would do it and would implement it very rapidly under a Conservative government.
"Stop and search rules were put in place to protect young black and Asian British kids. Now it's the young black and British Asian kids that are being stabbed and shot and are getting in the way of protecting them."
Searches are often not carried out because, under the rules, permission is required from a senior officer. The Conservatives believe that the old system, where an officer uses his initiative, should return.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/1577033/New-stop-and-search-powers-planned.html

Labour have safeguards, such as needing permission from a senior officer, and having to document the procedure. Cameron is in favour of a return to the very same sus law without safeguards whose abuse ended up in the inner city riots of the early 1980s.

Careful! http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/7706225/Henna-tattoos-linked-to-leukaemia-risk.html
Henna tattoos can give you cancer! Personally I know a person who got leukaemia from henna tattoos!

"Valve has also confirmed that it will make Steam available to Linux users in the coming months." - telegraph.co.uk (this is on the website of national UK newspaper).

It's not the quote you explicitly sought but I would argue it makes it seem like Valve have said something about a Linux port. Regardless, your overall point that the source of information should be scrutinized definitely holds...

the confirmation of a linux client has come from articles like this one telegraph.co.uk and they have definitely been working on it as people have downloaded and actually run some of their linux code, however there has been no actual confirmation directly from valve.

or the servers that are being cooled?

Why not? In the opposite situation to AC, I know the PDC supercomputing center in Stockholm, Sweden feeds the surplus heat from their machines into the local district heating system.
Perhaps even more originally, those crafty Swedes have also hooked up their crematoriums!

Of course, intolerant bible-thumping hicks are bad too. Why do you think I used the term "Koran-thumping hicks," genius?

Having said that, there is a *big* difference between putting up with most bible-thumping hicks (who will mostly just pester and annoy you with their Jesus shit if you disagree with them) and koran-thumping hicks (who are very likely to try and kill you, or call for someone else to, if you disagree with them). They may be similar in kind, but most certainly not in degree. No one cowers in fear over making fun of a Christian fundie, but many do over Muslim fundies.

one problem is wind turbines typically only generate 27% of their nameplate capacity, at best,

Britain’s biggest wind farm – the 140-turbine installation at Whitelee, near East Kilbride – operated to just 7.3 per cent of its capacity that year. Does money grow in wind farms?

; this means to get 20 to the grid, we'd need to have 74 to 274 of nameplate capacity. Add to that the need for backup power,

Campbell Dunford, director of the Renewable Energy Foundation (REF), says that Germany – which has the largest number of wind turbines in Europe – “is building five new coal power stations, which it does not otherwise need, purely to provide covering power for the fluctuations from their wind farms. I am not sure [wind] has been a great success for them.” Mr Dunford claims that Germany’s CO2 emissions have actually risen since it increased its use of wind power. Though the wind itself might, in RUK’s words, be “free,” the cost of backup capacity is likely to be astronomical.

Wind power just doesn't seem all that green, at least in it's present incarnation.

last i heard that'll take a referendum in Iceland, which won't pass.

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/danielhannan/100043584/the-eu-accepts-the-application-of-icelands-government-having-evidently-forgotten-icelands-people/

looks like your triumphalism is premature, emperor.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/2146807/Facebook-dipping-craze-irks-pool-owners.html
Now you can identify homes that have large outdoor pools, track their owners for a while and wait.
When the air horn blasts the owner is on their way back home.

Received - other sites have reported this one rather better.
http://www.itproportal.com/portal/news/article/2010/6/16/420000-scam-e-mails-sent-britons-each-hour/
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/7831633/Britons-receive-more-than-420000-scam-emails-every-hour.html/

Does it seem to anyone else that the telegraph routinely confuses "Something up to size X could hypothetically happen some day" with "X IS ABOUT TO HAPPEN!!!!"?

No, they never do anything like that.

Titan: Nasa scientists discover evidence 'that alien life exists on Saturn's moon'

Well, a meat cleaver is a lot harder to go on a killing spree with than a gun.

You mean like these?