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  1. Re:Good grief. on British 'Porn Filter' Blocks Access To Chaos Computer Club · · Score: 2

    the City of London* (which has a population of just 9,000**) has 619 cameras, which makes it the most densely CCTV'd population centre AND the most densely CCTV'd square mile in the world.

    *definition: that area inside the Lion bollards between Temple and the Mall
    **source: 2011 census

  2. Re:Please, its for the Children !!! on British 'Porn Filter' Blocks Access To Chaos Computer Club · · Score: 1

    unfortunately they do, which is precisely why there are six million* public-facing CCTV cameras in daily operation around the country. That's one for every eleven people. Or, one for every two children.

    *that are known about/admitted to

  3. Re:cable?? Bit extravagant, aren't we? on UK Completes 250km of Undersea Broadband Rollouts · · Score: 1

    Hutchison 3G ("Three UK") offer unlimited data on their pay as you go and basic voice contract packages.

  4. Re:cable?? Bit extravagant, aren't we? on UK Completes 250km of Undersea Broadband Rollouts · · Score: 1

    that's "Hedy", actually. As in Hedwig Eva Maria Lamarr.

  5. Re:Many more than a dozen... on Facebook Founder Presents Vision For The New Republic, Many Resign In Protest · · Score: 1

    as long as the RSC sticks to Shakespeare as it was written and doesn't do what they did in the National Theatre Wales - ditched all the usual programming and stacked up two years worth of blatant devil worship. Some truly sick as fucking fuck stuff in there now. We're in full-on "Carrie" with the buckets of real pigs blood mode, there.

  6. Hughes was involved in online organizing for Barack Obama's 2008 presidential campaign on My.BarackObama.com, the campaign's online social networking website.[7]

    Look how that turned out.

    didn't he win?

    He is also an invitee of the Bilderberg Group and attended the Swiss 2011 Bilderberg conference at the Suvretta House in St. Moritz, Switzerland.[12]

    Laugh

    Why laugh? This puts him in a great position to steer the publication in the direction the Bilderberg Group wants.

    In March 2012, he purchased a majority stake in The New Republic Magazine. He is now the publisher and editor-in-chief of the magazine.[13]

    Money makes you an expert in everything.

    Under Hughes, the magazine has become less focused on "The Beltway," with more cultural coverage and attention to visuals. It also stopped running an editorial in every issue. There has also been attention to what media observers have described as a less uniformly pro-Israel tone in its coverage (which was a hallmark of Marty Peretz's ownership).[24]

    On December 4, 2014, it was announced that Gabriel Snyder, previously of Bloomberg, would replace Franklin Foer as editor, and that the print edition of TNR would be reduced to ten issues a year. At the same time, a letter of resignation was signed by ten contributing editors, Paul Berman, Jonathan Chait, William Deresiewicz, Ruth Franklin, Anthony Grafton, Enrique Krauze, Ryan Lizza, Sacha Z. Scoblic, Helen Vendler, Sean Wilentz, and sent to Chris Hughes. Longtime contributor and the current literary editor of TNR, Leon Wieseltier, also resigned in protest to the changes being made at the magazine by Hughes and CEO Guy Vidra.[25]

    My personal opinion is anyone involved in growing Facebook is scum, the antithesis of what the World needs.

    Facebook, like any other ad-supported social media website, is nothing more than an advertising machine. With the added bonus that every man and his dog now knows your bank's safety answer (Mother's maiden name?? Look it up on Facebook, for fuck's sake!)

  7. Re:Ah, but then it's all about metrics! on Facebook Founder Presents Vision For The New Republic, Many Resign In Protest · · Score: 1

    This. QUALITY isn't measured by clicks. That's QUANTITY, as in the quantity of money that can be leeched out of corporate sponsorship. When you move away from the subscription-based model to the sponsored model of operating, you become beholden to those corporates and your cashflow depends on you pushing their ageenda for them rather than what journalism's supposed to do - report the facts to an interested audience.

  8. Re:Yeah, and... on Facebook Founder Presents Vision For The New Republic, Many Resign In Protest · · Score: 1

    in Old York you used to be able to shoot a Scot found within the city wall on a Sunday before church.
    (way back when Englishmen had backbones and used their own femoral arteries to string their bows)

  9. Re:Can they stop calling it "New" Republic? on Facebook Founder Presents Vision For The New Republic, Many Resign In Protest · · Score: 0

    actualy, GP had it right. "It's"="It is". HTH.

  10. Re:Hard to say on Facebook Founder Presents Vision For The New Republic, Many Resign In Protest · · Score: 1

    that'd be nice, have you seen some of those tables they have upstairs?? I saw one in 2010 while I was having a wander through, ticket said £85,000. Then I saw why. It was a slice of a geode sandwiched in shaped glass, eight feet wide and four inches thick, with amethyst crystals the size of my fist and a platinum edge. I very nearly came on the spot.

  11. Re: Who cares... on Facebook Founder Presents Vision For The New Republic, Many Resign In Protest · · Score: 1

    not to worry, you've still got TTAP and the PTA to deal with. Except, you don't, as it's all done behind closed doors, to Chatham House Rules under the guise of State dinners and defence deals. You ain't getting the detail until the ink's dry.

  12. Re: Who cares... on Facebook Founder Presents Vision For The New Republic, Many Resign In Protest · · Score: 1

    uh.... so the Washington Post doesn't count then (moderate left)? How about the Detroit Free Press (hard left)? What about the New York Times or MSNBC? And stop pulling your information (and quoting verbatim!) from Yahoo Answers.

    By the way, Barack Obama is hard left which is why the American media fucking love him.

  13. Re:cable?? Bit extravagant, aren't we? on UK Completes 250km of Undersea Broadband Rollouts · · Score: 1

    uh, that's what spread spectrum's for.

    Thank Hedy Lamarr for that.

  14. Re:cable?? Bit extravagant, aren't we? on UK Completes 250km of Undersea Broadband Rollouts · · Score: 1

    clearly, you have no idea what the German Navy's capable of.

    Ask Norway.

  15. Re:Wind is a technical hitch? on Technical Hitches Delay Orion Capsule's First Launch · · Score: 1

    wind=weather. And yes, when you're talking a 233 foot roman candle filled with cryogenic fuel, it's a showstopper.

  16. Re:Ob on Technical Hitches Delay Orion Capsule's First Launch · · Score: 1

    uh... Rosetta/Philae is ESA, not NASA.

    Jussayin'.

  17. Re:cable?? Bit extravagant, aren't we? on UK Completes 250km of Undersea Broadband Rollouts · · Score: 1

    ...and let's not start on mixing scales here... km to miles? Do I have to do EVERYTHING? Divide by 1.609.

  18. cable?? Bit extravagant, aren't we? on UK Completes 250km of Undersea Broadband Rollouts · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    There's this thing called RADIO, invented by a rather clever chap called MARCONI. It allows untethered communication between two points. It doesn't, therefore, rely on cables. It's also potentially much faster than any cable-based system and not prone to submarines colliding with it. Which happens a LOT up Scapa way.

  19. Re:Your post on Why Pluto Still Matters · · Score: 2

    I see what you did there. Well played, anonymous adversary, well played.

  20. cb;dr on Why Pluto Still Matters · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Click Bait; Didn't Read.

  21. still not fast enough on The Fastest Camera Ever Made Captures 100 Billion Frames Per Second · · Score: 1

    to capture a politician being honest.

  22. Re:Muslim Men on UK Authorities Launching Massive Child Abuse Database · · Score: 1

    not necessarily rejected, they may merely be lost then found (cf. The Dead Sea Scrolls).
    Just because the Jerusalem Ossuary was only discovered in 1980 (and quickly authenticated as it was immediately suspected how significant such a find might be) doesn't mean it was to be buried and forgotten. Were that the case, they might just as well have incinerated it.

  23. Re:She's a witch! on UK Authorities Launching Massive Child Abuse Database · · Score: 2

    not forgetting Birmingham, Nottingham, Rochdale, Rotherham, Doncaster, Derby, Coventry, Hereford, Watford, Cleveland, Jersey, Isle of Wight, I could go on, I even have something called first-hand testimony from survivors and one of the survivors central to the Broxtowe case (from which the JET Report and the Children Act 1989 which resulted from that) lives all of ten minutes away from me. She could tell you stuff that'd make your hair turn white.

  24. Re:Muslim Men on UK Authorities Launching Massive Child Abuse Database · · Score: 1

    uh... he wasn't, he took a prostitute. Even sired a child (Judah)

    (source: the Jerusalem Ossuary)

  25. Re:"The Man"="The Boss" on Ask Slashdot: IT Career Path After 35? · · Score: 1

    that's the boss' job - to make himself indespensible and remind everyone else that they're entirely expendable.