There's no way all of the state operated cameras could be recorded - it's hard enough keeping track of (fixed location) speed cameras. One new development in North London (and Barnsley, but that's another story) are omnidirectional cylindrical camera packages fixed to lamp posts with small aerials to transmit pictures - by positioning multiple cameras in a very small area (eg Green Lanes alongside Finsbury Park) operators can record the faces of all pedestrians and drivers as well as vehicle licence plates. Where London leads, the USA will probably follow, unfortunately.
I'm prepared to believe that the majority of cameras are owned by the Highways Agency. But I've seen 'traffic control' cameras in North London being used to track cars/people regularly. In Edmonton (N London) the Metropolitan Police is building a CCTV centre with capacity for 4000 video feeds, and has requested shared video feeds from privately owned CCTV cameras throughout London. The City of London has a CCTV system that logs car registration plates & supposedly the faces of the drivers. The Congestion Charge CCTV ring will record licence plates in the centre of London (and may be adopted elsewhere in the UK.) I support (& pay for) law N order but that doesn't stop me worrying about a surveillance infrastructure that can be integrated into whatever Orwellian scheme the Home Office is buying/selling.
Sorry to contradict you but the UK has lost many of its payphones, owned/operated by several large operators. The only company to operate them now (AFAIK) is BT, who despite an obligation to provide universal coverage seems to remove callboxes rather than replace them after damage.
This old link is still slightly relevant...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/896117.stm
Some good examples of fuel air explosions come from the petroleum industry. Russia suffered a big explosion in 1994, when a trans-siberian train was damaged/derailed by an explosion originating in a leaking natural gas pipeline about half a mile away. The USA has experienced similar (but smaller?) incidents - see
http://216.239.39.100/search?q=cache:YFVoiJs2EtYC: www.geo.arizona.edu/researchers/kkoper/for_cases.h tml+Russian+gas+pipeline+explosion&hl=en&ie=UT F-8
My points are (1)that non nuclear explosions can be big & bad, even if they only superficially resemble nuclear explosions, and (2)even if a bomb is designed to deliver a 10Kt yield it is possible to detune it (inadvertantly or otherwise) to produce a smaller one eg UK Trident based nuclear warheads which can deliver 0.3KT - 100+Kt bangs depending on programming.
to Google for "Urban Exploration", "Urbex" or "Buildering" - you should discover links to pictures & stories of unauthori - sorry, 'informal' visits to the same & similar places in the UK. If you pick the right site then you'll discover the explanation for the "unexplained woman's laughter" mentioned in the Down St section of the Slashdot featured site.
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I think that it was associated with the Win 95 launch - in the UK at least.
Can't comment on Junk Yard Wars (it's not shown in the UK) but there has been at least one episode of Scrapyard Challenge where neither team got things working in the construction phase and had another 'hour' (actually several of them I suspect) to adjust/complete their machines.
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There's no way all of the state operated cameras could be recorded - it's hard enough keeping track of (fixed location) speed cameras. One new development in North London (and Barnsley, but that's another story) are omnidirectional cylindrical camera packages fixed to lamp posts with small aerials to transmit pictures - by positioning multiple cameras in a very small area (eg Green Lanes alongside Finsbury Park) operators can record the faces of all pedestrians and drivers as well as vehicle licence plates. Where London leads, the USA will probably follow, unfortunately.
I'm prepared to believe that the majority of cameras are owned by the Highways Agency. But I've seen 'traffic control' cameras in North London being used to track cars/people regularly. In Edmonton (N London) the Metropolitan Police is building a CCTV centre with capacity for 4000 video feeds, and has requested shared video feeds from privately owned CCTV cameras throughout London. The City of London has a CCTV system that logs car registration plates & supposedly the faces of the drivers. The Congestion Charge CCTV ring will record licence plates in the centre of London (and may be adopted elsewhere in the UK.) I support (& pay for) law N order but that doesn't stop me worrying about a surveillance infrastructure that can be integrated into whatever Orwellian scheme the Home Office is buying/selling.
Sorry to contradict you but the UK has lost many of its payphones, owned/operated by several large operators. The only company to operate them now (AFAIK) is BT, who despite an obligation to provide universal coverage seems to remove callboxes rather than replace them after damage. This old link is still slightly relevant... http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/896117.stm
Some good examples of fuel air explosions come from the petroleum industry. Russia suffered a big explosion in 1994, when a trans-siberian train was damaged/derailed by an explosion originating in a leaking natural gas pipeline about half a mile away. The USA has experienced similar (but smaller?) incidents - see http://216.239.39.100/search?q=cache:YFVoiJs2EtYC: www.geo.arizona.edu/researchers/kkoper/for_cases.h tml+Russian+gas+pipeline+explosion&hl=en&ie=UT F-8
My points are (1)that non nuclear explosions can be big & bad, even if they only superficially resemble nuclear explosions, and (2)even if a bomb is designed to deliver a 10Kt yield it is possible to detune it (inadvertantly or otherwise) to produce a smaller one eg UK Trident based nuclear warheads which can deliver 0.3KT - 100+Kt bangs depending on programming.
to Google for "Urban Exploration", "Urbex" or "Buildering" - you should discover links to pictures & stories of unauthori - sorry, 'informal' visits to the same & similar places in the UK. If you pick the right site then you'll discover the explanation for the "unexplained woman's laughter" mentioned in the Down St section of the Slashdot featured site.
I think that it was associated with the Win 95 launch - in the UK at least.
Can't comment on Junk Yard Wars (it's not shown in the UK) but there has been at least one episode of Scrapyard Challenge where neither team got things working in the construction phase and had another 'hour' (actually several of them I suspect) to adjust/complete their machines.