Media downloads?
It's a good job that the mobile telcos aren't phasing out unlimited data.
Oh ,wait a moment......
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Exactly. UK victims lose an estimated £3.5 billion annually to scammers.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/06/01/anti_fraud_action_day/
Who many people even noticed that day of action?
UK law enforcement does nothing constructive, unlike sites like 419Eater and Scamwarners. Not really a criticism when scammers are working anonymously out of West African Internet cafes.
Just about all the job losses will be due to retiring the Shuttles. Even if Constellation goes ahead, it will need a smaller workforce. Contractors, rather than NASA employees.
Privatising low Earth orbit activities was inevitable. The Ares I would only have had a limited role in supporting the ISS.
The controls either had dummy phones or no phones. A timer controlled noise-maker would have been better.
Bee #1 " Fuck me. It's that funny noise again!"
Bee #2 "I know. It went of this morning when I left the hive, and I forgot what I went out to get."
Bee #3 "If it doesn't stop soon, I'm going on strike."
Ye Olde Register.
"A Devon woman is suing Ordnance Survey after accusing its mapping service of encouraging her to walk through the Great Grimpen Mire. She is asking for two thousand guineas for the mental and emotional effects of having to be dragged out of the bog by a farmer with a team of oxen."
Intercepting bulk scam snail mail from abroad has been suggested before. But I thought Royal Mail claimed (correctly) that they had a legal obligation to deliver it.
"City of London Police works hard to highlight that this is not a victimless crime"
Excuse me? Who has ever suggested that? Not even the newspaper commentards who offer the opinion that anyone who falls for a scam somehow deserves to be cheated,
I haven't read of them complaining about the delay. I don't expect they want to back down, but wouldn't be surprised if they want to see the back of the whole affair.
Even to the extent of accepting a plea bargain, and giving him a token slap on the wrist. If he hadn't been fighting extradition, he could well have been back home long since.
Because the Googlcar was on the public highway. If you have an open network, you have bigger problems than Google's brief interception on one occasion.
I see very few open networks nowadays, and I imagine that few people were actually accessing the Internet during the few seconds Google's car drove by.
Why is the extradition treaty always described as one sided? It seems damn near impossible to extradite anyone from the UK. The system seems to allow appeals indefinitely in the hope of a favourable outcome. To any country, not just the US.
Would we be happy if a foreign country allowed extraditions to drag on ad infinitum? No.