Yep, but they're not scattered remotely uniformly.

For instance there's a bunch in the big underpass system by the Monument, far more than one every 225 feet because it's an underpass with a few branches. They also tend to be scattered round the large, important buildings like the Gherkin. The ground plans are complex so to cover the area just around the building, many cameras are needed.

All the little streets like Change Alley and Pope's Head Alley and whatnot have none whatsoever.

Yes there are a lot but the chicken-little OMG BIG BROTHER ENGLAND IS WORSE THAN NORTH KOREA THE SKY IS FALLING types are basically spouting crap.

Disclaimer: I only walk through the city of London every day on the way into work.

When do we start adding UK to the list of unfree states.

You know that the filter is strictly optional, right?

Being opt-out is stupid pandering to the "think of the children" morons who are too lazy to opt in to an opt in system which was present before (surprise! companies offered this service!).

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/tech...

The proportions of people NOT opting out are:
* Virgin Media - 4%
* BT - 5%
* Sky - 8%
* TalkTalk - 36%

(Note: TalkTalk offered the service as an opt in feature before the government waded in).

The filter is a stupid and pointless thing to be mandated (as evidenced by the nubmers), but given the number of people opting out (almost all), chicken-littling over being like China is even more stupid than the filter itself.

The City of London has 9000 residents but about 500,000 people actually working there during the day.

9000 residents and 619 security cameras sounds like OMG BIG BROTHER TROLOLOLOLWTFBBQHAX.

The more realistic, 509,000 people and 619 cameras sounds much less dramatic.

The definition of the City of London being in this case the boundary of the City of London.

The inherent risk

Microsoft may seem somewhat benign these days,

u wot m8?

Benign?

They forced their dreadful, but patent encumbered exFAT filesystem right into the SD card spec. Never mind that it means that one has to pay royalties for a bad filesystem where the standard, royalty free and already implemented everywhere UDF wold have been a better choice.

In fact a compliant SD card controller won't even nexessarily allow raw block access to the device unless it's exFAT formatted. So you can't even put a better filesystem on and expect to even work everywhere.

Benign my ass.

They're still utter fuckers.

iPad/Surface

Ihe rest are fine but that is more than a little unfair.

Ms have been beating on tablets for years. In 2005 the HP-Compaq TC1100 was almost the flagship for Windows XP tablet edition (it was a fantastic machine, ran Linux amazingly well and I still wish I had one, but faster). In fact if you read the insane iPad patent carefully, you'll see that because it only includes the exterior case and anything away from the edge is "just for illustrative purposes" and not normative in the patent, the TC1100 fits the description of the design patent almost perfectly.

I'm pretty much planning on getting a Surface Pro 3 now due to its similarity to the TC1100, right down to the Wacom pen.

Indeed. The annals of The Daily WTF are littered with tales of those who decided to hand-roll their own date class.

Well, I'd never even heard of the 1802 until now. Interesting articles on it.

What makes it awful? It seems quite slow, but the switchable program counter and IO options do sound rather interesting. I'm just goig on what I read online though. I'd rather get the opinion of someone who's actually used one.

There are people still using 8051 chips that are 20 years old because

There's more than just space engineers using 8051 chips. Texas and others like to embed some noddy little 8051 as the microcontroller into their small, low power radio chips. It ain't your grandaddy's 8051, it runs at a much higher AND much lower clock speed with single cycle instructions. Still an 8051 though.

Good developers will even be able t ojump in a bad market.

The people who most desperately cling to a shitty job are the wretched incompetents who couldn't get employed elsewhere. It's 100% the best way to have the most useless people working for you.

Some years ago, I was very upset to learn that my position was exempt from overtime. I mean... I wasn't an executive, I was just a lowly coder. The exemption laws were supposed to apply to people who had some say in how a company is run, and pretty much presumes that you are an executive-level employee who sets his/her own hours.

Nobody has proved beyond reasonable doubt -- and I emphasize the word reasonable -- that it has caused ANY harm, at all.

Nobody has been able to show, convincingly, that ANY weather pattern, or either singular or collective weather events, have been caused by "CO2-based warming". Lots of stuff has been BLAMED on it, but I'm talking about actual evidence.

So I repeat: show me the costs. We do not know - and I mean very literally do not know -- that there have been any. Any at all.

I didn't say anything like that. They DID pay to clean that shit up. Or rather, you and I did. None of those things are emitted at more than a tiny fraction of what they used to be.

Is it pristine? No, it's not. But it's ONE HELL OF A LOT BETTER than it used to be, and yes, we paid for that.

If you want 100% renewables right now, you're dreaming. And while I agree that we definitely should work toward that goal, I'm not willing to pay for your dream of having it this year. That's an unrealistic dream.

And I'm sure as hell not willing to pay to clean up some CO2 demon which science says is largely imaginary. Not the CO2. That's real enough. But any "harm" is so far only theory, and that theory is looking shakier every day.

Why are you excepting the Internet? It has worked pretty much the same way. It only works via physical infrastructure, and it takes time for that infrastructure to be built. I have watched very painfully as the internet infrastructure has grown in the last 20 years. It was anything but instant.

And that is precisely why we in the U.S. should start demanding more and better infrastructure from our ISPs, as of 10 years ago.

And your point is?

Business models go south all the time, when innovations occur. It's the nature of things. If the electric companies didn't see it coming, plan for it, and start investing in the newer technologies, that's their problem. They have no intrinsic right to make it everybody else's problem.

That's what the music industry did: fail to look forward and plan. And we are still suffering the consequences of the legislative MESS they created in the process of trying to wiggle out of the fact that they woke up one morning and their business models were outmoded.

And what costs are those, which are not already regulated, at least in the U.S. and most "Western" countries?

They (& we) have been paying for it, for a long time. Should they pay a bit more for the environmental damage they do? Possibly. But they already spend a fortune on smokestack scrubbers, land reclamation, etc. Which cost is passed on to you, the consumer.

The United States is among the cleanest and greenest industrialized countries on Earth, and has been for some time.