An unmarked police car pulls a guy over and the cop jumps out with a gun... at what point was the motor cyclist supposed to turn off the camera - after the fact he didn't know it was a police car? We don't know the history of the person being pulled over, for all we know he was a person of interest to the cops (his name popped up on the computer after the cop checked the registration of the bike then the cop proceeded with caution by pulling out a gun - maybe the motorcyclist had prior "dangerous" convictions?). Regardless, they might have had nothing on him and are using the "make an example out of him" method making his life hell. How many riots, uproars have happened when someone has video taped a cop? Authorities want to get the message across of don't do it or else this will happen to you... Anyway, if the filming part was so bad why didn't they confiscate the camera? How did the video end up on the internet?

Stop downloading pr0n.

This article appearing on slashdot with user comments is a double-edged kick me sign - for those who post against the chief and for the chief himself.

If you can travel faster than the speed of light you can travel back in time - technically these two options are ambiguous.

The story failed at the first word ""Only one crime was solved for each 1,000 CCTV cameras in London last year"... How many was it supposed to solve? The sentence should start with "One crime was solved...". The original story also does not talk about how many crimes were prevented but mentions it is supposed to make people feel "safer", probably because people think CCTV will act as a deterent.

"What if automakers measured gas mileage by rolling their cars downhill with their engines idling?"

Actually, cars burns fuel while idling to keep the engine running and in some circumstances more than if driving depending on the air/fuel ratio mixture and injectors (for electronic fuel injection).

The first movie came out in the 80s, the second one was a smashing success. The third one sucked and Arnie is Governor so couldn't care less about it anymore. Why was the rest going to be any good? My expectations for the movie coming out are low, the only reason worth seeing giving it a shot is for Christian Bale. How far can they take the story with the termniator franchise anyway?

Isn't that a public relations disaster? "It was just a drill"... it's bound to make some people made even if they know it's a drill later.

It's funny because it's true.

Isn't that what data warehousing is for, OLAP - Online Analytical Processing? Slicing data into cubes in a multi-dimensional space? Which has only been around for two+ decades?

A SQL query walks into a bar and sees two tables. He walks up to them and says 'Can I join you?'

From Tom Kyte's blog sql joke

Is someone with lots of spare time, and I'm sure there's many, planning on modding the fire escape game with a realistic simulation of S11 where you have to escape the building? Or how about the Titanic disaster or other disasters for that matter? Coz you know how sick people are, they're play it just to see if they would make it and probably pay money for it too. If it worked for Leisure suit Larry this one's a winner.

TPS reports?

You must work for the government then?