Ready for another round of residents-against-tourists. You are upset about tourists in NY, I don't see any difference when newyorkers crowd streets in Florence. It seems that people like to be tourists, but don't like them in their way.

Mr.B is a rootkit that flashed 30M people BIOS with its own propaganda. As Linux deployment in Italy is very low, it spread wildly. Don't underestimate the value of a good antivirus program when running stupid OSes on your brain. Sad sad sad

No, they have to respond to complaints from members of the public, even if it takes them a week or two. During investigations if they find out it was a joke, they can then choose not to get it.

I'm obviously getting into the comments very late, but I felt the need to reply.

If you plan on replacing your nytimes.com reading with BBC News, you obviously have never read both of them. They are nothing alike. Whereas the BBC mainly reports strictly news (with an arguable anti-US spin that has grown tiresome to me), the NYTimes produces fantastic journalism. They have the best columnists and investigative reporters anywhere. Their travel and food sections are second to none. I also enjoy the tone of their writing -- it carries a more traditional, formal language than many newspapers these days.

I will watch with great interest how this plays out. I love my nytimes.com and would have to think hard about whether to pay for it.

The last time I looked, all of the discount internet brokers (Etrade, TDAmeritrade, etc.) provided real time quotes for basic accounts.

Just pump up your sales with ads of snowy mountains etc, and do not tell anyone of those nitrate levels, higher than standard tap water, and you're done.

Also, why not *advise* using that bottled water for infant feeding?
If nitrates grow plants, just imagine what wonders might be done with kids...

It seems you're talking from another planet. Here in Italy the non-Berlusconi controlled news are Murdoch's SKY (pay channel), RAI 3 (soon to be "moderated" by Berlusconi cronies) and LA7 (controlled by Telecom Italia).
For me, I did what my grandfather did -- in the 1940s he listened to the BBC to know what was really going on.
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In the land of the blind, the one eyed man is king.

Sewers... internet connections... Wait... I might have guessed earlier where are you /.ing from. Maybe better check that those fibers are well insulated before such crap leaches in.

all the whole shebang is NOT under [state] police control, but by [local, city-paid-for traffic] police control so there's no corruption. it's the city council that met a private company that were peddling those cameras and ok'd their proposal. the system were set up, rigged and operated by private companies, who got a share of the revenues.