Oh, speedcameras in Britain... they will get you.

I suppose that I would just want to make sure that the car is in good nick. You know, make sure that the granny that owned it didn't take it drag racing before going to church...

if it's been declared stolen or SORN. Also get a mileage check from its last MOT and that it has no speeding fines against it. Avoid any nasty surprises.

Don't forget to synchronise your Casio watches... Good luck!

Wooooooooooooooooooooooooooow.

These things always help putting the world and its issues into perspective.

sue them for also all the possible content we may have downloaded and lost on.

Queen. Appearance. Image. Lobby. Commons. Open source.

Yeah. You tell 'em. Because that really excuses the government for doing a piss poor job and wasting taxpayer money to favor their corporate buddies.

Sure. Why not.

... with an old herring. They deserve it.

I suppose every time something historically grand is about to take place, people scramble to make sure that pieces of that history is kept for posterity (or fetch bucket-loads of cash at auctions in 50 years time). A part of this is sickening and the other is endearing.

If this was a chunk of the Berlin-wall, it might fetch a different price for starters, but would probably be sold due to the amount of frantic collectors for cold war memorabilia. This might just show us that, at this point in time, we just aren't that interested in the old space programs. Maybe in another 50 years that strip of flag will fetch (equivalent of the time) a couple of million dollars (or whatever currency is in use at the time).

*ducks*

Anyway, as is usual these days, I think this is just a sign of something else currently trending.

Excuse me, what does this have to do with TFA. If anything, we should be asking why the infrastructure wasn't ready to handle what it was designed for. It will only rival Facebook if it gets storage and DB right (read the /. article regarding Facebook and MySQL from earlier). BTW, I like G+ and am actively using it.

No. The victims are the authors who haven't received their share because corrupt administrators set up unfair payment rules and embezzled their money.

It's legal. Moving on. Aaaaaap. Nono. Don't. Click away from the page.

Dear Sir, I think you mean the "shushcopter".

... and no "In soviet russia" jokes? Oh wait, this is /. not youtube. Sorrymybad.

I agree in full with the article. I can only see benefits all around should ebooks be treated and dealt with in such "freeing" ways. However I have no issue in identifying myself when I purchase an ebook (part of an account system where I can recover my books in case of disaster and also protect such account from very bad people). It only becomes a problem when the government starts keeping tabs on the type of literature I'm reading (and as a consequence may consider me a political activist/terrorist) or the DRM owning company (ex. Amazon) chooses to erase ebooks without my consent (but possibly through orders of the government).

The problem is accountability. The government is accountable to it's people but no one is enforcing such accountability (yet we seem hellbent on giving them even more power). Should this happen in the way that laws were written and the government dedicated itself to actually protecting it's citizens, we would not be having this conversation.