Unless you are a 4 year old girl not only is your opinion irrelevant, even having an opinion makes me think less of you.

It is bizarre asking the performers to pay for this. Do they provide free Apple Macs for businesses and not expect to get paid until the business starts making a profit?

I've worked there for a couple of companies. There's a pretty solid tech industry up in the north Almondsbury/Bradley Stoke. It's mostly "big" tech companies - jet engines, and electronics multinationals, but there are a few upstarts and startups.

Lived there for a year. It's got a fantastic culture. Certainly the sort of place that will appeal to the 20-somethings that startups like, and a good startup culture. Plus living there is a lot cheaper.

Wouldn't rate the transport that far above London. Sure, it's great but London's is pretty good. It just suffers from London's severe crowdedness.

I'd actually say in Britain, any of the university cities would be better than London. Not just Oxford and Cambridge, but Bristol, Manchester, Edinburgh, all have a tech industry, good connections and a decent culture.

Good question.

The EU is very jealous with respect to non-EEA workers and a work visa can be very hard to get. There is a similar exception to America's H1B visa for specialised skills, but my perception is that the US is a lot less rigid about enforcement.

Not always. There are a few areas where this may happen - It's fairly common with vector normalisation (zero result does typically actually work here, because a zero length "normal vector" is invalid, so we can deal with that later), anything to do with user input (where we really want to deal with the error).

Getting him from the UK requires one unmarked CIA plane, and we don't seem to be as concerned about human rights violations as Sweden.

Last time there was extraordinary rendition, Swedish authorities stepped in to stop it.

It possibly would be a crime in the UK. At least the extradition hearing thought so. As far as I can see, it essentially comes down to how specific intent needs to be, but that would be a question for the courts to decide. The standard of proof required for extradition is a lot lower than for conviction.

That does kind of explain the courts decision.

People can swap wristbands,

Not very easily. They're designed to prevent this. That's the whole point in having them rather than a laminated badge or something.

Well, I guess it would help if the media actually reported the police flagrantly violating the law, rather than focusing on abstract trivialities.

Since they're not, and it's only random comments that suggest they are, with nothing to back it up, I'm going to consider this conspiracy theorist nonsense for now.

Which part of it? If the police are actively breaking the law, then I consider this to be pretty abstract stuff, and those responsible should be arrested and charged.

The RFID tags don't have the range for that sort of thing though. And I'm not sure a capture is good enough as a source for facial recognition. Plus, the police are still bound by data protection laws. This sort of random collection really wouldn't be legal.

It's already been reported that you need the wristband to do pretty much anything. They already know who you are. Facial recognition in addition seems pointless.

"Hey, I'm going over to Syria to kill westerners and enslave Christians for the raping and whatnot..."

I guess the difference is between that and "Hey, I'm going to Syria for undisclosed reasons", when the possible legal reasons don't require a huge stretch of credibility. A complete stranger could be an aid worker, or a journalist, even a businessman (there is some trade even with US sanctions).

I think in this case, it's more a large number of borderline actions like this, and the DoJ are picking the ones with the best chance of success. Whether they should do things like this is something personally I'm undecided over.