Real, proper, mozzarella di bufala campana, even spelt correctly this time :) There's a couple of other restaurants that get it fresh as well but they're very pricey.

As a brit with an italian SO, that's about the size of it. In London at least there are lots of good (and some great) pizzerias, almost all of which are owned and run by italians. The superb Franco Manca in Brixton is quite probably the best pizza I've ever had, and this includes some truly excellent pizza restaurants in and around Naples (pizza napoli is, to me, the only style of pizza worth emulating; the SO is from rome and dislikes the "local" style of pizza as well). That said, they're also one of the few places in London where you can consistently get proper fresh mozarella (I can virtually guarantee it's a completely different beast to all the mozzarella you've ever had). Residents of Campania will rarely eat a mozarella more than a day old.

Never been too keen on the other styles of pizza - as you mention, I find chicago style too bready and too greasy and bears quite a resemblance to pizza sicilia. Pizza romana/lazio is, once again, too thick for me. Sure, there's plenty of places that do perfectly passable thick-crust pizzas but not really to my taste. When I eat pizza I want to taste the ingredients, not bread.

And then you have places like pizza hut and domino's. Not only do they have a heavy, pre-cooked breadlike crust but they also use heavily processed ingredients, and unsurprisingly they're very popular with people who are more used to the taste of processed foods and ready meals than people who make pizza with fresh ingredients. Given that they don't require fresh food and can be easily thrown together and into an oven, they're also ubiquitous and cheap since they're so much easier to store and prepare and so many people think of this as pizza than the traditional styles.

That said, we're snobby enough to keep a sourdough culture in the fridge so we can throw some pizza dough together and have a passable pizza from scratch within an hour if we like. Damn, I'm hungry now.

Your links are all to denialist web sites. Those are not "the scientists" at all. The actual scientists are the ones publishing actual science in actual scientific journals. And that research shows man-made warming.

No idea what you mean by "their own experiments have lower confidence." Seems like you're parroting something one of your non-scientists said.

Agreed that it's not in the summary, but as you correctly note, it's just a "summary". Anyone who reads the underlying blog post will read this among the facts on which the court based its opinion: "The public was allowed to search by keyword. The search results showed only the page numbers for the search term and the number of times it appeared; none of the text was visible."

So those readers who RTFA will be in the know.

Don't I wish.

A cynic might argue that the key difference in this case was that, for a change, the ISP's, and not merely defendants, were challenging the subpoenas; but of course we all know that justice is 'blind'.

An ingrate might bemoan the Court's failure to address the key underlying fallacy in the "John Doe" cases, that because someone pays the bill for an internet account that automatically makes them a copyright infringer; but who's complaining over that slight omission?

A malcontent like myself might be a little unhappy that it took the courts ten (10) years to finally come to grips with the personal jurisdiction issue, which would have been obvious to 9 out of 10 second year law students from the get go, and I personally have been pointing it out and writing about it since 2005; but at least they finally did get there.

And a philosopher might wonder how much suffering might have been spared had the courts followed the law back in 2004 when the John Doe madness started; but of course I'm a lawyer, not a philosopher. :)

Bottom line, though: this is a good thing, a very good thing. Ten (10) years late in coming, but good nonetheless. - R.B. )

That's easy enough to do. Just require that in order to enable the "incredibly risky" developer mode, you must be registered as a developer with Google, and flipping the button requires google+ integration. After all, we need to look after chrome users and this means cracking down on dodgy app development, I'm sure you're not one of those developers but e just need to check for the greater good, OK?

All of these posts and so few mentions of The Knowledge. Its average time to train and pass is about 3 years and is widely renowned as extremely tough. There's a reason so many cabbies are ex-beat coppers - they're some of the few people who know the streets well enough to even begin. You need exceptional spatial awareness and an excellent memory for names and place details*. I've not been to NY so I can't draw any parallels, but from a cursory glance at a map it looks like it has a vastly simpler road network; understandable as London is less of a city and more a product of a thousand years of congealed towns with only the occasional fire or war giving the opportunity for large-scale redevelopment of limited areas.

I've been here long enough to call myself a Londoner, and have been in love with black cabs for years precisely because of the regulation and excellent training. The result of this is that you can give cabbies excessively vague directions (e.g. "a pub about ten minutes walk from station X that has a huge beer garden", "that theatre that was showing Generic West End Musical last year") and they'll still know what you're talking about and will get you there by the quickest route and have to be aware of any roadworks or if such-and-such a road en route is likely to be busy at the time you're driving. I use them because I only ever take cabs when walking, tube bus aren't acceptable (usually due to time constraints) and I've found them unfailingly reliable.

Experience with minicabs has been a whole different kettle of fish; they all rely on satnav exclusively and are useless without a postcode or street/place name - and even then rarely have enough background to distinguish on King's Head pub from another. They'll frequently say "it'll cost you X quid" at the start of the journey and then hold you ransom for "X plus 10 quid" at the end because they ran into traffic or roadworks that cabbies know how to avoid. Given my requirements for timely transport when using cabs, I'll often end up with slightly more money in my pocket but 15mins late using a minicab. YMMV of course.

It's not just a matter of the black cabbies protecting their turf - as well as the knowledge, their job comes with the fairly onerous legal requirements of buying a specially adapted vehicle (hackney carriages are required to have a turning circle of 8m) as well as spot-checks and CRB checks which it sounds like the GLC is exempting Uber drivers from on the basis that the meter isn't tethered to the vehicle. This doesn't really seem fair to me - it's a bit like the government saying that company X has to comply with industry regulations but company Y doesn't because their frob has the dooberry widget on the side rather than the top.

No affiliation with any cabbies, cab firms, cab car companies, cabinets, cab franc, or the Citizens Advice Bureau.

* There are even computer programs for that. One cab journey I made at about 2 in the morning from liverpool street to crystal palace, the driver asked if I'd had a good night and I said no, I've only just got out of work. Why's that? Ah, you work in computers? Wonder if you could have a look at my laptop? It keeps crashing when I hit a speed bump. It was a crummy little netbook but it was running some kind of vastly complicated "knowledge" application that looked like the bastard offspring of a mind map, the A-Z and M C Escher - took about two seconds to see the machine had been through enough abuse that one of the SODIMMs had worked a little loose. Stuck a bit of tape on it and gave it a shoogle, all fine. Cab driver was over the moon as he'd been quoted two hundred quid to have it fixed, I suspect more than the computer was worth, so the journey that would have left me forty to fifty quid lighter ended up being free.

this would rapidly create an underclass of socially-blacklisted, uninsurable, embittered expendables who are considered net liabilities to their culture

I believe you misunderstand my point, dear sir. Yes, we rapidly create said subclass, but we also be equipping automotive transport with the technology at our disposal to rapidly and automatically elevate them into and age-old, time-honoured superclass that will never need to pay (or fail to pay) insurance premiums ever again. Only this way can we ensure the survival of the right kind of people!

This sounds like a great opportunity for a fantastic and potentially lifesaving system better suited to the preservation of preferential congenital traits.

Your mobile phone acts as a personal identifier, and from your contact list, browsing habits, online shopping, app purchases etc. your $provider knows if you're a family man, the state of your finances, family, that sort of stuff and most importantly the GPS will be able to ascertain how careful you are when crossing a busy road - compare the time you spend waiting at the side of the road before you cross, infer if you look both ways from small changes in the accelerometer. As well as being able to better selectively provide you with exclusive money-saving offers, $provider will then also be able to forge a synergistic relationship with your insurance company.

Now the insurance company has a vested interest in this, as they can now better analyse who the highest risk customers are. They've got a substantial pecuniary stake in making sure some people are never injured and make these sort of judgements all the time; similarly, every insurance company has a list of members who analysts will show you will never return a profit and would be better off the company books. This information would be more valuable still when correlated with detailed medical analysis such as genetic predisposition to inheritable diseases or lifestyle choices relating to enhanced susceptibility to fiscally immoderate claim payment in later life.

The best part is the insurance companies can now create a market for providing this sort of information to automotive computing manunfacturers, so that car guidance systems can come pre-loaded with an active list of unique identifiers. Realtime monitoring of the GPS signals and cell telemetry will give you a good idea of their positions at any one time, so that when a car does enter such an "Dilemma-Inducing Ethical Situation" the car will be immediately aware of who in the inevitable proximity of the Premium Optimal Opportunity Recovery zone will be the most ethical targets to avoid and which is the least financially viable person or person(s) to involve in any involuntary Sudden Cessation of Universal Motion situation that may arise as a result.

As well as giving a way to improve survival statistics of those best suited to provide for their insurance premiums, this would also result in improved market realisation and increased financial savings to all of the following job creators:
Mobile phone/OS manufacturers
Cell operators
Insurance companies
Automotive manufacturers

I think I'll file the above as a patent.

Filmmaker Shane Carruth (the budget auteur behind time-travelling mindbender Primer, filmed for just $7000) shot his latest film Upstream Colour on a hacked Panasonic GH2 for monetary reasons.

http://www.redsharknews.com/m-...âoeupstream-colorâ-shot-on-panasonic-gh2

TBH, I suspect this is just getting publicity since it's the first super-dodgy HP firmware patch since they adopted their "no updates for YOU!" mentality - the explanation for which from HP was that they'd sunk a lot of money into their patching process and people shouldn't get to use it for free I guess. This won't be the last time this happens either.

As a sysadmin that's dealt with dozens of these "killer firmwares", there's often an indentified need. We make extensive use of the HP SPP's at work and they come with a list of fixes and known issues as long as your arm; it's part of my job to go through the advisories to see if we're at risk and if we are to analyse the risk of updating/not updating. Many of them aren't security vulns or emergency fixes and are often extremely obscure, but once in a while you'll encounter something like a NIC locking up on receiving a certain type of packet or the BIOS repeatedly saying a DIMM has failed when it hasn't, or if you mix hard drives with firmware X and firmware Y on RAID controller Z running firmware... er.. A it might drop the whole array... lots of little issues than can severely impact running systems if left unchecked. And then when you upgrade one component you'll frequently have to upgrade others to stay within the compatibility support matrix, until eventually you just run the damned SPP to make sure everything in that server is at a "known good compatible" level.

Sure, we don't just flash as if it were patch tuesday and no-one ever should - we wait for at least 2 months of testing on non-production boxes before we patch any prod kit with firmware unless it's an emergency fix - but lots of people use the HP SPP to automatically download the latest updates; we've had enough problems with them that we'd never do this (and in any case 97% of our servers have no net access). But the whole point of the SPP is meant to be that HP should have already done most of the regression testing for you.

That said, we've had nothing but trouble with Broadcom NICs for ages and I'm sure there's many admins here who have fond memories of the G6 blades, broadcom NICs, ESX and virtual connect from a few years back. Think HP switched much of their kit to Emulex after that debacle. Also, the latest web-based HP SPP (as opposed to the last one where you just ran a binary) is a complete train wreck on windows for ad-hoc updates, largely due to the interface being handed over to people who seemed to want to make it a User eXperience rather than a tool.

Assuming I got at least 100Mb/s up (preferably a gigabit), this would make online backups for any more than a few GB feasible. A friend and I have been mulling this over for a decade before "cloud" became a thing and before even commercial online backups became viable, but it would be effective for those too.

I have a NAS. He has a NAS. We can both set up encrypted containers that the other one of us doesn't have the key to. We both require offsite backups and have the nouse to tunnel rsync through an SSH tunnel or a VPN. Wouldn't it be great if I could just set up a cron job and do a weekly sync to each other?

Of course it would, but even on a "decent" downstream connection (let's take my 24Mb/s ADSL2 connection with a ~2.5Mb/s upload) I wouldn't even get halfway through my deltas for the week (of which disc images of my windows boxes or a major component size-wise). Sure, I could periodically pop on the train with a hard drive once a month or so, but even then let's say I need to restore a 5GB file pronto when he's off on holiday - the restore would still take hours, possibly days.

If we all had a full gigabit up/down, I'd build NASes for friends and family for free if I could use them as backup locations which would also have the nice side effect of finally letting me put the oblig. XKCD http://xkcd.com/949/ to rest.