how could seizing it possibly help the investigation?

I can't believe you really think that law enforcement investigations are only about gathering evidence and impartially serving justice?

Clearly, the point of the seizure was to interfere with the remailer, shut them down (albeit temporarily, likely), and maybe discover some forensic evidence that might be used to ensnare others.

Pre- and ex-judicial property seizures are always about fucking with the innocent-until-proven-guilty.

Some refer to it as "Rat Shack."

Whenever I visit one, it's usually in desperation for an electronic component or battery that I can't wait to order online from a cheaper source. I almost always beeline it for the proper store section, but that doesn't stop the sales droids from trying to (up)sell me on mobile phone equipment or contracts.

I've been wondering how Google Maps knows my home location when I'm on a wifi-only device, like a tablet.

I don't log in to Google on the device, and I've never given it my home address. My ISP has very coarse netblock allocations.

So I suspected the Street View cars might have something to do with it... but my question isn't answered here. And, aren't MAC addresses link layer-only?

Ta for the correction.

Seems this is pattern and practice within Met, or rather was.

One could suppose this luncheon happened prior to Operation Elveden having had effect upon allegedly corrupt officers' behavior.

Disasters are rare-ish, but accidents are not. Robots for removing highly radioactive leaked water and other materials would be helpful.

...must be laughing right now over another narrow escape.

Agile is the interruptor the business side has always wanted: a leash for engineers.

But it gets much abused, resulting in needless rewrites, and scattered or stunted architectures - seen it at three tech-centric companies now.

"Refactor" is a banished term in Agileland. And you never really get to refactor, to design patterns or anything else, because you're too busy replacing hand-wired code to fit the latest redesign or business strategy change.

Tech management everywhere have lost their collective spines, caving in to "get it done cheaply and quickly" every time. Even when the resources are available to develop maintainable, well-thought-out code.

> You could just as well argue it increases privacy, since Amazon becomes a proxy service. That only works if they don't add client-identifying proxy headers to each of your requests... e.g. HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR, REMOTE_ADDR.

NYT is protected: see the Pentagon Papers case.

Spying to steal secrets, and publishing secrets as a newspaper, are considered two entirely different actions by the law. One is protected by the First Amendment and SCOTUS case law, while the other is espionage.