Everything in moderation. Fat is important, sugars too - both are bad for you in excess. Particularly animal fats.

Exactly. Happy the mods did get it :-)

May be so, but I don't really believe this. The main objection against your theory is that there will be a huge list of potential links (I think a safe assumption is that the site listed tens of thousands of individual downloads), making the page very large. And such an attack would be quite easily detectable, particularly as it's a known issue.

LOL

Children's eating habits can be really interesting!

I see you're not a politician, so you see it totally wrong.

For starters, it's crime. It's murderous even: it kills music, it kills artists, it kills the studios and labels. And it is theft too, of course.

It's also serious, see above. Murder is a serious crime. So is theft - that's what I see on stickers pasted in shops against shoplifting. "Theft is a serious crime". I'm not going to argue with that, theft is a crime. So is murder. And it's serious.

And organised those web sites are. A large organisation, with its tentacles all over the place. They have hackers gaining access to unreleased music for them, other hackers that post complete albums or illegal recordings of concerts and whatnot. Well organised they must be, how else could they serve those thousands upon thousands of customers every day.

So of course it's a task for the SOCA. Drug dealers be damned, that're minor guys, not worth bothering with. But those music thieves must be stopped!

OK politician mode off. Have a nice day :-)

This JS history snooping sounds plausible, technically, but maybe not so practically. Besides the question of whether running such a script is legal: how did they manage to run those scrips?

To run such a history snooping script, a user has to visit a web site that runs said script. It's not likely the torrent site will do this for the authorities. It is also not likely that users will regularly visit anti-piracy web sites. They may visit it once, to get some information or out of curiousity, but well not much to repeat visits for.

Or is it done by the ISP? Who then would basically inject a js part into web pages the user downloads? Doesn't sound like a nice thing to do, to say the least.

Besides, such scripts afaik can only do something like "did you visit slashdot.org?": asking for specific URLs. I have not heard of a way to ask a browser "please tell me all sites this user has visited, and all urls which include slashdot.org". The first example shows whether or not the user visited the home page, the second example would give a list of all stories the user has opened, comments they opened, etc. You'd need the second method to be able to query a user's history for specific downloads.

Information from the browser cache determines whether to redownload a file, but the cache should be site-specific. Even if one site asks to download parts from another site, the browser should just reply "done" when the request is processed, regardless of whether that bit is locally available already or that it had to be downloaded.

The only legal way to obtain download histories would be if the user has a public profile on a web site that lists that user's download history (not likely) or that they would indeed come with a search warrant, confiscate the user's computer, and analyse its contents (even less likely).

So all in all this sounds like an illegal hacking action by the UK police.

Right. That's pretty horrible indeed, tasteless mainly. And besides, I've always been advised to give little children whole milk, as they need the fat at least as much as the protein and other goodies that come with it!

Vegetable I understand. Though my 5-year-old is eating most vegetables big time by now; sometimes even preferring them over meat. At 3-4 years old this was different though.

Milk? Not so. How come little American children don't like milk?

The struggle is primarily in the south of Europe. Especially end of last year all the signs pointed to a booming economy in Germany - factories were buying large quantities of raw materials, and raw material prices were soaring. Also I head of many factories that normally close of the Christmas holidays but this time continued producing to be able to fulfill all their orders.

Northern Europe is economically healthy. OK not going as fast as a few years ago maybe, but overall they're really healthy. Greece, Italy, Spain - that's where the real problems are. And I don't have the idea that the US economy is in that great shape either.

Most travel is done by non-flying methods.