The 'anonymous commentator' in the summary is being a bit thick. Here in the UK there are (generally) two kinds of path, a footpath or a bridleway.

Bicycles are not allowed on footpaths, but they are on bridleways (as well as horses).

If Google really are planning this, they'll be mapping well-maintained bridleways and tracks, which seems logical to me (although they'd better have a fast shutter speed as these tracks are bumpy).

However, you're probably thinking what I'm thinking - why not have horse-mounted Google cameras? That would be AWESOME!

All the other UK law enforcement agencies pay ISPs for investigation, and have never raised a stink about it. The only reason why this has become news is because child abuse is a highly emotional and touchy subject here in the UK at the moment.

As bad as child abuse is, what good reason is there for giving the investigators cost benefit over, say, murder and rape investigations?

Maybe not... I know it's a very different market, but look at the iPhone App store. IIRC 69c is the lowest possible price for an app (apart from free). Most apps started way higher, but quickly went as cheap as possible when they realised that's what the market wanted.
I don't think many songs will stay high for long... and the expensive ones will be the brand new, manufactured pap that serious music fans won't be buying anyway.

Yeah, it's annoying. Although I've got idle turned off on my /. preferences for the front page, it doesn't change the RSS feeds, so I clicked on this from iGoogle thinking it was a serious article. I don't have a sense of humour, you insensitive clod!

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