UK police drone grounded for flying without a license (Tuesday 16th of February 2010 03:26:00 PM)
As you know, the Merseyside (UK) police tract finally nabbed a suspect with its £40,000
(roughly $63,000) drone anew -- an announcement that was accompanied by backslapping and hearty
cheers all around. But what happens when the police run afoul ...
(more)UK police nab teen with $30,500 drone (Monday 15th of February 2010 08:37:00 AM)
Wired of late reported that the UK Home Office is preparing a subject fleet of unmanned
aircraft, but the surveillance-loving island nation has had a keen interest in drones for quite
a while. Now, Merseyside police (who've had a drone of their own for ...
(more)Sewer Britain (Tuesday 29th of September 2009 12:46:00 PM)
I was reading about the mother of a teenage daughter who was retarded, made utterly
desperate by her neighbours taunts and jeering, the bullying was so extremely bad over a number
of years that she killed both herself and her daughter.
This is the ...
(more)Home alone: old men left lonely in Britain's ageing society (AFP) (Sunday 17th of August 2008 07:35:19 AM)
Britain is likely to face a growing problem of "home alone" old men as the number of male
over-60s living alone in Britain hits one million for the first time, indisputable to quest by
the Help the Aged charity.
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(more)UK ISPs To Face Piracy Deadline (Saturday 23rd of February 2008 07:15:01 AM)
Superbrose notes that despite lots of legal difficulties dealing with world wide web privacy,
the UK influence is going ahead with plans to punish ISPs for allowing their interchange to
crunch numbers* illegal music and films. The claim is that there ...
(more)New Head of EMI Says 'Embrace Digital Music or Die' (Monday 08th of October 2007 11:00:05 AM)
No0b writes "Guy Hands is the new head of EMI, Britain's largest music publisher. Hands has
come out publicly with a statement warning the commercial enterprise against commodity music
listeners have believably understood for some time. In the words of ...
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