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Don't Suspect A Friend, Report Him!

Don't Suspect A Friend, Report Him!
Originally uploaded by BinaryApe and cross-posted here because he's lazy.

Why would a suicide bomber or car bomber bother to check where CCTV cameras are? They're almost everywhere. What difference would they make?

Another poster in this series encourages people to report neighbours who have "chemicals" in their bins. Presumably hobbyist dyers, film developers, etchers, etc will now be suspects.

This poster campaign is negative, dangerous scare mongering.

There are some good satirical spoofs of the posters at BoingBoing, and here's someone likely to get reported in Manchester, right there on Flickr.

Want to join in with the paranoia? Make your own poster online!

(The title is taken from a government poster in Terry Gilliam's film Brazil)

My Two Thousandth Photograph on Flickr

Duck in the grass
Originally uploaded by BinaryApe

Never mind the quality, feel the width!

I ♡ Flickr

Manchester City South becomes Corridor Manchester?

While reading Sir Richard Leese does a Big Fat Pipe on Manchester Confidential I thought to myself "This Manchester Corridor project reminds me of Manchester City South..." In fact, it's got almost the same website: it looks as if the Manchester City South project has been rebranded.

Rather spookily I wrote a rare blog post on Manchester City South last year and said

"Calling it "City South": A bad idea. [...] so I'll suggest calling it 'The Corridor', since people already talk of 'The Oxford Road Corridor' (and it sounds academic)"

Thanks!

Leese's Big Fat Pipe is a plan for 100MB 'broadband' to be made available to flats and offices down Oxford Road. Since most places on Oxford Road are either already on Janet (much faster) or are a takeaway, I'm not sure how much of an impact this will have (it would be better in the web-startup-filled Northern Quarter) but decent Internet access is not to be sniffed at, wherever it is. Speed is actually less of an issue than symmetric bandwidth: we need better upload speeds than ADSL can provide.

More please!

Owned?

After a few conversations with colleagues I'm now worried that software I create at home might end up owned by my employer - my personal coding projects tend to overlap with the same areas I work in. In my original employment terms I had default 'IP' rights, but I'm not so sure now... I don't want my hobby coding to turn into more unpaid overtime.

Fortunately, since I stopped the silly overtime habit I've not managed to actually do anything productive at home in its place (progress in Eve Online probably doesn't count), but I need to find out what the situation is before I stop procrastinating. I also need to actually click 'publish' on this blog more often.

(goes to check on the training for Astrogeology Level IV)