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"ACCOLC (Access Overload Control) is a British procedure for restricting mobile telephone usage in the event of emergencies. It is similar to the GTPS (Government Telephone Preference Scheme) for landlines."
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Contradictory ACCOLC directives in London on 7/7 (note tension between ambulance who want people to get through and policing who may wish to reserve bandwidth...)
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As these data sources are commercially available, why wasn't UK gov already negotiating with G/others to have data hidden? Or: move your camps. Or better still: bring back Jasper Maskelyne and art of deception!
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"Welcome to the web site that attempts to unravel the truth behind the wartime career of Jasper Maskelyne."
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"I don't get company spam any more ("fill out your TPS reports") because whenever anyone in my group of extended colleagues highlights a piece of corporate spam, it's gone for all of us"
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Soca hampered by own size, bureacracy, perhaps post-merger trauma.
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New underground radio system interferes with older above-ground one where they overlap. Result: police refuse to use the new one. Identifying such "failure criteria" might be as useful as success criteria.
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Hop-on peloton: rodent sperm draft like cyclists. "these hooks allow groups of up to 100 sperm to attach to each other, and that these "sperm trains" moved faster than sperm swimming alone."
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On Hagia Sophia: "we imagine a structure built on the Moon and then digitally move it over to the Earth in a fraction of a second, and suddenly it’s loaded [...] I can’t image how people could have had the courage to construct it"
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