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Will Self's next book sounds like it attempts a heart of Darkness refresh.
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Disaster resilience is the space into which emergency response telcos like Rivada are pushing.
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More prison pain on the horizon.
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If we're to have panoptic road fines and metering perhaps we could also have a panoptic, realtime refund-your-Oyster system for public transport delays?
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In the LAS callcentre: "handles medical emergency call-outs across the whole of Greater London, a 620 square-mile area with a population of more than seven million. In 2006/7, the LAS handled 1.2m calls and attended 865,000 incidents"
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R4 visits bus, electricity gird, prisoner tagging, careline etc control rooms [G4S are a customer, but not on tagging]
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Handheld projection unit. Uses laser (no focusing required). Not in market yet.
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Unintended consequences in nation rebuilding: in the absence of stability and structure, people awake hitherto-dormant sectarian identity.
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Curious Italy vs Spain series in Guardian. The football one is good.
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"inspectors found "considerable irregularities" in the process for the withdrawal of warrants. The blunders meant warrants were withdrawn in relation to 555 defendants, representing 1,709 offences. As a result, many cases were written off."
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"with the amount of credit remaining is printed on the front on the card after each transaction" [related: have long wanted train tickets to have the next valid train departures for this station printed on them by ticket machine "0900 plat9, 0930 plat10"]
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