Posts by Brianc

BT at last coughs to 'major outage' after broadband went titsup across UK on Sat

Biggest outage in a long time but no media interest

This has to have been the biggest outage in the UK for ages and there were ripples in other countries too. Why no media interest?

This seems to have been the biggest outage in a long time and yet the media have hardly mentioned it at all. Why not?

How extreme is your pr0n? Depends on your lawyer

Sobering reading indeed

But I'm not sure about this bit "convicted on the sole charge of possessing extreme pornography depicting pain being inflicted" because it seems to imply that a picture depicting pain being inflictedis necessarily extreme pornography. I guess it's technically correct! I think possession of a picture of pain being inflicted is in general highly unlikely to be categorised as extreme pornography. The judgement about whether a picture is extreme pornography or not is such a dodgy area that us mere mortals are not allowed to examine the evidence, presumably in case we are irredeemably depraved and corrupted by it. I imagine that any lawyer or juror who sees this stuff in the course of a trial will be so damaged that they will need years of psychotherapy to recover. If they are not damaged by seeing it, it cannot therefore be categorised as extreme. Ha!