Police are offering £500 rewards for informants who shop drink-drivers in a Christmas crackdown. Friends, neighbours and even family members are being encouraged to ring a confidential number if they suspect someone they know of being over the limit while behind the wheel. Tip-offs can be made anonymously on the Crimestoppers freephone line, and the money will be paid out if the driver is convicted. Launching the ground-breaking scheme, Thames Valley Police said there is 'no hiding place for drink drivers.' Inspector Dave Hartin said: 'These drink-drivers are arrogant enough to believe they will not be caught. I have to tell them we will be making every effort to prove them wrong.
'Once caught, they will be put before the courts and lose their licence for at least a year. 'Other options, including a term of imprisonment, are available to the magistrates for the more serious cases or repeat offenders.' Informants dialling the phone line are given a code number which they can quote on ringing later to check whether the suspect has been charged.
They will then be directed to a bank where they can collect their cash on giving the code number. A Crimestoppers spokesman said that the average payout would be between £80 and £120. But if the case was serious enough, a maximum of £500 could be handed over. Last night Superintendent Norman Bartlett said: 'Using our intelligenceled strategy the only people who have anything to fear from our deliberately robust approach, are those who flout the law.' The Campaign Against Drink Driving said: 'It is a very good idea. If there is a reward, people will not think twice about calling in to alert the police.'
But a spokesman for the RAC Foundation said: 'Most responsible citizens would call in without a reward. 'The police might be better off using the message of the dangers of drink-driving across.' The civil rights group Liberty said it has no objection to schemes rewarding people who inform on drink-drivers so long as the police tell courts where they got their information.
The number of deaths across the country linked to drink-driving rose from 460 in 1999 to 520 last year - an increase of more than ten per cent - and the number of all drinkdrive road accident casualties soared from 16,910 to 18,030. Yesterday, a survey by Mori for Direct Line insurance revealed some ten million drivers have knowingly driven while drunk, while around two million have no idea how to work out how much alcohol they can drink and still drive legally. Eighty-five per cent of drivers favour police having powers to carry out random breath tests on motorists they suspect have been drinking.
Earlier this year, Euro MPs called on Britain to slash its drink-drive limit by almost half to bring it in line with most other EU countries. Harmonisation of the limit across Europe would be 50mg of alcohol per 100ml of blood. Britain is one of just four countries which sets the limit at 80mg.
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Which torrent sites get the most visitors at the start of 2013? Update: Traditionally BitTorrent users are very loyal, which is reflected in the top 10 where most sites have had a consistent listing for more than half a decade. This year there are a few movers and shakers, as well as several newcomers.
The most notable absentees this year are and. Both sites have been featured in the top 10 since 2006, but went offline in 2012.
BTJunkie permanently quit early last year and Demonoid’s future is also uncertain after it disappeared during the summer. The first newcomer in tenth place is H33t, which has been growing steadily in recent years. The second newcomer is TorrentReactor, one of the oldest torrent sites around that makes its comeback after not making the list last year. Then there is also a group of notable sites that didn’t make the cut, but deserve a mention. For example, which launched late 2011 and has grown exponentially since.
Also worth mentioning are the Pirate Bay proxies, including, which in itself almost deserves a spot in the top 10. Below is the full list of the 10 most-visited torrent sites at the start of the new year. Only public and English language sites are included.
The list is based on various traffic reports and we display the Alexa and U.S. Compete rank for each. In addition, we include last year’s ranking for each of the 10 sites. Did we miss anything? Feel free to join the discussion below. People who want to increase their privacy may wants to use a. To many people The Pirate Bay is the equivalent to BitTorrent.
The site was founded in 2003 and is still expanding, despite the various legal troubles and new blockades in the UK and the Netherlands. The Pirate Bay currently has well over a billion page views a month.
As I pointed out, the “facts” in appellate opinions are not the same as the, well, facts that lowly people like you and me must deal with. You know, the things that the Oxford English Dictionary defines as “something that has really occurred or is actually the case;. A particular truth known by actual observation or authentic testimony, as opposed to what is merely inferred, or to a conjecture or fiction.” Judges get to live in the land of “conjecture or fiction.” Consider the Court’s recent 5-4 decision in.
Navarette deals with two very important issues—the fight against drunk driving on the one hand and the limits on police on the other. The majority opinion, by Justice Clarence Thomas, held that police officers may stop a driver to check whether he is drunk based solely on an anonymous call to a 911 dispatcher. Justice Antonin Scalia wrote a spirited dissent, calling the majority opinion “a freedom-destroying cocktail.”. The issue was this: When can the police rely on an anonymous tip of dangerous driving as a reason to stop a car to see if the driver is drunk?
One August afternoon in 2008, 911 dispatch in Humboldt County, California, got a call from a driver reporting that a specific silver Ford pickup truck, license number supplied, had driven her off the southbound Pacific Coast Highway five minutes earlier. Highway Patrol officers found and trailed the car. It seemed to be driving normally. Nonetheless, they pulled the car over, supposedly to see whether the driver, Lorenzo Navarette, was drunk. He was not; but he was transporting 30 pounds of weed, which, the officers later said, was right there in plain smell.
When can the police rely on an anonymous tip of dangerous driving as a reason to stop a car to see if the driver is drunk? The protects people and property from “unreasonable searches and seizures.” That means cops can’t just stop any vehicle they want on the off chance that the driver is with a load of meth. Courts require a that the specific person being stopped has done something criminal. The courts have also held that the mere fact that a police officer has gotten (or claims to have gotten) a tip does not create by itself “reasonable suspicion.” The tip must either be from a known and credible source, or, if anonymous, must itself contain “indicia of reliability,” such as detailed predictions of what the suspect will do or other information to suggest that the secret tipster has more than malice in mind. The call in Navarette described an incident of dangerous driving and gave the car’s license number and direction of travel. That by itself might not be enough.
As it reached the Supreme Court, thus, Navarette was a case about anonymous 911 callers. But the 911 call in Navarette was not, in what for lack of a better word I will call fact, anonymous at all.
According to the record in the case, the caller gave the 911 operator her name. But at the outset of the trial, the prosecutor summoned the wrong 911 operator and wasn’t able to get the actual recording of the call into evidence. The case had to progress as if the call had been anonymous. Well, you might say, no harm, no foul. It’s an important issue and the Court needed to decide it. But consider that Thomas’s opinion turned almost entirely on factual speculations.
(Thomas was aware of the record below, and references it obliquely in his opinion.) Reasonable suspicion depends on “the factual and practical considerations of everyday life on which reason-able and prudent men, not legal technicians, act,” Thomas wrote, quoting case law. In this case, the decision to stop seemed reasonable. Thus, the justices were quarreling over facts, but we don’t have any. I spent a few days making calls, and as far as I can tell there are no studies—none I could find anyway—of how often anonymous tipsters falsely target drivers with allegations of drunk driving.
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The Center for Problem Oriented Policing notes on its that “There is little evaluative research on 911 misuse and abuse.” The closest I’ve found is a section of (Scalia was referring to this) reporting three instances in which cops abused 911. In one case, a Montana police officer played politics by phoning in a phony tip that the mayor was driving drunk; in a second, a North Carolina cop called a bar and told a drinker that that there were ambulances at his house. The victim rushed to his car, and the officer had him arrested for DUI. In a third case, Michigan police phoned in phony tips that a driver had drugs and a gun, because they knew the driver was on “supervised release” and hoped to find an excuse to jail him. Those are examples of serious misconduct. But they are, to use correctly an overused term, purely.
We know that some 911 systems track identities. We also know that as recently as 2009 the California Office of Traffic Safety was issuing assuring the public that “You can remain anonymous” while reporting a suspected drunk driver.
I don’t know whether that’s still true. I don’t know whether other states and cities make the same promise. Neither did the Court.
Why did the Court grant cert. In Navarette? In 2009,. In a dissent from that denial, Chief Justice John Roberts wrote that “this is an important question that is not answered by our past decisions, and that has deeply divided federal and state courts.
The Court should grant the petition for certiorari to answer the question and resolve the conflict.” Justice Scalia joined that opinion. Evidently both Justices were eager to get a case and create a rule. Now we have a rule: An anonymous tip constitutes 'reasonable suspicion' of drunk driving.'
I think I agree with the majority. But the legal mummery involved—with one side solemnly pretending to know facts they don’t and the other pretending not to know facts they do—is unsettling. “Lawyers know life practically,” Samuel Johnson once said. “A bookish man should always have them to converse with.'
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I can only assume that he did not often converse with appellate judges. First, listen to the story with the happy ending: At 61, the executive was in excellent health. His blood pressure was a bit high, but everything else looked good, and he exercised regularly.
Then he had a scare. He went for a brisk post-lunch walk on a cool winter day, and his chest began to hurt. Back inside his office, he sat down, and the pain disappeared as quickly as it had come. That night, he thought more about it: middle-aged man, high blood pressure, stressful job, chest discomfort. The next day, he went to a local emergency department. Doctors determined that the man had not suffered a heart attack and that the electrical activity of his heart was completely normal.
All signs suggested that the executive had stable angina—chest pain that occurs when the heart muscle is getting less blood-borne oxygen than it needs, often because an artery is partially blocked. Even Christopher Hitchens’s detractors would concede him two great qualities: honesty and bravery. Hitchens spoke the truth as he understood the truth, without regard to whom he might please and whom he might offend. What Hitchens of his intellectual hero, George Orwell, was the epitaph he would have wished for himself: By his determination to seek elusive but verifiable truth, he showed how much can be accomplished by an individual who unites the qualities of intellectual honesty and moral courage. Yet this is the epitaph that about Hitchens seeks to deny him.
Larry Taunton is an evangelical publicist and promoter who became friendly with Hitchens during the writer’s final three years of life. Earlier this spring, Taunton published a new book that alleged that Hitchens was not as committed to his atheism as Hitchens publicly insisted—that, indeed, Hitchens had approached the verge of a Christian conversion. The Hack The large, sunny room at Volgograd State University smelled like its contents: 45 college students, all but one of them male, hunched over keyboards, whispering and quietly clacking away among empty cans of Juicy energy drink. “It looks like they’re just picking at their screens, but the battle is intense,” Victor Minin said as we sat watching them.
To hear more feature stories, or Clustered in seven teams from universities across Russia, they were almost halfway into an eight-hour hacking competition, trying to solve forensic problems that ranged from identifying a computer virus’s origins to finding secret messages embedded in images. Minin was there to oversee the competition, called Capture the Flag, which had been put on by his organization, the Association of Chief Information Security Officers, or ARSIB in Russian.
ARSIB runs Capture the Flag competitions at schools all over Russia, as well as massive, multiday hackathons in which one team defends its server as another team attacks it. In April, hundreds of young hackers participated in one of them. Several months ago, this author sat at a classical music concert, trying to convince himself that wine is not bullshit. That may seem like a strange thought to have while listening to Beethoven’s Symphony No.
7 in A major. But Priceonomics had recently posted an article investigating, part of which reviewed research that cast doubt on both consumers’ and wine experts’ ability to distinguish between quality wine and table wine or identify different wines and their flavors. It seemed a slippery slope to the conclusion that wine culture is nothing more than actors performing a snobbish play. Listening to an accomplished musician while lacking any musical experience resulted in a feeling familiar to casual wine drinkers imbibing an expensive bottle: Feeling somewhat ambivalent and wondering whether you are convincing yourself that you enjoy it so as not to appear uncultured. In 1994, Sonia Gandhi published from her private life with her late husband, Rajiv Gandhi.
It included a dozen pictures from their trips to Italy, where she had grown up in the suburbs of Turin. Here she was in a speedboat in 1980, wearing crimson-framed sunglasses and a matched paisley shawl.
Here was their son Rahul, just seven or eight years old, on a beach pushing goggles off his face into his hair. What made the book, titled Rajiv’s World, so unusual then was the photographer: Rajiv Gandhi, the former prime minister of India killed in a suicide bombing. What makes the book unusual today is how much it shares of the interior life of Sonia herself—before she transcended her origins to become India’s most powerful politician. “Y oung women say yes to sex they don’t actually want to have all of the time. Because we condition young women to feel guilty if they change their mind.” That was the writer Ella Dawson, in reacting to “,” the New Yorker short story that went viral, and indeed that is still going viral,. Kristen Roupenian’s work of fiction resonated among denizens of the nonfictional world in part because of its sex scene: one that explores, in rich and wincing detail,.
Margot, a 20-year-old college student, goes on a date with Robert, a man several years her senior; alternately enchanted by him and repulsed by him, hopeful about him and disappointed, she ultimately sleeps with him. Not because she fully wants to, in the end, but because, in the dull heat of the moment, acquiescing is easier—less dramatic, less disruptive, less awkward—than saying no. Time for a thought experiment: Are straight people born that way? When I put the question to a number of sexology colleagues, they thought it a good question - indeed, a hard question. To answer it, we have to start with a more fundamental question: What do we mean when we say someone is 'straight'? At the most basic level, we seem to be imagining female bodies that are specifically sexually aroused by male bodies, and vice versa.
Such as those conducted by of Northwestern University and of Queens University suggest that, while such people probably do exist - at least in North America, where many sexologists have - it's not uncommon for straight-identified people to be at least a little aroused by the idea of same-sex relations. Public schools in gentrifying neighborhoods seem on the cusp of becoming truly diverse, as historically underserved neighborhoods fill up with younger, whiter families. But the schools remain stubbornly segregated. Nikole Hannah-Jones has chronicled this phenomenon around the country, and seen it firsthand in her neighborhood in Brooklyn. “White communities want neighborhood schools if their neighborhood school is white,” she says. “If their neighborhood school is black, they want choice.” Charter schools and magnet schools spring up in place of neighborhood schools, where white students can be in the majority.
“We have a system where white people control the outcomes, and the outcome that most white Americans want is segregation,” she says. S ince 2013, the Federal Reserve Board has conducted a survey to “monitor the financial and economic status of American consumers.” Most of the data in the latest survey, frankly, are less than earth-shattering: 49 percent of part-time workers would prefer to work more hours at their current wage; 29 percent of Americans expect to earn a higher income in the coming year; 43 percent of homeowners who have owned their home for at least a year believe its value has increased.
But the answer to one question was astonishing. The Fed asked respondents how they would pay for a $400 emergency. The answer: 47 percent of respondents said that either they would cover the expense by borrowing or selling something, or they would not be able to come up with the $400 at all. Four hundred dollars! O ne day last summer, around noon, I called Athena, a 13-year-old who lives in Houston, Texas. She answered her phone—she’s had an iPhone since she was 11—sounding as if she’d just woken up. We chatted about her favorite songs and TV shows, and I asked her what she likes to do with her friends.
“We go to the mall,” she said. “Do your parents drop you off?,” I asked, recalling my own middle-school days, in the 1980s, when I’d enjoy a few parent-free hours shopping with my friends. “No—I go with my family,” she replied. “We’ll go with my mom and brothers and walk a little behind them. I just have to tell my mom where we’re going. I have to check in every hour or every 30 minutes.” Those mall trips are infrequent—about once a month. More often, Athena and her friends spend time together on their phones, unchaperoned.
Unlike the teens of my generation, who might have spent an evening tying up the family landline with gossip, they talk on Snapchat, the smartphone app that allows users to send pictures and videos that quickly disappear. They make sure to keep up their Snapstreaks, which show how many days in a row they have Snapchatted with each other. Sometimes they save screenshots of particularly ridiculous pictures of friends. “It’s good blackmail,” Athena said. (Because she’s a minor, I’m not using her real name.) She told me she’d spent most of the summer hanging out alone in her room with her phone. That’s just the way her generation is, she said.
“We didn’t have a choice to know any life without iPads or iPhones. I think we like our phones more than we like actual people.”.
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