Xine build
Fedora lacks a good player for movies. May be I dont know. I like xine for its cool features. I got xine from sourceforge.net. Built the binaries. But strangely enough, when I go for a full screen mode, it gets a segmentation fault and dumps. Need to look into that.

Surviellance in brittain
Read about an article about the same topic. It is good in many cases, even though privacy is at stake. In spite of large number of cameras, some petty thefts for bikes are still happening around. Also, these cameras are widely used to control speed on motorways. Also, there is a widespread concern that lot of money is being sucked out from public citing speeding. So a proposal has come out for varying speed limits for different time periods. Good to see constructive criticisms are accepted.