I think it is not UN directly, it is WIPO, the international patent&trademark body. They are the common arbiter for domain disputes. Here is an 'entertainment' filtered search result of their past decisions including "madonna.com", "sting.com", "jethrotull.com", "jimihendrix.com", "scorpions.com" and many many others. Ron Paul has a pretty good chance to win the dispute there.

Isn't it the other way around? The illiterate masses think that 1 GB is 0.9313 Gigabytes, while 1 GB really is 10^9 bytes and 1 GiB is 2^30 bytes, so the conclusion is that 1 GiB is the capacity you (and lots of software) are mistakenly refering to as 1 GB.

An American football field? We are safe! A proper Euro pitch? Doomed!

Those small dependent fishes that feed upon the big sharks leftovers come to mind.

Never too late for a secure phone. Doubt Android will ever be a truly private experience because that is where they make the money. I would rather buy an American phone like BB or Apple then some cheap phone made in China loaded with OS that wants to "monetize" me and recoup subsidy costs some other way..

Outrageously terrible idea! Especially in a town that is full of oldtimers, tourists, hotels etc.

>You are not supposed to understand the code

Right, that is because Perl is the only language whose code looks the same before and after RSA encryption.

eh, i didn't meant to offend, sure it was an overblown sarcastic argument to highlight the underlying issue, namely that nobody was harmed by his actions.

What happened? He downloaded some papers from the public library in an automated fashion and shared them for his colleagues. Criminal proceedings for violating a public library website terms? But who is surprised? This is a country where even a monkey can buy assault weapons. 50 million people without health insurance. NASA under axe while half of the nation's HDP is funneled to the war machine..

Yep, finally an upper management method of running things.

They expect me to do serious "desktop work" via portable high-latency device in the 'cloud' environment using Android?

I've thought the for-profit academic publishing industry drones were the puppeteers here, but that's just my wild guess.

What the DNS has to do with injecting code into webpages? Do they inject stuff into banking or SSL connections too? Isn't this against net neutrality or something? I mean how cocky the ISP has to be to actually resort to this kind of s****.

sterile or not, isolated for 500,000 years.., now is the time to open Pandora's ice box, 21.12.2012 is approaching.

/s