If Finnish procedure is anything like Australian procedure then TTVK might apply to require TPB to provide security for costs. TPB would have to disclose its financials, there could be interesting argument over the sustainability of its business model.

to have a fashion sense. Slashdotters are blind to that.

For a file transfer process why not use a picture of two tanks separated by a pipe. Water level in the tanks for source and destination. Size of the pipe and a flow rate for bandwidth and read/write speed. You could tell what an estimated completion time was based on and why it was changing.

I suppose the ability to store data and program instructions in DNA would enable a Von Neumann architecture. The possibility of simulataneous "operations" on different parts of the genome might even make common bus based bottlenecks (where data cannot be fetched simultaneously with an instruction) less of a limit. But the speed of the thing would be agonisingly slow compared to silicon. Massively parallel perhaps but slow as a wet week.

I think Cruithne is one that doesn't. One way of putting it is that Cruithne is never in Earth's shadow. I'm happy to call it a moon though, if for no better reason than to see Stephen Fry discomfort Alan Davis.

Cruithne has been referred to as Earth's Second Moon, but it is really in orbit around the Sun in 1:1 orbital resonance with the Earth, whatever that means.

but its /facedesk if the paperclip starts second guessing what I'm doing.

ahem, here [wikipedia.org]

Kidnapping South Korean graphics designers to do an original animation. They have form in this regard, see here

In Australia generally speaking a literary, dramatic, artistic or musical work made pursuant to terms of employment belongs to the employer. That position can be modified by agreement, but in the absence of agreement if you get paid a salary for doing it, it belongs to the boss. If you're not an employee then it belongs to the author, again subject to modification by agreement. Things like sound recordings or films are different, copyright in those would belong to the person who owns the equipment on which they were created. That could be the school. A contract with a child to assign copyright may well not be enforceable. A private school might include an indemnity by parents in favour of the school in their contract with the parents. A public school couldn't insist on it. In either case if a school board, without any contractual mechanism, simply declared that they owned copyright in students literary works it would have much the same legal effect as if they had declared they owned Manhattan with an option on Rhode Island.

Damages cover past infringement, an injunction can issue restraining future infringement. Breach of the injunction is a contempt which can result in imprisonment or fines which are not discharged by bankruptcy.

not a screen displaying a graphic representation of data gathered from sensors way broader than visible light; Windows being, you know ... a bit leaky and fragile.

So you admit infringing their patent ?

Like the battle to stay in your room rather than go see 'A Few Good Men' ?

Here's a link to the patent: http://pardo.net/bike/pic/mobi/d.pmp-cranks/US5899119