harmless fraudsters?

In Dante's Inferno, Fraud is the 2nd most serious sin:

• Circle 1: Limbo
• Circle 2: Lust
• Circle 3: Gluttony
• Circle 4: Greed
• Circle 5: Anger
• Circle 6: Heresy
• Circle 7: Violence
• Circle 8: Fraud
• Circle 9: Treachery

It's worthwhile considering why he thought that way. Who does more harm to society: a mugger or a corrupt banker? How many people do you know who have been mugged? How many people do you know who have been hurt by corruption?

Bad company. Sit. [BANG!]

the company is being forcibly wound up and the directors are facing further action.

Most copper data cables, including UTP, STP and co-ax react very poorly to sharp bends or kinking. If you take a Cat5 cable and kink it or stretch it, it's not going to work any more, at least not at Gbps rates.

Good point, though I think the problem would more likely be the connector than the cable. Optical does not cope well with dust, grime etc.

Unless (and I have no idea if such is being implemented) a smart, bidirectional power protocol is in place that monitors the power sent vs the power received and shuts it down if there is a discrepancy---sort of like a super RCD.

A pound of lead. No, really, unless you are weighing in a vacuum.

Think of weighing a pound of lead and a pound of wood underwater. The lower density of the wood and the weight of the water displaced makes for the difference. The same holds for air, but for most substances the difference is undetectable. However, lead vs aerogel is easily detectable. By my rough calculations, at room temperature, 1lb of lead weighs 0.99989418lb allowing for air displacement and 1lb of aerogel (at 1.9kg/m^3) weighs 0.368421053lb (and occupies 0.238732632m^3, so it'll fit in the room quite easily)

(Of course, to be ultra pedantic, I'm assuming you mean pound mass rather than pound force here)

Your name is what you say it is.

Well, since the purpose of a name is to interact with other people, it is more accurate to say that your name is what other people call you. If 'Bud' is what everybody calls you every day in 'real life', then that is you real name.

Now is maybe a good time to post the link to the falsehoods that people[programmers] believe about names.

It's quite normal to have multiple names: one of my relatives was called by one name by half the family and another name by the other half. Was one of those names not her 'real' name?

If I am known by a nym in a community---a community that I interact with only using that name, then that is my name----in that community.

They don't say. The most we know from the article is

which means higher than 9.3K (Nb critical temperature).

The article also says:

or about 50K. Still below the magic 77K of liquid Nitrogen at which point things become economically interesting---and I can't see any statement in the article that the substance is even as good as, never mind better than 50K, although there is an implication that it is.

All in all, the article says remarkably little, at some length.

Javascript is not too bad, but I suspect that it won't help in this case because the problem is not merely the language but the mind-rottingly horrible object model.

If you can keep it to rslt = function(cell1, cell2, cell3) then it's OK, but in practice it seems to involve rslt = use.of.some.object.you.didnt.expect where goat.sacrifice(was.successful) [but.I.lied.to.you]

Bagpipes were given by the Irish to the Scots---who haven't gotten the joke yet.

I'd suggest taking up the Bodhran. Don't worry too much about learning to play it---most people can't, so that doesn't matter, and if anyone gives you grief just explain that you made it yourself and that the skin is wearing out, which should ensure isolation.

So, they do understand that means the Chinese government can install rootkits on their servers, because they bought kit with chips made in China, and packets passing through them need to be investigated to ensure there are no dissidents using them, in violation of Chinese law (that would be the contravention of the laws of a foreign state mentioned)?

Nuke 'em from orbit, it's the only way to be sure.

For the pupils at least, that claim also likely has no standing, notwithstanding any delusional beliefs to the contrary of the board.

As per analysis of the contract in the Hobbit

That means, the school has to explicitly give the pupils something in exchange for their copyright. 'Teaching' can't be it, since they are obliged to do that anyway.

As Mick Jagger said: