And water freezes at 32 degrees Fahrenheit. Nothing stupid and arbitrary about that! No sir!

Except the average sized man's foot is not a foot long, but shorter.

So maybe use centimetres?

If only there was some way for police to disguise themselves. Or if there was some way to see this advert from a distance. Thank goodness there isn't, or this advert would appear to be nothing more than an advertising stunt.

The whole thing hinges on the phrase in the first paragraph; "depending on what you mean by a "thing", "faster-than-light", and "travel""

If you want to play around with semantics and definitions, then you've got an article. Otherwise, nothing new here. Speed of light unchallenged.

Bollocks. They certainly could sue. And then the BBC demonstrates it's true, and the case is dismissed.

Truth is the complete defence to libel. You cannot be found guilty of libel for stating a truth. Even if the BBC deliberately sets out to do a hatchet job. If it's true, it cannot be libel.

The applicable concept in UK law is "fair dealing".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

I believe this falls safely under either "Criticism or review" or "Reporting of current events".

But IANAL.

Yeah, because they execute people by stoning! Funny!

Executions in 2014 in USA - 35
Executions in 2014 in UAE - 1 (firing squad, murder conviction)

Executions per 100 million in USA - 11.799
Executions per 100 million in UAE - 4.266

Yes, because it's their game and in their interests they don't screw it up. A Chinese entrepreneur didn't develop the game and doesn't care. If Blizzard are screwing up, then feel free to go play somewhere else.

Also..

What are you? Ten years old?

This is not just a problem you see in command line or open source software. You find it in the documentation of many niche applications and it's invariably because it was written by one of the developers. Someone who has spent months working on the software, so it doesn't occur to them how someone completely unfamiliar with the software might approach it, or what they might want to know. So you get online documentation that dives right into technical details, scarcely touching on an overview of what it actually does.

And this happens even with software where the developer wants you to buy it. Just how many sales they get when the potential customer has to first puzzle out what it is, I don't know.

Or maybe it's a policy that says "your email folder is not filespace, keep your 150MB powerpoint presentations somewhere else".

A good solution would be to stop calling instances like this "identity theft" (a person has had their identity "stolen") and instead call it what it is; "identity fraud" (a company has been fooled into thinking a thief is someone else and given them money).

Once it's clearer that the victim is the company, and not the person, then they might start taking the process of handing out money a bit more care over ensuring that people are who they claim to be.

Have you ever read or seen an appeal for money from any charity or not-for profit?

They all do this, because if they didn't the donations would be drastically lower. People simply aren't interested in donating to a "long term sustainable investment endowment", they need prompted into action through a suggestion that it's a very immediate need, or indeed emergency.

So what you're really saying is that if you are running a website that is more than a personal website (i.e. others rely on it), then don't run it as a personal website.

It's quoting TFA.

I'm hoping that's just Google simplifying for the common end user and it is using some kind of encryption. But who knows?

To busy/squeamish for your "complementary" medicine appointment?

Two words: Voodoo acupuncure.

While the extremists without beards are just fine with education.

Men Without Hats, OTOH, don't care about education, just as long as you dance safely.