This is a ruling which has been completely ignored by UK authorities, so no. It isn't relevant.

It should be, but apparently legal obligations don't mean anything if you're the government.

His name is only written in the source code, which I doubt anyone cares about. The issue is the researchers who decided to call it "The Chuck Norris Botnet" and then publish papers about it, using that name.

I've also got to question the sense of naming a botnet like this. Sure it's memorable, but what's to stop Chuck Norris from taking legal action against the researchers who coined the name? I certainly wouldn't want my name associated with a criminal enterprise.

Netcraft confirms it.

Okay, I just read a bit more and it looks like apparently they aren't even *allowed* to take the laptops home, they're just lent out for a couple of lessons. So the laptop WAS stolen, and the camera correctly identified the thief.

To be honest, this story sounds like they did almost exactly that.

Obviously an investigation is needed, but doesnt this situation seem most likely:
Student reports his school laptop stolen so he can keep it for himself
School activates anti-theft software (which includes webcam)
School recieves image of said student, proving he lied to steal the laptop
School sends letter to student's parents telling them what their child has done.

Now I don't know if that's true, but frankly it sounds more believable than some evil school big brother conspiracy. I guess the the FBI investigation will find out in the end though.

And the parents whose children will be going to school there in a couple of years time? Should they have to pay out of their own pockets to get their children a decent education because some individual or group of individuals committed a stupid crime?

...do you think that the meteorite was made by magicians?

Space is natural too.

So you're complaining about GW's focus on non-tabletop areas when you... haven't spent any money on their tabletop division in probably about a decade?

This is not exactly surprising.

Only if you're a republican; plenty of northern irish identify themselves as "british".

Polygraphs perform better than random chance, certainly.

Interrorgations do not use random chance when there isn't a polygraph available; they use trained professionals.

The Gameboy was only released twenty years ago. If we arbitrarily set "old" gamers to be fifty, then that would only be people who used gameboys when they were thirty or over.

The vast majority of gameboys were played by children, who are now in their twenties or thirties, and still have perfectly fine eyesight.

The problem is that pulse propulsion needs a pusher plate or similar design to function in the vacuum of space, and it is almost impossible to put that much mass into space WITHOUT using nukes.

Nuclear pulse propulsion is illegal due to international treaties banning the atmospheric detonation of nuclear explosives.

Interesting question: I'm not american so I'm not sure exactly how it works, but would equipment like this fall under the right to bear arms, or would it get buried by some blanket "terrorist materials" law?

It's certainly a weapon after all, but is it more gun or bomb?