A new explanation wasn't needed. We've always known that there are godless heathens in foreign lands. Alien life on another world is a much bigger step, theologically speaking.

That's what mathematicians refer to as "trivial", which is one of the most derogatory terms in mathematics.

He's referencing GWB's mangled attempt at the quote.

Who am I kidding? The '90s was a bleak period for British sci fi.

And this article linked from yours shows just how disingenuous that approach is. Brilliant.

The great thing about statistics and graphs is that by carefully selecting your data you can do things like this with them.

I suspect that the latter category also substantially overlaps the first three. Hah, poked you back!

Which company is or was being spied on by whom is irrelevant. Every company should take measures to ensure that no agency can spy on them, simple as that.

So, Airbus's reaction to this should be just to accept that anyone can eavesdrop on their VPNs? Are Boeing ok with European governments snooping on their VPNs? Maybe China should be allowed to snoop on all our communications as well. After all, more eyes means less corruption, right? And since American companies never bribe, they have nothing to hide by letting every government in the world listen in on all their internal communications.

I'm sure Airbus cared when the GCHQ snooped on the details of a bidding process and handed over the details to Boeing.

Why would my employer fire me for using the corporate VPN from home? That's precisely what the VPN is for!

They're probably happy raking in the patent royalties. And that's probably a big factor in Samsung wanting to move away from Android. I can see Tizen being successful in India and Africa, if they can break into the Chinese market as well then that would be huge. From there, expanding via Korea and Japan into western markets doesn't look quite so impossible.

Switch with fall-through?

There's a white dot directly above the Beagle, I wonder if that's a snapped-off solar panel petal.

Oh, I didn't know that. Ok, "substantially" then. If I wrote an app that let people buy aspirin, paracetamol, echinacea, and crack cocaine, I bet it would get pulled.