well, at least the 15,000 folks that bought one won't be getting a refund.

And the project isn't really canned, as it will be rolled out for non-EU foreign nationals wishing to stay (cue thin end of wedge) so most of the contractors will still stay on the gravy train.

I wonder how many pieces it was in after it was terminated

"Something then occurred that caused the vehicle to lose acceleration. At that point, the X-51A was terminated as planned."

That rare, huh? How do you stop it running away? :-)

Be more daring

This guy already has it. :-)

I've got an auto-stop car and it doesn't always switch off - it also depends a lot on environmental conditions: outside temp, engine temp and probably a load of other things I don't know about. I can't see that they've incorporated that in there that I can see (without RTFPing), so I guess they're aiming at the already existing stop-start market and the signal to stop the engine is more of a request to stop than a command. With this in mind, the idea may have merit

I hate it when my car stops in the heat and the air-con can't keep up running on battery alone (which is why the car will restart quite quickly)

I seem to remember that US isn't under any obligation to surrender troops to the international courts for war crimes and all that, despite most other countries being so obligated.

Plus, extending the "think-of-the-children" category, in the UK I think it is now possible to be tried for crimes against UK law committed overseas - even if they were legal in the country they were committed (although I don't have a citation). The law used to do this was made to get at the sex tourists who go to countries with a very low age of consent

Then you'd be a pirate in the UK - this sort of Fair Use does not exist here and backups/format shifts of your audio/video media are not allowed. Technically, anyway. I can't see the plods chasing you down for the offence

Oddly, it's legal to make a backup of software, though

That would seem to depend on where you are. I'm with BT and have not noticed any throttling on torrents or video streaming. It possibly helps that I live in a large village, so possibly not that many folks hitting the broadband (village = mainly silver surfers, in my case). I can usually get over 4Mbps and I'm around 600m from the local green box.

I used to be with Shitscali, but they really throttled hard - couldn't even watch YouTube most of the time. Switched to BT and noticed a huge jump in QoS

Can't say as I'll be bothered to sign up for this, though

I'm Zimbabwean, you insensitive clod! I round to the nearest Z$1,000,000,000.

Scratch that, it's now Z$2,000,000,000

Scratch that, it's now Z$3,000,000,000

Scratch that, it's now Z$4,000,000,000

Scratch that, it's now Z$5,000,000,000

Scratch that, it's now Z$6,000,000,000

Hmm - increasing faster than I can type it...

But how efficient is the engine that was used to generate the electricity in the EV? You need to also take that into account. These folks say 31% on average, and Siemens reckons they can get 58% from a modern fossil fuel power plant.

So, an EV running on leccy from a modern power plant is more efficient (in terms of fossil fuel usage) than a regular car (and you have the bonus of all the emissions being in one place). But an EV running on leccy from an average fossil fuel plant is about equivalent or only marginally better (and you still have that bonus of collecting emissions in one place)

how about the informal ones?

Perhaps the formerly popular ones might be more relevant to the discussion :-)