This case is (fortunately) nothing like the examples you give.

This was about a question in Parliament. i.e. Statements publicly made, by public representatives in a place where freedom of speech is protected to the highest extent in the UK. The statements were available to anyone who looked at the records.

The idiot lawyers then tried to prevent a newspaper from reprinting those statements, bringing into doubt the entire system of freedom of speech and press in the UK. (note to non-UK readers, there is no UK constitution to protect free speech).

The bloggers (and more importantly, pretty much every other part of the UK media) were entirely right to repeatedly report on the gross misuse of UK libel law.

Sony can only blame itself for the failure of UMD movies. When the PSP first came out I was looking forward to having portable movies, but they cost significantly more than DVD's even though they were lower quality and could only be viewed on one device (the PSP 1000 had no video out), it was no wonder they didn't sell.

The summary doesn't really make this clear, but the baseline Orion design uses a standard LAS system.

The MLAS is only being developed as a possible alternate, if the LAS solution proves unworkable.

There's already some good ideas about putting sails on container ships (that don't get in the way of loading, like masts would do)

See slashdot from 2007:

http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/11/26/1925210

Actually, its extremely common to find packaging with multiple languages in Europe. Many will be bilingual and some are even quadlingual.

The business logic is nothing to do with %'s of populations, its all about the flexibility of being able to ship the product to different countries, depending on where there's demand this week.

I checked the linked paper, from 2005, and while is presents some interesting arguments, it is not a thorough discussion of the subject.

Too many possibilities of Earth origin are rejected with the phrase "it seems unlikely", and there's no mention of the most obvious method by which the micro-organisms get there: random motion (OK, particle velocities in the atmosphere will not be truly random, but you'd still expect a few outliers with very high velocities.)

So, their conclusions may not necessarily be wrong, but they need to do a few more experiments before making a convincing argument that they're right.

(P.S. yes I am a professional Astrophysicist)

The Apple video store, and the Apple App store, are however swimming in DRM.

Your point was?

Because Google runs on undocumented spaghetti code, right?

Or, alternatively, "Josh" is the kind of guy who wouldn't even get an interview at Google, Yahoo, etc.

Err..No that doesn't really match what he's trying to say. By being so belligerent "Josh" was controlling the whole process.

So the choice is: control by a passive-aggressive mentant who refuses to talk to you, or control by management , who should (in theory) be much more approachable.

Of course, if you management team has fewer social skills than an unwashed anti-social 16 year old, then go with the mentant every time.

You might want to check out Papers for iPhone

http://mekentosj.com/papers/iphone/

Which is designed to do exactly what your asking for. Of course, the current iPhone is a bit low spec'd for reading papers with complex figures that might be 10's of MB of data.

I've seen several references in the press that it was Intel that re-invented the netbook term to go with the Atom marchitecture, other manufacturers and the press have just followed their lead.

I have to say I'm with Psion on this one, their competitors have released a near-identical product and used their brand name, of course they're pissed. Legally speaking the size of their market share has zero relevance.

The headline is correct.

The point is that the electoral college would vote according to the national popular vote, as opposed to the individual state votes, thereby making itself irrelevant and finally making 1 person 1 vote a reality. (Presidential elections are by their nature "first past the post", so proportional representation wouldn't make any difference)