Apparently, the affected sites were not clients of Serverloft but of a web hoster whose servers are located in Serverloft's datacentre, connected through Serverloft's routing system. Serverloft apparently got really impressed by the Canucks' request for a takedown and, not having electronic access to the servers just shut down the entire IP range of their client, that hosting company.

Nah, I'm in Switzerland, quite near to a major city but miles away from even a grocery store open past midnight. It's scary how the whole country seems to fall into deep hibernation around 9 pm (10 pm on weekends ;)).
Anyways, what exactly do you mean by personal accountability complex? Are you talking about taking responsibility for one's actions, acting in accordance with common sense, and that kind of stuff?
If so, where'd you get that from? It hardly feels that way to me. Booze may be easier to get by (minimum age of 16 for beer, wine and ciders; 18 for liquor), but all other substances are as illegal here as they are illegal in the U.S. Patronization instead of accountability on that front.
Traffic is even more strictly regulated than in the U.S., a lot of your "first cars" wouldn't probably get a license plate around here. Accordingly, road safety is better, speed limits slightly higher, but everything is tightly regulated; again, little room for personal accountability.
Then, there's that whole insurance cult. You are required by law to have e.g. health insurance. Now, despicably, most insurers spend millions on ads, staff cold callers and pay huge commissions to their agents, and thanks to mandatory insurance you can't get by without feeding them cash.
Car insurances are great, too. Liability insurance is mandatory in order to get a license plate, most people also throw in a policy against damages to their own car. Now there's a system of bonus levels. Don't file any claims for a year, get bumped up one level; have an accident and lose four. After ten accident-free years, premiums can be as low as 30%. Great, so far, but there's more: insurance policies on the bonus level. Pay a bit more, and crashing won't cause you to lose the bonus. Also, insurance against gross negligence is standard on most policies now. Not really a sign of accountability, if you ask me.
Moving on, what may have prompted your question in the first place: finances. Yeah, that's where the Swiss are more accountable in that discipline. In fact, the circumstances are completely different. Switzerland has very decent social nets to catch people in danger of falling through. What'd be considered minimum wage jobs in the U.S., pay some $800 per week in Switzerland with marginally higher cost of living. Even single parents with not too many children can get by on one job. Their children will attend 9 years of schooling and after that, in order of academic performance either throw on another three for a higher degree, an paid apprenticeship over four or three years or be done with it. All of this is, of course, free. Afterwards, grades permitting, there's the option of attending University, at $600-$1k for even the best schools in the country. Working Fridays and Saturdays as a bartender pays some $20 per hour, enough to make it through University without piling on any debt and still have the time to study. For that new generation, jobs still pay well. Starting salaries $800 weekly without, $1k weekly with a trade diploma and $1.5k weekly with a University degree don't really force anybody into debt.
I guess you can get hooked on that fuzzy feeling of having more assets than liabilities.
Also, Switzerland is slow. The political system is very solid; bordering on boring. The same goes for the economic system. The big banks skew the growth rates a bit, but apart from that, everything moves slowly in Switzerland. After a few years of experience, most people won't expect their income to rise by 20% by next year, so they don't spend 120% of what they have today.
And those who do, working mostly in the banking and insurance sectors, they tend to either get large enough bonuses to cover their mess or, well, support the market for nice second-hand cars.

All things considered, I don't really see where we would excel on some kind of accountability complex. We make somewhat sane decisions when it comes to not getting into debt, but apart from that, I fail to see anything exceptional. We may look good compared to the average American, but that's to be expected, not exceptional.

Pray tell, where and how did you get the idea of that Swiss accountability complex?

I call bullshit on that statistic. Their numbers for RIM, Palm and Apple add up to 77%, leaving 23% for Symbian, Windows Mobile, Android and others which, according to the linked Wikipedia article make up over 60% of (global) sales. The U.S. situation may be tilted in favour of RIM, Apple, and to a lesser extent Palm; but the numbers don't add up.

Damn, I totally skipped over that underbone in front of your motorcycle there. Hadn't even heard of that class, so thanks for the info :)

I don't know from where you got these figures

From an Aprilia RS125, for example. There are quite a few similar models around.

To me, it looks closer to a moped than a motorcycle, performs (70cc displacement, 40 mph top speed) closer to a moped (50cc displacement, 35 or so mph top speed) than a motorcycle (125+cc, 100+mph) and seems more similar in cost ($855) to a moped ($$2000).
Duck typing tells me it's a moped.

I don't mean to disdain it; used within it's scope (commuting a couple of kilometres through a busy congested metropolitan area) it's probably superior to a fully-grown motorcycle, but I don't see where, how or why it should be one.

Wired has slightly better coverage.

This is at best a moped, a far cry even from 2-stroke 125cc motorcycles. The ET-120 has some 70 ccs of displacement, producing (that's according to TFA) enough power to reach a top speed of 40 mph, no actual numbers on power or torque given. A modern 125cc 2-stroke motorcycle will produce some 33 bhp of power, 20 Nm of torque and reach top speeds in excess of 100 mph. At 280 mpg, its fuel consumption is quite nice, though, especially when compared to some 45 mpg one would get out of a standard 125cc motorcycle.

I, for one, am absolutely convinced that a train crossing the ocean (apart from that pesky tunnel) would be fucking awesome. And you know what else is awesome? Monster trucks. So what's the logical conclusion? Stick monster truck wheels on a train and it will cross the ocean. But it doesn't end there. Monster trucks are like SUVs but more awesome. Throw a bunch of trains with monster truck wheels into suburbia and they'll crush all the SUVs there. And just like that, BAM, global warming is solved. The only cars around will be Priuses because Prius owners are gay and don't fashion monster trucks. So paint the monster truck wheeled train pink and that's solved, too, killing not only Detroit but also Japan, which is mostly Toyota and a little bit of Honda. Whales around the world will rejoice. For three days. Then monster truck train safari is invented. Whales around the world are deep fried in monster truck train kitchens around the world. Now you can have your Fillet-O-Fish and eat another one, too. Also, whale cake, which is awesome!

In Microsoft's defense, they are not alone. Windows 2000 (and it's UI improvement XP) did deliver. They threw a rock-solid OS with acceptable performance out there, and satisfied everyone from businesses to gamers. The famous 20% of work to get 80% of the result were done. Delivering again is hard, because now customers expect to get 160% at the same price. That's how things like Vista and DNF happen.
But as I said, they are not alone. Apple had their 2000/XP moments with Puma and Jaguar. They handled their "Vista" better through a series of incremental updates, but outside of Jobs' RDF, few "revolutionary" changes happened. Linux is more difficult to mold into that schematic by its very nature. Different projects that integrate into one distribution release at different times. Limiting the view to single projects, the situation is once again similar: changes, chaos, revolutionary thoughts up to a stable release and a slower trickling of updates thereafter.
At one point in every project, the gorgeously fat fruits dragging their branches down to ideal picking heights have been picked (XP, Jaguar). Getting a ladder and going for the apples becomes a tad more exhaustive (7, Snow Leopard), and finally going for the cherries way up in the tree becomes even more work. In the end, they'll be picked, though, as there's no other way to get to that pretty release with a cherry on top. :)

Seeing how I normally tend to post mostly useless stuff, occasional funny and, seldomly even informative posts are my way of making it up to you guys.

Everyone

Except females.

complete military service

Except those deemed unfit and those who request to perform civilian service. (Starting this year, this way is open to all at 1.5x the duration of uniformed service.)

(4 to 6 years)

...if you're going for Colonel. Enlisted men serve slightly less than a year, NCOs one to one and a half and lieutenants are done in less than two.

weapons usage

Lying down and shooting at targets 300 metres away with an assault rifle. Excluding those who perform their uniformed service sans weapons.

self defense

The only defense I picked up was how to defend myself against the incompetence of superiors (i.e. selective hearing).

martial arts

Bwahahaha.

You may have been looking for Israel or something, but the only thing this hunk of junk produces is a thriving mass of overweight, corrupt and slimy staff officers with no base in reality whatsoever. The training you get is of approximately the same value as watching four Steven Seagal movies end-to-end.

Full disclosure: Sgt in the Swiss Army, retired in Q3/2009. Tell me about your sources. :)

Delicious. I shall be looking forward to the death of my Windows Mobile phone. Thanks :)

You think "the spirit of the law" counts for something in Europe? Do you trust those currently in power in your country to uphold it? Do you think the European Comission cares about "the spirit" of anything?

To be honest, no.
The only way to make the current situation in Europe look any good is to contrast it with the one in the U.S. (and, well, forgetting about the UK helps too). Also, the uptake of several pirate parties throughout Europe (and the occasional sensible court decision) inspire some hope. It'll be interesting to see if they manage to shed the one-issue party image, but if they do, a large percentage of the 18-29 crowd's votes are up for grabs.
Let's hope for the best.

So what they meant was "we couldn't give a shit what the constitution intends[, we're happy to have it's purpose undermined to the point it's hollower than a slice of swiss cheese]".

Yay for living in Europe, where the spirit of the law still counts for something.

What a pity. Well, I agree with the AC above, then. Go for an N900.
On that note, does anyone around here have some experience with Android vs Maemo over-the-air sync? Android seems to have full two-way push sync for mails, contacts and calendar; Maemo (through Nokia Messaging) seems limited to IMAP IDLE for GMail and not support contacts/calendars. Is this right or am I missing something?