I was about to suggest exactly the same. You can do any sort of stuff on the Beetle, from fitting a Porsche engine in it, to replacing the entire front half with that of a chopper bike, to cutting the engine in half to use it on a microlight. And it will just run forever.

Time and time again your forecasts about legal disputes have been falsified in court. How can you still offer your allegedly unbiased opinion as an expert on patent law and still keep a straight face? Aren't you perhaps confusing what you (or your sponsors) wish the body of the law is with what it actually is?

I "sort of" agree, and in Italy we do indeed use the comma to separate decimal digits. However, the problem with using a comma when applied to Anglophone nations is mainly one of pronunciation. "Thirty-three-comma-thirthy-three" sounds like two separate numbers, at least until you get used to it. And getting used to it can take a long time since this usage of the comma is logically opposed to that in written language.

And should be implemented, as long as all other providers of online services are held to the same standards.

Because it's the only way they can get their Bing search engine as a default setting and try and steal some revenue from Google, is my guess.

Yup, the next step is renaming the Windows brand. And to keep the current theme of something that is fragile, and allows easy access to people with bad intentions, they could just call it Microsoft Backdoors, I guess.

Because who bought their oscilloscopes is unlikely to have the expertise necessary to replicate this hack. It's not like they are people that work with digital electronics every day. I wonder what combination they use for their briefcase.

But the Martin Mars ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M... ) made several flights, and was actually flown until a few years ago as a firefighting plane. And I still think it is bigger than this plane. Probably their claim is that it is bigger than its Japanese counterpart, the ShinMaywa US2 ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S... )

I would be pretty pissed off if I were to find myself on Mars all of a sudden with no explanation.

I believe that in "the olden days" of analogue TV the vans could detect the frequency emitted by the local oscillator of the TV set, essentially the bit that compares a fixed frequency to what is received by the antenna and by making a difference between these obtains a signal. The principle of operation i of radio sets is still the same (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superheterodyne_receiver), but modern receivers probably are better engineered and won't leak as much of the local oscillator signal.

Almost. I would place it roughly in the category of the F20 Tigershark, but with modernized avionics and greater weapon load and flexibility. It doesn't have a long range, but that only really becomes a problem when you are concerned with attack missions rather than defending your country.

... they might as well just remove a few steps from the water reclamation apparatus and use that.

When has he ever been unbiased? Most important, when has he ever been actually right in his forecasts?