American companies are going to have to set up subsidiaries in Europe, and make sure that there is no way the US parent can access the data. Otherwise their cloud services are going to fail there. European companies are already advertising keeping data away from the US as a feature, although I expect many of them would cave fairly quickly if challenged.

I make industrial products and the biggest hurdle for us when trying to make stuff look good is long term availability. We want to buy the same LCD for at least 5 years before having to redesign the product. We don't have the volume to have them made for us so our choices are limited to crappy industrial models that are expensive and look very dated. We have not even managed to get colour yet.

It depends if having more models sells more devices. Apple clearly thinks that having two memory sizes will sell more iPhones.

Look at Samsung's Galaxy line. They do different models for Europe, the US and the far East. Slightly different cases, different CPUs all sorts of things. They must have concluded that tailoring to each market would boost sales enough to overcome the extra cost of having multiple models.

There are more than two companies left, they just share the same parent owners. In the west you have Seagate and Western Digital. In the east you have Hitachi, Toshiba and Samsung. Hitachi may be owned by WD, but they still do their own R&D and models.

This helps WD avoid putting all its eggs in one basket, and also gives them access to the Japanese market. Designed/Made in Japan counts for a lot here.

Perhaps they realised that most of them will be close to worthless and mainly serve to make blocking particular companies easier.

This was the Tory plan all along. They saw the financial crisis as a huge opportunity to drive down wages, cut the size of the state, cut employment rights, and generally get people feeling lucky to have a job rather than deserving of a better one. Best of all they could blame everything on the last government and justify it by saying the deficit needed to come down fast.

I can see you have not been to the UK for a while. Unfortunately we have many of the same problems that the US does.

- Many of the police are little more than thugs in uniform, and lost the trust of the public.

- University fees are rising. Not as high as the US but still pretty bad and taking decades to clear. In fact many will never clear then within the 25 year limit.

- Our foreign policy is based on an odd mix of delusions of grandeur and being America's bitch. Plenty of people hate us for it.

- Hatred of those on benefits is stronger than ever here. We are also very xenophobic and hate the EU, despite it being the best thing that happened to us in the past 50 years.

LibreCrypt
NewCrypt
TC-X
MidoriCrypt (I just like that word)
FreeCrypt
SafeCrypt
SnowdenCrypt (with permission of course)
ImmortalCrypt (the NSA can't kill it)
SafeHouse (domains probably taken...)
CryptoBox
CryptoSafe
CryptoFreedom

Maybe a Slashdot poll?

The problem is that harassment is subjective, so you can only ask for people's opinions rather than setting an absolute standard.

Take your nice sweater example. If said casually it would just be friendly small talk. If said leeringly while standing uncomfortably close and trying to look down it that would be something else. In between there is a whole spectrum of behaviour and annoying as it is I'm afraid there is no ISO standard to compare it with.

Looking at very specific examples and asking if people felt uncomfortable is all we can do. Of course, we make a judgement, simply feeling uncomfortable is not in itself harassment.

I find it interesting that on the one hand we have complaints about men being assaulted not being taken seriously, while at the same time trying to dismiss complaints by women as trivial.

It's mostly homosexual harassment of men. Other words, it's almost always men doing the assaulting, even when men are the victims.

What gives you the impression I am American? Maybe it's the -ize endings, which FYI are correct British English.

I see almost the opposite. It's like the AV referendum. The "debate" was dominated by fear and ignorance, and in the end people voted to stay the same rather than change to something better mostly because it's familiar.

Once you leave the UK you realize that most of it is very old fashioned and conservative. It needs to change and modernize, but will have to be dragged kicking and screaming all the way.

Wind energy.