I drive a Toyota Corolla Verso, 7-seater, 2.2 litre diesel engine. Drives really well and has loads of power when you need it. It also has tons of room inside for storage/kids/etc.. I regularly get better than 50 MPG out of it.

Then, in this case, the "least bad" option is to "pirate" it. If the company doesn't sell it in Uganda, then they lose nothing by him downloading it.

Indeed. I always wondered if that movie was also inspiration for Katamari Damacy...

The police are not interested. Seriously, I had a good chat recently with a member of the UK police force, working in online criminal activity and he told me they are more concerned with "identifying and catching people grooming kids via social networks, than propping up some corporates failing business model" (I paraphrase, but they were pretty much his words..) Also, he wasn't one of the techies (who would most likely have that opinion), he actually ran the team. It renewed my faith in the police to hear that.. Of course, that was just his views on the matter, but if its a similar view across the force (and I'm led to believe it is), then unless one of these cases just drops in their laps, the police arent going to go out of their way to enforce this.

Cant he just host his tricorder app outside of the US? The DMCA is a US law, isnt it? So surely its only US sites that are subject to it, or am I being overly naive here?

This may also explain why zombies can tell the difference between another zombie and a human acting like a zombie. Perhaps zombies have their own uncanny valley..,?

..shows what a farce copyright law has become..

GP most likely meant the Copernican Principle (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copernican_principle), that the Earth is not in an especially favoured position.. GP suggests it is, hence fail. I'm siding with the Anthropic principle myself..

We (I'm 40) were the first generation to have video games in the home, so it makes sense that we would still be playing them.. I expect that in 20 years, the average age of gamers will be 15-20 years higher than now.

Funnily enough, Stephen Baxter's book, Titan (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titan_%28Stephen_Baxter_novel%29) involves exactly that..

What exactly is so 'earnest' about creating multiple fake identities and using them to spread propaganda in order manipulate public opinion?

Possibly because its release date isnt until 2012.. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1034314/

cant speak for anywhere else, but in the UK, the Motorola Xoom and Ipad 2 are the same price. Thats the 32G Wifi only versions, btw.. Features-wise, the Xoom wins, imo..