Err... what makes you think that that was a typo? Ajax was a detergent (before it was ever a web technology); that was the point...

I'm not sure that follows. It's quite possible to own some land, but for someone else to have (say) a right of way over it - either that you've granted yourself, or that has arisen some other way. Such a right of way doesn't stop you using the land agriculturally, building on it, selling it, granting rights over it to other people, or forbidding third parties to use the land. You don't, however, have the power to revoke the right of way.

In such a situation, you are still the owner of the land, legally and in an everyday sense. Some people would argue that the situation with data is the same - you may remain the owner, but someone else can still have rights over it.

Not true. He used to, but he has since placed qmail in the public domain, so you can do whatever you want.

I agree that it's completely wrong here, but it's not necessarily meaningless: you could legitimately say "The energy consumption was increasing at a rate of 1kW/hr"...

Why was she towing a cow? Couldn't it move by itself? (or did you mean kowtowing ;-) )?

I've seen a number of DIY inkjet printers - e.g. this one - that use ink cartridges from commercial printers. This works because some ink cartridge designs effectively have the print head built into the cartridge. While this still leaves you dependent on the printer manufacturer for the cartridges, you still (theoretically) gain from the fact that your printer won't refuse to print if (say) one colour runs out, or if you refill with off-brand ink, or for some other arbitrary reason - since this logic is generally implemented in the printer rather than in the cartridge.

Why so? Printers with ethernet tend to be more expensive than those with just USB. Are you suggesting that if one has a capable router already, one should pay extra for no real gain in functionality?

No, not if and only if: don't forget "...or you can install Linux on it". For example, my Netgear router has a USB port, but was not advertised as being a print server - but it was very easy to put OpenWRT on it, install CUPS, and now the printer works nicely on the network.

The "reign" was already wrong - the correct word would have been "rein". Not quite as much fail as at first sight?

Err, you do know the Ordnance Survey entirely funds itself from selling maps/map data, and gives a proportion of its profits to the Treasury?

Ummm... no, because my private keys are encrypted with passphrases.

Ah yes, that's the first thing a new user of the program will think of doing. Totally discoverable, and not opaque at all ;-p

Often what they're in favor of is you being respectful of their authority ;-)

(of course this applies to politicians of more than one affiliation...)

Neither - it is per household. So if you have 10 people in your house, and 10 TVs, you will pay 1 TV licence fee.

You don't even need a licence if you have a TV, as long as you don't watch it (you can even listen to the radio on it if you like).