It was actually invented over a hundred years earlier than that, and GCHQ developed an RSA equivalent with Diffie-Hellman key exchange several years before RSA was created or before Diffie and Hellman published their work. Occasionally the UK does manage to keep something secret :)

Exactly, and in his own words to Alistair Campbell, "I don't believe what I write, any more than you believe what you say". Clarkson plays a character, and it's a lot of fun to watch, but I don't for a second believe he's like that in real life. At worst he plays a caricature of himself.

It cost 910k to repair Rowan Atkinson's after he drove it into a tree and that was still cheaper for the insurance company than replacing it.

They did.

People wrote off the Playbook in 2011 but it outsold the latest generation of iPad in the UK for the last few months of 2012. I'm not convinced RIM is down and out just yet.

"Real Men don't make backups. They upload it via ftp and let the world mirror it." - Linus Torvalds

I think the challenge for Boeing will be when the next generation arrives, there may be slightly more reluctance to commit to purchases early in the lifecycle based on the experience of this airframe.

The last time the FAA grounded an entire commercial airframe was the DC10 in 1979, it is a very big deal. That said, I have no doubt Boeing will sort the problems and normal service will be resumed shortly.

Indeed, I was in Redmond for business purposes a few years ago and part of the arranged evening amusement was a guided tour of the Boeing museum. So many great aircraft came from Boeing, this is an unfortunate bump on the road to progress.