That's because they were dealing with a real threat not just playing at it. If there's a risk of bombs the last thing you want to do is cause a choke point meaning large numbers of people congregate in a single area - you keep the checks as efficient and fast as possible.

A refinement of that the used on occasion was to issue a bomb warning in one place then blow up the place people were most likely to evacuate to.

I've come across this before. It's *way* cheaper to buy a new printer each time ebay the new one & keep the ink (sold as new, get more money) than to keep buying new ink.

You just described a LAN (more like a workgroup). That is *not* cloud computing.

Cloud computing is just client/server. It's where you store the documents 'in the cloud' (remote server) rather than locally. Hence google docs (the subject of this article), in fact a lot of the google stuff is 'cloud' based.

No. A stated feature of the OS is no native execution.

It'll be completely locked down.. Google have stated no native apps, only web apps, and no local storage, only storage 'in the cloud'. To me that makes it not a useful system... I'm sure *someone* will like it but don't see the point myself.

Linux kernel is GPL v2, as is much of the essential software. They can stay clear of GPLv3 easily and create a perfectly working distribution.

5 seconds is more than enough to trigger an asthma attack. My wife nearly ended up in hospital after some idiot decided to blow his crud in her direction as she was walking into a building. I'm 100% for putting the penalties for nicotine possession up there with heroin.

It's a perfectly industry standard reason. The owner caused the fault by smoking and covering the internals by a thick layer of tar. Therefore it's not covered.

I've *seen* smokers' PCs. It's not something I want to repeat.

My wife (ex smoker, so more sensitive to it) can tell if I've been in the same room as a smoker whether they were smoking or not.. the smell gets absorbed in my coat.

DNS cache proxies are common on cuonsumer routers.

Of course almost universally these are set to block all requests from outside, so can't really be accused of causing a jump of open resolvers from 50% to 80% on their own.

Also any network running authoritative DNS will have an open DNS.. that's unavoidable - although you normally rate limit it with iptables to stop magnification attacks.

No it is.. £50 is a lot for what sounds for all the world like a wiimote ripoff.

£50 with a bundled game (where the game is £30-£40 anyway) makes more sense.

If you can get a driver into ring 0 what the kernel can or can't do doesn't mean squat. Run everything under a hypervisor, however, and you never get direct access to the hardware hence it limits what you can do (doesn't mean you can't do it.. just makes it significantly harder).

Probably more likely it's easier to test the theory on a kernel you can hack the source of quite easily than recompile Windows every time.. even if you have the souce license (which they may not have done even though they're funded by microsoft).

Rootkit as a name has nothing to do with the OS it's running on.. the Sony rootkits targetted Windows for example.

Anyway, Windows has a whole class of root users called the administrators group, not just one user.