Well it is a software update. I don't know about Ford, which is why I said I assume other manufacturers do it, but with Audi the map DVDs included firmware updates with feature changes. How is that not a "software update"?

In fact, I'm pretty sure Ford has issues updates for Sync in the past too.

With it, Ford breaks the model in which the technology in a car essentially stayed unchanged from assembly line to junk yard'

This is nonsense. Audi, and I assume most manufacturers, have been issuing software updates on their map DVDs for years.

This is without even getting into the programmable nature of modern engines.

GWB received 50.7% of the vote in 2004. Hardly a mandate, but also not "less than 50%"

Not trying to suggest that this would be a viable approach, but you only seem to have considered the worst case. You would not have to transfer 170 million yottabytes if your first guess was correct.

I don't know about Silverlight 5, but Lakeview (Silverlight for the Xbox 360) is part of next Xbox update, for which they've already launched a public preview program. You can find plenty of details on it online, including the leaked technical documents (API references, overview, etc).

Since Silverlight is coming to the Xbox in a big way within the next few weeks. I suppose they could transition that to a different platform, but I don't think the large number of content providers they lined up for this release would be thrilled.

Warner Bros. doesn't have anything to do with Time Warner Cable. They sold it off a few years ago

Parent said greater than, not less-than

They let him leave Sweden because he agreed to come back for questioning. He later decided to skip his appointment and refuse to return to Sweden (a fact which he admits).

Those are membership dues that are being withheld. UNESCO will probably let them go unpaid for awhile, but not forever.

It seems UNESCO and the US can get along fine without each other, as they did during the 20 years between Reagan's withdrawal from the group and Bush Jr.'s re-entry.

It will be interesting to see what happens with the WHO/WIPO/WTO/IAEA, etc. but Congress can make exceptions if they feel like it.

and this is not the first time the question has been raised -- see also: potential future 4G iPhone (which will be very interesting)

With regards to the Thunderbolt, however, the bootloader is easily unlocked so it doesn't seem to be the best case to get upset about.

These services were already known to authorities (and anyone who has logged into TOR) and Anonymous probably only hindered that investigation.

The Dutch police's National Investigations Office said in a statement it had managed to infiltrate several "hidden services" sites internationally where users can surf the internet and communicate anonymously.

Investigators managed to break into them and access the images as well as online chats that included identifying details of users of the sites. The details are being turned over to the FBI, prosecutors said.

http://news.yahoo.com/dutch-probe-uncovers-hidden-child-porn-sites-us-152808634.html

Since at least 1990. Summary is incorrect.

Good thing taking to bus or train is allegedly a privilege too, because they run the same VIPR program for those means.