O2 (and also Be Internet) are now owned by Sky.

I, for one, welcome our heavily-armed transgender overlords.

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I would advise against eating or drinking whilst reading this, at least if you value your keyboard. Also, possibly NSFW.

Spot on. My wife has worked in a hospital for about 12 years. A couple of years ago they switched the sanitiser to a cheaper brand to save some money. After about 2 weeks so many staff were unable to work due to dry/cracked/bleeding/infected hands that the hospital had to hire agency staff to cover shifts. The cost of this and unions getting involved had the old sanitiser brought back in shortly after. They haven't tried swapping brands since then.

Very true. In the UK you have to get immunisations for most of them, but you also build up an amazing immune system. Doing sewer surveys I never got ill in 5 years.

Come and live in Yorkshire. Everything is uphill both ways. In the snow.

The only time Opera has ever crashed for me is when there is a dodgy ad on a site. Blocking the ad fixes it straight away.

Sometime I wish mod points went up to 11.

+1. My kingdom for mod points.

I have to do my own ironing?

Well I don't know if this would be called fraud, but in the UK it does break consumer protection laws.
In the UK, goods sold must be "as advertised" and "fit for purpose".
The PS3 update breaks both of these: the PS3 is now no longer "as advertised" or "fit for purpose" as the advertised OtherOS function has been removed.
Likewise, if you do not update, another advertised function (the ability to play on PSN) no longer works.
Giving the consumer the choice of which function to give up isn't much consolation (no pun). :)

I do wonder, though: if the record industry somehow managed to successfully sue someone for more money than the entire world combined made last year and also magically managed to get payment in full, how much would the artists who made the content under dispute get?

Nothing, same as they got in all the other lawsuits/shakedowns.

Google says about 133000 results. That should keep the lawyers busy.

Are you a friend of Raymond Luxury Yacht by any chance?

Of course we can. ACTA isn't just about piracy you know. What really scares big media is that they lose control. They don't want people to realise that music and films can be home made and self published. After all, why would we need them any more if that were the case?