I heard they wanted to do a reboot of Star Trek, which I guess could be interesting ... I mean, it's been 12 years since a Star Trek movie was last released.

Not going to look for sources, but I've seen resellers say that their panels have 80% performance after 25 years. No idea if they go downhill rapidly after this.

DVB-S/S2 is satellite-based
DVB-T/T2 is "air" (UHF antenna)
DVB-C is cable-based (not seen C2 - might exist)

-S and -T are MPEG2 based (usually)
-S2 and -T2 are MPEG4 based (usually)

Encryption can be applied to all of them, and in many countries is almost standard (very few free channels, usually tax-paid ones or pr0n related). The UK seems to have an above-average number of free channels.
"Freesat" is specifically a UK term for DVB-S/S2 channels without encryption.

No, that would be in-the-air cable - In Europe, Over-The-Air cabling is done at 700km altitude.

Former employer's largest customer had issues with their other vendors all outsourcing support to India, causing constant issues, and a steady stream of complaints internally.
Eventually, that employer lost that customer, with the customer complaining that they were too expensive; a new support-contract was signed, which promised to set up a support-center in India to lower the cost.

Moral of the story: Large companies cannot learn, cannot judge quality and only care about cost.

Note: I'm sure there are lots of people who are perfectly capable in India and other low-cost countries (I know there are - I've worked with some!), but when you outsource to save 75% on labor, you're not getting the most skilled people.

Having used a "Linksys by CISCO", or tried to anyway, I won't touch another Linksys product, unless paid VERY well to do so.
(incidentally, I now also consider CISCO to be shite, since they considered the aformentioned heap-o-feces to be good enough to put their name on it)

No only Lockheed Martin.

Other companies, in other countries, have won contracts for bits and pieces, usually requiring the home-country of such companies to promise to purchase aircraft or other material. This way, it has become a government subsidy programme for many companies.

Privacy Intrusion?

I do not know the Terms of Service (ToS) in question here (I don't use MS OneDrive or live.com email), but if the user has agreed to let MS scan emails using automated tools, and later review flagged results using actual humans, then there is no intrusion!

Yes, the person (...) who got flagged and arrested probably didn't read the ToS, or perhaps didn't understand the implications of it, but that doesn't make MS' actions questionable, or cause them to become "intrusions" - if you've surrendered that part of your privacy to a company (willfully, even if unknowingly), you cannot come back later and say it was intruded upon.

Bitcoins must, as far as I can tell, have something that identifies them; at the very least, you need to be sure that only 1 person mined a given coin (solved a given mathematical challenge), to avoid endless, easily mined coins.

Am starting to think one should investigate the possibility of making a blacklist of coins known to be acquired via illegal methods.

Very much :)

Actually a few countries in EU have rules against perusing people's emails, where the privacy of communications cannot be signed away easily.

My bit of pondering is whether that 0.6btc can be tracked/identified at companies handling bitcoins, and especially at companies converting between btc and real money?

Could you basically get the police (Europol/Interpol?) involved, and when a company reports that a user is trying to use/convert the btc you paid with, have that user charged with ransoming data, or taking stolen goods (i.e. either as the original thief, or as a fence)?

If the 0.6btc is acquired by the person via a laundry-service, charge him/her with engaging in activities meant to conceal the original crime?

WTF - Even Korea gets to have a KFC?

/me mumbles something about capital of Europe and lack of KFCs

It is in the ToS, which at least 1 party (the account-owner) has agreed to.

We can try all we want to compare this to 1984 and what-nut, but if we explicitly allows a company to rummage through our email, we have no basis for complaining when it happens.

(Note: I can think of at least 1 country where this part of the ToS would be invalid)

Didnt that require that the U,S, changes some laws regarding "spent" fuel?

Good thing they gave their nukes to Russia, in exchange for Russia not attacking them...

"The Russian Federation, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the United States of America reaffirm their obligation to refrain from the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of Ukraine, and that none of their weapons will ever be used against Ukraine except in self-defence or otherwise in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations;"