I always assumed that when Americans called people an ass they meant the person was a donkey and when the rest of the world called people an Arse they were referring the the derriere.

I can't find a citation either but it wouldn't surprise me:

Bittorrent would solve the multiple back-up issue as long as the torrent was popular enough but it wouldn't solve the upload/download speed problem (for multi-GB torrents/files where your local bandwidth is the bottleneck).

The problem is that you have to trust everyone connected to the torrent not to allow an outside party to connect and gather the IPs of everyone sharing the torrent. Don't forget that the main advantage of this plan, multiple back-ups, only works with a large number of participants in the torrent which raises the exposure...

I can only see this working if it reaches critical mass, otherwise the early adopters face some pretty serious investigation...

We have curbside municipal recycling containers at the bottom of every road (or every 150m-300m or so), in suburban areas, instead of picking rubbish up from your house.

Where I live in France we don't have rubbish collected from our house, instead we have 3 types of bins that are buried in the ground in a convenient place, usually within 50m or so of your house (isolated properties, businesses in commercial areas and people who are happy to pay are common exceptions). This means we cut down on the emissions of the refuse collection vehicles (for want of a better, internationally recognisable word) because they spend a lot less time idling, waiting for bins to be loaded at every other house.

The three bins are for:

1. All plastics and metals
2. Cardboard/paper
3. 'General' refuse

Everything in bin 1 is sorted at the recycling centre and recycled where appropriate*.
Everything in bin 2 is recycled in theory, although I wouldn't be surprised if some of it is incinerated.
Everything in bin 3 is mostly land-fill or incinerated if possible.

* As far as sorting goes I believe it works roughly like this:

a. Everything is shredded and then washed. During the washing process the plastic floats and is skimmed off.
b. The metal is sorted into ferrous/non-ferrous using magnets.
c. Plastics are ground down into smaller particles and then sorted, granule by granule, using x-ray or infra-red sensing. Plastics that fail testing and/or aren't a recyclable resin type are incinerated.

I wonder how long before 'athletes' are using this?

Would it be white, grey or black hat hacking to gain access to the bug reporting system and escalated the bug report so that someone actually actioned it?

After all, if you can get Zuckerberg access to Facebook you could probably fix a few things for them...

Citation needed! Not saying you're wrong, just that it's news to me and I'd like to know more about it.

I'd never heard of Under The Dome until yesterday when I heard about CBS's SNAFU, but then I'm not living in the USA.

When you make comments about TPB please remember it's an INTERNATIONAL website for people ALL OVER THE WORLD!!! If CBS (and the rest) want to go by their out-dated business model that relies on the control of media internationally then they're always going to be flogging a dead horse. News spreads about TV series and movies across the globe more quickly than they are prepared to release it which is their mistake and will cost them.

I don't think an Ass or a Donkey can carry this virus

Strictly speaking mutton refers to older sheep (less tender), lamb always applies sheep under 12 months:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamb_and_mutton

Firefox menu -> Preferences -> Security -> Saved Passwords -> Show Passwords

Maybe...

Surely having longer limbs than your average sprinter gives him higher gearing so 'running out of leg speed' is less of a problem for him than his competitors.

It depends on what stars the restaurant has, to some extent, but more importantly what people are willing to pay.

If I want to spend €150+ per head I can eat at a two Michelin star restaurant*. The difference between that and a 'three star' restaurant depends mostly on interpretation of the 'stars' and demand/availability in that location.

* http://www.viamichelin.com/web/Restaurant/Chamonix_Mont_Blanc-74400-Albert_1er-10611-41102

Given current political alliances you're right of course but then again maybe this will be the straw that breaks the camels back and makes the rest of the world look into other options?

At the end of the day you don't want to piss off the rest of the world if you rely on imports.