And Iceland (103,000 sq km) is just over 1% of the size of Australia ( 7,741,220 sq km) - even bearing in mind that both have uninhabitable regions in the middle of them. Also I think Iceland is part of the main transocean lines between America and Europe, so has greater access to bandwidth anyway. All told, I'd guess that the costs of installing infrastructure, intra-city comms etc. are costlier/more problematic in Australia than in Iceland.

The FBI had already gained control of Tor boxes against Freedom Hosting - see here ( http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/09/freedom-hosting-fbi/ ). It's not pushing the realms of reason to assume they've done so again for Silk Road.

Potentially I'd say it was related to this story ( http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/09/freedom-hosting-fbi/ ) about the FBI having control over a number of Tor servers. Initially they were aiming for Freedom Hosting, but if that can do it for one site/service, I'm sure they can do the same for others...

It would've been far more fun to name that key the "Any" key, which would've erased so much luser confusion about "Hit any key to continue"

That's a system setting, you can mess with it (assuming Admin rights) through control panel.

Control Panel > Users > Manage User Accounts > Advanced

At the bottom, "Secure sign-in" - take the tick out of that, and Apply.

You could access camera from lock screen in iOS6 too - it's not a new feature.

It's probably worth pointing out that the original story is an interview in the Daily Mail ( http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2423358/Walking-whale-fossil-dating-40M-YEARS-discovered-Peru.html )

That makes it about as trustworthy and reliable as stories on Fox News

It's got to be better than "Walking in Wales"

Don't they get that anyway, every time they release a new iOS?

(And yes, I know, MS do the same thing with v1 of any of their Windows OS's - never trust 'em 'til SP1 comes out)

They don't/can't.

However, this means potentially you'd be linked with what the last purchase was before the cash was returned "to the system". Which could be interesting...

They're politicians. That means they're neither normal, nor human.

Why should the high numbers represent errors, but the low ones don't?

I'd tend more to think that the low figures equated either with a) reclassification or b) having got rid of some people who were constantly trying.

Also, how do you know they were repeated access attempts on a site, rather than attempts at many, many sites, all of which got blocked for some reason or other?

I'd dispute this - books can certainly do the same (particularly when written in the first person, but even in third person they still envelop you)

Sure, it takes some imagination - but since when was that a bad thing? Certainly when was it worse than having everything there and explained/shown, rather than letting you decide for yourself exactly what each person/character/setting looked like, based within the guidelines of the book's description?

I remember the film, but didn't know it was originally a book!

Aliens, not Alien.
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