Depends entirely on how they did it, it's perfectly possible to write a regex which is identical to a substring replace, and I'm sure there's plenty of software that does exactly that despite the technical extra overhead of calling a regex engine.

Generally though, yes I agree, regex is being used synonymously with replace just because this is Slashdot and we need to wave our special words around.

Kind of what I meant by "what do you mean by interact". If you mean typing on the keyboard, no. Initiating a request for data transfer, yes. Unless "interaction" means a magnetized needle and a steady hand, of course ;)

People are going to read that as "800 calories, about 1/3 recommended daily intake, and 224 grams of carbs, about 3/4 recommended daily intake of soda". So they can drink another two before they hit the limit. A better solution would be to tax sugar to pay for the diabetes treatment.

If you're that thirsty you should probably get checked out for diabetes (a strong possibility if you're getting through that much sugar).

So I boot up my (ubuntu 10.10) desktop, grab a file from my (UNR) netbook, and upload it to my (CentOS) virtual server which is running under physical hardware on RedHat. To do this it goes through (on the last traceroute) 12 different machines. I do this kind of thing all day, the question rapidly becomes fairly meaningless.

So you no longer need a computer to "access the cloud"? And here I was labouring under the impression that the majority of support jobs were related to hardware faults, OS problems, malware and user error, how "the cloud" will stop this happening is a mystery.

Yup. Both nations have also intentionally withheld information from the other to disguise their own capabilities too. There's still a lot of espionage on the go even between "bestest buddy" countries.

We're on BST at the moment, it's 16:30 here.

Not at all, we just had a politician who committed what might, to the untrained eye, look like fraud, but she's been held to account and it turns out it wasn't fraud at all, it was an "oversight". Not above the law at all, just remarkably bouyant is all.