What, like the 36-year old airframe design that is the AH-64 Apache?

Although admittedly the Apache has only been in service for 28 years...

And the people of Belfast patiently await mention of RMS Titanic's sister-ship and first of class, RMS Olympic, which made her maiden crossing to New York on 31st May 1911 and continued in service until the early 1930s.

A fine example of Harland & Wolff shipbuilding, she even survived the impact of a Royal Navy cruiser which collided with her making 19 knots.

The launch of the Titanic, second of class, was a minor event compared to the ongoing adulation lauded on the Olympic. So you see, the Titanic was neither the largest ship in the World at the time, nor the most famous or glamorous. But that doesn't sell a film very well, does it?

But you had that in Ubuntu:

apt-get install xfce4

or whatever. GDM would even add it as a login option automatically for you.

Why go to all the trouble of installing another distro when the functionality to change UI was five minutes away?

In US jurisdiction: Tuffmail or LuxSci
In Europe: euMX

True, the money is dues to be sourced from the winning bid for the 4G licenses, but the money is flowing into the Government coffers and being redirected into this effort. It is therefore money unavailable for other, more worthy, projects.

My solution: the Government should tell TV Licensing to refund the license fee payments to those affected and tell the individuals to listen to the radio if they desperately need stale news reports on the hour.

Meanwhile, funnel that money into Internet access projects for rural areas.

First, that figure refers to sales, not profit.

Second, the record is still held by Richer Sound's London Bridge store. The last figure I saw was from 1995 at £5,870 per square foot ( about $10,000 ).

Please stop hyping Apple with inaccurate information

Unfortunately two-thirds of the pages are reserved for corporate sponsors and the public is required to enter a raffle to have to have the opportunity of viewing the remaining pages, most of which are concerned with lawn bowling and tiddlywinks.

Only VISA is accepted for page view payments.

Do not attempt to drink non-sponsoring beverages whilst viewing the pages.

Note to non-UKians: this is indeed satire.

I assume that you're referring to a provision or interpretation of RIPA. However I consulted on the introduction of RIPA and I am not familiar with what you claim can be compelled by the Act.

In fact there are technical measures ( such as key expiration or tripwire-triggered destruction ) that exempt an individual from being compelled to provide a key. There was some discussion on the GPG mailing list several years ago as to whether such measures could be incorporated into the software; for example a dead-man's lever that destroyed the key if a file was not touched once a day.

That's the technique for the "interim"period, in which browserid.org will implement user control verification through an e-mailed link. For each e-mail address that you wish to use as an identifying token you'd have to prove that you control it through that mechanism, until your e-mail provider ( which may also be you ) implements BrowserID.

Unfortunately the end-state to which we are all supposed to move is to have our e-mail providers act as the Primary Identifying Authorities for us. browserid.org would then step out of the limelight and let the PIAs take on the burden of proving that the user controls the identifying token.

So though the pattern used ( client-authenticating certificates ) and the implementation ( JavaScript callback into the browser ) are different, if the Big Corps become the PIAs as the Mozilla team intends then the overall picture won't be any different to OpenID today, with the majority of people's online identities still at the mercy of a handful of companies.

Of course, as with OpenID there will always be a few geeks who act as their own PIAs. Just a few.

Yes, I am a UKian! In addition to AAISP, Goscomb and IDNet provide native IPv6 routing and /48 blocks to customers.

Zen keep promising it with no delivery date, and Merula might be v6-capable by now.

However of these only AAISP has been "vetted" by Google; they went through the process a couple of years ago when I was still a customer and it was both eye-opening and eye-watering in terms of the hoops that Google made them jump through. It was like watching an episode of Columbo; "...just one more thing...".

I'm now with Goscomb, who haven't yet tackled the Google v6 obstacle course.