Nice theory. However, the US has never refused an extradition request for the UK, since the treaty was signed. The UK has refused several times. http://www.parliament.uk/business/committees/committees-a-z/commons-select/home-affairs-committee/news/111202-us-ambassador/

Fortunately, the quote is pretty much the opposite of what he said. A better summary would be:

1. ICT will continue to be mandatory.
2. The detailed, government required program requirements will be abolished.

The physical layer overhead from the symbol encoding is on top of the Gigabit rate. So, the encoding is 80% efficient as you say but you can still theoretically get most of a Gigabit throughput (minus a little for framing and higher level protocol headers).

Which is odd because they are solidly conservative areas. I don't really see how a private company providing an advertising funded 'free' service counts as socialism anyway.

No. It's for real. "Doctors studying the placebo effect have noticed that large pills work better than small pills, and that coloured pills work better than white ones." http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/horizon/2002/homeopathy.shtml

Sorry, don't have the original citations.

No, you'ld have ninjas bursting through it all the time.

It looks very like that to me, except that Oracle went after Google directly. They still want their piece of Android though.

No.

'In addition, passengers are given the right to opt out from a control with scanners and be subject to an alternative method of screening.'

How about 'superpricey broadband only has 600% annual growth rate', or 'only trebled market penetration in a year'? People don't generally queue up to pay a premium to be early adopters, unless it has an Apple logo on it.

Well, no. It appears to be bad summary week. And people replying without RTFA week. Actually skip the article even, read Lennart Poettering's post on fedora.devel.