Well, they bought InnoDB well before Sun, so that's not entirely true.

These aren't short prison terms by UK standards. It's uncommon to get sentenced to more than two years for computer crime. Ryan Cleary, who got the longest sentence, apparently ran a large botnet for hire, when he wasn't doing it for the lulz. Bot herders tend to get treated relatively severely (rightly so IMHO).

There should be an authority that can prevent Slashdot from being trolled by a summary that seems to have no basis in the original story. We could call this hypothetical super-being an editor.

It's been in Firefox for ages though.

...and you get to be trained in Photoshop too.

That's IE 6 great claim to fame. Compared to the bloated corpse of Netscape 4, it looked quite good.

Dear FreeTards,

You missed the 'greater of' part. That will be $50 000 you owe us.

BT.

There's a (possibly apocryphal) story about a physics professor. Whenever he dropped his chalk, writing equations on the board, he would look upwards. When one of the students finally asked him why he did this, he replied, "If one day it fell upwards, I wouldn't want to miss it."

Lamarr. FTFY ;)

Was, you mean. It's part of HP now. I don't know what IBM wants to be, but it's sure as hell ain't HP.

Yes, the whole 'if we ignore the law, it will go away thing' was a bit stupid. The ICO may have more important things to deal with than every mop-and-pop website that uses cookies not complying on day 1. However, the UK is not Europe and just because the UK regulator isn't particularly keen on enforcement, it doesn't mean that it won't be enforced it other countries. And if you are Google, you have competitors queuing up to make complaints.

QE is rather like being married. You know that whatever you decide, your partner will want to do the opposite. However, no actual communication is involved.

Report from BBC news: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-22028738

The Serious Fraud Office are themselves Autonomy customers, so at the moment they are scratching their heads wondering whether they can conduct the investigation ithout a conflct of interest.

4 and a half, if you count the beta of Chrome, which I personally wouldn't consider a fair comparison. But if you're being sloppy about timings, you can be about other things. Hell, does Chome even have per-tab private browsing now, let alone in 2008?