Even if you had started receiving spam it wouldn't have proved MS had sold your address. Spammers also send to random names at a domain and may have just chanced on yours. Obviously the chances of that would be less if your email is fdhdf73gdfj932as@hotmail.com (apologies if that is your address and you start getting spam)

You forgot about Ford in '76, so that's 3/8.

There have been 24 elections where the incumbent has stood for re-election; 14 won and 10 lost. I wouldn't call that 'very difficult'.

They do: http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop-elements.html

Thanks for the detailed reply. I can't help thinking though that given it took 12 years just to get the ISS to the size it is now, and that's only in LEO, it would be decades before we'd even be in a position to start using the moon's resources instead of just taking what we need. Who knows where launch technology (and alternative propulsion sources) will be by then.

You'll have to forgive my ignorance, what is there apart from lots of rock and dust?

If the bulk of the increase is from javascript wouldn't turning on compression on the web server solve the problem? They're text files, they compress down massively.

Really? I have to pay £5/month on top of my data allowance for the privilege of connecting to BIS.

Just think how long it would take companies without access to virtually unlimited funds and brain power. It's no wonder everyone is reluctant to make the move.

You've got that the wrong way round - the Electron came after the BBC Model B (and Master) but didn't really catch on.