in my town in NL, it is 39,95 euro for 100/100 Mbps, no caps, no limits. The speeds are real (my torrents dl/ul with those speeds). Triple play is 56.50. Local collective, non profit.

I gave up too early, got scared when I saw silverlight. Thanks for the tip, I watched the whole thing and it was worth the time.

"Unfortunately this type of quality reporting was dead even before the internet came along." Maybe in the USA (I would not know) but this is not true everywhere. In my country (NL), there are still several newspapers which do all those things you mention. They do not have it easy financially but they do not compromise too much and I think (well I hope) that their base of faithful readers will let them survive. And I do believe that the fast-news-skimming generation will be interested in in depth reporting when they are older. But they should make their content available in e-reader format in the short term.

can't watch it, it needs silverlight.

ah, reminds me of Ringworld!

well as you say, it was used out of spec. So I imagine they could deploy and hope it would work or not deploy at all. With the latter option the lives would be lost anyway. Not saying they could not have done better (but who is "they"). If I remember correctly there was a lot of phooha around those Patriot batteries, my country (NL) sent one to Israel. That's politicians and their following media making a stance and not be concerned about facts.

actually, according to Anandtech, this was developed on request of the laptop oems.

there is lots of FTTH in Sweden. Don't know prices over there but here in Holland I pay 39.95 euro a month for 100/100 Mbps.

http://www.petrol-head.com/2005/06/the_ferrari_die.html . Bentley is considering it, and besides he said company and not brand.

oh no, don't mention the war!

I don't think science is to blame for that, but the oversimplified reporting of it. No serious scientist assumes completeness.

yes and no. I can see this to fail in both the European Court of Justice and in the European Court of Human Rights (for non Europeans: the first is the EU "supreme court", the other is continent wide, voluntary and treaty based.) However it will take maybe 5 but more likely 10 years before a resolution comes out of those. In my country (the Netherlands) treaties take precedence above national law, and our constitution is just a piece of paper (no constitutional court, laws can't be checked by courts against the constitution). Add to that that we always want to be the teachers favorite pupil so we will enforce ACTA for many years.