Is that even necessary? Couldn't the US Government simply order ICANN to suspend .ga?

I've yet to meet someone who has dumped their smartphone or computer for their toaster, guess they don't need that either.

I'm not a cosmologist, but I have studied it, and I'm pretty sure that the current understanding of the metric expansion of space makes the "emission point" a false idea. To use the overly-abused balloon analogy, if you start off with a deflated balloon/flat rubber sheet with some points marked on and inflate/stretch it, everything gets further apart from everything, but you can't define a point where everything "came from".

What centre?

I believe that the link "Montana's rules for self-driving cars" should have read "Nevada's rules for self-driving cars".

If they had planned on doing such a thing, removing the geowall for the duration of the Olympics to show the world what they can get would have been a great way to generate interest in it (before replacing the geowall with a paywall after the Olympics)

No, it's paid by those who consume live TV (online, via an aerial, or otherwise). If you don't consume live TV, you aren't required to pay (even if you own a TV used to watch prerecorded materials only). The firm responsible for collecting it, though, will use as much misinformation as possible in making you think you have to pay it, though.

Minor quibble: the fee is paid to use a device for reception of live TV signals; merely owning a device theoretically capable of receiving them doesn't require paying the fee.

The Nexus Q doesn't have a screen either. And the Apple TV has 8GB of flash; neiher 8 nor 16GB is particularly useful for storage of video content. The devices are meant to sit on the network and get the content from there (either from your machines or an online service).

He's a student with a limited income, and claims that he would miss the liquid asset in the interim.

Or you could take the card to a ticket office and exchange it for the remaining credit plus your deposit. I know someone who visits London every couple of months and does this every time.

Microsoft can really be blind about how their product names can be interpreted. This is, after all, the company who brought us Wince (well, WinCE)...

Nowhere in the article is it said that the student has been "thrown out"; in actuality he's suspended pending the internal disciplinary process (as is, as far as I know, standard whenever a student is arrested). [For what it's worth I happen to be a postgrad at Swansea]

At least in the UK, we have an equivalent day on 22/7.