How and where can I contribute to the legal costs for the family of this student? I want them to hire the best advocates money can provide, I want to see that judge humiliated for attempting to destroy the future of a curious student who made a mistake leading to an incident where no harm was either done or intended.

Firstly, my condolences to the family. RIP Mr Cusick. We are all thankful for your worthy and enduring legacy. Secondly, are there any actual journalists at the guardian? "...suffering from an illness..." can you be a little more specific? Not too impertinent a question, even for a grieving daughter. The rest of the article I could easily have harvested from Whozines or wiki-whatevers. They've lost their balls since the NoTW went to the wall.

The Wildfire facility was portrayed as having the facade of an agrigultural research station. hmmm...

Tau Ceti V became overrun with sentient robots intent on defending the power grid. We will need to, at some point, send a volunteer out there to shut down the central nuclear reactor in order to wrest back control of the system. One of the first games, (i can recall) where you could save your progress.

The good learned lawyer is completely right in his comments. I imagine there are graves of brave servicemen doing a 1200rpm spin-and-rinse over how much of a bureaucratic, oppressive, surveillance police state the UK has become. The flaming-poppy-posting tosspot has every right to act the goat. Everybody eles has the right to point out to him, his social network of choice, his ISP and the rest of the straight-thinking world how much of a tosspot he is and insist that he should obligingly remove evidence of his recent idiocy and keep his tosspottery to himself in future. This situation looks to have jumped a whole big wodge of escalation and gone straight to legal remedies.

Hope this elucidates a little more than the above terseness. RSA labs in colaboration with Universities of North Carolina and Wisconsin have succeeded in extracting cryptographic keys from a virtual machine by exploiting a side-channel attack. The attack is from a co-resident virtual machine, i.e. sharing the same physical hardware as the target. Analysis of the processor instruction cache reveals information about the target's behaviour and can be used to extract cryptographic information when identified.

It would be awesome as a shooter, where your projectiles travel significantly faster than the speed of light, go back in time and shoot you in the back of the head before you've fired off the round... oh, wait... or, un-wait... err... guru meditation: The operation is attempting circular causality. Re-boot now? Y/N.

Definitely the most awesome thing I've seen this lunchtime. The first FPP game I've considered loading onto my system since Portal.

The Bum Gardner stream had a 20 min delay so they could cut it in the event of more than his bum getting gardened. Will the fruity computey folk be rolling something similar y'reckon?

I would, of course, uninvent myself.