Approval voting is possibly even easier for voters to understand than fptp, since you can still just vote for whoever you like the most.

Yes, the Danish rule is that after 6 month, the carrier is obliged to unlock your phone for free.

The carrier I use (Telmore) doesn't even bother with that, they just sell them unlocked. It makes the most sense anyway, if you buy a subsidized phone, why should they care whether you actually use their bandwidth? You have to pay them the monthly fee for the binding period (6 months) in any case.

Location and strength of wi-fi spots was collected deliberately and openly, content of data passed through wi-fi was collected by accident.

The only one I know of.

Learn the difference between isA and hasA relationships.

The Ada front end is written in Ada.
 

That should be "why i like google", with quotes.

I binged "why i like microsoft", and received 133 hits.

In comparison, bing gives 211.000.000 hits for why i like google.

> but outside of a few basement dwellers

And who do you think the core audience of /. are?

Suggestion: Install some of the demos or free games available (I can recommend Peggle Extreme casual or the Sam&Max point and click adventure), and test out if the steam offline mode works for you. It has improved a lot recently, but some still reports problems, therefore the suggestion to try it for yourself.

His adventures are available from Project Gutenberg, so I would assume they are safely in the Public Domain by now.

I won't talk about intelligence, but the ability to score high in IQ tests is correlated to both employment status and social background.

The EU Commission is a non-elected body which has as it sole mandate[1] to restrict the rights of citizens, and extend the rights of EU based corporations. It is the Commission that negotiate these treaties, and in general propose new legislation.

The EU Parliament is an elected body which cannot propose new legislation, but can, and sometimes do, block the proposals from the commission. The good stuff you hear from the EU is usually from the Parliament, but they contribute their share of crap as well, as parliaments do everywhere.

[1] Judging by its actions.

You can then do online banking directly from the host OS (if you deem it secure enough), or from a different VM.