There are about 1.2M active US troops at present, UK has under 200K. Ho hum. :)

Also, you can probably add Charles to the list of mad royalty and at least one of his siblings is a right tit. I agree with your post, though, someone needs to look after the long term interests of the country, rather than the short sighted approach that all politicians have (being "how can I line my own pockets as quickly as possible before I get the boot from the job").

Siemens might, but the suit is against Nokia-Siemens Networks, a different company formed as a JV between they two a while back (although I believe NSN has a small office somewhere, and has just bought Motorola Networks division, and so will soon have a large office in Chicago, amongst other places).

Very old, all that. H// has a chequered history:

Sued by Cisco for nicking their IOS software (settled out of court, but H// withdrew all routing gear and made software changes).
Sued by Motorola (last week) for passing on trade secrets (no idea how valid, but it appears to be a follow on from a case last year, also involving another company called Lemko)
Anecdotally, I've heard of their engineers opening up competitor equipment to take pics while onsite at a customer premises.
Internally, I know they have very strict data protection policies as it is commonplace for workers to leave the company with a pile of docs, walk into a position at a competing company and hand them over - basically no computers allowed out of the buildings, USB ports and CD/DVD writers disabled. Mobile phones have to be very basic - no cameras on them...

On the other hand, it's not just Huawei that does it - it seems to be the culture in China to behave this way.

A customer in this context is a network operator - like Verizon. There are a few biggies that Motorola has (Verizon - CDMA, CMCC - GSM, Zain - GSM) and there are lots of small ones. The small ones will spend a few mill on network equipment, the biggies will spend a few hundred mill

You mean the merged entity Alcatel-Lucent (although probably controlled by the french)

The gorilla at Longleat Safari Park has a big plasma/LCD screen with satellite and has to be actively discouraged from using it too much - he has the controller to use, too, I seem to recall.

Can't remember what we were told was his favourite show, though

And Pheidippides is not the reason. He is merely the reason for a long race that is 25m long. This is the reason for 26.22 miles, although it didn't stick until 1924

No, they're not finding this out now, it's nothing new. For example, IBM offer a datamining service to do all sorts. Just search for "Social Network Analysis" and there's lots of stuff going on.

well, at least the 15,000 folks that bought one won't be getting a refund.

And the project isn't really canned, as it will be rolled out for non-EU foreign nationals wishing to stay (cue thin end of wedge) so most of the contractors will still stay on the gravy train.

I wonder how many pieces it was in after it was terminated

"Something then occurred that caused the vehicle to lose acceleration. At that point, the X-51A was terminated as planned."

That rare, huh? How do you stop it running away? :-)

Be more daring

This guy already has it. :-)

I've got an auto-stop car and it doesn't always switch off - it also depends a lot on environmental conditions: outside temp, engine temp and probably a load of other things I don't know about. I can't see that they've incorporated that in there that I can see (without RTFPing), so I guess they're aiming at the already existing stop-start market and the signal to stop the engine is more of a request to stop than a command. With this in mind, the idea may have merit

I hate it when my car stops in the heat and the air-con can't keep up running on battery alone (which is why the car will restart quite quickly)

I seem to remember that US isn't under any obligation to surrender troops to the international courts for war crimes and all that, despite most other countries being so obligated.