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.

Mother! So it was all a dream! No dear, this is the dream ...

I have read the pdf. Looks good to me, could find no errors in the math, so make it so. Now back to watching pr0n.

so now governments are contemplating putting a surcharge on atoms, to compensate the entertainment industry ...

no, this is clearly a copyright infringement of data belonging to the army. So send in the RIAA! (I would prefer the Spanish Inquisition but that silly BHO outlawed torture).

would they not better of banning all computers? And while we're at it, all those horrible machines. It was much more fun when you could chop someones arms off and the good sport would say: "it is just a flesh wound"!

hmm, not so happy about your sig. Especially because "The One 'leader'" as you call it made it clear that he can't do anything on his own. But being from Europe I am perhaps a bit oversensitive about people who don't understand a thing about that part of history.

If someone made a case out of it, then probably yes. Tied selling is not allowed in most and probably all EU countries if it restricts competition. The remedy would of course not be that the other radios are installed but that you can choose another without a penalty. Does this count as a car analogy, b.t.w.?

well, after you install IE7 you first get a setup screen asking which search engine you want as default (a list of the better known ones, but with the option "define your own"). They could easily run something like that during Windows installation for browsers. And no, you don't need IE to download another browser. But for the bandwidth impaired they could easily put all the current ones on the DVD (soon out of date however).