The article (yeah, I did RTFA) points out that those games are rated for age 17+, so I don't see what the issue is.

I wouldn't want my kids playing COD-MW2 or L4D2, but to be honest, they wouldn't want to play them anyway - they'd be much happier with the latest cutesy Wii party game, or something for the DS involving ponies.

Yet again, the mainstream media make the assumption that all games are for kids and are therefore completely shocked to see that some games involve blood, gore and subversive naughtiness.

Actually, I don't think they're shocked at all. They just think that their readers will be, and that's what sells papers and generates click revenue.

So let me see if I understand this: if someone, somewhere manages to compromise a particular model of HDTV, and that model's KSV is added to a revocation list used by broadcasters and stored on future HD media, anyone else innocently owning the same model TV would be affected?

So successfully compromising an HDCP device would be a very costly DOS attack?

I mean, what if some high-profile manufacturer's products (like Sony) were compromised in this way?
Does that mean the owners of an entire class of Sony products would find their devices unable to display certain content until they could apply some firmware update or buy a new device?

Well my interpretation of the patent was that:they cite SGML and RTF as examples of embedding style and structure directly into the content stream, and their patent is for "an improved method" which emphatically does not put that metadata into the content but keeps the two separate.
So it's explicitly not like XML (which is an application of SGML).

And their method is not simply about a separate style sheet which defines mark-up in the content - it seems to be a description of which parts of the text have which formatting, so that the content could be plain text without any embedded mark-up.

So they haven't patented CSS either.

I fail to see what this patent has to do with Word or XML, and the complaint doesn't exactly point out the similarities.

Nice way to get free exposure via churnalism.

Er ner it int. Ull's real nahce. Yer just jealous cos we get cheap fern curls. Shurrup merning.

They wouldn't be the first.

Aston Martin's halo might be about to slip, although the Cygnet will only be available to existing A-M owners.

For $2.1 million, I'd expect to have Mark Russinovich programming the satnav for me.

And Jessica Alba sat in the passenger seat announcing driving directions.

Wait. Does Jessica know her left from her right?

Land Rover are a bit like Apple: expensive, desirable products (if you like that sort of thing) but laughably poor build quality.

If the phone's like their cars, it will make strange knocking noises when you move around quickly, and eventually develop an oil leak.

For the third time:

Read my post again!

You'll see that I wrote:

and

and

So you see, I know about the 20% difference, and I even displayed both figures, so dumb folk don't have to calculate it.

When I write: 45-50mpg, that's in your smaller US 3.785 liter gallons. Okay? (Look, I even spelt litre your way)

I will concede that the official combined MPG figure for an Octavia 2.0 TDI is only 51.4mpg (UK), and that's only just above 42mpg (US).

But that only proves my point: the proposed mileage is achievable now, from normal, big-enough, fast-enough cars available now, and it's been possible for many years already.

The only problem is that the US hasn't caught up with Europe.

I know. The ratio is about 5:6.

If you read my post again, carefully, you will notice that I've included both figures (US and UK).

The numbers in bold are the US figures.

That Loremo looks ingenious; the rear-facing rear seats are an interesting idea, but I know what'll happen with kids in the back:
* one will be upset that she can't see Mum & Dad
* the other will be car-sick.

The Tesla Model S looks promising, too, but would need to be about half the price before I could get really interested.