These two series of documentaries are necessary if you wish to understand the politics of government and public service:
Yes, Minister and Yes, Primer Minister.

It's Sunday night, so let's be picky:
1) 10 or 100 gigabits is not a measure of speed.
2) the "current" internet could very well exhibit the same capabilities if it didn't have to carry all the porn streaming left and right for millions of clients. A conventional network connection rated at xxx could run at that rate if you didn't have any sort of congestion, something this new network will likely not suffer because it doesn't have porn (yet). Any dedicated link will give you that. Heck, any 100Gb/s optical channel will give you 100Gb/s to play with.
3) "designed with hardware security features to protect it from the attacks" from the "internet" - by not having a direct connection to the internet in the first place? Fancy words, but it'll do.
4) $5 million to weave a cluster of fibers? Sounds too cheap.

Finally, the article says that "the new network will also serve as a model for future computer networks", but doesn't say anything about protocols, routing, etc. Nothing.

Well, pretending to be a sparrow flying at *Mach 2* doesn't seem to be a win :)
code excerpt:
if (target.is(sparrow) && target.speed()>45 Km/h) {
shoot_it_down(target);
}

Sandbox. Land.On.Planets. Enough said.

(...)Unless you consider turning away from nuclear energy as a panicky reaction(...)

(reposting because I'm an idiot and wasn't logged-in)
Funny you should say that, because the first thing I thought when I read that http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angela_Merkel suddenly decided to shutdown 7 power plants http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/03/15/us-germany-nuclear-merkel-idUSTRE72D51520110315 after the incidents in Japan was "wtf!?".

I could only come up with 3 scenarios:
1) she did know that the power plants had urgent issues, but delayed any action until now
2) she didn't know of any urgent issues, and just found out
3) she knows that there are no issues, but the Green's votes http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_party are just too appetizing.

This is "going apeshit" by any fair and reasonable measure, and this reaction seems to be is both unwarranted and unhelpful to Japan and any country where nuclear power is the sustainable solution.
Also, the general behaviour of the media hasn't been something to call home about, sensationalistic, biased, and altogether agenda-driven (which seems to be a common-place nowadays.)
---- Gravity sucks

The code could be a function of the sender's address, the receiver's address, and the date of issue, and...
That could keep the codes short, unique enough, and easy to validate.

Do they mean they have "invented" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wavelength-division_multiplexing? I'm puzzled.

"in which case the tax-payers should compensate the airlines"

There, fixed that. People seem to forget this too often.

The question here seems to be "have you tried Opera yet?"...

Quite right!
And:
"If you want to drive a car you have to have a license to say that you are capable of driving a car"

Really, when did this happen? Any 15min driving in any major traffic area contradicts this immediately.

They couldn't have missed it.
Maybe this is Apple's new stance when facing trademarks and patents (see the latest love affair with Nokia...): ignore them :)

I'd rather see the title "FTC's concern that consumers don't understand the implications of buying DRM-infected data and hardware."

If they don't actually sell a product then they're not infringing anything, and they can invest everything on litigation. Great business model, really.

Europeans also would like a "Red Button" for shutting down Parliament. Wishful thinking.

Shouldn't shutting the damn thing off and "go to your room" be enough? Or just throwing the dvd out of the windows? Jeez...