"...authorities deem harmful to public order and morality" Well, this must be bad information if it's corrupting the population's sense of morality... or should that be morale? :-)

True - I think this follows from the prime factors of 10 (5x2) and 12 (3x2x2). We can judge halves very well, and thirds pretty well, but fifths are much more difficult to judge, and the difficulty increases with larger primes.

The biggest lol is that it's true.. (see date of original article)

There are NOT photon orbits at the event horizon! Starting with the Schwarzschild metric it is reasonably straightforward to show the smallest constant radius orbit possible for photons (or any other massless particle travelling at the speed of light) is 1.5 times the radius of the event horizon.

Having used BT broadband for a number of years, I was having increasing problems. Their ridiculous profiling system led to a maximum real world connection speed of about 2 Mb/s, despite being on the 8Mb/s service and living a few hundred metres from the exchange. BT tried to fix it - sending out several engineers, performing I don't know how many line tests, port shifts etc. None of which made the slightest difference. Don't even get me started on throttling problems... Switched to Be a few months ago, and it's been running at 20Mb/s flawlessly ever since. It's a shame that a service such as OnLive, which needs high-speed, low-latency connections decides to partner with an ISP hindered by a less than stellar track record, when there are clearly better options.

This has been taken far enough. I mean, seriously, a ballot screen? Once you apply this system to web browsers, it sets a precedent that could be applied uniformly, i.e. choose every single piece of software individually. Thing is, there's already something that fits this description: it's called Gentoo.

Yes - although I'm sure that CERN being run throughout this winter is pretty old news. I definitely came across this several months ago.

*runs for nearest Faraday cage*

Having been on the receiving end of something very similar a few years ago at school, my primary concern is that the project will achieve very little for those students already with access to computers at home. We paid for the systems, however when the scheme was presented it was made to seem virtually essential to have a laptop at school. The reality was that the majority were left at home, as there really was no need for them in lessons. From experience I believe that throwing IT at education in this manner is not helpful. The system was locked down by means of a dual-booting Windows XP setup. One installation we could use as we wished, the other was heavily locked down. By 'locked down' - we did not have any local account access, just a network account which synchronised with the school servers when it could access the wireless network. This wireless network was WPA protected, with the key entered onto the 'school' side (the objective here to prevent the internet being used at school for games etc., which you could only install on the 'home' side). Of course, the effectiveness of those measures was questionable.