The apparent lack of security is a red herring - the attack took place in a publicly-accessible area, BEFORE any security checks to get in to the arena. Indeed, most of the security is aimed at finding drinks and snacks (protecting the venues revenue), cameras (protecting the artists IP), and knives/handguns, in that order, and they use profiling techniques for all these. The thing is, even the most high-tech security checks are prone to failure - just look at the number of times investigators in the US have smuggled illicit objects through TSA scanners and onto aircraft.

Pfft. How should Loughborough be pronounced? Chances are, you're wrong. Try Lufbra...

The Boeing 747 was still on the drawing board when the Hawker Siddelly HS121 Trident was routinely doing Autoland inns on BEA's European network. When the Trident was replaced with the Boeing 757 in the 80's, Boeing couldn't understand British Airways insistence on Autoland capability, as there were only 3 runways in the US capable of it - compare this with the 12 runways on BEA's domestic network, and the 30+ on their European routes.

I've even seen people refer to it as a Nexus 4!

I would be more impressed if they were juggling 3.14 balls...

Okay, that's weird - /. just screwed up my formatting...

So how come someone from the UK isn't allowed to access that page? FTA: We're sorry but this site is not accessible from the UK as it is part of our international service and is not funded by the licence fee. It is run commercially by BBC Worldwide, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the BBC, the profits made from it go back to BBC programme-makers to help fund great new BBC programmes. I can sort-of understand non-UK readers being prevented from seeing things paid for by the License Fee, but UK residents being prevented from reading something NOT paid for in that way? **facepalm**

Like all American "Traditions", Trick or Treat is a bastardised version of something else, an amalgam of traditions from various place lumped in to one homogenised whole. Most of those traditions come from Gaelic parts of the UK - thats would be most (but not all) of Scotland, Ireland, and Wales - those from the non-Gealic areas wouldn't know about the origins of the practice, and would therefore regard the whole thing, along with its implied threat of violence should the householders not wish to take part, as yet one more American import.

I worked with a band here in the UK a few years ago who shared a name with the biggest album from a group who were big in the 80's (thats not where they got the name from, it was just a massive coincidence.) They were making next to nothing, but trying to raise their profile, and the cheapest way of doing this was by distributing music over t'interwebnets - and as hosting on this side of the pond was expensive, they took the cheapest route and went for an American host. Can anyone see where this is leading? Suffice to say, they bit the bullet, canned their American host, and got one here in the UK.

Copyrighting functions would be like copyrighting individual words or small phrases - you can copyright a whole book, but not the phrase "What time is it?" within the context of that book, for instance.

Manufacturers never include coupons like this out of the goodness of their hearts (not that many of them have hearts!) - its entirely likely that these coupons have been paid for by OnLive as a promotional thing (They pay the game maker, who make money without doing anything, people redeem the vouchers, and a percentage carry on paying for the service - everyone profits.) In this case - wouldn't GameStop be defrauding OnLive of potential revenue they have paid for?

It works for me!! ;)

Would this just be on video, or would just about every pop act out there be locked up and have the key thrown away for "singing" (ie, miming, or lip syncing) to a backing track at a "live" show?

...years ago, when starting pre-production on the Star Wars prequels? I swear there was a story floating around that he was trying to buy up the rights to most of Alec Guiness's old films, especially the ealing comedies, in order to have him "play" the young Obi-Wan.

Your second sentence is somewhat disingenuous - you may as well blame all the national rivalries in Europe on the Romans invading everyone else and stealing their lands. Ireland (as a whole) has been under British rule for hundreds of years, dating right back to the Norman invasion in the Twelfth Century - remember, these are the same Normans who invaded England. Incidentally, the Normans were invited over to help one of the ousted Irish kings regain his kingdom, and he gradually handed more and more power over to the Normans. If anything, the British GAVE AWAY land, allowing the creation of the Irish Free State which occupied 5/6ths of the landmass - the Protestant dominated North-East of the country remained part of the UK. All the terrorism was aimed at bringing that last small piece into an independent Ireland, and was mostly bankrolled by the Irish government and various American political groups who claimed an Irish background - even if that background was Protestant rather than Catholic. More people were killed by Irish terrorists than died in the Twin Towers, yet not once did the British government try bringing in any measures approaching anywhere near this level of paranoia and stupidity.