Any idea which versions of Wordpress is being targeted and/or which vulnerability? The quoted articles look more like commercials for Websense.

You should be concerned. What happens in the US serves as a precedent for other countries. If it's OK to sweep up domains at some corporate entity's whim without due process, you can bet your bottom Pound/Euro/Rupee/Yen that a similar law will pass in your country in the not-too-distant future.

You make it sound like the Ubuntu people aren't putting a lot of hard work into it. A lot of the work Ubuntu does on the desktop finds its way back into Debian. As a die-hard Debian user of more than a decade, I can assure you the default installations of Gnome and KDE on Debian improved like never before since Ubuntu/Kubuntu came on the scene.

I'm not convinced that sales are falling. But if they were, in fact, falling, I'd bet it's more to do with the forgettable nature and the quality of the content that shows like the X-Factor produce. Not enough good music on the shelves...

The thought of Gordon Brown and the thought of "fun" in the space of one sentence (or one day, even) leaves me feeling violated.

Uhm, it was 900GB up - 30GB per day. Download is unlimited. You would need at least around 3mbit/s up-link to be able to achieve 30GB per day.