Lol, you youngsters & your assembler, we used machine code in my day.

There's an easy way to fund the mission - advertising, I bet McDonalds would pay anything to install a huge yellow 'M' that could be seen my the entire population of earth every night.

I imagine trying to build a clock whilst on horseback would be challenging. Not surprised you dropped the jousting element.

Depends on who legally owned the five apples in the first place. If I take away two of my own five apples I don't automatically relinquish ownership of the three I left behind. If on the other hand I didn't own the apples in the first place, and I took two without permission then technically thats theft. An act of theft doesn't legally transfer ownership, I'm simply in possession of stolen property until the police catch up with me. (If you hadn't guessed I'm having a slow day at work)

What an utterly meaningless statistic. No surprise it came from the US CIA. Fits in nicely with the stereotype image of Americans having no notion of anything outside their own borders. So just to clarify, the 'world' (that bit on the globe to either side of the USA) consists of seperate places called 'countries' They each have different climates, cultures and birth/death rates. To simply lump the rates for different countries together into one statistic is totally stupid.

Not just cheap new pcs, but those old Windows95 & NT boxes we all seem to have cluttering up the attic nowadays. Just slap Linux on them and you have an instant, modern, up to date web browser/word processing box. Example, at work I took an old 2.8gig single-core desktop pc and set it up as a Samba server to do my development work on, its almost as fast as the live Win2008 quad-core server.

Perhaps the declaration of independence wasn't such a good move in the long run?

The official secrets act covers all UK subjects whether they signed the act or not. The relevant section basically says that if anyone comes into possession of information that could be covered by the act (and it's a safe bet that the stuff on this camera did) then they commit an offence if they disclose it to anyone. I guess the police didn't actually 'ban' the guy from doing anything, they would have just told him in no uncertain terms what the consequences would be if he did talk about it. If they make losing critical secret data an Olympic sport, the UK's guaranteed gold silver & bronze at the next games....

According to a report in Computerworld, companies that use pirate copies of Windows suffer a hell of a lot more system failures and data losses than those with licences copies. Is this an admission by Microsoft that their products are so badly coded & unreliable that you absolutely have to have all the latest patches & SPs and technical support just to survive? http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=printArticleBasic&taxonomyName=Windows&articleId=9115901&taxonomyId=125