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So how is anyone, courts included, meant to unpublish something?

It's happened already.

Today I had a chance to read about zero day vulnerability in vehicles but passed on the article cause I've read it already. or similiar (BlueTooth). A link from a site that has handles current headline news. It's been removed from that site and the sites history.

Google has this but it links to a 404,

Full Hacker News - Svay
svay.com/projects/FullHackerNews/?l=linux-kernel&m...q=raw?
18 hours ago - You can't manage this competition while sipping margaritas all day from your ..... of a single address,
followed by zero or more delimiter and single address pairs. ...... The cars are protected by a system called
Megamos Crypto, an algorithm ... Megamos Crypto: Wirelessly Lockpicking a Vehicle Immobiliser – without the ...

If you follow the phrase "Megamos Crypto: Wirelessly Lockpicking a Vehicle Immobiliser" you get:

London, July 27 : A British computer scientist, who cracked security system of cars including Porsches, Audis, Bentleys and Lamborghinis, has been banned from publishing an academic paper revealing the secret codes as it could lead to the theft of millions of vehicles. - See more at: http://www.newkerala.com/news/story/47249/scientist-banned-from-publishing-research-containing-luxury-car-security-codes.html#sthash.fJvoQSgv.dpuf

That link I didn't post, it comes with the copy and paste kinda neat, kinda freaky. A self writing copy and paste so I don't get it wrong.

Everything going on in that region can be traced back to the pipelines. There is billions of dollars to be made. Natural gas is really cheap right now, there is lots of it, so the strategy is to destroy everybody else's pipeline so you can charge monopoly prices for transmission in yours. The US military is used for these energy companies. They are still in Afghanistan because it's an important transmission route for gas and oil. There is bombing and fighting is Homs Syria because that's where the construction of the Arab pipeline is stalled. The US is now supporting the TIPA pipeline, which will go through Afghanistan. The competition would be the TI pipeline, which is the real reason for all the saber rattled over Iran.

Here's a clue: Why is Gohmert trying to carve out an independent province in Pakistan? Because that's where the TAPI pipeline would be built through. The Pakistanis are rightfully pissed about it.

In China this would be pointless because why would the government care what their people thought?

The Chinese government cares a lot about what their people think, that's why they have a lot of censorship. The Chinese government is well aware of history and of what happened to previous Chinese governments. Piss off too many (e.g. the peasants) and you die.

FWIW, a lot of the Chinese people support their own government (just look at the patriots out in full force during the Olympics).

Why?
1) The censorship and brainwashing. Control what people see and that affects what they think, and that's how you keep them supporting you.
2) Because there have actually been significant positive changes. Railways and highways have been built, many of the poor have benefited from those. Sure there's lots of bad stuff happening, but they can just look at a lot of other countries and go "We're doing better" or "we're doing pretty good given the hand we've been dealt".
3) They can see that at least some parts of the Government are trying to improve things for China, and not just a corrupt few. They're in the process of building very many nuclear reactors so that they don't have to burn so much coal and have so much pollution.

As for accountability: a number of high ranking officials actually get executed for corruption or screwing up big time[1]. Sure maybe at the very top there are untouchables, but is it really so different in the US or other countries? And how high up is this US guy anyway: http://www.vaildaily.com/article/20101104/NEWS/101109939/1078&ParentProfile=1062
They're possibly even slightly afraid of the people, they abolished the agricultural tax: http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2005-03/06/content_422126.htm
http://www.taxfoundation.org/blog/show/1274.html

It's not that rosy, there are lots of problems and it could fall apart: http://www.china.org.cn/china/2010-01/21/content_19282590.htm
That "houses are way too expensive" problem does exist in many other countries too though.

You can see that many of the Chinese leaders are trying though. Wish my Government (in Malaysia) was even trying to improve the country- so far they've been doing a lot of stupid/bad things. The guy at the top says lots of nice stuff, but so far it's just been talk, whereas his underlings say and do pretty bad stuff.

[1] http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/09/AR2007070900689_pf.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/10535226
http://www.newkerala.com/news/world/fullnews-87512.html

Yes, that robot is currently on the ISS. http://www.newkerala.com/news/fullnews-89851.html
I didn't see any articles that talk about after it was brought up though.

I've said it once, so I'll repeat again: solar is a joke ... The LAWS of PHYSICS do NOT enable us to harvest enough power from the sun, where that power is actually needed, to meet the world's existing let-alone growing energy needs. Solar has its purpose in specific and local/regional use-cases, but not as a general energy source.

Remember, those solar collection estimates are based on current photovoltaic technologies and their current efficiency. There are already some experimental solar technologies that are at least 2x as efficient as existing cells, and one company is on the verge of producing solar shingles that can be used on any roof where regular shingles are used.

Still, you're right that the laws of physics impose an upper limit on what we can collect - you can't get more out than you take in ( > 100% efficiency). But if NYC were able to collect just 10% of the solar energy falling on its land area, that comes to about 750,000,000 sq. m x 500W/day = 375,000 MW. The city uses about 12 MW in electricity every day, so there's plenty of energy available even if gas and oil were to be replaced with electrics.

There are really only 3 true sources of energy that we can use - solar, geothermal, and nuclear. All the other alternatives are converted solar energy. Relying on solar evaporation to power wind + hydro, or putting it through photosynthesis and harvesting the biomass is inevitably going to be less efficient than just converting it directly to electricity.

Think of solar, geothermal and nuclear as our "income" and fossil fuels as the "trust fund" we've been burning through. Sooner or later the surplus will disappear and we will have to live within our means. If 5kW/day is all we get, then that's all we can spend.

Actually this incident was preceded by the gruesome murder of a reverand Hindu leader on the hands of Christian activists

http://www.newkerala.com/topstory-fullnews-15973.html

In Indian Punjab? Surely not. The last act of terrorism was in 1995.

Are you confusing Punjab with Pakistani Punjab? There are two Punjabs. One in India and another in Pakistan. The terrorism movement in Indian Punjab died out in early 1990s with the last incident occurring in 1995. There is no state of unrest, violence or bombings in Punjab since then.

Can you quote any one such instance?

Here is a recent report for your perusal. http://www.newkerala.com/news3.php?action=fullnews &id=19636 Tata discusses investment in Punjab.

Also go here: http://punjabnewz.com/ Notice the main news. The terrorism it talks about occurred in Mumbai, not Indian Punjab.

no company is currently shooting for lifting cargo into space

Also look for six paragraphs about how Al Gore invented it, a short discussion about how it was designed to survive nuclear war (but can't today), comments from Vint Cerf about his idea to design a new IP for interplanetary communications, and if we're really lucky, a brief mention of BBSs.

A nuclear power station in Kalpakkam, India, was shutdown because of the flooding.

There are news bites coming out about Firefox everywhere you could possibly imagine.

Thanks, but we've already heard about Google News.

Considering conditions in India are far better than in the USA (crime, violence, poverty, terrorism).

Fundamental concerns in India include the ongoing dispute with Pakistan over Kashmir, massive overpopulation, environmental degradation, extensive poverty, and ethnic and religious strife... Population below poverty line: 25%