Media let it die? Romney made an argument out of it and it was in the news cycle constantly.
I don't know what he hoped to prove by it, really. Romney never said that he would have done anything differently.
c.f. the wifi sniffing debacle. I'm pretty sure that what transpired was the developers of the product downloaded a public source program, like AirSnort. And then used it, probably with the intention of just collecting unencrypted SSIDs, but accidentally left on the more intrusive features as well.
They should have noticed that it was collecting data at a rate greater than SSIDs would indicate, but I can see overlooking that as well.
Teach them the language. Expose 1 gram of the substance, and make one dot. Then label the really hazardous stuff with 100 dots.
If they can't draw a conclusion from that, maybe they deserve to be irradiated.
I frankly think this centralization of control and partisanship ends in bloodshed, when a disenfranchised minority figures that they've had enough of the Other Guy telling them what to do, and can no longer effect their will at the ballot box or are actually suppressed as a radical element that just happens to be on the wrong side of the central control. Maybe we should prepare for it. But it's probably at least 20 years off, if ever, and running around preparing for it now seems whacko.
Do you suffer painful elimination? -- Don Knuth, "Structured Programming with Gotos"