Once those pesky real journalists that insist on facts and sources start digging into this, I'd expect the cataclysmic claims will be slowly walked back to something much less sinister, like almost all other claims of thwarted plots.

I don't see the Common Core standards as the problem, this is just a poorly written test made by people who were not the authors of Common Core. Unless I misunderstand, Common Core simply defines what skills a student should be proficient at by the end of school years. It doesn't define these test questions, Pearson Education did.

So soon they'll be swimming in their own crap?

Way to go on that transparency and leaker protection thing you so loved.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9GSBT_-JoQ

Good thing the NSA has it all backed up!

I didn't say it would make 32-bit programs useless. Rather, I said it will make the 32-bit iOS devices useless when the OS leans heavily on new hardware capabilities that degrades user experience on old hardware, just like Apple has consistently done on iOS releases for a couple years now.

I doesn't hurt Apple that this will effectively make all 32-bit iOS devices worthless in a year or so.

Imagine the embarrassment if you were transgender.

This is an important distinction. Companies are not "evil" by nature, but they are REQUIRED to be amoral by the rules that govern them (beholding only to the shareholder).

A few people associated with Wikileaks did what the U.S. could not STOP with the trillions of dollars they've put into their attempts to influence policy in the region.

I live in DC and the Eastern Corridore Amtrak lines are really awesome. By car it takes 5-8 hours to get to NYC depending on traffic. Amtrak takes 3.5 hours. This is the busiest route on Amtrak as far as I know, and it would be great if it had a dedicated high speed track.