WordPress recently started a service specifically for municipalities: http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2012/11/14/wordpress-for-cities/ Even with their paid upgrades, you would probably be saving money on development and you are paying for hosting or (bandwidth/power) anyway.

I would say that it is actually the owner of the site who publishes the ads who has a "right" to make a buck. If they choose to pay their hosting costs by having you view ads instead of charging you, then you have no "right" to see their page without seeing the advertising.

And use a Bloom Filter to easily eliminate many files without doing a major comparison of all 100 checksums.

I don't even try to write it down, too easy to miss something.
I install Belarc Advisor, which is a free (as in beer - for personal use at least) program that catalogs your installed software and finds product keys for many programs automatically.
Print the report that it generates, highlight any really important items, (make sure you have the installers before you format) and just format and reinstall.
Usually makes the job relatively painless.

Because the issue is in which part of the wireless spectrum they are using. As far as I can tell, this ruling only applies to the new C Block spectrum, not the parts of the spectrum they used to have.

I could not agree more. Our Boy Scout troop has to fight to get the kids interested in something besides their electronic devices, while the parents keep asking why we can't make their children show more leadership in the home, with their friends and at school. This is the purpose of the Boy Scouts of America.

Indeed. You will usually (for example) find my replies to messages on mailing lists either inline or at the bottom (unless I am replying from iOS, which can make it difficult to post anywhere but the top).

Why would top posting be a problem?

Except when slot machines are hacked, the developers usually keep it a secret so the casinos will not be investigated. (Mitnick, K (2005). The Art of Intrusion.)

Oh wait, the voting machine companies probably try to do that too.

I think the concern stopping them from using the server now is the fear that the FBI modified "something" to log or report on traffic going through the server.
Absent the implementation questions of whether there will be anything useful in the logs, when someone takes you equipment and returns it later without comment, it is not unreasonable to assume that something happened to it.

(Note: I have participated in DoJ forensic training. The FBI procedures should be similar.)
As to the validity of the concern: Investigators are not usually allowed to mount storage media in read/write mode. If they do so, any evidence obtained from that media will no longer be admissible in court. While many labs do have non-forensic connectors for storage media, they are usually not used for fear of accidentally tampering with the evidence.
Investigators will make copies of media and manipulate the copies, but the originals will never be changed.
This does not say that there is no way from them to put some kind of logging software/firmware/hardware on the server, but it is pretty unlikely.

That is relatively new. It used to be that if you had made a purchase (read: installed a free app) from the app store, you could purchase in-app content with out entering a password for some number of minutes (I think it was 15 minutes)

I asked one of the developers: http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2649559&cid=38948521

Works for me. How else can you eat lunch? (Peeling an orange while driving is fun.)

How exactly is it supposed to get better for consumers if the government forces companies to give everything they have to a competitor in order to get permission to buy another company?
Companies will stop spending on R&D because they will need to give all their research away for free if they want to buy another company.

Actually, the iPad can not be charged off a standard USB port while it is powered on. It draws 1.5 amps (more than the .5 amps of USB 2.0).
There are USB ports that will charge the iPad (if they support the Battery Charging v1.1 spec), but having those on a device is rare.

The iPad can charge slowly when it is asleep from a standard USB 2.0 port if there is nothing else drawing power.