You still have to trust DigiCert, the CA that signed the facebook.com certificate. That's on top of trusting Facebook, as you pointed out.

The cable company charges the subscriber to rent a CableCARD module even if the subscriber is not renting a set-top box.

So how should someone who gets off work at 5:00 catch a bus there and have time to do any substantial self-education or search for a better job? Using the Internet only on Tuesday evenings and Thursday evenings isn't very helpful because potential employers who send a message on Friday morning usually expect a reply before Tuesday night.

The county library branch near me is closed on Saturdays from late May through the end of August. (Source: acpl.info)

But does the U.S. government provide a means-tested subsidy for relocation using Greyhound buses, as a means of promoting interstate commerce when the supply and demand for labor happen to be in different states? That would be closer to "Obamacars".

Checks have a "PAY TO THE ORDER OF" field naming the addressee. The bank matches the name against the ID presented by the person presenting the check or against the name of the owner of the account associated with the deposit slip or ATM card.

That's fine when you're at home. But checks work even where there is no Wi-Fi, and even if you aren't carrying a tablet or laptop.

U.S. banks take check deposits the same way.

Agreed 100 percent. Checks happen to be the most convenient payment method in certain circumstances in the United States. It's just that there's a perception among certain experienced Internet users that the U.S. culture is inherently "backward" in this respect.

I guess my experience is colored by the Catholic, evangelical, and JW groups I grew up in at various parts of my life. Substitute any other charity that takes donations in person.

Thanks for the link.

I seem to remember reading speculation that Hulu would have to charge $20 or more per month for ad-free service in order to pay for its infrastructure and royalties.

I wish I had understood myself better and that the cool stuff I wanted to do and explore was more in academia and/or starting my own company than being an employee. If I could turn back the clock in my era I would have got a CS PhD so I had the choice of academia and research labs. And I would want my young self to really really get that working on things you really give a damn about in the way you think best is way way more important than a steady paycheck.

The same people that say it is OK that the NSA weakens security paradigms and that take seriously government demands for backdoors in all crypto systems and that OKs spying on everyone is not about to do a complete 180 and actually do anything to build up security. The corporations can do little for better security while the government is busy weakening and limiting all security tools. So simply making more demands on companies is useless.

Attaching a gift of money to a birthday card, for one. And major banks in the United States have deployed ATMs that use handwriting recognition to allow depositing a check by inserting it into the ATM.

The bank doesn't charge anything to process a check. Here in the United States, "wire transfer" refers to services like Western Union, which charges a hefty percentage to process a wire transfer. Even if a bank offers a wire transfer for no fee, you still have to know your recipient's bank account number, and you still have to either "go to the bank IN PERSON" or subscribe to cellular Internet service to set one up.

To obtain this, you "have to go to the bank IN PERSON".

Yes. Some have a donation box near each of the auditorium's exits; this is the common practice for Jehovah's Witnesses. Others pass around a bag or tray into which members of the congregation drop cash or checks.

A check is a paper bank-to-bank transfer instrument. You write an order for a bank-to-bank transfer on a piece of paper, you give the order to someone, and she takes that order to her bank and executes the transfer.

You are correct that I misremembered the behavior of LibreOffice Calc. But both Gnumeric and Excel failed to treat an exported CSV as having been "saved". Gnumeric's alert after I exported CSV and closed a worksheet was as follows:

Save changes to workbook 'test.csv' before closing?

If you close without saving, changes will be discarded.

Excel's was as follows when I exported:

test.csv may contain features that are not compatible with CSV (Comma delimited). Do you want to keep the workbook in this format?

*To keep this format, which leaves out any incompatible features, click Yes.
*To preserve the features, click No. Then save a copy in the latest Excel format.
*To see what might be lost, click Help.

Followed by this when I closed:

Do you want to save the changes you made to 'test.csv'?

LibreOffice Calc's was as follows when I exported:

This document may contain formatting or content that cannot be saved in the currently selected file format "Text CSV".

Use the default ODF file format to be sure that the document is saved correctly.
[X] Ask when not saving in ODF format

I assume these programs are referring to changes to column widths, formulas, and other things not typically represented in CSV.

Any of the morons who reported "What happened to my layers?" through support channels.

The same morons who pass around PSD files made in Photoshop. At least XCF has a reference implementation distributed under a free software license. Has Adobe released a spec or free library for manipulating PSD files? Which interoperable multilayer raster format were you recommending?

If the names of the "Export" items on the File menu were changed to "Flatten and Save", would that satisfy you?

Then you must have edited your keyboard shortcuts. My copy of GIMP 2.8.10 has keyboard shortcuts for export:

Export (Ctrl+E)
Export As... (Ctrl+Shift+E)
Create Template...

Provided they're already running a Windows Server. Let me rephrase: How many Windows PCs would a small business normally be expected to have in operation before purchasing a Windows Server at all?