I know about Quest.
But as you say, that was fourteen years ago.
And it was (IMO) partly his fault.
Apple's accounting has been under the microscope for a couple of years, going as far as citing the CEO in front of a Senate hearing. Given the state of Uncle Sam's finances, I guess they would have found something by now.

I guess even if there was a way, the vendor would probably just get a NSL to put the backdoor in himself

I'm still waiting for the first CEO to go to jail for refusing this.
Either it's easy to say "No", or nobody bothers, because "war against terror etc.".

AFAIK 11% of the bail-out money went to Greece, 89% went to creditor-banks.

Mostly German banks, that is.
And I say that as a German myself (though I don't live there anymore and as such don't really pay into the "system" much anymore - I'm in a financially much more responsible country now).

The "bailout" was a nice way to help shift that debt from private corporations to the public (=tax-payer) - and look good doing so.
If Greece doesn't want any more "rescue-plans" like this, they actually don't lose much money. But their creditors will stop receiving money from IMF&Co. This amounts to a de-facto "default" and will stop the influx of capital almost completely.
I do believe it's impossible for Greece to pay back the amount of debt they have. Not in a hundred years.
It takes two to tango - when Greece joined the European Monetary Union, apparently "everybody" knew their numbers where cooked from the beginning.
Politicians can't pay back the money but at least an effort should be made to make them accountable in front of history!

I've had quite a lot of issues with Mavericks, though.
Yosemite solved them almost completely.
Almost, because sometimes my 2012 MacMini will randomly disconnect from the WiFi access point (an almost 10 year old Linksys 54MBit AP-only).
Then, I have to disabled WiFi completely, wait a few moments, re-enable it and reconnect to my AP again.
It's very random, which leads me to the conclusion that it could also be an issue with the AP and/or all the wireless networks around me, probably using much later and much "better" technology and basically killing my WiFi.
I don't really blame Apple. There are so many devices out there, so many buggy firmware- and driver-versions, so many buggy OSs and the spectrum is so overloaded these days as everybody and his dog has at least one WiFi AP (sometimes several, via a mesh-setup or a simple repeater (adding to the problem inadvertently...). I sometimes wonder why works at all.

I don't personally have kids, but I've heard that kids are required to walk to school (distance permitting), so that they get used to the traffic.

Someone needs to make a wiki-page about all those times Sony has been hacked.
They're already too many to keep track of in your head

Next question?

Look into the past to see your future.

Isn't there a law that makes threatening the POTUS a crime/felony?
One could argue that slandering the King of Thailand is like threatening the POTUS. Boom, you're on a plane to Bangkok for an unforgettable holiday...

http://uk.reuters.com/article/...

We've seen the US go to war from much less "evidence". Can you say "WMD in Iraq"?

News at 11!

Do they really have to drag Steve (Jobs) from his grave (even if only by video)?
Maybe he does a nice introduction a la "If you see this video, I'm dead. Thanks for stealing an hour of my dwindling life for it. Not".

Out comes the ouija-board....

Most e-cars have a leased battery.
Often times, that battery can be remotely deactivated.
So, if you're late on payments or there is some other disagreement: poof, car goes nowhere.

Welcome to the end of ownership.