You misspelled FCC.

"Retarded" though it may be, Virgin Atlantic has them, as do many (most?) international flights.

More like squat in an abandoned house for 12 years.

If you didn't already know what Qt was, then you're probably not going to be particularly interested that version 5.0 is out.

They have to be public officials first, and threatening to sue is not really extortion.

I use Linux daily and personally love it, and I wasn't the one suggesting for the uncle to get a Mac; but nice try.

Is your wife a baby-boomer who can't understand how forged email works?

Yep, that way instead of having to explain email to his uncle, he gets to explain Unix, and Open Office, etc.

That doesn't explain how the spambots knew to send an email purpotedly from him to his uncle.

It's possible one or both of their Facebook privacy settings are overly lax, allowing anyone to see their email addresses and friendship.

A moratorium on Internet-Americans? When will this country learn that diversity and immigration are its cornerstones? Millions of Internet-Americans are already here, they're not going anywhere, and growing their ranks is our only path to economic salvation!

Oops, typing got ahead of brain. Right you are on that point.

Or, you know, encrypt it.

Yeah because I'm sure the companies would never negotiate separate data confidentiality policies when setting up services segmented specifically for a government.

Amazon doesn't have a dedicated cloud service for the government in the UK which has rejected Amazon's application to provide cloud services for the government.

Will wonders never cease?!

And um, regarding comments on off-shoring data/services, Amazon certainly does have cloud services that run on hosts in the UK... Dublin mostly. (There may be open questions about the parent company being US-based, but those wouldn't have to do with the geographic location of the services and data, which surely would be hosted from the Dublin data centers.)

Except that it's not used a national currency anywhere.