Are you kidding me? Have you seen the amount of attempts by countries trying to take down sites far outside their jurisdiction? Just look at the example of the pirate bay - endless american entities attempting to take down a swedish site. So what do they do? Alter political will in that country to bend it to their will - something that was actually shown to have happened in the leaked cables.

I think he was referring to the genocidal losses that would be wrought by nuclear weapons. The lack of a functioning civilization does mean the lack of economical problems.

Jury riggers could be an alternative

Agreed - no one seriously needs a camera or a microphone, and at $200 it is affordable. A good move by amazon.

If I remember correctly it isnt just for certain deals in spotify's case - it is to register

I think if they can afford a space trip, and they are affordable, it is an acceptable price to pay for light pollution - especially since with it comes exploration of space and even extraterrestrial colonies

To say the least

He pointed out people shouldn't be worshiping the iPhone because other smart phones have the exact same feature - hardly being a "fanboy"

You seem to be troubled here: The light from some number of hours after the star going supernova has finally reached us after 21 million years

I'm fairly sure this counts as prior art

It's the official response

It is - at the end of episode 2 (right before Eli Vince was killed), Gordon was brought in on the project of checking out the Borealis - which is described as the main research facility for aperture labs (or at least it presumably is seeing as after it was lost, they could no longer compete for the government grant that black mesa went on to win). Not to mention the multiple references in portal to black mesa.
Unless you are insinuating that they link in the portal gun device - that would certainly be interesting.

This isnt necessarily true - unless you have entirely separate networks for departments that dont need access to another department's resources, there will still be access elevation bugs that can be exploited. Phishing the login of someone as basic as the cleaner (dont ask me why they would have computer access) could quickly elevate to root access - opening up other computers on the network to attack