It's worth noting at this point, that the paranoid among us (fortunately but not coincidentally including people writing cryptography systems), have assumed that the NSA (and others) could theoretically be doing at lot of the things that we now know they have done.
Turns out the paranoiacs were right.

This is definitely taking a lot longer to boot than my Amiga ever did.

Charlie knows full well that there's a referendum soon, he lives in Edinburgh.

And this is why I'm going to be watercooling mine :)
(Assuming the waterblock gets any closer than Neufahrn which is where it's currently languishing on it's journey)

I don't care, I bought a bitcoin back in March, and just sold half of it for almost 10 times what I originally paid.
If the other half I still have drops in value, I'm still well up on the deal.
And to those who say "it's just numbers in a computer somewhere, it has no value!", all I've done is convert it to a slightly bigger number in my bank account, which is also just a number in a computer...

Generally the carrier will not do it for you, but there's plenty of dodgy little shops that will unlock your phone for a small fee.

But surely they'd re-use all of the static assets. Presumably all they did was add in a bit of flash or java or something to implant the actual malware, the rest was probably a genuine slashdot story, complete with images and snarky comments and all the rest.

If they're only selling to manufacturers, it's possible that they haven't attempted to make these drives work at altitude at all, and instead they'll rely on the manufacturers restricting their use to uses above a certain air pressure.

For linux, HP's drivers (hplip), work great in my experience on Ubuntu (their windows drivers are ok as well). Printing is as easy as you'd expect, and even scanning just works (using sane).

Nuclear weapons are designed to survive EMPs because there's a strong possibility that they will be used in an environment where other nuclear weapons are being detonated, either with intent to stop incoming weapons, or as part of a barrage.

So, yeah, they are expecting nukes to have to survive being nuked.

Which is exactly what they're going to do. (Although they do have a human on hand to operate the sample drill, I guess that instrument wasn't ready in time to go out to Chile)

Slight correction:

Trades were executed in Chicago at the same time as the change was announced in Washington D.C. in a classical physics sense.

The trades were made at 2:00pm on the dot in Chicago. Which implies that the trades were made with a 0s thinking/processing time. The graphs I saw were timed down to the millisecond, so assuming they got the information at 2:00.000 (which wasn't possible) they decided to execute the trade in less than 1 millisecond. It's probably theoretically possible, I assume that the information was at least guessable and I'm sure many traders were prepared for this eventuality.

Of course, it's possible someone anticipated the outcome of the decision, and scheduled the trades for 2:00, and was planning to reverse them in some way later if the information tuned out to not be what they had expected.

No, all you have to do is work out how to get the spiders to file reports!

Well, reading around, it seems that spiders of up to 100mg can be lifted by a mass of threads forming a fan about 1m long.

Assuming Spiderman is a skinny kid, he might weigh as little as 50kg, so he should be easily able to lift himself by producing a fan shaped mass of silk with a length of as little as 500km.

Pretty much every space launch company in the US does work for the DoD/NRO if they can. Military contracts are where the big money is.