And because the US government supports the government of Israel. I'm not saying that they are right or wrong to do so, but it is one of the main reasons the US is hated in the Middle East.

And while it's nice that Verizon have a fix, I know that O2 in the UK didn't bother warning my friend when she changed phones.

Remove support for big-endian i386 and amd64.
Before someone suggests the OpenSSL people are junkies, here is what they mention about this:

/* Most will argue that x86_64 is always little-endian. Well,
* yes, but then we have stratus.com who has modified gcc to
* "emulate" big-endian on x86. Is there evidence that they
* [or somebody else] won't do same for x86_64? Naturally no.
* And this line is waiting ready for that brave soul:-) */

So, yes, they are on drugs. But they are not alone, the stratus.com people are, too.

;)

It's important to note that since 2003 the Home Secretary (an elected politician) can no longer issue a whole life order, it's down to the courts. This is in order to prevent punishments from being politically motivated.

AAISP
Clara.net
Entanet
Exa networks
Goscomb Tech
IDNet
Webtapestry

Virgin announced several years ago that they would soon be offering it, they still aren't.