Aereo has offered to pay the FTA networks the same amount of money as they get paid by Comcast, Verizon, Time Warner, Dish Network, DirecTV and all the others and broadcast the same content (ads included) to the same geographic area. Why aren't the FTA networks interested?

Bet you cant use the NZ Post drop-ship option to get US pricing at the online LEGO store (to name one example of a business who is going all out in blocking drop-shipping)

1.Its expensive (more expensive than existing mail forwarding services)
and 2.If people actually start using it, online retailers will refuse to ship to it (just like many online retailers will refuse to ship to existing mail forwarding services, citing fraud, dodgy credit cards and drop-ship scams)

One way to at least try to make that harder is to have multiple implementations written totally differently (different code-bases, different languages, different development teams, different countries etc) so that you have different implementations both doing the same thing (harder to compromise multiple implementations like that)

Better yet, come up with a hardware box (open source, auditable and buildable by anyone but can be built secure and tamper-resistant too) that does the actual cryptography in a way that the userspace never sees the keys (again multiple implementations running on different FPGAs, MCUs etc, heck, build one that uses some obscure ancient CPU to reduce the chance the hardware is compromised)

Another thing employers (and recruiters) want is not just someone who can program in C# or configure Cisco kit or fix Windows but someone who has actually worked in the commercial world before and knows how it works and what is expected. They want someone who can come in and start work right away without needing to learn how things are done in the "real world"

Unless you happen to be located in Australia. you can't really help me (I dont have the rights to work in any other country)

I am currently searching for a development job and everyone seems to want 3 years experience or 5 years experience. I am seeing "graduate" jobs asking for 2 years commercial experience.

And its impossible to even get your foot in the door because of the "IT Recruitment Firm" who will reject any resume that doesn't match exactly what they are looking for.
If I could just get to the point where someone would actually TALK to me and find out what I can do and just how good I am at writing code, I might have a chance...

I dont live in the USA but if I did, I would be voting and my #1 question would be "Which candidate is going to do what is necessary to fix the economy and create jobs". That said, everything I have seen indicates that US politicians dont care about fixing the economy or creating jobs, just about lining the pockets of Wall Street with money pulled from the pockets of the little guy.

I am in Queensland, Australia and having daylight saving would be a good thing. Firstly it would mean Sydney and Melbourne wouldn't be an hour ahead. And secondly it would mean more daylight in the evening (meaning less use of all forms of artificial lighting) and less daylight in the morning (so you dont get woken up by the 4am sunrise and then have to get back to sleep again like I was this morning)

It also means more time after work for people to swim in pools and beaches and engage in other outdoor activities.
And it means people aren't traveling in the dark so much when comming back from work or from those activities.

Yes it might cause issues with it being hotter at different times of the day than it is now but that's why Willis Carrier invented air conditioning :)

Are they going to contribute to the kernel driver only (which probably doesn't result in Qualcomm sharing any information not already in their Android kernel driver) or to the userspace bit too (i.e. the stuff in the Android blobs)?

If its just the kernel driver, big deal, its the userspace blobs where all the juicy stuff is...

Solar Thermal is very much suitable for baseload, especially in areas where there is a lot of sunshine (like here in sunny Queensland). And the technology is already operational in parts of the USA and Europe feeding power into the grid so its not like its some unproven technology that isn't ready for the real world.

I live in Brisbane and I have witnessed that more and more businesses close their doors with signage saying "air-conditioned, we are open, please enter" (or with automatic doors that are closed unless people are using them). A lot of businesses cant do it at all (because their door is a roller-door or some other kind of door where customers wouldn't really be able to open it to enter)
Also, if a business faces onto an indoor shopping strip instead of outside, then its generally ok for the individual business not to close their doors since the shopping center itself will be air conditioned and have closed doors keeping the air in (at least at any shopping center I can think of)

Except in Australia where our government continues to do things designed to benefit the coal industry (those extracting coal as chunks of rock, those extracting the gas trapped with the coal and those who want to gasify the coal whilst its still in the ground and extract the results) at the expense of the planet.

There is no reason businesses that need IE6 for corporate intranet sites that cant be made to work with anything newer (or cant be made to work without spending money the business doesn't want to spend) cant go with a modern browser (be it Chrome, Firefox or whatever else) for browsing the internet and use IE6 only for accessing those intranet sites that are stuck on IE6.