If the last 6 months have taught us anything, it's that the contracts in question are likely in the format of Powerpoint slideshows.

The NYT article is about dead tree books. The whole case is baffling though, given the unchallenged dominance Amazon enjoyed in the ebook market at the time, which Apple, B&N, etc have barely chipped into since. Also, most people who even casually follow developments in the field would tell you Amazon intends to run the publishing industry into the ground as soon as its convenient.

That's not the only thing wrong with the name. Take another look at it.

I-Tech Maverick SP Powered Parachute"

The first flying card I get in will not be named after wild cattle. It might be name after the most loyal of tame creatures or one of the more sedate birds (preferably one that floats too).

I heard they contain deadly mercury.

Or even as many as 420.

Also, the high score is clearly stored in a single byte so you'll just roll over if you break 256.

"Cape Carnival?" Yeah, like he would have gotten away with the elaborate deception if it weren't for autocorrect.

Grandparent is getting OTP mixed up with ROT13. I do that all the time. It cost me my job once.

Thing is the only people who care (PRC) have their own satellites, probably more of them than anyone but the US and Russia. And you can bet they've photographed every inch of Taiwan. China's problem, then, is NOT to get images but to identify locations worthy of further attention. It could save them a lot of time to go on google maps and scan for areas with blurring or just suspiciously low resolution. Note that this is a different situation from not wanting to let non-state actors i.e. terrorists get a look at what's on the roof of the White House. That may be misguided as well, but it's probable that Al-Qaeda has no other way to get that information. Also, it's no secret at this point that there's SOMETHING up there poised to shoot down any incoming plane, so we're not giving anything away by hiding it.

Just don't tell them where the gelatin came from.

Most of the services on Amazon's free tier expire after 12 months. That's still pretty generous though. http://aws.amazon.com/free/

This isn't even close to the manned aircraft record. In the 50s some nuts kept a Cessna 172 flying for more than 2 months. When the generator gave out they hoisted up a small wind generator, taped it to a struct, and ran the power in through the cigarette lighter. Now that's what I call a record!

Here how you do it:

Print out the image.
Put the image in a copy machine UPSIDE DOWN.
The image will come out of the copy machine right side up!

Patent pending.