I wonder how much headache this will create among web developers. Will Spartan implement things in a new unheard of way or will it actually try to achieve maximum compatibility?

I encountered a bug once in Outlook where I did fill in the name, autocompleted it correctly but still Outlook sent it to the wrong person behind my back.

Luckily the person receiving the mail wasn't a security breach.

So I don't trust Outlook much since then.

I agree - the damage caused by not having encryption will be severe. The criminals will still be able to find ways around it while the average person will be exposed to all kinds of evil.

In my opinion governments should require that their sites are passing the HTML Validator and CSS validator tests.

Of course - it won't help for JavaScript dependencies (or the horror vbscript that's entirely IE specific).

Raise the stakes and detect lying politicians.

It may be easier to detect when they are speaking the truth however.

There is now!

Dark Matter seems to me to be a placeholder item for differences between the calculated trajectories and real.

It do adjust for the effects observed but it does not explain what it really is.

Government should require that their sites are passing the HTML Validator and CSS validator tests.

Not only country governments do that but even municipals do it. Often using trolls that ridicules those willing to raise the questions about high-risk projects.

Looking at Västlänken, Gothenburg, Sweden you will see a local debate that's quite heated.