Cause midget is an unacceptable term. My son has dwarfism, and shit like that pisses me off.

It also gives no incentive to be a driver if you don't need to be a passenger. You know, since you already have a car?
I am sure there are a fraction of the existing ride-share drivers who do it to stick it to the man. They are probably the same people who fly to another city and use that ride-sharing setup as a passenger. But then there are the probably a majority of the drivers using it as an income source. So if they have a way to exchange their accumulated and unwanted miles to cash, you are squarely in the service for a fee zone.
Sorry, but outside of hipsters, this would only work if you had some sort of "karma bank" for multiple services and goods. Then the drivers could exchange the karma miles for massages and escorts.

And yet others in the Slashdot crowd chant "use the bug tracking system". Seems like asking for a schedule to fix is part of that system.

I imagine there are more than a few Linux users who know what open-source is, but still don't know every nuance of bug tracking, They just want their stuff to keep working.

Is there any distribution that offers paid-for-support aimed at individual users?

The pilot is sectioned away from the ALL of the people on the plane. Because if each passenger lined up and asked one question, there would be a continual distraction for a long time. Not to mention the simple fact that knowing you are being watched by an audience tends to increase stress.

I wonder if the lawsuit is really driven by the second part of the summary.
I can picture the Wal-Mart lawyers saying, "Hey Visa, if you helped underwrite and expedite the Chip & PIN card hardware and software transition, this big nasty lawsuit would go away." They may have already said the same to MasterCard in a less public way. Or maybe they asked both Visa and MasterCard to help on the transition, and MasterCard said yes.

The movie "The 13th Warrior" was the movie adaptation of Michael Crichton"s 1976 book "The Eaters of the Dead". When the Banderas movie came out, the book publisher started putting "The 13th Warrior" on the cover in big print. I guess the movie studio decided people would expect to see zombies or something, and picked the simpler, more straightforward title. Personally, "Eaters of the Dead" (and a momentary binge in Crichton books) is what got me to read it.

Getting the wildly heterogeneous systems to talk together is the major sticking point. I have been REQUIRED to enter duplicate information into multiple database systems during the over 20 years I have worked in the federal government. The worst offender for this duplication is systems that track "mandatory" training requirements. A major cause of the smokestacks is that the people who pay for a system do not want to pay money so that "other groups" can use the data. Another driver is the mindset that not providing an interface makes for better security.

Before the genetic engineering the rootworms didn't "have" all the corn. The existing pesticides, used prudently, and other practices were working. The pesticides are not the only course for fighting the rootworms, crop rotation and other practices can work. The pesticides were the most common method. But pesticides are scary chemicals, and Jenny McBunny swears they cause "-insert disorder here-", so "think of the children" shenanigans happened.

As others have mentioned, there was very little altruism behind the sale of the modified corn.

The problem is that there is NO WAY to disable or change the 30 minute window. Using the "require password for all purchases" option does not override the 30 minute window. Google page about how this works. So, I guess the only way to prevent this is to confiscate the phone for 30 minutes.

"But your child should be trained to not buy things! You're a bad parent!"

Children are not animals, whipped into learning behaviors. They do not learn as fast as some of you obviously non-parents seem to think. Not to mention that even angelic children can sometimes be "mischievous".
Oh, and make sure you don't hand your device to your adult friends after you purchase something either. Adults can be even more greedy and stupid than kids.

*rimshot*

Do the math it IS two factor authentication.
1) something physical you have (card with chip)
2) something you know (PIN)

So, you might think, "aha, it will be THREE factors, woohoo!". However, chip, PIN, and signature, can't really be considered three factor authentication, unless the signature is checked in real (or near real) time.