Here's a scenario:

• Captain A: I see communications have failed. What does your manual say to do?
• Co-pilot B: It says to do ABC.
• A: Hmm. Mine says XYZ is the procedure.
• B: That's peculiar, let's have a long technical discussion.

In this case, checking the EFB on the ground may have been safer than resolving conflicting versions in the air.

As explained in

The Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism by Emmanuel Goldstein

I've been able to read a bit more of the complaint (USA vs Navinder Singh Sarao). Here's how the scheme worked.

• Defendant (D) offered multiple trades for sale below market price.
• The bid market price would drop to meet the percieved supply.
• D would cancel the trades automatically when the price got too close to his ask (paragraph 15).
• The market price would stabilize again.

In the mean time, D was making money on the futures because he knew precisely when the price would drop. Quite an ingenious scheme (especially the automated cancellation). But it ultimately relied on other people mis-valuing the market.

Because it's easier than getting the document via inter-department request from the IRS? Why else would the FBAR filings be through a different agency?

Well, the rendering engine for these browsers is tty; a known ugly hack of a beast. While there are unlikely to be OS level exploits easily available, there are plenty of user-based exploits available in the vt code (redefining character sets, occasional graphical terminals, goodness knows how many keyboard insertion sequences...).

I've had two network switches that gave me problems. (I don't necessarily count a component "breaking" as a problem—just normal long term system operation.)

• A $17k switch kind of stopped forwarding packets. In fact, it would drop the first 6 data bytes from each packet, but send the rest fine. Took a little while to figure out what was happening as it would helpfully recalculate the CRC for me.
• A $40 switch developed a bad capacitor.* It dropped packets at 0% to 90% depending on its mood swings, but it looked like my network provider was just getting slower; which often happens anyway.

* I opened the box, and an electrolytic cap looked like it was pregnant, maybe about to have a baby ceramic. B-)

Your point is taken, but that's not actually the case.

Fees are $0.10/page, search is $16 to $28/hour depending on the type. You are notified in advance if the fees will be over $25.[1]

Also, the request has to be "not primarily in the commercial interest of the requester" [1], which may or may not be the case here.

[1] http://www.dhs.gov/foia-fee-structure-and-waivers

You appear to have accidentally hit the "Post" button instead of going to the next story. Easy mistake—I totally understand.

So this is a reporter who wants the taxpayers to foot the expense of digging up this data, rather than paying for it himself. Did I get that right?

That's the price you pay for believing in your carrier's warranty (Verizon/AT&T?). If you're happy being out of waranty, then just install the updates yourself. (I converted my AT&T M8 to the GPE load, and have been very happy.)

And make sure the room is oxygen free. No! I meant the cable. Um. One or the other should work.

This aptitude does not have Super Cow Powers.

When you see someone who has done something remarkable with their life, it often turns out that they did, indeed, do something like Nigerian summer camp as a kid. (Not that Nigeria's a bad place—reasonably civillized.)