You are correct. The issue isn't how easy it is to exploit, but rather how easy it would have been to not have this "feature", and the failure to address it.

In fact, only a few hundred tons of mercury can contaminate an entire ocean.

That's a lot of thermometers.

* 300 tons = 2000x300 = 600,000lbs
* There are 453.59 grams in a pound.
* Therefore, 300 tones = 272,154,000 grams
* A thermometer has between .5 and 3 grams of mercury in it (thx Wikipedia). Lets say 1.5 grams, lower average.
* It will take approximately 181,436,001 thermometers to contaminate the entire ocean.
* QED

I live in America. We invented clutchless driving around 1950, and after only 50 short years of experimentation, their MPG is just as good as a manual drive. Since I'm not a race car driver, I fail to see the point of manually shifting.

Besides, It is really difficult and dangerous to eat a burrito and carry on a cell phone call when you are shifting gears, so everyone should get automatics simply for safety's sake.

Agreed. It's weird how the article tries to spin them as separate things. "Most cybercrime now politically motivated" would have made for a more accurate headline.

What's next, having to pay money to sing in the shower?

Well, if there is an audience, yes. And it is about time they started making these freeloading children pay their fair share for entertainment. The librarians can always pay for the royalties by simply speaking a commercial every chapter. That way kids can learn about other important thinks like Coke, and the new Barbie. /sarcasm

Renaming (actually, "moving") automatically creates a redirect from the old name, to the new name, and bots comb all the articles that have the old link, and fix them to have the new link. As for all old links that you saved, the redirect will automatically take you to the new named article. renaming/moving doesn't break links, it just redirects them back to the original content. The only way a link breaks is if the link is to a subsection, and the subsection changes, but it doesn't matter, as the "broken" link will still always take you back to at least the top of the article, regardless of how many times it has been "moved".

Kinda like seeing ass pimples on porn ladies on HD porn....that's what it really looks like.

You are too correct. Which explains why HD porn never took off. Keep your reality out of my fantasy.

If an article is deleted or merged out, it is only because the topic has been deemed "not notable" by a consensus of editors. There are not typically the types of subjects you would be doing a term paper on. If you "really really" wanted a copy of a deleted article, you can likely talk an admin into userfying a copy of the article for you, as deleted articles aren't really deleted, they are just removed from general access. Same with merged articles. Admins have access to everything, including "deleted" material.

You will never be able to cite Wikipedia in a paper without looking foolish. It really isn't designed for that. You CAN use Wikipedia to get an understanding of a topic, and the references they use are usually pretty good and CAN be used as a cite without looking fooling.

Wikipedia is a great tool, but it will never replace paper encyclopedias, by design. Then again, any paper that only cites encyclopedias (paper or otherwise) isn't a good paper. Even Wikipedia requires multiple sources, as should any good paper, for a balance of perspective and confirmation of key points.

After millions of years of evolution, humans become large and at the top of the food chain,and this guy wants to override all that to make them leaf-eating midgets. So while there may never be consensus on the intelligent design notion of a higher power guiding our development, at least now we have the option for unintelligent design with a stupid power screwing it up.