Effective immediately, existing projects that offer no downloads and all new projects will no longer be able to create downloads.

This sentence doesn't parse.

Do you have acceptance tests define before farming out a project to contractor? Are the bugs outside of those caught by these acceptance tests?

Why do games need to be backward compatible. It's not as if you will throw away your XBox360 when you buy an XBox One.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2326897/Google-tax-avoidance-row-Internet-giant-accused-scandalous-tax-avoidance-scheme-whistleblower.html

Setting this option screws up stuff like sports scores/commentary pages which reload periodically. If only Firefox can have this option with a whitelist.

Carl Sagan - the Billy Mays of Science.

http://blogs.the-american-interest.com/wrm/2013/05/12/colleges-paying-the-price-for-expensive-facilities/

Why not dogs? A lot of countries are overrun by stray dogs. They sterilize them to reduce the population. Why not just let them breed and eat them. Dog meat tastes very similar to goat meat or beef.

I think the main reason is that there is no standard mechanism to provide automated updates in Windows, unless the software happens to come from Microsoft, so every app that provides that functionality typically installs a service to check for, download, and apply updates.

That's rubbish. Other than google products, I don't see any other products installing services to check for updates.

Firefox & Pidgin seem to manage well enough without installing services.

GTalk, Chrome all of them install Windows Services. Why does a browser or a chat application need a Service running all the time? I uninstalled both when I realized this.

A backdoor by any other name.

I have noticed that the same American Liberals at Slashdot who want amnesty for illegals also don't want H1-Bs.

Is this a case of 'I love immigration & diversity as long as it's not in my backyard'. Or is it that they prefer illegal immigration to legal immigration?

How difficult it is for Apple to have some mechanism to brute force their own passcode or password API? The summary already mentioned it is for unlocking seized iPhones, so those are presumably not remote-wiped, but merely locked.
How many people use a simple 4-digit passcode vs password? It only takes 10000 tries to brute force the 4 digit passcode. And probably longer for password (how long a password would people use, for a device that you have to unlock many times a day and with usually with your thumb?)

Yes, that's why I asked - why is law enforcement not able to brute force it without Apple's help?

Likely just a master encryption key.

Yes - that's a backdoor.

Unless the iPhone has a backdoor - the effort required for either Apple or others should be the same. Does this mean that the iPhone has a backdoor?