Problem is that "design improvement" is a security concern, and required for the system to function as desired. Adding wheels to a car might be a "design improvement", but you'd better have them.

It's a privilege escalation problem. The surprise was that changing your main password or password recovery email should be only done by the full account, not an ASP context.

I can, and it's a pretty useful skill for someone who lives in a cubicle all workweek. I've been surprised at people who've spent 20+ years in front of computers and never learned to type without staring at the keyboard and pecking with one or two fingers. Like my father who learned drafting in college where I learned CAD, and the always in front of your own computer thing showed up during his career. It doesn't take long to learn, but apparently you do have to try to learn.

The attention is pretty effective for 100K people. What are you looking for? Immediate policy changes? 100K isn't exactly a majority (150M is!).

Strangely enough, I've managed my magazine subscriptions through Amazon for years. So their own stuff is prior art! And old enough they can't patent it anymore.

It's why they're "Terran Marines" not "Space Marines". They copied the style, but the trademark isn't touched.

Difference: Current US regulation: you must clearly state the amount of alcohol in any canned/bottled/whatever drink.

They do: http://jalopnik.com/5975846/you-can-virtually-drive-the-new-corvette-tomorrow

Yeah... a year of high school chem is a survey class. If you liked it enough you can major in it in college. So we already do exactly that.

Unless they wrote all the code from scratch, you may request and receive a copy for GPL'd code (and only GPL!). That was the way Freeside downloaded it and the restriction placed upon them in order to use code like Linux. You may not add further restrictions (like paying for source). Now, anything they wrote themselves, they can release under any license.

Let's say I want to donate to the best organization for Linux today, which if I don't see the desktop as the priority surely wouldn't be Canonical. Who would that be then?

Oh god the splines! They should not be used for discrete data.

Haha! His bank logo is a pirate ship! Why? Why would anyone give this guy their money?

I read somewhere that the Nigerian scam is designed to be obvious since they're mining the population for the most gullible of the gullible. Or find people investing in bitcoin and have them keep it on your PIRATE SHIP.

I'm going to go with different reason. Ancient cultures lived in the ancient world, where there wasn't (good) medicine and people died young. They did lots of things, like avoid pork, to stay alive, that just don't matter today. I'd imagine most similarities of medical advice between then and now to be coincidental.

They're using their existing airforce vocabulary. Which means they're using their existing airforce thinking.

You don't "intercept", "locate", "target", or "plan" with information technology the same way you do those things with enemy aircraft. We do have problems with information security and systems security, but they're not the same kinds of problems as bombers flying overhead. And we have solutions, too, which just don't detect or respond or work in the same ways. They need to find someone in the field and ask questions about what they should be looking for before setting their goals.