How much work was it to work around the actual differences? Everyone loves to throw around the number of different platform variants, but how bad were the actual problems you found? (I realize that the great number of platform variants makes testing take longer, even if you don't find any bugs in that variant.)

For some topics, it's difficult to find an impartial-but-competent editor. Take politics: if the editor understands the topic, they will very likely have a personal position on it. If they don't understand it, they probably won't be able to figure out what's worth including, and how much coverage to give different points of view. (Articles that simply list every possible point of view -- like "Some people believe this; other people believe that..." -- are rather useless.) At some point, someone needs to make a judgement over which points of view are fringe and which are mainstream, if only to convey that to their readers, and that is a judgement that someone will always contest.

The controversial .xxx domain, if it ever gets approved, would allow people and countries that do not want to see porn to have a way to ensure that they will never see it unless they intentionally go to those sites.

A "country" cannot decide for its people that it "doesn't want to see porn". I can assure you, at least some people (of legal age) in that country probably want to see it, and it's not (morally) up to the country to make that decision.

The whole point of the GPL is that it grants a certain set of rights to anyone who gets the software, and requires them to pass those rights on to anyone they redistribute it to. Making it modular would make it easier for people to remove rights from the GPL that they don't like (say, the anti-Tivoization provision in GPL3). The FSF would never agree to it. (You might be able to just reuse their license text, depending on how it's licensed, though :)

I'd like to second this. I'm only using them for my personal sites, but their service runs fairly well, and their pay-for-usage model is neat. Their web interface for members is also elegant -- simple, not bogged down with graphics, works great in text browsers or from a phone.

Most scanners of this type do not even record enough detail to qualify as evidence. Those that do must have their data shared with law enforcement,

Do they have to just volunteer all the data automatically, or only if law enforcement asks? (If the former, [citation needed].)

Forget it too many times and they started to take disciplinary action.

...put it in your wallet, or on a keyring (if you can hole punch it)?

they should have used one that's sensible and not as easily exploitable.

Why is JavaScript so easily exploitable? It's probably the APIs available to the JavaScript, and not the language (or interpreter) itself that's exploitable.

...just to clarify, our course policy said that student work was supposed to be done individually. If students need help, they are supposed to come to office hours or email the staff, not ask a friend.)

True story 1: TA'ing at an institution with a mandatory-failure policy, I noticed two students copying each others' assignments. Thing was, they were mid-career professionals married to one another. What to do?

Absolutely fail them. Why does their marriage have anything to do with academic honesty?

True story 2: ...

I'm not sure what I'd do about this, although it sounds like the eventual outcome (new assignments) was good.