The question isn't which one is which. The question is, can you reliably tell them apart?
Can you always point to the bigger of the two? Good, you can tell them apart.
Which one is which brand is irrelevant, and I think less of the judge of not realizing this.

In this scenario any solution that provided an answer to the problem would probably have been sufficient.

If they don't know what they are asking for, how would they know that the solution isn't perfect?

You could even state that it's "Top best solution there is" and "The result of 50 years research by the smartest mathematicians in the world".

It might be because the body of the aeroplane works as a Faraday's Cage. The devices are inside the plane, and would create a different situation then the lightning.

There is also the question of resources. Doesn't even seem to be enough NATO planes to stop Gaddafi, and you want them to take on North Korea?

No, people aren't "fine" with any of that.
We just live in the real world.

Anyone not on three fault ridges?
Anyone that uses Thorium instead of Plutonium or Uranium?

..shouldn't they at least task the scientist with figuring that one out?

"This accidental leak reveals, among many other things, how easy it would be to cause a Fukushima-style reactor meltdown in a sub"

You subject it to an 8.0 richter earthquake?

Maybe he means something like this:
http://www.wrmea.com/component/content/article/245-2008-november/3845-congress-watch-a-conservative-estimate-of-total-direct-us-aid-to-israel-almost-114-billion.html

Or just go here:
http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&source=hp&biw=1920&bih=924&q=how+much+money+does+the+us+give+to+israel&aq=0&aqi=g10&aql=f&oq=how+much+money+does+the+us+give+

If the destination is associated with the code, it would be pretty secure. I'm assuming that at least eventually the address won't even be needed on the envelope any more, just the code.

>While the obvious intent is to make intel agencies more effective (something Assange aspires to prevent)
Actually, he aspires to make them more transparent.

Hypothetically, who would you bribe, coax or coerce into doing something like this?
Some die hard militant woman that isn't sympathetic to the cause at all?

Actually, what messed the Soviets up was the Central Committee.
It doesn't matter how awesome your political structure is, if you then introduce a body with veto powers on all issues into the mix.

Also, Soviet just means Council in Russian.

You can't use Newtonian physics for cross dimensional calculations.
That's just silly.

Perhaps you could explain then.