I feel like once they did this for WikiLeaks, the floodgates opened and now Mastercard is going to be under pressure to cancel accounts left and right. Heck, why isn't Mastercard closing the accounts for the Ku Klux Klan? How come you can still donate using Mastercard?

Back in 2000, the magazine 2600 tried to register VerizonSucks.com and found that it was already registered to Verizon, along with 100 variations. So they registered VerizonReallySucks.com and were doing fine until Verizon sued them.

I wonder, did PennyTalk, OoVoo, Line2, and Google Talk all pick up more traffic while this was down?

A government may aspire to ban fart apps from its electronic devices? Don't be so hyperbolic, genuine dictatorships do far worse things

Leaking information on a private individual (which Assange has gone to lengths to generally avoid) is different than leaking information on a government or corporaton

Ah, so when the Taliban do read them and the US forces don't, it will put the Americans at an advantage?

Ah, so you block the New York Times and Washington Post for posting 'traitorous' documents, but are they still rebroadcasting 'patriotic' Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity in Iraq for the troops?

The military has a special TV and radio service called AFRTS that replays shows for troops overseas, but there's been accusations of bias for years (eg all conservative shows but no liberal ones)

Read the summary or article again, it is talking about switching from 3G to LTE (4G?), not from No Service to LTE. Typically it doesn't poll as often AFAIK.

Designers have to strike a balance; if it polls the towers too often and tries to connect via 4G, it would drain the battery and possibly slow down the connection. Switching from a 2G to 3G network on AT&T is similiar, although usually its about 30 seconds

Is 4chan really behind this or did one person post a thread and the news assumes it is their collective will?

I trust this as much as a wikified press release

Well according to Senator Joe Lieberman, Amazon was being a "good corporate citizen" when it kicked WikiLeaks out of its cloud

It seems like the API is running a checksum against OS files. How can you spoof that?

So what, the dictator-king of Saudi Arabia has a grudge against another country? Who cares? Public opinion surveys show Iran has something like an 80% approval rating in the Arab world. The US should focus more on bringing democracy to Saudi Arabia rather than try and do their bidding.

Withdrawing from Gaza was a long and difficult process that took decades, it finally happened when the pragmatists managed to overpower the right-wingers, Zionists, and settlers in government and get some real change in the hopes of reducing international pressure and changing the dynamic to favor keeping the West Bank settlements. It was a good step, but one example does not mean there's no such thing as expansionism; did you see the massive protest within Israel while it took place? Heck, even Sharon himself insisted on keeping West Bank settlements and expanding them while he took the Gaza ones away; Netanyahu has soured US-Israel relations with his refusal to stop construction in West Bank.

Muslims would be expansionist if they were trying to make Israel part of Jordan or Egypt, but they're not. The issue is the living Palestinian families who were evicted forcibly from their land or fled from the fighting and even have their house keys from 1948. Jewish claims to the land from millenia ago are hard to balance with the idea that living people were forcibly evicted without compensation. Meanwhile, you clearly haven't been reading right-wing Israeli/Zionist/Jewish newspapers, ranting about the Ha'avrim (Arabs) and how they should be all expelled into neighboring countries like Jordan. The New Yorker did extended interviews with Israeli settlers who are pressuring the government into doing it. Have you listened to right-wing Israeli minister Avigdor Liberman?

So the Jews are David and the Arabs are Goliath? Arabs look at it as the Palestinians are David, and the Israelis are Goliath. I think even the Palestinians say they want to just be left alone. There's blame to go around.

I call strawman on that. Nobody has ever made the claim that Iran feels threatened that Israel will colonize their land. They are however worried that Israel will bomb their country or aid and abet terrorists who are trying to overthrow the government (like Mohajiden-e-Khalq who bomb civilians). Hypothetically, if Iran were to get a nuke then it would probably cut down on a lot of these Israeli belligerent actions e.g. threatening to nuke Iran, openly talking about bombing sites in Iran, aiding groups like the PKK who attack Iran, etc. (Granted both countries have been aggressive to one another in at least words, but since Israel is the one with nukes, it has more impunity)

You're trying to redefine the conflict using narrow terms. Israel is involved in South Lebanon now to contain the Hizbullah threat, after they had to publicly break their policy and muzzle the right-wingers who claimed that South Lebanon was part of Greater Israel. Remember when Israel withdrew from South Lebanon under Sharon? I'm not surprised the Lebanese don't trust Israel when they say they're done with trying to claim the land, especially when there are Israelis who insist Israel should annex South Lebanon like they do for Golan Heights. Maybe you're trying to convince the wrong people, go get the Lebanese on board with your view that Israel is not malicious.