Force is enough though; businesses across the US are obliged to accept it, and heaven help any country that threatens the petrodollar....

Seen a similar need from non-european manufacturers who want to sell into the European market. By doing some final assembly in a European country (but only a token, like putting already prebuilt appliance electronics into a case and sealing it) they can label the final product as "assembled in ". Similarly, I can see Apple shipping phones missing only the backs and (say) the battery into the US to a "final assembly center", claiming a government tax credit for the expense, but only creating a handful of relatively low-skilled and low-paid jobs.

I suspect in this particular case, it won't be needed. the devices in question are virtual appliances, and are some sort of *nix (probably bsd) under the hood. I haven't tried this yet, but it would make sense that booting from a rescue disk would let you go mess with the ssh keys and config directly.. now, all these boxes have a remote support functionality built in. I am suspecting (also) that this uses the key to get a true ssh shell (a bash prompt, again presumably) so they can do fixes at the os level. So, if we can find these new fixed keys, we may be able to hop onto the boxes, assign a new, better keypair, and have os level access ourselves for repairs :D

... if the drone was actually physically in the way of the fire department's approach path, or would just have been hit by a few hundred tonnes of retardant. If the latter, it seems a fairly simple decision... Go for it anyhow, and any drone in the way copes as best it can, as it shouldn't be in the airspace in the first place.

Nothing the NYT links to says the NSA used the system to give early warning of Sony (or even after-the-fact analysis of Sony) - It simply says that the NSA had extensively penetrated NK in the late 2000's, and if that system were still in place, *could* have gained insight into the attack, either before it happened, or after the fact. However, given the FBI have raw access into the NSA's databases, its possible that this is why the FBI won't back up its claims with actual facts - it is relying on the database that the NSA have that is in breach of a LOT of laws, and use of which usually is subject to "parallel construction".

To be fair, the programming world used to be divided into analysts (who documented the novel problem then worked out a solution) and programmers (who then took the abstract solution and coded it in the language de jour. Some shops still are.....

Not seeing why, if a publisher doesn't want to sell though the Amazon store, they can't as easily sell though their own website or even though traditional brick and mortar stores. For that matter, I don't see why an author can't do that themselves and cut out the other middleman, unless they are tied into an exclusive contract.
kindle books are just files - you can sell them from anywhere.

The reality was both more interesting and much worse than the above implies.

The OpenSSL project had one full time programmer as gatekeeper; he passed the code and added it to the tree, when in fact it missed a bounds check the RFC it implements says should be made.

As an OSS project that accepts patches from the community, the submitter could have been anyone, of any level of ability. In practice, the submitter was a student, who had written not only this patch but the RFC that describes the change, as part of his thesis project. The idea was to increase the efficiency of SSL *in UDP* for applications such as OpenVPN, by adding a "are you still there?" heartbeat exchange.

The final patch was submitted (and accepted) on the evening of Dec 31; I am at least slightly suspicious of the timing, as it smells of trying to meet some arbitrary deadline (and a student throwing in his work "under the wire") rather than the "when its as perfect as I can get it" criteria that should govern a submission to a security product.

Nothing in Android prevents Microsoft just taking the existing core and putting it on as many phones as they want. There is no restriction, you can do what you want with it.
However, getting access to the play store and many of the "standard" apps requires signing an agreement with Google - that doesn't get you android, just the play store access and apps. No amount of cleanroom re-implimentation of android core will entitle MS to connect to google's play store - that's not a "feature" of android, its a contractual agreement with Google.

Given that jagex have always stated that in-game objects are theirs, and can't be (eg) sold outside the game, I wonder if having a court ruling to the contrary will (again for example) make disabling accounts for real-world trading "theft" by jagex?

To be fair, you can usually get away with using better targeted, more directional lighting. Not only does focussing all the light down with appropriate reflectors mean less escapes skywards, but it means you can achieve the same levels of illumination with much lower power levels, saving money too..

I have seen such high failure rates in the wild - cross batch, cross manufacturer even.
But invariably, they were proceeded by a thermal event - I have never, ever seen worse than 10% failure in a datacenter that has a clean aircon record, and would expect 5% or better unless there were power issues too.
if you are seeing that sort of failure rate, I would be giving special care and attention to any "service visits" the ups or aircon guys may have made in the two months prior to the problem starting.

MariaDB is not much if any better - Ok, I can see his original point - he shared the source to MySQL so that he could get the benefits of community bugfixing, but retained the commercial rights so that he could sell commercial usage licences and still make money.

I can also see how, when offered a buttload of money by SUN, he could get up front and in one lump sum what he might make in years of normal trading - and SUN, having no db solution of its own to compete, was as good a new owner as any.

However, with MariaDB he is trying to have his cake and eat it too - he wishes to start a new "community" edition of MySQL so he can still steer the project, despite having taken his pieces of silver and ran once already. Despite (or even because of) his "experience" in running the MySQL project, I would not consider him a particularly good choice to control a fork.

Not sure if this is applicable, but - many torrent trackers accept donations via paypal....

Actually, that plays to a second danger. If you can get a court order like this, then presumably at some point they can convince a Belgian judge that "Official Belgian newspapers" should automagically get a higher rating on news.google.be than foreign/unofficial ones... Google search results could end up ordered by lawsuit rank not pagerank :(