To be fair, they're using the same shade of blue that AT&T uses for its logos and corporate art. Go to att.com, and everything is that shade of blue. Verizon, by contrast, uses red in its logos and corporate art. They're just using the same identifying colors that each brand has already chosen.

No you can't.

There's no authentication of you besides your user name, so any attacker could just take the user name you submitted, give it to the bank, then show you the "security image". Classic Man in the Middle attack.

That's no more true for a Kindle than it is for an iPod.

If you buy DRMed books from Amazon, then those books won't be useful on other devices. But, just as there are many sources for un-DRMed music, there are many sources for un-DRMed ebooks. Use one of them.

Couldn't it be chance? .9^20 is about 12%. It's not amazing odds, but I don't think it's "beyond a reasonable doubt" that racism is involved.

more than 1 in 100 Americans were incarcerated, so that's more than 1% "hit ratio" if you simply searched every American for illegal drugs, fake IDs or similar.

Nonsense. Unless you think that everyone who ever does anything illegal is currently incarcerated and everyone who is incarcerated would, if not currently in prison, constantly carry evidence of some crime around with them. Those are both such uncertain assumptions that they make your conclusion completely unsupportable.

Judge Hogan is an Article III Federal judge. This means that he is neither elected nor retained by the Oregon voters, but rather is appointed for life by the President (George H.W. Bush in this case) and confirmed by the Senate. The only way to remove an Article III judge is by impeachment, which has happened before but takes a fair chunk of Congress' attention. Moreover, it would be utterly irresponsible to suggest impeachment is appropriate just because you disagree with one of his decisions.