That's potentially a problem, but probably not the problem.

Vista got upgraded at the same time that Windows 7 was released. They're essentially equivalent at this point.

Slight UI and Windows API differences, and of course the fact that MS intends to stop offering security patches for Vista next year.

I agree, but for a different reason: Windows 7 is essentially Windows Vista SP1. They are still ~98% equivalent, just as 8 and 8.1 are 98% equivalent.

Yes, Vista had a lot of issues at the start, but so did Windows 8. It was a big jump, but had the edges smoothed off a year or so later.

Perhaps not, but there is apparently a significant amount of overground cabling in London, which is why they're making a tunnel to replace it.

I learnt that just yesterday! It's called nominalization.

Are you using VirtualBox 5? They added support for a bunch of instructions.

Heh. I remember whipping up a summary of that during my degree, a decade ago. Even then, it was viewed as historical research - I had to go down to the stacks!

I'm sure Facebook will claims the use of the term "Face" infringes their trademark.

I don't think that counts: a) it wasn't your mistake; and b) the company should never had had that revenue in the first place, so it wasn't a "loss" but a restitution.

Even more so since HSAs are now the equivalent of health-oriented RRSPs in the USA. Man, that could have been golden. Of course it's just parked now because nobody wants to pay.

They could have been running the code for it on their server, doing a (perhaps asynchronous) request for the CAPTCHA image and that had been set up to use a direct IP address (or domain linking to one). The connection strings for AJAX requests and the like are often forgotten when handling domain-related issues/HTTPS/etc., so I'm not at all surprised.

Here's a Google cache, including the diagram: http://webcache.googleusercont...

But "Ask Slashdot" is all about pointing out your superiority to others. Why not the OP?

Many disagree with you as to whether these things are or should be rights. Some believe that people should be left to starve or freeze to death if they are unwilling or unable to work. (This viewpoint is not uniquely American.)

Deriding people who hold such views for their lack of compassion is non-productive. To win them over, it may be more effective to show how helping the poor benefits them - if indeed it does. For example, public health care benefits everyone who has direct or indirect contact with the public - even the rich - through the prevention of epidemics.

In the Simpsons, the local school puts on a play ("The Nice Man Giveth") to show Mr Burns the personal value of education, when poorly-educated students accidentally serve him rat poison, can't read a map to drive him to hospital, and fail to operate correctly on him. While it does not work in that particular instance, perhaps those who seek funding from the public could do a better job of explaining why the public should care.

If he liked it so much, he can always pay for the programmers to support it. He's a free man now, sort of!