Warning: the following is pure speculation on my part.<p><a href="http://blog.osvdb.org/2010/01/04/challenge-osvdb-winter-2010-fundraising-goal" rel="nofollow">http://blog.osvdb.org/2010/01/04/challenge-osvdb-winter-2010...</a><p><i>or every new vulnerability issued an OSVDB ID from January 1, 2010 through April 1, 2010, I will donate $0.50 (fiddy cents) of my own money to the OSVDB fundraiser. I challenge anyone who feels that OSVDB is a valuable resource to the security community to match my donation.</i><p>If people took him up on that, the Checkout account is going to have a surge of small donations, right?  Oof.  Aside from changing your usual pattern of behavior, which is always a risk with payment processing, small donations are often used to probe stolen credit cards to see if they are active or not.  I could see a payment processing algorithm not liking that.<p>This would be less problematic if Google had customer service at least as good as Santa Claus'.<p>Sure, technically speaking Santa Claus doesn't exist.  But if you post a letter to him, the Post Office puts it in with a big pile of mail, and parcels it out to dogooders.  Many poor kids, as a consequence, do end up getting presents because they wrote to Santa Claus.<p>Dear Santa: For Christmas, could you approve my AdWords ads?