I wonder how many constituents wrote letters to the President about this serious problem? Of course, none did. We need a separation of Corporations and State, now.

Lentils work fine as a grown protein source. I've reduced my meat (animal muscle) intake to a few ounces a week, rest is lentils.

Agreed. They are doing the job the Corporate Media quit long ago. Telling the truth, even if it is embarrassing to power.

They only released 220 documents on Sunday of of those not many were in their entirety.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/29/world/29cables.html?src=me

WikiLeaks posted 220 cables, some redacted to protect diplomatic sources, in the first installment of the archive on its Web site on Sunday.

It doesn't take students in higher education long to see cheating and lying are the norm, even required. It prepares them for what they are about to have to do for the Corporations.

We have two pro-corporate parties in the U.S. that both lean right. One that is batsh*t cray right, and the other is "sorry but I have to lean right". We don't live in a Democracy anymore, we live in a Corporate Representative Republic. With the Citizens United decision we will not change this for at least a generation, if ever.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHmGEkzhhfQ

That's what I was thinking. What if someone puts these devices on all cop cars and creates an app to publish where they are all at real time? Bet they wouldn't like that, but would it be legal?

Apple started the concept but ceded it to Intel to develop it.

http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/26/exclusive-apple-dictated-light-peak-creation-to-intel-could-be/

I can't believe we are seeing people on Slashdot post this about the Corporate News sites.

They are not about facts, news or being intelligent. Did you see CNN's coverage of the balloon boy fiasco?

The Corporate News is about entertainment, giving the viewers what they want to see and making money.

Agree. GC and memory management in C++ are non-issues now.

C++0x, once it gets spread around to where it needs to get spread around, brings in a lot of nice to haves I am used to getting in say Perl.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%2B%2B0x

C++ just keeps getting better and better.

Spoken like a true neo-liberal capitalist.

Those arguments are relevant and the world is a better place because the EC considers them relevant.

The only criteria being "creating a monopoly" doesn't work because it promotes two big players rising out of every industry and them being allowed to destroy all the other entities they wish.

Government has a role and responsibility to protect its citizenry and such behavior clearly falls under that umbrella. It promotes competition as opposed to simply stopping monopolies.

I see many people, you included, thinking of this in terms of what MySQL is now. It would be terribly short sighted for every merger and acquisition evaluated by the appropriate regulatory bodies to look at it in that way. They need to look at in terms of what MySQL could grow in to. What MySQL could grow in to is what Oracle would compete with. Which is why Oracle wants to squash it and eat it. EC is right on and will stop this.

They shouldn't be allowed to own MySQL. Europe should shut that down and they should spin it off.

Too arrogant!

The postgres developers, the poster above you (Just Some Guy) and yourself, as you proved quite aptly:

From the postgres site:

"A PostgreSQL database developer is someone who is actually working on the project, not someone using it to develop an application or a website. We don't hire programmers, we reach across the Internet, drawing the best database developers in the world to PostgreSQL"

People prefer MySQL over postgres because the community is friendlier. A friendly open community will be around longer, have more users and hence get more attention and address more real world problems for people.

I'll take a product that I can get support with over one I will get insulted asking a question about.