Insiders selling company stock is always a Red Flag for investors. Whether that is justified or not in this case is up to the individual to decide, but it's a Red Flag for a reason ... very often it means problems within the company and bad news follows.

There are perfectly good reasons for insider selling, and it helps to be very straightforward about it ... it's not like you can hide it anyway, it's reported and watched vigorously.

Not being a Microsoft investor, and not particularly interested in their area of the market, it's not really important to me. But, if it were, I'd be very wary of the level of stock he's liquidating ... 25% is a massive sell by the usual standards. 5% is probably not going to raise too many eyebrows ... even 10% might be OK under the right circumstances.

But, since he can always pledge stock to back up any personal investment, this level is worrisome, I would think. It really means he's moving his money out of tech. And he's the CEO of a huge tech player. This is an unusual development by any investor standard.

Assuming you mean Java, and not JavaScript, I have a solution.

Turn off Java in the browser. I've had it off for years ... apparently it has no Earthly use, as my browsing experience is completely unchanged. Banking, whatever ... just works.

Hit the switch, and at least for that particular issue, it's gone. For good.

" ... Compound this with the MacAfee Heel: most OTS boxes come with MacAfee installed at least as a demo. ..."

You've inadvertently hit the nail on the head. The scam is simple and effective because it exploits human logic. I've noticed most /.'ers think that users are naive, or clueless, or worse, but they're missing the beauty of the scam because they can't think like a non-sophisticated user ... they're beyond it and don't have the same mindset anymore.

But, to get to the point, the PC comes pre-installed with some kind of AV, in demo mode. It works for a while, then times out or goes to some limited functionality. This is the AV vendor's only real means to get a license sold. I would bet that pretty much every user that falls for this scam has at least considered buying the demo up to full functionality, but balk at the cost.

Along comes Mr Fake AV. The user knows they have no or limited AV protection. They know everyone says they need some protection. The crooks know that all they have to do is price their scam SW lower than whatever McAffee (or whomever) wants for the demo to go licensed. McAffee has helped this transaction by setting the bar price-wise, and the scammer knows ALL the users have been exposed to the price via the demo, so he also knows ALL the users will see it as a bargain. Bingo. Hook, meet Line and Sinker.

Make all documentation as detailed as possible. Record every single change ... if an Ethernet cable is switched out in the staff room, record as change.
If a laptop moves from one office to another, record as deletion, document, record as addition, document.
Include a full specification sheet, owner's manual, service manual, errata and updates to documentation, for each item, including the Ethernet cable.
List the individual IP addresses affected by every change, do not use ranges.
Print out the individual IP addresses of the entire network on changes that affect the network as a whole.
If paper documents are required, create huge mounds of paperwork and deliver them to the authorities, but only at random intervals and as single documents, stapled together but not bound, in cardboard boxes.
Send all documentation in single-spaced 6 point type with no page breaks, line breaks, indentations, or formatting.
If digital records are demanded, password protect each page, use a password that requires the page number be entered as part of the username, and have the password session expire every five minutes.
Require minimum 24 character passwords, generated by your own application and using the entire goddamn keyboard.
Develop or purchase a proprietary, in-house encryption application, and use said application to encrypt all documents. Do not sell site licenses; sell per-seat licenses to the Government at a reasonable fee ... say $199 a seat.
Encrypt each individual device change as one document in non-editable PDF format, then include large numbers of "This Page Left Intentionally Blank" within each pdf, but not in a continuous set and never at the end of the document.
Send a random number of duplicate copies of the same document in each batch.
Send a random number of previously submitted documents with each batch.
Insure that if government chooses "print", it prints out the entire batch of documents that form each set.

There is no way, in a thousand years, that either of those bills have a Snowball's Chance In Hell of ever being passed.

I actually do remember at time when bills were about more-or-less one thing, and were concise enough that you could at least get a comprehensible summary. Congressmen actually complained when people tried to add this and that unrelated thing.

Of course, someone took those Congressmen aside and explained how the new way allowed them plenty of not-so-obvious benefits ... benefits to the Congressman, not the public.

That was the end of that little dispute. It offers more benefit to the junior Congressman than the heavy hitter who can actually get his bills sponsored and passed ... so who, exactly, is going to be against the practice?

So that when you are watching a TV program, and the commercial comes on, and you switch to your alternate channel (we choose things like National Geographic HD with no ads, ever) you can still see the drivel view on the tiny display.
You need enough to identify it's drivel, but not enough to have it intrude into your view. Picture-in-Picture gives you way too big a screen, and right in the way. I want a tiny, HD screen, alongside my 50-inch. Hi-Res, so it's clear and easily identifiable what's on it, but tiny, so it's just not big enough to intrude into anything.

Essentially, all I need to see is ... not football ... not football ... okay, football. Switch to the big screen.

" ... "io9 has a scary outline of five times the US came close to accidental nuclear disasters. Quoting: 'In August of 1950, ten B-29 Superfortress ..." ... means a story about how five times the US [population] [area] came close to accidental nuclear disasters. The hanging "s" on "disasters" doesn't really fit, but we've already read the "five times the US" bit and come to our comprehension.
There's a word we sometimes use in English. It's called "the". It helps us understand sentences, used appropriately.

"lo9 has a scary outline of the five times the US came close to accidental nuclear disasters."

Oh, I see. Five incidents, not five times the US population. The "s" fits now too. Isn't English wonderful?

The phone is actually really smart ... but I keep it barefoot and pregnant: A rare webpage access (a few times a year); 99.9% eMail only, no apps.

What he's really proposing is increasing the size of the aircraft where it's legal to fly with one pilot. Currently you need a co-pilot if there are 12 or more passengers (flight crew are considered passengers).
Many commercial carriers who do fly the smaller aircraft, mostly to remote areas, have a co-pilot on board anyway; it's how you train your pilots.
One would assume Ryanair simply want to poach pilots with experience from other airlines; otherwise the only other conclusion is they are fine with inexperienced pilots as well.

I won't go into how Ryanair fits compared to it's competitors or how a flight on their craft is different from other carriers, but broadly speaking I wouldn't trust any proposal from Ryanair on anything.

... for an obit in my experience. Our local paper (pop 230,000) would charge in the order of $2000 for 180 words. $450 would get you an obit roughly three times as long as this post.

I've been using a USB key built with the set of Portable Apps for banking when I'm off on jobs and am prohibited from connecting my laptop to the company's network (usually there will be a couple of PCs available to staff).

Firefox, an encryption app, a fairly feature-poor non-Adobe PDF creator/reader, a screen capture utility, and a text program pretty much rounds out the whole shebang. Account information and passwords are stored on an encrypted text page and cut-and-pasted when necessary, and I manually copy (again, cut-and-paste) into a simple text file any info I need, which is then encrypted and stored on the USB key.

Not perfect, but certainly better than just trusting another PC, reconfiguring the browser every time to stop it's automated "help" like storing user info and passwords, and having your sessions and metadata logged by the resident OS & apps.

I doubt if he left the money he would be left alone. To start with there would be a at least small ceremony for him when he received the prize money (something I doubt he wants), there would be many people that would want to interview him at the ceremony (again something I doubt he wants), his picture heavily plastered in lots of places for the achievement (again...), companies that now would want to hire him or at least 'work a deal out' with him because of him intelligence, schools that might want him to give a lecture, ect... Being rude and crabby would be the better option to get people to leave him alone and just be labeled 'that quite reclusive that won't talk to anyone'/

You sound exactly like the kid in "Into the Wild", who ended up going to Alaska to "find himself" and stupidly starved to death.

Here's a few tips:
"My heart breaks for so many talented beautiful people that hinge their future upon their looks- it is so fleeting. What happens when you no longer have that perfect smile, that perfect body?"

If you're smart, you save up all the money you make while you have your looks (or whatever other valuable skill you have), so that when it goes away, you can live comfortably on your savings. Some celebrities are good at this, and retire with plenty of money so they don't have to work again, and others stupidly blow all their money as fast as they earn it just to become washed-up later and having to appear on Sleep Number ads to make ends meet.

but I am quite certain that had I continued on my course there I would have dug myself into a terrible hole- I wasted every dollar I made there on alcohol, coke, pot, guns, guitars, and ammo, probably in that order.

Obviously, you were one of the latter people.

At least the guns, guitars, and ammo frequently hold their value decently and can be resold.

    Most importantly for you, probably, is that they already have expensive clearances. A clearance appears to be worth more than experience to many defense contractors.

" ... The distinction you are trying to make is between debt capital (e.g. bonds, long term bank loans, any thing else that is financing) and other liabilities. Shareholders equity is not shown as a liability, and is not connected to the share price. ..."

True; I was referring to where shareholder's equity appears on the liability side of the balance sheet. Assets less liabilities = shareholder's equity; in other words it's whatever number required to make liabilities + shareholder's equity equal assets.