And i never will store data on anybody who tells me that he does it for free. Either he looses money, or he has something else in mind.

No - there are always definitly easy to spot bad actors on such platforms. These can range from stupid assholes who want to rent out their garbage collection room, people who are acting like they ren something out in private, but in reality operate a full-scale business circumventing regulations and possibly taxes.

It seems that in NY there are 10000s of hosts. Figuring out the most criminal 1% of these has nothing to do with killing innovation but more wit doing a service to the customers (reputation for the hosts and safety for the customers).

When you operated the crank for a about 20 seconds, you could turn on the buzzer (not very loud, but louder than you could talk or knock) for a few minutes. Probably more useful for the finding you in a burning house (where you cant breathe much) than in a collapsed one.

I live in an area without Earthquakes.

But when i lived in Japan:

-Emergency radio with Crank generator and LED flashlight, Buzzer (in case you are trapped inside a (partially) collapsed house and dont want to shout all the time), mobile phone charger, and radio receiver for all channels, lying close/in my bed (http://tlet.co.jp/pro_radio/ty_jr11/index_j.htm)
-2 Liters of water (i lived alone)

In Japan we had earthquake drills of the housing community one time per year, and one time per year in the company. In the housing community we were shown the nearest small emergency area, which had food and water stored in boxes, medical supplies and tools/shovels. We trained how to use fire extinguishers.
And everybody shoudl have had look at (and i had) how to reach the next bigger emergency area (which typically was a bigger public park with an area for helicopter landings and some toilets.

The point of java is that you can program more devices on this planet in this language than with anything else.

Java has penetrated all areas of computing, from embedded (down to chipcards) to mobile, from science to database and web servers.

Java has inherent cross-platform mechanisms for elementary things for which c does not have these (treads), and there are (most of the time free) libraries inferfacing in all directions.

Dynamic, standardized binding to databases and XML makes it extremely easy to persist you data in a well-documented and well-tested structured way.

Java has nearly all language features you could desire.

And last but not least: eclipse is a great free IDE. AMong the free IDEs there is IMHO no combination of language+language tools which boots your productivity for specific tasks as eclipse does.

The real business decision would be how many people you put into development and how many requirements engineers and SW quality people you put into the project to validate is the software (including hte database) conforms to the different customers needs.

Actually, even janitors and low level administration staff make a difference.

The new Employee who asks for something simple and reasonable to be done can get the response "sorry, you can not order me to do that" or he can just do it. In the latter case the new employee may get another picture of your company.

The team assistant with not even a bachelor degree can significantly influence the output of the specialist.

If i see that a demotivated mode of work is bussiness as usual in a company, then i run.

If they remind you of Ukraine, then you are an idiot without any sense of respect for about 2000 deaths. In Ukraine they use artillery and air strikes. Already in the bery beginning of the conflict snipers shot into protesters.

IMHO the problem in the US is not the police. The problem is that the police needs to be more heavily armed than the civiliangs. If i should control driver licenses as a policeman in a country where a significant fraction of the population has firearms, and a non-negligible part of the population has a acceptance for anti-state/anti-government ideolody (tea party), i would be freaking nervous.

To me there is a significant difference between somthing affecting all stored dasta and only affecting data accessed after a specific date.

Show your kids new not strongly censored for death bodies and an few living rooms hit by a bomb, and let them draw their own conclusions.

And give them some war games with an ambivalent story (e.g. DUNE/C&C) and let them play all sides and let them write down how the stated facts differ between the personal advisors of each party.

Should help them more in understanding wars.

Seems reasonable to me. Actually reduced the needed data transport. The great firewall is in place for the data transfers to the outside world. I am sure the cn gvmnt has to possibility to targeted intercept, as has the america, german, russian or british governments.

Given what we learned in the recent years, placing data and encyption keys in two different legislations (chinese and america) is the most straighforward way to protect against legal interception.

They dont have to hand over the keys. Just get another certificate from another vendor using fake identities.

Both?

A $25 Million program depends on a single person not getting in an accident, not having physical (36 is not so young in that aspect) or psycological problems, or (in this case) not getting pregnant and keeping prepared and waiting for a decade between the spaceflights. And then the question is if this person was the right person?

Having a big project depending on a single person is absolutely stupid.

Instead of working on their design they should work on gettign updates out quickly, easily, and not ship the phone loaded with crapware.