go to the usual supply houses and find some for me, ok? mouser, digikey, newark, jameco, etc. go browse for common parts like resistors, chips, caps, diodes, etc. find me any significant amount of those common yet important parts that are made here.

What kind of chips? While they do have overseas fabs, TI makes plenty of stuff domestically.

This is the logic of the computer Hal 9000 in Kubrik's 2001, A Space Odyssey

Except HAL had morals and ethics, and went insane being unable to reconcile them with his orders. Maybe it's time for the equivalent of Dave Bowman to suit up and head for the Logic Memory Center.

Affiliate programs are a form of advertising that work by giving you an ID that you add to the URL of a link on your server to a particular seller's site (Amazon, etc.). This ID allows the seller to determine which affiliate drove that click to their site, and the affiliate (the ISP in this case) is paid a fee for sending that click to them. What's happening here is that the ISP is taking the initial DNS request and doing a redirect to a URL that includes their affiliate ID for vendor sites they participate in affiliate programs, but they're doing it for *all* DNS requests for those sites, not merely in response to clicking the advertising links provided by the seller.

For instance, Amazon offers page banners for their affiliates to post on their own sites that contain links to products you might be interested in, and if you click one of those links, whoever is hosting the banner will get paid for that click based on the affiliate ID contained in the links in the banner. In this case, if you just enter "www.amazon.com" in your browser, the ISP is adding an affiliate ID to the redirected URL your browser is given, so the ISP is being paid by Amazon, who thinks that someone clicked on one of their ads even though the ISP didn't display a banner or otherwise perform the service that Amazon is paying for. The ISP is exploiting the trust that the seller is extending to their affiliates in order to get paid more than they're entitled to, and they're basically stealing money from the seller for advertising that was never provided.

All of BP's assets should have been seized at an international level by the US, auctioned off, and the proceeds distributed to all of those affected, including non-US citizens and affected areas.

One can already do that via a lawsuit if they bring a strong enough case. Probably a more appropriate response by the government would have been to suspend their corporate charter for six months.

In Arizona, which IS a right to work state, you get suspended or fired, you DO have difficulty getting unemployment, especially if your former employer doesn't bother to answer the state's questions about the circumstances of your dismissal.

They don't have an appeals process? I live in Florida, and had an employer fire me and dispute my unemployment claim last year, so of course I challenged it because the firing was totally without merit. I had a perfectly clean record with HR, so the state didn't even think twice before ruling in my favor. Given that they suspended him the day before they were going to lay him off, I think he could probably make a reasonable case that Safeway suspended him in order to avoid the unemployment claim, regardless of the video.

Think those bad boys of Wall Street would behave so badly if the fines for white collar crime were a percentage of their personal wealth instead of a percentage of the profits from just their latest rule violation?

No, they'd just find better ways to hide their money.

then you are by defenition incompetent at your job

You can't make this stuff up, folks.

It looks to me like they were granted an exemption from the portion of the DMCA that forbids circumvention of an access method *only*, not an exemption from copyright law in general. So, it's definitely legal for them to break DRM to get the ROMs for archival purposes, but not necessarily legal for them to distribute said ROMs. I'm betting money there's going to be some kind of court action as a result of this, regardless of whether archive.org is in the clear or not.

It is, for varying definitions of "terrorist", up to and including "you there, reading this Slashdot article".

And waiting for the check to clear too.

Only 364 shopping days left!

Seriously though, I ordered some non-Christmas stuff from Amazon this past weekend, but even with a 2-day shipping guarantee, I knew at least some of it was getting here after Christmas because I knew the shippers were getting slammed, and I'm kind of surprised that more people didn't think about that. Boo hoo, I had to wait for my BeagleBone case and UV resist film to get here today when it was promised Tuesday. Whatever shall I do?

Gives a bit of insight as to why they're pushing so hard for "immigration reform" and raising the H-1B cap, eh? If you get a reputation for being difficult to work for, it becomes harder to find competent people.

An even worse kind of rot is when you have a code base that's old, and has suffered any number of shortcut hacks and other deviations from good engineering practice. Then on top of it all, anyone that knew anything about what was done and why it was done is no longer with the organization, and because it's "maintenance work", the greenest guys get stuck on it without the knowledge or willingness to do things right, making a bad code base even worse.

Only later, when customers started complaining about inconsistencies in the DB, people took closer look at what he did. His solution turned out to be to simply bypass the transactions completely (AKA rather run multiple actions in parallel in different transactions).

That's another variation of "I can make it run in record time if it doesn't actually have to work". I've seen it time and time again.

Really. It's all about how many check-ins your boss sees from your account every week.